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the more like Temple of Doom, the better (ie, I'm worried).

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

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.

Does anyone in Europe know shit about American founding fathers?

― JW, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

"It's not a question of the decency of Muslims," he says, many of whom he admires and respects. "My best friend is a Muslim, really. He's a great guy, not at all like others."

― milo z, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I wish I hadn't read that. Now I think Sallah's a dick. That's no good.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 13 April 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

You don't think he's getting Muslims and Orcs confused, do you?

― chap, Friday, 13 April 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

no way am I paying money to see this

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 13 April 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Ethan was right about 'the hip new younger character,' I'll bet:

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."

This wasn't the guy with the Strokes shirt, was it?

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

This is the second time I read about him today (Spielberg praising him in Disturbia was the first). What's with Steven's boy-crush?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

http://media.justjared.com/headlines/2006/09/shia-labeouf-interview-magazine.jpg

"I...am...a sen-si-tive artist..."

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I hope John Rhys Davies *is* in the film so he can make all kinds of 'wacky' jokes on set by calling him 'Sunni' or something. "Ha! I get them all confused!" "Yeah, thanks John..."

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

he's really not that bad in Disturbia

― latebloomer, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Harrison Ford, i mean. the cgi technology used to transform into a teenage girl is amazing

― latebloomer, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

what the fuck am i trying to do there? yeesh

― latebloomer, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I watched Raiders endlessly in 1985; it was the first videotape my parents owned, bought at the ridiculously low price of $49.95 at the local Specs Records & Tapes.

Funny -- Temple of Doom is way more thrills-a-second than Raiders, but these days I think it's the better film. The intimations of sexuality in the early film (Karen Allen's girlhood affair with Indie) are gone, and it's an improvement: unprepared to deal with Allen's brains and physicality, Raiders relegated her to a helpless yeller in the last two-thirds. At least Kate Capshaw never transcends cartoon status, and -- unlike a lot of people here -- I grew to like her.

Essentially, despite lacking a set piece as spectacular as the Ark blasting Sith lightning at Nazi forces, Temple of Doom honors its Saturday-afternoon-matinee source material to greater effect and more lasting enjoyment.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

At least Kate Capshaw never transcends cartoon status, and -- unlike a lot of people here -- I grew to like her.

Yeesh. You stand alone indeed!

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

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.

A legitimate criticism, yeah. He disappears for like 40 minutes! Once again, his character has shadings -- is he a "true believer" in Kali or a con man? -- that Spielberg has no time to explore.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

jesus christ alfred

― s1ocki, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

As for Short Round...well, couldn't Spielberg have used the monkey from Raiders instead?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

unprepared to deal with Allen's brains and physicality, Raiders relegated her to a helpless yeller in the last two-thirds

Raiders scene that completely undercuts this argument: the sequence on the boat in the bedroom. "Where *doesn't* it hurt?" "HERE!" Etc.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

karen allen is a total badass in raiders

― s1ocki, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Raiders scene that completely undercuts this argument: the sequence on the boat in the bedroom. "Where *doesn't* it hurt?" "HERE!" Etc

Not completely; it's a valedictory (although I like her "well, GODDAMN IT, Indy, where DOESN'T it hurt?")

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

jesus christ alfred

-- s1ocki, Sunday, April 15, 2007 5:47 PM (45 minutes ago)

― ghost rider, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I will always have massive love for Temple of Doom - first film I can remember seeing in the cinema (I would have been six), and as an immaculately crafted, unusually atmospheric live action cartoon it's just about perfect.

― chap, Sunday, 15 April 2007 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Temple of Doom is one of the few films in which the hoary conviction of bargaining with the villain utterly fails.

JONES: You want the stones? Let her go!

MOLO RAM: Drop them, Dr. Jones. They will be found. YOU won't! (evil cackle)

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 15 April 2007 23:34 (seventeen years ago) link

mmm chilled monkey branez

― latebloomer, Monday, 16 April 2007 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Mola Ram... Prepare to meet Kali... IN HELL!

― chap, Monday, 16 April 2007 00:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I also like Kate Capshaw, as Ned well knows. Karen Allen didn't sing no fuckin Cole Porter tune in Mandarin.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link

opening credit sequence does not a film make.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 16 April 2007 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link

ugh once the opening sequence ends Capshaw becomes totally unbearable

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

jesus christ alfred

-- s1ocki

-- ghost rider

― rps, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Her screams are nuanced.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

The female characters in Spielberg's films are often emotionally retarded imbeciles - see Catch Me If You Can for a film which has a very low opinion of women indeed.

― chap, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

The ~~female~~ characters in Spielberg's films are often emotionally retarded imbeciles

fixed

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

someday he will be as deep and loving a portrayer of da gals as Grindhouse Spazzantino

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Uma Thurman vs. Kate Capshaw

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Lucas, who also is in pre-production on a "bare-bones, action-heavy" Star Wars live-action TV series

NO

― nickalicious, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

He's just jealous he didn't think of Firefly first.

― nickalicious, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I also like Kate Capshaw, as Ned well knows. Karen Allen didn't sing no fuckin Cole Porter tune in Mandarin.

to her enormous credit

― gabbneb, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

jesus, morbius, you really gotta drop the tarantino bugaboo, i mean seriously do you honestly think there are that many enamored quentin fans out there or something??

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 16 April 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

no, they are just overrepresented here, along with S_____n S______g loathers.

Anyway, how do they make a '30s serial parody set in the postwar era? Oh riiiight, Rear Window for Teens was just #1 at the box office, so it don't matter.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't care what you say, Steven Soderberg sucks.

― The Yellow Kid, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

jesus christ alfred

-- s1ocki

-- ghost rider

-- rps, Monday, April 16, 2007 2:16 PM (1 hour ago)

― deeznuts, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Consensus is a marvelous thing.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

morbius, the point that i'm making is that i don't think one of those groups is overrepresented here so it just gets to be more and more comedy the more you bring that dude up out of the blue in unrelated arguments. you're right, spielberg dissidents are more prevalent here than in general society, though.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 16 April 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I loooooooooooooooooove the White Sox.

-- David R

more than you loooooooooove Grindhouse? (prepare for 9 innings of grief)

-- Dr Morbius,

― rps, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

People who hate The Shawshank Redemption are more prevalent here than in general society, too. How's Morbs feel about that?

― milo z, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

apparently people who rate the blob above all over steve mcqueen movies are more prevalent here! it's a mysterious world.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 16 April 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Alfred, do you intend to sound like a parody of Jonathan Rosenbaum writing a Leonard Maltin-esque 'guide to film'?

― milo z, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

well, i do comedy! just not ZINGS.

who's this rps TROLL?

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

apparently someone who doesn't enjoy your posts about the white sox.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 16 April 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

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