timdiggerm said:
I’ve still never seen Temple of Doom. Maybe someday.
People have two main complaints about it, but even considering those I think it’s a spectacular action film in terms of set pieces and gags and weird fantasy stuff.
Anyway it goes:
Raiders 5/5
Temple of Doom 4/5
Last Crusade 4/5
Skull 2/5
The latter parts of the original trilogy are interchangeable in general quality for me, and are still amongst the greatest movie experiences. But I think Crusade while having some all time laughs in it has odd pacing problems in the first act. There’s also some weird moments in the finale like the ‘kneel before God’ thing. It’s clearly kneel and roll or lose your shins! Or that leap of faith which uhh… somehow never collected any dirt until Indy throws some on it.
Crystal Skull… eh. It’s toothless and dull. Even with fan edits. The effects are awful despite the occasional moments of old magic. They should have leaned into mythology and ancient art more when portraying the aliens. They should have fed someone into that tree cutter. They should have used Short-Round instead of introducing this other ‘son’. It should be the last good Speilberg movie but it’s the start of the end.
As for the new one, I will catch it later on streaming. If I want to see an action movie on the big screen with the kind of thrills the franchise offered back in the day there’s not much out here beyond the M:I series.
