― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 15 August 2003 14:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 15 August 2003 14:08 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 15 August 2003 14:09 (twenty years ago) link
will the new one be any good? i hope so but doubt so
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 15 August 2003 14:10 (twenty years ago) link
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― stevem (blueski), Friday, 15 August 2003 14:13 (twenty years ago) link
Temple of Doom sucked ass. The only good bit - when he takes his gun out to shoot the swordsman and has no bullets.
The new one - I'd love it to be - but I suspect not. Harrison Ford is now better suited to Charlie Brokker's TvGoHome spoof of Indiana Jones and the Doomed Office Romance and George Lucas has turned into anti-midas in that everything he touches turns into a heap of mystically-scented merchandisable shit.
― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 15 August 2003 14:14 (twenty years ago) link
x-post Temple of Doom sucked ass. The only good bit - when he takes his gun out to shoot the swordsman and has no bullets. he has no gun, he lost in the Beijing car chase, when Speilberg's girlfriend tossed it out the window.
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 15 August 2003 14:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 15 August 2003 14:18 (twenty years ago) link
Of the three films, Temple is easily the weakest altough the openening sequence in the bar with the poison/anitidote slapstick is sweet, when the goons are all there laughing at Indie and he's like "haha err...."
― Alex K (Alex K), Friday, 15 August 2003 14:19 (twenty years ago) link
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― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 August 2003 14:21 (twenty years ago) link
Indy Jones - middle-of-the-series film more sunny & retarded, first & last fim more dark and intense
(although it seems a stretch to call Temple of Doom [wherein a guy RIPS PEOPLES HEARTS OUT OF THEIR CHEST] "sunny" or "retarded" [okay sure "Doctah Jones Doctah Jones" psh], I still stand by this attempted observation)
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― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 15 August 2003 14:24 (twenty years ago) link
the unleashing of the Ark's powers really really spooked me as a kid - its infinitely more powerful than in Last Crusade when Nazi dude chooses the wrong cup
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 15 August 2003 14:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 15 August 2003 14:27 (twenty years ago) link
Austrian Butler: "If you are Scottish Lord, zen I am Mickey Mouse!"
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 August 2003 14:27 (twenty years ago) link
Nazi or not, chick was still hot as hell.
I have a soft spot for Karen Allen though, not that she was even as hot as the Nazi girl but she was basically like, wow, they wrote a movie character based on me, excellent.
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x-post, I think Data's name in ToD was Short Round and Spielberg's girlfriend was called Willie. Which wasn't even the stupidest thing about her character.
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― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 August 2003 15:09 (twenty years ago) link
Also, ToD might have the best opening scene what with the Bond-white-tuxedo to fight scene to car to plane to rafting to wizened Indian guy progression.
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― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 15 August 2003 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
Haha! Having rewatched Raiders for the first time in a long while last night (thank you DVD box set as Xmas gift), I can see the truth of this.
That said, seeing it again was both a kick for realizing how much I had forgotten in the films -- I didn't even immediately remember the plane fight sequence until it actually started! -- and just a touch disappointing. More than once I was thinking about how some of the action scenes really could be better (like for instance when Indy and Marion get into the fight in the Cairo streets -- I was noticing how Karen Allen had been directed to apparently only slightly pound a bad guy on the head in the side of the shot, where these days I'd be expecting a little more in the way of Michelle Yeoh style asskicking). Also, John Williams' gift and limitations as a composer were pretty obvious; aside from the Raiders march and the Ark theme nearly everything musically just made me think of Star Wars.
Minor complaints, though, it's still a romp and a half, nothing about the film feels wasted, it uses economy to excellent effect, and even more successfully really pulls off suspension of disbelief well (when I first saw it in 1981 I wouldn't have known that the idea of 1936 Nazis having an openly armed force in British-controlled Egypt or a secret base on a Greek island was utterly ridiculous, but even though I do know it's not a worry because that's what Nazis do in the popular mind, have openly armed strike forces everywhere and plenty of secret bases).
Fun geek revelations -- the midget servant (who up until last night I just thought was meant to be a kid) who brings the poisoned dates to Indy and Sallah while they're waiting for the translation of the amulet is played by Kiran Shah, who was Elijah Wood's stand-in in Lord of the Rings which of course also starred John Rhys-Davies who played Sallah etc. Also, the guide who helps Indy into the temple at the start of film ("Throw me the idol, I give you the whip!" etc.) is Alfred Molina! As soon as I saw him on-screen I thought 'wait a minute...' and then his name popped up in the opening credits a couple of seconds later.
