Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere posted last night that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is locked in, and that the final run time is somewhere in the 140 minute range. While that's -- thankfully -- short of the overly-extended third Pirates of the Caribbean (which rang in at 168 minutes), it's still been enough to get bloggers buzzing: is two and a half hours of Indy too much Indy? We'll all have to wait and see (the movie's set to premiere at Cannes only a few days before its debut in theaters May 22), but I'm down with the Roger Ebert quote, "no good film is too long and no bad film is short enough." While the other Indy flicks may have clocked in closer to the last Bourne movie, hardly anyone complains about the film lengths of Titanic, The Godfather, Part II or The Lord of the Rings movies...except maybe the last Rings...and that was more about its (multiple) endings.
