Real-world archaeogeeks may have the time of their lives sitting in piles of dirt and ancient toilets, reeking of sweat and canned beans, meticulously brushing dust away from a shard of pottery with a tiny paintbrush, but it's usually not the stuff of box office bonanzas. In most cases, real archaeology is mostly boring for people who are just watching from the outside. It's like watching kids making mud pies, except without the pies. And with umpty-million times more cataloguing and measuring and dealing with paperwork from whatever country you're digging in. The trick is to make it sound exciting. Give it an exciting title and Ford as the returning hero, and you're almost there!

How about Indiana Jones and the Mindfully Excavated Midden or Indiana Jones and the Random Flint Chip That May or May Not Actually Have Been a Cutting Tool? Indiana Jones and the Search For His Favorite Excavating Pick has possibilities. I'd pay money to see Indiana Jones and the Temple of Red Tape, if the promo poster had an open-shirted Indy hacking his way through the corridors of bureaucracy with nothing but a machete and a grimace of determination.