Isn't he immortal?

I was just thinking the same thing, he drank from the holy grail, granting him eternal life, same as Sr.

I would love to see Sean Connery come out of retirement to resume his role as Henry Jones Sr.

But didn't Henry Sr. die? I never saw crystal skull, but I read on the wiki or somewhere that there was a reference to that character being dead some time after The Last Crusade.

I was under the impression you had to keep drinking from the Grail to be alive, and that the Grail couldn't cross that Seal, thus indirectly, to be immortal you had to stay in that temple with the Grail.

Wasn't he immortal as long as he stayed in that cave? I thought once he left that was it for any immortality.

That's what I thought. I thought you had to keep regularly drinking from the Grail to be immortal, but since it was lost, there was no way he could still be immortal.

In reading up a bit more it is said that he died about 2 years before Crystal Skull.

They never specified in the movie and a line "your grandfather is laughing wherever he is" made me think maybe Sr. was lost on an adventure of his own and just hadn't come back yet.

Need a 5th move, gotta have Henry Jones III born so we can continue the franchise for the next generation.

Premise of the 4th movie was pretty lame, but what do you expect from the guy who used teddy bears as heroes in the final Star Wars movie. Spielberg does need to redeem himself from that debacle. It'd be like Shatner going out of the Star Trek universe with "the voyage home" as his legacy.

Moheeheeko - If 5 is set after Crystal Skull there will be no Connery. Henry Sr. is dead.

@dirp101

Wasn't Star Trek 4 one of the good ones? I thought the general rule was Star Trek evens = good, Star Trek odds = bad?

Henry Sr died prior to the Crystal Skull adventure as well as his friend Marcus. That's why Indy was looking with forlorn at his father's photo on his desk.

"It'd be like Shatner going out of the Star Trek universe with "the voyage home" as his legacy."

If they had let us wonder what happened to him after that film, it would have made a far better ending than the death scene in "Generations". The film overall wasn't too bad, but that death scene was one of the worst of all time.

Far better to die off screen than to die-with-pause-acting.

As to Indiana Jones/Crystal Skull, the concept wasn't really too bad in my mind - however having so much screen time for Shia LeWhiner was. He actually can act rather well, but he's notorious for getting into fights off camera. He thinks he's a "big deal" and if people don't bow and grovel to him, he pulls out the attitude. It's bad enough when a fantastic actor like Russell Crowe pulls that crap, but when this guy does it, it really turns people off. He's really got far too big of a head, and until that changes I'd rather see an Indy 5 without LeWhiner.

chouse, Shatner will never die as he's still in the Nexus, just like Whoopi Goldberg's character being there while still on the Enterprise. They could have resurrected Kirk at any time if they chose, but after the latest rendition it doesn't matter as they've basically disintegrated the timeline.

After my rump fell asleep watching Crystal Skull in the theater I don't know if I would give another Indy movie a chance, especially with LeBeef hamming it up. Only emotion he shows is confusion on the verge of tears.

The metaphysics of the Nexus aside, the on screen shown death of Kirk was simply BAD. Sure one can argue that part of him lives on (horcrux?) for infinite time but one must remember the really really cheesy death scene. It would have made more sense for him to just fall to his death and show a bloody corpse once Picard got down there. That film had some of the coolest scenes ever (especially the ones with Data), and then Shatner Sharting on us. :D

Yeah LeWhiner can go a good job if the director is strong, but not so much if the director is more about "flashiness" and can't instruct their actors... which is why he was really good in Holes, and not so much in the lolMichaelBay directed Transformers flicks. He wasn't terrible in Indy Jones 4, but his off camera antics cannot be separated from his on screen ones - so until he stops getting into fights I'd rather not see him in any major films. Until he realizes he's a kind of goofy looking guy who lucked into celebrity and stops pretending he's a gorgeous hunk (which he clearly isn't) I will pass, considering he likes to maul fans simply asking for autographs. Apparently he didn't realize that dealing with fans (nicely) comes along with the big paychecks...

You seen that episode of South Park which depicts what Spielberg and Lucas did to Indiana Jones? It's NSFW, but it's still very hilarious.

And yes Ladoosh ruins everything he is even remotely linked to.

Either way, true Indiana Jones movies have the Nazis as the bad guys.

Shai Leboof was truly one of the worst casting choices in the history of movies. That's a fairly bold statement but for something this high profile more thought should have been put into it. It seemed they picked somebody to appeal to a younger audience. What they failed to understand is that Harrison Ford appealed to a young audience in Raiders even though he was well past his days of youthful abandon.