Oh and for all that they've changed the name on the packaging (to Indiana Jones and the Raiders etc.) the actual title of the film remained the same in the opening credits. Good thing too.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 January 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 18 January 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago) link
Very much so -- one thing that's great about the Ark is that its powers are implied or uncertain most of the time. People know what it IS but everyone's guessing about what it can DO, and that makes the unexpectedness of the ending all the more unsettling. That and it's flat out gruesome as well -- but one of the most effective things about the death of Belloq is that while we see him looking in horror at something within the Ark after the angels change to skeletons, we never see exactly what it is (and the only view of what is in the Ark a bit earlier is equally peculiar, seeming to show clouds and smoke rising up from impossible depths).
Hm, a lot of this is making me think of the unknown thing in the suitcase in Pulp Fiction.
The woman who played Elsa Schneider was asked to play Eowyn in LotR, and she would have been WAY BETTER than whoever ended up doing it.
Hey, you're mean (one reason I really like Miranda Otto in the role is that she's not a conventional Hollywood beauty as such -- she's definitely attractive but not a blonde bombshell like the actress you mention).
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 January 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
what are your thoughts on temple of doom? on re-viewing some years ago I was kind of shocked by it--
but the opening scene is still perfect.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 18 January 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 18 January 2004 17:20 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 18 January 2004 17:22 (twenty years ago) link
But I'm sure I'll break out Temple of Doom here soon enough and I freely agree the opening scene roolz down to the weird Dan Ackroyd cameo. Last Crusade...maybe when I'm REALLY bored and a bit drunk one night, that could work.
xpost I like the way you both think.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 January 2004 17:23 (twenty years ago) link
(although the dad stuff is a bit rough)
and temple of doom is sort of a colonialist nightmare
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 18 January 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 January 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago) link
(I was thinking specifically of the scene when the british army shows up and saves our heroes from the savage brain-eating indians!)
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 January 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago) link
I asked HSA's mum about the movie, because she is an archeologist, and I wanted her to say that it was all rubbish, and archeology wasn't like that at all, that it was all digging around in the mud for ages and never finding anything but dirts and bits of pottery like on Time Team. But then she got a glint in her eye, and said that, well, actually, archeology *could be* like Indiana Jones, and she'd had several rather exciting and scary moments digging in the Middle East that were a bit Indiana Jones.
― the river fleet, Sunday, 18 January 2004 19:04 (twenty years ago) link
Well, maybe I was a bit harsh, I did like Eowyn more in RotK. It would be nice to see Alison Doody in something again though.
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* A huge flaw with Temple is that the script comes across as fits and starts rather than a flowing story while the shoehorning of It Happened One Night-style humor...except nowhere near as good...into an adventure just grinds things to a halt. The problem really is one of suffering by comparison as well, though -- Raiders, again, has no fat and easily moves from one locale to another, with exposition noted and then dispatched with as quickly as possible. In contrast stuff like the 'wacky' Indy and Short Round play cards while all the animals freak out Willie hoho (bit with the snake was nice though) and the 'it's just like Moonlighting/no they both ripped off something else' bedroom scenes just made me think "END! GET TO SOMETHING ELSE!" Maybe Temple's screenwriters -- the same team that did both American Graffiti and Howard the Duck, weird ass contrast there -- felt that they had to have both the locale and backstory explained a bit more to an audience presumably unfamiliar with Indian history and religion, but where the dinner scene in Temple has a really forced way in explaining that backstory around the monkey brains and eye soup and all that, something like the interpretation-of-the-amulet scene in Raiders has just enough breathless wonder. (A warning sign in retrospect was on the documentary when both Lucas and Spielberg noted that they had wanted to get in some set pieces into Raiders but couldn't -- a water/raft scene and a mine chase scene, for instance -- and so the script was in part built around that. It's a very James Bond movie way of conceiving of a script, at least during Roger Moore's heyday, and like seventies Bond the set pieces take precedence over story. Which leads me to:)
* No moment in Temple has any of the same sense of discovery, awe or even chills that Raiders has. Lucas and Spielberg and others keep talking about how Temple is a dark film, but it isn't -- Nickalicious was right upthread on that point. There's grim things, yes, but as filmed and presented there's very little truly chilling or unnerving. A couple of times things come close -- for instance, Ford does a great job conveying, understatedly, a sudden interest and excitement when he first learns about the theft of the sacred stone. And Mola Ram's a great villain who isn't on the screen often enough, in fact I think he's almost too good for the famous heart-removing scene -- that famous pose of him holding the flaming heart which was in the movie poster is iconography let down by the surrounding scene. But contrast the more elaborate set of the temple and how it's handled -- and one huge problem of that set it that it never stops SEEMING like a set -- with the mysterious shadows and ominous music of the Well of Souls in Raiders, and the exquisite way the Ark is slowly revealed. John Williams's pretty pedestrian 'tribal' music and the big muscle guys with the Shankara Stones just all seems more like something fit for the Allan Quatermain knockoffs that Golan/Globus did the following two years. And there's nothing as flat out weird and uncomfortable as the sudden edit between the scene of the Ark burning off the Nazi insignia to the silent ship bedroom, or the first sudden recurrence of the Ark 'pulse' in the climactic Raiders sequence.
