Bulgarian_Taffer on 19/6/2009 at 20:01
Indiana Jones 5? My God, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull sucks dead rats through a garden's hose! I don't expect Indiana 5 to be better either.
Morte on 22/6/2009 at 05:41
Quote Posted by Vivian
I guess you're right - multiple sequels don't have to be... uh...
suckquels (sorry). But sequels bring fanboys, and fanboys bring terrible, tedious attention to detail in lieu of creative thought, so that it actually becomes pretty difficult to do something original with a sequel because of all the mind-numbing neckbeard scrotes insisting that it'd better be more of the same, or else, and all of the market research showing that doing something different might earn less money.
People start to bandy about phrases like 'respecting the mythology' (i.e. doing the same scenes again and again, terminator steps on a skull, someone stares slowly upwards at the alien before getting shafted, Indy has snakes poured on him, Batman stands on a roof etc), executives shovel money into it and hire either some hack who doesn't give two shits or some up-and-comer who is going to be bullied into toeing the franchise line anyway, and you end up with 'terminator vs. the crystal skull' etc
This is true, though I do think completely character-centric stuff like Indiana Jones can handle lots of sequels a lot better than things like Terminator, which pretty quickly starts creaking because the mythology built up around it isn't really sustainable.
Thirith on 22/6/2009 at 07:00
I think that Indiana Jones because of its very nature (pastiche of '30s adventure serial) lends itself to sequels. However, I also think that a) Harrison Ford is getting too old (which worked okay for one film, but that "I'm getting too old for this" joke itself is getting old) and IMO you can't replace Ford as you could the James Bond actor, b) Spielberg no longer has the ruthlessness and sense of fun (it's the combination that is important) that's necessary to do Indy well, and c) George Lucas shouldn't be let anywhere near the script. B) and c) could be remedied (just shoot that Lucas guy! :cheeky:), but I don't see them doing anything about a).
And no, I don't want them to CGI-rejuvenate Indy for an entire film!
37637598 on 22/6/2009 at 07:45
Does he ever get away from those Nazi's?
rachel on 22/6/2009 at 08:07
Have you even watched 2 and 4?
belboz on 23/6/2009 at 05:29
Those crystal skulls have been proven to be fake's, made around 1880, from crystal only found in eastern europe, and some of them still contain grinding powder that existed in the late 1800's.
Scots Taffer on 23/6/2009 at 05:35
bring back shortround!
Thirith on 23/6/2009 at 06:49
True - he and Mutt could have wacky adventures in Sibiria, Australia and Tibet! With CGI wombats and yaks!
Scots Taffer on 23/6/2009 at 07:02
and mammoth turds
SubJeff on 23/6/2009 at 07:06
Quote Posted by raph
Have you even watched 2 and 4?
2 occurs pre-Raiders I believe, before Indy has encountered them.
