Amph Can you name 5 trilogies that didn't let you down?

How, in all seriouness, can the Crystal Dull be better than Temple of Doom?

Firstly; Temple of Doom gave us the name Temple of Boom. Cypress Hill were impressive when they first showed up and their whacky pot advocacy was a breath of bong-water freshness on the scene.

But, I digress.

I think Temple is the weakest of the trilogy, but it's mostly the darkest. It doesn't lack an essential Indyness that Crystal Skull often did. Don't get me wrong, the opening of Crystal Skull, up until an octogenerian is getting a sponge bath. Some of the scenes in Peru were ok but the jungle fights were just poor and the ensemble cast weakened the focus on Indy. And the scene with the sinkhole just looked like a set. Ugh.

There were parts of Crystal Skull that I enjoyed, but it would have been a better film had Shia been sucked into a jet intake and not been Indy's son, and had it had less characters and a better ending.

I could almost forgive the fridge scene, but not that ending.

 

You know that makes Vargs church-burningly upset right?

 

you know i can't make vargs happy all the time. you know i can't make anybody happy all the time.

 

Especially Vargs. He's proper fickle.

 

LeBeouf wasn't the greatest, but he wasn't a huge travesty either. I thought he did a decent job. I also liked Cate Blanchett, but I don't think I've ever disliked her in anything. I do think it lacked some Indy-ness, but I think the things it lacked (for me) were also missing from Temple of Doom and, frankly, I just think Spielberg and co should stick to Western Judeo-Christian myths, because the weird use of other mythologies is part of what irked me about both ToD and CS. The ending really was truly, truly terrible, but on the whole I prefer it and find it more watchable. I've tried to rewatch Temple of Doom twice in the last 4 years and both times I haven't been able to make it through. Kate Capshaw's constant hysterics are too hard to stomach and Short Round is too annoying. I just can't watch it.

 

My issues with Blanchett in that role was that it felt like a horrible miscast, which was disappointing because I was looking forward to her being in this. Also, she absolutely could not pull off that accent. At all.

 

i seem to be the only person that actually likes mutt and what shia laboofs did with the character and how the character and dr. jones interacted with one another. i mean, they could have picked someone who would have been really terrible like that sixth sense boy or that zac the singer boy or that gordon-"keanu jr."-levitts. i'm not exactly thrilled by the prospect that he may become the new indiana jones, but if it happens i definitely think he'll be up to the task and that he'll do a good job with it.

 

For me the quality difference between TOD and KOTCS boils down to this:

TOD - Spielberg in "Giving a damn" mode.

KOTCS - Spielberg on autopilot.

 

Zac Efron is awesome how dare you.

 

haha

was he any good in that paperboys movie?

 

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/08/why-indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade-beats-all-other-indy-films

This article explains a great deal of why I personally find TLC to be the best of the Indy films. I don't agree with all of it (particularly criticizing some of the action scenes in Raiders as going on too long), but it makes great points about the way TLC positively mirrors and complements Raiders, as well as why the father-son relationship is perfectly done.

 

I didn't watch it but he peed on Nicole Kidman in it so I bet you'd enjoy it.

 

I actually think the interaction between Mutt and Indy is the best thing about Crystal Skull. But better than Temple of Doom? Please. There are very few action sequences in any movie to measure up to the minecar chase. And Willie is unfairly maligned; she's actually really funny. The bit where they finally get out of the underground mine and then she turns around and Mola Ram is standing there and she just does this really epic full bodied scream always puts me on the floor laughing. Short Round is not the best idea in the world, but Willie is a lot funnier than people give her credit for.

 

only if it showed a direct wiener-to-body connection. but i'm guessing it doesn't do that.

 

The Dark Knight Rises was such a disappointment. And AaylaSecurOWNED is entirely right about the pacing issues. And I'm open to her stance on Skull>Doom.

 

You won't convince me otherwise... I had one of my best experiences in a theater when watching this film with a friend of mine back in July, and nobody is taking that memory away. When I watched it again on DVD a couple of weeks ago, I was still entertained. How terribly shocking! As for your assessment on Doom when discussing the first three Indy movies, I feel the same way about Doom as I did BTFF 2... each is the weakest of the 3, but I still enjoy the film. As for KOTC, it was an enjoyable enough film, but dragged on in too many parts. I certainly thought the scene with the fridge was a bit odd, but I didn't get upset over it.

 

Is this based on your experience with Ukrainians?

 

It just sounded like an incredibly fake accent. On par with Brits trying to fake American accents.

 

Based on the forty odd minutes I saw between falling asleep multiple times, I fully endorse this statement.

 

Man, you fall asleep in movies a lot, have you talked to a doctor about that?

 

I can stay awake if they hold my attention.

In the meantime, can someone please explain what the aliens were trying to accomplish by. . .dividing themselves into multiple aliens and then "dying" and. . .yeah I don't really know what happened. I get the sense that people that stayed awake the whole time didn't really get any better grasp of it.

 

i didn't really care. i just sat there astounded by the sheer zaniness of it all.

 

It was pretty much dead on for the region of the then-USSR that her character was meant to be from, sorry.

The Steve Zahniness? Or Timothy Zahniness?

Wocky, I've seen other people fall asleep in movies. They were well over 80.

So, tell me, what did you do for your 80th?