Angel Dust on 10/6/2008 at 14:09

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Nah, you still have to give that point to Raiders. Every single piece of music in that film is ace. Obviously the Raiders March (Indy theme), Ark theme and Marions theme are the well known ones but the opening scene stuff, especially love the music when Indy is being chased to the plane, and the truck chase music, which is my personal favourite piece, are fantastic. How it didn't win Best Original Score I'll never understand.

Scots Taffer on 14/6/2008 at 14:34

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Saw it tonight. It was fun, a little less peppy than all the previous outings and yes, the the tarzan scene was fairly ridiculous but the most of it was decent adventure fare with more archeology talk than I think we've ever had in an Indy movie.

If I had to list the main cons, it'd be the lack of comedic timing in a lot of places second half on, really, the first half was good), Marion was underused and had a very muted introduction (plus the backstory was muddy), the father-son dynamic wasn't really explored (after their introduction anyway), the Skull could have used a great theme, the waterfalls and the ending inside the temple was a little over the top (with the vortex thing).

The pros were Indy, the warehouse intro, the nuclear bomb blast (it was fun!), Mutt's 50s switchblade palmade leather jacket motorbiking roughneck character is an unmistakable future version of Indy, the campus chase, the quicksand scene, the jungle chase (at least the first half until the end of the swordfight/ropes), the ants and the various little scenes with traps/doors etc and the hat at the end.

Edit: An addendum, except for the Skull not having a compelling theme, the other problem with this McGuffin (shut up Faf ;)) (I didn't mind the aliens/sci-fi element at all and as Stitch said, it was handled in an unmistakable Indy way) was that the end-conclusion their treasure was knowledge was just so out of left wing and unconnected with the main body of the plot, I'd almost prefer it if it had been about upcoming generations lacking the respect of the prior generations, like if the Aliens were pissed at being dug up, separated and then put back together for the purposes of cross-examination by the Ruskies whereas all previous humans feared the living shit out of them (that's just a very weak, made up on the spot example). Plus, if Indy had been involved at the crash site and had seen some of the crazy shit (electromagnetism, crash wreckage, foreign corpse etc) then surely he could've been a little bit more open minded about the whole affair, because him just 'tagging along' with 'Ox' just got a little bit empty towards the end.

Also, I got the feeling that everyone was a little bit tired, worn or perhaps unengaged by the material because some lines that could've zinged right out of the court just fell flat.

Scots Taffer on 16/6/2008 at 05:18

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Okay, after reading a biplane sequence that had me nervous, excited and laughing (ON FUCKING PAPER) and would've been the new gold standard of Indiana Jones action scenes I've finally come around to the same conclusion as many others... I fucking hate George Lucas.

Fuck you, George Lucas.

Fuck you, forever.

You haven't made a sound creative decision in thirty years you useless, neckless fat fuck.

Signed,
Scots

Morte on 16/6/2008 at 05:27

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Ohh. Me too!

Angel Dust on 16/6/2008 at 05:48

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Man, I'm only 12 pages into the script and I've laughed and been more excited than I was during the entirity of KOTCS. The jet-engine part as Darabont wrote it would have so much better.