Indiana Jones
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 2:25 pm
Do you like the films? Which one is your favourite? and why?
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 2:49 pm
I like Raiders the best. Doom was cool but not as much fun. Crusade was very cool. I just like em all I guess.
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 2:55 pm
Raiders was the best, followed by Crusade. TOD flat-out sucked.
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 2:56 pm
Yes, I agree, the second one sucked.
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 3:37 pm
As for the "Why" part of your question, Raiders & Crusade make more sense continuity wise than TOD does. Most archeologists stay in a certain genre, and the Ark of the Covenant and Holy Grail are biblical artifacts. I'm not even sure that what Indy was after in TOD is an actual item, but I do know that it had nothing to do with the other 2 things. So I didn't think he'd be as interested in it.
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 3:46 pm
Very true!
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 3:51 pm
I expect someone will post a "Doom was the best" comment. Something about the blood and the pulling the beating heart out of the chest brings out the Dark Lords.
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 4:06 pm
Yes, I think that is very true... That was the high point in the film...
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 4:36 pm
I like all three - probably Crusade the best. The character of Indy's father was a brilliant stroke. The movies are masterpieces of combining action, humor and story into edge-of-you-seat suspenseful tales.
I'm really looking forward to the fourth one, except I do wish that Spielberg had gotten on the ball several years earlier. Harrison Ford is really pushing the envelope at this point, as a globe-trotting adventurer. The plot will need to be something very special to pull attention away from the fact that a near-geriatric is accomplishing these death-defying stunts.
I'm really looking forward to the fourth one, except I do wish that Spielberg had gotten on the ball several years earlier. Harrison Ford is really pushing the envelope at this point, as a globe-trotting adventurer. The plot will need to be something very special to pull attention away from the fact that a near-geriatric is accomplishing these death-defying stunts.
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 4:49 pm
LOL Roland!! 
Actually, I heard that it supposed to take place in the late 50's, some 15 years after the events of Last Crusade, and Sean Connery will once again play Henry Sr.
My favorite of all three has to be Last Crusade. I just loved the interplay between Ford and Connery. Raiders runs a close second, and I didn't like Temple of Doom at all.
Actually, I heard that it supposed to take place in the late 50's, some 15 years after the events of Last Crusade, and Sean Connery will once again play Henry Sr.
My favorite of all three has to be Last Crusade. I just loved the interplay between Ford and Connery. Raiders runs a close second, and I didn't like Temple of Doom at all.
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 4:55 pm
Indy was my first true idol... But I agree with the rest above that think that the second movie wasn't all that good. After just watching the documentaries in the new Indy-box, I at least got some answeres to why it was so different from the two others. Lucas wanted it to be a much darker story (he had just had a divorce... might have something to do with it) a little bit like The empire strikes back, and also much more like a horrormovie. (I am particularly fond of the name of the night club, "obi wan" 
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And for the artifact-thing in the second story not at all seeming to be connected to the artifacts Indy was after in the first and third movie, I don't think that matters... The point is that every artifact "belongs in a museum", whether it is a indian statue, a spanish cross, the ark or the grail. And since Indy is the worlds best archeaologist: of course he knows all historic eras...
)And for the artifact-thing in the second story not at all seeming to be connected to the artifacts Indy was after in the first and third movie, I don't think that matters... The point is that every artifact "belongs in a museum", whether it is a indian statue, a spanish cross, the ark or the grail. And since Indy is the worlds best archeaologist: of course he knows all historic eras...
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 11:48 pm
Last Crusade, Lost Arc, and Temple of Doom... though I'm not of the opinion that Doom was that bad. Not great, but considering it was a sequel... The only real problem I had with it was the female lead. Besides being annoying, the stereotype really dates the film (imo). And hey, Shorty rocked.
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 10:00 am
What do you all think the fourth one is going to be like?
