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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
Ah, Marion Ravenwood. Le sigh. Unquestionably one of the best damsel in distress characters ever put to film. What makes her great is that she’s not passive about it. She isn’t Lois Lane in the Fleischer Superman toons (which I love, by the way), just sitting around waiting for the man to save her. At every point Marion is scheming or fighting. Whether it’s taking out a creepy looking henchman with a cast iron frying pan or liquoring up Belloq in her bid to escape, using his attraction to her against him, she’s just a smart character.
Today we check out Spielberg and Karen Allen on the set of Raiders of the Lost Ark… and one of them’s shirtless!
Thanks to Alexandre Poncet for sending this one along! Click to embiggen!
If you have a behind the scenes shot you’d like to submit to this column, you can email me at quint@aintitcool.com.
Tomorrow’s pic lights the lights.
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Getting behind the machine guns of that flying wing and mowing down a truckload of bad guys. What a woman.
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harrison ford at his best ,lucas and spielberg where cooking as film makers and the time was right for this movie to arrive. genius!!!
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Saw Raiders of the Lost Ark when I was 7 years old and it immediately sparked the love of history that has shaped and guided my life to this day.
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Nov 03, 2011 2:44:22 PM CDT
"She isn’t Lois Lane in the Fleischer Superman toons (which I love, by the way), just sitting around waiting for the man to save her."
by assymuffjizz
Quint, are you kidding me? Lois in those old cartoons had balls as big as church bells. She routinely snuck into giant robots, bullet cars, and random bad guys' vehicles. When she could, she'd do really heroic things (like saving the little girl from the out of control, giant ape at the fair).
Lois in those early Fleischer toons was ANYthing but a typical damsel in distress, waiting to be saved. She had ten times the balls of any other version of Lois I've ever seen (and rarely even screams, even under extreme duress).
It's remarkable that these shorts were made in the early to mid 40s. Fleischer-Lois should be a template for any film Lois to come. Beautiful and fearless -- even to the point of foolhardiness/death wish.
I love you, man, but--just this once--you're dead wrong. -
His right boob curves up just slightly like a young girl's boob. And his chest isn't hairy like I expected it to be. Hmmmm. Very curious.
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Nov 03, 2011 2:50:58 PM CDT
And his nipples are hard in response to Marion's presence...
by assymuffjizz
Face it. The Beard chose the wrong INDIANA JONES heroine to bed/marry.
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but as i got older it kinda grew on me and i realized how shit temple of doom is .
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amen
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Nov 03, 2011 2:54:17 PM CDT
jaymie69: "but as i got older it kinda grew on me and i realized how shit temple of doom is"
by assymuffjizz
THAT is why you fail.
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before this pick. Can you blame his for showing off those massive pythons? Enough to make Hulk Hogan jealous.
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i hope when SS is done with Lincoln and RoboTerminator he immediately starts on Indy 5 for a summer 2014 release
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Best Indy movie ever made...FACT.
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the shape of Marions bush magically appearing underneath the satin pink nightgown..pure movie magic..
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Classic. I still hate Last Crusade.
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..(make your own punchline)..
Okay Stevie...enough with the teasing, just release the three on Blu already, will you? -
A total masterwork - very few films ever, EVER, come to the quality of this one.
"I don't know, I'm making this up as I go" -
down in the Well of Souls where she gently prodded the snakes with her stick.
Hmm. Now that I think about it, maybe I'm mixing up the scene from Princess Bride when Buttercup gently prodded the ROUS with her stick. That bugged me too. -
Temple of Doom lost all of the subtlety that Raiders had. Instead of steady buildup and a respectful fear of the Ark's power, you get some glowing stones that just glow...well...because. We went from a FILM to a popcorn movie with Temple, where every scene is meant to shock or gross out the audience.
OH wait! Now we're on a plane that's going to crash! Now we're sledding down a mountain in a raft!! Now some lizards and shit are scaring the blonde!! Now we have food covered in flies and SHE HAS TO EAT IT OMG!!! Now they're eating monkey brains, baby snakes, and eyeballs!!! EYEBALLS!!! MONKEY BRAINS!!! AHHHHHH!!!!! OH NO HE RIPPED A GUY'S HEART OUT, BUT HE LIVES SO HE CAN BURST INTO FLAMES AS HE HITS THE LAVA!! INDY HAS TO DRINK BLOOD EEWWWW GROSSS!!!! NOW WE'RE ON A ROLLERCOASTER!!! SHAKY BRIDGE!!!! OMG OMG!!!!! CROCODILES!!!!!!!!
