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Jarvmeister

02-15-2004, 04:28 PM

I'm sorry if this topic has already been discussed, but I searched the forums and found nothing. What is your favourite Indy movie? Mine is probably the rather underrated Temple Of Doom, followed by Last Crusade. Of course though, all 3 of them are absolute masterpieces!! What is your favourite?

Indy1936

02-15-2004, 06:07 PM

Mine would have to be Raiders because it was the original after all, and in my opinion, had the best action sequences.

MP3

02-15-2004, 11:40 PM

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Indy1936

02-16-2004, 12:17 AM

Good one MP3!!!

Lord Excalibur

02-16-2004, 12:45 AM

I think all is great. But if I have to have a favorite it is probably Temple of Doom

the Whip Master

02-16-2004, 02:14 AM

I like Last Crusade the most because it has such a compelling story and I love the tank chase.

Webley

02-16-2004, 02:15 AM

Originally posted by Lord Excalibur
I think all is great. But if I have to have a favorite it is probably Temple of Doom
Me to.

Finn

02-16-2004, 09:03 AM

Originally posted by MP3
RotLA!... and heck lotta more of same sort.
Hey, I want my royalts out of that!

Ayrun

02-16-2004, 09:32 AM

They're all great.
But if I had to chose one, it be Temple of Doom.

MP3

02-16-2004, 12:26 PM

Originally posted by Finn
Originally posted by MP3
RotLA!... and heck lotta more of same sort.
Hey, I want my royalts out of that!

Sure, no problem. Just give me the number of your anonymous, off-shore Swiss bank account. ;)

Then again, I wouldn't trust the Swiss... if you die in a concentration camp (or some other horrible torture) where you [obviously] don't get a death certificate, those greedy *BEEP!*s will use that as an excuse not to let your children inherit your money. Better pick another bank, then.... ;)

How much are the royalties, anyway?

Finn

02-16-2004, 12:33 PM

Hmm... since monetary payment is out of option, let's say we make a free advertisement deal.

You make a similar post but instead of RotLA or FoA You use FiK* and that should do it... ;)

Oh yeah, my favorite is RotLA, too. But LC is very close behind.

* "Finn is Kewl"

[Edited by Finn on 02-16-2004 at 11:36 am]

LASTCRUSADER

02-16-2004, 12:48 PM

I have to go with Raiders since that is what got me hooked on Jones flicks to begin with.

MP3

02-16-2004, 12:49 PM

Originally posted by Finn
Hmm... since monetary payment is out of option, let's say we make a free advertisement deal.

You make a similar post but instead of RotLA or FoA You use FiK* and that should do it... ;)

OK, here goes:

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Originally posted by Finn
Oh yeah, my favorite is RotLA, too. But LC is very close behind.

Yeah, me too. LC is extremely close behind.

Tennessee R

02-16-2004, 02:08 PM

OK, Finn..I mean MP3..I mean both of you...
LC, LC, LC, LC, LC...I won't even try :)
My favorite is Last Crusade, followed very closely by the other two. :D

Renderking Fisk

02-16-2004, 02:13 PM

Well, if Raiders of the Lost Ark is the best movie ever made, what does that tell you?

katanga

02-16-2004, 02:48 PM

I have to say Temple of Doom :)

MP3

02-16-2004, 04:51 PM

Originally posted by Renderking Fisk
Well, if Raiders of the Lost Ark is the best movie ever made, what does that tell you?

Ummmmmmmmmmm... that ToD sucks, and LC is somewhere close behind Raiders? :D:D:D

Renderking Fisk

02-16-2004, 07:49 PM

Empee-Three... you're a smartasp. Glad to know you.

MP3

02-16-2004, 08:19 PM

Originally posted by Renderking Fisk
Empee-Three... you're a smartasp. Glad to know you.

The pleasure is mine, O Great King of Three Dimensional Computer Drawing. ;)

MP3

02-16-2004, 08:36 PM

Originally posted by Renderking Fisk
Empee-Three... you're a smartasp. Glad to know you.

Deleted line form the original Raiders [parody] script:

Indy and Sallah somehow get caught in a time warp and end up having to negotiate with a group of late-1900's teenagers.

SALLAH: Smartasps. Very Dangerous. You talk first.

