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Hey lady! You call him Doctah Jones!
Grey Ghost
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No time for love, Doctah Jones!
And yes, even
The Indiana Jones series began in 1981 with Raiders of the Lost Ark and spawned three sequels, all directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford as the titular archaeologist and adventurer. Written as a modern version of the adventure serials of the 1930s and 1940s, the films find the intrepid Dr. Jones traveling across the globe, seeking out and recovering powerful relics before Thuggee cultists or crazy Nazis (or Soviets) can use them for their own nefarious purposes. He also runs into a lot of snakes! (Why did it have to be snakes?) Another one will be made eventually, once Spielberg is done with his movie about a horse or whatever.
So you guys know the deal, you've seen these movies a hundred times and you can quote 'em all day long. These movies were my favorites growing up and they're the reason I decided to study archaeology, and a lot of people in the department here got into it for the same reason (though the real thing can be quite a sober awakening if you don't know what you're really going in for).
So talk about how kickass these movies are! I just re-watched Temple of Doom for the first time in a while and it's cooler than a lot of people give it credit for. And on that note, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull does not deserve anywhere near the shit it gets, though it is certainly a flawed movie.
And yes, even
The Indiana Jones series began in 1981 with Raiders of the Lost Ark and spawned three sequels, all directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford as the titular archaeologist and adventurer. Written as a modern version of the adventure serials of the 1930s and 1940s, the films find the intrepid Dr. Jones traveling across the globe, seeking out and recovering powerful relics before Thuggee cultists or crazy Nazis (or Soviets) can use them for their own nefarious purposes. He also runs into a lot of snakes! (Why did it have to be snakes?) Another one will be made eventually, once Spielberg is done with his movie about a horse or whatever.
So you guys know the deal, you've seen these movies a hundred times and you can quote 'em all day long. These movies were my favorites growing up and they're the reason I decided to study archaeology, and a lot of people in the department here got into it for the same reason (though the real thing can be quite a sober awakening if you don't know what you're really going in for).
So talk about how kickass these movies are! I just re-watched Temple of Doom for the first time in a while and it's cooler than a lot of people give it credit for. And on that note, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull does not deserve anywhere near the shit it gets, though it is certainly a flawed movie.
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Yes it does.
Everybody's got one
Your opinion just happens to be the goatse of opinions.
(see what i did there)
It happens
It's still got good action and let's not forget Short Round
It was worse.
it wasn't GOOD but it wasn't the giant shit sandwich you guys made mje believe it was
also: 2012 was mediocre
and Daybreakers did not do what it should have done with that whole idea. They SQUANDERED that shit
Upstanding Citizen gets worse the more you think about it
If it was kept to stories and hints and paintings on the wall, and the only physical presence of them was the skull itself, that would not be a problem
Admittedly the chick in that was annoying as fuck and only got the job because Spielberg wanted to bang her and all
But the mine cart chase sequence and all the fighting and the old pulpy story
It's still miles ahead of any other non-Indy adventure flick
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Yeah that might have actually worked
I mean, they might still need to show the spaceship or whatever, but I could deal with that
My problems with Crystal Skull primarily involve the writing and characterization, and the fact that they were clearly wanting to go all out 50's sci-fi movie, but never really fully committed to it as a theme or aesthetic so it was this weird halfway point between 30's adventure serial and 50's sci-fi movie and the film suffered for it
Also that goddamn fridge bit was just not acceptable
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i liked crystal skull
how do they work?
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Pretty much the best movie ever
Last Crusade is fantastic you uncultured swine!
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God, the entire tank sequence is like a master's course in how to design an exciting action sequence
The part where the turret turns and is scraping the wall while Indy's hanging on? Man
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i would basically just do the tank sequence over and over for hours, improving it, making it better
motorcycles would come up and get clipped and FLIP and shit it was awesome
also that scene introduced me to both the realizations that the treads on the top would move and convey stuff toward the front of the tank
and also that riding those is basically just ASKING to get crushed to death
Short Round was the best sidekick.
ahh fuck I forgot about that scene. That upset me so much. Even worse, I hate talking to people about it. Even if they're saying how ridiculous it is, they usually do so by noting that he survived an atomic blast due to a fridge's lining.
so I'm all you don't know shit about radiation, so leave that be. but you do know about falling a fucking mile inside a hard object and hitting the ground
you DO know that you would fucking splat.
A few years ago I was actually on Venice for about 3 days and I said that constantly around my friends
I of course got a huge kick out of it
shoot yourself
That scene were Miriam hits him with the mirror in Raiders? classic
That scene were the fighter pilot looks at him as he's sliding through the tunnel? stupid
Neither of these sort of things are usually very important in an action movie.
Not saying you're wrong, but honestly...
what? how is a giant impact that could result in a death not important in an action movie? if the rules of death did not apply, the action would be pointless and it would not be an action movie.
however, in the indiana jones little universe, we know that the normal laws of normal physics apply. like getting shot hurts a dude. getting whipped hurts a dude. getting punched hurts a dude. a giant fall at real high velocity hurts a dude.
the movie took just went right past common laws of what is established already in that series. we do not know what an atomic blast would do to something lined in lead, so therefore all bets are off. But the force of an impact is instilled again and again by the giant sound effect they use for Indy's punches