Little things that make KOTCS awesome....

Montana Smith

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JP Jones said:
I'm not a physicist, but just thinking logically I'd say the nuke the fridge thing wouldn't be a "bone-breaking" experience. If he's wedged in a fridge his body has nothing to smash into. Now I don't like to be the one nerd in the group who sniffs, pushes up his spectacles, and gives you the science behind it, but when people say "He'd break every bone in his body!" I tend to just disagree.:)

Remeber this great thread?

http://raven.theraider.net/showthread.php?t=19686

I had fun there defending the fridge!
 

indyswk

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Just thought of one.

When the alien container was being opened and all the soldiers start to take a peek at the contents, Indy's eyeball turning towards the soldier's machine gun, and then back to look at the container when the soldier looked back at him. The timing was absolutely spot on!

Small scene, but great!
 

kongisking

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Watching it on USA last night, I loved the little moment where Indy uses a rock to smash open one of the plugs on the obelisk in Akator. It's hilarious and badass at the same time, because the way its played is that, even if Mac doesn't move, Indy's still gonna throw that thing down!
 

Wilhelm

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My favourite shot is when the lamps are attracted by the magnetism in Hangar 51. I love the look of Old Indy at the lamps thinking "I have experienced that magnetism before and many other supernatural things in my life so I'm used to it".
 

kongisking

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The shot of the ants about to carry the fedora away...and then they all part as we see Indy's legs walk into frame. The camera then pans up, to show him putting the hat back on, and turn around holding the skull, with a great look of exhaustion on his face, while John Williams' theme rising in the background.

Bad. Frickin. Ass. :cool:
 

Willie

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JP Jones said:
I'm not a physicist, but just thinking logically I'd say the nuke the fridge thing wouldn't be a "bone-breaking" experience. If he's wedged in a fridge his body has nothing to smash into. Now I don't like to be the one nerd in the group who sniffs, pushes up his spectacles, and gives you the science behind it, but when people say "He'd break every bone in his body!" I tend to just disagree.:)
Me too. I was watching KOTCS last night and a had a really good laugh watching that scene. It wouldn't be an Indy film without Indy doing something really outlandish or far fetched like surviving inside a fridge. ;)
 

Montana Smith

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kongisking said:
I'm flattered that a thread I started is considered at all "great."

I guess I get it right SOMETIMES...;)

All hail the mighty kong, for SOMETIMES he is great!

Despite the scars from battles with the dinosaurs on Raven Island, you still have your youthful enthusiasm. In time, and with advice from an old guerilla fighter, you may yet learn to tame the thoughts that KOTCS was entirely "awesome".

When you sit atop the island, maybe you will see only the awesome moments, of a less-than-awesome movie. ;)
 

DoomTown

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ninepinejones said:
I right then explained to him that Indy had taken a sip from the holy grail in Last Crusade,this sip did not make him immortal but gave him an almost "wolverine" like ability to regenerate and have bones like steel.

Funny, that's exactly how I thought of the situation! I mean, drinking from the grail had to make him COMPLETELY healthy and vigourous, and that healing power on Indy's body had to have a lasting effect...I mean it's not like Henry Sr.'s gunshot wound re-appeared when the grail crossed the seal...
 

Darth Vile

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DoomTown said:
Funny, that's exactly how I thought of the situation! I mean, drinking from the grail had to make him COMPLETELY healthy and vigourous, and that healing power on Indy's body had to have a lasting effect...I mean it's not like Henry Sr.'s gunshot wound re-appeared when the grail crossed the seal...

I always thought that was a clever ploy by Lucas and Spielberg to have the opportunity to set an Indy movie in the modern day i.e. the Grail had made them immortal (or at least it slowed the ageing process down).
 
I think this sipping from the grail aspect in Last Crusade will be utilized in Indy 5 to bring back Henry Sr., and explain why Indy is still so youthful. It would be really cool to have Indy find out his father is still alive because of the grails effects. Watching KOTCS with this perspective makes it a more enjoyable experience.
 

DoomTown

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Montana Smith said:
When you sit atop the island, maybe you will see only the awesome moments, of a less-than-awesome movie. ;)

Montana, this is STILL the best description that I have heard yet about "KOTCS". ;)
 

kongisking

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Montana Smith said:
All hail the mighty kong, for SOMETIMES he is great!

Despite the scars from battles with the dinosaurs on Raven Island, you still have your youthful enthusiasm. In time, and with advice from an old guerilla fighter, you may yet learn to tame the thoughts that KOTCS was entirely "awesome".

