Agreed. What's interesting with Indiana Jones is that the 3rd movie was almost as good as the 1st, IMO. Usually movie sequels are a very steady downward trend.
Although, I'd say Jedi was better than Empire, so perhaps this is a phenomena specific to Lucas.
Honest question: why does everyone get so excited about Empire Strikes Back? It was good, but clearly (imo) the weakest of the original Star Wars movies. Not any really exciting battle scenes, a too-slow pace, some real gems of bad dialogue ("I love you!" "I know." is as bad as anything in the new trilogy)... it just doesn't live up to the Star Wars legacy.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Wednesday May 28, 2008 @08:39PM (#23579467)
> some real gems of bad dialogue ("I love you!" "I know." is as bad as anything in the new trilogy)...
You want something really jaw-dropping? Lucas originally wrote that exchange with Solo replying "I love you too."... no kidding. Harrison Ford ad-libbed it, and Irvin Kershner kept it that way, supposedly over Lucas's objections.
You want something really jaw-dropping? Lucas originally wrote that exchange with Solo replying "I love you too."... no kidding. Harrison Ford ad-libbed it, and Irvin Kershner kept it that way, supposedly over Lucas's objections.
Harrison Ford is a genius. George Lucas can't write dialogue.
Some of the best lines from the original films were improvised by Harrison Ford.
Although that wasn't due entirely to Ford's brilliance. The fact the matter was, he was sick as a dog the day of the shoot and couldn't do the fight scene they'd written.
Some of the best lines from the original films were improvised by Harrison Ford.
Ford told Lucas during the filming of the original Star Wars - "You can write this shit, George, but you sure as hell can't say it". Truer words have never been spoken.
I think most 2'nd movies of 3 part trilogies (yeah I know, redundant statement) are usually the most boring, but are typically necessary.
The first movie has to be good, otherwise the whole thing gets scrapped and you never see 2 or 3.
The second one is the story builder. Characteristically lacking in actual action, it typically features a lot of background information on characters and explanations to some of the craziness that happened in the first movie. It's actually a good thing in a way, because it gets all the boring stuff over with in one encapsulated package, so that you can enjoy the final movie.
The third one has to be good, because you just made your audience sit through a boring story builder, and they want either a great movie or your blood.
In the case of Star Wars, there was a lot of background that had to be given in Emperor Strikes Back before we could have Return of the Jedi. And while lots of people disagree, I think that Jedi kicked ass. If they tried to cram the required info from Empire Strikes Back into Jedi, it probably would have only been a mediocre movie.
There are enough 3-movie series out there to disprove pretty much any 'theory' about which ones are going to be good/shit.
eg Godfather: 1st good, 2nd better, 3rd crap Matrix: 1st really good, next 2 crap LotR: all 3 about the same, whether that's good or bad... [won't repeat what someone posted below about Back to the Future, Terminator..]
Jedi DID have the absolute best lightsaber combat scene of them all, though. No mad flipping and dancing to a hyped-up Williams soundtrack, very little CG beyond the sabers themselves, and no fantastic (and distracting) environment - just father and son going at it, with a soundtrack that complimented the scene perfectly without distracting from it, climaxing with Luke going all-out Dark Side after Vader finally finds the chink in his armor.
The only runner up was the final fight from Ep III, and that was mostly because of the 3-decade build-up to it. It was a cool scene, but Lucas lost his best dramatic flair somewhere between the first and second trilogy.
Ep I had probably the most exciting fight, but that's not the same thing. It was more like "Crouching Jedi, Hidden Sithlord" than Star Wars.
The light sabers are not actually computer generated. It was done using pre-CG effects, like back in the old days. At least in the original films during their original releases.
"It wasn't lightsaber duelling, but there's also Luke's killing spree on the skiff with swarms of bad guys getting slashed and thrown over the rails to the sarlacc. That was pretty cool, too."
Geez...for me it was Princess Leia in the gold bikini....you could almost see up her skirt when she swung with Luke off Jabba's 'boat'.....