Cheap thrills and shock after shock. It was a glorified rollercoaster ride, even having a rollercoaster included.
Compare that to Raiders, where there were thrills, but it wasn't a slapstick gross out comedy all the way through. And the Ark was actually creepy. You found yourself more afraid of Yahweh than you did the Nazis.
I used to despise Temple of Doom, until I watched Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It actually made Temple a better movie when I realized how good we actually had it in comparison to Crystal Skull.
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Nov 03, 2011 3:49:30 PM CDT
Is that Hunter Thompson near the Berg's right shoulder? 'Where's the mescaline here?'
by scrote
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Nov 03, 2011 3:52:45 PM CDT
Odd how just seeing that picture puts Williams's music in my head...
by darth macchio
That whole chase scene is simply brilliant on basically every level. Amazing to think Lucas had anything to do with the dialogue considering how good it is and how well the characters play off each other, especially the scenes with Karen Allen.
I've had a crush on her since way back in the "Animal House" and "The Wanderers" (where she plays strip poker!!) days and Raiders only cemented my affection for this woman.
Raiders has a very special place for me as it's one of those rare movies where a parent and child bond perfectly in their affection for film (few exceptions of course).
Me pops and I watched Raiders so many times together that it's not even funny. When I was a wee rat, I actually asked for money from him so I could buy the movie for him (and me) on VHS for Christmas - I still have that VHS!
I even remember the theater mix - I think THX was rather new at the time and Raiders just thumped your belly in the theater - that machine gun Marian unleashes on the Nazi troops during Indy's fight with the big bald Nazi, that basso-profundo reverberating in my chest..and yes, the silvery white (not pink but maybe a bit lemony yellow?) nightgown slinking over her body in the wind on the boat, Indy's face and reaction when the soldier discovers him hiding behind the crates at the hidden island base...
It's about as perfect an adventure film as you could want methinks... -
Not the film-making, the fact somebody would be shirtless on the job. I mean most of the crew guys have to wear long sleeves, safety glasses and work gloves nowadays... Thanks OSHA!
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as stated above:
the treasure is glowing rocks. that i guess make things fertile and make water flow and stuff. because without it, people are living in a shithole and should probably migrate to someplace more fertile. we're supposed to feel sorry for them about that.
but if the bad guys get the glowing rocks...well..they can mind control children or something? and i guess take over the world. because they've brainwashed an indian kid.
glowing rocks.
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nazis>thuggees anyday. and the additional dark makeup and mascara on the bad guys is almost the equivalent of hindi blackface.
if the indiana jones movies WERE meant to homage old adventure serials, temple should have been a 15 minute one, at best. it's just ugly, uninteresting, historically and culturally innaccurate and like said before, just a shock fest for kids. -
...every time I catch a re-run of any of the Jones movies, this is the only one that I can't turn off.
Hate the altered title too later; it's not Indiana Jones and the Raiders....It's fucking Raiders. Hasn't been an action movie like it since; still get goosebumps hearing Williams' score during the truck chase (it's up there with the climax of The Fury for getting your neck hairs goin').
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The scene where Marion yelling "Noooo" is abruptly cut off by the baddies at the top, sealing up the hatch... that really disturbed me at a young age.
Aside from that, an extremely well-made movie. No mean-spiritedness with still-beating hearts, no father-son wisecracks, and no crystal skull that looks like it's stuffed with wadded-up saran wrap, dammit! -
NO ONE turns off Temple of Doom! What are you, women?
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They were filming in 120 degree Tunisian heat!
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I can't stand any of the others.
But Raiders is one of my favorite films! -
Nov 03, 2011 4:31:19 PM CDT
'Listen, Herr Mac, nobody tells me what to do in my own place.'
by drstrangerlove
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...Much like Spire_Walk stated above, it just seems like a forced series of set-pieces. The only stuff I liked in DOOM was the opening first ten minutes or so. It's a good popcorn movie - saw it with my family, and we all shouted, screamed, squirmed in all the right places but, to me, it has none of the resonance of Raiders.
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did they finally change the title in the movie itself? i only have the dvd box set from a few years back and while the disc/case art has the title altered, the movie itself is still "Indiana Jones-less". i wonder if the eventual blu-ray will change that since Lucas is involved. lol
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"Raiders Of The Lost Ark" (I believe) is one of the best films ever made. This movie literally encompasses almost every genre.
It introduced one of the most iconic characters ever. It has a female lead that is just as great a character as, Indy. It has a formidable villain. In fact - it's got multiple great bad guys.
