Indiana Jones IV

If you have only seen bits of them how can you say you aren't a fan....?

Go and rent, buy or steal the originals and have an Indy fest this weekend, you won't regret it...
 
Thought that the ending was terrible and disappointing. And didn't like the typical Lucas CG slapstick crap.


Mostly enjoyable though. I would like to see a directors cut!
 
Lucas filmed the last 2 SW films in Australia at the Sydney Fox studios. But Paramount are the studio involved in the IJ franchise, so it is not by any means certain that IJ IV would be filmed there. However, with the current exchange rate, it would be very expensive to film in the UK at the moment.
 
I like my history and the idea that aliens helped to build and taught any civilsation is ridiculous to me!! I have heard theories before that aliens helped to build pyramiRAB of Egypt which again takes away from the achievement of the Egyptians.

Was great for escapism but couldnt help thinking throughout, there is no way they are going to survive that and then OH there they are they all survived again!!!!
 
To be fair, is it any more silly than....ghosts?

....or glowing rocks?

....or a 700 year old knight, alive and well?

I think, and I will go out on a limb here and suggest that this Indy movie is probably the closest to George's original vision of the character, and the wildly 'out-there' escapades the character would get embroiled in

No doubt Raiders is the best of the lot (and one of the best films of all time) but I can't help feel the uber-fantastic premise, was what Lucas has always had in mind for Indy, and this film had the technology to do it
 
How utterly mediocre, and what a complete waste of good talent in Blanchett, Hurt, Winstone and Broadbent.

And
Aliens!?!?
f***ing
Aliens
!!??!!?? for christ's sake somebody have a word with Lucas.
 
i dont mind all the alien stuff to be honest i just hated the constant cgi, especially as they said there wouldnt be much. you dont get any feeling of real danger or physicality

and im sorry but marion...she was nothing like the old marion, i felt v let down by that. and the way they started arguing 10 seconRAB after they met felt really forced
 
Saw Indy IV last weekend and thought it was a good fun summer blockbuster that was worth a trip to the cinema for as the theatre was packed so there was a good atmosphere. Tho have to agree that the ending was a little too ott for an old cynic like me so 3/5*

Haven't seen any of the originals in years tho so don't know if it's just childhood nostalgia that I remember them as being somewhat better. Surprised Spielberg didn't have them re-release in cinemas like Lucas did with the Star Wars movies before the prequels came out.
 
Is anyone else a little worried that this film isn't going to be much good? :(

The original trilogy is excellent. Yes, I know Temple of Doom is silly but it's a bit different from the other two and I quite like the setting and the plot. I just get the feeling that disturbing the original trilogy is a bit of a bad idea.
 
To be honest, the ending should have been far more subtle

I think the sci-fi angle was fine and the link between mayan culture and aliens is a good theme to explore, especially for Indy, although I think Stargate got there first with that kind of idea. If they had just resisted the last reel, which had the skeletons come alive and the space ship take off, rather than say, just have the temple collapse to reveal a 5000 year old spacecraft which then could have been lost forever by the flood water, it may have been more palatable
 
Seems like quite a few people think Temple of Doom is the weakest Indy film.
I reckon it's probably my favourite of the 4. I think it does best what Lucas and Spielberg set out to do - i.e. make an old-fashioned comic-book matinee adventure film like the old cinema serials. Raiders is a much better film, but it was almost too good to be a homage to those old serials; Temple of Doom got it exactly right IMO. So Raiders of the Lost Ark is the best film of the 4 but Temple of Doom is my favourite of the 4. If that makes any sense.
 
Nope, I did too.


Yep
ALIENS!
As soon as I realised it was set in Inca territory, I knew there would be
aliens
Anyone who grew up in the 60s & 70s would (if they've ever heard of Erich Von Daniken).
Long, looong before Stargate nicked the idea.
 
Well with Bank Holiday Monday being so miserable we decided to take the kiRAB to see this. The kiRAB loved it and my partner and myself agreed it was better than we thought it was going to be. I literally thought it was like watching Indy back in the 80's. Same scenarios, moderate scares, fast chases and amazing escapes. I actually thought they would have tried to keep Indy young by dying his hair, but I was glad they left him as he is. He still looked good in that jacket and hat.
 
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