Indiana Jones 5 Still Happening With Shia Says Shia...

[JarodRussell]

"Nuked the Fridge" is a common term for = bad movie?
Really? I frequent many sites and have never, I mean NEVER heard that.
Sounds like a large bit of projecting and editorializing by the guy in that piece.

I really liked Indy 4 and I've dealt with the issues before here and elsewhere. Not going to change anyones mind but it wasn't a bad movie and fits with so much else established in the Indy film-verse. I'd have altered a few things sure but its a fine film.

All Indy adventures are crazy so for Shia to say that doesn't shock me.
Going after the Biblical Lost Ark, yeah that's routine.
Mystical stones containing diamonds that bring life to dead geography, normal.
Of course a regular brass cup that brings eternal life and heals is very regular.

"Nuking the fridge" is the new "Jumping the shark".

Apparently only to haters of the film.
The author of that piece implies its a now 'common' term.
To that I say he is wrong. A small minority sure, everyone, no. I'm not seeing it. Here, BOM or elsewhere after 2yrs.

Just because you say it is doesn't make it so. I've never seen it used except maybe once or twice on this board.

http://tinyurl.com/27r736z

This is a far cry of PROOF of COMMONALITY. WOW, it made the Urban Dictionary!! A site kept up by basement dwelling losers. Color me unimpressed.

FAIL, by you...and the author frankly of proving Nuke the Fridge is some common deregatory now exchanged on the 'net for something bad.

LOL, you are taking thing extremely serious, aren't you?

And then again, "nuke the fridge" is one of Time's Top 10 Buzz Words of 2008 (together with "Rickrolled", "Change", "Bailout" and "Tweet" ). Such basement dwelling losers.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1855948_1864100_1864105,00.html

 

[Captain Craig]

^^^
Serious, not sure about that. Contradicting something that's trying to be passed off as fact, yeah. So, in 2008 when the movie came out it had some 'buzz', fine. That wore off much like Obama's perception of great 'Change' being what the country needs.

People don't "commonly" say 'Nuke the Fridge' as the article tried to atest no more than 70% of Americans still believe that Obama's type of "Change" is what is right for the country.

Both faded away and lost Buzz here in 2010.

 

[thumbtack]

Your Tennessee is showing. Proper etiquette dictates it be covered with a damp cloth when children are present.

 

[Captain Craig]

^^^
Damp cloth? Kids present? It?
I don't even know where your going with that for whatever additional humor that may add for you.

 

[Caligula]

^^^
Damp cloth? Kids present? It?
I don't even know where your going with that for whatever additional humor that may add for you.

Yeah, I'm not sure what that's all about, either, nor what he's got against us Tennesseans.

 

[Captain Craig]

^^^
I'm fairly certain he didn't like the Obama loss of 'buzz' reference(although polls bear out the truth in that), hence "your red state(TN) is showing".

The damp cloth thing though??

 

[RJDiogenes]

one thing Abrams does well is fast-paced action, so I think he would probably be a good choice for director

If you think the next Indiana Jones flick should be a fast-paced, action movie.

Personally, I think it should be a solid, smaller scale movie that's personal to the Indy character.

Well, Indy is a movie serial hero, so the film should definitely be an action film. In that context, though, I'd be all for a smaller, more personal story.

 

[Admiral2]

You know what kills me with all the "Crystal Skull" detractors? It's that all of them probably saw the first movie, where at the end death angels flew out of a box full of dust and melted a bunch of Nazis' faces, but they think the interdimensional alien plot made no sense.

I shake my head in bewilderment.

 

[Nardpuncher]

If it wasn't already typical enough that two pages have been disagreement about the best things for Indy to do we may now have politics in the mix.
What's a good thread bomb for this?

 

[Dude]

If it follows the format of the other four movies, this one will have him working as a Nazi Hunter in South America in the 50s or 60s.

 

[Alex1939]

You know what kills me with all the "Crystal Skull" detractors? It's that all of them probably saw the first movie, where at the end death angels flew out of a box full of dust and melted a bunch of Nazis' faces, but they think the interdimensional alien plot made no sense.

I shake my head in bewilderment.

Well it's good that you've put us all in one group.

There are a lot of problems with Crystal Skulls that have nothing to do with aliens. CGI Monkeys swinging through one of the goofiest chase scenes I've ever watched comes to mind.

 

[Gaith]

You know what kills me with all the "Crystal Skull" detractors? It's that all of them probably saw the first movie, where at the end death angels flew out of a box full of dust and melted a bunch of Nazis' faces, but they think the interdimensional alien plot made no sense.

I shake my head in bewilderment.

