Stephen Jared

Actor, Writer. Credits include: YELLOWSTONE, NCIS, CRIMINAL MINDS among others. Novels include: THE BRUTAL ILLUSION, THE ELEPHANTS OF SHANGHAI among others.

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@CaseyRain Thanks for posting this!

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Saw SMOKEY when I was 9. Became a big fan. One day, I was moping around, upset. My mom asked what's wrong. I said, "I wish I looked like Burt Reynolds." Then in the 90s, I met Burt Reynolds. I told him that story, and without missing a beat, he said, "Well ... now I wish I looked like you." He had such a fast wit. He was a great star, an under-rated actor.

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"Acting is an illusion. And anyone who watches Burt Reynolds in SMOKEY, STARTING OVER, and SHARKY, and then comes away saying he was just playing himself is only thinking that because the illusion he created was so successful." - from my article on Sharky's Machine published here a month ago.

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One of the great films of all time.

[Filmatic @itsFilmatic]

Cinema Paradiso (1988), dir. Giuseppe Tornatore

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The 90s was a good decade for movies, and this was one of the best!

[All Things Movies @ThatMoviePage]

THE MASK OF ZORRO (1998)
Martin Campbell, having just rejuvenated Bond for a new audience does it again with this. If you've never seen it check it out. Great action, funny, just a good watch all round.

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@SomeOkieDude @EllroyReader I suspect you'll enjoy it. It's very good.

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@alvaro_segarra Mountains of the Moon, Mask of Zorro…

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@JosephKahn You might like some short articles I posted recently on the same subject, same films. They're on my profile page if you're interested.

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Totally agree.

[Matt Jarbo @mjarbo]

With THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU in theaters, scratching that pulpy Lucasfilm adventure itch, I have been thinking a lot about INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY as it approaches its third anniversary.

People were way too harsh on this movie.

I understand why audiences may have been hesitant. Set leaks involving Roman soldiers made people nervous about the time-travel element, while the usual culture-war crowd spent months insisting Helena was going to replace Indy by the end of the movie.

That obviously did not happen.

What we actually got was one final adventure with a man who spent his entire life trying to understand history, only to reach the end and realize he no longer understood where he fit into it.

That is what made the movie work for me.

Indy does not know he is going on a time-travel adventure at the beginning. He is just an old man who has lost too much, feels left behind by the modern world, and gets pulled into another hunt for an artifact.

Then, at the end, he finally gets the one thing he has chased his entire life: the chance to actually live inside history.

And he wants to stay there.

I also love how much it feels like a spiritual companion to TEMPLE OF DOOM. It is strange, pulpy, darker than people expected, and far more emotional than it was given credit for.

By the time Marion walks back into that apartment at the end, I was tearing up like crazy.

Was it the financial hit Disney wanted? No.

But as a final Indiana Jones adventure, I think *Dial of Destiny* is quite wonderful.

I really wish more people had given it a fair chance.

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@ItzikBasman I agree. But I started to see it like an opera without music. I think the over-the-top performances give it a macabre quality that almost works. It's certainly weird, but the true story is weird. And Hollywood is not the most normal place on the planet.

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@ItzikBasman Years ago I felt the Black Dahlia movie as terrible as compared to the James Ellroy book, but then I watched it a couple more times and I liked it more and more each time. Maybe I'll have to revisit Marlowe at some point.

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[YoungIndyPod @YoungIndyPod]

The tools every filmmaker uses today were built at Skywalker Ranch in the early 1990s, on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Out of the sight of the world.
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Our new first look drops today!

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@DarrenDebari Thanks so much! Very kind of you!

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@DarrenDebari I wrote an article on seeing Temple of Doom in '84. It's on my profile page if you're interested.

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@IndyJonesfive @IndianaJones @Lucasfilm My favorite movie. I posted an article on seeing it in '84. It's on my profile page if you think you might be interested.

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@JohnBensalhia Temple of Doom is my favorite movie. I just posted an article on seeing it in '84. You might enjoy. It's on my profile page.