Are these adjusted for inflation?
:usacryAre these adjusted for inflation?
Even if you take inflation into account, it says a lot about how much the US dollar has gone down the shitter.
Raiders was pretty impressive. I'm surprised its budget was under 30 million.
Sadly, this is the first movie where Ive come out thinking that Spielberg may finally be losing his touch.
Sadly, this is the first movie where Ive come out thinking that Spielberg may finally be losing his touch.
Sadly, this is the first movie where Ive come out thinking that Spielberg may finally be losing his touch.
You never saw The Terminal? <shudder>
Sadly, this is the first movie where Ive come out thinking that Spielberg may finally be losing his touch.
You never saw The Terminal? <shudder>
Nope, missed that one. I fucking loathe Tom Hanks, so I pretty much skip all his shit.
You dont like Temple of Doom Willco?
Also, FoC, I just rewatched Temple. I think the movie loses it right after Indy, Willie, and Short Round see the ceremony in the temple, when Indy goes off alone to get the stones. Within 10 minutes, Willie is being sacrificed, Indy is EVIL, and Short Round is a slave. It's like the movie kicks it into high gear, but instead of presenting a narrative, it just gives you a string of scenes that aren't very well connected to each other.
Yeah, I wouldn't view this film as a knock on Spielberg's credibility as a director. When he's bored with the material or he does it out of some kind of weird fan guilt/commitment - it comes out pretty mediocre (see: The Lost World). He's a gifted director and even his recent stuff that I was not a big fan of, like War of the Worlds, show that he still has the technical chops to be an elite director.
I feel Spielberg's recent failings can be rectified by the following:
1. Distancing himself from George Lucas. Lucas is like a cancer at this point and he's trying to destroy any resemblance of creativity he once had. He has infected the Indy franchise. Back away, Steven!
2. Stop using drafts from David Koepp and being lazy with scripts. Koepp is a hack - his best screenplays have been passed around Hollywood and worked on more than Joan Rivers. Spielberg also used to write rough drafts and realized he wasn't a good enough writer to shoot what he wrote. But he was invested in the writing process. That hasn't happened in a long, long time.
3. Fire Kaminski. Yeah, we all thought that look was cool the first time we saw it... a decade ago. Now all your films look the same, totally blown out and washed out. He completely failed in capturing the look of Raiders/Last Crusade (we'll exclude Temple of Doom) and makes something as lush and colorful as jungle locations look boring.
Spielberg needs to cast off some dead creative weight around him (Lucas, Kaminski, Koepp, etc.) and get back to his roots. His technical knowledge is still incredible and his skills are unmatched. He just needs an infusion of good talent around him.
Sadly, this is the first movie where Ive come out thinking that Spielberg may finally be losing his touch.
You never saw The Terminal? <shudder>
Nope, missed that one. I fucking loathe Tom Hanks, so I pretty much skip all his shit.
yer back on my good list, solo. :thumbsup
At least the opening was awesome, the mine cart scene was great and I thought the heart stuff was kind of cool too.
Considering that plot device was such a huge hold up for Spielberg and Ford - I'd like to see what Lucas originally tried to sell them on before inevitably breaking them down. Was there a musical number involving aliens from Close Encounters? Did Martians originally try to hijack the Ark to make an intergalactic weapon of destruction? What?
9. A story that made no fucking since. Why would Oxley return the crystal skull upon failing the first time, only for him to succeed the second time and not doing anything differently.
Quote9. A story that made no fucking since. Why would Oxley return the crystal skull upon failing the first time, only for him to succeed the second time and not doing anything differently.
I was wondering this myself. I'm assuming I missed something. But even if I did, Cate Blanchett's character says that they have had multiple alien corpses in the Soviet Union. Where are those skulls? And if that is the case, how did she not know about their magnetic properties?
John Hurt's pointless role continues to baffle me. Here is a great actor who you waste in the role of a stammering distinguished mentally-challenged fellow who supplies the most unfunny comedic relief I can remember in a good while.
Why did Indy try to save Mack at the end right after Mack double crossed Indy. It was the most undramatic thing in movie history. Worse than the gay sailer scene in PJ's King Kong
1. Sean Connery:lol :lol Was this gonna happen?
2. Tom Selleck as Indy's brother
3. Opening on Indy's funeral
4. Ending on Indy's funeral
5. Having them find Atlantis rather than Crystal Skulls
6. Firing Lucas
Darabont's draft reportedly gave Indy an alcoholic brother, who would've been played by Tom Selleck or Kevin Costner. Selleck would've been so awesome.
What if a grown up Short Round came back as a thai ladyboy? I'd be buying a second ticket right now.
Yeah, Spielberg and Ford liked Darabont's script. Lucas vetoed it. :-\
Solo is right too. Selleck as drunken Indy brother would've been so much fun.
http://www.orble.com/indiana-jones-and-the-kingdom-of-the-crystal-skull-review/
Indy and Shia outwit the Russians thanks to some clever motorcycle hijinx. The chase leads to the campus, where the massive bronze head of Marcus Brody's statue lands on the Russian's crotch. Does the Russian die from this? We don't get to see his face, but it still made the kid in the row ahead of me laugh and cheer and raise his arms.:lol :lol :lol
5. Having them find Atlantis rather than Crystal Skulls
5. Having them find Atlantis rather than Crystal Skulls
That game ruled
Indy, Shia, Karen Allen and John Hurt all miraculously get to the top of the valley a few miles away in time to see the pyramid explode into chunks of CGI that spin around in a vast CGI cyclone, and then a big CGI saucer comes out and rises into the CG-sky. They watch it go. Indy says something about knowledge being the euphemism for gold/treasure, even though none of them know anything about what just happened.
Why did Indy try to save Mack at the end right after Mack double crossed Indy. It was the most undramatic thing in movie history. Worse than the gay sailer scene in PJ's King Kong
Why did Indy try to save Mack at the end right after Mack double crossed Indy. It was the most undramatic thing in movie history. Worse than the gay sailer scene in PJ's King Kong
Indy also tried to help the huge Indian dude on the stone grinder in Temple of Doom.
It's because Indy is a pretty cool guy. He fights Nazis and doesn't afraid of anythign!
With 185 Million I could make the greatest movie of all time. It would be a zombie epic.
Didn't Spielberg weep at Revenge of The Sith's ending? What a fucking bitch, mang.
I just thought of something. The whole last temple scene felt like a dramatized version of the Nickelodeon show, Legend of the Hidden Temple.
I just watched Raiders for the first time in a while and hoooolly fuck does it take a shit on 4. 4 is unforgivable.
There's half as much exposition and twice as much logic
Indy kills people, and cruelly
Indy beats the shit out of people
They go to more places yet it feels shorter
Nothing outrageously stupid happens
People bleed
His sidekicks actually do stuff
Never mind the soundtrack, directing, acting.
Darabont's draft reportedly gave Indy an alcoholic brother, who would've been played by Tom Selleck or Kevin Costner. Selleck would've been so awesome.