OK you tempted me. 1. I think Empire has the best Photography. Every frame is perfect. 2. The best Music. John Williams is the best but and the Imperial March is my favorite. 3. the Battle of Hoth. Snow speeders vs walkers. 4. Ion Cannons on Hoth. "Stand by Ion control" 5. snow monster is scary because of what you don't see. 6. Yoda. I believe the best non human character ever. Yoda was pulled off thanks to Frank Oz. 7. Asteroid field ship eating monster. 8. Cloud city Duel Luke vs Vader. Beautifully and energetically shot. 9. "Luke, I am your father!" 10. I love how the movie closes Luke with his new bionic hand and Leia on the medical ship with the robots. It leaves me with a feeling i don't often get at movies. I can't completely explain all of the reasons it's my favorite.
ESB was an action-filled soap opera, and Lucas hired a director with a lot of experience directing soap operas. It sounds like a silly move until you see the final product and realize that this was the only movie in the 6-picture series where personal relationships were competently handled. It also contained the best balance of seriousness and humor. Humor handled well, lines you actually laughed at rather than the crappy throwaway action movie lines you here during the summer now. Empire is also classic tha
(though I think he said something about "I think I've always known" which makes it kinda worse that he looked like he really enjoyed the kiss in Empire:p )
Yes, but that played well in the Southern United States...
Phantom Menace is not exciting for the same reason that going to the Superbowl and sitting behind a loud, mentally retarded mother holding her screaming infant over her shoulder so the kid is screaming in your face is not exciting. Also, if she's wearing your old high school letterman's jacket, the experience is not improved.
It does, the problem is that it makes it exciting to exactly the same type of people the first movies were exciting too(children and teenagers) as opposed to the exact same people(who are now older).
I enjoyed the star wars movies when I was younger, and yes Lucas had a little less control and the special effects were more limited, but they were still from any empirical point of view, terrible movies. I enjoy them today because I revisit those feelings of being younger, but I can also, as an older person realize that the acting was mostly shyte, the dialogue was shyte, the special effects were as much as the technology allowed and the story was overly simplistic. The original movies also contained ewoks.
Lucas hasn't changed, he hasn't raped your childhood, you've stopped being a child and just like you don't like bubblegum flavoured ice cream anymore you probably don't like badly acted cheesy pap anymore.
Only one of the original movies had Ewoks. But I'm actually replying to your comment to ask you to list and define all "empirical point[s] of view" - all of which, according to your comment, rate the original Star Wars movies as "terrible." I've often wondered about this, so I'm seizing this opportunity to learn how to rate movies in a purely objective manner. Thanks!
why does everyone get so excited about Empire Strikes Back?
I also can't for the life of me figure out the chronology of it. Assuming there aren't relativity issues -
- Luke/R2 and The Falcon blast away from Hoth
- Luke heads for Dagobah
- Falcon attempts Hyperspace & fails
- Falcon hides out in an asteroid for a bit, escapes a space worm, clamps itself to the side of a Star Destroyer for a bit and then heads for Bespin
In those two (?) days, Luke gets all his Jedi training and then heads for Bespin himself???
How can Luke get all that training in the short period of time the Falcon is bumbling around an Asteroid field?
Time, Distance, and Size are a bit wonky in Star Wars, but if you'll recall, Han does say "It's a bit far, but I think we can make it." And the Falcon is a Cargo Ship, chances are they had a few supplies on board, as far as food and fuel. [geek-version]In the West End Games version of the Star Wars RPG, YT-1300s have storage for 2 months 'consumables' (I always assume fuel and food, etc) standard, in addition to the Cargo Space. [/geek version] (I don't have the distance charts memorized, I'm not quite 'that'
In addition to which, they don't actually say how much time passes on Bespin. They could have been there a few days, to a few weeks, until C3PO stumbles into that room and gets basted apart. They also don't say how long Chewy is searching for him, or how long it takes to put him back together, or how long they're tortured, etc. It's not defined. It's left to the imagination.
I don't see the problem here, whether it was two days or eight weeks. Yoda clearly told Luke he was not ready. Luke got his fucking ass kicked. Where's the continuity problem?
