Yes this was done in emulation of the pulps but the pulp writers Like Burroughs actually wrote some damn good stuff Like A princess of Mars or Tarzan of the Apes, hell even the Allan Quartermain novels by h rider haggard are better.
So the movie was majorly mediocre and so was the novelization.
Even the book on tape suffers from having an awful reader and being unabridged without the music and sound effects.
I'll go back to watching the first issued widescreen dvd release, and reading the novels and listening to the soundtracks for the first 3. Will even buy the new omnibus editions of the dark horse comics and lego indiana jones. Can you believe that the comics were better than this movie was, unbelievable. Even John Williams score was uninspired and phoned in.
don't even get me started on the fact that most of the movie was shot on green screen and phony cgi instead of on location in Peru, Tunisia etc. or elsewhere like they did with the originals.
And i don't buy the fact that shooting the movie this way was more cost effective since both lucas and spielberg are multi billionaires, and the movie cost somewhere between 175-185 million dollars just to shoot it. that is more money than the previous three combined probably. Talk about so called 19 years of inflation , good grief.
After destribution costs the final tally of the films cost was 400 million dollars, a 400 million dollar turd.