New Indiana Jones Movie in works

[The Evil Dead]

You know people sure will buy survival out of a plane by way of inflatable raft but hate on the fridge.
People will accept a gold box that houses fire and ghosts but hate on the fridge.
People will wholely buy into a cup that heals wounds and grants immortal life but hate on the fridge.


So, so, so, soooooo cynical in their adult years. I swear these people forgot how to unplug and just be entertained.

It's not the fridge for me. For me it's the way in which the film was shot, I hated seeing an Indiana Jones movie that looked like it was shot in a studio in Los Angeles. The thing felt downright claustrophobic due to it's overuse of CGI.

 

[Samurai8472]

Maybe Indy will be dying of cancer in the next one. "I guess the fridge didn't work."

He'll either get cured or his katra will end up in Mutt.

 

[Cmndr J Crichton]

You know people sure will buy survival out of a plane by way of inflatable raft but hate on the fridge.
People will accept a gold box that houses fire and ghosts but hate on the fridge.
People will wholely buy into a cup that heals wounds and grants immortal life but hate on the fridge.


So, so, so, soooooo cynical in their adult years. I swear these people forgot how to unplug and just be entertained.

It's not the fridge for me. For me it's the way in which the film was shot, I hated seeing an Indiana Jones movie that looked like it was shot in a studio in Los Angeles. The thing felt downright claustrophobic due to it's overuse of CGI.

INDY 5 will be no different. CGI is how they make movies now. Can you imgaine how expensive Star Trek would've been if it was done entrely practical?

 

[Fish1941]

You know people sure will buy survival out of a plane by way of inflatable raft but hate on the fridge.
People will accept a gold box that houses fire and ghosts but hate on the fridge.
People will wholely buy into a cup that heals wounds and grants immortal life but hate on the fridge.


So, so, so, soooooo cynical in their adult years. I swear these people forgot how to unplug and just be entertained.

It's not the fridge for me. For me it's the way in which the film was shot, I hated seeing an Indiana Jones movie that looked like it was shot in a studio in Los Angeles. The thing felt downright claustrophobic due to it's overuse of CGI.

WTF??? I guess we were watching two different movies.

 

[Fish1941]

You know people sure will buy survival out of a plane by way of inflatable raft but hate on the fridge.
People will accept a gold box that houses fire and ghosts but hate on the fridge.
People will wholely buy into a cup that heals wounds and grants immortal life but hate on the fridge.


So, so, so, soooooo cynical in their adult years. I swear these people forgot how to unplug and just be entertained.

It's not the fridge for me. For me it's the way in which the film was shot, I hated seeing an Indiana Jones movie that looked like it was shot in a studio in Los Angeles. The thing felt downright claustrophobic due to it's overuse of CGI.

INDY 5 will be no different. CGI is how they make movies now. Can you imgaine how expensive Star Trek would've been if it was done entrely practical?

I'm getting tired of people bitching about CGI. The complaints are becoming boring. Is this always going to be the case, everytime the Hollywood community create some new form of special effects? Because if it is, this only tells me that people are incapable of dealing with change.

You know people sure will buy survival out of a plane by way of inflatable raft but hate on the fridge.
People will accept a gold box that houses fire and ghosts but hate on the fridge.
People will wholely buy into a cup that heals wounds and grants immortal life but hate on the fridge.

If you're talking about Indy surviving a nuclear blast in a refrigerator, I get the message. Even if I find it a bore. Frankly, I'm more disturbed by the idea of a Nazi regiment in 1936 Egypt. Now that was stupid.

 

[Jack Bauer]

Yes! I really liked Crystal Skull though it's nowhere near as good as Raiders or Crusade but it's way better than Temple of Doom.

 

[Forbin]

If you're talking about Indy surviving a nuclear blast in a refrigerator, I get the message. Even if I find it a bore. Frankly, I'm more disturbed by the idea of a Nazi regiment in 1936 Egypt. Now that was stupid.

Carrying P-38 pistols amd MP-40 machine guns!

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

I'm getting tired of people bitching about CGI. The complaints are becoming boring. Is this always going to be the case, everytime the Hollywood community create some new form of special effects? Because if it is, this only tells me that people are incapable of dealing with change.

CGI is like any filmmaking tool - it can be used to both good and bad effect. There are some FX where CGI is far superior to practical effects, bringing things to life that would either be impossible for practical FX to create or which would look exceedingly lame with practical FX. But there are also instances where CGI is used unwisely and practical methods would have been better (the plague-infected creatures in I Am Legend, for example, would have been better in my opinion had they been actors in makeup rather than CGI creations).

 

[The Evil Dead]

You know people sure will buy survival out of a plane by way of inflatable raft but hate on the fridge.
People will accept a gold box that houses fire and ghosts but hate on the fridge.
People will wholely buy into a cup that heals wounds and grants immortal life but hate on the fridge.


So, so, so, soooooo cynical in their adult years. I swear these people forgot how to unplug and just be entertained.

It's not the fridge for me. For me it's the way in which the film was shot, I hated seeing an Indiana Jones movie that looked like it was shot in a studio in Los Angeles. The thing felt downright claustrophobic due to it's overuse of CGI.

WTF??? I guess we were watching two different movies.

Maybe! I watched the one where the primary jungle chase sequence of the film was shot entirely against a blue screen, which one did you see?!

My favorite action beat of the film was the University motorcycle chase cause it was shot well and invoked the original Jones films.

 

[Trubinator]

It's not the fridge for me. For me it's the way in which the film was shot, I hated seeing an Indiana Jones movie that looked like it was shot in a studio in Los Angeles. The thing felt downright claustrophobic due to it's overuse of CGI.

