George Lucas is detroying franchises. STOP HIM!!

I think people are misunderstanding Lucas's input to Indy IV. He had almost none. His was the idea of the story, and the characters - and that was it. He didn't direct, produce, script or have any further input in to the film beyond. If you didn't like the film that's fine, but it was no Phantom Menace. And if people thought it was, it was not Lucas's fault this time (except in rejecting the Darabont script a couple of years back).
 
No. That is not Lucas' way. He was on the set most days, contributing ideas. The CGI monkeys and gophers were pure George Lucas. The overblown alien thing can be laid at his feet also.

While he was technically 'Executive Producer' he was a lot more hanRAB on than that. If you think Lucas just handed them a script and sat back then the misunderstanding is yours.
 
The alternative, if you rewatch Temple of Doom's mine car chase, or the bit where they leap out of the plane in the raft and skid down the mountain, is to superimpose them onto blatantly obvious fake backgrounRAB...

Even in Last Crusade there was some of this going on, the bi-plane sequence especially, both in the air, and when they are being chased down the tunnel by the German plane...

Looks terrible...
 
According to John Hurt, he wasn't around that much. Not that Hurt had much nice to say about making the film at all.

And yes.. those bloody gophers had Lucas's sticky prints all over them.
 
Hurt should remember what happened to him the last time he was in a film that had an alien with an elongated skull. ;)

btw, I think technically, they were Prairie Dogs.
 
^ Lazy analysis.
Let's ignore the fact that Spielberg hasnt made a great film since Saving Private Ryan. He's always had much more say in this franchise than Lucas...and I'll blame the director first.

Ofcourse this would be forgetting the fact that not all the Indy films were actually that great. Sure, 20 years later we'll ignore the less entertaining aspects of the originals & let nostalgia cloud our judgment.
 
The airship in Last Crusade seems to be filmed at the wrong frame rate, it flickers.

Temple of Doom is riddled with bad special effects, mistakes, and inconsistencies.

But none of them are as bad as the end of Raiders. The 'fire' from the Ark is terrible, with the ghosts you can the mounting brackets, and the bodies of the Nazis rising to the air looks plain stupid.

Yet I love them all!
 
Funny, I thought Spielberg directed this one :D. Lucas didn't direct or write, he basically just stumped up the cash. If there are faults with Indy IV (haven't seen it, not likely to) then I'd lay the blame at Spielberg's door on this one. He's got previous to when it comes to CGI. Remember his pointless tinkering with ET and the rumoured Jaws remake with, dear Lord, a CGI shark?
 
Yep. I remember my father taking me to see Last Crusade as a child, and walking out of it calling it silly and childish - toatlly out of keeping with the other two - and with an anticlimactic and illogical ending.

And here I am, 19 years later....
 
You're right of course. After all, Lucas could make this without Spielberg, but Spielberg couldn't make it without Lucas. And neither could make it without Ford. Maybe it's all his fault ! :D
 
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