Fortune and glory, kid: The All Things Indiana Jones Thread

[epilogue]

Never seen Indy 4 and I have no plans to.

Go in with the right attitude and it's fun. Just like the other Indy films, it's an dumb adventure movie with some really cool scenes and some really dumb things.

I don't think any of them are dumb movies at all. But there are definitely some very dumb things in 4.

I think they are all equally dumb. But I also don't think they are dumb movies.

[epilogue]

Man... I had no idea you guys were so serious and precious about your action-adventure serials.

See the Star Wars forum

aw huh

[LoathedVermin72]

Never seen Indy 4 and I have no plans to.

Go in with the right attitude and it's fun. Just like the other Indy films, it's an dumb adventure movie with some really cool scenes and some really dumb things.

I don't think any of them are dumb movies at all. But there are definitely some very dumb things in 4.

I think they are all equally dumb. But I also don't think they are dumb movies.

wrong

[epilogue]

Never seen Indy 4 and I have no plans to.

Go in with the right attitude and it's fun. Just like the other Indy films, it's an dumb adventure movie with some really cool scenes and some really dumb things.

I don't think any of them are dumb movies at all. But there are definitely some very dumb things in 4.

I think they are all equally dumb. But I also don't think they are dumb movies.

wrong

So they are dumb movies? ... You are maddeningly inconsistent.

[McParadigm]

Indiana Jones: (pulls self out of hat like a cartoon rabbit)
Durd: It was always thus

[epilogue]

Indiana Jones: (pulls self out of hat like a cartoon rabbit)
Durd: It was always thus

I mean... kinda, yeah.

[bada]

I made this thread solely so Joe would have another opportunity to try and convince everyone Crystal Skull is good.

[epilogue]

I made this thread solely so Joe would have another opportunity to try and convince everyone Crystal Skull is good.

And once again, I've failed with the glory of 1,000 suns.

[LoathedVermin72]

I’ve been doing this thing lately where I listen to movies on headphones at work. I recently listened to all four Indy movies.

I have always hated KOTC. But I have to say...I kinda started to appreciate it this time. I think having the visual element removed might have helped, because when I wasn’t distracted by the terrible CGI and how ancient Ford looked, I started to notice some of what it was doing subtextually, and I liked how Ford delivered a lot of the dialogue. The “You’re going back to school!” moment was great.

I’m curious to try rewatching it now to see if it actually works for me.

[epilogue]

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[McParadigm]

Two out of three Lucas-helmed prequels are superior to that movie.

[epilogue]

Two out of three Lucas-helmed prequels are superior to that movie.

I'd say all three probably.

[wease]

Two out of three Lucas-helmed prequels are superior to that movie.

I'd say all three probably.

Most certainly

[McParadigm]

I’m only hedging because I haven’t seen the second one in over a decade, and I’m not sure I’ve ever seen ALL of it outside of the first viewing. I just remember that it was atrocious.

[Simple Torture]

I’ve been doing this thing lately where I listen to movies on headphones at work.

I have a coworker who does a similar thing, but he listens to movies through his car speakers while driving. I think I would totally be down for this for certain movies, either for the dialogue or the soundtrack.

This thread has made me think deeply about that and about Choose Your Own Adventure books, and only a little bit about Indiana Jones.

I try to say "That belongs in a museum" as often as possible when the opportunity presents itself.

[epilogue]

I made a tape of Baz's Romeo and Juliet to listen to in my car back in 97 or 98. I loved listening to that movie!

[wease]

Ok. After much online digging, I was able to find out that Fedora in The Last Crusade WAS actually originally intended to be Abner Ravenwood. However, the idea was dropped during filming.

[evenslow]

the best...

[bada]

I always imagined Abner Ravenwood as more of a academic than that thief in Last Crusade. That stuff belonged in a museum.