my dad thought it would be better to introduce 10yo me to Indiana Jones with Doom first and Raiders second. I admit that for a while after seeing Doom, I didn't get the hype around Raiders.
>Raiders of the Lost Ark
One of the most soulless movies ever made. Plot for plot's sake. Scenes are whittled down to be as brief as possible to knock down the run time to maximize the number of theatrical screenings per day. Marion is just a rehash of Princess Leia, even the John Williams themes are similar. Score is too loud and wails throughout the love scenes, it’s too heavy, everything is so sexless compared to the 1930s serials that Raiders is allegedly supposed to be paying homage (or parodying?). Everyone speaks with modern inflections, nobody even bothers to pretend it’s the 1930s even though the movie is set in that time. Spielberg and Lucas were addicted to the crap of their childhoods and couldn’t help but regurgitate it. When the ark opens up towards the end, the special effects look worse than Spielberg’s Close Encounters from three years earlier.
>The Temple of Doom
Spielberg unhinged. The opening tap-dance is poorly staged but the film improves after that. Comedy in the first half balances out with the darkness and hellish imagery in the second half. The slapstick is motivational but performed sloppily to give the impression of accident and subsequently stumbled success. It also condones the compulsive greed of the white savior. His victory inevitably sheds sprockets of wealth. This is unquestionably the best Indiana Jones flick.
>The Last Crusade
A mediocre reprise of the first movie, except now Indiana Jones has daddy issues. This was only partially watchable due to the slapstick teamwork of Connery and Ford. Spielberg treats religion like an amusement park without any spirituality or mysticism. The big leap of faith scene has no deeper meaning, Spielberg makes sure to pan the camera to show that the whole movie is just an optical illusion that's immediately discarded as he moves on from one scene to the next.
>Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
It’s another Indiana Jones cartoon, no better or worse than the others. Not sure why people online claim this one is the worst of the bunch? There’s no biblical mystery? It’s just space aliens? So what. The ark in Raiders was nothing more than a MacGuffin that shot out laser beams and melted peoples’ faces, the aliens in Crystal Skull were probably behind that. There was no purpose to this movie aside from using Shia LaBeouf as a potential springboard to carry the torch for future Indiana Jones flicks, but obviously nothing came of that.
Indiana Jones is a cartoon hero in a cartoon movie series. Have fun watching, I guess. Don't take it so seriously like the middle-aged overweight nerds crying about the new flick.
The tap dance scene is poorly staged because it's all happening in Willies mind, there wasn't a huge room behind the dragon like what we saw, she was imagining herself more of a star than she was.
>The Last Crusade
A mediocre reprise of the first movie, except now Indiana Jones has daddy issues. This was only partially watchable due to the slapstick teamwork of Connery and Ford. Spielberg treats religion like an amusement park without any spirituality or mysticism. The big leap of faith scene has no deeper meaning, Spielberg makes sure to pan the camera to show that the whole movie is just an optical illusion that's immediately discarded as he moves on from one scene to the next.
>Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
It’s another Indiana Jones cartoon, no better or worse than the others. Not sure why people online claim this one is the worst of the bunch? There’s no biblical mystery? It’s just space aliens? So what. The ark in Raiders was nothing more than a MacGuffin that shot out laser beams and melted peoples’ faces, the aliens in Crystal Skull were probably behind that. There was no purpose to this movie aside from using Shia LaBeouf as a potential springboard to carry the torch for future Indiana Jones flicks, but obviously nothing came of that.
Indiana Jones is a cartoon hero in a cartoon movie series. Have fun watching, I guess. Don't take it so seriously like the middle-aged overweight nerds crying about the new flick.
>The Last Crusade
A mediocre reprise of the first movie, except now Indiana Jones has daddy issues. This was only partially watchable due to the slapstick teamwork of Connery and Ford. Spielberg treats religion like an amusement park without any spirituality or mysticism. The big leap of faith scene has no deeper meaning, Spielberg makes sure to pan the camera to show that the whole movie is just an optical illusion that's immediately discarded as he moves on from one scene to the next.
>Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
It’s another Indiana Jones cartoon, no better or worse than the others. Not sure why people online claim this one is the worst of the bunch? There’s no biblical mystery? It’s just space aliens? So what. The ark in Raiders was nothing more than a MacGuffin that shot out laser beams and melted peoples’ faces, the aliens in Crystal Skull were probably behind that. There was no purpose to this movie aside from using Shia LaBeouf as a potential springboard to carry the torch for future Indiana Jones flicks, but obviously nothing came of that.
Indiana Jones is a cartoon hero in a cartoon movie series. Have fun watching, I guess. Don't take it so seriously like the middle-aged overweight nerds crying about the new flick.
