When it at last started to get really convincing that we really were going to see a fourth Indiana Jones movie after all... a part of my reaction was, in fact, apprehension. The new Star Wars movies had worked out well to my satisfaction, and yet all the yelling and screaming might in the end may have left me a little convinced that it had been a near-run thing, and that continuing to "take chances" would eventually not work out well, even for me. It was exciting to see the trailers when they did turn up, but the apprehension was still there... and for that matter, a different kind of apprehension may have developed that this year was going to see another kind of "2002" experience, with everyone proclaiming that a younger, cooler box-office champion has already been crowned with iron. When I went to an opening-night showing of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, therefore, part of my motivation was to share in the "opening night experience" (the theatre was quite full), another part was to form my own opinions about the first Indiana Jones movie I would actually get to see in a theatre before others somehow formed them for me, and another part yet was "Let's just get this over with."
( Just to be on the safe side )