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Post by Fade is a CodyCryBaby on Mar 6, 2024 0:55:51 GMT -5
I watched Dial of Destiny not long ago, jeez that sucked. Crystal Skull was unironically a better ending for the Indiana Jones character. I couldn’t finish DOD I tapped out. Temple of Doom always holds a special place for traumatizing me as a kid with that heart scene. I really like crusade too. Crystal skull is like bad fast food but it goes down. Raiders may be the best film.
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 6, 2024 1:14:55 GMT -5
Indian Jones is what Taz would call Dhalsim from Street Fighter II.
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Post by tirtefaa on Mar 6, 2024 7:17:59 GMT -5
Never forget that if you took Indiana Jones out of Raiders, the movie would still end the same way... Marion would be dead.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Mar 6, 2024 8:55:27 GMT -5
The Austrian woman was so good looking, but I was confused. She’s a female protagonist, then she’s a nazi, then she’s upset about book burning and gives the book back, and then she’s helping the nazis again. If you thought she looked good in Indy 3, you’ll be floored by her in Major League 2. I think she was also a Bond Girl, but it was in one of the handful of the series I have never bothered to watch (A View to a Kill, though unlike Octopussy I’ve at least watched some clips of AVtaK).
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Post by Feyrhausen on Mar 6, 2024 15:22:27 GMT -5
Never forget that if you took Indiana Jones out of Raiders, the movie would still end the same way... Marion would be dead. Nazis might never have found Marion. Toht had to shadow Indy. But she would have still been stuck in Nepal. By the time they managed to track her down war might have been on and they had more pressing matters. Most likely they would have given up and just strip mined all of Tanis looking for the Well of Souls.
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Post by tirtefaa on Mar 6, 2024 15:46:22 GMT -5
Nazis might never have found Marion. Toht had to shadow Indy. But she would have still been stuck in Nepal. By the time they managed to track her down war might have been on and they had more pressing matters It's never outright stated that Toht tailed Indy. The guy on the plane reading the magazine is a different person. Regardless, if they don't aquire the staff headpiece, then it makes finding the Ark more difficult. But at this point, it becomes more and more speculative. I guess what I'm getting at is if Big Bang Theory is going to imply that everything would have played out the same, then that would mean that the likely events would be that the headpiece was still acquired the same way, and that Belloq's mindset about opening the Ark was the same with or without Indy, and that Dieter would have been as ready to go along with it. As is, the Nazis moved quickly to move the Ark from point to point BECAUSE of Indy's actions. Regardless, I think if Big Bang Theory was looking for a way to be clever...they should start with writing better jokes.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Mar 6, 2024 16:54:54 GMT -5
Most likely they would have given up and just strip mined all of Tanis looking for the Well of Souls. I'd argue they'd have found it before too long anyway, given it was a) right in the middle of their digsite, and b) could be accessed by busting through a crumbling wall from a chamber that was at least partially visible from their airfield.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Mar 6, 2024 17:03:25 GMT -5
Most likely they would have given up and just strip mined all of Tanis looking for the Well of Souls. I'd argue they'd have found it before too long anyway, given it was a) right in the middle of their digsite, and b) could be accessed by busting through a crumbling wall from a chamber that was at least partially visible from their airfield. Thats what I am saying. Without the means to find the exact location they would have just strip mined the city to find it. Belloq was probably the reason they didnt in the first place. As an archeologist he would at last make a token objection to destroying the ruins. But with destruction being the only means to find it his greed would win out, and the Nazis wouldnt care anyway.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Mar 6, 2024 17:28:10 GMT -5
Thats what I am saying. Without the means to find the exact location they would have just strip mined the city to find it. Belloq was probably the reason they didnt in the first place. As an archeologist he would at last make a token objection to destroying the ruins. But with destruction being the only means to find it his greed would win out, and the Nazis wouldnt care anyway. I feel like if Indy hadn't gotten to it first the Nazis would likely have come upon it a day or two later without even needing to strip mine the place. In the wide shots they have active digs on three sides of it, and it wouldn't take someone of Belloq's training and experience to go "Why don't we check that big mound with a partially-buried chamber sticking out the side?"
