Ready for another Indiana Jones?

67 and still going strong!
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I loved the Raiders of the Lost Arc. Each successive movie has been a little less lovely until the last one, which stunk like a rotten carp.
 
In Indiana Jones 5, Indy will encounter a tornado which will pick him up and whirl him around through the air. Thankfully, he'll be saved from flying debris by wrapping himself in a bedsheet. Then he'll be hurled from the tornado hundreds of feet through the air through the glass ceiling of a mall's skylight, but luckily the mall will have a mattress store which will cushion his fall, so he'll be totally unharmed.
 
I would have thought they had reached the bottom of the hill by now. Then again the last one did make money.
 
The first one is one of the best action movies ever made. The fourth one is one of the dumbest movies ever made.
 
I really enjoys The Lost Ark and THe Last Crusade. I though the second film was the weakest of the three.
 
I didn't think No. 4 was so bad. It followed the same formula as the other 3.

Most people think it was over the top because of the alien space ship blasting off at the end or maybe because he saved himself from the A-bomb by getting in the fridge. But, were those scene any less "out there" than the vengeful spirits of the Lost Ark melting the Nazis, but sparing Indy and Co because they knew to keep their eyes closed? Or, how about Indy jumps on the Nazi SUBMARINE in the middle of the ocean and hangs on somehow for thousands of miles until they get to the island where they open the Ark?

It wasn't a great fillm. Mostly because it had been done before. But if all you wanted was a popcorn flick, it was OK.
 
Or how about the time in Temple of Doom Indy, short round and that girl parachute out of plane that was crashing by using an inflatable raft.
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How there ever been a higher grossing movie that was worse?

Of the top 39 grossing movies of all time, 21 of them were sequels. The recent franchises of Star Wars, LOTR, Spiderman, Shred, Pirates, and Harry Potter account for 22 of the top 39.

If you make 300MM you will continue cranking them out until people stop going.
 
As a kid I would not believe you if you told me I would type what I am about to type.

I will not be seeing this movie in the theater and most likely ever. I have zero interest in it or Indy Jones. They blew it for me in the last movie.

I wonder what "Raiders of Joan of Arc" would be like. Film it on an Ark with an Orc with a pet Orca and an Inca wife and we may have something. Brought to you by, Arco.
 
In Raiders of the Lost Ark, you have hundreds of German soldiers running around in Egypt in 1936. You have American military intelligence sending Jones on the mission to thwart the Germans' plans in Egypt. Jones does this with next to no help from the British, and instead of getting British Naval escort through the Mediterranean, he tries to smuggle it out on some unarmed cargo ship.

All that going on, and you're going to complain about the Germans having a submarine base in the Mediterranean and a sub operating on the surface for maybe a couple of hundred miles or so (or possibly a lot less) when there wasn't a state of war?
 
The problem with the last one was that it jumped ship on the story. The first 3 were heavily rooted in Judeo-Christian mythology, and then 4 comes along with aliens. That's like having St. Peter come down and save Luke Skywalker from the emperor: it does not jibe with the context at all.

The whole New World myth/Cold War atmosphere was a really cool idea, but they did it in a way that didn't fit the other 75% of the series.
 
And my point was that the events leading to Indy being on the submarine were so ridiculous, how can anyone care how he managed to sneak in or hang on?
 
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