While Raiders of the Lost Ark is an absolute classic, and Temple of Doom is unfairly criticized (it's my personal favorite), I found things started to get pretty thin with The Last Crusade. The only thing that saved an otherwise forgettable 1.5 hrs of Indy 3 was the GREAT ending at Petra. I fear that they really milked all the material possible over the course of the original trilogy, and I'm worried Indy 4 is going to end up being a heavy-handed (though probably crowd pleasing) mess.
I guess they did have 19 years to come up with a script, so I could be wrong... But what really gets me is in watching the various trailers, there is waaaaay too much CG for an Indy movie. I mean the whole point of Raiders was to emulate the slightly-cheesy aspect of 40s & 50s serials. To introduce CG into that world saps it of all the uniqueness and nostalgia that were it's main strengths. I wish they had stayed the course using predominantly in-camera trickery and matte paintings for all the visual effects as that was what gave the first 3 movies the ultimate x-factor: charm.
We'll see tomorrow I guess.
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