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post #31 of 43
6/19/09 at 8:32am

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Frank Marshall comfirms Indy 5 is in development, though at this point they are working on the story:

Frank Marshall Updates On INDY 5! The Script Is "Progressing"! -- Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
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post #32 of 43
6/19/09 at 8:48am

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Loved Indy4 so I'm there for more!!

It will still be Ford as Lucas said last summer only Ford can play Indy in the movies. Guess they have until 2012 to get this in cinema's otherwise Ford will just retire the part.
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post #33 of 43
6/19/09 at 9:16am

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Originally Posted by Albert_M
Has anyone watched it again who did not like it the first time and found it more enjoyable a second time? I feel like now that it's been a year I should try it again on dvd.

I didn't dislike it the first time I saw it, but I definitely felt like something was "off" with it. I saw it a second time in theaters a few weeks later, and I wasn't really that excited about going, I was with a group of people as I recall. I was quite surprised when I enjoyed it about a million times more the second time around.

I think what it was for me was, the first three films I already knew like the back of my hand. I watch them enjoying not only the overall plot and story but the individual moments, which stand out better when you're not watching simply waiting to discover what happens next. Once I saw Indy 4 and knew what it was about and what was going to happen, it freed me in a sense from having to follow the plot and buy everything, and just allowed me to enjoy the movie for what it was, which is a damn good thrill ride. Harrison Ford has so many great moments in that movie, as does Karen Allen, it's just so much fun for me to watch now.
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post #34 of 43
6/19/09 at 11:43am

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If I would have one plea for those writing the story, it would be to make it mostly about INDY. Give him at most ONE sidekick, not 4-5. I'm guessing Mutt will feature prominently, so they should leave Marion, Sallah, Oxley, et al, out of it or only have them feature in a very minor way.
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post #35 of 43
6/19/09 at 10:33pm

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I'm all for more IJ. The only thing that kind of blows is now we'll probably have to wait until 2012 for the ROTLA, TOD and LC to be released on Blu-Ray
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post #36 of 43
6/23/09 at 12:46am

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Yes, more IJ, with Karen Allen back but with fewer sidekicks, would be great. Where can they go with the next movie? They´ve done 30s serials and 50s sci-fi, and they seem to want to acknowledge Ford´s age. How about doing a takeoff on early Bond films, with Indy battling femmes fatales and trading quips in casinos, not necessarily in Monte Carlo, but maybe in pre-revolutionary Havanna (Cold War angle). The villain could use some ruins as cover for his secret base, to get the archaeology & artefacts angle into the movie.

The teaser opening could be a Hitchcockian/THIRD MAN chase thru Vienna in 1949 with IJ in an espionage situation. Alternatively IJ would be disguised as a Nazi and chased thru a V-2 rocket factory in Europe. Then they could use that unused bit from the KOTCS screenplay with IJ dodging rocket exhaust fire.
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post #37 of 43
6/23/09 at 4:59am

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Around the time of the release of last year's movie, a good number of people commented how cool it would be to see some of Indy's WWII adventures.
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post #38 of 43
6/23/09 at 6:55am

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I would be up for a horror angle on IJ...something similar to the opening scene in the Indiana Jones and the Monkey King script. I know they sort of took this direction in Temple of Doom, but they could be much more explicit with it.

I also think King Solomon's mines or Atlantis would work as macguffins as well.
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post #39 of 43
6/24/09 at 11:42am

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I really like seeing that a good number of people here have come to really enjoy Indy 4 over the past year.

I haven't watched the movie this summer yet (I wanted to watch it on May 22, but that didn't happen), but I have the Blu-ray and last watched it whenever it was released to video (October?).

I had a good time with Indy 4, despite some reservations. It's fast-paced and has a tremendous sense of fun to it. I wish Spielberg had realized that Indy needed to be more "front and center" during the last fourty minutes (it even cuts away during his fistfight with the big Russian bruiser) and if they do another movie, it's an easy fix.

I'd love to see another one.
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post #40 of 43
6/24/09 at 11:47am

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Originally Posted by MattFini
I really like seeing that a good number of people here have come to really enjoy Indy 4 over the past year.

I haven't watched the movie this summer yet (I wanted to watch it on May 22, but that didn't happen), but I have the Blu-ray and last watched it whenever it was released to video (October?).

I had a good time with Indy 4, despite some reservations. It's fast-paced and has a tremendous sense of fun to it. I wish Spielberg had realized that Indy needed to be more "front and center" during the last fourty minutes (it even cuts away during his fistfight with the big Russian bruiser) and if they do another movie, it's an easy fix.

I'd love to see another one.

I actually kinda like the film right up until they meet Marion. Then it gets way too busy and the chemistry between the two just isn't that great.

The script is also a bit of a mess and could have used another couple of streamlining rewrites. Oxley and Mac could be dropped from the film entirely and they wouldn't be missed (in fact, Oxley just confuses the plot).
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post #41 of 43
6/24/09 at 12:21pm

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Yeah, I agree with everything you said.

Neither Oxley nor Mac added anything to the story (especially Mac, in my opinion). It was nice to see Marion again but her character could've used a little more edge (or, at least a re-write as you said).

If the film had kept up the momentum of the first hour or seventy minutes, I think it would've been a GREAT Indy film.
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post #42 of 43
6/24/09 at 12:29pm

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They need to acknowledge the age thing and make some adjustments to the character, otherwise the character feels like a hollow shell of his former self.

Indy IV was the first Indy film where Indy sort of just felt like set dressing at times.
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post #43 of 43
6/25/09 at 7:01am

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Neither Oxley nor Mac added anything to the story (especially Mac, in my opinion).

Agreed, Oxley was a bit better than Mac. I got a distinct Jar Jar vibe from Mac at times...he just did cartoonish things that were loud and obnoxious.
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