>The Last Crusade
A mediocre reprise of the first movie, except now Indiana Jones has daddy issues. This was only partially watchable due to the slapstick teamwork of Connery and Ford. Spielberg treats religion like an amusement park without any spirituality or mysticism. The big leap of faith scene has no deeper meaning, Spielberg makes sure to pan the camera to show that the whole movie is just an optical illusion that's immediately discarded as he moves on from one scene to the next.
>Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
It’s another Indiana Jones cartoon, no better or worse than the others. Not sure why people online claim this one is the worst of the bunch? There’s no biblical mystery? It’s just space aliens? So what. The ark in Raiders was nothing more than a MacGuffin that shot out laser beams and melted peoples’ faces, the aliens in Crystal Skull were probably behind that. There was no purpose to this movie aside from using Shia LaBeouf as a potential springboard to carry the torch for future Indiana Jones flicks, but obviously nothing came of that.
Indiana Jones is a cartoon hero in a cartoon movie series. Have fun watching, I guess. Don't take it so seriously like the middle-aged overweight nerds crying about the new flick.
>The Last Crusade
A mediocre reprise of the first movie, except now Indiana Jones has daddy issues. This was only partially watchable due to the slapstick teamwork of Connery and Ford. Spielberg treats religion like an amusement park without any spirituality or mysticism. The big leap of faith scene has no deeper meaning, Spielberg makes sure to pan the camera to show that the whole movie is just an optical illusion that's immediately discarded as he moves on from one scene to the next.
>Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
It’s another Indiana Jones cartoon, no better or worse than the others. Not sure why people online claim this one is the worst of the bunch? There’s no biblical mystery? It’s just space aliens? So what. The ark in Raiders was nothing more than a MacGuffin that shot out laser beams and melted peoples’ faces, the aliens in Crystal Skull were probably behind that. There was no purpose to this movie aside from using Shia LaBeouf as a potential springboard to carry the torch for future Indiana Jones flicks, but obviously nothing came of that.
Indiana Jones is a cartoon hero in a cartoon movie series. Have fun watching, I guess. Don't take it so seriously like the middle-aged overweight nerds crying about the new flick.
I have no idea what you’re talking about, crusade is the only one where the artefact is really tied into the themes of the movie. Indy forgives his father and physically and spiritually heals him, and then realises that power represented by the grail is in all of us, so he doesn’t need the physical relic.
Both Raiders and Crusade have intros that don’t connect to the main plot and are just there to set up character. Temple would’ve been better if it had one maybe.
I mean, I get why Temple is a prequel: they wanted all of the Indie movies to be disconnected, self-contained stories like the old pulp adventure books (or whatever) they were paying tribute to. but if you're going to do that, maybe don't end your first movie with Indie walking arm and arm with a woman with whom he's spent the better part of that movie developing a romantic relationship with. they wrote themselves into a corner so they had to jump back in time. but the problem is that prequels always suck and cause more problem than they solve. in Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones has a fricking asian boyslave who just... never gets brought up again. and Willie is just not a good character, especially in comparison to Marion. anyway the answer is: yeah, frick it, why not. bring on the virginal hindu princess or whatever.
>Indiana Jones has a fricking asian boyslave
Probably a guide he paid while in Asia to carry his shit. Indy also paid him in passage to the US so he could get adopted there.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>Probably
so it's not in the movie. don't do the work the filmmakers didn't do.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>so it's not in the movie
You know what else isn't in the movie? Indy shitting and pissing in toilets. Guess he's just minutes from dying from lack of excretion all the time because the writers forgot to write it in, you fricking dipshit.
Most of what Disney bought, I don't care to see.
But they bought up a lot, and some, I would care to see. But you can't watch that now, have to buy Disney Max.
It was better when Netflix was a giant and you just needed that and they had good stuff from all over.
That’s why you move on to buying digital. Vudu has sales all the time just like Steam. I got all the Indy movies 4k for $20 and I never have to buy them again or hope some gay streaming service has them. Break free.
I wish there were more than 5 fricking movies over a 40 year period. Could have been epic, an entire Cinemaphile board dedicated to Indy films. There sure as hell were enough video games with original adventures trying to meet demand.
Honestly, you're in for some good action adventure schlock.
True, some of the effects look dated and if you've watched enough movies you'll know what happens in the story, tropes and cliches and all. But to be fair, it's this movie that was more or less responsible for said tropes and cliches.
I loved the music, loved seeing Nazis die, loved the action and charm, and loved the pulp feel to it. Just a good-ol' fashioned romp. the last crusade is better though
The first of three great movies. Don't fall for the console wars bait. Raiders, Temple, and Crusade are all masterworks of the adventure genre, and all of them have their own distinct highlights.
Skip Skull and Dial, especially fricking Dial.