* Kate Capshaw came off pretty darn well in her documentary interview and I had more knowledge and respect for her as a person, and a better understanding of what she saw as unfair criticism of the character she played (as opposed to the acting, I'll note!). All well and good -- but the character and how she played her still sucks, and again it's mostly by comparison. The relationship between Indy and Marion in Raiders had history, there was subtext, Marion clearly had a brain and used it, took no shit, etc. Karen Allen played a character in an homage to swashbucklers that wasn't meant to be something with depth in the first place and made her seem REAL with her interjections, irreverence and more -- and DAMN if the bedroom scene on the boat isn't hot. Willie is no Marion, and that perhaps was perfectly intentional but there wasn't anything to CARE about her, and most of the time she ended up being disgusted with her surroundings, screaming or escaping. Big whoop. Cripes, the character even ruins a brilliantly tense moment on the bridge scene -- Indy quickly thinks, makes a decision, gets ready, tells Short Round to get ready (but doesn't let the audience in on it, good call there), Short Round tells Willie and then the whole thing becomes overplayed comedy again. GARG. That the film recovers so quickly with the perfect scenery chewing of the "Prepare to meet Kali!" bit is to its credit but oh how much better it would have been without Willie's unneeded diversion.
* Oh and about Short Round...well, whatever. He's no Sallah. Dear lord the bad jokes they gave him though (the "No time for love, Dr. Jones!" bit was great but the "Feel like stepping on fortune cookies" yeah yeah FUCK YOU).
In sum, Raiders was a shoot-the-moon 'let's try it and make it work' idea, Temple was a 'great! the franchise is established! now we don't need to make everything work completely!' followup. Bah.
And I will also say that seeing the screen tests of Tom Selleck as Indy and Sean Young as Marion -- and hearing that Danny de Vito was almost cast as Sallah -- gave me the FEAR.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 January 2004 04:37 (twenty years ago) link
And actually it turned out the Army troops were Indian troops but they were still led by Lord Featheringstonehaugh III or whatever.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 January 2004 04:57 (twenty years ago) link
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Looks likeHarrison Ford can finally take the fedora out of mothballs.
The Hollywood megastar told a German magazine on Wednesday that after rewrites too numerous to count, he and directorSteven Spielberg are finally satisfied with the script for the forever-in-the-works fourth installment of the whip-wielding, tomb-raiding adventurer.
"Steven Spielberg and I now have a script in hand that we both like. I believe that we can start with the filming soon," Ford was quoted as saying in an interview with Fit for Fun, a German lifestyle and entertainment magazine.
The 63-year-old actor, who's been making the publicity rounds this month for Firewall--his first certifiable action thriller since 1997's Air Force One--demurred, however, on a start date.
That depends on the busy schedules of the Indiana Jones triumvirate of Ford, Spielberg and producerGeorge Lucas. But Ford indicated he was ready to get back into the swing of things, adding that he needed "to do a little practicing with the whip" to avoid injuries.
Ford's reps did not comment further, and a Lucasfilm spokesperson said Wednesday that Lucas was not available to comment on the status of Indy 4. But appearing at last week's Empire Awards in London, his producing partner, Rick McCallum, said Lucas had made his final tweaks to the script by Jeff Nathanson (Rush Hour and Catch Me If You Can) and handed it off to his two pals for final tweaking.
"[George has] just finished the Indiana Jones script, and Steven's having that rewritten and a few things done," McCallum said, according to published reports.
Spielberg's publicist, Marvin Levy, confirmed as much to E! Online.
"[The script] certainly seems to be [in the can], but I don't think we're at that point where we have a firm start date," Levy said. "But this is certainly the closest where we've been in this whole development process."
Levy also denied an earlier report that Spielberg was considering taking a year off after doing War of the Worlds and Munich back to back. He said the two-time Oscar winner is working not only on getting Indy 4 off the ground, but also Lincoln, his upcoming biopic on Abraham Lincoln that will reunite him with his Schindler's List star,Liam Neeson.
"I think it's much more likely that he will do an Indy movie before he does Lincoln. The Lincoln script is not as far in the development stage and...frankly, Steven may not want to do another serious movie after doing a Munich," Levy said.
He noted it's possible Spielberg "would be starting something before 2007."
It's been a slow, tortuous march to production since the project was officially announced in January 2002. The trio brought in Oscar-nominated writer-directorFrank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) to take a crack at writing a story about the aging archaeologist, but Lucas vetoed the draft, putting Indy 4 on hold indefinitely until Nathanson found an angle that pleased the principals.
By the time Indy 4 does get rolling--this year or next--Ford will have turned 64 and will probably be 65 by the time Paramount releases the movie in theaters. The actor is next set to play Colonel Everton Conger, the man who tracked down Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, in Manhunt, which starts filming next month.