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Mar 6, 2024 17:58:52 GMT -5
I watched Dial of Destiny not long ago, jeez that sucked. Crystal Skull was unironically a better ending for the Indiana Jones character. I couldn’t finish DOD I tapped out. Temple of Doom always holds a special place for traumatizing me as a kid with that heart scene. I really like crusade too. Crystal skull is like bad fast food but it goes down. Raiders may be the best film. I was watching Dial of Destiny on a flight, made it about halfway, and just lost interest. Which was weird, because there was a lot I liked in what I had seen up to that point. The film leaning in to Indy being older and physically and emotionally vulnerable, the locales, etc.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Mar 6, 2024 18:55:01 GMT -5
I was watching Dial of Destiny on a flight, made it about halfway, and just lost interest. Which was weird, because there was a lot I liked in what I had seen up to that point. The film leaning in to Indy being older and physically and emotionally vulnerable, the locales, etc. Aside from dragging in a few places (the tuktuk chase was longer than it needed to be), the only thing I didn't really like was the prologue. Some of the CGI just didn't look natural (specifically Indy jumping from one train carriage to the other), and having 80+ year-old Ford's voice coming out of 40 year-old Indy was a huge disconnect in what was otherwise a good opening sequence.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Mar 6, 2024 18:55:51 GMT -5
Thats what I am saying. Without the means to find the exact location they would have just strip mined the city to find it. Belloq was probably the reason they didnt in the first place. As an archeologist he would at last make a token objection to destroying the ruins. But with destruction being the only means to find it his greed would win out, and the Nazis wouldnt care anyway. I feel like if Indy hadn't gotten to it first the Nazis would likely have come upon it a day or two later without even needing to strip mine the place. In the wide shots they have active digs on three sides of it, and it wouldn't take someone of Belloq's training and experience to go "Why don't we check that big mound with a partially-buried chamber sticking out the side?" Yes but remember the Nazis were only that close because of Indy. He went after Marion, they followed and got an imprint of half the amulet. It told them to make a staff a certain height. But the other side of the amulet told you to take some length back. So the Nazis was too tall. But it only overshot them a short distance away. But no Indy, no Marion, no amulet. So all the Nazis had was Tanis, an entire buried city, and the map room. So they would have had to basically search the entire city.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Mar 6, 2024 19:12:53 GMT -5
Yes but remember the Nazis were only that close because of Indy. He went after Marion, they followed and got an imprint of half the amulet. It told them to make a staff a certain height. But the other side of the amulet told you to take some length back. So the Nazis was too tall. But it only overshot them a short distance away. But no Indy, no Marion, no amulet. So all the Nazis had was Tanis, an entire buried city, and the map room. So they would have had to basically search the entire city. Fair, though it's probably just my annoyance that the plot contrives Indy and Marion escaping so easily from the Well of Souls right onto the airfield. What are the odds that one of the first things the Nazis would have had to build when they set up in Tanis would be almost right on top of what they were looking for?
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Post by Urn Anderson on Mar 8, 2024 20:14:35 GMT -5
Indians Jones is what Taz calls a Cleveland baseball fan.
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Post by Hit Girl on Mar 8, 2024 22:33:20 GMT -5
"Indian Jones and the Raiders of the Most Ark" sounds like a Turkish bootleg version.
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Post by SmashTV on Mar 10, 2024 10:22:27 GMT -5
Last Crusade is my favourite, followed by Raiders. I never really used to rate Raiders, until I watched it again a few years back and realised it’s essentially a non-stop adventure.
I get why people don’t like Temple, but it was the first I saw as a kid and so I’ve got a sentimental attachment to it.
I watched Dial of Destiny just for completeness, and it was an entertaining enough, if forgettable, couple of hours.
Crystal Skull, though? I’ve watched it once, knew I was in for a rough ride with Cockney Ray Winstone’ extra Cockney accent, and haven’t gone back. Nor will I.
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