I grew up with ToD and LC. Raiders was before my time. But I recently watched it and now it's my favorite. Simply because of how much more brutal it is. Indiana shoots a dude in his fricking face and they show it. The body count is also up there with Rambo movies. His chick kills at least 30 people in the plane scene alone.
Yes. But it was somehow played for laughs. I always thought that part was funny. But in Raiders, he shoots this fricking Chinese dude in the forehead and then ot shows blood dripping down his face. It was brutal. Good shit.
decent, but then you will watch temple of doom and all you'll ever want is to watch temple of doom and only temple of doom
i hate how true this has become for myself
Raiders is the gateway drug to the harder stuff
Don't lie to the poor man.
I bet you think Jackie Brown is the best Tarantino movie.
it is though
It is.
my dad thought it would be better to introduce 10yo me to Indiana Jones with Doom first and Raiders second. I admit that for a while after seeing Doom, I didn't get the hype around Raiders.
Yeah no
Absolutely this. I've watched ToD countless times, it's always the go to Indy movie (ToD haters seething right now)
A movie about indiana jones
The way Hackas retitled it doesn't make any sense. Indy is *one of* the Raiders.
Best movie ever made
>Raiders of the Lost Ark
One of the most soulless movies ever made. Plot for plot's sake. Scenes are whittled down to be as brief as possible to knock down the run time to maximize the number of theatrical screenings per day. Marion is just a rehash of Princess Leia, even the John Williams themes are similar. Score is too loud and wails throughout the love scenes, it’s too heavy, everything is so sexless compared to the 1930s serials that Raiders is allegedly supposed to be paying homage (or parodying?). Everyone speaks with modern inflections, nobody even bothers to pretend it’s the 1930s even though the movie is set in that time. Spielberg and Lucas were addicted to the crap of their childhoods and couldn’t help but regurgitate it. When the ark opens up towards the end, the special effects look worse than Spielberg’s Close Encounters from three years earlier.
>The Temple of Doom
Spielberg unhinged. The opening tap-dance is poorly staged but the film improves after that. Comedy in the first half balances out with the darkness and hellish imagery in the second half. The slapstick is motivational but performed sloppily to give the impression of accident and subsequently stumbled success. It also condones the compulsive greed of the white savior. His victory inevitably sheds sprockets of wealth. This is unquestionably the best Indiana Jones flick.
>The Last Crusade
A mediocre reprise of the first movie, except now Indiana Jones has daddy issues. This was only partially watchable due to the slapstick teamwork of Connery and Ford. Spielberg treats religion like an amusement park without any spirituality or mysticism. The big leap of faith scene has no deeper meaning, Spielberg makes sure to pan the camera to show that the whole movie is just an optical illusion that's immediately discarded as he moves on from one scene to the next.
>Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
It’s another Indiana Jones cartoon, no better or worse than the others. Not sure why people online claim this one is the worst of the bunch? There’s no biblical mystery? It’s just space aliens? So what. The ark in Raiders was nothing more than a MacGuffin that shot out laser beams and melted peoples’ faces, the aliens in Crystal Skull were probably behind that. There was no purpose to this movie aside from using Shia LaBeouf as a potential springboard to carry the torch for future Indiana Jones flicks, but obviously nothing came of that.
Indiana Jones is a cartoon hero in a cartoon movie series. Have fun watching, I guess. Don't take it so seriously like the middle-aged overweight nerds crying about the new flick.
>like the middle-aged overweight nerds crying about the new flick.
is this a reference to red letter media?
The tap dance scene is poorly staged because it's all happening in Willies mind, there wasn't a huge room behind the dragon like what we saw, she was imagining herself more of a star than she was.
Holy shit, you sound like a miserable person.
Why? Cause he accurately reviewed a movie franchise? Gtfoh gay ass
I am. I am really miserable anon. Help me, please help me anon
This is called projection, anon. I hope you find happiness someday.
This too is called projection, anonymous, I hope you find happiness someday.
Based
Showed this to my adhd moronic family members and they liked it.
jews can survive the power of YAHWE by closing their eyes
“Raiders” is the classic pulp material & “temple of doom” took content much further and it worked so darn well.
Kino
The best action/adventure movie ever made.
Crusade is good too, but lighter.
Temple is still fun but hit and miss.
There are no other Indy movies.
>left Marion to get raped some more so he could get the treasure
Uhhh based?
>le evil white men
Indiana Jones kicking some old Nazi butt while meeting his love interest and evoking the wrath of the israeli god.
just watch it and stop asking stupid questions you dumb Black person
the israeli god incinerates nazis
A great adventure movie, enjoy
I have no idea what you’re talking about, crusade is the only one where the artefact is really tied into the themes of the movie. Indy forgives his father and physically and spiritually heals him, and then realises that power represented by the grail is in all of us, so he doesn’t need the physical relic.
She was 15 you sick frick
she knew what she was doing
Ah yes remember how innocent you were at 15. No horniness at all
A franchise slowly becoming shit.
