Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud:
While Raiders of the Lost Ark was the pacesetter and a fantastic film, The Last Crusade is my favorite due to the casting and overall story arc.
Sean Connery as Henry Jones, Sr.? Maybe the best casting of all time, IMO, and such a delight in that role.
Agree with you 100% on that one. The Last Crusade is the best of that series and it's really not all that close. [Reply]
Temple Of Doom is damn near Crystal Skull bad; I just don't understand the subgroup of people who love that movie. Kate Capshaw is just laughably awful. [Reply]
The only problem Temple of Doom has is that it isn't Raiders.
If it was the first Indy movie it would be a lot more popular.
Kate Capshaw may be annoying to some, but I love her in that movie, and I love that movie, and Spielberg married her because of that movie, and "Anything Goes" is iconic, as is Indy in a cream tux, and one of the greatest location shoots of all time on that bridge.
Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
The only problem Temple of Doom has is that it isn't Raiders.
If it was the first Indy movie it would be a lot more popular.
Kate Capshaw may be annoying to some, but I love her in that movie, and I love that movie, and Spielberg married her because of that movie, and "Anything Goes" is iconic, as is Indy in a cream tux, and one of the greatest location shoots of all time on that bridge.
So fuck all ya'll.
Well here's the thing I've watched Temple of Doom long before i ever got to see Raiders of the lost Ark. SO I think that does play a part why i like it so much and I'm not the biggest fan of Last Crusade as I should be.
I remember my brother would try and take my heart or I tried taking his good times. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
The only problem Temple of Doom has is that it isn't Raiders.
If it was the first Indy movie it would be a lot more popular.
Kate Capshaw may be annoying to some, but I love her in that movie, and I love that movie, and Spielberg married her because of that movie, and "Anything Goes" is iconic, as is Indy in a cream tux, and one of the greatest location shoots of all time on that bridge.
So fuck all ya'll.
There's a lot of Godfather 3 to Temple of Doom.
Like GF3, one casting choice hurts that movie more than anyone could've ever seen coming and there's a significant tonal shift from the other 2 movies in the trilogy that make it more jarring.
And stand-alone, without any knowledge of the other 2 movies, perhaps it is a deserving enough installment. If you didn't know GF1 and 2 were a thing, GF3 might work better. If for no other reason than you wouldn't realize how critical Robert Duvall/Tom O'Hagan was to the first 2 movies and what a weak facsimile George Hamilton is (though, like Capshaw, you would still be watching Sofia Coppola and thinking "man, how the fuck did she get this job?")
I guess I can buy the argument that it's a good movie IF it was your introduction to the franchise. But for me it was the 3rd I saw and after seeing Crusade, then Raiders - Temple of Doom was just a complete piece of shit, even as a 12(ish) yr old. [Reply]
I saw them in order growing up. ToD was my least favorite, but as I've grown up, I like it a lot more. Personally, I think it fits right in and is not a problem for me at all.
Originally Posted by Deberg_1990:
Aliens could be argued is a better film than Alien.
But I’d put them as equals
Yeah, I don't agree that Aliens is better than Alien. They are just two completely different kinds of moves - Alien is a horror movie and Aliens is an action/war movie. Different vibes make them difficult to compare but I think they are equally as good. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
Yeah, Clay said "Spielberg married her because this movie..." and all I could think was "nah, Spielgberg married her because dem tiddays..."
Because man, she had a GREAT rack.
Well, yeah, but they met because of Temple of Doom.
But like Todayo-Tacameenie said in Space Camp....GREAT BOOSTERS!
