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Harrison Ford Confirms Indiana Jones IV Production
phoric writes "According to TheIndyExperience.com, Harrison Ford has confirmed that his role in the much-rumored production of another Indiana Jones sequel is indeed true. However, he admits that future sequels may feature a younger actor, similar to the James Bond series post-Connery."
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You call him Doctor Jones, doll.
... the same ugly death star wars died without ford
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It will be interesting when Indiana does his famous swinging whip trick while managing his walker...
The title announced will be: Indiana Jones and The Search For More Money
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"Indy 4 is MINE"
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You mean, like, um, Mark Hamill? Dy-no-mite!
Harrison ford was born on 13 July 1942. That makes his 62. So we are going to have a 62-year-old man doing Indiana Jones stunts. Mr. Ford must be one fit senior citizen.
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"' However, he admits that future sequels may feature a younger actor, similar to the James Bond series post-Connery.'"
Wasn't Roger Moore actually younger than Connery?
With the Indiana franchise I'd like to see a "Batman Beyond" switchover, with Ford as an aging Indy and some new disciple taking his place.
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Didn't they learn their lesson the first time when they released "Young Indiana Jones". Don't get me wrong, Indiana Jones is my favorite series of movies, but there is a time when you need to put things to rest.
...do *not* introduce any new, goofy, CG characters or young sidekicks for "comedic relief." i'm sure this will follow other series and Hollywood's trend of blowing more shit up, blowing bigger shit up, another hot non-acting piece of eye-candy female sidekick, and hrm, what else? Oh right, some more poorly made pop tunes (or feel-cool psuedo-metal ala whatever piece of shit Vin has been in most recently). Damn, i hope they don't ruin this. Besides what else are we going to search for, the Shroud of Turin?
The Search for the Titanium Hip.
I have always detested that about the James Bond series. If Harrison Ford can't play Indiana Jones then just let it die. Please. That said, I have high hopes for this movie which I'm sure will come crashing down as soon as they announce Ice Cube to be the villain.
They frikkin' get the cuisine of the countries where the new "Temples of Doom" will be located. Do you have any idea how irritating it is to walk into a restaurant in New Delhi and have a tourist fuckface go: "So where's the eyeball soup". What a bunch of maaderchods.
Harrison Ford is 62 years old.
Sylvester Stallone is 58 years old.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is 57 years old.
These guys were the primary action heroes while I was growing up. Man. Now _I_ feel old.
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Your momma is so fat, she auditioned for a role in Indiana Jones as the big rolling ball!!
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I just don't know how well someone can sell being Indiana Jones. That look Harrison Ford had when things just turned ugly? If they pick some pretty boy to sell tickets who can't act I'll be pissed.
....interesting how things appear in a different light when grouped together. If one had asked me just off the cuff, how old any of these men are, i'd have put them all in their 40s without even thinking. Does startle me to realize how much time has passed in my own life without consideration.
George Lucas, from what I hear, is having a much more active role in the script writing. My guess, the script will go a little something like this: Indiana Jones drives an 18 wheeler into the Taj Mahal after discovering that it contains some Nazi Memorabila. He engages in an epic battle with some ancient Nazi general, who cuts off his hand. In a later scene, he goes to visit his father, who is on his deathbed, in an iron lung in a hospital. Between heavy breaths, Connery lets Ford know that the german woman from Last Crusade is actually his sister.
At this point the movie will end... gotta have material for a sequel, yknow.
I haven't found out where the "Meeesta Jones" Jackie-Chan-esque kid fits into the plot yet...
Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones. There's no other. What's next, replacing Jerry Seinfeld in Seinfeld?
Did anyone else read that as:
Harrison Ford confirms, Indiana Jones IV Production is dying ?
Short Round - what a fucking waste that character was.
Harrison ford was born on 13 July 1942. That makes his 62. So we are going to have a 62-year-old man doing Indiana Jones stunts. Mr. Ford must be one fit senior citizen.....
Indy: "It belongs in a museum."
Panama Hat: "So do you."
(video clip of it here)
Indy always was a dignified fellow, so there's no reason he can be the older professor, gray hair and all, saving the world. Heck, it worked for Connery - as Bond and as Indy's sidekick. I have no problem with at all with a 60+ Indy.
Go for it.
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Things worked out great with Sean Connery as dad. Rather than go father-sun, they can make a classic buddy picture, like the old hope-crosby films. Now who is Ford's best buddy of all time? Chewbacca. Yes, Chewbacca. Now here is my script idea: Dr. Jones is sent to investigate reports of the Abominable Snowman. It turns out that Wookies have been secretly studying earth and probing its inhabitants in preparation for first contact. Dr. Jones ends up teaming up with Chewie and going undercover in New Zealand to rout out a developing Bundist movement, posing as a sheep breeder that has developed a new 9-ft tall sheep.
