Grandpa Indy vs. The Damn Dirty Hippies

[The Comedian]

(REBOOT TRAILER)

Sallah: I couldn't believe it when the bartender told me who you were.

Henry Jones: Why are you talking to me, man?

Sallah: Your father saved the world at least four times. I dare you to do better. Become an archeologist.

 

[Myasishchev]

I do kind of like the prequel idea, they can lose the baggage of Mutt & Marion and have Indy be single again. It'd be cool to have Sean Connery back in some role though(The story could take place around the time of the character's death)

Why prequel? He could make a deal with the devil to get rid of his wife and kid, and slightly prolong Henry Jones, Sr.'s struggle with inevitable death. I call it Indy: One More Day.

I continue to say Indy 4 was a good addition to the series. Sorry but regardless of ones religous views, if you take that out and can go with "magic boxes of fire", electrically charged stones with heart ripping priests and "healing/life giving cups of bronze" then aliens really aren't that much a stretch. Could it have been toned down a tad, sure I suppose. Sorry to rain on the haters parade.

Yep. Couldn't agree more; I still think Crystal Skull's the weakest of the four, but it's still pretty good and is as much Indiana Jones in style and tone as any previous entry. I'd love someone to point to an actual element of the film that was completely dissonant with what we saw before. (Also, people bitch about the refrigerator scene, as if some of the shit in the first three was substantially less physically unlikely.)

 

[Harvey]

I liked the fourth film, probably more than I liked the second one, but IIRC Indy doesn't use his gun once in it. You'd think that he would use his gun more, to compensate for his old age, but whatever. I'd see a fifth film if it was as fun as the fourth was (minor quibbles be damned).

 

[Yoda]

I have zero interest in another Indy film. Matrix 2 was a mess... but I thought... oh... well, it'll all make sense and rock when part 3 comes out. Nope. Terminator 3 was... uninspired... I figured, no biggie, the ending was cool, and Terminator: Salvation is set in post Judgment Day land, they CAN'T screw that up! Then there was the Phantom Menace, and I thought... well... maybe once Anakin is grown up, the little kid actor will be gone, and Star Wars will be good again. Then came Attack of the Clones.

Just like Harrison Ford, I'm getting too old for this shit.

 

[Nerys Myk]

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Indy would be with the hippies, man. Stopping the establishment from like desecrating some indian burial ground, organizing the Faculty Against the War protest and avoiding the advances of miniskirted coeds.

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ Right on! Except for the "avoiding" part.

 

[Kegg]

I liked four well enough, and I'm fairly lukewarm about the prospect of five, but hey, why not? I'd probably give it a go when it comes out.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

How about setting Indy 5 in the present day?

National Treasure.

Never seen it.

OTOH, how about having Indy 5 be a prequel to *all* previous Indy movies? Have it set during Henry Sr.'s younger years, or perhaps even earlier than that (the 19th century, for example).

 

[Temis the Vorta]

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Indy would be with the hippies, man. Stopping the establishment from like desecrating some indian burial ground, organizing the Faculty Against the War protest and avoiding the advances of miniskirted coeds.

Maybe that's the way to go. Indy as a Timothy Leary type figure. The LSD sequence will put that nuking the fridge stuff to shame!

 

[Aragorn]

Indy is Harrison Ford's character. So is Han Solo. No one is going to be dumb enough to take either role.

Pfft. Welcome to Hollywood.

Hollywood would take the title "Indiana Jones" and make it a sports movie about the Hoosiers.

 

[Base_Delta_Zero]

I do kind of like the prequel idea, they can lose the baggage of Mutt & Marion and have Indy be single again. It'd be cool to have Sean Connery back in some role though(The story could take place around the time of the character's death)

Why prequel? He could make a deal with the devil to get rid of his wife and kid, and slightly prolong Henry Jones, Sr.'s struggle with inevitable death. I call it Indy: One More Day.

I continue to say Indy 4 was a good addition to the series. Sorry but regardless of ones religous views, if you take that out and can go with "magic boxes of fire", electrically charged stones with heart ripping priests and "healing/life giving cups of bronze" then aliens really aren't that much a stretch. Could it have been toned down a tad, sure I suppose. Sorry to rain on the haters parade.

Yep. Couldn't agree more; I still think Crystal Skull's the weakest of the four, but it's still pretty good and is as much Indiana Jones in style and tone as any previous entry. I'd love someone to point to an actual element of the film that was completely dissonant with what we saw before. (Also, people bitch about the refrigerator scene, as if some of the shit in the first three was substantially less physically unlikely.)

I'll throw one out: Indy directly kills ... one random badguy (blowdart reversal) in IJ IV.

 

[Myasishchev]

I don't vividly recall the scene. What was dissonant about it?

Can't be blow darts; can't be killing.

 

[Base_Delta_Zero]

I don't vividly recall the scene. What was dissonant about it?

Can't be blow darts; can't be killing.

You're missing the point. Indy kills one badguy in the entire film. I'm surprised they didn't give him a walkie talkie to clip to his belt.

Ark: kills shit ton of Nazis/Mongol thugs in various amusing ways throughout
Temple: kills shit ton of Triad/Thuggee in various amusing ways throughout
Crusade: kills shit ton of Nazis/Arab dudes in various amusing ways throughout
Skull: kills one fucking tribal guy, albeit amusingly, half-way through the film

One of these things is not like the other.

 

[Yoda]

I don't vividly recall the scene. What was dissonant about it?

Can't be blow darts; can't be killing.

You're missing the point. Indy kills one badguy in the entire film. I'm surprised they didn't give him a walkie talkie to clip to his belt.

Ark: kills shit ton of Nazis/Mongol thugs in various amusing ways throughout
Temple: kills shit ton of Triad/Thuggee in various amusing ways throughout
Crusade: kills shit ton of Nazis/Arab dudes in various amusing ways throughout
Skull: kills one fucking tribal guy, albeit amusingly, half-way through the film

One of these things is not like the other.

Shhhh! Spielberg might read this and go back through the older movies to give them the walkie talkie treatment

 

[Myasishchev]

I don't vividly recall the scene. What was dissonant about it?

Can't be blow darts; can't be killing.

You're missing the point. Indy kills one badguy in the entire film. I'm surprised they didn't give him a walkie talkie to clip to his belt.

Ark: kills shit ton of Nazis/Mongol thugs in various amusing ways throughout
Temple: kills shit ton of Triad/Thuggee in various amusing ways throughout
Crusade: kills shit ton of Nazis/Arab dudes in various amusing ways throughout
Skull: kills one fucking tribal guy, albeit amusingly, half-way through the film

One of these things is not like the other.

Only one? Well, I can agree that kind of sucks. I'm pretty sure I recall Blanchett buying it, though.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Oddly enough, I never kept a database of how many people Indy killed.

 

[Valin]

They need to done one more movie to tie up Indy's adventuring and show how he lost an eye.

 

[Mr. Sin]

Indy also has a daughter in YIJ. Either it's his and Marion's (Unlikely at this point since Marion's like 60), it's another woman's (Willies?) or he remarries (Maybe Marion dies at some point?)

 

[Nardpuncher]

I'd like that too ( last two posts) but since Lucas cut the Old Indy stuff out of the DVDs it makes me think he's disavowing it. But I hope not as I still see those "old Indy" parts as canon.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Indy also has a daughter in YIJ. Either it's his and Marion's (Unlikely at this point since Marion's like 60), it's another woman's (Willies?) or he remarries (Maybe Marion dies at some point?)

It his and Marions. I have it on good authority she's a student at Farber College.