General Indiana Jones Thread

Ford and Spielberg are back and the Disney movie comes out July 19th 2019.

edited 15th Mar '16 12:07:55 PM by LordofLore

If Ford is half as good in this as he was in TFA (which he should be as he's always been more fond of the Indy character than he was of Han Solo) then this should be fun at least.

Hopefully he won't break his leg again. Isn't he also showing up in the new Blade Runner?

Last report that I read said that he was (although supposedly not until later on in the movie). And the guy survived a prop accident-induced broken leg AND a plane crash, in the same year. He's hardcore. oh and married to Cat Grant from Supergirl to boot.

They should do a reboot. Indiana Jones does best set in the 30s.

Fuck.

No.

Harrison Ford is too old for this shit. He was blatantly, embarrassingly and obviously too old when they made IJ 4 and that hasn't got any better since. Besides, didn't he and Spielberg take enough of a critical kicking the last time? It may have been a money maker because nostalgia, but it was undeniably worse than Last Crusade, and there's absolutely no reason to suggest that the next film, if they're stupid enough to make it, will improve on that.

If what Disney did with the last Star Wars movies is any indication, odds are this'll just be a stealth remake of one or more of one of the three original Indiana Jones movies in order to "prove they know how to make an Indiana Jones movie".

edited 15th Mar '16 12:27:57 PM by TheSpaceJawa

Crystal Skull actually got a 78% on Rotten Tomatoes, from what I understand.

Make it a computer animated adaptation of Fate of Atlantis with Ford voicing Indy and I'm game.

Thing is though, with Star Wars, there is a new cast of younger protagonists. Not sure you could do that here, unless Ford is killed off at the end of the film and his sidekick, played by Chris Pratt, assumes the Indiana Jones identity (feel free to steal my idea, Mr. Spielberg).

edited 15th Mar '16 1:02:37 PM by Hodor2

Is it weird that I really want Shia La Beouf to come back for this?

Yes, Cuber, it is.

I'm so not wanting this movie. I didn't want Crystal Skull, and I REALLY don't want this fifth one.

I actually didn't hate the Crystal Skull that much at all.

That being said, please don't bring Shia Labeouf back. The dude's an embarrassment.

I liked a lot about Crystal Skull. Didn't even mind Shia Le Bouef (though I'd rather see an adult Short Round). I didn't care for for the aliens ( I'd rather the Indy-verse stay supernatural). Didn't like the implication that the Soviets could apparently sneak a whole strike team into the US, much less a secure military facility without anyone knowing a damned thing about it.

I liked Shia La Beouf in Fury so I wouldn't mind that much for him to return.

But I don't know what else they can do with Indy unless it is just for him to reenact The Force Awakens.

It's a little bit too early for April Fools.

I am super excited about this!

...because it means all of my local big-screen theaters will be doing showings of Raiders, Temple, and Last Crusade the week before. I've never seen them on the giant screen before.

I want to see Marion come back and them have the whole "adventurous married couple" thing going on. Oh and Sallah, I'd really like to see him again to.

I heard a rumor years back that the plot for a hypothetical Indy 5 would involved Atlantis. And, I'd actually be down for them doing that.

Perhaps we'll learn about the fate of Atlantis.

Didn't like the implication that the Soviets could apparently sneak a whole strike team into the US, much less a secure military facility without anyone knowing a damned thing about it.

Into the facility? Without a recent watch to refresh my memory, maybe not, though I don't recall the security being all that strict at the base.

But into the US? Trivially easy. That's part of what the First Chief Directorate was for, and for all the other failings of the USSR espionage wasn't really one of them.

As the story goes, President Truman informed Stalin at Potsdam (I think) that the US had developed an atomic bomb (this was before it was dropped on Japan BTW), and was surprised at how calm and collected Stalin was about it. As it turned out, this is because the Soviets already had spies infiltrating the project and working on stealing the plans for it so that the Soviets could build one of their own (which of course they did a few years later).

So Stalin might very well have known about the atomic bomb BEFORE Truman did (since Truman was kept in the dark about it while he was VP and was only told once he took over after FDR died).

So, will it take place in the late 1960's? This could very well be a film that has Indy facing off against hippies over mystical artifacts at Woodstock.

If they have to make this travesty, then Shia La Beouf has to come back. He's Indy's son, for fuck's sake. He's part of the canon, despite some of what are the more blatantly idiotic members of the fanbase may say.

Well, this is almost certainly going to be a pass-the-torch moment in the franchise. Indy 4 teased it but right now they have to go that route for real, cause Ford is seriously not getting any younger.