Strider

02-16-2004, 08:37 PM

It's extreamly hard to deside but I'd say The Last Crusade.

matthiassatlure

02-21-2004, 05:12 PM

Tennesee R: I agree.

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ironmonkey

02-23-2004, 05:38 PM

hmmm. lets see....

best indy girl: without dubt marion. shes got charm, looks and brains. the only indy girl i would (if i could) date.

best bad guys: Belloq and that nazi guy in raiders. (cant remember his name right now......)

best start: with out dubt raiders. its all time classic cinema all the way. the start of ToD wasnt a big dance act and a shoot out wich isnt even as good as the shoot out/fight in the raven in raiders. and i really dont fancy the young indy in last crusade.

best climax: i actaully think that must be last crusade. the three trails are great but raiders ending is a close nr 2.

best ending: i love the ending of raiders where they place the ark in the gigantic store hall.

best chase scene: Riders. the truck chasing scene is amazing. to me it easely beats the wagon chase in tod and the motorcycle chase in grail.

guess that makes riders my favourite.

generally i also think that raiders is best simply because they got it just perfect in every possebly way. the comical stuff and seriousness is in perfect ballance, while temple of doom got to dark and last crusade got all to cuddely with the whole father/son thing and turning marcus into a clown and taking away much of indys charm by making him into junior. also the grail seems to copying too much of raiders. (bring back the nazies, biblical relic, we have it/they took it/we took it back/they stole it again, back to the desert etc)

if you need more arguments for why i love riders the moust, i got them, but i guess this should do.. atleast for now ;)

[Edited by ironmonkey on 02-23-2004 at 07:03 pm]

Pale Horse

02-23-2004, 05:45 PM

Ah, welcome to the madness. I wanted to be the first to say "Mushi Mushi"

ironmonkey

02-23-2004, 08:06 PM

thanks. :) ive been lurking for some time and you seem like a nice bunch. feels good to finally be a member. oh, and please excuse my horrible grammar/spelling.... english is not my first language....

Kate

02-23-2004, 08:07 PM

Your English is great! And I will join in the choruses of "Mushi Mushi." Welcome, my friend!

MP3

02-23-2004, 11:21 PM

Hey, ironmonkey! Welcome to The Raven, Where Threads Grow Like The Kudzu!

Aaron H

02-24-2004, 01:24 AM

It goes back and forth between LC & RotLA, right now LC is my fav. As for ToD, I don't think of it as a part of the Indiana Jones movies. Frankly, the movie sucked on several levels, but that is another topic for another day.

TommyJohnson

02-24-2004, 02:26 PM

My favourite movie is The Fate of Atlantis...if they had done that!

That game has a full story that could be a great movie!
(Also, Infernal Machine and Emperor's Tomb would been cool movies but, anyways, we will never have them, and that's not cool!)

My REAL favourite is:
1-Last Crusade
2-Temple of Doom
3-Raiders

I like ToD and ROTLA both at the same level, but I put ToD at #2 because I love these 2 characters, Willie Scott and Short Round.

Also, I know a lot of people hates Willie.
I love her first because Kate Capshaw is soooo beautiful! and secondly because, like Indy says, "the biggest trouble with her is the noise". She screams and screams again and that made ToD a funny movie.
Last, of course Marion is more intelligient, but I love the fact that Willie is scared of everything and she screames for everything! Most important Willie's thoughts are like "Oh I broke my nail" or "My dress will be dirty again".
Cool

matthiassatlure

02-24-2004, 02:36 PM

best bad guys: Belloq and that nazi guy in raiders. (cant remember his name right now......)

I believe that was Toht...

Tennessee R

02-24-2004, 10:26 PM

As I stated above, LC.
But I posted again to say I fully agree with everything Tommy said.

MP3

02-24-2004, 11:17 PM

Originally posted by Tennessee R
But I posted again to say I fully agree with everything Tommy said.

...AND to increase your post count. :D

After all, I should know about that - what do you think THIS post is for? :D:D:D

(Just kidding ;))

Pale Horse

02-25-2004, 09:25 AM

Originally posted by Kate
Your English is great! And I will join in the choruses of "Mushi Mushi." Welcome, my friend!