George is happy with the script. I wonder who will be Indy's CGI sidekick?
In part IV Indiana Jones battles his new arch enemy - arthritis!
With the Indiana franchise I'd like to see a "Batman Beyond" switchover, with Ford as an aging Indy and some new disciple taking his place.
A younger disciple, like, maybe, his son?
Sean Connery as Grandpa Jones, Harrison Ford as Daddy Jones, and, I dunno, Hugh Jackman, or Leonardo DiCaprio, as Jones Jr? Maybe Karen Allen [the original Lost Ark love interest] as Mrs Jones?
Of course, Steven Spielberg [having ditched Amy Irving for Kate Capshaw, of Temple of Doom fame], and Harrison Ford, having ditched a succession of wives for some damned whore from Ally McBeal, are probably not the kinds of guys to whom it might occur to portray fatherhood in a favorable light.
I got a bad feeling about this... has never rung more true.
What about Angelina Jolie?
Oh, wait....
It's interesting that we all say, "No! Only Harrison can ever be Indy!" but people have no problem with Tom Baker being replaced by Peter Davison, then Colin, then Sylvester, etc...
I think more Indy movies will fail (though this one may pull an audience like Connery did in Never Say Never Again) not due to anything having to do with Mr. Ford.
When Spielberg made the Indy movies, he was reviving the Saturday serials of distant movie lore. He had a sense of nostalgia and a sense of love for the project. After seeing some recent Speilberg work, I don't think he is capable of the innocent fervor needed to cut a successful Indy movie together.
However, he admits that future sequels may feature a younger actor, similar to the James Bond series post-Connery."
Or how about before Roger Moore with George Lazenby? Oh that was horrific!
I'm sorry but no one can replace Harison Ford as Indiana Jones, I just can't see any actor stepping into that role.
If they wait long enough they can just CG him into the following Indiana movies. Then he could have multiple roles (young Indy, based off the Star Wars texture (or possibly River Phoenix, etc.), the Indy we are all used to, and possible the "real" indie as a cameo.
Hell, they could throw Humphrey Bogart and James Dean, and everyone else they have been editing into commercials (they're families don't seem to mind the images of their loved ones being used to sell Coke or Mustangs).
In any case, I think it will eventually happen that all our "best" actors will go and get completely character modeled, then the models will be saved for future use, and this may be the best thing that could happen to them (Imagine a character with the looks of Jessica Simpson, the voice of James Earl Jones, and the acting ability of 20 character modeling experts....)
I am intrigued... This series always used the Nazis as bad guys, which always worked out well. Now, if they play to his age as opposed to ignoring it, they can set the films in the early cold war. Think about it -- Russians, nuclear bombs, espionage. Not necessarily standard IJ fare, but interesting nonetheless.
The title announced will be: Indiana Jones: Beaters of a Dead Horse
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I'd really like an adaptation of "Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis" for the widescreen.
That game ROCKED. And don't worry about previous videogame adaptations. Those were usually action games adapted with a sucky story. Here we're talking about a game which is ACTUALLY a story.
> However, he admits that future sequels may
...similar to the James Bond series
> feature a younger actor....
Why not use computer graphics to put Ford's face on a younger actor? (Eventually, of course, they won't need the actor at all).
>
> post-Connery.
There were no James Bond movies post-Connery. Just pitiful imitations.
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I'd like to see him again saying "Junior?"
> just let it die.
And please while you're at it, take the Simpsons with you. Its just embarassing when profits dictate how long something is going to run. So if its popular its not just going to run, its going to be run into the ground.
I love the Simpsons, but the last few years have been sub-par potboilers making Murdoch slightly richer, with really no place for the series to go. I see the new ones on my Tivo and only watch them if I seriously have nothing better to do.
When I do watch them I see recycled stories and blatantly ripped off Family Guy gags (which is ironic because FG is very simpsons influenced).
Whatever ever happened to new ideas? I guess that's what Adult Swim is for, while Star Wars, Simpsons, Indiana Jones, U2, Aereosmuth etc continue to see who can be the bigger dinosaur.
You know, the original movies released before your time? Yeah, those.
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It wasn't advancing age that prompted Connery to leave Bond behind.
Connery is currently 74. He retired from the Bond franchise after "You Only Live Twice" in 1967, when he was 37. He played Bond again, at 53, in 1983's "Never Say Never Again".
I suspect that if Connery had stood to be paid as much as Ford gets paid to do Indiana Jones, his willingess to play Bond would have increased accordingly.