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Lessee...the last movie was set in '39, I think, and came out about 15 years ago so the new one to account for Harrison Ford's leather-muppet grill will have to be early to mid fifties. So Nazis are out, unless they do a South American exile thing ala Mengele - but there's no superstitious biblical artifact to mess with there. Spear of Longinus, maybe? Been done to death a little, hasn't it. Maybe we'll sub Stalin for Hitler and throw in some russian folklore?
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March 17, 2006 - We've heard a lot of things about the Indiana Jones IV script lately. Lucas suggested that a draft by Jeff Nathanson (Rush Hour, Catch Me if You Can) had been approved and was ready to shoot, while director Steven Spielberg said he was having War of the Worlds collaborator David Koepp work on it some more.
The latest from star Harrison Ford, however, is that Spielberg does have a script he is satisfied with. "Steven Spielberg and I now have a script in hand that we both like. I believe that we can start with the filming soon," the actor told German magazine Fit for Fun, according to E! Online.
Spielberg's publicist Marvin Levy also told E! Online, "[The script] certainly seems to be [in the can], but I don't think we're at that point where we have a firm start date. But this is certainly the closest where we've been in this whole development process."
Lucas spoke about Indy IV again this week, this time with Time magazine. "I've been working on Indy 4 for ten years. So I've been more involved, so no matter how you count it on this one I'll be more involved than I'll have ever been on the other three put together. It's taken forever to get a script of it. That's my part of it."
Lucas also gave a caution, apparently aimed at the same sort of fan base that had conjured up their own ideas of what the Star Wars prequels would be like and then came away disappointed. "You know the problem there, which is not a problem, is that we don't have to make that movie. All we can do is hurt ourselves, all it's going to do is get criticized. I mean it's basically Phantom Menace we're making. No matter how you do it, no matter what you do, it won't be what the other ones were in terms of the impact or the way people remember them."
Lucas also mentioned that Spielberg was planning to use his own tried-and-true film techniques while making Indy IV, instead of Lucas's cutting-edge digital technology.
"He'll win. He's the director. The great thing about working with Steven is that we don't have agendas. We want to make the best movie possible, I want him to be happy. If he wants to shoot it on film and cut it on a Movieola... Hey, he's got a great editor. Michael Kahn can cut faster on a Movieola than anybody can cut on an Avid. And I don't really care."
So where do things stand now? A high-level production source has confirmed for IGN FilmForce that, as was previously reported , Spielberg is indeed taking a year off, despite all the recent progress on the Indy IV front. Script revisions will continue, as will development on the Oscar winner's long-planned Abraham Lincoln project. Hang in there, Indy fans!
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And now Lucas, of course, has his eye on another American classic: Indiana Jones. The fourth chapter in the film series, with Lucas producing and close pal Steven Spielberg directing, begins shooting in Los Angeles this June. Then it's on to several top-secret global destinations. Lucas teases that one will include a waterfall. Jokes have been made about how the franchise will keep 64-year-old star Harrison Ford up and running, but Lucas doesn't see that as a problem. "He's not running in any of the movies," Lucas says. "He's either on a horse or driving a car or a motorcycle. And he'll play his age in this movie with what's appropriate. The chases are more suspenseful than speedy. Like the rolling ball in the first film it's not that he's running that fast, it's that there's a giant ball coming at him. And he will get beat up, which is a tradition for us." Lucas, who also is in pre-production on a "bare-bones, action-heavy" Star Wars live-action TV series, says there'll still be plenty of action in "Indy 4," the official title of which he hopes to keep under wraps until the first trailer hits theaters around Thanksgiving. Sean Connery has yet to sign on as Indiana's father, Dr. Henry Jones, but Lucas says, "We're still trying." It wasn't his idea to cast Cate Blanchett as Ford's new leading lady, he says. "That's who my director wanted, and I always bow to the wishes of my director," Lucas says of Spielberg. "I approved it because she seemed like a good idea. When I met her at the Academy Awards, I told her, 'Hey, you work for me now!' "
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He also regularly heaps praise on President George W. Bush and his war on terror, including the invasion of Iraq. "There are at least four or five [officials in the Bush administration] who could hold their own against the Founding Fathers," he says. This is blasphemous speech in Europe and Hollywood alike.
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― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 13 April 2007 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Shia LaBeouf, one of the fastest-rising stars in the world of film, has now been set for the new Indiana Jones movie, it was announced today by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. He will join Harrison Ford who returns as the action hero, the man with the hat and the whip. ... It will be the third film the charismatic Shia has done with a Spielberg connection, the first two being the DreamWorks Pictures productions Disturbia and Transformers. "We are excited about bringing Shia into our Indy family," said Spielberg. "His talent has impressed not only his audiences throughout his young career but the directors, producers and fellow actors who have worked with him in his television career and now his film career." "I was hoping the rumors were true, so I couldn't be more thrilled," said Shia. "To be cast in an Indiana Jones film is like grabbing the brass ring and holding on for the ride. I'll do my best to meet the high standards that Steven, George, and Harrison have set and I can't wait to take that giant step in front of the Indy cameras."