We can forgive your English, if you can forgive our Japanese. Kate, I have learned that "Mushi, Mushi" means "bug, bug" in Japanese. The correct pronunciation, (and spelling) is "Moshi, Moshi".

Ok back to the "Raiders" as best movie discussion.

TommyJohnson

02-28-2004, 07:27 AM

Also, ToD is the only one that has a happy end.
In ROTLA Indy search and find the Lost Ark, but in the end those "top men" Nazis took it.

In LC Indy search and find the Holy Grail, but in the end, thanks to Elsa, the Grail Temple is destroyed and the Grail is lost (I prefer the videogame-end, when Indy can take the Grail with his whip!:))

In ToD had to find these stones and in the end he can take one stone back to the village, along with his heart and his life.

Finn

02-28-2004, 07:34 AM

The point in Indy losing the Ark & the Grail was that those were artefacts too powerful for a normal man to handle. Yes, the quests were to regain major archaeological treasures, but after found out what their powers really were, they really just couldn't be left in Indy's hands.

Even Henry came to this realization in the end of LC. "Indiana... let it go."

TommyJohnson

02-28-2004, 08:01 AM

Originally posted by Finn
The point in Indy losing the Ark & the Grail was that those were artefacts too powerful for a normal man to handle. Yes, the quests were to regain major archaeological treasures, but after found out what their powers really were, they really just couldn't be left in Indy's hands.

Even Henry came to this realization in the end of LC. "Indiana... let it go."

"IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM"

What you said is ok, but the Ark goes to Nazi in the end, so that's not a good thing.
But, if the world is still (almost) entire, maybe Nazi lost the instruction sheet on how to use the Ark!:D:D:D:D:D

Finn

02-28-2004, 08:27 AM

The Ark going to Nazis? Have you even seen the whole movie? Those were U.S. government officials.

Renderking Fisk

02-28-2004, 09:17 AM

but in the end those "top men" Nazis took it.

It's comments like these that prove the point that all computers with an ISP should have a breathalyzer attached to them. If you’re not sober enough to pass the test, you’re not sober enough to post.

Friends don’t let Friends post drunk.

TommyJohnson

02-28-2004, 09:41 AM

well, actually in the warehouse scene we see the Ark in a Nazi crate between millions of Nazi crates...

Finn

02-28-2004, 09:54 AM

TJ, tell us... what have you been inhaling recently?

TommyJohnson

02-28-2004, 10:20 AM

Hey Finn, why are you offending me?
Did I ever offend you?
Your 7755 posts doesn't scares me, and remember you aren't the Fuhrer so respect the other Raveners.

ok?

02-28-2004, 10:26 AM

Führer.

He's just making fun of you, because you said that the US Government warehouse is full of Nazi crates.

Canyon

06-20-2004, 02:06 PM

My replies regarding this can be found here. ;)

http://raven.theraider.net/showthread.php?threadid=3893&perpage=15&pagenumber=2

http://raven.theraider.net/showthread.php?threadid=4830&perpage=15&pagenumber=4 (scroll down to my second post)

IndyMcFly

06-20-2004, 05:44 PM

Originally posted by Renderking Fisk
Well, if Raiders of the Lost Ark is the best movie ever made, what does that tell you?

"It tellsh me... that goosh shtepping morons like yourshelf should try rreading booksh inshtead of burrning them!" (rr - rolled, for those non-Spanish learning/speaking/understanding... and I'm just kidding, Render.)

I like Last Crusade a lot, because I'm a humorous type of person, but ToD and Raiders are tied, and are also VERY close behind... it didn't used to be that way though. I almost disliked ToD, but it seems the more I watch it, the more I like it. Raiders has the best costume though... that's the version I'm collecting. I like everything about the Raiders costume... it's brilliant. ;)

In Christ,
Shane

mayhew7

06-20-2004, 06:14 PM

my favourate film is last crusade as it is simular to raiders of the lost ark theme rather then temple of doom but just about makes better viewing then last crusade with the father and son story added in and the tank chase is very good to :)

Henry Jones, Sr

06-22-2004, 02:26 AM

The Last Crusade is my favorite film.