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Why not have Indiana Jones search for the Fountain of Youth? Then he can drink the water and turn into a younger actor who will play as Indy in future films. That way he will still be Indiana Jones.
In my book, there are only two Indiana Jones movies, the first one and the third one - how is my life diminished by ignoring the one that I found annoying?
If the fourth one sucks all it means is I won't buy it. If it turns out well, I will spend some money seeing it and be entertained for my investment.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Those sentences are cleary stated by the chink kid in The Temple of Dooom.
Jerry Seinfeld did the right thing when he got fedup of continuing the series and refused the offer from NBC. At least the show ended with dignity and with its signature of "a show about nothing" with the same main cast from the beginning until the end.
Imagine replacing Michael Richards with oh, lets say Steven Seagal. You'd love that wouldn't you! (Sarcasm Detector of Professor Frink just blew up)
When you change actors, that changes EVERYTHING, even if they play well their roles.
My guess, the script will go a little something like this: Indiana Jones drives an antique wheelchair into the Taj Mahal after discovering that it contains some Al Queda Memorabila. He engages in an epic battle with Osama Bin Laden, who cuts off his beard. In a later scene, he goes to visit his father, who is on his deathbed, in an iron lung in a hospital. Between heavy breaths, George Bush Snr lets Ford know that Condi is actually his sister....
At this point the movie will end... gotta have material for a sequel, yknow.
ANOTHER INDIANA JONES!! YAY!! Im a big fan of the trilogy, It will SUCK without Harrison Ford though.
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Man, I'm really on the fence on this one.
:) It seems that, to some degree, Bond may have been effeminated over the years - or at least since the 1980's - at least in appearance.
:P
On one hand, Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones. He's also Han Solo. You simply can't replace him in those roles, because everyone - everyone - associates the roles with the face, voice, and (most importantly) personality of Harrison Ford. Replacing Ford with someone else for the role of Indy just wouldn't work unless they tried really bloody hard to find some one with the same tongue-in-cheek sassy wit and lopsided grin - all without looking either too scholarly or two action-hero like. They'd need to find the "everyman intellectual" look, I think - as, it seems to me, Indy is the intellectual Ash.
On the other hand, I'd really like to see more Indiana Jones films, as I grew up on the John Williams soundtracks for Indy, the witty quips, and such. Indiana Jones was, to a large degree, what motivated my interest in both history and archeology. I've got countless photos of both me and my brother dressed up in brown fedoras, kackis, and the closest thing we could find to a leather vest, while holding whips. It'd just make my toes tingle. Though, can they do as well a job on Indy 4 (and any further sequels) as they did on Indy 1 and 3? Indy 2 kinda stunk. Would they truly Bond-ify Indiana Jones, or would they do it in a respectable manner that made it cool?
On still another hand, Indiana Jones relies on the Nazis to make him cool. Without Nazis or some massive empire of evil to fight that can be universally seen as evil, Indy has nothing. That doesn't make it easy to bring Indy to the current day - ala Bond. Maybe if they were to have a series of Chronicles, all placed in the WW2 era, it might work. But then there'd be a stronger need for Ford to play Dr. Jones.
On still another hand, if you look at the Bond films, none of the James Bonds were as good as Connery except for maybe Brosnan. I'd argue that Connery is simply too cool for Bond, and that Brosnan does, in my mind, fit the Bond prototype image better - at least for modern day. I imagine the case may have been different in the 1950's.
Now, Harrison Ford's Indy was a "man's man". He drinks. He likes women. He doesn't like mindless women, and he likes them to remain quiet. He can take a beating while dishing one out. He's as sharp as a whip and can think inventively in times of need. He is, in a sense, an "idol", someone that almost every male can relate to on most levels, and still someone that can be looked up to. What I wonder is, in today's "progressive" society, would they bastardize the Indiana Jones character and take out all those character traits to make Indy more PC? They did so with Bond, to a large degree, and I do say the franchise suffered for it.
Anyway, I could go on all day like this... I think I'll watch some Indiana Jones tonight.
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Here is another blurb from IESB about how Natalie Portman may get a part in Indy4, could this be the nail in the coffin for the series? :D
http://www.iesb.net/movies2/movie113004.php
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Harrison-indy finds it (along with some nazis or whoever) a battle ensues, something blows up, and just before the fountain is lost to the world Harrison-indy drinks and morphs into Collin-indy then escapes (with young indy whip action shot) and is fresh for a new string of sequels.
I suppose that 50% of the CGI budget is going to make Ford younger. I'm already watching the making-of, the ILM part. "Yeah, we've developed this bleeding-edge wrinkle removal tool..." "Oh, and here is our digital hair plugin. This is not completely new, we took it from Attack of the Clones, we made Yoda's hair with it. We felt everyone would notice that Harrison would be wearing a wig."
