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Originally Posted by Deckard
Like you, I'll go see it, definitely. No doubting it's a good idea commercially, but I voted no because I can't help but think this will be lame when compared with the others, which were almost perfect for their time.
I don't quite see how it can be recreated and appeal to today's audiences (those for whom Indy was before their time) while retaining enough magic for those of us who enjoyed it first time round.
Hopefully I'll be proved wrong, and the script really will be that good, Ford really is still capable of being an action lead, and this isn't going to be another Lucas vanity (/equity) project.
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my overall problem with this, and the following movies (listed) is that they are bleeding the franchise dry, and ruining the whole memory of the originals, Films such as Die Hard (4), Terminator 3 (& 4?), Rocky Bilbao, Rambo (4) etc... they don't need to be made. They usually aren't very good and mainly they bugger up the DVD box sets i already have...
everyone knows that there going to be 7 harry potter movies, so (i hope) no more will be made, everyone knows that pirates of the caribbnean is a trilogy... and i'd be the same if in ten years they trotted out another one...
So why come back 10 years or more after the original and try and act like you're 35-40 when your 55-60 in a role that was best remembered nostalgically in the 1980's or 1990's - thats where Indy stays and should be remembered
i'll probably see / buy on dvd die hard 4, indy 4 etc,. but know i won't be as happy because no matter what, they will get compared to the 'originals' and get slated regardless - you can't relive old magic (look at Star Wars and the Old and New Trilogies... they still don't really match up...)
Its like going out now with your mates from your youth - it's not the same as going out with your mates when you were 18 (i'm 35), you can't relive those days, and making movies like this again, is the same - stop reliving the past and move forward...
there is no doubt Speilberg and Lucas know how to make Indy movies, but this long after the last one seems desperate to me. Surely Spielberg at least is a decent enough film maker to go out and produce something similar or as good but not call it indy 4... and George L should go to script writing school before he unleashes his Star Wars TV Series upon us....
still i know i'll be suckered in... but just don't want to be...
and you know why the main reason this movie is being made... merchandising....!!! imagine how many indy figures they will shift
... $peilberg & Luca$ eh?