Anybody else peep it?
Kinda fun to watch. I rather enjoyed the part where Jones goes into the truck’s windshield ass first. Set-pieces look elaborate…crumbling ruins etc. Personally I thought the last one was rubbish. Maybe they found a way to revitalize this dormant genre. Tomb Raider and Relic Hunter just don’t do shit for me.
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/indianajones.html?showVideo=1
it looks pretty good. i didn’t care for the first two. very james bondish in the fact that you think the movie is over and there was still 2 hours to go. i think the holy grail was the best of the three we’ll see how the crystal skull goes!
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Really, you like Crusade more than Raiders?? I’m a Raiders guy, but Crusade was definitely a step up from The Adventures of Short Round & Speilberg’s Wife. Too much corny dialogue and monkey brains in that one. I am excited about the new film, though I’m uneasy because of the long break since the last film (hard to believe it’s been 19 years since the THIRD film).
The trailer was ok, I don’t know what I was expecting. I hope there aren’t too many geriatric jokes, or excess CG. This film has high potential for self-parody…I’m going in guarded on this one. I’m curious to see if the Close Encounters tie-in is true.
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Really, you like Crusade more than Raiders?? I’m a Raiders guy, but Crusade was definitely a step up from The Adventures of Short Round & Speilberg’s Wife.
Yeah, Although i think I like Raiders better than Temple just because I really like the beginning of raiders (Although jwatson from Pissarmy has a funny anecdote about it on his myspace blog (pinny something) I’d give you the addy but I’m behind a blocker and can’t get to it I’ll post it later)
and the end of Raiders where Tote’s face melts I always thought was really cool looking and the snake pit was ok but other than that it was torture waiting through the movie to get to those parts.
I don’t think Temple had any redeeming scenes maybe the bug fest in the death chamber but that was it.
I was 5 when raiders came out and 14 when I watched crusade so maybe the age factor has something to do with it But i really like the banter between Connery and Ford as well a the story line. Just better for my money. “I’ve gone and caught a sniffle” Lol
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There was a raiders game? (Although I shouldn’t be surprised they had “Chase the chuckwagon” dog food game which is worth a gazillion dollars now!) What was the object of the game? I Know E.T. you had to pick up Reeces Pieces which was definately impossible! atari games never had endings right? they just repeated…
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Ha!
Anybody remember playing Raiders of The lost Ark for the Atari 2600?
Man, now there was some impossibullshit.
Chuck that one into the landfill with E.T., hombre.
Nice box art tho.
Somehow, I managed to finish Raiders on the 2600, after countless head-banging hours of playing. That had to be one of the most confusing, frustrating console games ever made (ass graphics, too). E.T. was a heaping pile of shit…all I remember doing was making his head move up and down with the joystick. Too bad Activision didn’t develop Raiders, it could’ve been way better.
Smurf - I was 10 when I saw Raiders at the theater (Ford had quite the trifecta from 80-82 with Empire, Raiders, and Blade Runner). In regards to Last Crusade, I always felt that Ford and Connery’s comedic banter seemed a little too forced. Also, Marcus Brody came off as a complete buffoon in that film. One of my favorite parts of Indy 3 is when he and Elsa are underground of the library, and they walk by the Ark drawing on the wall. The ‘Well of Souls’ music creeps in, Indy mutters, “the Ark of the covenant”, Elsa says, “Are you sure?”, and he replies, “Pretty sure.”
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[reply]Somehow, I managed to finish Raiders on the 2600, after countless head-banging hours of playing.[/quote]
what was the object of the game? 2600 games were very remedial. the 2600 tron version bares know resemblance to the arcade game. you’d be hard pressed to even know it was tron.So Raiders actually had an end? i had know idea 2600 games ended.
I always felt that Ford and Connery’s comedic banter seemed a little too forced.
hmm that’s an interesting choice of description. to each his own. oh well, i think the only part i didn’t like of grail was the train escape after he steals the cross of coronado in the beginning as a youngster!
Also, Marcus Brody came off as a complete buffoon in that film.
i think that was the point. i mean “he got lost in his own museum” after all. i thought his bafoonishness was funny though. i mean when the local is telling him to run and has to say it a million times and then never fully realizes he should run until that local hits the nazi through the news paper. hilarity ensues.
One of my favorite parts of Indy 3 is when he and Elsa are underground of the library, and they walk by the Ark drawing on the wall. The ‘Well of Souls’ music creeps in, Indy mutters, “the Ark of the covenant”, Elsa says, “Are you sure?”, and he replies, “Pretty sure.”
yeah, that was a pretty good chuckle. I like the part in library as well when that poor librarian is stamping books at the same time indy is cracking the floor. that was great!!
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Just saw the trailer and was amazed at how lifeless it seemed - talk about choreographed, talk about going through the motions!!
The whole thing just looked like a big, overly lit film set. No authenticity - and the ‘jokes’ were forced.
Pretty awful.
I used to be a Raiders nut. Watched it about 50 or 60 times when I was a wee lad. Im very worried about this new Indy film. Like most of the recent sequels and remakes, there is absolutely no point in making it (apart from the obvious) Whats with the American flag flying across the screen when it goes to show footage of the new film (which is actually half way into the trailer). I hope very dearly that they dont put an overt political slant on it, that it would be an absolute catastophe. The previous 3 were great and there was no overt nationalistic or political agenda apart from denouncing the Nazis which is grand. Has anyone seen the new Romero zombie flick ‘Diary of the Dead’? I saw a trailer and it looks quite appalling. The new Rambo film looks like a bit of a laugh though, despite Johnny boy having to rescue some Christian group in Burma.
Just saw the trailer and was amazed at how lifeless it seemed - talk about choreographed, talk about going through the motions!!
The whole thing just looked like a big, overly lit film set. No authenticity - and the ‘jokes’ were forced.
I had the same feeling when I saw the trailer.
Just a bunch of oversized action scenes, like in so many other films from the past 3 years that bored me.
I hope the film isn’t based on fast action and simple story all way though, but has the unique Indy feeling that made all previous films so entertaining.