Except for time travel based sequels. In Back to the Future, all three are very good, but I actually liked the sequels better, especially the 3rd. Same for the Terminator, except the first 2 are very good with the 3rd being a little suckier
I didn't like T3 much when I saw it, but on reflection afterward, I came to accept it as a bridge movie, something to link to more movies about the war with the machines, and I began to like it a lot more. Last I'd heard, Christian Bale was starring as John Connor and the storyline takes place prior to the introduction of the T-800, and will not end in the defeat of Skynet. This makes for a likely fifth movie, and if that's to be the series end, Arnold must be in it to cover the time-line as established i
Except for the Star Trek series, Star Wars series, Harry Potter series, Spider-Man series, Rambo series, Alien series, Godfather series, the Trilogy of Vengence, Evil Dead series, Living Dead series... but generally yes I agree.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Thursday May 29, 2008 @03:10AM (#23582541)
All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
You're kidding, surely? I just got back from seeing it - it was amazing! All kinds of brilliance, especially (not to give too much away) the moment with the fridge... John Hurt is a genius, and Cate Blanchett is so wonderfully camp. It really cheered up what's been a stressful and depressing week of work so far. I'm sad that so many people didn't enjoy it.
I was planning on enjoying it, but unfortunately the screen did not present that which I was expecting. Instead, I saw indie jr. pull a sudden Tarzan imitation and spontaneously befriend (badly) computer animated monkeys.
When someone finally invents time travel, please (after killing Hitler, of course) go back to around 1982ish and destroy all traces of George Lucas.
I like you guys. Really I do. And to show my affection for all you Slashdot folk, I'm gonna throw out a little tip to you all - a little something something that I promise will brighten your lives:
Go to The Pirate Bay and put "Guy Maddin" in the search box. Go ahead, I'll wait.
Now, pick the Guy Maddin films that have the most seeders and download (uTorrent works well).
Now, watch it when it's done downloading. If you're a little bit limited in the imagination department (which I'm afraid a lot of you may be), you might have to watch more than once, but I guarantee your mind will be a little bit expanded by the experience. It's not so much that the movies themselves are fantastic, but there's a real creative, talented person behind the camera, who puts a little thought into what he's doing. It may just change the way you think about movies. You could find that there is more to cinema than a shared cultural experience dictated by enormous publicity budgets and billboards on the sides of buses.
If that doesn't work, find The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes by the Quay Bros, or even Southland Tales. Stop thinking you have to spend your money on blockbuster Indiana Jones dreck just because the first movie was exciting when you were twelve and every media outlet in the country is pushing Indiana Jones press releases.
I've visited some ridiculously expensive restaurants, sat in incredibly well designed settings, been waited on by extremely competent waiters, and eaten food prepared by world-class chefs. I enjoyed those few occasions very much, and am grateful that I had the opportunity to experience it a couple times in my life. But the fact that I've experienced that level of cuisine and appreciate what it offers doesn't mean that I can't from time to time sit on my couch and eat some Kraft mac and cheese that I spent 10 minutes making and enjoy that as well.
There are many different factors that make something "good", or "fun", or "entertaining". Having a snobbish attitude towards anything that doesn't fall into the little subset of culture that you've chosen to enjoy is not the best way to convince other people.
You should definitely check out Spirited Away. In my opinion, it's the most creative, extensive, and moving Miyazaki film. The settings have a consistent theme and character, which makes them very convincing - it feels like there's actually an entire history and culture behind the world of the bathhouse. Simply stunning.
And come on, the fridge is beyond ridiculous. I wouldn't even let that BS slide in a Batman comic book, let alone an Indy movie.
It's no more ridiculous than accidentally discovering a hidden secret temple where guys rip still-beating hearts out (while the victim continues to live before being burned alive), drinking blood that makes you go insane right up until you snap out of it just in the nick of time, then ride a miles-long mine cart with people shooting at you while clearing a massive jump only to come to the end and realize that thousands of gallons of water will come catching up to you in no time so you escape to a cliff fac
Wrong, wrong, wrong, bro. These are different things entirely, and I think it's a sad thing that so many people are unable to distinguish between them. Indiana Jones may fight enemies who possess magical powers, but it is a given that they possess them. That doesn't mean "anything goes" and Indiana Jones can be expected to suddenly fly up into the sky and spit fireballs. Each story sets the rules of its world and then it needs to stick by them. The rules of the Indiana Jones world allow for wizardry and Bib
The original three were better, but Crystal Skulls was good too. I don't understand all the hate. The ant scene was classic Indy, and Shia LeBoef did a great job under the pressure of such unrealistic, rose-tinted expectations.