(This might have been said above, and in that case I apologize. In a bit of a hurry.)
However, he admits that future sequels may feature a younger actor, similar to the James Bond series post-Connery."
Anyway, if I don't misremember, Roger Moore was (and still is, I suppose) older than Connery when he took over the Bond part.
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Wonder if anybody thought that Sean Connery was the one and only James Bond, before his retirement?
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You can't compare the older and newer Bonds. They're just difference movies, different styles. Of course, a lot of it is because of the era in which they were taken.. but still. Each Bond is different, character and movies.
Most people don't know that Roger Moore (born 1927) was actually older than Sean Connery (born 1930) by three years. Was a shock to me as well at the time I found out. I had always assumed that Roger Moore was Connery's younger replacement.
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Among others were doing action/adventure movies well into their 60's. Arnold and Sly, into their late 50's. So what's the big deal?
However, I think that if they are going to use another actor for Indy, it should be during a different period in Indy's life. Like when Indy was in late teens or early 20's.
It's not the years, it's the milage.
OHMSS was a great Bond. Too often skipped over due to Lazenby's short Bond career (due to a fight with the producers).
You have Kojac & Ms. Peel.
Really the best Bond, after From Russia With Love.
Of course you have the Bond fans that love the books & the Bond fans who love the cheesy 70s Moore.
>Would you prefer that losses dictate behavior?
Not at all, but it wasnt too long ago when a severe decline in a show's quality meant a classy cancelation instead of milking the franchise until it was dead and everyone had sour memories of it. Notably, the show Cheers did this. There might be something to be said about how animation allows x amount of people to be replaced (the 'death' of Maude Flanders) compared to live action. Not to mention it looks bad for the network if it just re-hashed the same old thing until people actively turned against the show, thus giving the network bad PR.
I mean, if they can cancel Friends, they can cancel the Simpsons.
Indie became an immortal after drinking from the grail, right?
No, he would prefer that creativeness and originality would be what dictates how long something runs in an artistic industry (as opposed to price in a commodity-based market).
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um surely that makes complete sense: he's playing an ageing indy, who has his own very human reasons for wanting to find the fountain of youth, as well as whatver else is driving him to do it... (ex nazis trying to revive an exhumed hitler?). end of film, job done, he stops the bad guys, and can't resist the tempation: into the fountain, and cliff-hanger ending: out comes YOUNG INDY. Cue handover of the role to a young actor, and a totally plausable, dr who-style regeneration....
Sure it is an action movie, but Indiana Jones is one of those characters that can be funny...
I personally won't want to see an Indiana Jones movie with Ford in it unless it does make fun in some way his inability to get around anymore. If it doesn't, it will be a joke, and no one will believe it. It is part of where Harrison Ford is now. Better to surf the staples of adventure and humor in this one than do the opposite and try to make a stab at seriousness.
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This action led to his dismissal from Imperial service.
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I think if you want to build an ongoing series like the BOnd films you have to have some continuity. I'm not sure if the gap between the last film and this one will woo viewers to an ongoing adventure series with various "Indy's."
Seeing as he pretty much already played Indy in The Mummy? or perhaps Connor Trineer?
As good as Indiana Jones is, there always comes a time when it's necessary to just let it go. The original movies were, are, and will continue to be classics. Creating more films in an attempt to replicate the success of the first ones, will never succeed. There's no way a replacement could ever be found for Harrison Ford, and even if there was, there's no similar replacement for the Nazis. The Russians belong to Bond. Quite frankly, everything exists in a specific time and place, and the window of opportunity for Indiana Jones has probably already expired. You only have so much time in which you can continue the series and have them remain relevent. Fifty years from now, will the next generation appreciate and enjoy the original Indiana Jones films like we do now? After a hundred years, the threat of Nazism will have diminished greatly in the minds of most the world. To sum it all up, I think trying to continue the IJ franchise is a losing battle from the start-impossible to do successfully, and eventually worthless even if accomplished.
An advance copy of the script show that the movie starts out with Indy three days away from retiring as professor of archeology when he's sent on a quest to retrive the Talisman of Zohoma. After negotiating the traps of the temple and narrowly avoiding being blown up by a neo-nazi patrol, Indy comments on how he's "Getting too old for this shit."
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You know Sean Connery wasn't the first Bond...Roger Moore was.
That was a shitty joke, a shitty political statement, and a shitty troll. Congrats! You're the hackiest hack what ever hacked a sack!
Yes, Roger Moore slipped into 007's shoes very nicely. I really liked Moore as bond. Almost as good as Connery and Brosnan in the ruthless bastard department.
