So, before today, I was an Indy virgin, which I know is like sacrilege around here 
, but, growing up, if it wasn't similar to Star Wars or Godzilla, it had little to know appeal to me, and by the time I was interested in Indy, I had no way to watch it without spending a fair ammount of money on the DVD set which is a tough call to make when you don't know how you'll feel about it. So, thankfully to hype Indy 4, they've released the DVDs again, this time making the individual films available so I picked up Raiders of the Lost Ark today.
So, here's what a 25 year old takes from his first viewing of Indy.
1. Indiana Jones himself is a very entertaining character. I found him to be like Han Solo and Captain Jack Sparrow rolled into one. He had the wit and bravada of Han Solo, while seeming to know what he's doing while it looks like he has not clue what he's doing and making it all up as he goes, like Jack Sparrow. Probably why I liked him so much, as I'm a big fan of Han and Jack. The Han Solo in Indy really shows in the way he bahaved with Marion, very much like Han treats Princess Leia.
2. Once again, John Williams adds a perfect score to a film. While I do like the Indy theme music, I acutally found some of the pieces aside from that a bit more interesting. There was a definite connection to Star Wars music; I found some parts of the score to feel like parts of the OT Star Wars scores, and that's natural as they were both at the same point in Williams' career and I'm sure he had favor for certain styles of music and such so his works of the time would share a common sound.
3. Indiana Jones is an adult's Goonies, even though Indy came first, I find there's a strong similarity between the two. Spielberg's participation in The Goonies is even more noticeable now that I've seen Indy.
4. Marion is the cooler LFL chick. Leia and Padme are both beauties of their time and strong women, but neither of them would be having a drink while in the midst of a bar fight She was one cool, tough woman and not a bad looker either, and she still looks nice in KOTCS stills I've seen.
Those are just some highlight points I took away from my first viewing, definitely need to watch it multiple times though, having read through the boards here, I think I focused too much on waiting for certain things and didn't pick up everything else along the way, like I kept waiting to see Wor-Gar's avatar part of the movie haha. I'm sure it's been pointed out, but did you guys realize the guy who plays Dr. Octopus in Spider-Man 2 was the guy in the gave with Indy at the beginning of the movie? Kinda weird, I didn't recognize his voice at first but "his fez was familiar" (Austin Powers joke for anyone that gets that).
Entertaining movie, look forward to catching KOTCS, figure seeing Raiders is enough to follow KOTCS, don't want to spend money on 2 and 3 on DVD when someday I'll just get the Blu Rays. More anxious to get Sideshow's figure now. Oh, and really enjoy a lot of Family Guy references now that I've seen the source material,
, but, growing up, if it wasn't similar to Star Wars or Godzilla, it had little to know appeal to me, and by the time I was interested in Indy, I had no way to watch it without spending a fair ammount of money on the DVD set which is a tough call to make when you don't know how you'll feel about it. So, thankfully to hype Indy 4, they've released the DVDs again, this time making the individual films available so I picked up Raiders of the Lost Ark today.So, here's what a 25 year old takes from his first viewing of Indy.
1. Indiana Jones himself is a very entertaining character. I found him to be like Han Solo and Captain Jack Sparrow rolled into one. He had the wit and bravada of Han Solo, while seeming to know what he's doing while it looks like he has not clue what he's doing and making it all up as he goes, like Jack Sparrow. Probably why I liked him so much, as I'm a big fan of Han and Jack. The Han Solo in Indy really shows in the way he bahaved with Marion, very much like Han treats Princess Leia.
2. Once again, John Williams adds a perfect score to a film. While I do like the Indy theme music, I acutally found some of the pieces aside from that a bit more interesting. There was a definite connection to Star Wars music; I found some parts of the score to feel like parts of the OT Star Wars scores, and that's natural as they were both at the same point in Williams' career and I'm sure he had favor for certain styles of music and such so his works of the time would share a common sound.
3. Indiana Jones is an adult's Goonies, even though Indy came first, I find there's a strong similarity between the two. Spielberg's participation in The Goonies is even more noticeable now that I've seen Indy.
4. Marion is the cooler LFL chick. Leia and Padme are both beauties of their time and strong women, but neither of them would be having a drink while in the midst of a bar fight
She was one cool, tough woman and not a bad looker either, and she still looks nice in KOTCS stills I've seen.Those are just some highlight points I took away from my first viewing, definitely need to watch it multiple times though, having read through the boards here, I think I focused too much on waiting for certain things and didn't pick up everything else along the way, like I kept waiting to see Wor-Gar's avatar part of the movie haha. I'm sure it's been pointed out, but did you guys realize the guy who plays Dr. Octopus in Spider-Man 2 was the guy in the gave with Indy at the beginning of the movie? Kinda weird, I didn't recognize his voice at first but "his fez was familiar"
(Austin Powers joke for anyone that gets that).Entertaining movie, look forward to catching KOTCS, figure seeing Raiders is enough to follow KOTCS, don't want to spend money on 2 and 3 on DVD when someday I'll just get the Blu Rays. More anxious to get Sideshow's figure now. Oh, and really enjoy a lot of Family Guy references now that I've seen the source material,
