May I say anymore? I loved these as I was growing up and I hope its more of the same :D
http://www.indianajones.com/site/index.html
now that is some sweet ****..
Did I miss 4 and 5? :blink:
Mr Ford looks very old in the 'comic con' footage.
Nice to see Ray Winstone is becoming very hot property in Hollywood.
This is almost a bit embarrassing to confess, but I've actually never watched any of the Indiana Jones movies... Don't know why really, don't have any good reason to be honest...
Guess I'll just have to get hold of 'em and get started :)
Quote from: Bob;205082This is almost a bit embarrassing to confess, but I've actually never watched any of the Indiana Jones movies... Don't know why really, don't have any good reason to be honest...
Guess I'll just have to get hold of 'em and get started :)
I hope while typing that you were simultaneously ordering the box set through the affiliate links, and selecting "light speed delivery".
I say hope, it was more of a passing thought....the moment has passed for me now. hehe, lightspeed.
Quote from: T-Bag;205086I hope while typing that you were simultaneously ordering the box set through the affiliate links, and selecting "light speed delivery".
Now why would I order the box set now, while the box obviously ain't complete yet :rolleyes:
But I'll manage to get hold of 'em in some way though.
Quote from: Bob;205102Now why would I order the box set now, while the box obviously ain't complete yet :rolleyes:
But I'll manage to get hold of 'em in some way though.
Arrrrh! go see them!
They are really great movies. Still prefer #1 :)
Quote from: delanvital;205107They are really great movies. Still prefer #1 :)
:withstupid:, although Last Crusade is good fun.
Quote from: Thulsa Doom;205109:withstupid:, although Last Crusade is good fun.
True. It is a close run-up between the two. Temple of Doom is too much of a kiddie flick, although still good fun to watch as a kid.
I've read that George and Steven have cooked up a really good script for the 4th installment although it doesn't include Sean Connery...
Lets just hope they haven't managed to cook up a Jar Jar Binks character to spoil this long awaited film.
Quote from: Liberator;205284Lets just hope they haven't managed to cook up a Jar Jar Binks character to spoil this long awaited film.
That would be... I don't have words for that. A "funny" sidekick extravaganza would ruin it... the kid in Temple of Doom is already close...
Interesting facts there:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367882/trivia
Like Sean Connery turned it down due to retirement and the (wonderful, in my opinion) decision to use stunt men instead of gfx.
Release date (worldwide?) is May 22nd.
And here is the movie poster:
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0367882/Ss/0367882/skull.jpg?path=gallery&path_key=0367882
I can't wait :yahoo:Crystal skulls remind me of the Aztecs...
Went to see this Saturday night, and it truly was one of the most disappointing films I've ever seen.
Take all the great action, scripts, music, humor, and set-pieces from the first three films...
dump them...
then cobble together a terrible plot about aliens, throw in a tired looking harrison, add ridiculously unbelievable sequences with cruddy cgi (the monkeys, the waterfalls, the ants that can climb on top of each other, the "surviving a nuclear bomb in a fridge" scene), whilst wasting great character actors like hurt and winstone. Truly an awful film.
The old films you could suspend your disbelief because it was never too crazy and there was little or no cgi, but this new film really jumps the shark.
Please, Lucas & Spielberg, stop ruining my childhood memories of great films gone by :crying:Retire now and spare us
I was disappointed as well. I mean, if this was not an Indy film, just another adventure this year, it would be ... good for killing time... considering the legacy, it is quite poor. There are good, funny action scenes, but th movie suffers from a sense of urgency. Harrison Ford said "if not in 2008, then never" and Spielberg and Lucas picked up the pace. This shows everywhere. Especially in the latter part of the film, where the pace speeds up enormously to just get to the ending.
So sad.
watched it friday night.
I thoughed it was a fun movie (not very spielbergy though)
I don't know if he scrwed it up, since it was my first indianna jones really.
