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I mainly just meant I, Robot and Constantine.

I thought he was ok in Transformers, but it really could have been anybody.

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I would say out of the films you listed off above, one that is the best out of the bunch and compared to Indiana Jones is Minority Report. Even going back a decade to Saving Private Ryan is pointles as that wasn't that good of a film either. It was just bookended by two stunning action sequences.

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just like to butt in and say i havent yet seen this festoon of crockery that just says "one more go around for old moneys sake. classic coke and all that", but i'd just like to point out that live free or die hard was actually really fckn great

thx

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I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that, for the sake of keeping things civil.

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minority report was a joke,
plot holes so big you drive a truck through them,
dated special effects..

a pre-crazy tom cruise, who had started to slip mightily
(he redeemed hiimself only for the movie 'collateral ' 2004,
i still can't believe he did such a great job, maybe because
he played against type)

try again, speilberg has lost touch with the public for
quite some time now...much like lucas has..

duel (theatrical cut)/ sugarland express / jaws / close encounters of the third kind

all cemented his place in history in my eyes...(please forget '1941')..

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not really, no it wasnt, unless you are referring to the unrated
dvd with blood/swearing etc....then it turned from a mindless
neutered film, into just an average mindless film..

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I liked Indy 4. Had a slight unpolished feel but that's okay. I thought Shia played his role quite well.

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I thought the movie was "ok"

but there were a few things that just really really really confused me

1) Ok, so ... how in the Hell did the Soviets take over Area51?!?!??! let alone, even get into the country? How couldn't the rest of the government, or even the rest of the people at area51 know that all the people at the front gate were shot, and there's a troop of 'new guys' that suddenly showed up, pointing guns at Indiana Jones?

2) Even if they took over area51 completely... there's no way that the facility would still have been doing regular atomic bomb tests

3) is it just me - or were there parts of the film that "really looked like they were on a sound stage" ... like, I mean - I know that films aren't always shot on location... but at the same time - they at least try and hide the fact that the background is merely painted on a screen!

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I enjoyed the throwback to Old-School(?) film making feel about it.

I think it was intentional.

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indiana jones isn't meant to be serious or completely convincing; it's supposed to be fun. the whole plot doesn't even make any sense, but that's the same for all of them. they're unbelievable, but they're still great films.

the only thing i didn't like that much was the wedding scene at the end.

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Not to mock marriage or anything, but it did a have a bit of a Public Services Announcement angle to it.

The father/son bit too, but I find it quite necessary.

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Hmmm, i'm perturbed about going to see this now, i had to stop watching transformers because i just couldn't stand the actor who i now see is in this film:( - he completely ruined it for me.

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well I too disliked Shia in Transformers, but wasn't at all bothered by him in Crystal Skulls.

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I didn't mind Shia in Transformers, though his "N-n-n-n-no, no no no no, oh n-n-n-no!" started to grate after the first 30 minutes. Hoping he doesn't repeat that in Skull....

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Would things cease to be civil if you did hear it? I don't really get why it's still so revered. It's opening sequence is what makes the film. Then it's downhill.

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I don't know if I would be that harsh on Minority Report, gapping plot holes and all. But I saw it once, at an exhibitor screening a month or so before it was released almost six years ago now. I'd imagine if I revisited it, I may not enjoy it nearly as much.

I actually didn't care for Cruise too much in that and feel that since his 'serious' turn in Magnolia, the last decent thing he had done was the character of Vincent in Collateral.

Both Spielberg and Lucas have lost their touch, more Lucas than Spielberg, but Spielberg does offer this little glimmers of the filmmaker he once was in the films previously mentioned. Even something revered like Saving Private Ryan has that amazing opening sequence that is a pleasure to be immersed in visually and aurally.

I'm in agreement with you neg.

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Gotta agree there again. Upon seeing the unrated DVD of Live Free or Die Hard I was astounded they didn't release that film.

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it's called closure..

than God too..

now, i'm in the anti-marriage camp,
but considering the timeframe, etc, etc..morals,etc, etc..

it made perfect sense,
and i actually kinda felt relieved for the characters..

unlike in james bond, where his wife to be gets
gunned down/blown up/etc..

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political correctness gone awry..

i'm sure the studio execs weighed
every percentage point +, for pg-13,

and subtracted the dvd revenues for r/unrated...


f&#$rick#Y*(*($&*(#&en studio executives...*(#**#&$*&#7

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You're weird. j/k



Bond's "someone with benefits" was also a traitor.

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[quote=jOHN rODRIGUEZ;96923]You're weird. j/k
ROFL!:D:D

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I saw this movie and have very little to say, other than I hope Spielberg ends his marriage with David Koepp ASAP.

