Darth Vile said:
And I think that's the key dilemma. Do you adapt and do something different with the genre... something new (which is exactly what Raiders did in 81)? Or do you just reference your own history, and by default, deliver something familiar/tried and tested... but also something potentially unoriginal/passe?
They are of course rhetorical questions, because either would alienate certain sections of the audience. I certainly couldn't blame Spielberg/Lucas for making a movie that's stylistically much closer to the originals than it is to modern action movies. However, I personally would have had more of a preference for something tangibly different... and that's not to say dour and dark (which is simply a modern trend), but just something fresh, exciting and done in a different style. But I guess that's something for younger filmakers to do rather than Spielberg/Lucas.
And that kind of goes back to Shia's comments, when he said this:
"Look, the movie could have been updated. There was a reason it wasn?t universally accepted?.We need to be able to satiate the appetite. I think we just misinterpreted what we were trying to satiate."
In many respects, he is right........I think much of the audience today is very cynical - the negative response to something as lighthearted and comedic as the prairie dogs makes this crystal clear. 'The Dark Knight' was incredibly dark (it felt like a rated-R movie), and audiences really ate it up.
But that's not Indiana Jones. Not to me. And personally, I wish LeBeouf would've kept his mouth shut, because now everyone blows his comments out of proportion and use it as yet another device to attack the movie.
This, after over a year ago, he said the viewership has changed and audiences were more innocent back then. He also went on to say Steven, George, and Harrison were the only audience members he cared about, and they were happy.
Now he's changing his tune......I don't know, I guess he's trying to help his street cred.
Spielberg said something to the effect that he wasn't trying to reinvent the wheel here. He wasn't trying to make it bigger or better than the three other great 'Raiders' pictures, he just wanted to make a blood relative to the other three...........and I think that's
exactly what he accomplished.