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:22 (sixteen years ago) link
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― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
At least Kate Capshaw never transcends cartoon status, and -- unlike a lot of people here -- I grew to like her.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
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― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
unprepared to deal with Allen's brains and physicality, Raiders relegated her to a helpless yeller in the last two-thirds
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― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 16 April 2007 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Connery's out, of his own volition. Ray Winstone and John Hurt are in.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 June 2007 07:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Indiana Jones & The Nice Sit Down
― blueski, Friday, 22 June 2007 12:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Odds on Indiana Jones searching for something in Argentina and running into Nazi escapees?
― milo z, Friday, 22 June 2007 12:34 (sixteen years ago) link
this one allegedly has an aliens/ancient astronauts angle. up my alley!
― latebloomer, Friday, 22 June 2007 12:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Pred ship.
― Oilyrags, Friday, 22 June 2007 13:01 (sixteen years ago) link
apparently they're filming in new haven
http://www.indianajones.com/community/news/news20070621.html http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367882/locations http://www.infonewhaven.com/72848
― gabbneb, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I had an Indiana Jones Choose Your Own Adventure book in which he fought Dracula, and I've always been secretly hoping they'd do a film of that.
― chap, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
indiana jones and the female eunuch
-- s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, March 17, 2006 5:40 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link
― and what, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Indiana Jones and the Chariots of the Gods?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link
http://justjared.buzznet.com/2007/06/29/shia-labeouf-pompadour/
― kingfish, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 02:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I haven't read the whole thread, but I might be going to see the "Adaptation" that a bunch of teens did over 6 years in the 80s, a scene by scene remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
I am downloading the original now though because I barely remember it!
― Casuistry, Thursday, 5 July 2007 01:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmmm... I wondered why I hadn't posted on this thread yet. Anyway, Raiders means more to me than all the Star Wars movies combined.
Anyone else remember that script that was kicking around the net with Indiana Jones going after Noah's Ark in the early Cold War? Evil Soviets, etc.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 5 July 2007 02:13 (sixteen years ago) link
chris i'm going to that on friday for sure (i work at the place showing it actually)
― impudent harlot, Thursday, 5 July 2007 03:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay, so based on that link Kingfish provided, this is Indiana Jones and the Casting of "Rebel Without a Cause".
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 July 2007 05:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Fuck, those pictures are sad looking.
― Dan I., Thursday, 5 July 2007 07:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm going Saturday. Cause I have a thing Friday.
― Casuistry, Thursday, 5 July 2007 11:30 (sixteen years ago) link
It sold out! I can't believe I sat through Raiders this morning for NOTHING. Sheesh.
― Casuistry, Sunday, 8 July 2007 05:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Princeton, Hawaii, and either Arizona/New Mexico are the only other American locations I remember hearing about. They shoot in England and...some place in E. Europe I believe.
― Cunga, Monday, 9 July 2007 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Filming Locations from IMDB
Deming, New Mexico, USA Hamakua Coast, Hawaii, USA Hilo, Hawai`i, Hawaii, USA Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Los Angeles, California, USA New Haven, Connecticut, USA Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico
― gabbneb, Monday, 9 July 2007 19:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Indianapolis Jones and the Last 500
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 July 2007 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I never knew ih worked at AFA!
That Adaptation looks like a cute idea, for about 10 minutes.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Random press conference hoohah:
The action star, who first introduced the fedora-wearing, bullwhip-cracking Indiana Jones in the 1981 classic "Raiders of the Lost Ark," is actually doing many of his own stunts in the latest film."He's doing them, he just has a few more ice packs and a few more massages," Kennedy said."And a lot of Celebrex," producer Frank Marshall added....The film's biggest action sequences are being filmed in Hawaii. Marshall compared one scene to the thrilling, white-knuckled truck chase in the desert in "Raiders.""It's that level," he said.
"He's doing them, he just has a few more ice packs and a few more massages," Kennedy said.
"And a lot of Celebrex," producer Frank Marshall added.
...
The film's biggest action sequences are being filmed in Hawaii. Marshall compared one scene to the thrilling, white-knuckled truck chase in the desert in "Raiders."
"It's that level," he said.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 July 2007 07:07 (sixteen years ago) link
what is it about this character, and this star? people will give ford as indy a free pass forever. some special kind of feeling attaches to indiana jones. here is something, one thinks, that is on a higher plane, something that is in its own category. here is old-fashioned adventure and thrills to remind us of our better nature - etc etc. - all this for a rehash of every radio adventure drama ever! how do they do it?