The stunts are amazing. The acting. The cinematography. Directing. Writing. Editing. Locations. Sets. Visual effects. Music. It's as if Spielberg and posse captured lighting in a bottle over and over on this movie.
I so wanted "Crystal Skull" to be on that level of film making. Especially when I heard Karen Allen was on board again.
Anyone know if there was a falling out with Kasdan and the boys? I don't understand why he wasn't sought out to write "Crystal Skull"? He wrote "Raiders" and "Empire" around the same time - both of those films are praised by most as the best films in those series. I've always been surprised that they didn't bring Kasdan back on.
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Nov 03, 2011 5:07:48 PM CDT
nolan bautista - Yeah man! Awesome, back then, women still had bushes, now with Brazilian waxes, it'd just look like a slight, smooth lump under there
by has_snyder_been_fired_from_superman_yet
Of course thank jeebus Raiders wasn't shot in the early 70's, it would've looked like Marion was trying to smuggle a mid-sized alleycat under that nightie.
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You're right. Just like mine; but why change the title on the packaging? Actually, you're probably right when it comes to the Blu-ray editions. Just hope Berg can keep Lucas away from tampering with the first movie; I couldn't care less about the others to be honest.
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Spielberg always got the latest gadets before anyone else.
he was one of the first people to own a car phone...he and Depalma called a girl while sitting in front of her house and asked her out on a date...she said yes and when they rang her doorbell thirty seconds later, she was shocked. -
Nov 03, 2011 5:20:50 PM CDT
I only wish it were easier to make a film as good as "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
by the reluctant austinite
If it were, a bunch of really great films would come out all the time.
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...yeah, what happened with Kasdan? I'm disappointed we never got to see Darabont's script on the screen for Skull...but apparantly that was Turtle-Neck's decision.
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Of All Time:
1. It's Raiders.
2. Contains the greatest scene in movie history; Indy shooting the swordsman and walking away.
3. Indiana Jones is the lead character. This explains alot.
4. It's Raiders.
5. The bad guys WIN. Think about it.
6. Best romantic line ever; "It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage"
7. Best leading lady character ever. Marion Ravenwood. Come on guys, she outdrank a SHERPA.
8. It's Raiders.
9. It's the most consistent, non-stop action film ever made. THERE FORE, it beats Die Hard.
10. It's a very Christian film. This is more for parents and history buffs.
11. Indy is fallible, and a jerk.
12. Best sidekick ever: Sallah. "Asps, very dangerous...YOU GO FOORST!"
13. It's Raiders.
14. The villain, Belloq is French, and he's NOT a jerk!
15. The best score ever recorded, and YES, it's better than Star Wars and Superman.
16. Spielberg's finest moment, he'll never top it.
17. There is NO CGI whatsoever.
18. It's timeless. Could be made today, and still work.
19. The finest script ever penned.
20. The most important fact of all....IT'S RAIDERS!! -
Nov 03, 2011 5:43:18 PM CDT
Zombot, I've never seen an intelligent post by you.
by sierratangofoxtrotuniform
You must really hate white people, yet you get all up in arms and all PC-pussified over a fucking adventure movie that is supposed to be b-movie-esque.
Like every fucking Indy movie, the relics are just MacGuffins. It's about the adventure itself and the change of Indy from a faithless treasure hunter to a true believer.
Go stand on the corner of Wall Street or something, you crybaby. -
I believe you could say that for the release on DVD, the above was made to be erroneous as they digitally removed a reflection from safety glass in the Well of the Souls.
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Nov 03, 2011 5:50:40 PM CDT
i can think of a lot more idiotic, spiteful things on here than what i say
by zombot
some of you need to wear some emotional armor.
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Nov 03, 2011 6:14:50 PM CDT
"some of you need to wear some emotional armor. " Yet you cry over "hindi blackface"?
by sierratangofoxtrotuniform
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Nov 03, 2011 6:17:27 PM CDT
By the way, Raiders is the greatest adventure movie of all time.
by sierratangofoxtrotuniform
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXvSi8xBWvQ
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Nov 03, 2011 6:24:50 PM CDT
"Great pains were taken to give the fourth movie the look and feel of the first three, despite the time gap."
by sierratangofoxtrotuniform
From this blog:
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/15081
Bull. Shit. Look at Indy 4 when Indy and his sidekick are detained by the Russians towards the beginning of the film. The whole scene looks FAKE, from the artificial quality of the background to the MULTIPLE LIGHT SOURCES. Seriously, look at how many shadows each character creates.
Now compare that to Raiders when Indy is about to begin to dig at the Well of the Souls. I love that scene. It looks and feels authentic because it IS.
