Disney Takes Over Future Rights to Indiana Jones Films

[Kamandi]

TLC > RotLA

Period

1) Raider - A classic
2) Last Crusade - Watchable, too much so-so CGI and cheeseball humor. Raiders had humor but it was always at the end of the drama, it didn't undercut a scene in progress. Reggie the Snake was at the end of the opening scene. When Indy is hanging from the front of the truck it's a real stunt and everyone seeing it for the first time is on the edge of their seat. In Last Crusade the audience is never allowed to really feel tension or jeopardy.
3) Temple of Doom - Tolerable with moments of promise. Ford actually acts, ILM at the full height of it's practical effects powers. Hurt badly by the lead actress.
4) 50 feet of crap
5) Crystal Skull

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

TLC > RotLA

Period

 

[The Chev]

1) Raider - A classic
2) Last Crusade - Watchable, too much so-so CGI and cheeseball humor. Raiders had humor but it was always at the end of the drama, it didn't undercut a scene in progress. Reggie the Snake was at the end of the opening scene. When Indy is hanging from the front of the truck it's a real stunt and everyone seeing it for the first time is on the edge of their seat. In Last Crusade the audience is never allowed to really feel tension or jeopardy.
3) Temple of Doom - Tolerable with moments of promise. Ford actually acts, ILM at the full height of it's practical effects powers. Hurt badly by the lead actress.
4) 50 feet of crap
5) Crystal Skull

Number 4 on your list was a childhood favorite of mine.

 

[Vivek]

Don't Expect a New Indiana Jones Movie for at Least Two to Three Years | Variety

I think we will likely see Star Wars Episode VIII before the next Indiana Jones movie rolls out.

 

[Deckard]

No thank you. Speilbergs washed up. They'll try to top the nonsensical bull**** in Skull. He's married, they'll try to shoehorn Karen Allen in.

 

[The Chev]

Spielberg's drama's are still really good. I do feel he's lost a certain touch in his action/adventure movies.

 

[rushmore223]

1) Raider - A classic
2) Last Crusade - Watchable, too much so-so CGI and cheeseball humor. Raiders had humor but it was always at the end of the drama, it didn't undercut a scene in progress. Reggie the Snake was at the end of the opening scene. When Indy is hanging from the front of the truck it's a real stunt and everyone seeing it for the first time is on the edge of their seat. In Last Crusade the audience is never allowed to really feel tension or jeopardy.
3) Temple of Doom - Tolerable with moments of promise. Ford actually acts, ILM at the full height of it's practical effects powers. Hurt badly by the lead actress.
4) 50 feet of crap
5) Crystal Skull

Yeah, when you watch Raiders, it really does put all other modern action movies to shame. Not only does it have "real" stunts done by "real" people in action scenes that literally have you riding the edge of your seat, stuff by the way that looks infinitely better than the best CGI that has ever been done, but on top of that it has Heart. It has great acting, it has great directing and a great script, made by people whose ego's had not yet ballooned out of control. The characters felt real and believable, the villains were menacing without hamming it up and everthing about the movie felt real, no matter how fantastical it got.

Watching a movie like this now just makes me sad, becase I don't think we will ever see anything like it again. Not because it is impossible to create, but because the technological genie is out of the bottle and studio's have no desire to force it back in, no desire to use restraint when there is no limitation on how big an exlposion can be or how ridiculous the chase scene can be.

 

[The Chev]

Yeah, when you watch Raiders, it really does put all other modern action movies to shame. Not only does it have "real" stunts done by "real" people in action scenes that literally have you riding the edge of your seat, stuff by the way that looks infinitely better than the best CGI that has ever been done, but on top of that it has Heart. It has great acting, it has great directing and a great script, made by people whose ego's had not yet ballooned out of control. The characters felt real and believable, the villains were menacing without hamming it up and everthing about the movie felt real, no matter how fantastical it got.

Watching a movie like this now just makes me sad, becase I don't think we will ever see anything like it again. Not because it is impossible to create, but because the technological genie is out of the bottle and studio's have no desire to force it back in, no desire to use restraint when there is no limitation on how big an exlposion can be or how ridiculous the chase scene can be.

Agreed. I just watched Raiders again yesterday and it has some of the best stunt work I've seen in film.

I think this film should be studied by young writers and filmmakers when it comes to scriptwriting and editing.

As for movies not being made like this anymore, I think there's something that's to blame more than CGI, MTV Generation. Now I may be scapegoating MTV, but once music video's starting taking off pacing became much faster, and attention spans became shorter and it's gotten worse over time. A lot of Music video directors want on to make TV commercials and then on to movies. Which is why certain movies look like a 2-hour Nike commercial. Then when the rare movie that isn't fast paced and non-stop explosions comes out, it's called boring.

It seems to happen every generation. Movies in the 30's,40's, and 50's were a lot slower than movies in the 60's,70s, and 80s. Now those films in the 80's seem slower than today, but with the explosion of CGI and CGI characters movies tend to focus on CGI more than story and characters.

 

[jungle jom]

I agree with you but I think the shrinking attention span started with "Sesame Street".

 

[The Chev]

I agree with you but I think the shrinking attention span started with "Sesame Street".

Well, that's a little younger than I was talking about, but who knows.

I didn't watch Sesame street as a kid. He-Man all the way!

 

[thenammagazine]

I agree with you but I think the shrinking attention span started with "Sesame Street".

I don't think it started in the 60's. Try Teletubbies in the 90's.

 

[Snake Plissken]

Bradley Cooper is rumored to play Indy... just let the franchise die it's miserable death.

https://www.imdb.com/news/ni56980568/

 

[hunnipot85]

I think he would be a good candidate for a new Indiana Jones. He is famous enough to carry the new franchise also.

Harrison was old in the last one and is even older now... he can't really do too much. I would still love for him to be in the film, but to pass the torch or to work with his new protege. Even though Shia is his son, if they want to use the Mutt character as the new lead they need to recast.

 

[Centurion]

As long as it's executed well and has a strong storyline, I'll check it out.

 

[Johnny Utah]

Harrison is way too old now...he has that 'hanging on your every word, lip quivering old man' thing going on.

 

[batfan08]

He deserves a chance to redeem the franchise after KotCS.

 

[cilantropants]

Ford was too crotchety in the last one to think of him as anything other than taking Marcus Brody's place in a new movie. If they're going to continue the story with Ford, I'd like to see someone other than Shia play his son and go on that way.

If they want to go back and tell more Indy stories, I don't know how easy it would be for me to buy someone else playing the same part. But I'd be willing to give it a shot and do my best to not compare.

 

[TheObsoleteMan]

It's hard to imagine a new Indy, but I'd sooner see it rebooted than to bring Harrison Ford back. There's a reason adventure serials in the 1930's/40's didn't have 70 year olds in the lead roles.

 

[darthviper107]

I wouldn't mind Bradley Cooper. But I'm not really sure we need more or a reboot.

 

[Snake Plissken]

I'm tired of reboots, write something new already instead of cashing in on old ideas.