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Another prime time thread. Indiana Jones 1,2,3,4?
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04-03-2009, 10:34 PM
Gamble
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The reasons I don't like "Temple" and "Kingdom" is that they both have ridiculous stuff in them that is more than just suspension of disbelief.
Whether you believe in religious relics and their folklore/mythology, that whole "magic" should be the only non-realistic story element involved. Other things, like physics and death-defying escapes should be kept within a
realm
of plausibility for me to thoroughly enjoy an Indy film.
In ToD and KotC, Indy falls from a plane in a raft and lands in water, and he gets blown up in a fridge in a nuclear blast, and survives both. Those 2 elements immediately pissed me off and set the tone for the whole film. KotC has plenty more ridiculous escapes, like the ridiculous jungle chase with the monkeys, and the fall down the falls, and the giant ants, not to mention the whole alien MacGuffin.
I also don't really like the young sidekick aspects of either, which Raiders and Crusade left out. Short Round is definitely more enjoyable, but I'm getting tired of Shia LaBeouf in flicks as the wise-cracking kid.
Aside from the opening sequence in "Temple of Doom", I'm actually a lot happier with it once they get in the temple. The story from there is pretty good. Short Round was semi obnoxious, but he's grown on me over the years. The Shankara stones, while a departure from Judeo-Christian relics, are still religious relics that there is documentation of having existed.
I feel that in KotC, Lucas and Spielberg just threw in aliens because they've had so much success. It just had way too many elements of suspended disbelief which made it like a bad dream Indy may have, instead of a typical Indy adventure.
I found myself loving the 15 plus minute fist fight with the russian.
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