Originally posted by: C3PX
No doubt about it. But I think we all liked to see Indy hunting for magical relics and the likes, not taking over the role of F.B.I agent Fox Moulder and uncovering the hiden existence of aliens in Rosewell New Mexico.
Originally posted by: zombie84
Indiana Jones movies have always had an absurdly fantastic element in it somewhere.
Indiana Jones movies have always had an absurdly fantastic element in it somewhere.
No doubt about it. But I think we all liked to see Indy hunting for magical relics and the likes, not taking over the role of F.B.I agent Fox Moulder and uncovering the hiden existence of aliens in Rosewell New Mexico.
True, its a departure in that it goes from supernatural to extra-terrestrial, but its not that big a leap, as much as we are simply not accustomed to it. Even X-Files, though more identified with its extra-terrestrial plots, was 50% of the time in the paranormal realm, such that its upcoming feature film will not center on aliens but on the supernatural aspect. I guess in the case of Indiana Jones the supernatural thing is more appropriate because the supernatural is more tied in with the culture of the ancient world, which is Indy's profession, but I still feel that the backlash to an extra-terrestrial elements is vastly overstated. And to be honest, we don't know how these elements figure in, if they figure in at all--we know there are references to Roswell and such, but that hardly constitutes Little Green Men, its more to do with the paranoid aspect of the 1950's American culture when the story takes place. Don't forget, the title is not Indiana Jones and the Mothership of Area 51, its Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and concerns ancient Meso-American artifacts, so much as an unspoiled viewer like myself is concerned.