It's a classic. Movies like that would make a billion dollars these days but they forgot how to make a fun adventure movie.
Woke bullshit but it’s old woke bullshit so Cinemaphile will call it kino
Not so much woke as it is a israeli revenge fantasy porn movie. That being said, still kino.
I want to physically harm you
Movies where Spielberg shows you a shiny gold thing in the beginning:
Raiders
Jurassic Park
Both Raiders and Crusade have intros that don’t connect to the main plot and are just there to set up character. Temple would’ve been better if it had one maybe.
Temple would have been better if it
1) wasn't a prequel
2) didn't have Willie and Short Round
So who'd be the companion? The virginal princess George wanted?
I mean, I get why Temple is a prequel: they wanted all of the Indie movies to be disconnected, self-contained stories like the old pulp adventure books (or whatever) they were paying tribute to. but if you're going to do that, maybe don't end your first movie with Indie walking arm and arm with a woman with whom he's spent the better part of that movie developing a romantic relationship with. they wrote themselves into a corner so they had to jump back in time. but the problem is that prequels always suck and cause more problem than they solve. in Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones has a fricking asian boyslave who just... never gets brought up again. and Willie is just not a good character, especially in comparison to Marion. anyway the answer is: yeah, frick it, why not. bring on the virginal hindu princess or whatever.
>Indiana Jones has a fricking asian boyslave
Probably a guide he paid while in Asia to carry his shit. Indy also paid him in passage to the US so he could get adopted there.
>Probably
so it's not in the movie. don't do the work the filmmakers didn't do.
>so it's not in the movie
You know what else isn't in the movie? Indy shitting and pissing in toilets. Guess he's just minutes from dying from lack of excretion all the time because the writers forgot to write it in, you fricking dipshit.
The people who invaded India and Persia, yes. And Tibet, and Europe.
Most of what Disney bought, I don't care to see.
But they bought up a lot, and some, I would care to see. But you can't watch that now, have to buy Disney Max.
It was better when Netflix was a giant and you just needed that and they had good stuff from all over.
How do people like you find this place? Why are you here?
That’s why you move on to buying digital. Vudu has sales all the time just like Steam. I got all the Indy movies 4k for $20 and I never have to buy them again or hope some gay streaming service has them. Break free.
I wish there were more than 5 fricking movies over a 40 year period. Could have been epic, an entire Cinemaphile board dedicated to Indy films. There sure as hell were enough video games with original adventures trying to meet demand.
They’re making a new video game
bet anything after DOD not making it's money back that Lucasfilm cancels the game
Bethesda is making it, though its probably on the backburner with Starfield on the horizon
good
It's going to be shit
Todd said it's great so far, although I hope it's not nazis again. 3 fricking times already.
The chickens on the plane in temple of doom were ok, right?
Yeah they're alright
Kino.
Honestly, you're in for some good action adventure schlock.
True, some of the effects look dated and if you've watched enough movies you'll know what happens in the story, tropes and cliches and all. But to be fair, it's this movie that was more or less responsible for said tropes and cliches.
I loved the music, loved seeing Nazis die, loved the action and charm, and loved the pulp feel to it. Just a good-ol' fashioned romp.
the last crusade is better though
This movie is almost entirely a silent movie. So many sequences of shit happening with music playing and that’s it.
The first of three great movies. Don't fall for the console wars bait. Raiders, Temple, and Crusade are all masterworks of the adventure genre, and all of them have their own distinct highlights.
Skip Skull and Dial, especially fricking Dial.
Dial was better than Temple.
weak bait
It was better at flopping than Temple.
For your own sake I sincerely hope you're just trolling. Temple haters are moronic, but I refuse to believe they're this moronic
>I did not care for Temple of Doom
I grew up with ToD and LC. Raiders was before my time. But I recently watched it and now it's my favorite. Simply because of how much more brutal it is. Indiana shoots a dude in his fricking face and they show it. The body count is also up there with Rambo movies. His chick kills at least 30 people in the plane scene alone.
Doesn't Indy kill like five guys with one bullet in Last Crusade because they happened to be lined up?
Yes. But it was somehow played for laughs. I always thought that part was funny. But in Raiders, he shoots this fricking Chinese dude in the forehead and then ot shows blood dripping down his face. It was brutal. Good shit.
>somehow
It was funny.
The scene where Indy's dad obliterates the truck with the soldiers always gets a good laugh out of my dad for some reason.
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Last Crusade > Raiders > Crystal Skull > Dial > Temple
This is the only correct opinion.
If you thought dial was good, then have a nice day right now because you're a waste of valuable space.
I didn’t say it was good, just better than Temple.
>seething shitskins hate Temple
that's why it's the best Indie movie
Boredom, its a boring film.