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Post #319904

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RoccondilRinon
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: The InfoDroid Edit (Released)
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5-Jun-2008, 2:24 AM
InfoDroid said:

I'm planning to do Last Crusade soon too. And yeah, Ben...I'm sure I'll end up editing Indy IV eventually... :)


I know this is not much more appropriate a forum than the Star Wars: REBORN thread, but I have a question for if and when you do get to #4.

I loved the movie, with a few niggles of course (mainly the silly CG monkeys and the OTT waterfall scene), but the title grated on me as much as the retitling of Raiders as "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark", on the DVD case at least (I haven't seen the DVD itself so I don't know but I hope he hasn't changed it there too). "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" is just as unwieldy — compare these two to the original, much shorter "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". In addition, what relevance is the Kingdom (ie. temple) of the Crystal Skull? It could be turned into "Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull", but I thought a simpler and much more fitting title would be "THE RETURN OF INDIANA JONES". It fits the B-movie ethos these films have always had so much better than the actual title. It's also appropriate given the 19-year gap since the previous film.

Would you consider including this retitling?