Indy 4 looks so fake, from the opening frame to the closing. This movie had the fewest location shoots of any Indy movie, and it shows. Not only did it feel artificial, the scale of the movie seemed so abysmally small compared to the others.
And the music. Raiders has one of the best soundtracks of all times. Williams is so great that he competes with himself for greatest film score of all time. Indy 4? Ugh. First Williams score I think I hated. So sad. -
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Almost every other movie ever made.
It's just an opinion, I know, but I swear by that equation. -
Sorry, I don't see it; now, there is unabashedly Jewish content (oh, I don't know, how about the Ark of the Covenant?) including a version of the Shekinah tearing ass on the Nazis.
For Christian references, see "The Last Crusade".
T.'.
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...the worst part for me (worse than swinging with monkies and fridge nukage) is how they handled Marion.
It's like she had a lobotomy. She's all giggly and glassy eyed and takes a back seat to all the action. -
Nov 03, 2011 6:52:45 PM CDT
"Despite the fact that Indy never attain the treasures he's seeking". Indy got the Cross of Coronado.
by sierratangofoxtrotuniform
But you're right in that he never gets to keep anything, and that the main artifact always goes to someone or somewhere else.
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Marion's, what, 25 in Raiders? Indy's 10 years older than her. Their relationship was 10 years prior to that. Go figure...:O
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Nothing made today can touch it. CGI is pussyshit.
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I see this becoming the next talkback trend.
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Nov 03, 2011 7:29:48 PM CDT
Marion was great in Raiders, but had none of that mojo in Crystal Skull.
by greatwhitenoise
Then again, who DID in that movie...
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Nov 03, 2011 8:13:27 PM CDT
I've been playing Uncharted 3 and its the Raiders of the Lost Ark of video games.
by yelsaeb
Really, Uncharted 3 is just plain amazing. I can hardly believe it. I'm not going to go on one of my "Indy 4 is awesome" rants. Uncharted 3 has me in too good of a mood. In fact, I'm going to go play it right now.
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look at the size of that patch - pure cheesy goodness.
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FACT.
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Nov 03, 2011 8:20:06 PM CDT
"Marion's, what, 25 in Raiders? Indy's 10 years older than her"
by president baltar
Actually, Karen Allen was 30 when the movie came out, and Harrison Ford was 39.
BTW, it only took me about 2 seconds to look that up.
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Nov 03, 2011 8:26:50 PM CDT
I don't know which is cooler... Steven sans the shirt (and lookin' fine) or
by proman1984
Thefact that he wears a Raiders cap while making raiders.
Both are awesome. And so is Karen Allen. -
Nov 03, 2011 8:40:11 PM CDT
It did take me years to realize that the backstory is Indy deflowered Abner's underage daughter
by rebel scumb
and that's why they had a falling out.
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Those 3 games are the only worthy successor we've had to Indiana Jones since 1989
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Nov 03, 2011 9:37:00 PM CDT
Christian? Naw, even Last Crusade was medieval mysticism more than Chrisianity
by has_snyder_been_fired_from_superman_yet
See, Judaiam has Kabala, Islam has Sufism, but for the most part, Christianity has no mystical sects or offshoots anymore. Groups like the Gnostics, Bogomils, Cathars, Knights Templar were all ruthlessly hunted down and wiped out by the Roman Catholic establishment a long time ago.
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Nov 03, 2011 9:44:06 PM CDT
Actor's ages have NOTHING, NOTHING to do with character's ages. Come on, that's fucking common sense.
by sierratangofoxtrotuniform
Indiana Jones, the character -- NOT Harrison Ford -- was born in 1899. Therefore, Indy would be about 37 in Raiders, which takes place in 1936.
According to the same source, Marion was born in 1909, making her about 16 when Indy -- again, NOT Harrison -- "romanced" her in 1925. -
Taped that booty to what?
What kind of tape did he use?
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I could rap about karen Allen vs Kate Capshaw all day, but where's the Newz?
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taped them good
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Oh, wait, scratch that. I meant to say, "Remember when American movies were good?" Seeing as how there are great movies coming outta almost everywhere *but* here.
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It really was. Look, Steve, we know Lucas is an idiot, but you're actually a good director, sometimes a great one. How the fuck you let Lucas fuck up Indy?? Does he have more power than you? I guess so. Otherwise you coulda been like, "George, um, you've lost your fucking mind. Stop ruining everything."