I don't understand it either. Indiana Jones has always been a pulp series, reminiscent of the pulp novels of the 20s-60s. I thought it was appropriate, if they were going to move the series to the 50s, to have a sci-fi laden and commie fightin' adventure.
If they did anything wrong, they explained too much (which could maybe apply to Last Crusade as well). The rest of the film was classic Indy though.
Perhaps we're used to having our pulp served Tarantino style, obvious pulp but with the feeling that someone actually cares about what they are making.
This Indiana seemed phoned in, it seemed like no-one cared one iota about what was being made. It was a load of bollocks thrown together without humour or love.
I got the impression that he WOULDN'T be continuing the saga.
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I thought that was the whole point of him NOT getting to put on the hat in the final scene. I took that to mean, "Nope, sorry kid. Indiana Jones ends right here. Go make your own legacy."
I kept thinking "This is so ridiculous". Then I remembered the first three. Then I enjoyed this one a whole lot more.
That's funny. I had a very similiar experience. I kept thinking "this is ridiculous". Then I remembered the first three. Then I enjoyed this one even less. There's ridiculous, and then there's just bad.
What I like about The Last Crusade ( and for that matter, the first two ) is that the movie was just beyond the realm of believability. Nazis getting obliterated by the Ark, an ancient, mind-controlling cult, and the Holy Grail, are easy enough to believe. But the whole thing about aliens and ancient spaceships is so bogus, not mention the other glaring errors in the newest movie.
Thanks to ToD and our beta machine, I wielded unimaginable power over my younger brothers. Nothing was able to instill more fear than watching the priest hold the still beating heart he pulled out of the man's chest.
The last time I came out of a movie theater absolutely and completely thrilled by what I had just seen on screen was back in 1981 with Raiders of the Lost Ark. It was probably the single greatest movie-going experience of my life. Sure I've seen other great movies, including plenty of others that from an artistic or dramatic standpoint were better films than Raiders. But the movie-going experience itself? Nothing else has compared.
I have an Indy-related poll [aqfl.net] on ranking the fourth movie of all four Indy movies. So far, people dislike the latest movie. So did I, but it is slightly lowered than the third movie, Temple of Doom.
I came across this picture [latimes.com] a few minutes ago. Look at the shirt Lucas is wearing. My mind is trying to come to grips with its very existence. Maybe it's Photoshopped.
It makes me wonder if that was any part of the deal between Lucas and Ford...
"look George, I know we go way back and I want to do your film and all, but after you made me look like a sissy with your "special editions" and all, i'm going to need something from you..."
I hate that movie with a passion. It set Indians back a decade in America. I still remember all the kids in grade school asking me what snakes, monkey brains and eyeball soup tasted like. The worst was my friends imagining how my cardiologist dad pulled people's hearts out through their chest by chanting and using just his hand.
Yeah, but ask me as a German what my experiences with 1 and 3 are;-)
But seriously, Temple of the Doom is a horrible example of orientalism [wikipedia.org] and its reanimation of the colonial topos of Thugism [wikipedia.org] is a shame. It is as if the book was written in the 1930s and not in the post-colonial 80s.
But then it's surely not the only dangerously naive flick that crept out of Hollywood.
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles were simply amazing. --And sadly unavailable now.
I know there are DVDs you can get, but for some reason I cannot wrap my head around, Lucasfilm saw fit to chop out all of the five-minute book-end sequences featuring Old Indy. Without the eye-patched, crotchety version of Jones doddering around town trying to tell his tall tales to anybody who would listen, the stories lose all of their kick, reduced to baffling accounts with no context or reason for being. It's amazing what five minutes of gnarly old man can do for a story!