06-22-2004, 03:29 AM

RotLA

Ivo

06-24-2004, 12:07 AM

Raiders

ACME04

06-26-2004, 03:04 AM

Favorite Indy movie: TEMPLE OF DOOM!!:)

I think I'm beginning to see why some people dislike this particular "Indy" film.

Here are the reasons that I think:

*Marcus Brody and Sallah (two awesome "Indy" characters) are not in it.:mad:

*You don't see Indy teaching at Barnett College (yet you see him in his professor garbs during the banquet scene).

*Indy retrieves only one Sankara stone, instead of the three that he had in his satchel before they fell in the croc-infested waters.

*The fact that ToD was the darkest of the three "Indy" films.

*Indy doesn't fight any Nazis.:mad:

*There were a few disgusting scenes (i.e. "The Banquet Scene").:sick:

*ToD is known as the prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark.

*Willie Scott is one of the loudest screamers on the face of the earth!:)

*You see Indy's evil side (which is very scary).

I think Temple of Doom is an excellent "Indy" film, especially with the great "Mine Cart Scene" (it had some awesome effects)! But I personally think that all three "Indy" films are the best.:D

bungle92

06-26-2004, 03:54 PM

While I agree with you Acme about Temple being a great film, I can see why people feel let down by it. Like it's not as sophisticated or quest driven in it's story like the other two. Part of the fun of Raiders and Crusade was going all over the world to fight Nazis but in Temple we're confined to one locale for 3/4 of the film's run time. Another thing that's missing is seeing Indy use his knowledge to decipher clues to find the artifact, all we get here is the villagers pointing the way to Pankot Palace and leaving Indy to infiltrate the place for the stones. Add to it the Willie Scott character being a let down after Marion. Still, Temple has it's good points, faults and all, like I pointed in my "Why Temple is awesome" thread.

Back to the question. My fave Indy film is Raiders, hands down.

ElodieJones

06-27-2004, 04:26 PM

Raiders of the Lost Ark

The better story, better bad guy, better Indygirl, better FILM !!!

Indyz Azn Gurl

06-27-2004, 05:36 PM

I like all 3 equally.

Shorty made Temple enjoyable.
And LC was just the funniest out of all 3.

But I guess Raiders wins by nose b/c the story is just bad@$$. XD

Indy Canuck

07-09-2004, 05:31 PM

Raiders of the Lost Ark.

All the way, the greatest all-around story, the greatest all-around adventure (a reason the other two continually refer to it?). Classic elements seen for the first time, and scenes that are immortalised forever.

Everyone I know says LC is their favourite, but they always remember scenes from Raiders. Either the boulder or the Swordsman.

How can you dismiss a film that just never takes itself to seriously for its own good? ;)

But I digress. I've said all these things a million times. I'll probably say them a million more. Despite my environment, populated by LC lovers (no offence at all meant to those of you on this board who are btw), I shall remain a Raiders fan through and through.

EvilDevo

07-10-2004, 04:20 AM

im somewhat surprised to see the number of people who enjoy TOD the best in this thread (which is a good thing)

although i like all three equally... if i HAD to pick (via gunpoint is pretty much the only way) id pick LC just because it was the film that introduced me to indy

Rumpled Fedora

07-10-2004, 10:28 PM

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade...
'nuff said ;)

Axel

07-11-2004, 12:20 PM

My 8-year old son and I prefer "Raiders." My wife likes "LC" the best. No comment from my 15-month old twins.

Axel

Tennessee R

07-11-2004, 12:27 PM

Originally posted by TommyJohnson

Also, I know a lot of people hates Willie.
I love her first because Kate Capshaw is soooo beautiful! and secondly because, like Indy says, "the biggest trouble with her is the noise". She screams and screams again and that made ToD a funny movie.
Last, of course Marion is more intelligient, but I love the fact that Willie is scared of everything and she screames for everything! Most important Willie's thoughts are like "Oh I broke my nail" or "My dress will be dirty again".
Cool

That is the way I feel about it, too. She, in my opinion is the most beautiful Indy Girl, and she is a part of what makes ToD so light in between the dark.

Tennessee R

07-11-2004, 12:32 PM

I'm with you, Rumpled Fedora, Mayhew, IndyMcFly, Strider, Matthiasattlure, and Dr. Jones.

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