Man. Hat. Back. New Indiana Jones.
Well, after endless arsing about it's been officially announced that May 22nd 2008 will see a brand spanking new instalment of the Indiana Jones franchise unleashed onto the world at large. Whether this is astoundingly good news, bad news, old news (or no news) is a matter of opinion, but let us not forget that despite Raiders of the Lost Ark remaining one of the finest rip-roaring adventures of it's kind, the original sequels weren't anything to get too excited about in the first place.
Rambling, screechy and self-satisfied, Temple of Doom is one of those films I can happily live without in hindsight, and although Last Crusade has it's moments (notably the return of Sallah and Brody from Raiders plus the addition of Sean Connery to the cast) it's also pretty under whelming viewing these days. Both have an over-reliance on blue-screen effects which nudge them in the direction of the gazillion Indy rip-offs that followed the original and there's little of the make-do, guerrilla tactics energy that made Raiders such a gem. They did at least have the easy charm of Harrison Ford at the helm, so the less said about the TV series the better...
Then again, despite the potential for the new adventure to be pummelled as too little too late, I've got a feeling this could really be something worth waiting for. I'd like to see exactly how they're going to slot a world-weary Dr Jones into the paranoid, post-war, red-scare 50s. Where else would we get the chance to revisit such an iconic action figure 25+ years after his glory days? It's hardly likely it'll stray into noirish, Dark Knight Returns territory, but I've got my fingers crossed for this one nonetheless...
Well, after endless arsing about it's been officially announced that May 22nd 2008 will see a brand spanking new instalment of the Indiana Jones franchise unleashed onto the world at large. Whether this is astoundingly good news, bad news, old news (or no news) is a matter of opinion, but let us not forget that despite Raiders of the Lost Ark remaining one of the finest rip-roaring adventures of it's kind, the original sequels weren't anything to get too excited about in the first place.Rambling, screechy and self-satisfied, Temple of Doom is one of those films I can happily live without in hindsight, and although Last Crusade has it's moments (notably the return of Sallah and Brody from Raiders plus the addition of Sean Connery to the cast) it's also pretty under whelming viewing these days. Both have an over-reliance on blue-screen effects which nudge them in the direction of the gazillion Indy rip-offs that followed the original and there's little of the make-do, guerrilla tactics energy that made Raiders such a gem. They did at least have the easy charm of Harrison Ford at the helm, so the less said about the TV series the better...
Then again, despite the potential for the new adventure to be pummelled as too little too late, I've got a feeling this could really be something worth waiting for. I'd like to see exactly how they're going to slot a world-weary Dr Jones into the paranoid, post-war, red-scare 50s. Where else would we get the chance to revisit such an iconic action figure 25+ years after his glory days? It's hardly likely it'll stray into noirish, Dark Knight Returns territory, but I've got my fingers crossed for this one nonetheless...
posted by Poptique at 5:01 AM
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That "teaser" trailer you posted to Temple of Doom brings back memories. It was on the orignal VHS of Raiders when it finally came out in '83 (only 2 years after it was in the theaters!). My Dad gave it to me as a birthday gift, and I later found out he paid $90.
I was so jazzed that there was going to be a sequal to Raiders that I didn't even notice for whole year that all the scenes in the trailer are from Raiders, and not Temple of Doom. Duh.
Yep - that's right, it came straight off my pre-certification rental copy of Raiders, which no doubt cost somewhere in the region of £75 when first unleashed in the UK. A sobering thought that the same product can now be plucked off eBay for something like 99p...
Not too sobering, though...
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