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 15 July 2007 10:16 (sixteen years ago) link
charisma
― sexyDancer, Monday, 16 July 2007 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
harrison ford as indy in raiders is like the definition of an iconic performance. I like how we go from smart, fairly well-prepared but overly trusting Indy in the beginning sequence to daniel boone seat-of-the-pants I'm Going To Chase That Truck Indy, it's like karen allen turns off his brain. That would probably happen to me too. Also explains why jeff bridges talks like that in starman.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 16 July 2007 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
LEGO INDIANA JONES! comes out next summer!
― kingfish, Saturday, 28 July 2007 07:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Karen Allen, still hot.
http://www.indianajones.com/site/media/photos/large/070727-photo.jpg http://www.indianajones.com/site/media/photos/large/070726-photo.jpg
― Roz, Saturday, 28 July 2007 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
And still the only Indy-chick with any chemistry with the lead.
― Oilyrags, Saturday, 28 July 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmm, ray winstone as the sidekick
― kingfish, Saturday, 28 July 2007 15:39 (sixteen years ago) link
According to the press releases, there's going to be a full line of Lego & Hasbro toys. WHERE ARE THE LEGO NAZIS
― kingfish, Saturday, 28 July 2007 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
those karen allen pictures make me really happy!!
― s1ocki, Saturday, 28 July 2007 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Best screen Nazi ever?
http://www.lipservice.co.uk/images/artists/140.jpg
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 28 July 2007 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i love karen allen.
― hstencil, Saturday, 28 July 2007 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
WAU SHE LOOKS GRATE!
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Saturday, 28 July 2007 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
http://gothamist.com/attachments/arts_cinecultist/2006_12_arts_annie.jpg
VS.
http://www.indianajones.com/site/media/photos/large/070726-photo.jpg
La di da.
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Saturday, 28 July 2007 17:05 (sixteen years ago) link
oh there's no doubt about whether i'm seeing this now
― gabbneb, Saturday, 28 July 2007 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Karen Allen was sitting next to me while I was eating dinner at Chateau Marmont the other night. She seemed nice and had a David Mamet book.
― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 28 July 2007 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
A little more from Karen Allen:
In July, she was on location — she can't say where — for three weeks. She will return — she can't say where — in two weeks for a longer stint, through October. Meanwhile, she has been getting buffed up in the gym with daily workouts. "You want to get in shape for all kinds of reasons: You want to look good, and it's physically demanding, and you need stamina and energy," said Allen, 55, who has practiced yoga for years. "I put my iPod on and boogie." Asked about her new/old role as Marion Ravenwood (whose bar, "The Raven," burned down in a prior episode), she still can't comment much. "It's an action-adventure role, because that's really the nature of these films. They are shot-out-of-a-cannon kinds of films — there is a lot going on from the moment it starts until the moment it ends," she said.
In July, she was on location — she can't say where — for three weeks. She will return — she can't say where — in two weeks for a longer stint, through October.
Meanwhile, she has been getting buffed up in the gym with daily workouts.
"You want to get in shape for all kinds of reasons: You want to look good, and it's physically demanding, and you need stamina and energy," said Allen, 55, who has practiced yoga for years. "I put my iPod on and boogie."
Asked about her new/old role as Marion Ravenwood (whose bar, "The Raven," burned down in a prior episode), she still can't comment much.
"It's an action-adventure role, because that's really the nature of these films. They are shot-out-of-a-cannon kinds of films — there is a lot going on from the moment it starts until the moment it ends," she said.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 August 2007 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
what has she been doing post-Indy?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 9 August 2007 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
What, you never saw Starman? The full article also says:
Allen, a veteran of 35 films, including "Animal House," "A Perfect Storm" and "Starman," now owns Karen Allen Fiber Arts, a Great Barrington business that produces and sells cashmere knitwear and accessories. She keeps in the movie business as her life permits.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 August 2007 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
haha the raven
― ghost rider, Thursday, 9 August 2007 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Forgot about Starman. Yeah, she's always seemed amazingly self-possessed.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 9 August 2007 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link
she was awesome in scrooged too... SWOON.
― stevie, Thursday, 9 August 2007 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link
inclusion of Karen Allen actually kinda makes me wanna see this
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 9 August 2007 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
oh hell yeah
http://www.yorkshiresoul.org/harrisonford.jpg
― kenan, Thursday, 9 August 2007 18:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Lucas, 63, has registered six possible titles with the MPAA one of which will eventually be the long awaited movies title.
The proposed titles are:-
- Indiana Jones & the City of Gods - Indiana Jones & the Destroyer of Worlds - Indiana Jones & the Fourth Corner of the Earth - Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Indiana Jones & the Lost City of Gold - Indiana Jones & the Quest for the Covenant
― DavidM, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 10:34 (sixteen years ago) link
- Indiana Jones & the Destroyer of Worlds
"Indy, set off the A-bomb, quick!"
