LOVE YOU girl rules
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 00:44 (four years ago) link
... and his reaction! ‘Flustered’ I guess.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 12:12 (four years ago) link
https://aveleyman.com/Gallery/Titles/t9435.jpg
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 16:46 (three years ago) link
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.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 16:56 (three years ago) link
xpost: weird it got compressed, maybe this works:https://i.redd.it/epub0ba5st8x.png
― 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.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link
imdb score!
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 19:15 (three years ago) link
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (the “V-Ger” one) apparently scored so low it couldn’t even fit.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 19:18 (three years ago) link
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.
― omar little, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 22:06 (one year ago) link
I probably need to rewatch it. I saw it when it was first released and was appalled.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 22:11 (one year ago) link
Genuinely not sure it’s worth the effort or credibility hit it takes to defend DOOM anymore … but its still the only Indy I ever have any desire to rewatch, in parts or in full
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 00:01 (one year ago) link
Eric and omar otm
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 00:07 (one year ago) link
The second is the best and Kate Capeshaw is one of my favorite post-screwball screwballs ("Ohh I broke a nail...").
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, June 5, 2012
I'll defend her for playing a cartoon character with totally committed cartoonishness...yet she also imbues a couple lines with unexpected pathos, i.e. explaining how her grandpa was beloved by kids for his magic tricks but died "a very poor man."
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 00:10 (one year ago) link
Short Round would need to ascend to annoying sidekick
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 22:09 (one year ago) link
I was told I have a very loud voice after a screening of this in a local beer theater. I shouldn’t have said “oh shit, here come the white people to save them!” so loudly at the end
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 23:16 (one year ago) link
I always remember Last Crusade getting a lot of (revisionist?) criticism for Last Crusade and what Jeffrey Boam et al did to the characters, but other than making both Brody and Sallah into more comic relief characters(when a lot of their screen time in the first one was to underline the gravitas of the situation), I can’t see it.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 23:18 (one year ago) link
Last Crusade is the worst, most bloodless, and most worthless thing Spielberg was ever associated with. Including The Goonies
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Thursday, 27 April 2023 03:27 (one year ago) link
Last Crusade was terrible, there are two good Indiana Jones films only, the whole "explaining the hat / explaining the snakes" bit was terrible and unnecessary and created a terrible backstory-explaining precedent that was ultimately responsible for midichlorians and Prometheus
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Thursday, 27 April 2023 05:12 (one year ago) link
Doom revisionism baffling af itt
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 27 April 2023 05:18 (one year ago) link
Last Crusade has plenty of fun set pieces to make the River Phoenix intro and "lol Indy and his dad banged the same Nazi!" forgivable IMO. (It was one of the first four grown-up movies I saw in a theater along with Field of Dreams and Hunt for Red October, my rose-colored glasses for all three will be forever undimmed. Also Star Trek V but I hated it even then.)
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 27 April 2023 06:29 (one year ago) link
Love Temple Of Doom yeah.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 27 April 2023 09:22 (one year ago) link
Goose-stepping morons such as yourself should try reading books instead of burning them!
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 April 2023 10:01 (one year ago) link
the best bit in the first one is how the ark death angels tidy up after themselves, now THAT'S what i call a secret weapon
― mark s, Thursday, 27 April 2023 10:31 (one year ago) link
not a bone in sight! It's like they're the workers who clean up airplanes as the passengers stagger offboard.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 April 2023 10:53 (one year ago) link
no wonder they're so vengeful
― mark s, Thursday, 27 April 2023 10:56 (one year ago) link
I watched Black Rain last night, noticed that Kate Capshaw was in it although not much. I love her in Temple though.
Didn't even know she was Spielbergs wife.
― Ste, Thursday, 27 April 2023 11:31 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ebhJLnI.gif
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 April 2023 11:36 (one year ago) link
My recollection is her part in Black rain is, based upon her role in Temple of doom, pretty solid subsequent typecasting.
I don't think TOD really steps wrong that much, unless you're not down with its particular "thing", which is understandable. Last crusade is a lot of fun but it's a film afflicted in a lot of key aspects by a lot of the most tedious blockbuster bullshit. For example I don't think turning Brody and Sallah into unserious comic relief characters is a small thing. Their sharpness and incisiveness and sober qualities in the first film really helped sell the whole damn thing. The River Phoenix prologue was pretty bad. The villains are pretty minor league and a lot of it just feels like an effort to overcorrect after TOD.
it's kinda like what was done with the Rise of Skywalker after Last Jedi, though I want to clarify that I think Last Crusade is a good and fun film and not a terrible and stupid one, unlike ROS.
― omar little, Thursday, 27 April 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link