• Hubi@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Can’t say I agree with that take, I thought it was one of the better Indiana Jones movies, maybe even better than Temple Of Doom. It ticked all the boxes for me.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe even better than Temple of Doom

      They should put that on the posters.

      Damned with faint praise, indeed.

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        1 year ago

        I enjoyed Temple of Doom, more as a kid but for a general adventure story it work for me. I’ve also been watching Red Letter Media’s review of it recently so that may have skewed it higher. I always liked the idea of the old stories where someone could have an out of order adventure. For those that may not know we’d call it a prequel these days but it was modeled off of old stories that were just told for the same characters. Oddly whenever I try and create a cultist type story (Lovecraft and pulp) in my head it turns out very similar to Temple of Doom, so that probably impacts my opinion of it.

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      Same here, I enjoyed the film. It portrayed Jones well as an aging person who is past their prime giving it one last shot. The action was good, the plot was enjoyable, the Nazis got a kicking. What’s not to like?

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        Basically all the chase scenes were camera glued 10 cm from the protagonists and shaky cam for 15 minutes at a time.

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          Oh noooooo! I was just rewatching Raiders the other day and thinking about how good the camera work was, and how if they shot it today half of those fight scenes would be incomprehensible shaky cam. Sad to hear that Dial has fallen to the shaky side.

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      1 year ago

      Same, I don’t understant all the hate. It had all the ingredients to make a good Indiana Jones movie