Indy 4 DVD Comentary: Spielberg Blames Lucas

[TheMurph]

Personally I like KOTCS and I would have it tied in third place with TOD. There's no bad Indy movie, just less good ones.

Liked the aliens though I agree it would have been better for them to be just regular aliens and not extra dimensional.

Good directing, good acting for the most part, and overall a fun feel for the movie. My biggest beef was the over reliance on CG.

 

[Kirkman1987]

It's the worst of the movies, but still a good film overall. For the Record I think TOD is only behind Raiders. It's the only of the sequels that tried to do something different. I'm a big fan of the film Gunga Din, which TOD apes off of tremendously.

KOTCS is a good film held back by greatness by a number of minor flaws. I found the violence was tame compared to the earlier films, And some of the supporting characters were weak. I think the family element took too much focus away from Indy later in the film, and the puzzles at the end of the film was a bit long.

That said, the majority of the movie is good. I think The Area 51 opening is pure classic Indy. If only the rest of the film had lived up to the promise of those scenes in the warehouse.

Suprisingly to some, I LOVED the fridge when I saw it in the theater. regardless of realism, I thought it was a genius set-up and I was laughing during that whole scene at Ford's troubled looks. I still love it.

Tarzan tree swinging, not so much....

 

[Koinek]

Sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who actually enjoyed it.

It wasn't the second coming that I and just about everyone else was hoping for but on its own terms, I think it's a lot of fun.

Which is all an Indy movie should be, IMO.

Agreed, I enjoyed the film, creepy ants and all.

 

[Mr Light]

I dunno if it holds up to the original trilogy but I loved #4. There were several parts that underwhelmed me but I still loved it. The action scenes were great, particularly the entire Area 51 sequence and the jungle jeep chase.

 

[startrekrcks]

I didn't really care for the Tarzan monkey scene not so much it sucked some of the action sequences rocked like the Area 51 scenes etc.

 

[Trubinator]

I like having aliens in Indy 4. That was my favorite part of the film.

 

[Nowhere Man]

It belongs in a musuem!

 

[Sparky]

Indy IV was entertaining enough but it could have been so much more. I can't really put my finger on it but the first 3 movies just felt more "real". They had a certain grittiness and truth on screen that IV just did not have. Maybe due to the real world filming locations in the first 3 as opposed to the more manufactured locations in IV.

In Temple of Doom Harrison Ford is on a real bridge a couple hundred feet above water while on location in Sri Lanka and it shows. In Indy IV he probably spent a good portion in front of a green screen along with the other actors, and it shows. If the fx were done properly it might have been good but the quality of some of the green screen fx were bush league for 1980 let alone a 2008 big budget blockbuster.

True the fx do not alter the plot but even that seemed milquetoast and forced at times. It didn't just capture the same charm and adventure and sense of danger as the others. Like I mentioned above I still enjoyed the film outside of a few wtf moments such as the fridge and the Tarzan bit. I just wish they had gone with the original plan of only using CGI when needed as opposed to building half the movie in a computer.

 

[Corran Horn]

I liked it. The only parts I thought were kinda 'off' were the Marian/Indy parts which I found kinda swarmy...and Indy is dressed like a doddery old man at the wedding with his bow tie. Maybe that's a callback to his 'professor' life, though.

 

[UssGlenn]

. I just wish they had gone with the original plan of only using CGI when needed as opposed to building half the movie in a computer.

I have to say the perfectly flat driving surfaces in the jungle take me out of the movie every time. That's what you get for filming on an actual road in Hawaii and in a studio. They didn't even double-back on the path cut by the road-cutter to explain it. Speaking of which the whirling blades of the cutter was a fight scene location which I can't believe they didn't take advantage of.

 

[Small White Car]

That said, the majority of the movie is good. I think The Area 51 opening is pure classic Indy. If only the rest of the film had lived up to the promise of those scenes in the warehouse.

Truer words have never been written on this entire site.

The openings of both KotCS and ToD are both among the top Indy moments. It's too bad they couldn't keep it up for the remainder of either film.

 

[RJDiogenes]

My favorite opening was Last Crusade-- that kid did an amazing young Indy, and we got to see the birth of all his affectations in one fell swoop.