seasider said:Doesn't that describe Indiana Jones movies in general? The dialogue in those movies have never been Star Wars bad but it's not Shakespeare either.
Yeah, but it has been Tom Stoppard - the final version of the Last Crusade script was his, uncredited.
And I won't make any special claims for Temple, but Raiders has got a pretty nice script - all of Belloq's material, in particular, really brings it, and the exposition scene with the army intelligence men is just phenomenally well-written, with the interplay between two guys on either side who are used to working together and the sheer enthusiasm we get. Even for Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, despite it being cut from the film, there was the superb line from Stanforth:
?When you?re young you spend all your time thinking, ?who will I be?? And then for years you?re shouting at the world ?This is who I am!? But lately I?ve been wondering - after I?m gone - who will they say I was??
The writing has, in large part, I think, been part of what has raised these films above others like them. Let's not let that distinction go.