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Not sure why. He's not particularly good.
No, but then again he didn't give those people their big break and shoe-horn them into four mega-budget movies in three years.
I could be way off the mark, but my guess is they just decided "the grail is just super healing, you can still die" because they couldn't get or didn't want Sean Connery.
It clearly says in the Last Crusade that the effects of the grail are only permanent if you stay in the temple. That's why the knight was still there.
EDIT: Also, should we be spoiling any of this?
Beated. Oh schnap.
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But does it, really? In the Indiana Jones universe, life goes on as normal, and occasionally someone incurs the wrath of God by trying really hard to do so. That's a long cry from, "Oh, yeah, those Incas were really aliens."
As far as I'm concerned, movies get a two-week grace period after release. After that, you're SOL, especially if you're in a forum dedicated to said film.
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It certainly wasn't "clearly stated" that the grail only worked if you stayed in the temple. It was clearly stated that the grail could never be removed from the temple.
EDIT: Which, by the way, reminds me that whoever was criticizing TLC earlier because Indiana gets dumped on and his dad just dismisses him and obviously prefers the grail quest... must have forgotten when Henry, Sr., convinces Indy to abandon the grail so that he can save his own life. Pretty much ends the notion that his father cared more about the grail than his son.
Of course that didn't seem to be turning out very well for the knight.
First, the supernatural doesn't need to make sense in each and every aspect. It's not generally understood to work on a mathematical, cause-and-effect basis like technology and science do. This allowed for more elasticity and, yes, bullshitting in the plot. I'm OK with that. All supernatural fiction occasionally pulls out some new piece of shiny to explain away the latest mindfuck.
Second, there's a great difference in setting between the first 3 movies and KotCS. In the first three, large parts of the adventure took place in populated areas -- the library scene comes to mind, as does the dig taking place outside the city in Raiders. This allowed for a very different dynamic of adventuring than traipsing through the jungle, where the only things you ran into (besides the people who came with you) were ants and monkeys. The reason sci-fi wouldn't have worked in such a context is that it's harder to accept that high technology (which, presumably, would screw with the surrounding area in some ways, such as the intense magnetic fields put out by the Crystal Skull) would lie dormant and undetected than it is to believe that a holy relic would do so. I think the best scenes from the old films are the ones that take place in populated areas, and so their exclusion from KotCS had a greatly negative impact on its quality.
That said, I enjoyed KotCS (though not as much as the first 3), and I'll go see 5. *shrug*
I feel that it does. I see your point but it worked for me... in theory. it didn't actually work because it was poorly done but I like the idea of moving to sci fi. I think it fits with the series.
From what I've seen, they were not even that. They were completely normal. Like, Indi fights graverobber. Indi joins the Mexican Revolution. Indi joins WWI. Indi gets captured by the Germans and pretends to be a French officer and has to break out of a POW camp. Etc.
No, they're historical fiction. It almost turns into Abbott & Costello & Indy Meet (Insert Historical Figure) Before They Were Stars sometimes. Indy shows up everywhere with everyone. He goes on safari in Africa with Teddy Roosevelt, and meets T.E. Lawrence in the Middle East. He meets a girl in Austria and gets romance advice from Sigmund Freud, he gets captured in WWI and becomes cellmates with Charles De Gaulle, he gets stranded in a Dublin pub just in time to meet Sean O'Casey during the Easter Rising, he visits Paris and dates Mata Hari, etc.
There's also an episode detailing his pursuit of the diamond from Temple of Doom, while being contested by Chinese gangsters.
On a side note, production values are up the wazzoo for a TV series. Episodes were filmed all around the world with great cinematography, sets and costumes are excellent, etc.
How does this jibe with everyone? Do people miss the lack of the supernatural? (Or is it just that nobody ever has really watched these shows?)
lemme see if I can find one on amazon...
http://www.amazon.com/Indiana-Jones-Peril-Delphi-No/dp/0553289314/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253131569&sr=8-1
that's the first one. I remembered the name! wow! maybe someone else read them and can explain that they're actually good or actually shit. I have only the vaguest of memories.
Edit: So, that is evidently a new book. Just reading the first paragraph is hard to explain. Sad, I think, is the best word to describe my reaction to reading it.
I was gonna say, I don't remember even seeing that on the shelf back then.