The angels didn't so much fly out of the box as teleport from within it, imo... but that's neither here nor there.

You really don't see the contradiction in a race of interdimensional beings... who travel in a very dimensional-looking UFO? You don't see the awkwardness of a technological apparatus blasting up the roof of an ancient throne room... when it later becomes clear that a UFO has been lying dormant beneath the pyramid?

And, bonus, the decaying throne room is full of falling rocks and debris which quite magically neither hit anyone on the head nor cause anyone to even worry about such an occurrence! You really can't see how that might be perceived as a tad more asinine than a bunch of ghosts not disturbing two people who close their eyes in piety? Remember that the ghosts are clearly conscious, whereas the falling rocks and stones probably aren't.

Which part of this comparison is so baffling, exactly?

 

[Professor Zoom]

If it follows the format of the other four movies, this one will have him working as a Nazi Hunter in South America in the 50s or 60s.

Spielberg won't do Nazi's again. At least not in an Indiana Jones movie.

I would imagine it would be more Soviet stuff.

Edit: nah, been there, obviously. Not sure...

 

[Dude]

If it follows the format of the other four movies, this one will have him working as a Nazi Hunter in South America in the 50s or 60s.

Spielberg won't do Nazi's again. At least not in an Indiana Jones movie.

I would imagine it would be more Soviet stuff.

Edit: nah, been there, obviously. Not sure...

It's a theme. Odd-numbered Indiana Jones movies have Nazis in them.

 

[Admiral_Young]

The interdenominational aliens were the least of the film's problems I agree....as I stated in my first post I would have not even bothered to show the aliens. It would be clear that the Chrystal Skull while having incredible electromagnetic properties and other weird strangeness was connected to them. I'd have Indy and company uncover it and Cate's Russian character attempt to unlock it's secrets only to trigger a fail safe booby trap that collapses the entire structure on top of them forcing them all to flee. Cate's character still is too enthralled with what they've found and remains behind and is killed while Indy and company escape...there is no transwarp ship or whatever. The whole thing just collapses and creates a sinkhole and they're left with the knowledge that we're not alone but can't really talk about it because they have no proof...until Indy pulls out the Crystal Skull from inside of his satchel and smiles "We still have this sweetheart..." "A museum piece only though Indy. No one will believe what we just saw." "No one has to sweetheart..." and he pulls Marion close to him and kisses her while Mutt makes a lame joke about his parents kissing in front of him. Then we cut to the wedding scene.

 

[Nardpuncher]

The interdenominational aliens were the least of the film's problems I agree....as I stated in my first post I would have not even bothered to show the aliens. It would be clear that the Chrystal Skull while having incredible electromagnetic properties and other weird strangeness was connected to them. I'd have Indy and company uncover it and Cate's Russian character attempt to unlock it's secrets only to trigger a fail safe booby trap that collapses the entire structure on top of them forcing them all to flee. Cate's character still is too enthralled with what they've found and remains behind and is killed while Indy and company escape...there is no transwarp ship or whatever. The whole thing just collapses and creates a sinkhole and they're left with the knowledge that we're not alone but can't really talk about it because they have no proof...until Indy pulls out the Crystal Skull from inside of his satchel and smiles "We still have this sweetheart..." "A museum piece only though Indy. No one will believe what we just saw." "No one has to sweetheart..." and he pulls Marion close to him and kisses her while Mutt makes a lame joke about his parents kissing in front of him. Then we cut to the wedding scene.

This does sound a bit better than what we got. Well done.

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

Or even better. Maybe Indiana Jones could go into the jungle in the beginning of the movie, but we would not see what happens to him until the very end of the movie, where he leaves the jungle, saying "wow, what an incredible adventure that was!", thus avoiding everything that "fans" may find questionable.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I should add that just before the wedding scene I'd try and give Mutt and Indy a real father and son scene together in the old house where Indy grew up that we saw from the third film. Just a short two or three minute sequence where the two of them finally come to terms with one another and their importance to Marion. Then as the two of them walk out of the house the camera would pan to a picture of Sean Connery with the Indy theme playing sadly before cutting to the wedding. I'd end the film with it clear that Mutt is carrying on the legacy of his famous family.

 

[Nardpuncher]

Or even better. Maybe Indiana Jones could go into the jungle in the beginning of the movie, but we would not see what happens to him until the very end of the movie, where he leaves the jungle, saying "wow, what an incredible adventure that was!", thus avoiding everything that "fans" may find questionable.

That's a better idea by 1000000000000000000 times than Indy 4.

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

[That's a better idea by 1000000000000000000 times than Indy 4.

Wow, that was the best hyperbole in the history of the universe, man.