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Olivier once said "As an actor never show your top because then you have nowhere to go." It's the same with screaming. There's just nowhere left to go (except into the lava pit). Frankly, I have never forgiven Mola-Ram for not ripping her heart out before lowering her into the lava.

Yes, when Willie is being lowered into the boiling lava I wish to hell she'd just drop and we'd be done with her.

For me, the movie promised me a climax it simply didn't deliver. It's been a while since I watched it (maybe a couple years), but every time I do watch it, thinking I judged it too harshly, I feel the same way. That said, it has the best introductory adventure in the beginning second only to...

I think one of the things I disliked about Skull when I was younger is the anticlimactic ending (their greatest gift was knowledge, etc.) and that Indy never saw an alien. The saucer taking off at the end also looked phony to me. That said, as I age, I think one of the best things about it was...

I never said I liked Temple of Doom; however I think that movie has some of Spielberg's best camera setups and a terrific score. And it has the virtue of having a younger Indy still in his prime.

I think if Spielberg could have shot Crystal Skull the way he wanted, it would have been much better. But Lucas kept wanting to insert dumb ideas like the monkey swinging, etc., and it didn't feel to me that it was a movie with an integrated vision. Of course it made a lot of money. It was the...

I don't want to see any more Indy movies because it's obvious to me they don't have any good scripts. It's one thing to make an Indy movie because someone has a good script--and I'm all for that--but they're doing it backwards: wanting to make an Indy movie and then compelling someone to write a...

I've enjoyed Temple more since I got it on BD. Usually HD doesn't make that much of a marked difference in how good a movie is, in how much I enjoy it, but for TEMPLE the BD brought it up a notch.

I agree whole-heatedly. But from personal experience I can tell you the only time I ever got a green light to make a movie to please myself is when I financed it. Unless you're Spielberg or of his ilk, there's no way a director can make a movie to please himself using someone else's money. It's...

Next time you watch TEMPLE, evaluate the setups. IMHO Spielberg has never done a better job directing the camera than he did in Temple. It truly rivals Jaws for brilliant setups. That's something I like about TEMPLE...that and the score.

Yes, give me a good script and I'll forgive a lot. One thing that peeved me about SKULL was all the talk for years before that "we aren't moving ahead with another Indy movie until we have a good script." Uh, yeah.

I've been thinking about my question in post 64. Maybe we accept Han Solo getting older because he is a more dimensional character, someone who went from only being out for himself to being there for others, someone who went from not believing in a greater power to accepting it as real. Someone...

I wonder why Han Solo at 70 is acceptable (I heard not one word of concern) but Indiana Jones at 70 is not as acceptable to us... Both are physical, action adventure roles...

Call me nuts, but one could argue that Spielberg's pure directing in Temple of Doom actually surpasses Raiders in some ways. Of course Raiders is superior in almost every aspect, but when I watch Temple of Doom, the set ups, the direction, the craftsmanship, I put it up there with Jaws in terms...

I am thinking this has to be a hand off movie, kind of what Crystal Skull was intended to be at the time but never was. I think this movie might set up a slew of Young Indy movies. That's why it's being made. Just a guess.

Raiders is one of my favorite movies of all time (and Star Wars changed my life for the better). I'm not sure how I can give him much more credit than that. It's after he went digital, and his imagination ran amok, and he thought that just because he could do anything, that he should, at the...

I understand. My exasperation over the fourth movie was the tug of war between Lucas and Spielberg over script elements. There were plug-in components to that script that resulted in a fractured, less than stellar show, IMHO. Spielberg tried to make Lucas happy at the 11th hour and here we are...

Lucas not being a part of it justifies doing the movie, IMHO. It was Lucas's kooky ideas about flying saucers, and they way they were handled, that fractured the last movie. Hopefully without that Lucas brand of kookiness destroying their script, Spielberg and Ford can do something worthwhile...