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 10:55 (sixteen years ago) link
knowing lucas it's going to be the gaudiest, most ungainly title of the bunch
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 11:01 (sixteen years ago) link
aka indiana jones and the stany walrus of justice
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 11:02 (sixteen years ago) link
*stanky
aka LATEBLOOMER AND THE BOTCHED SHITTY HA-HA
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 11:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Today on the 31 DAYS OF SPIELBERG blog, the class of the bunch:
http://damianarlyn.blogspot.com/2007/08/day-13-indiana-jones-and-temple-of-doom.html
As for why Lucas was pushing for a much darker, stronger tone to this movie (with strong, graphic violence and a narrative involving black magic, torture and slavery), he was going through a divorce at the time and has said that he just simply “wasn’t in a very good mood.”
http://bp0.blogger.com/_wkpXQh0cBS0/RsElFBm1a-I/AAAAAAAACTg/7sqz-si-hxI/s1600-h/003.jpg
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 13:20 (sixteen years ago) link
God, Karen Allen looks good for 55.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 13:34 (sixteen years ago) link
agreed, fabulous
― Ste, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link
It's official, as everyone suffering through the VMAs saw:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:00 (sixteen years ago) link
So now we know why Damien Hirst made this:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/images/2007/06/01/hirstskullgetty.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:02 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.vintages.com/media_common/spotlights_images/sp2/champagne-cristal.jpg
― milo z, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Hooray!
Here's Wikipedia on the actual crystal skull phenomenon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_skull
So go nuts.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Don't forget the last Mastodon record. Here's the relevant excerpt from the decibel interview:
"My original idea was that getting to the top of Blood Mountain and obtaining the crystal skull, you would put the crystal skull inside your own head and eliminate the reptile brain, the primitive brain that turns you into a wild beast or brings out that evil in you. Like, for example, when you’ve drank a lot of alcohol,” he laughs."
― Jeff Treppel, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay, now you have me imagining Mastodon doing the Indy theme in my head. And this is not a bad thing.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Finally, two of my loves intersect!
― Jeff Treppel, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:12 (sixteen years ago) link
DUN-DAH-DUN-DUN DUN-DUN-DAAAAAAAH
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:14 (sixteen years ago) link
(I actually have a bad ass Indiana Jones and the Temple of doom poster framed on my wall. My least favorite of the films, but the poster is cool. I am going to see if I can dig it up. Be back in a sec.)
― Jeff Treppel, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:15 (sixteen years ago) link
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/153/501840~Indiana-Jones-and-The-Temple-of-Doom-Posters.jpg
― Jeff Treppel, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:17 (sixteen years ago) link
WAHT
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I take it you mean the title and not Jeff's poster (which is indeed great, I still remember seeing that one at movie theaters and getting impatient for it).
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:20 (sixteen years ago) link
exactly. there is no question that the sword represents his cock
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Dun-dah-dun-dun
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Machete, technically. It's a machete that represents his cock.
― Jeff Treppel, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:25 (sixteen years ago) link
whatever it is it makes the vadge look like that limply hanging whip when he's done
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, so the whip represents his good-natured affability I suppose?
― Oilyrags, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:29 (sixteen years ago) link
no. see previous post.
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Indiana Jones and the Secrets of Dr. Freud
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:31 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.indianajones.com/site/index.html
aaaaaand the new title is released
― kingfish, Monday, 10 September 2007 06:33 (sixteen years ago) link
duh, i are late. oh well
― kingfish, Monday, 10 September 2007 06:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Indiana Jones and the Tomb Studio Robbers
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 03:48 (sixteen years ago) link
John Hurt, the new ungrateful Alec Guinness:
"I enjoyed working with Steven hugely, and we had a great cast. I just wish we'd had something of fabulous interest between each other to act!"
"George is a bit socially crippled, really. Not good with people. So I just left him alone."
http://www.premiere.com/features/4335/q-a-exclusive-john-hurt-on-indiana-jones-and-the-kingdom-of-the-crystal-skull.html
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 20 December 2007 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
We looked into it and there were various things about it — like the time I had to be on set — where I thought, "No, this isn't going to work out." But then I was advised by everybody that it'd be a good thing to do.
― gabbneb, Thursday, 20 December 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I said, "Well, I need to have a little bit of previous knowledge even if God is doing it." So they sent a courier over with the script from Los Angeles, gave it to me at three o'clock in the afternoon in London, collected it again at eight o'clock in the evening, and he returned the next day to Los Angeles. So that was an expensive read.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 20 December 2007 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Great short interview in any event. Hurt should write an autobiography if he hasn't already!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 December 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
http://io9.com/345132/first-look-at-indiana-jones-in-the-cobwebby-alien-dungeon
― kingfish, Friday, 18 January 2008 06:19 (sixteen years ago) link
"If I burn this giant sage smudge-stick, it should dispel all the evil spirits."
― Oilyrags, Friday, 18 January 2008 12:29 (sixteen years ago) link
is that the ghost of Ray Winston appearing in the second pic?