Look, I'm not mocking you but I'm honestly stunned that you think of Roger Moore as "ruthless". For my money, he was way too gentlemenly to be an effective Bond. Who comes to my mind when I think of the word "ruthless"? Timothy Dalton. He played Bond as though he was on the verge of losing control of himself at any time. He could barely contain his contempt for those around him. When he killed someone in a gruesome manner, he didn't crack a joke like Moore (or even Connery); he had a sadistic, content snear on his face. My opinion is that this is why he is one of the least-liked Bonds. You knew he could get the job done but it seemed like he had a bit of a wild, almost evil streak in him that made it hard for the general audience to really like him. Dalton's Bond seemed to vascilate between amusement and violence.
I like Brosnan. He does that kind of flip-flopping well, too. One minute he's a smug, confident guy, the next he's flipping out and you could very clearly see the anger in his face.
"Ruthless" and "bastard" are too words that I most certainly do not associate with Roger Moore. I'm surprised that you feel otherwise.
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It's great that you think the show sucks now and all, but you're forgetting the fact that it's not your show. It doesn't matter if they're ruining it for you, if Matt Groening wants to do it he's going to. And he shouldn't have to stop because you don't like it now.
He's even been known to say that he likes the later shows more than the new ones. I mean, the first season was pure shit. The second and third season weren't that great either, and the show never got really good until people like O'Brien and David S. Cohen joined the show, and when Fox stopped caring about what it did.
Did it ever occur to you that maybe the success of the Simpsons allowed Matt Groening and the other writers more freedom with the show? It's true, compare some of the newer episodes to the older ones, there are crazy gags that could never happen in real life, and much more outlandish storylines.
Maybe this downward spiral in quality to you is just the show becoming more and more the way that the writers want it to go. Just because you think something's getting worse doesn't mean it's being run into the ground for the sake of money. I'm sure Matt Groening still does Life in Hell because he's so obsessed with money. Idiot.
Why do you even care if the stories are recycled anyway? It's a comedy show, the point isn't to write a clever story. And what ripped off Family Guy gags are you talking about? Could you at least name one instead of throwing it out there like that? I mean, I've seen some of MG's stuff really blatantly ripped off by say, South Park, (the "double yes" joke from Where No Fan Has Gone Before of Futurama) but never noticed the Simpsons steal anything.
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Frakly, I always thought Connery blew. I never liked him. He was always too serious pretending that James Bond was a real move instead of another campy spy film. Roger Moore was by far the funniest. He seems to have balanced action and comedy perfectly. Pierce Brosnan seems too much like a Hollywood stunt spectacular. Moore is the only Bond worth watching.... IMHO
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This movie sequels and etc, is amongst my favorite of all time along with Star Wars [4-6]... I now wonder who will be the younger actor?! It better not be a baby faced actor like LEO!... He was in Titanic and I hated him... I wished he could've gone in the boiler and burned... He didn;t! :(
This will rock the movie pyscho all over again! :)
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And then he goes home at night and bones a woman 20 years his junior
Damn. I got hauled into court over something similar.
My case was watertight; if an 62-year old like Harrison Ford can sleep with someone 20 years younger than himself, why on earth shouldn't an attractive 30-year old like myself do the same?
The judge didn't like this for some reason, and neither did the girl's mother.
However, he admits that future sequels may feature a younger actor, similar to the James Bond series post-Connery.
*ahem*
After Connery left the James Bond series, they replaced him with an actor who is three years older. Connery was born in '30, Moore in '27. And yes, I am a complete fan-boy dork for remembering that.
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I wonder what it's about this time. We've had plain Indy, young Indy, and now we'll have... old Indy.
Just because Connery is eligible for Social Security, dosen't mean he's not a good actor. I just hope he keeps away from the sequel market in the future. It makes him look like he's selling out.
Quite right. Connery didn't make his name playing the same character in a bunch of sequels. Except in the case of From Russia with Love, Thunderball, Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice, Diamonds are Forever and Never Say Never Again.
I really think the parent post hits the spot in what relates to female main roles :)
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There are two things that any actor who plays James Bond must be able to make you believe.
1. That he could kick your ass.
2. That he could steal your woman.
The better in balance that each actor has these two traits the better a Bond that actor will be. Of course, now we come to the bonds:
Sean Connery. In my opinion the Bond that has these two in the best balance. I'll leave examples of why to the reader.