The fact that you actually cannot get the episodes in their original glory is a terrible waste. They were utterly stunning! Though the lack of context makes it almost impossible for the viewer to shift properly into the story world, it's not for lack of brilliance in the material itself. The episode featuring Dr. Albert Schweitzer blew my mind.
It's the middle of WWI, and Indy has wound up in the middle of Africa. He and Schweitzer, having been called up the Amazon to heal the sick son of a tribal leader are sitting around a fire with members of the tribe. (This is from my memory.)
Schweitzer: "When two tribes go to war, if a warrior is killed, then the tribe which killed him must pay for the death by giving livestock and valuables to the other tribe." Indy: "But. . , why?" Schweitzer: "These people value life differently than we do. They know how much is lost when one of its members is lost." The king addresses Indy, Schweitzer translates. Indy: "What is he saying?" Schweitzer: "The king inquires about the war in Europe. He asks, if many warriors have been killed." Indy: "Yes. . . Many warriors have been killed." The king/Schweitzer: "Have more than five warriors been killed?" Indy: ". . . Yes. More than five warriors have been killed." The king/Schweitzer: "More than eight?" Indy: "Yes. More than eight." The king/Schweitzer: "The tribes of Europe must be very rich indeed to have killed more than eight warriors."
They hired on a series of top-flight writers and researchers to come up with the scripts, shot them at great effort and expense, traveling to all over the world to shoot on location. And then they were barely given any airtime, (I remember my local station pre-empting a third of them for football games!), and then finally, gutted them for a half-baked VHS release.
They were just too good for this world I guess, and had to be put down.
The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was good up until the last half hour. My suggestion... leave right around the vine swining scene (you'll know what I mean), and then go to the movie bathroom and take a shit. Honestly, it may be twice as long, but it'll be half as painful.
Oh come on people, Crystal Skull is better than Temple of Doom. Now both Temple of Doom and Crystal Skull are far, far, far cries of either Raiders of the Lost Ark or The Last Crusade.
But, you've got to recognize that the Crystal Skull is all around a better ride than Temple of Doom.
Crystal Skull was bad: inane prairie dog moments, a magnet which has exponentially more power after being taken out of a wooden casket, Indy survives a nuclear explosion inside a refrigerator (after the refrigerator being flown miles by said explosion to boot), the villain wasn't evil enough, etc.
I think I liked the original Stargate movie better than this one. That should be telling all in itself. I suggest watching National Treasure instead.
I liked Crystal Skull. It was no sillier than any of the other Indy movies. I rewatched the first three movies before going to see the new one and I thought it fit right in and was great.
The prairie dogs were a lil CG but not otherwise bad. It was explained that it wasn't a magnet - crystals and gold not being magnetic. The fridge gag was amusing and no more improbable than other Indy movies. I thought the villain was fine.
You forgot to mention the silly vine swinging gag. Again silly but acceptable.
See, that was my thinking, too. If you were a fan of the series going in, then you're already pretty much okay with a gold box full of Nazi-melting evil spirits, cults of child-enslaving, heart snatching maniacs, and a magical cup that lets you live forever. In what way do aliens require a GREATER suspension of disbelief?
I love temple of doom. It was the first I saw in the theaters. It gave me nightmares and inspiration to try and remove hearts from people. And a desire to never eat eyeball soup.
I'm not going to argue it was the very best, but for a kid my age it was awesome. But at the time I also thought the ewok movies were some of the best ever.
I always liked the concept for temple of doom. What finally killed it for me was tivo/replaytv... I skipped so many scenes that the movie was like 5 minutes long: * intro scene with Kate Capshaw lip-syncing * palace scenes after the dinner, skip the fight * ripped-out heart (because it's badass) * the last part after Kate Capshaw got doused with water... hey I was a teenager at the time so I have 'fond' memories. Hormones ok?
The Temple of Doom drinking game, drink when Kate Capshaw screams, would suck becaus
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Although, I'd say Jedi was better than Empire, so perhaps this is a phenomena specific to Lucas.
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You had credibility up until that point.
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You want something really jaw-dropping? Lucas originally wrote that exchange with Solo replying "I love you too."
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Some of the best lines from the original films were improvised by Harrison Ford.
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Some of the best parts of "Raiders", too. Like shooting the dude with the swords.
