Comments on: Trailer Park: Why Your Indiana Jones Isn’t As Good As Mine

By: Ray Schillaci

Ray Schillaci — Sat, 31 May 2008 06:46:56 +0000

I mentioned before that SS and GL had less than a handful of great films. Unfortunately the media over the years has created such a ballyhoo over them that they have eclipsed some mature directors who deserved just as much recognition if not more. Case in point; Sydney Pollack who recently passed. Look at his impressive list and if you have not seen them shame on you. Tootsie, Three Days of the Condor, Jeremiah Johnson, Out of Africa, They Shoot Horses Don’t They?, This Property is Condemned, Castle Keep, The Scalphunters, and yes even The Way We Were. Pollack brought respect to the craft while delivering respectable box office returns. SS and GL have cornered the toy market. In Hollywood’s terms – a buck’s a buck.

By: booker

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By: Christopher Stipp

Christopher Stipp — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:49:55 +0000

To build on what BLEH said, I can’t understand, still, why the concentration of what should be decades worth of film talent can put out something on par that could have been done at the hands of Stephen Sommers (not to take anything away from him because he obviously has found a niche that studios respond to) or any number of other summer movie directors. It’s befuddling.

I’m still confused by the end product. Whether it’s good/bad is really not at issue; it’s the technical execution that I’m finding is really one reason it’s disappointing fns.

By: bleh

bleh — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:38:03 +0000

its strange that with the incredible amount of freedom some of these directors have they cant quite get a good movie like they used to. Its not that Spielberg is incapable of the task, but lately all our 80s heros are diying off in big budget proyects when they should be triying to pull a Kubrick retirement plan. Guess it didnt really worked for good ol stanley either, his last 2 movies were good… yet not great, yet he retired with dignity and to this day is the very first autheur director many geeks get to know before starting their rantings on the internet.

Guess no one will become a geek after watching indiana jones 4, munich, the terminal or war of the worlds.

By: opinioninahaystack

opinioninahaystack — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:25:22 +0000

I completely agree with you. Although, to make it clear, I didn’t HATE it. I thought it was “ok” when it should have been great, but with box office like that it really makes you wonder if the older bitter fans of the original three are wrong for thinking in terms of quality, character integrity, and storytelling and not in terms of cold hard cash. That movie is what audiences today want apparently.

I just feel like my heroes are dieing, and my other heroes are killing them…and it’s all being done with thunderous applause (aka HUGE BOX OFFICE!!!). Are there any directors to be trusted anymore? I want to say perhaps Scorsese…but I’m afraid once I rely on him he will make GOODFELLAS 2: BEACH PARTY DANCE FEVER or someshit. I just wish Lucas would make up some new franchises instead of squirting his infected piss over his old ones.

By: Christopher Stipp

Christopher Stipp — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:21:02 +0000

And here’s the other problem with trying to divest yourself between Lucas and Spielberg’s hands on this movie: it is a bona fide box office hit. You can’t argue with 101 million dollars and I know real well that the name of the game in show business is actually turning things into profits for your shareholders.

So, I kind of feel defeated in a way knowing it was number one this weekend and trying to convince people that this wasn’t the movie it should have been; it was just the movie that’s going to make a ton of dough.

By: opinioninahaystack

opinioninahaystack — Mon, 26 May 2008 05:02:05 +0000

I agree with your comments on Indy4…im afraid Im going to have to eat a good chunk of my words about spielberg (not lucas though, the movie had his shitty stink all over it) for letting it happen. It doesnt taint the first 3 movies, hell it takes place 20 years apart…still…I will eat my words gladly…I suck Steve’s cock a little too soon.