TheBoost said:
Vaderisnothayden said:
TheBoost said:
"Distinct resemblences to the prequals" in the use of CGI and other modern techniques, or resemblence in that you don't like either?
Reduction of emotional depth and feeling of involvement, increase in silliness, reduction of sense of danger, plastic visual style.
Yeah, because Temple of Doom is just overflowing with emotional depth and lacks silliness like mine car chases, eating bugs, or musical numbers.
Using Temple of Doom the worst of the old films to defend Crystal Skull does not work. That was when the indy franchise first jumped the shark, before it nuked the fridge.
Lots of Bad jokes in Last Crusade too, but that was a very good film anyways and brought us back to the spirit of Raiders. Sean Connery also lifted that film out of the mundane by his great performance.
The best parts of doom are the leftovers from the raiders script the shanghai sequence and the mine cart sequence both conceived by Kasdan. The rest is plain garbage. I love a a couple of films the Huycks worked on temple is not one of them, neither is howard the duck or radioland murders.
As for defending Crystal Skull i have defended its better parts. But there are still a lot of bad parts to outweigh the good. If you look at what worked and what did not with these and the star wars prequels. Remove those bad elements or rework them to make them better you have much better movies.
As a kid there were only 2 indiana jones movies and i thought doom was better which do you think as an adult i find better. Raiders of course. I thought raiders was boring as a kid as i did empire strikes back and loved return of the jedi. Last Crusade came out when i was almost a teenager 11 at the time. Saw it twice in theaters. Best movie of 1989 by far. Way better than shitty ghostbusters II, Burtons batman, or star trek V.
If Harrison and Steven can ground Lucas sillyness then they could make part V take a lot of the bitter taste leftover from IV. Maybe this time they will make a film like raiders or crusade instead of something that makes temple of crap look like a masterpiece.
My answer bring back Lawrence Kasdan to write the screenplay if it sucks hire someone else, but it can't hurt to try since the best indy film was written by him. Second best written by Jeffrey Boam who i believe has passed away, sadly. Next choice would have been Frank Darabount, but his script for crystal skull sucked badly. I can't believe Koepp could write a better script, but in this instance his was better.
Too late to make the Spear of Destiny movie. That should have been the follow up to last crusade. The comic was better than INDY IV. Featured a real historical artifact not Aliens, and Nazis instead of Russians. They should have made this in the 90's. That or make the Atlantis or Excalibur movie. But Aliens worst idea ever seriously.