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A greater reliance on practical filmmaking is what Dr. Jones needs.
You mean the guy who wrote Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Inferno, and The Mummy? Can't say that inspires any sort of confidence in the script for me at all.
I had assumed everyone found the screenplay for KOTCS to be garbage, but I suppose not.
I'd like to think they won't try that again after their failed attempt with KOTCS, but who knows. They shouldn't back themselves into a corner or anything, could always do a soft reboot of sorts of the series with a new, younger actor in a few years time.
Exactly. Have this be Ford's movie, then reboot the series with a younger actor in a few years.
Simply don't see how this can be any good. People laughed at Rog in AVTAK at the age of 58; imagine if he had gone on for another 20 years?!
Harrison just about got away with it in KOTCS but that's a decade ago.
At the end of the day Harrison simply can't be credible doing decent action scenes can he? So they're going to have come up with some sort of idea to get round that fact - be it flashbacks or a younger sidekick to take the punches, neither of which I would be happy with.
You'd like to think it can't be as bad as KOTCS but to say I'm reserving judgement is putting it mildly.
My biggest problem is I didn't find Shia remotely likable, and he didn't seem appropriate to the time period. His D.A. was awful and looked nothing like that style of that era.
The film also seemed to lack a nice big climactic set piece akin to the truck chase in RAIDERS, the tank sequence in LAST CRUSADE or the roller coaster ride/bridge sequence in TEMPLE.
Still I'm very excited about INDY 5 and have confidence it will probably make up for CRYSTAL SKULL's shortcomings.
Ha ha. That's the one. You also forgot the abysmal War of the Worlds remake. I'll give him the first Mission Impossible script, but he does happen to share writing credits with the legendary Robert Towne, which might explain why it's so much better than anything else he's written.
KOCS was a lost opportunity with that amazing cast and I think Ford looked great and could have delivered with a great script/direction. But the script was a Frankenstein mess of many writers and Lucas' required approval to shoot. Spielberg was as much a problem and will continue to be so with Indy 5... he makes it cartoony instead of concentrating on action packed, suspenseful thrill ride. He should stick to historical films at this point in his career.
That said, I love Indiana Jones and will hope and pray against all odds this turns out good.
2. Temple
3. Crusade
4. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2. Crusade
3. Temple
4. Skull
That's my rating Raiders is a truly great film IMO one of Spielberg's best.
I can't tell anymore. I sadly couldn't finish the latest Star Wars - finally got a chance to see it, but way, way, way too goofy and comedic for my tastes.
I actually like the sound of that.
At the same time, I wish Indy had been accompanied by Marion only and the scooby gang had been left out of that mess.
Now there's an idea for a thread!! Rank the Scooby gangs!!
SP, Indy 4, the MI films err any more?
To be fair despite the flak we all give them I think SP's might actually be the least irritating!!