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I think it excels in every department. If I had to find fault... Indy going out with child Marion is a weird choice; and his knowing not to look at the Ark at the end really needed to be set up earlier in the movie. I don't really understand how that got left out to be honest.
The thing people say about him not affecting the outcome is nonsense: he blows up the plane and steals the truck, thus stopping the Ark from reaching Berlin, end of.
Yeah I think she works really well in it, it was a good choice.
Why would the Indiana Jones we get to know in Raiders be hanging around with an annoying child....? 🤔
In terms of sidekicks, I saw that one of the books has Indy team up with a dog. Seems a bit of an 80s buddy movie cliche I guess, but I could actually have seen that working in a film! :)
He still has that same annoying voice! I was amazed with Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once, as he sounds exactly the same and looks very young for a 51 year old.
I am underwhelmed with the trailer and the title of the film. I was hoping to see something different and got a jumbled mess of a trailer. What is Indy after? Don't know, though one assumes it's the dial of destiny. (ugh that is not a good title)
Who will Indy encounter? Nazis, he will teach again, he will ride a horse into the subway, he has a god child??? In our brief glimpse we get her shouting at Indy that they are mildly related. WTF????
We see a de-aged Indy and we see tons of CGI and not all of it is good. I feel that we will see Indy go the way of so many characters, he will not get a send off and instead this will set up Waller Bridge as the new heroine of the next film or TV series.
I hope that I am wrong. I love Indy and his movies. I can recall seeing all of them as a teen in the 80's. I loved all the original trilogy films, wasn't so enthused with KOTCS. Less enthused about this one. He had his ride off into the sunset with Last Crusade.
With regard to that ride into the sunset: LITERALLY
Pretty much agree with you there mate. I enjoyed Temple of Doom in the cinema ( such a build up to it!!) And i only own it and Raiders on Bluray. But it's mostly Raiders i watch. Fantastic entertainment every time!
You say that as if there's a self-evident problem..?
Bear in mind it's only a teaser, it's not going to tell you the plot.
Incidentally on a different subject, the YouTube channel which started all the lies about 'Indy being replaced' etc. posted a video the other day about how the deletion of Indy had supposedly started because the Old Indy segments had been deleted out of Young Indiana Jones, and this was a sign of Disney erasing our childhoods and replacing it with wimmin and black people etc.
This was a lie too far and the account had to delete the video when everyone pointed out that it was in fact George Lucas who had decided to remove the Old Indy sequences over a decade ago back when he still owned Lucasfilm. Don't believe this person's lies, he's just trying to make money out of telling fantasies, nothing more.
Temple of Doom certainly was a fantastic cinema experience. A real audience pleaser at the time.
Raiders kick-started my love of cinema when I first saw it over 40 years ago!
Then, the fact that his little hoax about the previews got traction and was ultimately the sole source for dozens of pieces published on the web by the press (not just anti-woke blogs) mostly tells volumes about how these loudmouth frauds are the scourge of the Internet.
A few comments:
While IJATTOD has some parts which might appeal to kids, there's plenty of adult entertainment in it. Please recall, after all, that the IJ films were conceived to come on like a 1940s serial - in which case it would have even less adult content. I remember well the line - and motion - "I'm right here !" That's kiddie content only if you're a baby intent on nursing.
Marcus into a buffoon in IJATLC ? Marcus was not an Indy ! He was an academic person who was not an adventurer like Indy.
As for IJATKOTCS - indeed. Great bits, but ultimately such a letdown...and a massive shame, not only for producing such dreck after such a long wait for another Indy, but, in doing so, wasting the return of Marion, the idea of Indy having a child, Cate Blanchett and her cheekbones. Unlike many folks, I like the killer ants. I suffered red ants countless times as a child, and recall fondly the Charlton Heston film wherein he battled the red ants in South America - The Naked Jungle (1954). Was the CGI a letdown ? Not so much that it ruined the ants for me.
The Marcus line regarding the Ark in Raiders discounts that he was just an academic. "I'm really quite envious. A few years ago i would have gone after it myself..."
And he goes in Crusade too. I just can't get upset about it; I think he's funny in Crusade.
Nah. A character ruined just for cheap laughs.
There's nothing wrong with laughs either; I want proper big silly laughs from an Indy film.
People treat films so seriously and get offended by gags, I never get it. Have fun with it, it's not real.
A no nonsense archaeologist adventurer hanging around with a clumsy kid...? Yeah, OK...
Whilst TOD is my third rated Indy film, behind ROTLA and TLC, the film and the characters continue the action adventure set up in the original. If you can believe stereotypical Nazi villains and melting faces, then surely a child sidekick should be easy to accept.
Yes, TOD takes place before Raiders.
Is Shorty annoying, though? He's just a very excited kid, that's for sure. But I guess Indy has a heart, and offering a street kid the chance to learn and be with a father figure, is part of his good nature.
Lucas had turned Han Solo 'soft' in ROTJ; perhaps he wanted to give Indy the same 'rascal with the heart of gold' treatment. ;-)
Also, this was every Spielberg directed/produced film at the time. Always a kid, always the crucial element to bring in the families-- in TOD's case, no doubt to compensate for the film's darker tone.
Well they are fantasy films, so I can accept the Ark 'melting faces'
Child sidekicks not so much...
That's very true. I would just add that even today Spielberg has that chip on his foot. Even if there's no actual kid, there's always a reference to a disfuncional family or a divorce, or abandonment. He should have made "The Fabelmans" back in the day and be self therapeutical about it. Although, we wouldn't have those true gems like Empire of the Sun, which is a perfect film in every way.
Correct, @Univex!
Spielberg put a lot of his own emotions into his films, but the splendid outcome shaped my youth. I wouldn't have wanted it any other way.
Glad to see someone else like EOTS. That makes... two of us? ;-)
This. People say she's terrible. I say she's very good considering the material she was given.
The worst bit about her is probably her conspicuously 80s blow-dried bouffant when they're playing the waiting game in their rooms :D
I was rolling with laughter during that whole sequence, the way she's losing her mind with all the exotic animals and they sort of tune her out. Like you say, a funny character that's played very well.
And then wonderfully it ends with the joke being on Indy because he becomes the one who's scared. That's just beautiful, deft stuff not to make him the victor of the scene.
Talking of rumours not being true, back in 1984 before the film's release, there were rumours that Temple of Doom was going to feature Dinosaurs...😄