'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade' Is the Ultimate Dad Movie

If Dad Movies have a name ...it must be 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.'

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This post is a little early because I haven’t seen Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny yet so I can’t tell you anything about it. But today is Father’s Day and no movie makes me think of my dad more than an Indiana Jones flick. And what’s more Indiana Jones-y than being a man out of time? 

Cue the theme! 

There are a lot of reasons this franchise makes me think of my dad (Hi, Dad! Happy Father’s Day! I’ll call you as soon as this post gets through edits.) The first is that he really loved introducing it to me when I was a little kid, and took great care to explain, with real storytelling flair, the more mature stuff that he had to fast forward.

But the other big reason is that The Last Crusade is not only a dad movie in spirit, but in text. We all know Spielberg loves a story about parents and their kids, but a lot of the later nuance that he would bring to parenting movies like War of the Worlds, Catch Me If You Can and, of course, Fabelmans is smartly layered into the third Indiana Jones movie. 

To fully understand why, a little background is important here.