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"You can write that shit, George, but you can't say it".
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Ford told Lucas during the filming of the original Star Wars - "You can write this shit, George, but you sure as hell can't say it".
Truer words have never been spoken.
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It's when the shit hits the fan. What's not to like?
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The first movie has to be good, otherwise the whole thing gets scrapped and you never see 2 or 3.
The second one is the story builder. Characteristically lacking in actual action, it typically features a lot of background information on characters and explanations to some of the craziness that happened in the first movie. It's actually a good thing in a way, because it gets all the boring stuff over with in one encapsulated package, so that you can enjoy the final movie.
The third one has to be good, because you just made your audience sit through a boring story builder, and they want either a great movie or your blood.
In the case of Star Wars, there was a lot of background that had to be given in Emperor Strikes Back before we could have Return of the Jedi. And while lots of people disagree, I think that Jedi kicked ass. If they tried to cram the required info from Empire Strikes Back into Jedi, it probably would have only been a mediocre movie.
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Godfather: 1st good, 2nd better, 3rd crap
Matrix: 1st really good, next 2 crap
LotR: all 3 about the same, whether that's good or bad...
[won't repeat what someone posted below about Back to the Future, Terminator..]
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The only runner up was the final fight from Ep III, and that was mostly because of the 3-decade build-up to it. It was a cool scene, but Lucas lost his best dramatic flair somewhere between the first and second trilogy.
Ep I had probably the most exciting fight, but that's not the same thing. It was more like "Crouching Jedi, Hidden Sithlord" than Star Wars.
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Geez...for me it was Princess Leia in the gold bikini....you could almost see up her skirt when she swung with Luke off Jabba's 'boat'.....
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1. I think Empire has the best Photography. Every frame is perfect.
2. The best Music. John Williams is the best but and the Imperial March is my favorite.
3. the Battle of Hoth. Snow speeders vs walkers.
4. Ion Cannons on Hoth. "Stand by Ion control"
5. snow monster is scary because of what you don't see.
6. Yoda. I believe the best non human character ever. Yoda was pulled off thanks to Frank Oz.
7. Asteroid field ship eating monster.
8. Cloud city Duel Luke vs Vader. Beautifully and energetically shot.
9. "Luke, I am your father!"
10. I love how the movie closes Luke with his new bionic hand and Leia on the medical ship with the robots. It leaves me with a feeling i don't often get at movies. I can't completely explain all of the reasons it's my favorite.
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Empire is also classic tha
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That is something Douglas Adams was rather good at.
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Yes, but that played well in the Southern United States...
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As to why Empire is exciting - the bad guys win. It's really that simple.
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I enjoyed the star wars movies when I was younger, and yes Lucas had a little less control and the special effects were more limited, but they were still from any empirical point of view, terrible movies. I enjoy them today because I revisit those feelings of being younger, but I can also, as an older person realize that the acting was mostly shyte, the dialogue was shyte, the special effects were as much as the technology allowed and the story was overly simplistic. The original movies also contained ewoks.
Lucas hasn't changed, he hasn't raped your childhood, you've stopped being a child and just like you don't like bubblegum flavoured ice cream anymore you probably don't like badly acted cheesy pap anymore.
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I also can't for the life of me figure out the chronology of it. Assuming there aren't relativity issues -
- Luke/R2 and The Falcon blast away from Hoth
- Luke heads for Dagobah
- Falcon attempts Hyperspace & fails
- Falcon hides out in an asteroid for a bit, escapes a space worm, clamps itself to the side of a Star Destroyer for a bit and then heads for Bespin
In those two (?) days, Luke gets all his Jedi training and then heads for Bespin himself???
How can Luke get all that training in the short period of time the Falcon is bumbling around an Asteroid field?
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And the Falcon is a Cargo Ship, chances are they had a few supplies on board, as far as food and fuel.
[geek-version]In the West End Games version of the Star Wars RPG, YT-1300s have storage for 2 months 'consumables' (I always assume fuel and food, etc) standard, in addition to the Cargo Space. [/geek version] (I don't have the distance charts memorized, I'm not quite 'that'
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Hmmmmn, do you think it bores the rest of the population?