George Lazenby. I would say the worst, if only because he had his scale way too far on the "Steal your woman" metric. In other words, he looked like a pussy doing the stuff that Bond does. Hell, he gets married for christ sakes. If that doesn't scream, limp wristed fighting style (in the context of Bond that is), I don't know what does. (and yes I know Connery also got married, but as I recall that was part of his cover, please correct me if I"m wrong. but my point still stands, there's a reason lazenby was gone after one movie)
Roger Moore. A good Bond but was slightly to the woman side. He didn't look totally silly doing stunts and whatnot, but if you met the guy in a random bar, do you really think he'd beat you down? I don't think so.
Tim Dalton. Heavy on the Ass kicking scale (as the parent points out). Dalton totally looks like he would flip out and start killing people at any moment. This is detrimental to his believabilty in scoring with the ladies, as he is ass ugly.
Pierce Brosnan. A good balance, but just doesn't pull it off as well in my opinion as Connery did, if only because the scripts he works with tend to be god awful.
And there we have the rankings of the Bonds, so let it be written so let it be done, or something.
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Of course Roger Moore was OLDER than Connery
Just a correction to your post. The first three seasons of the Simpsons were their best.
Idiot.
Who comes to my mind when I think of the word "ruthless"? Timothy Dalton. He played Bond as though he was on the verge of losing control of himself at any time. He could barely contain his contempt for those around him. When he killed someone in a gruesome manner, he didn't crack a joke like Moore (or even Connery); he had a sadistic, content snear on his face.
"License to Kill", right?
I thought Dalton was terrific in "The Living Daylights", a back-to-basics, no-nonsense Bond after Moore's flippancy, but with a more believable, human side (none of the other Bond actors really gave an impression of him as a person behind the cliche). Great film.
"License to Kill" is very different; humourless, cold, hard-bitten. Dalton did seem less charismatic in this one. I *was* inclined to put this down to Dalton's professionalism as an actor, as the way he plays Bond fits entirely with the tone of the rest of the film.
However, I discovered that Dalton was (apparently) one of the people who had been pushing for a more hard-edged Bond in "License to Kill", and that "The Living Daylights" had been written for Pierce Brosnan (Brosnan was initially to have played Bond at that time, but couldn't get out of his TV contract).
To be fair to Dalton, I believe the tone of LTK was also down to the producers trying to compete with more contemporary rivals (the "old" Bond style was out of place in the late 1980s). I mean, the plot.... maverick cop, erm spy, quits and sets out on a vigilante mission to avenge the death of his colleague, who was murdered by a drug dealer. That's not Bond; it's an archetypal late-80s formula. That's the film where Bond veered too far from its roots, and lost its soul.
But as I said, I believe Dalton was a professional actor, and given the correct material, was capable of turning in an excellent performance as Bond. It's a pity he's really too old now (same age as Roger Moore was when he did his last film, and IMHO Moore was a bit too old when he quit; should have finished in 1981 or thereabouts).
But Indy did drink from the cup of Jesus Christ that would bring him everlasting life . . .
Indian Jones the Zimmer frame?
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But I'm skeptical...
Wait ...a ...giant ...rock ...is ...coming ...towards
...
*splash*
I mean, if they can cancel Friends, they can cancel the Simpsons.
Friends was popular in part (at least in the beginning) because the cast were fairly attractive and young.
After almost 10 years, they were getting less attractive and young, and as someone pointed out, when you take away their looks, they're just a bunch of odd people (okay; so, they were written that way, but stuff that's "funny" if uttered by cute young guy/girl won't be so funny if it's uttered by middle-aged man/woman).
The guys might have been able to get away with it for longer (because even today, men can "get away" with ageing more than woman; sexist, but a fact of life), but the girls? No. Sorry.
Indiana Jones and the Depends of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Lost Dentures
Hell, he gets married for christ sakes. ;-)
Hey, can you blame him?
Who should marry James Bond if not Emma Peel
btw:
Dalton totally looks like he would flip out and start killing people at any moment
I think that fits nicely in "Licence to Kill".
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Harrison Ford will be fighting Osama Bin Laden in this next movie. I am sure there are some interesting relicts hidden somewhere in Afghanistan still that need to be returned to a museum in Iraq.
You can't handle the truth.
Moore was 57 or 58 when he did his last Bond film. IMHO, he *was* too old by that time.
"with twice more nazis butchered "
I sincerely hope he do so. Like many people I never enjoyed "Temple of Doom" as the two other movies and guess what? NO Nazy are killed in temple of Doom! ZERO, Nada! Coincidence? I don't think so.
So please lots of butchered Nazis Mr. Ford.
(Ok, it was maybe also the side kick kid who was annoying as Jar Jar Binks, the irritating blond chick who was screaming the whole movie or maybe the boring and unbelievable action scenes like when a mine vehicle jump 500 feet in the air and fall strait on the rail of after crossing a precipice.)
