Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures (1981-2008) + Individual Releases

[aiman04]

I'm glad they put that flying fridge scene in Kingdom. No other university professor can do that in cinema history. Just like the raft scene in Doom, it makes me smile every time, this is Indiana Jones and he's reminding me to forget my troubles in life and enjoy the ride!

es·cap·ism
–noun
the tendency to seek distraction and relief from unpleasant realities, especially by seeking entertainment or engaging in fantasy.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by aiman04

I'm glad they put that flying fridge scene in Kingdom. No other university professor can do that in cinema history.

The fridge doesn't bother me.

Bad dialog and bad screenwriting bother me...unless it's a Van Damme or SyFy movie, in which case, I'm disappointed when the films aren't worse than they are...

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

I must say this - Crystal Skull should stand as absolute irrefutable proof that no director is better than his screenplay. A great director with a bad script can only do so much, and at the end of the day, you have a great looking bad movie.

Wait, now you're making it sound like Crystal Skull had ONE script--
It had six (seven, maybe?), picked out from an assortment over the last twenty years since Crusade.
If you were Menno Mejyes, Chris Columbus, David Koepp, etc., you knew you were one of Spielberg's favorite writers because he'd let you do a draft on the next Indy film. Frank Darabont even got a crack at it after that 30's movie in "The Majestic".
And since no one of them worked out, we got highlights from all the others: We got the Roswell/50's-Cold-War bit from one, aliens from another, and the jungle chase from...Columbus's script, think it was?

And you can't blame Spielberg, when the fans kept pestering him "when the next one was", because they'd gotten used to doing it over the last twenty years...And heaven can only speculate how bad Zemeckis's neo-Roger Rabbit sequel will be, if he gets around to filming it by the end of the decade. They had to be made, because NOT making them would be like admitting defeat.
Stubbornness: the Eighth Deadly Sin of Hollywood.

[Strevlac]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

A great director with a bad script can only do so much, and at the end of the day, you have a great looking bad movie.

I'm not sure we even got a great looking movie with this one.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by EricJ

Stubbornness: the Eighth Deadly Sin of Hollywood.

I hope not, or my ticket to Hell was punched a long, long time ago...

[RatedRstar]

Who would have thought that America's greatest secrets are sitting in an above ground warehouse out in the open guarded by 10 guys.

[mport5150]

Originally Posted by NYorker

Anyone here saw 'Raiders' in the theater? and how old where you when you saw it? I had the chance to see it in the theater but thought it would be too scary(...) so our family went to see - gulp - 'On Golden Pond.' I regretted that for a long time...

I saw Raiders and The original Star Wars trilogy in NYC at the RKO Keith in Flushing, NY. I was 10! That was a great old theatre!

[octagon]

Originally Posted by RatedRstar

Who would have thought that America's greatest secrets are sitting in an above ground warehouse out in the open guarded by 10 guys.

It's always in the last place you look, isn't it?

[RatedRstar]

Originally Posted by octagon

It's always in the last place you look, isn't it?

Well the Russians certainly didn't have a hard time finding it.

[gregmasciola]

Originally Posted by Dan_Shane

I personally rate KotCS one notch higher than ToD.

That's how I feel about it. All I wanted when I went to see it was for it to be better than Temple of Doom, and I felt it was, so I left satisfied. Other than the

[Show spoiler]aliens

, the only other thing that annoyed me was those gophers (or groundhogs) that kept popping up. I kept expecting Bill Murray to come running in!

[Agent Bond]

See, I think Unbreakable is the best film he ever made...but I hated Signs with some unexpected intensity, and Shamalyan's intense self-promotion seemed to grow in direct proportion to the mediocrity of his later movies...by the time he was kissing his own ass in American Express commercials while releasing tripe like The Happening, I had given up on him. Still have. (And to tie this back to Spielberg, didn't Shamalyan boast at one point that he "knew Spielberg's secret"?)

Shyamalan's problem is because of the Sixth Sense, there's almost always a twist at the end of his films. And usually, the movie would've been better without it. He might as well as teach a course at film school called "How To Ruin A Good Movie In The Last 10 Minutes."

[HeavyHitter]

Originally Posted by NYorker

Anyone here saw 'Raiders' in the theater? and how old where you when you saw it? I had the chance to see it in the theater but thought it would be too scary(...) so our family went to see - gulp - 'On Golden Pond.' I regretted that for a long time...

I was nine when it came out. I didn't even really care to see it, but my mom took me.

I saw it 12 times between 1981 and around 1983. Movies used to come back for runs especially to smaller theaters during those times.

It's my favorite movie to this day.

[TheTimeTraveler-808]

This Is Great News cause i cant wait to replace my VHS Copies with blus

[NYorker]

Originally Posted by mport5150

I saw Raiders and The original Star Wars trilogy in NYC at the RKO Keith in Flushing, NY. I was 10! That was a great old theatre!

Nice! I was about 10 years old and was too scared for 'Raiders'...after I missed out on it in theaters I didn't see it till I was maybe 17 or 18.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

The Color Purple, Empire of the Sun, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can, and Munich just called and they all want to kick your ass.

Or the BAD ASS TRILOGY as I call them, we need the other two on Bluray stat!

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Lyle_JP

There were a precious few. I remember Robocop (not widescreen) being the first (and one of the only) pre-recorded S-VHS titles. I don't remember Indiana Jones being one of them but Paramount used to always be game for a new video format. They put out plenty of CD-Videos in the US (mostly as a tie-in to the Philips CD-I) and even sold a collection of pre-recorded Sony 8 tapes for a failed line of portable players.

I cant find a single mention on the net anywhere, how odd

[rickah88]

Originally Posted by dvdmike

Or the BAD ASS TRILOGY as I call them, we need the other two on Bluray stat!

I've seen Catch Me If You Can, a great little move BTW, on HD movie channels via Directv...looks very nice! This was one of those movies that I kind of last minute decided to see in the theatre, and have loved it ever since! Looking forward to seeing it released on BD.

"Wanna hear a joke?"
"KNOCK KNOCK"

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by rickah88

"Wanna hear a joke?"
"KNOCK KNOCK"

Who's there?


(yes, I know what comes next...)

[kdo]

Still hoping that Paramount makes the wise decision of putting out a standalone version of "Raiders" simultaneously with the release of the box-set. They don't need to do this for any of the sequels, since most people who want to own any of the sequels, will also want "Raiders," thus making the purchase of the entire collection worth it...but for the many others like myself, who only want the first film, we shouldn't have to pay a box-set price (or wait for months) in order to get it.

[HeavyHitter]

Originally Posted by kdo

Still hoping that Paramount makes the wise decision of putting out a standalone version of "Raiders" simultaneously with the release of the box-set. They don't need to do this for any of the sequels, since most people who want to own any of the sequels, will also want "Raiders," thus making the purchase of the entire collection worth it...but for the many others like myself, who only want the first film, we shouldn't have to pay a box-set price (or wait for months) in order to get it.

Based on Paramount's track record, I would say this is unlikely - until a couple of years or so after the boxset is released as they did with the Godfather movies.

With Star Trek, they have done the reverse; The Motion Picture still cannot be purchased individually (in U.S.) while the others can. That's really stupid.