WTF??? I guess we were watching two different movies.

Maybe! I watched the one where the primary jungle chase sequence of the film was shot entirely against a blue screen, which one did you see?!

My favorite action beat of the film was the University motorcycle chase cause it was shot well and invoked the original Jones films.

Agreed. I loved that scene!

 

[Nick Ryder]

I tend to agree, I think the movie was at its best when it was actually shot in practical locations, CGI/Backlots really just don't do a film like Indiana Jones justice, part of what made the originals really fun was that they went to these far off locales and they were real place... sorta. Vehicle chase through real streets are more exciting too, when there's a lot of people and other traffic around, and that's one part that KOTCS got right. I loved that car/cycle chase scene too

 

[Gaith]

I'd love to see an Indy 5, and for one reason: Infodroid. The fan editor who Raiders-ified The Last Crusade and carved a good Indy out of the awful Temple of Doom is hard at work on Crystal Skull, and the "Decontaminated" result, which should come out before the end of summer, will almost certainly be a heaping helping of awesome.

These people are artistic parasites.

Apply what value judgments you will, Infodroid's edits are, imo, artistically superior to the official releases, and a hell of a lot more fun, also.

 

[RJDiogenes]

The only problem with the action scenes in Crystal Skull was that they went on too long. Action scenes become boring quickly and are greatly enhanced by brevity.

 

[Aragorn]

CGI is fine when it aids the scene and isn't the entire reason for the scene.

Paramount is actually letting JJ Abrams make the next movie. Chris Pine will be Junior, Bruce Greenwood will be Senior, Simon Pegg will be Marcus, and Zoe Saldana and John Cho will be very different types of Nazis.

 

[Nardpuncher]

The fridge thing didn't work because we tend to see Indy in our minds next to stone, sand, dirt, bright sun, horses, leather, blue sky, old relics and all that.
Indian Jones even standing next to a refrigerator in a movie looks silly. Getting in one to avoid an atomic explosions really shouldn't have been in the movie.

 

[Broccoli]

The only problem with the action scenes in Crystal Skull was that they went on too long. Action scenes become boring quickly and are greatly enhanced by brevity.

Interesting. That was the problem I had with Last Crusade. I like the movie, but I always felt it was one action scene too long.

Maybe! I watched the one where the primary jungle chase sequence of the film was shot entirely against a blue screen, which one did you see?!

Then you clearly didn't see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Link.

"The script calls for a virgin jungle, but there's not one we could safely run four vehicles through," said Helman. "We could've approached it in a more modern way on a big stage with a blue screen, but that's not the way we did it. We basically shot it the same way we would've shot it 20 years ago."


Spielberg filmed the pursuit scene on dirt roads in a more sparse jungle in Hawaii. Helman traveled to Argentina, where he was born, and Brazil to capture images that would be used to craft the junglescape, including a looming cliff where part of the chase takes place.


At the ILM offices, Helman and his team meshed the Hawaiian footage with the Brazilian and Argentinian imagery, adding huge swathes of flora using a new digital-effects technique. The result is a fictitious jungle, one with its own look, layout and laws of physics, that only exists inside the computers at ILM.

In any event, it looks more real than the blue screened raft down the mountain in ToD.

 

[Nardpuncher]

The only problem with the action scenes in Crystal Skull was that they went on too long. Action scenes become boring quickly and are greatly enhanced by brevity.

Interesting. That was the problem I had with Last Crusade. I like the movie, but I always felt it was one action scene too long.

Maybe! I watched the one where the primary jungle chase sequence of the film was shot entirely against a blue screen, which one did you see?!

Then you clearly didn't see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Link.

"The script calls for a virgin jungle, but there's not one we could safely run four vehicles through," said Helman. "We could've approached it in a more modern way on a big stage with a blue screen, but that's not the way we did it. We basically shot it the same way we would've shot it 20 years ago."


Spielberg filmed the pursuit scene on dirt roads in a more sparse jungle in Hawaii. Helman traveled to Argentina, where he was born, and Brazil to capture images that would be used to craft the junglescape, including a looming cliff where part of the chase takes place.


At the ILM offices, Helman and his team meshed the Hawaiian footage with the Brazilian and Argentinian imagery, adding huge swathes of flora using a new digital-effects technique. The result is a fictitious jungle, one with its own look, layout and laws of physics, that only exists inside the computers at ILM.

In any event, it looks more real than the blue screened raft down the mountain in ToD.

Doesn't matter how much was CG and how much was real...it looked too fake.

 

[Kolrad]

I enjoy it a lot more when I get to be part of a minority that liked a movie than when I'm one of the few that hated it, but I'm afraid I'm in the latter category when it comes to Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

I suppose people look for different things in the Indiana Jones movies, and of course it was impossible to please everyone. I missed the first three films' playful sense of humor and excitement-- Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was _boring_ for long stretches, which is about the worst thing an Indiana Jones movie could be, as far as I'm concerned.

A mark against a potential fifth movie in my estimation is the fact that I didn't find the character of Mutt interesting at all.

Oh well; that's my grumpy opinion. I'm glad we got the good Indy movies we did. Hopefully those who enjoyed the fourth will enjoy the fifth.

 

[Forbin]

Ya know the only thing that really bothered me about Crystal Skull? The digital LED countdown in the rocket sled scene. In 1957. Where'd they get that, in a time warp from 20 years in the future?

Also, less annoying but also wrong, the F-86s in Korean War markings at the Air Force base. In '57 they should have been F-100s or F-102s.

 

[TeknoNurd]

"Indiana Jones and the Search for God"

Isn't that the traditional volume 5 movie?

"What does God need with a Bullwhip?"