Originally Posted By Mr X ***Me X - you win this week's curmudgeon post. Congratulations!*** To hell with your congratulations, and GET OFF MY LAWN!
Originally Posted By u k fan dagobert, IJA is amazing. It has a scale and scope that is rarely seen at theme parks in my opinion!!!
Originally Posted By dagobert @ ukfan You are back from California? Hopefully you had a great trip! Are you doing a trip report somewhere? Since we are going in June, I'm eager to get some news, pictures, tips and informations. As I mentioned before, I can't wait to ride it myself.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Indiana Jones Adventure is beautiful and detailed from the moment you see it from Adventureland, through the amazing queue, to the ride itself and back out again. So immersive. My guess is that Star Wars Land will be on a scale like it.
Originally Posted By u k fan dagobert, yeah I got back 2 weeks ago. I had been thinking of posting a few thoughts, but hadn't done it yet. I'll try and get some stuff up this weekend!!!
Originally Posted By dagobert David Koepp is returing to the franchise. He already worked for Spielberg and wrote the screenplays for Jurassic Park I & II. However he also worked on Indy 4. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/indiana-jones-5-enlists-crystal-876684">http://www.hollywoodreporter.c...l-876684</a>
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <The link's not working, Jim.> Ahhh.... the classics. (Though "The Link's Not Working Jim 4" was clearly a low point in the series...)
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>(Though "The Link's Not Working Jim 4" was clearly a low point in the series…)<< I was too old for the role. Should have passed it down to another poster.
Originally Posted By doombuggy What now? nazi after ANOTHER god linked item...yawn. Indy and the quest for bigfoot? ToD was the only movie I liked the rest where just so boring car chase after car chase. This new movie needs to be Forbidden eye.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox "It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage." Yeah. I was watching you pile on more mileage, Harrison, in IJ4. I found myself reaching for my arthritis meds by the first turning point. Either Indy needs to get more cerebral in the next one or he'll be chasing bad guys with a walker. I know Ford is a tough bird, but c'mon... it's effn painful to watch the man reliving Indy's glory days of Egyptian tomb raiding! ENOUGH!
Originally Posted By Mr X ***ToD was the only movie I liked*** Wow...I thought Temple of Doom sucked bigtime. I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would like it. Great fans of 1 and 3, though (not even going to rehash what a crapfest the "other" was...but SouthPark put it best anyway lol). To each his own, I guess.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would like it.<< Mola Ram was a great bad guy. Creepy, cruel, built to be hated. Mine cart chase scene is a classic, one of the best sequences in all the movies. The opening Busby Berkeley number, followed by the big fight in the night club. Capping off with "Nice try, Lao Che!" as Indy closes the door on the Lao Che Airlines plane. I liked the back and forth between Indy and Willie Scott. Nice throwback to Hepburn and Tracy or Bogie and Bacall, but with a more comedic twist. Indy stumbles into an adventure, gets into it to help save the children of the village. Hero stuff. Many of the special effects don't always hold up all these years later (and a few were even shaky back in the day) but overall, worlds better than Crystal Skull.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip The scene where the beating heart was pulled out of a chest made the film rate -100 for me. There are some places a film just shouldn't go. NOT OK for an Action/Adventure film. That is the stuff of snuff movies.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan The beating heart scene was the thing that ushered in the PG-13 rating. Though I don't think it was really any worse than the Nazis getting melted into goo at the end of "Raiders."
Originally Posted By RoadTrip I guess for me the difference was that the "melted goo" wasn't at all realistic, where the "beating heart" scene was. I've read that sacrifices like that actually happened in some societies in the past (or at least I think I have... fact starts to get mixed with fiction after awhile).
Originally Posted By dagobert I recently rewatched all four Indy movies and I also think that Temple of Doom is not so bad. I actually enjoyed it. It's not on the same level as Raiders or Last Crusade, but still an entertaining movie. I have to admit that I also enjoyed Crystal Skull until they met Marion. Without her, the movie would be so much better. Still the worst Indy movie ever. Hopefully they come up with a better story for the next one.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I grew up with a VHS copy of Temple of Doom in our house (but oddly not the other two), and it was one of our go-to movies. Although I recognize that most people don't like it as much, I have a special attachment from seeing it so much Plus, as 2toony mentioned, there are a lot of great iconic elements in the movie. They may not add up overall, but everything from the Anything Goes opening, to the monkey brains, to the mine cart chase, to the beating heart, have all become iconic moments in film, like it or not
Originally Posted By doombuggy I found Raiders so incredibly boringFor the same reason Amy Farrah Fowler pointed out in The Big Bang Theory. The outcome of the movie would have been exactly the same with or without Indiana Jones
Originally Posted By Mr X ***The opening Busby Berkeley number, followed by the big fight in the night club. Capping off with "Nice try, Lao Che!" as Indy closes the door on the Lao Che Airlines plane.*** Yeah, that *was* pretty awesome. ***but overall, worlds better than Crystal Skull*** No disagreement there.