Really liked the lead fridge feature though. but its true that its a bit over the top
I haven't seen it. A friend of mine gave it this review:
"It was OK for a Harry Potter movie. Once you realized it was it was a Harry Potter movie you started feeling better. Before I was mostly nauseous." :roflmao:
If you want to make fast paced action movies you can't ignore the fact that the Bourne Trilogy and Casino Royal exist. They re-set the bar. The other route is to accept that the first Indiana Jones films were just big B movies in disguise and stick to that formula. This film fell down a great big hole between the two and became nothing. Agree with the Chimpster, they should have left well alone. What will Lucas murder next? ET: The Return ?
Firstly, compared to Star Wars, this graphics wise was alright. Secondly as far as indiana jones plots go...when you've already done a box from god which melts the face off of Nazis I don't see why people would complain about the alien plot. I think people are disappointed because they've built it up too much. Take it for what it is, an Indiana Jones film...which have wacky plots and scenes which can't be done in real life.
I found this movie exactly how I expected, nothing special but better than the average remake of an old series. I think that rather than completely changing the formula from B-Movie esque, to hollywood they kept it right where it should be. Anyone could start a new chain of films if they wanted to redefine the lead so much.
I'm with T-bag. Entered cinema, turned brain off, enjoyed film
Couple of scenes were naff and the Alien thing at the end was just plain wierd. Other than that.. I loved it and had a good time. It's a good speilburg movie..
Quote from: smilodon;233234What will Lucas murder next?
He might consider the Indy-series only skin-dead, since he has stated that if this Indy is a success (from a box office perspective, I take it :sideways:) there will be a fifth... some say moving the James Dean wanna-be in line for a take-over.
/agree
I went and watched it, and came out moaning that the ending was not Indiana Jones-y enough, it just didn't 'feel' right. But then i thought about it. As T-Bag said, how is space aliens any less believable as a plot than the Ark of the Covenant or the cup of Christ? Indy IV followed a similar formula to the earlier films, it just shifted the perspective a bit. Why? Well, as far as I am aware Stalin *did* have a bit of a thing about psychic abilities and paranormal stuff, so it makes sense if the time is shifting to after the war and the enemy from Nazis to Commies that they'd shift the plot in that direction too.
Having said that, I think it would have been better if they'd used the Karotechia hiding in South America stuff and gone after 'old gods' from Lovecraft literature like Dagon etc, more like Temple Of Doom than either of the other two films.
I think the deserved ire that the "aliens" ending is getting is due to the fact that it is totally out of place next to the 3 previous films.
Indy 1-3 all took on religious artifacts as the goal to drive the plot forward. They were never based on science-fiction. Supernatural, mythical, mysterious yes, but nothing to do with little green men or outer space. I can buy into the fact that the ark of the covenant had the power to melt Nazi faces, as it fits in with Greek myths such as that of Pandora's box. What I think people are struggling with is suddenly Indiana Jones is tackling "inter dimensional beings" instead of chasing artifacts solidly rooted in archeology. As one review said "the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant (previous Indy fetishes) had unspoken gravitas. The 1950s-set alien themes of Crystal Skull, instead, are just silly".
The ending is great if you're making a new film in the Tomb Raider or The Mummy franchises, but it ain't Indy to me :sad: I don't remember having to disengage my brain in order to enjoy watching the first three Indy films, not sure why I have to now. But then again George Lucas has a habit of dumbing down these days to the detriment of film :g:
I saw it as an advance preview the night before it was released nationally.
I was really looking forward to this film and so were many others in the cinema as we all sat down and cheered when the opening credits started. It did unfortunately fall far below my expectations. The CGI was very poor and some scenes were poorly crafted. However a few scenes did make me chuckle such as the quick glimpse of the ark which sparked a roar in the cinema.
All in all the alien plot wasn't what i was expecting, instead i was hoping for a storyline to do with new archaeological discoveries such as with the holy grail, which was an epic scene in the last and my favourite Indy film the last crusade. I was also looking forward to good action which did come in the form of the warehouse scene but other scenes were unfortunately low quality CGI which for the avid Indy fan was a bitter shame.
The talk to continue this "new" trilogy was mentioned earlier in the film's development and so i did think Indy's son was going to pick up his dad's cap but he didn't.
It did of course have nice elements and willl watch it again but it could have been in my opinion so much better
This is such a blatant rip-off I could go and see it for that very reason:
Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219671/