Yahh, hiii haaaaa! -Major Kong, from Dr. Strangelove
Sean Connery (Aug 25, 1930) wasn't replaced by Roger Moore (Oct 14, 1927) because of age. In fact, Roger Moore is older than Connery (not by much, but he always seemed even older to me).
George Lazenby was younger (Sept 5, 1939), but he only lasted the one movie before they went back to Birts for the part.
End of line..
MY action heroes were Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman and Abraham Lincoln, so there!
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I always liked Roger Moore's James Bond. Much more than the following Bonds. He was the total macho with a cool and withy attitude, not unlike Indiana Jones. I won't be surprise to hear some day that Roger Moore James Bond was an inspiration for Indiana Jones character.
;)
The Brosnan and Dalton Bonds weren't funny or charismatic enough in my opinion and never convinced me as real womanizers. Their character seams even sometimes depressed. Jee what a bunch of wimps!!!
Yahh, hiii haaaaa! -Major Kong, from Dr. Strangelove
It'll be called nude beutiful woman and old geezer do CGI. This is great we just have random cGI and tons of naked woman distracting us from the complete lack of plot. The older geezers and personalities keep recanting their glory days. It'll be great! We'll have natalie pootang, Micheal Rockhard, Jenifer LoTalent and many others, The directors will be from disney, and speelberg, and um probably someothers
And please while you're at it, take the Simpsons with you. Its just embarassing when profits dictate how long something is going to run. So if its popular its not just going to run, its going to be run into the ground.
You can't say they didn't warn you. If you remember in the in the 138th episode spectacular, Troy McClure closes by saying "Who knows what adventures they'll have between now and the time the show becomes
unprofitable? "
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
-Nazis
-A girl that just gets in the way the whole time but Indy falls in love with for some reason
-A comicbookly evil anti-Indy archaeologist.
-Snakes
-Racial steriotypes of at least one culture
-A scene where you think Indy is definitely dead but it turns out he's not dead
-A famous artifact that has some ridiculously un-historic killing power
and finally...
-Its the most entertaining movie of the year.
I generally agree with you, but think you are WAAYYY off here. I don't think Brosnan could kick anyone's ass.
The latest 007 movies certainly have been crap.
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They should let the original choice for Indy, Tom Selleck have a chance at it.
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING!
Does this mean we can expect to see Roger Moore playing Indy's father in Indiana Jones V?
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Mr. Ford must be one fit senior citizen.
He's a senior citizen that rescued a sick hiker near his residence in Wyoming. You may have read about this, if not there are more details here.
Harrison Ford may be the perfect guy. Rides his horses, good looking, humble... if it weren't for the Star Wars Holiday Special he made in 1978, he'd be perfect.
Not all Buddhists are Tibetan Buddhists. The Dali Lama does not represent all of Buddhism. He's just the face man and pity-monger for Tibetan Buddhism, which itself was a pretty oppressive regime.
a fox program referred to as artistic, you must not have seen anything on Fox in pretty much its entire history
First...Lazenby quit after one movie.
Second...Lazenby agreed with you. Having Bond marry (in the movies, see below), effectively killed him as Bond.
Third...you're blaming the actor for the director's mistakes.
Fourth...I see you've never read the books. (Anyone read Octopussy?)
With Simpsons, the actors (in fact, the characters) never age.
If the show's quality declines enough, people will stop watching and it'll get canceled. If the quality declines according to you but the show isn't canceled, then your quality meter doesn't jibe with the average viewer's.
Which is not to say that either of you are wrong; just that people get upset about ridiculous things (killing 100 Iraqis for every American killed is something to get upset about, especially because we shouldn't have been there in the first fucking place).
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
To be more specific: the show exists only to sell ads. While the show has to be just good enough to get viewers, the viewers are the commodity, not the show. The viewers are being sold to the advertisers, who pay a huge premium for shows that have higher ratings. The show could be crap, and most of the times it is; but the show isn't being made to make you happy; it's being made to make the advertisers happy (i.e., sell more of their products).
Don't you remember hearing how a certain scene was deleted because it offended the advertisers? I don't remember ever hearing about a scene being removed because it offended viewers (unless those viewers were also advertisers).
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
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If I recall correctly, that was a premise in Casino Royale .
Leaving university?! I don't think most of them have left their parents' basement yet.
Rather than making it Indy's son, as others have suggested, it should be: Short Round! I love that actor! He was also in The Goonies and he played Jasper on Head of the Class.
That would be so awesome! Anyone want to help me start a petition?
1/3 of the movies did not have any Nazis in it: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
If I recall correctly, it had something to do with India.
Maybe in the new movie, Indiana tries to prevent his job from being outsourced, but fails. This results in a new "India Jones" series of movies, where the archeologist/professor saves the world for much less money.
Also, after the Hollywood execs destroyed his career for not agreeing to do another Bond film, George Lazenby went to Hong Kong and made Chinese action flicks, which for anyone who knows anything about Chinese kung fu movies, are *not* made the same way as Hollywood movies.
So, unlike the tailor's dummies who play Bond, chances are he actually could fight.
San Fernando Jones & the Temple of Poon (2000). Starring Ron Jeremy, no less!
Barry Nelson played James Bond in a 1954 movie Casino Royale, based off Ian Fleming's first book.
Dr. No, with Sean Connery, didn't come out until 1962.
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Is that awful ST:TNG episode based on that "movie"?
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The irritating blond chick who was screaming the whole movie
You mean Mrs. Steven Spielberg?
lol crybaby
They have the technology they should do
and Indiana Jones movie that is computer generated..
Then they can reuse Harrison Ford's Mannerisms
and movements, and he can still act, no
matter how old he gets.. Then he will have no excuse
but to star int he movies.
Just say no to license servers!!
He: "It's not the years, it's the mileage."
She: "Indy: it's the years."
Act I
Scene I
silence...and so on.
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I think none of his movies had more than the slightest connection with anything Ian Fleming had written. At least all the Connery movies were actually based on the novels, and Fleming was around to have something to do with the scripts. Since then they've become more and more asinine. I'm content to wait a few years till they turn up on broadcast TV.
That's how TV should be used. It shouldn't be a priority where you "have" to see the next episode of whatever - especially not on a time schedule the TV station found convenient. At your convenience, when you have nothing better to do.
Of course, I almost always have something better to do, so...
And the book mentioned in the episode was titled "The Hotel Royale". And, what, you didn't find the plot riveting? :) Or were you merely bothered by Data's advice to stand in blackjack on 12? The movie was clearly a vehicle for Frakes to flex his tremendous acting skills, and he certainly lived up to it. He's almost as good as Shatner!
There has, however, been another movie titled "Casino Royale" that was a James Bond spoof made in 1967 with Peter Sellers.
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Jude Law is the best replacement I can think of. I think he would do pretty well, actually.
Well, compared to "love 'em and leave 'em" it really is faggy.
Hear, hear! He was chosen to play Bond on the basis of a fight scene screen test. And some of his action scenes in OHMSS were terrific. He could have been a great Bond, IMHO - even as it stands, OHMSS is my favourite Bond film.
The real Captain Avatar is a fictional character, so I suppose he doesn't mind if I impersonate him.
I've got a copy of STart magazine (an Atari ST magazine) from September 1989. It has a picture of Indy on the cover. I think it was reviewing the new games (there were two) based on the Last Crusade, which had just come out.
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You missed David Niven, who, of course, played Sir James in Casino Royale.
He could possibly kick your ass, but wouldn't dream of stealing your woman, old boy.
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-Peter
You're a bit of a wanker really, aren't you.
Wrong about a couple of things:
Lazenby was dropped only because he was a temperamental prima donna on the set. I guess he thought he was going to get to be the "big star" but he miscalculated; it was just too easy to replace him after only one movie, especially with Connery available again. The studio might possibly have put up with it if they'd known Connery was only going to come back for one more movie.
OHMSS is actually many Bond connoisseurs' favourite Bond flick, not least because of Lazenby's action hero performance (BTW before you get started on his acting skills, at least he tried. And nobody's handing out medals for method acting to Connery either. Dalton is another matter).
As to the Lazenby Bond's all-too-brief marriage: you must have forgotten - that's what happend in the film, because that's what happened in the Ian Fleming novel. Lazenby had nothing to do with that decision, he just played it like he was told.
Moore: I loved Moore as Bond, but that's because I really like the way it pokes fun at itself. As far as action goes, Moore doesn't add much. In fact he long ago owned up that he used a stuntman for *everything* - even running, because (he said) when he runs he looks like a duck. So thats why he doesnt look silly doing stunts: he isn't doing them at all.
Dalton is a very experienced, classically trained actor and a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. I deeply regret his decision to bow out of Bond movies after only two films! You're completely right about his credibility as a total nutter. Loved it when he told M to shove it his licence and fled to catch Leitner's attackers. You never really saw Bond *angry* before that!
Brosnan just doesn't work for me at all. The guy has no charisma. With him in it, it's just like any other special effects- focussed action film. Ho hum.
Rumour has it that Ewan McGregor is being considered to take over. I have no idea what that will be like. Probably crap. He's not really Mr Screen Presence either.
He mus be sixty or seventy