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It gave birth to the '80's action movie, for one thing. But on top of that, it feels like it's part Casablanca, film noir, John Ford Western... and this is saying nothing about the adventure serial undertones. It took some of the best aspects of American films and combined them.
It's probably a good thing no one has ever outdone this movie, or else we might not remember it so fondly. -
Great one, one of the best.
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If you live in LA you're in luck. The Egyptian theater is having a 30th anniversary screening Nov. 20th.
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Nov 04, 2011 3:36:42 AM CDT
Although Raiders did have a negative impact on certain areas of culture...
by scrote
...Anyone remember that Goddawful TV series Bring Em Back Alive with Bruce Boxleitner and oh yeah, the awesomely horrible shit that was High Road To China with the Tash
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Which is why Raiders and Last Crusade are better than Temple. Even though Brody seemed to have suffered a stroke in the third film (only explanation I can think of for his ineptness), they both had strong female characters compared to the screamer in 2.
I bought the pack of the first 3 movies and it says Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Irked me a bit, plus seeing Alfred Molina get star billing credit for 2 minutes of screen time.
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Nov 04, 2011 7:49:07 AM CDT
Favorite part may be when Belloq uses Indy's love or archaeology against him.
by dogmatic
He's got them Nazi bastiches over a barrel....a beeline on the ark able to blow it away and take away their prize....and the Nazis are scared pantsless b/c of the danger to the Fuhrer's prize, but Belloq is cool and calm. He knows this is a bluff of all bluffs. And you can see on Indy's face the war of wills going on within....that was lost before it began. Great part.
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It worked even better on Capshaw.
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I just love when against all logic, in a situation where she and Indy are almost certainly dead and about to be sealed in the well of souls, she yells, "You bastards! I'll get you for this!!"
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Nov 04, 2011 9:06:32 AM CDT
How the heck did they go from Marion awesome to Willie screaming bitch?
by knobules
Marion was SO missed in Temple of Doom. That movie would have rocked with her character in it. Instead we get that endless pit of noise called Kate Capshaws mouth. WTF where they thinking?
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Nov 04, 2011 9:11:49 AM CDT
I thought Willie was a perfect counter to Marion...a nice change instead of just repeating the same...AND let's not forget Temple is a prequel SO...
by dogmatic
this was an Indy a little more womanizing...jumping at any hot skirt. Letting his attraction get the better of his good sense. Marion comes along 2 years later in Raider (by the Indy timeline) at just the right time for Indy...reminding him of the best woman he was ever with and why. I think it works anyways.
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Nov 04, 2011 9:43:36 AM CDT
To the idiot who said raiders has no mean spiritedness like the still beating hearts in doom:
by ultratron
Well not if you ask the nazis. They'd be like. Uh yeah. There was some pretty mean face exploding spiritedness directed at them pretty good. The reason you guys always sound like you're tripping is because all of your opinions come from different eras throughout which your brains were still forming and shaping.
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The beard knew she could bush-fill out a dress
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Michael Bay never took off his shirt while directing.
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Really? How the hell did that slip by.
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Nov 04, 2011 11:21:36 AM CDT
Why didn't Marion punch Indy when she saw him in Crystal Skull?
by crimson dynamo
seemed like a no-brainer thing to do
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It's the only relic he recovered (onscreen) that went somewhere he really wanted and he'd have access to.
I'd like to imagine it in the museum with a plaque reading, "Cross of Coronado, circa whatever. Acquired by Dr. H.W. Jones, Jr., Professor, Barnett College." -
I mean it's no Ark but it's something. In fact, it's probably priceless. And Nurhachee. He could have given it to a museum if he wanted. That's why Temple of Doom was a prequel. Indy was a mercenary prick then. In Raiders he was a little less of a mercenary pick.
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Karen Allen circa 1981? She can gently prod my stick any time
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Whats wrong with liking both films? They both offer something different.
I applaud Lucas and Speilberg for going a different direction with Doom. All too often sequels attempt to recreate what they did in the first film. As fans, we never get to see anything new. Same jokes, same beats, same villains. thats not cool. And Doom took us somewhere else. It is a great film. Its more of a throwback than Raiders is, too.
Crusade is that sequel everyone expected first. it has the same beats as raiders only now here is his dad for the twist!
and then Crystal is exactly the same thing, only CGI'd like crazy and barely holding on to the Indy legend. You can even tell how Oxley was (badly) rewritten from being Henry Sr. and the wedding with all those old people....just the worst ending Ive ever seen in a movie.
Crusade and Crystal should have ALL of you happy that Doom was made. Its the only film in all 4 that is totally different. Doesnt that count for something nowadays?
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