I will maintain that the PERFECT son of Indiana Jones would have been Nathan Fillion. The age difference makes it work, Nathon his a far better actor than Shai, he has the built in audience, and he also has a look to him that makes him at least LOOK like he could be a blood relative of Indiana Jones.

Now we will likely be doomed to Mutt Jones movies with Shai Laboof. I will never watch them.

I hope that they do recast IJ III in the next movie - sorry - Shia just doesn't fit.

I love Nathan Fillon, his comedic timing is top notch, and yes, he even looks like Harrison Ford a bit. Would have been a great casting choice.

Which is sad because it was at the beginning. That's a subject of much mocking for us as well.

I don't understand the problem some people have with the nuked fridge in Crystal Skull.

In the first movie we saw Indy travel hundreds of miles strapped to the periscope of a Nazi sub (It is presumed that this is what he did. We see the sub dive, and he couldn't just go inside unseen into the sub). In the second film, he jumps out of a crashing plane with Willie and Short Round in an inflating raft, skid easily down the side of a mountain to land unharmed in a river far below. I know he did something outrageous in the Last Crusade but I can't rememember off the top of my head. So, why would anybody have a problem with him surviving an atomic blast in a lead lined refrigerator? It's just another day in the life of Indiana Jones!

With you there Bullwhip.

The other problem people have with "Skull" is the aliens. Really? The first three movies dealt with supernatural artifacts and beliefs but aliens are one step too far. I won't say that the film was as good as some of the others but it's deficiencies have more to do with wooden dialogue than anything. Much as I liked Karen Allen in the original, she was a bit stiff in the 4th outing.

What "Skull" did have was Indy doing what Indy does - staying one step ahead of the bad guys, working out a big puzzle and doing it all with a sideways grin. What's not to like?

What's not to like? Howzabout Lord LaBouf, King of the Apes? Yeesh.

Considering this was based on the cliff hangers of the 30's and 40's, very little in this film felt like a cliff hanger to me. I felt no tension in this film, no fear for the well being of its main characters. I never felt like I was on the edge of my seat. The opening temple sequence of Raiders, the mine cart-rope bridge sequence of Temple of Doom and the "three trials" sequence in the Last Crusade are good examples of what I'm talking about. The only thing that comes close to that is opening escape from Area 51 (I actually enjoyed him barely escaping the nuclear blast in a fridge) and that sequence doesn't hold a candle to those other sequences I mentioned from the prior films. Honestly, I felt the film was the most dull and uniteresting out of the four due to the structure and timing of the so-called action sequences.

Plus, Siafu? Cripes, they did bugs already in Temple of Doom. And Siafu are from Africa, not South America. What they should have had was Indy and the Russian fighting on one of those amphibious vehicles going down the river surrounded by pirhana. Killer fish would have been an original creepy-crawly and it would have been geographically accurate.

I dunno... after my grandma died, I had to clean out her refrigerator that looked like that and you'd be surprised what came out--and survived... good thing I had a shotgun handy! ;)

The problem with Crystal Skull isn't the fridge and it isn't the aliens. It just plain wasn't good. Everybody was just going through the motions.

You should block out an entire afternoon and watch Crystal Skull. The movie isn't that long to require an entire afternoon, but it seems twice as long as it actually is when you watch it.

Sean Connery is retired and no longer making public appearances, let alone movies (rumors are he suffers from alzheimers).

Besides, Crystal Skull established that Henry Jones Sr. is dead.

Well Crystal Skull has been erased from my memory as it should be. It wouldn't be a terrible idea to bring Henry Jones Sr. back to life and explain the Crystal Skull as an acid trip. It's a shame that Sean Connery's last film was one that I have had to erase from my memory as well.

The worst tragedy in film making was the death of Jim Henson. That man could create a realistic puppet. I'm glad I'm not the only one that doesn't think CGI is all that realistic. It's too cartoony. I was convinced that those Ninja Turtles in the live action movie were real life turtles.

There is no one who cannot be resurrected from the dead in movie land.

I love the idea of Nathan Fillon being brought in. If he couldn't be Indy's son, he could always be a half-brother. He's such a great actor, great comedic timing, and looks somewhat like Harrison Ford. He can say more with a facial expression than any actor since.... well,..... Harrison Ford.

Looking forward to the movie.