Which of the Indiana Jones sequels is the best?

Which I only saw Crystal Skull once too, so they're basically equal.

xpost lol

Not shallops if it's true.

challops is often true. still challops.

wrong thread! Sorry.

I want to rail against the kind of mindset that can go:

Raiders: Classic
Crusade: Awesome
Doom & Crystal Skull: Dumbness

But I figure I lack credibility.

i mean there's not a HUGE gulf of quality (certainly not of intelligence) between Crusade and Doom, their respective best moments are probably comparable, but one has a lot more dragging it down than the other imo. and of course Crystal Skull is worthless, c'mon man.

agree. while i love raiders, like temple of doom, and think the last crusade is just okay, it seems to me that they're all well-made adventure movies. what causes me to pick one over another has more to do with the vagaries of my particular taste than with any sense of progressive deterioration in real quality.

the crystal skull is another matter entirely. that one's like watching used toilet paper.

24 sheets per second.

Fair or not, I def see preference between either Doom or Crusade as a telling character trait and don't much trust anyone who picks the latter's sense of humor.

what are the odds you even remember any of the jokes from Crusade after 20 years or whatever since the one time you saw it? Doom has some laughs but the Capshaw comic relief stuff is so painfully weak.

Indy was named after the dog. Ha.

i've flipped past Crystal Skull on USA or some similar station twice and it's always been the same nondescript scene. should watch it eventually just to be more informed. though nothing bothered me as much as the face-melting in raiders, temple just felt too gross on the whole when i was a kid, and even watching it recently it just felt kind of shrill and ugly.

eric likes making fun of asians and women

i remember being in the toy aisle of a walmart when Crystal Skulls came out and seeing the Laboof toys and learning his characters name, and ever since that day, before even seeing the movie, we'd forever yell "Mutt Williamss was the dog'sh name!" in a Connery voice

xpost No, I like movies to do it for me.

seriously, i'm saying you'll love it but you might as well take the pepsi challenge and watch Crusade again, if only to be less Morbsy in your attacks on it

though nothing bothered me as much as the face-melting in raiders, temple just felt too gross on the whole when i was a kid, and even watching it recently it just felt kind of shrill and ugly.

funny you should say that. i was 14 when i saw raiders and was a bit shocked by the face-melting. what's funny is that it wasn't so much that the scene disturbed me (i thought the effects was pretty cool), but rather that i thought such content might be "inappropriate" in a PG movie. i remember having a discussion w my mom about it afterwards. lol me, earnestly wringing my hands from an early age...

the heart-ripping in temple of doom was even more intense, imo. not so much the gore, which was pretty heavy duty, but the amped-up sadism of the whole scene, what with all the shrieking and cackling and flames and so on. that did get under my skin a little. it is a "shrill and ugly" movie. i can't deny that, but the manic nastiness gives it a real edge. it's like a carnival after dark: a little seedy and off kilter, but all the more thrilling for that.

Let's discuss this in terms of torture porn how about

I had to look away when they're eating the snakes in Temple.

Crystal Skull gets alot of shit, and it deserves it, but the aliens are like 10% of the problem. It really isn't a new Indiana Jones movie so much as a greatest hits album where all the songs have been re-recorded and the one new shitty track they added is longer than the rest of the album.

i wonder if pg-13 would have ever happened if not for spielberg

i don't think it would have. that's the CW, anyway. i remember the stir that poltergeist, gremlins and the temple of doom caused. not only were they pushing hard at the moment's boundaries with regard to violent, gory content, they were doing so in movies aimed explicitly at a grade-school audience. compared to raiders of the lost ark, temple of doom comes on like a kid's flick, with gaudy colors, cartoonish action and pacing, grossout gags and a preteen co-star. i remember reading speculation about the academy's apparent unwillingness to really challenge spielberg on these movies, and arguments in favor of the creation of a new rating suddenly sprang up everywhere.

it's just funny that this rating that pretty much every blockbuster has now was created just to deal with one guy's work

And now there are, like, three PG movies released every year.

Temple. Duh.

Give Spielberg this: in two movies more than 25 years apart he finds time to treat Karen Allen like shit twice. Remarkable consistency.

it is happening again

Why doesn't Indiana Jones rip out Kate Capshaw's heart during the ceremony? That always confused me.

I want Lucas to insert Morbs in "Temple of Doom," ripping out everyone's heart.

That's what ilx is for.

Morbla Ram

He betrayed Shiva Mo Collier.

The Rolling Stones are mine, Dr. Jones!

http://media.filmschoolrejects.com/images/raiders_boulder.jpg

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stone!

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i can do a pretty mean sean conz just sayin guys

also the hitler autograph joke is p funny

i kinda think the first 30 mins of TOD is as good/better than anything else in the series, but the rest is pretty bad

"No ticket"

Superman II, The Empire Strikes Back, Aliens, Bride of -- leagues better than their predecessors.

― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, June 5, 2012 8:52 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Superman I is more majestic. Superman II is more fun and enjoyable but it's also more stupid and tacky.

http://media.filmschoolrejects.com/images/doom_bridge.jpg
Further evidence.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, June 6, 2012 2:36 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

unfortunately no other shot in the movie is this good.

needs General Zod blowing the bridge with eye lasers

add 'Lover of SMART Superman Movies' to Matt Armstrong's CV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdNwaa7w3q8

That I think of "Anything Goes" as the high point of the whole series might mean I'm not riding the same wavelength as Spielberg-Lucas.

i remember the dinner scene in Temple being a word-or-mouth playground legend among elementary school kids before a lot of us got the chance to actually see the movie.

"I had bugs for lunch."

Seeing Temple of Doom in the cinema aged six was the most exciting experience of my life to date.

I used to "kali ma" my little sister when she annoyed me, she'd run away crying, lol

Kali maaaa... SHUTI DE

USA was running a marathon of all 4 movies today, was intermittently tuning into them w/ family members and mentioned that i'd encountered someone really adamant that Temple is better than Last Crusade and everyone was bewildered by the notion