Wow, scott free, are you saying Raiders of the Lost Ark was a cornball mess? It was not only the best of the franchise, it revived a lost genre... I was 10 or 11 when it came out, true, but I had never seen anyhting like it.

I thought the 2nd one was a cornball mess with the kid sidekick and the ditz for a leading lady.

The "last" crusade should have been the last of the series, as it somewhat redeemed it...certainly it was smarted than the second...

...man... I have never heard someone criticize the first Indy Jones film without hating the whole thing...

...wow.


I own the series and have watched, and will continue to watch the first more than the rest. Each moment, literally, provides something to praise, relative not only to action/adventure films contemporary to it, but even those past and present.

Would you care to provide specific critiques, and possibly your age?

Maybe its a generational thing.

WTF?? Raiders of the Lost Ark is probably one of the 10 best films ever made.

Still holds up quite well after all these years. The others were decent and had their moments, but not near as good as that first film.

If someone could point out where i knocked the original Indy Jones, go ahead!?!?

I'm talking about the cheese factor in Lucas's new Star Wars movies, atleast the 1st one & half of the 2nd one, and i hope he doesnt do it to this last Indy movie.

IMO he's too caught up in lush digital graphics at times & can be guilty of ham-fisted dialogue as well.

i guess we misunderstood you.


Well, Lucas only produces the Indy films and comes up with the stories.


Hes actually a pretty fine storyteller. What hes not good at is scriptwriting and dialouge in particular.


At least with the Indy films, Spielberg (a strong director) would keep him in check.

I thought when you said, in the context of this discussion concerning the new Indy movie, "like he did in the first movie" and 1/2 of the new Star Wars movies, you referred to the first Indy movie.

I'm glad you clarified, I guess, though my world had temporarily opened to yet another new perspective via the Chiefs Planet...

Indiana Jones in The Hunt for the Four-Hour Erection ..

Indiana Jones IV ...and BOOM goes the dynamite!

Indiana Jones and the Three Day Old Tapioca

The franchise has jumped the shark - lost it's fizz.

Not a Lucas fan anymore.

Spielberg = yawwnnnn when he's not making cute alien movies.

Not a big fan of Saving Private Ryan, eh?

Rise of the Machines was a joke and totally ruined everything, its kind of like rocky 5 i pretend it didnt exist. arnold looked old and the whole movie was shit and didnt seem as serious as the other 2

Totally.

Played like a "Made for TV" movie.

Lucas shouldn't be allowed to make movies anymore.

The last 2 star wars are two of the worst movies ever made.

That's probably the best way to word how that movie felt.

I totally agree. Felt like a crappy movie from the first 5 minutes. I barely finished it.