Posted on 05/27/2008 6:53:46 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
Saw Indie and Narnia. Liked them both but thought the first go-around was better for both. Ha!
Did Indiana say, “Commies...I hate those guys.”
The ex and I took our son to see it yesterday, not because we particularly wanted to see it but because we were trying to keep him away from an invitation from someone undesirable. We did not expect to enjoy it, but we really did. I like movies in which things blow up and there’s a lot of derring-do.
Harrison Ford shows that 67 doesn’t have to be old, by any means. He’s looking pretty good and he’s still got that Han Solo humor.
I thought the set decoration and small details that evoke atmosphere were better than in previous movies (which I watched with my son recently to give him some background on the series). We were not bored at all, at any point in the movie. Silly? Sure, but so what.
I did kind of want Shia LeBoeuf to take his knife and just rip Cate Blanchett’s guts, though. That might not have been wholesome family entertainment, however.
So amusing that George Noury had some guy on last week who swore that all this Crystal Skull business is true and that George Lucas had really done all kinds of careful research on what the Aliens from another dimension had taught the Mayans.
I think so.
No, that’s not correct. He did pull out his revolver once during the movie, but he didn’t fire it.
I have heard that, in order to break even, the film will have to gross 800-million-dollars.
That’s a lot of casharola...for a movie.
I'm not sure if the irony was intended or not. Mocking American fears of communists everywhere while, in fact, the communists were everywhere.
Which scene was that? I don’t recall. Am I correct about C&P Danger? I distinctly remember one scene where he’s being chased and he is unarmed. He disables his attacker, who drops his gun (a fricking machine gun, I think). Ford then just takes off running again, leaving the gun behind, while others chase him.
In fact the following is a Harrison Ford quote that pretty much sums it up:
"I grew up in the Midwest. You don't ask what a person's religion is, you don't ask what their politics are, you don't ask how much money they make and I pretty much still have that attitude about it. It's none of anybody's business and I don't advantage anyone by telling them what my personal politics are . . . The arguments are much too subtle to be entered in that way, to my mind. There are things that I think are happening in the world that are egregious mistakes but I'm only operating out of my own box and I don't have any expertise. I'm a voter . . . I have one vote, that's all I should have."
I’ve found that the worst thing you can do is read about a movie here before you’ve gone to see it. I found whatever political message there was in the dialog to be completely debunked by the action in the movie.
Go see it. It’s a good action movie that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
It was better than the second movie.... nowhere near as good as the first... don’t recall the 3rd well enough to comment.
I was left less than impressed by it, all the stories they could have told, to reach into sci fi land like they did seems needless.
You heard wrong, no way they spent $800 Million on this movie.. its already profitable. Production budget was about $185 Million
There’s a scene in the warehouse scene in the beginning where he disarms the commie and takes his rifle.
In the scene at the ruins in Peru, he uses his revolver to scare off the last of the natives. Doesn’t fire a shot either time.
Indy does kill a native with a blowgun and fires a rocket at a truckload of commies, though.
I’ve seen Clear and Present Danger, but I don’t recall whether or not he used a gun in that movie.
OMG!!! I just remembered something (with the wife’s help)!!! I had noticed the same thing in the Jurassic Park movies. In the 1st or 2nd you get some gunplay. In 3 or 4 (are there that many??) no gun is ever successfully deployed even one time. They either misfire, jam, or the gunslinger is munched on before the trigger can be pulled. The only exception being a successful shooting of a tranq. dart. Is there a big movie buff out there who can confirm or deny my memory. Especially our hero never touching a gun in C and P Danger? Thanks.
“The film cost a reported $185 million to make, even with the principal talent — Ford, director Steven Spielberg and writer George Lucas — deferring their usual fees for a greater share of the profits.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/26/AR2008052601906.html
Yes, I saw the movie last night, and I had clearly remembered the warehouse scene, but not the revolver one. I think you are correct, though. He pulls the gun, and the native flees. Still, you recall, I’m sure, how many bad guys tasted Indy’s .38 cal death in Raiders.
He sure fired in “Patriot Games” at IRA guys.
It’s funny in Raiders, his revolver sounds WAY louder and meaner than the other guns in the entire movie. BOOM BOOM.
Funny stuff.
“Indiana Jones’ Crystal Skull Has Quite a Storied Past”
By Maria Puente, USA TODAY
“Here’s something to know about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: There really are such things as crystal skulls. Even the Smithsonian has one.”
http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/2008-05-26-crystal-skulls_N.htm?csp=34
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