Benraianajones
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Udvarnoky said:All of the movies have a generally light tone, but this one embraces it without ever looking back. Indy4 brought the series to a point where holding characters at gunpoint was beyond the joke it usually is in this sort of movie. No one was worried about Marion in the campfire scene, and the quicksand was never going to swallow up anybody.
Yeah, seeing any gun held to anyone in the new one didn't cause much tension. People claim Donovan wasn't very good, but when he held up the gun and waved it around near Indy and his father, I felt some tension. We knew nothing of Donovan, other than he was cold, distant and the fact we knew not much helped to make you think "will he use it?" and of course he does. In the camp I think Marion has a gun to her back or something and you don't tend to notice it.
Also, at the end of TOD we had the 3 trials, the ripsaw one being the most ominous and then of course the false grails. Spalko entered the throne chamber and I felt goosebumps a bit, because it reminded me of Donovan, claiming it was beautiful and all and we knew something would happen. Shame her actual demise was too quick and not graphic enough. I lked the scene where the camera rotated around the room in a jerky fasion though as knowledge flowed in to her, that was quite spooky.