Kooshmeister
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As much as I loved the Nazi bad guys in Raiders and Last Crusade, I don't want them to appear again. I really, really don't want the villains in this one to be a bunch of escaped Nazis trying to start a Fourth Reich or somesuch nonsense. I have the following reasons:
1. I do not I like the very pop-culture notion that Indiana's enemies have to be Nazis or else it isn't an Indiana Jones movie. This is the basis for my main fear of why Spielberg may cave despite his post-Shindler's List policy of depicting Nazis seriously; moviegoers demanding more Indy punching Nazis (or Indy-punching Nazis, as the case may be).
2. It's been done. In addition to two movies, practically every novel, game and comic book has had Nazis, Nazis, Nazis, to the point where I'm fairly certain Indy has taken on the entire army of Nazi Germany by this point. But I worry the failure of the Nazi-less Crystal Skull will make Spielberg and Lucas return to the Nazi well like they did with Last Crusade after people hated Temple of Doom.
3. There's just been enough of them already, and they're all already dead. Honestly if you want to have a Nazi villain it has to be a new one due to the fact they almost always, always die in the one story they're featured in.
Because of this, I feel the Nazi well has been tapped dry. So no Nazis please.
1. I do not I like the very pop-culture notion that Indiana's enemies have to be Nazis or else it isn't an Indiana Jones movie. This is the basis for my main fear of why Spielberg may cave despite his post-Shindler's List policy of depicting Nazis seriously; moviegoers demanding more Indy punching Nazis (or Indy-punching Nazis, as the case may be).
2. It's been done. In addition to two movies, practically every novel, game and comic book has had Nazis, Nazis, Nazis, to the point where I'm fairly certain Indy has taken on the entire army of Nazi Germany by this point. But I worry the failure of the Nazi-less Crystal Skull will make Spielberg and Lucas return to the Nazi well like they did with Last Crusade after people hated Temple of Doom.
3. There's just been enough of them already, and they're all already dead. Honestly if you want to have a Nazi villain it has to be a new one due to the fact they almost always, always die in the one story they're featured in.
Because of this, I feel the Nazi well has been tapped dry. So no Nazis please.
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