Which of the Indiana Jones sequels is the best?

It's just distracting, since the FX of the first two, especially along those lines, are pretty solid. Morbs, maybe you know: why did the look of late 80s Hollywood look so bad? Makeup, lighting, etc. Sort of ... greasy and sweaty? Film stock? Drugs?

Made for VHS

Some shonky effects in Temple of Doom as well.

mine car dummy shots are hilar

what are the bad FX in the last crusade? that zeppelin scene?
actually really enjoyed the last crusade when i watched it last year (plenty of nostalgia there, of course, but it was pleasant to revisit)

Last Crusade has the best screenplay of the original three, lots of really witty dialogue and the father/son relationship is very well drawn, but I prefer the other two anyway.

Oh, tons of fun. But basically any vehicle chases. Cars, boats, planes, blimps, trains, etc. Plus blades, animals on the circus train. Pretty frequent.

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Relevant list? [huge]
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What is that measuring?

I've grown to love Raiders slightly more, but Last Crusade was my definitive Indy movie as a kid, since it was the only one of the original three I saw in theatres. I had watched the hell outta the first two on cable/VHS, so that by the time LC was released, it had been built up into a major Event in my life (if my family didn't go on opening night, we definitely went opening weekend), and it didn't disappoint.

I really do think that the Indy movies were my Star Wars, which always felt more like my older cousins' thing (I remember them being super pumped to go see Jedi when it was released and me being told I was too young to go) and, even if I do like them as films (talking about the original trilogy, of course), I never fully embraced or cared about to the degree of seemingly every other male born after 1964 or thereabouts.

don't know much about the 'look' of late '80s Hollywood product (except i generally prefer film to DCP, of course).

BBC showed all four over Easter.

I thought TEMPLE OF DOOM would be worth trying again. Sadly I was wrong - it was actually worse than I remembered. A film they wouldn't make now, and on this occasion that's a good thing.

KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL I saw for the first time. Remarkably bad. Sad that something that started so terrifically was reduced to this. I ended up wondering what had happened to basic action storytelling from c.1981 to 2008 - such a decline.

I didn't watch the other two, which I'm surer than ever are the best.

I ended up wondering what had happened to basic action storytelling from c.1981 to 2008

Crystal Skull has a good first 40 minutes or so - it only starts to go downhill after LaBeouf turns up

no the only good bit is when the communists encounter the aliens and afterwards, all the indiana stuff is rubbish as always

hoping something similar happens towards the end of CHERNOBYL (2019)

raiders
crusade

temple

skulls

formatting ate the six pages of a gap i put in before skulls

formatting recognises they're all bad

i think this is the longest i've seen an indie thread go without a defense of temple of doom

i was gonna but look who needs the beasting

In a thousand years even Temple of Doom may be worth something

my favorite of the four

One part that made me laugh on last rewatching Raiders was the map room scene, where this elaborate set of clues has to be followed in order to… point at the central building on the map?

and the nazis were digging in the wrong place because.. the staff they were using was too short. but why was it too short? i must have missed that during the basket carrying caper.

annoying that marian's genius, signposted escape-via-drinking-game plan just totally.. came to nothing

Belloq's staff was too long!

too long? surely that cuts against a few national stereotypes

It's revealed a little later. The two sides of the medallion together give the right staff length, and the Nazis only had one side, the one that was burned into the Gestapo guy's hand.

aaand take back one kadam, to honor the Hebrew god whose ark this is

that scene with the imam is my favorite indy scene ever

Sallah bursting into Gilbert and Sullivan.

xp lol yeah, the take back one kadam guy is really great. We should do a poll of indiana jones characters with 5 lines or less

100% the monkey

snake

I loved Dietrich.

"M'sieu? I am...uncomfortable with this...Jewish ritual."

"LOVE YOU" girl

You can hear a few muffled comments from the class as they're filing out.

"He's just off today, must be all that travel."

"Every time I see him he looks more like [something something]"

LOVE YOU girl rules

... and his reaction! ‘Flustered’ I guess.

... and his reaction! ‘Flustered’ I guess.

... and his reaction! ‘Flustered’ I guess.

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I rewatched last year for the first time in decades and was v impressed with the presentation of the title, had no memory of that.

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― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, July 13, 2016 5:06 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Still can’t figure out what this is showing.

imdb score!

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (the “V-Ger” one) apparently scored so low it couldn’t even fit.

Watched TEMPLE OF DOOM last night for the first time in eons. The kid was ready for it.

It's def a good one. I think now I'd probably rank it as the second-best Indy flick, just due to the sheer pacing of the thing (it's a vv fast two hours), with a classic opening leading cleanly into the main storyline without pausing, and a sense of genuine foreboding leading up to the palace sequence. I think it's a relatively *distant* second to Raiders, but that doesn't mean this isn't classic.

The gore isn't that bad here, you take away the sacrifice sequence and there's no much onscreen grisliness. But the tone and atmosphere makes it feel worse. Even the brief scene of Indy going into the black sleep or w/e has a disturbing feel, not to mention the forced blood drinking/voodoo doll torture/whipping scene immediately preceding it. It's crazy that it's not inconceivable a lot of this might get it an R today, forget a PG-13.

Kate Capshaw, not bad. She can be grating sure, but she frequently just simply looks amazing and she plays well off Harrison Ford. A bit of Melinda Dillon in her appearance I think?

Ke Huy Quan is really terrific here, it's a genuinely really fine performance which is funny but somehow doesn't descend into him being an annoying sidekick. It could have been so easy, but he can be very funny and even moving.