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 1:34 pm
dunno .. it will be cool to see 
i liked them all .. but like others TOD was a little out of kilter imho
i didnt mind the female lead .. she was stereotypically air headed .. but she was the comic relief .. shared with "shorty" i guess
TOD was a little dark .. or something .. i cant quite remember it all .. but it is my least fav .. the blood lust/killing thing .. was kinda yuk
evenso it was still good .. just not as favoured for me as Lost Arc .. and Last Crusade was ..
i liked them all .. but like others TOD was a little out of kilter imho
i didnt mind the female lead .. she was stereotypically air headed .. but she was the comic relief .. shared with "shorty" i guess
TOD was a little dark .. or something .. i cant quite remember it all .. but it is my least fav .. the blood lust/killing thing .. was kinda yuk
evenso it was still good .. just not as favoured for me as Lost Arc .. and Last Crusade was ..
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 2:20 pm
Of course I love them. The Last Crusade is #1 but Ark is very close behind. Temple of Doom had some great moments despite the general negative feeling toward the movie. Short Round and the scene in the Club Obi-Wan made the movie.
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 5:15 pm
Temple of Doom had the best slogan for any movie ever - "If adventure has a name, it must be Indiana Jones."
The fourth movie's plot is this:
Indy and Henry Jones, Sr. break out of a Miami nursing home and search for the legendary Fountain of Youth in the Everglades. It's purely personal in this particular adventure - they both need the elixir big-time. Museums are just out of luck until Ford and Connery can recapture their former good looks.
Of course, they run into Nazis again, but this time, with a twist - Hitler escaped Berlin and has been searching for the Fountain, too. The climactic scene involves wrestling gators, which Henry Senior dispatches with his trusty parasol while Indy is knocking ten kinds of stuffing out of old Adolf.
The fourth movie's plot is this:
Indy and Henry Jones, Sr. break out of a Miami nursing home and search for the legendary Fountain of Youth in the Everglades. It's purely personal in this particular adventure - they both need the elixir big-time. Museums are just out of luck until Ford and Connery can recapture their former good looks.
Of course, they run into Nazis again, but this time, with a twist - Hitler escaped Berlin and has been searching for the Fountain, too. The climactic scene involves wrestling gators, which Henry Senior dispatches with his trusty parasol while Indy is knocking ten kinds of stuffing out of old Adolf.
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 6:26 pm
I liked the gun scene where Indy is out of bullets, so he turns and runs. Too bad he didn't turn and run before they started shooting the film....Cromas Tummins wrote:I expect someone will post a "Doom was the best" comment. Something about the blood and the pulling the beating heart out of the chest brings out the Dark Lords.
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 7:05 pm
I liked the part where Indy is standing in the doorway of the plane about to escape and says something like. "Seeya around Lao." Then closes the door. On the side of the plane is the name of the guy who he's running from. HAH!
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 2:40 am
I'd be willing to concede that Last Crusade is the equal of Raiders, if I had to. Both are truly wonderful, but the original has to get extra points for establishing the whole mythos.
I've seen TOD twice. The second was to see if I truly hated it as much as I thought, or if I was just in a bad frame of mind the first time. I mean, come on, it's Indy!!! But, alas, I do hate it as bad as I feared, and can now, blissfully, remember almost nothing about it. Second only to the second Highlander movie in the "worst sequel" category. im(ns)ho
I've seen TOD twice. The second was to see if I truly hated it as much as I thought, or if I was just in a bad frame of mind the first time. I mean, come on, it's Indy!!! But, alas, I do hate it as bad as I feared, and can now, blissfully, remember almost nothing about it. Second only to the second Highlander movie in the "worst sequel" category. im(ns)ho
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 1:59 pm
How do you know this?Roland of Gilead wrote:Temple of Doom had the best slogan for any movie ever - "If adventure has a name, it must be Indiana Jones."
The fourth movie's plot is this:
Indy and Henry Jones, Sr. break out of a Miami nursing home and search for the legendary Fountain of Youth in the Everglades. It's purely personal in this particular adventure - they both need the elixir big-time. Museums are just out of luck until Ford and Connery can recapture their former good looks.
Of course, they run into Nazis again, but this time, with a twist - Hitler escaped Berlin and has been searching for the Fountain, too. The climactic scene involves wrestling gators, which Henry Senior dispatches with his trusty parasol while Indy is knocking ten kinds of stuffing out of old Adolf.