DaFedora
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Like I mentioned in a reply of Indyologist's thread on 'If not an archeologist, then what?', I've always liked the idea of the creative inventiveness and crazy-rgent improvisation in Indy's character (f.i. substituting the Golden Idol with a pouch filled with sand, using his feet to stop the braking wheels of a mine car, using a skeleton's bone to light a torch, dress like a Nazi to infiltrate submarine pens and the Berlin parade, hide in a box on a sidecar-motorcycle with his dad before breaking loose, cast debris to 'backtrack' the Leap of Faith bridge)...
For that reason, I kinda like the Ocean's movies (11 and 12 are best, but 13 is slightly overdone and lacks punch to my taste).
Also, I reccommend anyone also to watch 2 particular directed-for-television episodes of MacGyver.
One was made at the end of season 7 (nr. 139), aired 14 May 1994: 'Lost Treasure of Atlantis'. Starting on an underground site in war-torn Bosnia, the trail sprang onwards to England and then to the isle of Santorini (Thyra). Indy's sidekick, Atticus (played by actor Brian Blessed, known for providing Boss Nass' voice in Episode I The Phantom Menace) is the enthusiastic and bright archtype to Marcus Brody. Lord Cleeve (played by Christian Burgess) was a downtoned version of Walter Donovan (with less complex plotwork).
SPOILER ALERT!!! : Though, this Atticus becomes more of a redeemed Mac in the end .
That TV movie has a pretty good feeling of Indiana Jones adventure to it. A couple great devices, traps and puzzles too. Just slightly corny.
The other MacGyver stuff worth watching: the first two episodes (together 1 storyline) of Season 5 (nrs. 84,85), aired september 1989: 'The Legend of the Holy Rose', with a really Christian and grail/holy water element stolen from TLC.
SPOILER ALERT!!! :
Some Medieval saw trap had to be defused and there was a cool puzzle part of creating a solar-powered ruby laser in it. And an Excalibur-esque sword.
For that reason, I kinda like the Ocean's movies (11 and 12 are best, but 13 is slightly overdone and lacks punch to my taste).
Also, I reccommend anyone also to watch 2 particular directed-for-television episodes of MacGyver.
One was made at the end of season 7 (nr. 139), aired 14 May 1994: 'Lost Treasure of Atlantis'. Starting on an underground site in war-torn Bosnia, the trail sprang onwards to England and then to the isle of Santorini (Thyra). Indy's sidekick, Atticus (played by actor Brian Blessed, known for providing Boss Nass' voice in Episode I The Phantom Menace) is the enthusiastic and bright archtype to Marcus Brody. Lord Cleeve (played by Christian Burgess) was a downtoned version of Walter Donovan (with less complex plotwork).
SPOILER ALERT!!! : Though, this Atticus becomes more of a redeemed Mac in the end .
That TV movie has a pretty good feeling of Indiana Jones adventure to it. A couple great devices, traps and puzzles too. Just slightly corny.
The other MacGyver stuff worth watching: the first two episodes (together 1 storyline) of Season 5 (nrs. 84,85), aired september 1989: 'The Legend of the Holy Rose', with a really Christian and grail/holy water element stolen from TLC.
SPOILER ALERT!!! :
Some Medieval saw trap had to be defused and there was a cool puzzle part of creating a solar-powered ruby laser in it. And an Excalibur-esque sword.
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