Didn't like the premise of the story or the direction it went in. Basically all i liked was Indy punching people with those arcade style, fleshy sound effects.

Shia is not Tarzan.

There. I've said my piece.

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Spoilers

I heard that when Lucas pitched the project, he actually wanted to do Indiana Jones in Space (I'm not kidding). But when Spielberg got hold of it, most of the extra-terrestrial stuff was written out.... but not all.

Which is why I can safely say that, even when his ideas are improved upon and edited to kingdom come, Lucas can still extend his tentacles and make a movie bad.

And it's not so much that Spielberg is a bad director, it's just that he has a handful of tricks and he's used them all.. in everything. Remember the alien probe eye in the house in War of the Worlds? Now think back to the velociraptor scene in Jurassic Park.

The EXACT same scene. That's why his stuff is becoming so tiresome.

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IT actually is because he's become a bad director..

'jurassic park' is a horrible reference....that movie was one of
the all time worst adapations of a book (especially michael crichton)
thas was ever made...no credit given for making this trainwreck
of a movie..

every cliche in a monster/horror film was used.....you're looking too
recently at his movies...you have to go further back...
i hope you didn't think that jurassic park was original..

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I can't believe what I am reading in this thread. First we're bashing Saving Private Ryan, then we're bashing Jurassic Park???

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Aside from Saving Private Ryan, it is a given Spielberg films are family oriented.

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Haha Jurassic Parc is still one of my favourite movies ever, but I guess part of that is also cause I was at exactly the right age when it came out and wa a bit of dinosaur nutter at that time too :)

Saw Indiana Jones yesterday and while I thought it was entertaining enough and Harrison Ford was still fun to watch, I never really felt I cared much for anything that was happening. The story and many of the action scenes just felt too contrived to suck me in. Marion's comeback was fun though and one of the only time when I felt there was actual chemistry between two characters.
I thought Shia was allright in this, apart from that terrible Tarzan sequence. I mean wtf?! It must have been George Lucas' idea :rolleyes: (as well as the stupid CG gophers in the beginning of the movie).

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just to be clear, its pretty much only me..and to give credit,
the effects were amazing for the time..

i heard about the movie, but didn't see it right away, and
being a big michael crichton fan, got the book, read it, and
thought it was brilliant..

after the hoopla died down for the movie, it was about to
disappear from the movie theaters, i went to the last
showing near me, went to the theater near midnight,
so i was the only person in theater that was watching
it (so even if there would have been cheering/clapping/
etc to bias the showing, it wouldn't effect)...

at first i was very impressed with the movie, but then
as it got dumber and dumber, and the plot got watered
down beyond belief, i just pretty much gave up on it..

someone should do a fanedit (if they haven't), and take
scenes from this+parts of jurassic part 3, and THEN it might actually
be a decent film...but not in this current form..

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There was a Jurassic Park part III ????

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I enjoyed the fact that in Jurassic Park 1 the T-Rex managed to throw the Jeep over a cliff that did not exist a few shots previous.

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damn, well that scratches jurassic park from the list of things i thought no one could hate. i'd give you an infraction for that if we could joke about that sort of stuff but we can't. abuse of whatever.

seriously i think it's perfect. chrichton is an arrogant gasbag, the movie was actually fun.

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Not all of us are bashing Jurassic Park. That said, the two sequels are ready to be gutted next in this conversation.

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The sequels suck, I can agree on that.:)

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I do remember kind of enjoying 3, at least more so than 2

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Get ready for IV.

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Oh s. I'll rent the third one today I guess.

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spoiler....


agreed. I thought the ending blew. just an excuse to have a cgi orgy. would have liked to know why the russian chick had to die, other than the fact that it follows the template of "evil nemesis of indiana jones lets their greed ensnare them in the power of the arbitrarily chosen artifact"

Its not even that bad of a formula if it makes any sense. Yaweh whacks shell fish eaters. He's going to sit around and let some nazis play around with the freaking arc of the covenant?

And the third one. You can't be thinking right if you expect to yoke the power of the receiving vessel of jesus's sin cleansing blood for evil intentions. That's like a total contradiction and the earth should twist itself into a knot.

So what's up with evil multi-dimensional alien guy? just doesn't like russians? Even ones that return his creepy h.r. giger cranium back to him so he can fly away?

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So, Frank Darabont's script for his crack at Indiana Jones has appeared online. Paramount was quick to squash the initial provider of the script, but as these things go, once they're out, they're out, bouncing between rapid share type sites and torrents.

link

I haven't had a chance to read it or even skim it yet, but it sounds like there are quite a few similarities between the Crystal Skulls and the City of Gods. Primarily set pieces that seem to have been carried over by Lucas and his story credit from writer to writer. But Mutt is lacking from Darabont's draft and Marion plays a more prominent role.