― Ste, Friday, 18 January 2008 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Indy doesn't look very rough and ready in this shot, his trousers are far too clean for a start.
― Ste, Friday, 18 January 2008 14:05 (sixteen years ago) link
intrsting!
http://mysterymanonfilm.blogspot.com/2009/03/raiders-story-conference.html
― i'm grand like auto theft 3 (Jordan), Thursday, 19 March 2009 16:09 (fifteen years ago) link
wtf lucas.
George Lucas — I was thinking that this old guy could have been his mentor. He could have known this little girl when she was just a kid. Had an affair with her when she was eleven.
Lawrence Kasdan — And he was forty-two.
G — He hasn't seen her in twelve years. Now she's twenty-two. It's a real strange relationship.
Steven Spielberg — She had better be older than twenty-two.
G — He's thirty-five, and he knew her ten years ago when he was twenty-five and she was only twelve. It would be amusing to make her slightly young at the time.
S — And promiscuous. She came onto him.
G — Fifteen is right on the edge. I know it's an outrageous idea, but it is interesting. Once she's sixteen or seventeen it's not interesting anymore. But if she was fifteen and he was twenty-five and they actually had an affair the last time they met. And she was madly in love with him and he...
S — She has pictures of him.
― i'm grand like auto theft 3 (Jordan), Thursday, 19 March 2009 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
okay George Lucas is a big NO
― Wes HI DEREson (HI DERE), Thursday, 19 March 2009 17:05 (fifteen years ago) link
You know, I just watched "Temple of Doom" again for the first time in ages, and I was wondering: if the Thugees can hypnotize people with their magic blood and have voodoo dolls that work, and if the sacred stones glow during their sacrifice ceremonies ... then doesn't that legitimize their evil supernatural magic power, and sort of imply it's the villagers who are misusing this magic, intrinsically evil power?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
The metaphysics of the Indiana Jones movies is very perplexing
― Large Sack (Empty) (latebloomer), Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2012/10/indiana-jones-the-complete-adventures.html
If there is a better piece of writing on these films, I haven't read it.
― this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 03:38 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't know until yesterday that Temple of Doom was a prequel.
The part of my personality that's still eleven years old thinks that's big news and wants to talk to people about this.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
also the part of me that thinks the coolest part about Blade Runner is the "is he an android?" discussion and the part of me that desperately wants to know if Bond is one man or five different guys who go by the same code name James Bond.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
Dun dah dun dun
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 23:44 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah wow that last article is intense. I never realized what a horrible person Indiana Jones is.
Of course, he's a cartoon though!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 10 January 2013 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
Does anyone else feel any poignancy in the Belloq/Marion relationship, culminating in his upset at her being tossed into the snake pit with Indy, or have I just watched Raiders so many times at this point that now I'm only looking for new things?
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Saturday, 3 August 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link
saw Temple Of Doom around midnight on an *actual cinema* at a festival last week at very loud volume with a whooping, cheering crowd. it's scarier than i recall! the bit where they force him to drink from a skull in the Temple and all that stuff.. real intense. i'm surprised there wasn't much more of a fuss made back in the day about the horror aspect of a kids film, being as it was a PG over here. maybe there was a fuss made and i forget?
― piscesx, Saturday, 3 August 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
Well, it (and Gremlins) started the PG-13 rating.
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Saturday, 3 August 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, there was total fuss.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 3 August 2013 20:44 (ten years ago) link
Welp.
http://variety.com/2013/film/news/disney-acquires-indiana-jones-rights-from-paramount-1200927216/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 December 2013 23:34 (ten years ago) link
How long til this gets handed over to J.J. Abrams?
― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Saturday, 7 December 2013 00:15 (ten years ago) link
This is much worst news than Star Wars IMO.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 7 December 2013 00:24 (ten years ago) link
agreed, either they keep making them w/ harrison ford which plz no or they start making them w/o harrison ford which god fucking no.
― balls, Saturday, 7 December 2013 02:24 (ten years ago) link
Oh, come on, isn't the answer obvious? http://img2-2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080521/shia_l.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 7 December 2013 02:34 (ten years ago) link
― balls, Saturday, December 7, 2013 2:24 AM (1 hour ago)
Well if they were to come up with a really really good screenplay for one more film then obviously I wouldn't be complaining, but how likely is that to happen. Indiana Jones without Ford and Spielberg would not be Indiana Jones.
If they do spin-off films with his kid that wouldn't really bother me.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 7 December 2013 03:45 (ten years ago) link
Me neither, cause then I'd have absolutely zero reason to see them.
― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Saturday, 7 December 2013 04:18 (ten years ago) link
christ this reminds me i saw Temple.. at a festival in summer with a VERY loud sound system and fuck me some bits of it are as good as terrifying.
― piscesx, Saturday, 7 December 2013 05:36 (ten years ago) link