When you sit atop the island, maybe you will see only the awesome moments, of a less-than-awesome movie. ;)

I have a very low tolerance for puns, and that was just forced. Shameful, dude, shameful. Nah, I'm kidding you. :p

And as to my opinion of KOTCS, I will call the "sum of its parts" awesome until the day I finally go to the space between spaces. ;)
 

Dig Site 1138

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ninepinejones said:
I think this sipping from the grail aspect in Last Crusade will be utilized in Indy 5 to bring back Henry Sr., and explain why Indy is still so youthful. It would be really cool to have Indy find out his father is still alive because of the grails effects. Watching KOTCS with this perspective makes it a more enjoyable experience.

It can heal, but it only grants everlasting life so long as you stay with it on the other side of the Great Seal. Which, I have to admit, always sounded like some really contrived B.S.

;)
 

sunshinestate1992

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I've been a regular site for almost six years, and haven't posted on here for four..but I'm just rewatching KOTCS, and I'm enjoying it emmensly.

Oh and the scene where he's being scrubbed down due to the atomic blast one of the guys is scrubbing his crotch and he looks at him sternly and pulls the brush up to his chest. ( if that hasn't been mentioned.. I really didn't feel like reading it all)
 

Indy's brother

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The score. My God, the score. It doesn't even qualify as a "Little thing". Williams literally didn't miss a beat in 19 years, which is impressive in itself, not to mention his own advancing years. Even the biggest detractors of KOTCS can't deny that he had his game-face on for this, every repeat viewing convinces me that in anyone else's hands, it would have fallen flat. The man is a master.
 

Mungi

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Indy's brother said:
The score. My God, the score. It doesn't even qualify as a "Little thing". Williams literally didn't miss a beat in 19 years, which is impressive in itself, not to mention his own advancing years. Even the biggest detractors of KOTCS can't deny that he had his game-face on for this, every repeat viewing convinces me that in anyone else's hands, it would have fallen flat. The man is a master.

Exactly. Spalkos's theme or the theme of the skull are amazing, to name just two examples. I love how he brings Spalko's theme in the jungle chase, when she unsheathes her rapier or when she wants to hit Indy of the cliff or when... ah, there are so many great moments.:)
 

kongisking

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Some other little bits I loved:

When Dovchenko bends down to tie his shoes and the soldeirs behind him start firing at the guards, look closely at the one on the farthest right of screen. He let out a short burst, and then appears to run out of ammo, even shouting back to his comrades as if to say, ?Damn it! I?m out!" I?m not sure if this was intentional, but if it was, it?s a neat little bit of characterization for the Russian soldiers.

When Spalko is going off about getting all her medals, if you look closely, Indy?s got his hands in his pockets. A subtle but cool bit of casualness from Indy in the face of an enemy.

When the soldier opens the metal chest containing the alien, following the closeup of his glasses getting stuck to the lid, we suddenly cut to Spalko zipping into frame, grabbing the lid. I like the urgency in her movement there. Later, the intense look on her face as she opens the glass case over the foil-wrapped alien is pretty sweet.

Dovchenko having to hold his shaking hand as he shines a flashlight on the alien?s arm.

The shot of Indy crouching behind a patch of dirt, watching the Russians find Dovchenko after the rocket sled has stopped. I like how you see the light slowly illuminate his eyes.

In Doom Town, Indy stops to try and get some water from a sink. This makes sense; if Indy had just spent the whole early morning trekking through the desert, he?d be pretty darn thirsty. This is elaborated upon in the novelization.

?SURE, GREAT, DON?T WAIT FOR ME!?

As Indy climbs the hill to look at the mushroom cloud, you can see on the far right what looks like a chair lying in the grass. See? The fridge wasn?t the only houshold object that was sent flying away from the blast site!

The Marcus Brody painting in the hallway outside Indy?s classroom.

And yeah, I'm jotting these down as I watch the film on my computer. :D
 

michael

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Great stuff, Kong! I agree with every one of them! When I read that part in the book, hell it made ME thirsty!

I'll have to check out the chair in the grass!

Let me add one on to your list, because it would fit well...

When Indy tosses Dovchenko's hat back to him without looking in the warehouse, and then at the camp site later in the movie, Dovchenko returns the favor! Loved that!
 

The Man

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This shot. This angle. That sound...


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As detestable as the 'living'* being reveal is at the climax, the skeletal circle in the throne room is as striking a sight the movie has to offer.








*Over-egged. A flaw that permeates much of the film...
 
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