I never got why T2 was so big.
Do you now?
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No way, man. Star Trek - Save the Whales was the absolute pinnacle of Star Trek movies.
Transparent aluminum and hippie Spock, what's not to like?
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It's KAAAAAAHHHHHNNNN!!!! not Kharn.
Khan, as in Gengis and Chaka.
Not Kharn as in Kharn the Betrayer of the World Eaters legion of the Chaos Space Marines of Warhammer 40K.
I hereby revoke your geek creditials.
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When someone finally invents time travel, please (after killing Hitler, of course) go back to around 1982ish and destroy all traces of George Lucas.
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When someone finally invents time travel, please (after killing Hitler, of course)...
You gonna find time to date your mom, too?
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Go to The Pirate Bay and put "Guy Maddin" in the search box. Go ahead, I'll wait.
Now, pick the Guy Maddin films that have the most seeders and download (uTorrent works well).
Now, watch it when it's done downloading. If you're a little bit limited in the imagination department (which I'm afraid a lot of you may be), you might have to watch more than once, but I guarantee your mind will be a little bit expanded by the experience. It's not so much that the movies themselves are fantastic, but there's a real creative, talented person behind the camera, who puts a little thought into what he's doing. It may just change the way you think about movies. You could find that there is more to cinema than a shared cultural experience dictated by enormous publicity budgets and billboards on the sides of buses.
If that doesn't work, find The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes by the Quay Bros, or even Southland Tales. Stop thinking you have to spend your money on blockbuster Indiana Jones dreck just because the first movie was exciting when you were twelve and every media outlet in the country is pushing Indiana Jones press releases.
Re:Temple of the Crystal Skull (Score:5, Funny)
Now, pick the Guy Maddin films that have the most seeders and download (uTorrent works well).
Now, watch it when it's done downloading.
Re:Temple of the Crystal Skull (Score:5, Insightful)
There are many different factors that make something "good", or "fun", or "entertaining". Having a snobbish attitude towards anything that doesn't fall into the little subset of culture that you've chosen to enjoy is not the best way to convince other people.
Re:Temple of the Crystal Skull (Score:4, Funny)
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And come on, the fridge is beyond ridiculous. I wouldn't even let that BS slide in a Batman comic book, let alone an Indy movie.
It's no more ridiculous than accidentally discovering a hidden secret temple where guys rip still-beating hearts out (while the victim continues to live before being burned alive), drinking blood that makes you go insane right up until you snap out of it just in the nick of time, then ride a miles-long mine cart with people shooting at you while clearing a massive jump only to come to the end and realize that thousands of gallons of water will come catching up to you in no time so you escape to a cliff fac
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Wrong option (Score:2, Informative)
Crystal Skulls was good (Score:2)
Re:Crystal Skulls was good (Score:5, Insightful)
If they did anything wrong, they explained too much (which could maybe apply to Last Crusade as well). The rest of the film was classic Indy though.
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This Indiana seemed phoned in, it seemed like no-one cared one iota about what was being made. It was a load of bollocks thrown together without humour or love.
I got the impression... (Score:5, Interesting)
*****SPOILER WARNING: DO NOT CONTINUE IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS******
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I thought that was the whole point of him NOT getting to put on the hat in the final scene. I took that to mean, "Nope, sorry kid. Indiana Jones ends right here. Go make your own legacy."
Maybe I'm reading too much into it?
I must be getting old (Score:3, Interesting)
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That's funny. I had a very similiar experience. I kept thinking "this is ridiculous". Then I remembered the first three. Then I enjoyed this one even less. There's ridiculous, and then there's just bad.
Can't vote for it if you haven't seen it (Score:2, Redundant)
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Re:Can't vote for it if you haven't seen it (Score:5, Funny)
Sure, but unlike those other articles, Indiana Jones is important!
Crusade all the way! (Score:2, Funny)
Temple of Doom for FX (Score:5, Funny)
Actually.. (Score:2, Funny)
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Raiders, hands down (Score:4, Interesting)
Similar results. (Score:2)
Fate of Atlantis (Score:5, Interesting)
this one. and a much better story than crystal skull. too bad it was never filmed.
