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Post #318875

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darkhelmet
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Indiana Jones IV
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Date created
24-May-2008, 10:09 PM
zombie84 said:

Oh I agree, but after a 19 year absense, a 65 year old Harrison Ford, George "I lost my mind somewhere between 1977 and 1997" Lucas, and a script that was by all accounts rushed, realistically why should we expect greatness?... I'd say thats not as bad as wee've deluded ourselves to believe.

Yeah, I understand those reasons, but I just hoped that Spielberg at least would have held Lucas more at bay, and then even Spielberg let me down.

After all the talk that he was going to dial his directorial style back to his earlier years and that his DP was going to attempt to match the photography style of the original retired DP all to match the filmmaking style of the original Indys, it felt like this movie was directed by someone who really didn't know what they were doing.

Maybe it was mostly the editing (which I can imagine Lucas weighed in on seeing as it was uneven and sloppy ala the SW prequels), but I would never have guessed that it was Spielberg behind the scenes. In almost no way did the film recall the kineticism of Duel, Jaws, E.T., or the Indy originals.

I guess I can only fault Spielberg for his loyalty to friend Lucas.