If Spielberg really, really objected to the aliens, there would have been none.
Having said that, supernatural forces have always played a role in the Indy universe. The aliens were not the problem.
The whole chase in the jungle bein 99% CGi was bullshit! CGI Ants? Fuck off with that shit…And I kind of like Crystal Skull to.
I just wanted to pop in and say I love Lucas because he has provided me with countless hours of entertainment in the forms of Star Wars and LucasArts. I realize I probably sound lame not bitching about the guy that gave me something to bitch about in the first place, but hey.
My main problem with that jeep chase is Indy doesn’t fucking do anything. In all the big set pieces in the other films, Indy’s the one driving them(Raiders’ Escape from Snake Pit --> Airplane Fight --> Truck Chase; Temple’s Cave fight --> Mine Cart Chase --> Bridge Climax; Last Crusade’s Tank Chase and even the final booby traps). In the jungle, he gets in a jeep and lets Shia do everything, from sword fight the villain to swinging around with CGI monkeys(holy FUCK that scene). The biggest action sequence of the movie, and Indy is a bystander.
I definitely appreciate the pains they took to resurrect the original Indiana Jones style of art direction, cinematography, etc., but it seems like they focused on that stuff so much that everything else–everything that was unique to this story and not just some artifact of the old series–got overlooked in the end.
Same problem goes for The Godfather III, really, which isn’t that bad, but remains a superfluous pastiche of the older films.
Biggest problem with Lucas is that he can’t just RELEASE AN UNALTERED VERSION OF THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY. It’s been proven time and time and time again that it could be done cheaply and easily, but NOPE. We gotta have a different sprite edit of Kermit the Frog cast in them every. time. And I’m not talking about Yoda. Hell, he’s even edited eps. 1 - 3. After a while we won’t be able to see them like we did in the theaters anymore either. Stupid annoying stuff when he could just do what everyone obviously wants and make a ton of money and get rid of a bunch of "piracy " that’s really meaningless since all those pirates aren’t gong to buy the movie anyway. Unless he removes all the edits. Stupid.
I shudder to think what’s gonna happen to the original Indiana Jones trilogy when it hits Blu-Ray. Matte paintings replaced with obvious blue-screen shit, Raiders face melting scene replaced with CGI effects, the Swordsman shoots first, etc.
It would be nice if he would just please give us the theatrical releases on the current format.
Guns will become walkie talkies. The guy with the scimitar will shoot first. Sean Connery will be replaced by a CGI Sean Connery with less believable movements.
Maybe it’s just that the first 3 films were on the premise of religious artifacts and mystic powers like an Ark or taking a dude’s heart from his chest, rather than some alien’s cranium being made from something other than bone that gets me.
Continuing on about bad movies, the latest Piranha. WTF, man. At the start of this thing these fish have the ability to create their own whirlpool, something they don’t do ever again. Then later on they suddenly get the ability to jump out to eat a bitch trying to rope her way across boats (why not just summon the whirlpool to get everyone to fall in the water?). Jumping is something they sure didn’t do a lot of when everyone was partying on these boats. Best part of this was a dude speeding on a boat while everyone’s getting eaten and just running them over without a care. That might be the only good part, actually.
LOL Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is on NBC right now. Its all full-screen and s*** and looks terrible
But the Mitchell Hedges Skulls are real.
Did EFNet just have some large ass netsplit?
I see 11 dues in #capcom, and 1 (myself) in #srk-lounge and #srkgd.
The rest of us are normal. But yes there was a small netsplit with you guys bailing.
Wow, that’s dumb. Netsplit has lasted for nearly 2 hours. And now -
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The problem with Indy 4 is there was no need for his adventure. In the previous films, it made sense for Indy to get there first, or save the day. In IV, he could have sat at home and drank scotch and the Soviets would still have been brain fried. Aliens weren’t the problem (I heard the original story was Bermuda Triangle), and Soviets weren’t the problem.
CGI ants were a problem (at least in Temple of Doom the bugs were real, which freaked you out). The entire nuke scene was my biggest problem (fridges do not save you from the heat, radiation and wind speeds of a tornado). Put an old man in a box full of fluffy pillows and hurl him down a hill and he will be hurt. Dont try to tell me Indy just stands up and dusts himself off from being nuked. In Raiders, the swordsman scene was improvised and added a bit of trademark humour to the scene. In Crystal Skull, they should have just had the bomb be a dud. And that part where the CIA doesn’t trust Indy just seemed to be a waste of fucking time. Oh and having that one dude keep switching sides just got confusing and stupid. When we got to CGI monkey swinging, I read that even Shie The Beef facepalmed.
Don’t even you bunch of mofos. Just reading you’re jokes is making me angry. I hate the fact that those moves no longer stand as technical achivements of their time. He has gone so far to disrespect the work of those guys who did the special effect that it alone deserves him getting slapped 100 fold.
Indy was unnecessary in the first film as well.
And probably most of the third one
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Good video