Posted on 01/27/2015 3:31:02 PM PST by Perdogg
Here’s one from the helluva good idea department. Marvel offerings are soaring, and Star Wars is being reinvigorated by director JJ Abrams. Now, Disney has just started to turn its attention to reviving the Indiana Indiana Jones bullwhipJones franchise after buying the rights from Paramount in 2013.
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Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones. They need to let Indie retire, or even die.
Then it will be some new hero finds something mysterious and amazing in his effects, along with a whip, a a hat, a leather jacket, and a .45. Then he’s off!
Still like Banshee but can’t believe they killed Nola. Season 3 is moving so fast I think they may end this year.
You beat me...
Sure they can, and most people in the business would rather do new things. But the bean counters have Excel spreadsheets that say that when you're spending $250 million to make a movie, doing it based on a pre-existing property is much less of a gamble. And make no mistake, bean counters run the business.
OK, I plead ignorance.....What’s CGI?
Let me guess, Indy gets visited by the aliens from the last movie, they change his appearance, making him younger, and send him to the future!
The next installment: Indiana Jones and the First Sasquatch.
Indy finds evidence of big foot in Shitcago, IL and traces it all the way to the White House.
It’s going to be hard to beat the “a-rab brings a sword to a gunfight” scene. That immortalized Harrison Ford as Indy forever.
Thanks!
Yup, it’s the fact, Bean counters rule.
They can be full of beans, but they rule...
I know people that swear CGI is the greatest thing ever.
You’ll never have to pay an actor again!
I say they’re full of ****.
If I see one more talking penguin witha an attitude, well...
LOL!!
Don’t kill him off. Let him retire and pass the hat to a younger guy. Indy belongs in a museum.
Assume many of us are aware that recently one of the channels had an ‘Indiana Jones’ marathon - - -
After watching a few, I was left with the opinion that these movies, if designated as ‘Adventure,’ should be designated as ‘Comedy.’
I didn’t think that was a bad thing - - -
I am kinda relieved that they didn’t kill him The Crystal Skull. Would you really want the franchise to continue on with Shia LaBeouf as Indie’s successor?
Let him retire and die in bed mourned by children and grandchildren. Let them divvy his stuff and one of them gets a suitcase or a strong box, opens it - and the adventure continues.
Everybody dies. It would be a heck of a triumph for Indie to die in bed, preferably mourned by children and grandchildren.
Alternately, he could be divorced from or pre-deceased by Marion, abandoned by Mutt, and alone in an old-folks home. He dies, somebody inherits a strong box, opens it - and the adventure continues.
That and the over the top gore that is turning people off. The characters are well written and the storyline works. Why the producers/directors thought they had to expand on the senseless mayhem is beyond me. Saw a promotion of them sitting around bragging about the action will increase this season.
The final straw for me and the wife was the dumping of the fat villain under the truck and exploding with chucks flying. Good writing would have been Hood dumping the guy out the hole and hearing a thump thump. Geesze, leave something to our imaginations.
Looking forward to the new season of "Strike Back".
I think he’d be great! Harrison, unfortunately, is just too old (glad he’s doing Han Solo, though, one last time), and Indiana Jones serials need to be made... now with Lucas not providing the story idea behind it, the movie actually be better than the last one.
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