Anyway, you’ve become far too pedantic and are getting worked up about things that aren’t majorly important so this is gonna be my final reply.

P.M.

*edit* yeah you can use html, and I’ve edited your comment.

Pulse, thank you kindly sir :-) I wonder whether the few tags I’ve used in this post will work…

it’s not quite as good as the originals but then sequels never are.So, the “originals” after the first Indy film weren’t sequels?

I said “originals” because over 19 years has passed since Last Crusade was made, that makes it pretty original to me. Just like episodes 4 to 6 of Star Wars are the originals.

I was being pedantic; your statement implied that the second and third films weren’t sequels… :-P

Although, now, the name “[yada, yada] and the Last Crusade” is now inaccurately named.

Sidetracking to Star Wars for a moment, it’s a shame 1, 2 and 3 don’t have the same magic as 4, 5 and 6. They’re not devoid of it, but they’re not the same.

When I say “minimal use of CGI” I mean minimal compared to say Episode 3 where everything bar the actors and some props was CGI. They could have done the same with this but fortunately Spielberg managed to reign Lucas in.

There was nothing “minimal” about the use of CGI in Crystal Skull! (Star Wars) Episode 3, along with Episode 2, was indeed full of CGI - however, in that film it was used to replace the storyline and that was a shame.

Of course Spielgit reigned Lucas in! Spielgit is terrible at CGI! Well, maybe not CGI; but how unrealistic was that fat, greedy turncoat in Jurassic Park who took the embryo samples out of liquid nitrogen with his bare hands??

I know it was sometime ago now, but science people on-set at the time should really have told him of for allowing that!

Also, I didn’t feel that the humour “oozed” from Karen Allen, her acting felt a little stiff to me.

I suppose it was more the way her character and Indy interacted - it wasn’t as bad as you say. True it wasn’t brilliant, but it was amusing to see Indy have someone else to bounce remarks against as part of a different relationship to just some side-kick (his son in this one).

KK

When I say “minimal use of CGI” I mean minimal compared to say Episode 3 where everything bar the actors and some props was CGI. They could have done the same with this but fortunately Spielberg managed to reign Lucas in.

I said “originals” because over 19 years has passed since Last Crusade was made, that makes it pretty original to me. Just like episodes 4 to 6 of Star Wars are the originals.

Also, I didn’t feel that the humour “oozed” from Karen Allen, her acting felt a little stiff to me.

P.M.

*edit* yeah you can use html, and I’ve edited your comment.

Pulse, is there a way to use BBCode in comments? HTML? Anything?

KK

I was a little dubious at first about this fourth instalment in the Indiana Jones series

Me too. I still am having seen it.

mainly due to George Lucas’ poor attempts at finishing off the Star Wars saga using only CGI and Green Screen.

Please don’t remind us of this… roaring “Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!” afore a star field springs to mind!

there’s minimal use of CG in this film.

PM, are you kidding?!? The race/fight in vehicles through the forest, the enormous buzz saw spinning through back towards Indy’s truck, the millions of killer ants (especially when they crawl into that Russian man’s face!), the nuke in the US test town, the fridge Indy really should have been killed in that got hurled through the air, the skeletal alien greys, the temple collapsing around the chamber with the aliens’ thrones, Cate Blanchett’s character’s eyes blazing and burning out of her skull followed by her combustion, the colossal crater caused by the saucer emerging then being filled with water… oh, and THE FLYING SAUCER GOING INTER-DIMENSIONAL AT THE END!!

No, not that much CG.

I’d have come up with more examples of CG but it’s almost the end of the (working) day and my eyes are bluring through too much screen! Besides, my brain has now melted. ;-)

Harrison Ford has lost none of the charm that fits so well with Indy

Indy has always been played by Harrison Ford, that’s why it works so well. Unlike Daniel Craig who has turned Bond films into nothing more than the usual action adventure (at best)… they’ve lost “the thing” that all the previous Bonds had.

Karen Allen makes a return as Marion Ravenwood from Raiders though doesn’t add too much to the film.

Maybe not, but the humour integral to Indy films seemed to oose from her. That and the character interaction between Marion and Indy was funny to watch.

it’s not quite as good as the originals but then sequels never are.

So, the “originals” after the first Indy film weren’t sequels?

Apparently Lucas wants to make more Indy films, though I think they should quit while they’re ahead.

Let us hope that Lucas is stopped; whilst more Indy films would always be good, the storylines CANNOT endure constant stretching… Bond lasted through periodically changing the main character(s) but filming the Star Wars series out of sequence caused them to required patching and watery-ness to just about work. Sad really as the Episodes 4, 5 and 6 were brilliant!

But they also had Harrison Ford, so maybe he’s just good for the film industry! Even when frozen in carbonite! Heh.

I’d recommend Crystal Skull but only if you’ve seen the other three as you might be left a bit confused by its return to “classic” sort of film making.

Agreed; it was nice to see the occasional switch to an old map using a red line to track Indy flying around the world. Good to see it still made an appearance.

Good review,

KK

Looking back on Iron Man after seeing Crystal Skull has made me realise that it could have progressed a little quicker and had a longer fight between Iron Man and Iron Monger, hopefully the sequel will be better.

P.M.

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