As long as we're talking about George Lucas... (Score:5, Funny)
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Choose, but choose wisely. (Score:4, Funny)
The others will take it from you...
Marian Ravenwood is still hot. (Score:3, Insightful)
Fucking Temple of Doom (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Fucking Temple of Doom (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, but ask me as a German what my experiences with 1 and 3 are ;-)
But seriously, Temple of the Doom is a horrible example of orientalism [wikipedia.org] and its reanimation of the colonial topos of Thugism [wikipedia.org] is a shame. It is as if the book was written in the 1930s and not in the post-colonial 80s.
But then it's surely not the only dangerously naive flick that crept out of Hollywood.
Well, nevermind. Namaskar.
Young Indy. (Score:5, Interesting)
I know there are DVDs you can get, but for some reason I cannot wrap my head around, Lucasfilm saw fit to chop out all of the five-minute book-end sequences featuring Old Indy. Without the eye-patched, crotchety version of Jones doddering around town trying to tell his tall tales to anybody who would listen, the stories lose all of their kick, reduced to baffling accounts with no context or reason for being. It's amazing what five minutes of gnarly old man can do for a story!
The fact that you actually cannot get the episodes in their original glory is a terrible waste. They were utterly stunning! Though the lack of context makes it almost impossible for the viewer to shift properly into the story world, it's not for lack of brilliance in the material itself. The episode featuring Dr. Albert Schweitzer blew my mind.
It's the middle of WWI, and Indy has wound up in the middle of Africa. He and Schweitzer, having been called up the Amazon to heal the sick son of a tribal leader are sitting around a fire with members of the tribe. (This is from my memory.)
They hired on a series of top-flight writers and researchers to come up with the scripts, shot them at great effort and expense, traveling to all over the world to shoot on location. And then they were barely given any airtime, (I remember my local station pre-empting a third of them for football games!), and then finally, gutted them for a half-baked VHS release.
They were just too good for this world I guess, and had to be put down.
-FL
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Tickets please. (Score:5, Funny)
Crystal Skull (Score:3, Insightful)
Skull better than Doom (Score:4, Insightful)
But, you've got to recognize that the Crystal Skull is all around a better ride than Temple of Doom.
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Those Hebrews sure knew how to make a Hollywood-ready relic!
Re:Crystal Skull . . . Pffft (Score:5, Insightful)
Crystal Skull was bad: inane prairie dog moments, a magnet which has exponentially more power after being taken out of a wooden casket, Indy survives a nuclear explosion inside a refrigerator (after the refrigerator being flown miles by said explosion to boot), the villain wasn't evil enough, etc.
I think I liked the original Stargate movie better than this one. That should be telling all in itself. I suggest watching National Treasure instead.
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"the villain wasn't evil enough"
Yeah, I think she could have cracked the whip a bit more like Lucy Liu in Charlie's Angels. That would have been cool.
The characters could have used more development; as it was they were largely shallow and superficial.
Re:Crystal Skull . . . Pffft (Score:5, Insightful)
The prairie dogs were a lil CG but not otherwise bad. It was explained that it wasn't a magnet - crystals and gold not being magnetic. The fridge gag was amusing and no more improbable than other Indy movies. I thought the villain was fine.
You forgot to mention the silly vine swinging gag. Again silly but acceptable.
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Re:Temple of Doom? (Score:4, Funny)
I'm not going to argue it was the very best, but for a kid my age it was awesome. But at the time I also thought the ewok movies were some of the best ever.
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If you think Temple of Doom could be a legitimate vote, why are you pointing out arguments for the opposite view?
Re:Temple of Doom? (Score:4, Funny)
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* intro scene with Kate Capshaw lip-syncing
* palace scenes after the dinner, skip the fight
* ripped-out heart (because it's badass)
* the last part after Kate Capshaw got doused with water... hey I was a teenager at the time so I have 'fond' memories. Hormones ok?
The Temple of Doom drinking game, drink when Kate Capshaw screams, would suck becaus
I prefer Prof. Henry Jones' quote . . . (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sallah/Indy Banter (Score:5, Funny)
-ROTLA
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