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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 (6 years ago) Permalink

jesus christ alfred

― s1ocki, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

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

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

karen allen is a total badass in raiders

― s1ocki, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:56 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

jesus christ alfred

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

― ghost rider, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

mmm chilled monkey branez

― latebloomer, Monday, 16 April 2007 00:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

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

― chap, Monday, 16 April 2007 00:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

opening credit sequence does not a film make.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 16 April 2007 19:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

ugh once the opening sequence ends Capshaw becomes totally unbearable

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

jesus christ alfred

-- s1ocki

-- ghost rider

― rps, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

Her screams are nuanced.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

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

fixed

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:24 (6 years ago) Permalink

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

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

Uma Thurman vs. Kate Capshaw

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:31 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

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

― nickalicious, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

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

― The Yellow Kid, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

jesus christ alfred

-- s1ocki

-- ghost rider

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

― deeznuts, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

Consensus is a marvelous thing.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

well, i do comedy! just not ZINGS.

who's this rps TROLL?

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

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

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 16 April 2007 21:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

rps = Ozzie Guillen

― milo z, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

I wish my mom hated The Shawshank Redemption!

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

Intention has nothing to do with it. I kinda wish my remarks were more like "a parody of Pauline Kael writing a Merv Griffin-esque `guide to film' though.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

Pauline Kael otm re Indy

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:24 (6 years ago) Permalink

i kind of wish your remarks were more like that too!

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 16 April 2007 21:24 (6 years ago) Permalink

i am dusty baker

― rps, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

hell, i wish MY remarks were more like that!

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 16 April 2007 21:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Connery's out, of his own volition. Ray Winstone and John Hurt are in.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 June 2007 07:57 (5 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Indiana Jones & The Nice Sit Down

― blueski, Friday, 22 June 2007 12:33 (5 years ago) Permalink

Odds on Indiana Jones searching for something in Argentina and running into Nazi escapees?

― milo z, Friday, 22 June 2007 12:34 (5 years ago) Permalink

this one allegedly has an aliens/ancient astronauts angle. up my alley!

― latebloomer, Friday, 22 June 2007 12:57 (5 years ago) Permalink

Pred ship.

― Oilyrags, Friday, 22 June 2007 13:01 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

Indiana Jones and the Chariots of the Gods?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:11 (5 years ago) Permalink

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