In less IMAX-ey goodness, they're doing a free outdoor showing of Raiders at Deerfoot Outlet Mall on Friday. Should be fun for kids, except for the face-melting part near the end... that might be traumatizing.
Now I'm not so sad I didn't finish watching it on Showcase Monday night. 11pm was just too late to start.
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Yeah, and falling out of the plane with the life boat, landing on the snowy mountain, sledding down said mountain, falling off a waterfall and floating away was...realism? (Temple of Doom)
Crystal Skull wasn't cinematic perfection, but it was an entertaining adventure movie.
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it wasn't the unrealistic situations, because every Indy movie has that. it was watching your confused grandpa who's been wearing the same outfit for the last 30 years being not nearly as cool as the guy who fought the Nazis.
I wanna be young Indy who gets to bed young Marion Ravenwood and Elsa Schneider, not old ass Indy who gets grandma Ravenwood.
it wasn't the unrealistic situations, because every Indy movie has that. it was watching your confused grandpa who's been wearing the same outfit for the last 30 years being not nearly as cool as the guy who fought the Nazis.
I wanna be young Indy who gets to bed young Marion Ravenwood and Elsa Schneider, not old ass Indy who gets grandma Ravenwood.
You watched the Red Letter Media review too didn't you?
was waiting for someone to notice...but yeah, why try and re-invent the wheel when Plinkett always says it best.
the other point they make is equally as important...would you rather watch a chase scene with a real truck or tank that whlie unlikely, is at least theoretically possible? or a chase through a CG jungle populated by CG animals and a fencing match that could have come straight out of Revenge of the Sith?
was waiting for someone to notice...but yeah, why try and re-invent the wheel when Plinkett always says it best.
the other point they make is equally as important...would you rather watch a chase scene with a real truck or tank that whlie unlikely, is at least theoretically possible? or a chase through a CG jungle populated by CG animals and a fencing match that could have come straight out of Revenge of the Sith?
That was the part that I couldn't stand. Why the ants?? Why!!!
Raiders was great because it had story, dialogue, heart/soul. The special effects were hard done by craftsmen. If Spielberg/Lucas had todays technology in the 80'S Raiders would have been just as bad as crystal skull.
I wish the movie makers of today would realize the story/dialogue has to be good or no amount of cgi will save it. Just cause we all pay to see these movies, doesn't mean we love them, we just don't have much of an option.
CGI is like salt, it should enhance the meal and bring out the flavor, not be the main course.
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Yes, it's true: Raiders of the Lost Ark in theatres in September 2012
