Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Wrapping up the Indiana Jones trilogy this time around. Hope you enjoy it, SPOILERS, of course! We're not going to talk about the latter two films; at least, not for the foreseeable future. Never say never, though!

0:10 Opening salutations
1:13 "The jewel of Southeast Asia"
4:45 Synopsis
8:50 Is Indy actually searching for the Holy Grail?
12:51 Comparing the three films: villains
19:06 Donovan vs Belloq
20:55 How does the Grail actually *work*?
27:53 Nit-picking minor gripes
29:46 Schoolboy adventure physics again
34:21 Stretching the plot to have the adventure last longer
36:21 Fourth wall break
38:09 Stepping up the action, excellent stunts
42:37 Less like a serial than Raiders, but more like a serial than Temple of Doom
44:56 Comparing the three films: the cast
47:53 More Star Wars connections!
50:01 Ranking the trilogy
54:23 Watching them in order isn't really necessary

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Music:
Intro and Outro music excerpted without alteration other than length and volume from AcidJazz by Kevin McLeod under a Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode