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Lucas, Ford to Start Filming New Indiana Jones Film

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Alchemist253 writes "George Lucas has announced that the script for the long-rumored fourth Indiana Jones film has been finalized and is to begin filming this year, with Harrison Ford once again in front of the camera. From the article: 'In a statement, the 64-year-old Ford said he was ready for another turn as the globe-trotting archaeologist. "I'm delighted to be back in business with my old friends," he said. "I don't know if the pants still fit, but I know the hat will."' All three of the earlier movies were shot in the 80s. How well do you think this character is going to translate into a movie made today?

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  1. Maybe something like this. by Chas · · Score: 5, Funny

    *Decks a Nazi out*

    *CRACK*

    "Shit! My back went again!"

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    1. Re:Maybe something like this. by matt4077 · · Score: 4, Informative

      Well, Ford already injured his back during the second Indy movie. He had to have surgery and the whole project was almost cancelled.

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    2. Re:Maybe something like this. by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 4, Funny

      I wonder if they're going to have Nazis in this movie, now that Harrison Ford has been aging for decades.

      Either the Nazis will come out of a time warp in the 1960s, or maybe they'll continue to set the movie pre-WWII and explain that Indiana aged 25 years instantly when he decided to open that box and peek inside the Ark, just for a second, with sunglasses on.

    3. Re:Maybe something like this. by Curtman · · Score: 2, Interesting
      Well, Ford already injured his back during the second Indy movie

      ... And George quit the business. Should be a good movie.
    4. Re:Maybe something like this. by drinkypoo · · Score: 5, Funny
      Either the Nazis will come out of a time warp in the 1960s

      What, they're putting Rick Berman and Brannon Braga on the team, too?

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    5. Re:Maybe something like this. by jtosburn · · Score: 2, Funny

      I wonder if they're going to have Nazis in this movie, now that Harrison Ford has been aging for decades.

      Either the Nazis will come out of a time warp in the 1960s, or maybe they'll continue to set the movie pre-WWII and explain that Indiana aged 25 years instantly when he decided to open that box and peek inside the Ark, just for a second, with sunglasses on.

      Mix 'n match movies:

      Use the nazis from the Blues Brothers!

    6. Re:Maybe something like this. by jfengel · · Score: 4, Informative

      I can't find a copy of the quote, but I recall hearing that after Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan Spielberg had sworn off using Nazis as generic semi-comic villains.

      A twenty-years-aged Indy will probably be fighting cartoon Commies rather than cartoon Nazis. Perhaps Chinese ones.

    7. Re:Maybe something like this. by carlivar · · Score: 2, Funny

      Maybe it will be set in Argentina. Plenty of Nazis there circa 1960's, right?

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    8. Re:Maybe something like this. by hey! · · Score: 2, Informative

      Well, if the character is to be the same age of the actor, we're talking about a film set in the 1960s.

      You're probably too young too remember the "Mission Imposisble" series, which ran from around 1966. Mostly the bad guys were iron curtain dictators, but old Nazis made regular appearances too. It was only 21 years after the end of WW2, after all. That's like going back in the wayback machine from 2007 to 1986. At that time, Dick Cheney was serving in Congress, having lost his job as whitehouse Chief of Staff when President Ford failed reelection.

      So not only is it plausble as fiction, it is quite historically plausible that individual Nazis could still be active over tweny years after being defeated.

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  2. shot in versus by sammy+baby · · Score: 5, Interesting
    All three of the earlier movies were shot in the 80s. How well do you think this character is going to translate into a movie made today?


    The originals were all done in the pulp-action adventure style that was popularized fifty and sixty years ago - I doubt that it'll somehow be less attractive now than it was when the genre was only thirty years old.

    Also, all three may have been shot in the eighties, but they took place in the forties, so it's not like we're going to see an Indiana Jones trying to come to terms with teh Intarwebs.

    On the other hand, twenty-some odd years later... hey, an Indiana Jones that took place in the sixties might have real potential.
    1. Re:shot in versus by Thansal · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I honestly hope they DON'T ditch the pulp fiction feel of it.

      What the entertainment industry lacks currently is light stuff like pulp fiction, be it books, movies, or tv shows (I will admit that the day and age of the radio drama are probably gone, though they could be revived via the use of netcasts).

      I have honestly been goign back and reading some of the old stuff (before my time) jsut because it is hard to find anytihng like it that is current. After all, I can only take so many pieces that are trying to be high-brow/intelectual/witty/etc. Every so often I need something that is just pure release and nothing else.

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    2. Re:shot in versus by barzok · · Score: 2, Informative

      The movies were set in the 1930s, not the forties.

    3. Re:shot in versus by plsander · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Remember, Dr. Jones did drink from the Grail....

    4. Re:shot in versus by SirWinston · · Score: 3, Funny

      > I honestly hope they DON'T ditch the pulp fiction feel of it.

      [Int. ancient temple. Indy's female love-interest-du-jour has a cartoonish Nazi at gunpoint.]

      Indy: Bring out the Gimp.
      Nazi: The Gimp is sleeping, Herr Jones.
      Love-interest-du-jour: It's fantastic! The chamber must extend 60 meters...
      Indy: Shit, they ain't got the metric system in ancient Egypt. They wouldn't know what the fuck a meter is.
      Love-interest-du-jour: Then what would they call it?
      Indy: A cubit.

      [Love-interest-du-jour accidentally shoots Nazi in the head, splattering brains everywhere.]

      Love-interest-du-jour: Oh man, I shot that Nazi in the face.
      Indy: Why the fuck did you do that!
      Love-interest-du-jour: Well, I didn't mean to do it, it was an accident!
      Indy: Oh man I've seen some crazy ass shit in my time...
      Love-interest-du-jour: Chill out, man. I told you it was an accident. You probably set off a booby trap by stepping on that "X" right there.
      Indy: "X" never, ever marks the spot, bitch!
      Love-interest-du-jour: Hey, look man, I didn't mean to shoot the son of a bitch. The gun went off. I don't know why.
      Indy: No, let me ask you a question. When you came in here, did you see a hieroglyphic out in front of this temple that said Dead Nazi Storage?
      Love-interest-du-jour: Indy, you know I ain't seen no...
      Indy: Did you see a hieroglyphic out in front of this temple that said Dead Nazi Storage?
      Love-interest-du-jour: [pause] No. I didn't.
      Indy: You know WHY you didn't see that hieroglyphic?
      Love-interest-du-jour: Why?
      Indy: 'Cause it ain't there, 'cause storing dead Nazis ain't my fucking business, that's why!

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    5. Re:shot in versus by Hatta · · Score: 2, Informative

      What the entertainment industry lacks currently is light stuff like pulp fiction, be it books, movies, or tv shows

      Are you kidding? Light stuff is all there is in the entertainment industry. It's all 100% fluff. When was the last time you saw a movie or tv show that had something important to say?

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    6. Re:shot in versus by macshit · · Score: 2, Insightful

      "Sky Captain ..." had good intentions, but it was an awful movie (that's why critics panned it). Despite the gorgeous computer generated scenery and a very nice "feel" (the whole 30s pulp/newsreel thing), the characters were so incredibly flat and uninvolving, and the plot such an uncompelling random mishmash, that I found myself nodding off despite my initial enthusiasm. The creators had a very neat idea, but they apparently just didn't have the movie-making chops to pull it off.

      Raiders of the Lost Ark on the other hand, was a very good movie. The characters were interesting and charismatic, the plot kept you on the edge of your seat, and the pacing was just about perfect. Spielberg is a much better director than Lucas, and somehow working together with Lucas (and Ford) seemed to keep Spielberg on track, and restrained him from indulging in his most annoying habits (seen in his own rather saccharine movies from that period).

      It would be cool if Lucas/Spielberg/Ford can pull it off again, even if they have to use large dollops of CGI and a family pack of canes to do so.

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  3. Well there goes another one! by moore.dustin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Another great set of films to have its legacy tarnished by trying to cash in on it one... last... time...

    Hopefully 2007 ushers in a year in which remakes, sequels, and adaptations give way to original and creative stories and ways to tell them.

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  4. Ok, George, I'll believe it when I see it by p3d0 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Lucas said he and Steven Spielberg recently finalized the script for the film. "It's going to be fantastic. It's going to be the best one yet," the 62-year-old filmmaker said
    This from the guy who can be heard in the making of the Phantom Menace saying about Jar Jar Binks: "we've never had a character this funny before".
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    1. Re:Ok, George, I'll believe it when I see it by Apocalypse111 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, he was right in a way... except that Binks wasn't so much "funny ha-ha" as "funny short-bus".

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  5. So much for never by jandrese · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does anybody else remember when Indiana Jones's hat was deposited in some Hollywood museum (under glass) and they made a press conference about how there would never be another one? Apparently Lucas doesn't. Presumably he was holding out for the script that allowed him to shoot the entire movie in CG except for Harrison Ford.

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    1. Re:So much for never by Svenheim · · Score: 5, Informative

      Indy 4 will be shot in the old-fashioned way with lots of use of stuntmen rather than CGI effects. It's one of the few things confirmed about the project. And remember, Spielberg is directing this, not Lucas.

  6. Re:That's funny by pizza_milkshake · · Score: 3, Funny

    not enough CG characters.

  7. If Indiana Jones Sr was around in pre-WWII Germany by Peter+Trepan · · Score: 3, Funny

    That'll make Indiana Jones Jr. old enough for something like Indiana Jones and the House Committee on Un-American Activities.


    HCUUA: Sign the confession!

    Jones Jr.: Gimme the whip!

    HCUUA: No time to argue. Sign the confession, we give you the whip.

    Jones Jr.: (signs the confession) Gimme the whip!

    HCUUA: Adios, señor. (guards grab Indiana Jones Jr.)

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  8. Re:Well there goes another one! by caluml · · Score: 4, Informative
    Hopefully 2007 ushers in a year in which remakes, sequels, and adaptations give way to original and creative stories and ways to tell them.

    Uh, fraid not.

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  9. We Aren't Dead, Yet by lbmouse · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "All three of the earlier movies were shot in the 80s. How well do you think this character is going to translate into a movie made today?"

    Most of us who saw the originals are still alive today. Why wouldn't the characters translate well? The 80's were NOT that long ago. Sheesh!

    1. Re:We Aren't Dead, Yet by Civil_Disobedient · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The 80's were NOT that long ago. Sheesh!

      I know how you feel, but remember when your parents kept telling you when you were a kid about how cool the 60s were, and it felt like they were talking about a different geological era? Well, that's what these kids today think about the 80s. And much like our parents told us, we can tell today's youth that their music sux0rs compared to the stuff we had back in our day.

      Of course, they were right.

  10. No new ideas by Silver+Sloth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is it me or is there a staggering paucity of new ideas around at the moment. If you discount the remakes and the 'let's do another one's there's precious little around now that's truly original. Much as I loved the Indianna Jones movies can't we have a new hero once in a while.

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    1. Re:No new ideas by SamSim · · Score: 4, Insightful

      There are plenty of new ideas around. Thousands, millions of them. You can bet your bottom dollar that Hollywood is absolutely crammed to bursting with smart, dynamic writers with amazingly edgy, groundbreaking, intelligent film scripts, any one of which could, if made, become an iconic classic, a milestone in modern cinema, a fixture of pop culture to come. You have your ideas, I'm sure. I know I do too. There is no shortage of ideas.

      The problem is the, studios don't care about movies. They don't care about creating new icons. They care about money. And nothing else. And when you want to make money, you don't take risks, you make safe movies. Cash cows. Sequels to existing successful movies are by far the most reliable of these. Even most original movies you will find slot neatly into pre-existing genre templates. There's the teen comedy movie, the action movie, the romantic comedy, the animated kids' movie, and so on, and so on. It's all numbers.

      The other problem is the viewing audience. They don't want to see new things. While there is less money at stake, they, too, want a safe movie. They go to movie theaters to see something they are pretty sure will entertain them. Out-there, avant-garde movies do not appeal to the general public - at least, not to the most profitable movie-going demographics. Therefore making a stunningly imaginative new movie is risky - it's a risk for punters to see it, which makes it a risk for studios to make it, which is why they are so rarely made.

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    2. Re:No new ideas by RexRhino · · Score: 3, Informative

      Also, movies are a global market. An explosion translates far better into a foriegn language than subtle dialog. Special effect blockbusters do much better overseas than a witty drama (much of which can be lost in the translation).

      That being said, there are more indie movies available now that there ever were... you just have to see them on cable, or on netflix, or whatever.

    3. Re:No new ideas by Hadlock · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Stop going to mainstream theaters. Try out an art house theater. In Dallas alone, there are two separate art house theater chains(!) (Angelika & Landmark). Most movies approach or go well beyond the 2 hour mark, due to character development and plot. You'll never see a sequel in one of those theaters, and many of them have budgets in the 20-50 million dollar range, and top ranked actors like Edward Norton, (Painted Veil), Brad Pitt (Babel), or George Cloony/Toby MacGuire (Good German).. Doogie Houser starred in a film adaptation of the book Running With Scissors.
       
      At least one "independent" film comes out of studios like Warner Independent, Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures classics etc every month. Typically 2-3.

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  11. Not one comeback - but two! by ofcourseyouare · · Score: 5, Funny

    From TFA...

    "George, Harrison and I are all very excited," Spielberg said, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

    I thought George Harrison has passed away? Or are they bringing him back as well as Indy? Just amazing what those boys at ILM can do...

  12. Re:That's funny by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    The one that was adopted:

    Indiana Jones and the Annoying Alien from Naboo

    JJ: "Meesa no liiiike Nazzzzziiis!!"
    IJ: *crack* "Oh, my back!" *crack*
    JJ: "Aaaaaggghh!!! Meesa no like bull whip!!!!"

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  13. Re:They'll keep it tasteful... I hope by morpheus343 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well the knight who was guarding the grail also aged despite drinking from the grail regularly (one would imagine). The grail seems to severely slow down aging, but perhaps only through frequent use (the knight did say something about staying in the temple being the price and limitation of the grail's power) My guess would be that they'll set it forward quite a few years and make up Ford and Connery to look a bit younger. iirc, in the old "Young Indiana Jones" tv series you saw a very very old Indiana Jones in a few segments. Maybe that's how they internally explained how he could be as old as he was and yet more active than someone of his very advanced age might normally be.

  14. Re:That's funny by Dystopian+Rebel · · Score: 5, Funny
    Lucas kept rejecting scripts


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  15. Re:Oh boy! by Teresita · · Score: 2, Funny

    Indiana Jones and the Lawn Treading Neighborhood Kids

  16. Working Title by j00r0m4nc3r · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Indiana Jones and the Metamucil Drink"

    1. Re:Working Title by gentlemen_loser · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Ya know, these jokes were rampant regarding the new Rocky movie. Have you seen Harrison Ford or Sly lately? Take a real good look, then go to the corner and cry like I did after watching the new Rocky movie. Despite the years on these guys, I would wager a hefty sum that either of them on their worse day are in better shape than 3/4's of us /.'ers.

      Now what THAT means is a whole other question...

    2. Re:Working Title by sharkey · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Dr. Jones! DR. JONES! Boxers or briefs?"

      "Depends..."

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  17. How will this one be? by FatRatBastard · · Score: 3, Informative

    All three of the earlier movies were shot in the 80s. How well do you think this character is going to translate into a movie made today?

    Depends on who has the most influence on the movie: if Spielberg then I think it'll be a fun romp, if Lucas then I'm afraid it'll turn into a moralistic pile o' crap (see "Star Wars Prequels").

    Lucas has already said he's tried to reedit the earlier movies to make Indy more "heroic" (I believe that he wanted to edit or remove the "Indy pulls his guns on the sword wielding baddies and shots 'em dead on the spot" scene from the first film a'la "Greedo shoots first". Spielberg wouldn't allow him).

    1. Re:How will this one be? by geoffspear · · Score: 3, Funny

      What an idiot. I don't care whether Greedo shot first, but that scene was by far the funniest thing in the entire Indiana Jones series, and removing it would be as dumb as letting Lucas write dialog of any kind.

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    2. Re:How will this one be? by AdamThor · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Lucas has already said he's tried to reedit the earlier movies to make Indy more "heroic" (I believe that he wanted to edit or remove the "Indy pulls his guns on the sword wielding baddies and shots 'em dead on the spot" scene from the first film a'la "Greedo shoots first". Spielberg wouldn't allow him).

      - is there a source on this? It seems like such a poor idea that I have trouble believing that someone actually seriously entertained it.

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    3. Re:How will this one be? by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 2, Insightful

      > It seems like such a poor idea that I have trouble believing that someone actually seriously entertained it.

      Meesa thinksa yousa not paying attention...

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    4. Re:How will this one be? by YetAnotherDave · · Score: 4, Informative

      I've heard that the scene with the crazy sword-spinning guy was another
      Ford improvisation - they had planned an elaborate sword vs. whip duel
      (Indy had lost his gun someplace) but Ford was too sick to film it
      and suggested "can't I just shoot him?".

    5. Re:How will this one be? by tsotha · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Bah. The only thing Spielberg guarantees is some overly cute, sappy kid. I hate cute kids in my adventure movies.

      It's like he saw how successful the cuteness was in E.T. and decided to put it in every movie. Well, every movie that wasn't designed to depress me.

  18. Nah, Panama Hat already said it best.... by Rahga · · Score: 5, Informative

    From Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
    Panama Hat: This is the second time I've had to reclaim my property from you.
    Indiana Jones: That belongs in a museum.
    Panama Hat: So do you.

  19. Re:Oh boy! by oni · · Score: 5, Insightful

    > Any magic he allegedly had 'back in the day'

    Yeah. Allegedly. In truth, what has lucas ever done that wasn't hokie and childish? The original Star Wars was actually pretty good, but Lucas deserves little credit for that. He lucked out in a major way with Harrison Ford, and Harrison Ford saved Star Wars. Try to imagine the movie with just whiny little Luke Skywalker. It just doesn't work.

    Case in point, there is a video on youtube of behind the scenes footage from Empire Strikes Back. There is a great scene in Empire where Solo is being lowered in the carbonite pit and Leia shouts to him, "I love you!" Han looks up at her and say, "I know"

    What a great scene! Well guess what, Lucas originally wrote it this way:
    Leia: I love you
    Han: I love you too.

    Stop for a moment and let the deep, penetrating suckiness of those two lines seep into your being. George Lucas, sitting at his typewriter, no doubt in his underwear, actually typed that, and actually thought it was a good idea. He typed that crap, then he sat back and looked at what he had done and said, "hell yeah, I'm a bloody genius."

    Fortunately, when it came time to film that scene, Irvin Kershner was calling the shots and Lucas was (presumably) in a crypt somewhere. Harrison Ford looked at the script and said, "this sucks" and Kershner agreed and they changed it. And we all remember Empire Strikes Back as a great movie.

    Well, it is a great movie, but no thanks to Lucas.

    If only we had known the truth, then maybe we wouldn't have been so shocked some years later when we were treated to Lucas' drivel in the form of such brain-numbing lines as "omfg sand is the suxor it gets in my eye LOL!!!11" and my personal favorite, "Noooo!!!!"

    God, I hate George Lucas.

  20. Re:They'll keep it tasteful... I hope by vertinox · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Watch the movie again, the old man guarding the grail mentions that the grails effects only work if dont pass the great seal, that is the boundaries of immortality.

    Which leaves a very big plot hole on who made the great seal and what is it?

    And why does it have anything with the holy grail? Since presumptuously the grail in itself is the power to immortality, but why does it matter that the seal had anything to do with this? Did Jesus show up and bless the seal when the knights made the temple in the Middle ages?

    Lastly... Why can't the seal be moved. If immortality is achievable why not move the seal or move into the temple with modern luxuries?

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  21. Re:Shouldn't Ford be the helpful mentor by now? by Brian+Stretch · · Score: 3, Funny

    Perish the thought! I can see it now: Indiana Jones (Ford) united with his illegitimate son (Justin Timberlake) go after the Lost Chalice of Talent. K-Fed leads the cast of bad/worse guys in pursuit. Working title: "Indiana Jones 4: The Audience is Doomed!"

    I'll take CGI over that, thank you very much.

  22. Any word on.... by Ingolfke · · Score: 3, Funny

    River Phoenix signing up as Indy's son? He did a good job in the last movie. Is he even available?

    1. Re:Any word on.... by zoomshorts · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nope , still dead.

    2. Re:Any word on.... by Ingolfke · · Score: 2, Funny

      Alas... I'm afraid I've fallen into cynicism.

  23. Indiana Jones now has a family... by C0rinthian · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...and they are in peril.

  24. Re:That's funny by camperdave · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, that could have been bad:
    *glucas has rejected script1
    *glucas has rejected script2
    *glucas has rejected script3
    ...
    *glucas has rejected script4
    *glucas has rejected script5
    glucas: Bantha pudu, all of it. I'll write the script.
    *glucas pounds on keyboard for 37 minutes
    glucas: There! A rollicking adventure about Indie finding a lost island and a chest full of cursed Aztec gold.

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  25. Re:They'll keep it tasteful... I hope by virg_mattes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    > Which leaves a very big plot hole on who made the great seal and what is it?

    I think you're missing out on the whole "Power of God" thing here. Just to pull something from my nethers, I'd say that the folks who set up the place (the knights who found it) got a vision from God to set up a place for the grail and make a seal on the ground to mark the boundary. The seal itself isn't the boundary, just like a road cone isn't the pothole that it marks. The seal just shows mortals where the line is. As to moving into the place and living forever, it's an artifact from God, so it stands to reason that if you try to find a loophole but you're not devoutly religious, God would just pull the plug on you anyway.

    Virg

  26. Re:Oh boy! by discord5 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let me improve your feeble script

    Lucas originally wrote it this way:
    Leia: I love you
    Han: I love you too.

    Luke: NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

    George Lucas : I'm a bloody genius

    such brain-numbing lines as "omfg sand is the suxor it gets in my eye LOL!!!11"

    "zomg teh force is strong in dis 1, i can tell from his milk-of-chloreines"

    Random Star Wars fans, I AM George Lucas. Together we shall rule the universe as father and son.

  27. Not to nitpick, but... by greenguy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Also, all three may have been shot in the eighties, but they took place in the forties,

    The open sequence in Raiders says "Peru, 1936."

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  28. Didn't Nostradamus say... by Ingolfke · · Score: 4, Funny

    that this was a sign of the coming of Duke Nukem Forever?

  29. Re:That's funny by ArsonSmith · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I always thought James Cameron should only do sequels. Stay away from originals and remakes.

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  30. Working title: by jpellino · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Indiana Jones and the Prostate of Doom"

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  31. Re:Another billionaire who doesn't know any better by GigsVT · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He was talking about patriots rising up against tyrants, not some invading army coming in and slaughtering both.

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  32. ObSNL by Amazing+Quantum+Man · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's what your mother said, Trebek!

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  33. Revenge of the Indy by MidVicious · · Score: 2, Funny

    Prepare yourselves for a digitally inserted, blue glowy River Phoenix.

    Tremble before the mind blowing revelation when Sean Connery announces to the Nazis, "I am the Senate!"

    And witness the incredible love scenes between a reunited Indiana and Marion Ravenwood, "I hate snakes. They're slimy, scaly, and they get everywhere. Not like here, where everything is... wrinkley and aging."

  34. All the films were shot in the 80's... by porkchop_d_clown · · Score: 3, Funny

    All three of the earlier movies were shot in the 80s.

    Oh, man. I read this and thought "that can't be right!" - then I looked it up and now I just feel old.

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  35. Re:Oh boy! by Bobtree · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > Yeah. Allegedly. In truth, what has lucas ever done that wasn't hokie and childish?

    THX 1138. This is a classic work of science fiction, not fantasy adventure, and is fairly serious throughout. Even the directors-cut expanded CG-updated version is relatively unspoiled and watchable.

  36. Re:Oh boy! by Jtheletter · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Harrison Ford looked at the script and said, "this sucks" and Kershner agreed and they changed it.

    If only it had been such an intentional alteration. In fact, the scene had so many takes that Ford had heard "I love you" so many times he finally replied "I know" half jokingly. They thought it fit Solo's character better and stuck with that line. The whole movie had to be re-edited at great expense because the first version was terrible. To get the movie we ended up with many of the scenes go right until the last frame of film that was shot to get them to work.

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  37. Re:Jake Lloyd by taustin · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The sad thing is, that would probably make a better movie that what we're likely to actually get.

  38. Re:That's funny by JamesP · · Score: 3, Funny

    So this means that Titanic 2 will be better than Titanic 1????

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  39. Re:The Title: by Ubergrendle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Indiana Jones and the Walker of Death*.

    *would have said Doom, but that was already taken.

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  40. This isn't a last ditch attempt for easy $$$ by the+computer+guy+nex · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This movie has been in the works for easily 10 years. There have been dozens of scripts by multiple writers that have been repetitively rejected.

    In order to preserve the original trilogy as one of the best in American film history, only a damn good script would make it past Ford/Lucas/Spielberg.

    Personally? I can hardly wait another year and a half for it. A fourth movie is long overdue.

  41. Re:That's funny by MadJo · · Score: 2, Funny

    These natives, they don't all look the same do they?

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  42. OB Futurama Quote by Aereus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fry: Married? Jenny can't get married! Leela: Why not? It's clever, it's unexpected. Fry: But that's not why people watch TV. Clever things make people feel stupid, and unexpected things make them feel scared. [Lrrr crackles onto the screen.] Lrrr [on TV]: Attention, McNeal. Your unexpected marriage plan scares us. You stole our hearts as a single female lawyer, and so shall you remain -- or else! Fry: You see? TV audiences don't want anything original. They wanna see the same thing they've seen a thousand times before. http://www.futurama-madhouse.com.ar/scripts/1acv12 .shtml

  43. Re:Oh boy! by Kelson · · Score: 4, Interesting

    One of the memorable fight scenes in Raiders of the Lost Ark came about in a similar way. During the chase through Cairo, Indy was supposed to have a long fight with a swordsman. Harrison Ford was sick the day they were going to shoot the scene, and asked Spielberg if they could shorten the scene. The result: The guy flashes his swords around, and Indy just pulls out his gun and shoots him. A classic Indy moment that wasn't in the script.

  44. Re:That's funny by macshit · · Score: 2, Funny

    glucas: There! A rollicking adventure about Indie finding a lost island and a chest full of cursed Aztec gold.

    "... and a CGI humanoid chicken. Love that chicken!"

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  45. It was a great new idea when it came out by ukemike · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I remember when I was about 12 years old, my Dad was trying to talk me into seeing this movie about an archeologist searching for some ancient jewish artifact. I couldn't imagine anything more boring sounding. "Dad, I don't wanna see some dumb archeology movie, it sounds boooooring! I don't care if Han Solo is in it. It's still gonna be dumb!" Well he and my Mom dragged me along to see it anyway. We were a bit late because of my foot dragging. We walked into the Villa Theater (huge wraparound screen that made IMAX look like a video ipod) right as the Paramount trademark was fading to the jungle mountain. I'm getting chills up my back remembering it. That might have been the most pure unadulterated FUN I ever had in a movie theater.

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  46. Re:That's funny by CaptainAvatar · · Score: 2, Informative
    I always thought James Cameron should only do sequels.
    You mean like Piranha II: The Spawning?
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