Major West
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IMDB ratings are useless. Hardly anything ever reaches a 9.
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Dr. Joenes
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Ah yes the unimpeachable rating system that put The Dark Knight ahead of virtually every film ever made as the best movie ever.
I love Batman - I'm a huge fan and I've read hundreds of comics. The Dark Knight is one of the best films of its kind ever but its position on that rating system relative to the history of filmmaking is patently ridiculous and I am confident Christopher Nolan himself would agree.
With each passing day the internet becomes a less reliable indicator of just about anything. Just because the same few dozen media outlets keep chasing around the same nattering goofballs that attract eyeballs and parroting their bile means nothing - particularly as it concerns movies.
I love Batman - I'm a huge fan and I've read hundreds of comics. The Dark Knight is one of the best films of its kind ever but its position on that rating system relative to the history of filmmaking is patently ridiculous and I am confident Christopher Nolan himself would agree.
With each passing day the internet becomes a less reliable indicator of just about anything. Just because the same few dozen media outlets keep chasing around the same nattering goofballs that attract eyeballs and parroting their bile means nothing - particularly as it concerns movies.
Darth Vile
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Dr. Joenes said:
I'd agree with that... and it's a debate we've had often. I'd sooner listen to my grans opinion of KOTCS than the fools on AICN and imdb (and she has alzheimers).
Darth Vile
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Sankara said:imdb is an indikator. Like rottentomatoes or the empire magazine...
You mean as in one of the best 500 movies of all time?
Major West
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Sankara said:
I disagree. I wouldn't trust either of those sites if I was looking for vaild review or rating on something. You only have to read the message boards to see what you are dealing with.
As a fan of films, one should know where to look and it aint there.
Indy Croft
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well at least you can sede how good and bad the film
Indy Croft
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it shouldn't be panned
ironicaly you guys hate t but indy 4's the 2nd most succesful film of 2008
ironicaly you guys hate t but indy 4's the 2nd most succesful film of 2008
If Crystal Skull is a failure then PLEASE let me make one just like it!!! It is after all the highest grossing Indy film of all, and the 23 highest gross film of all time domestically.
I don't think anyone at Paramount, Lucasfilm, or Dreamworks is disappointed with this film.
Doug
I don't think anyone at Paramount, Lucasfilm, or Dreamworks is disappointed with this film.
Doug
Sankara said:
Raiders of the Lost Ark = $384,140,454 world wide
Temple of Doom = $333,107,271 world wide
Last Crusade = $474,171,806 world wide
Crystal Skull = $783,734,602 world wide
Of course this is not adjusted for inflation, but that is not how the records are kept. Clearly Crystal Skull is the biggest grossing Indy film.
Doug
Darth Vile
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AtomicAge said:
They won't listen Doug... No matter how articulate or intelligent the argument is, or how the evidence stacks up against them... they will come back with the same ole' "KOCS sucked ballz... and that's a fact carved in tablets of stone".
The Man
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IMDb is simply a barometer of people's reactions. Be they regular Joe's or lunatics, they vote based on how they felt towards a movie. They can't be dismissed out of hand. Ask yourselves honestly: should the movie have a ranking of 8.5? 8.0?
Fact: Crystal Skull has never gone beyond 7.0...and is now slipping lower. This myth that the majority of viewers 'embraced' Indy 4 is a desperate exaggeration. Mixed. Average. Lukewarm. Not remotely good enough.
Fact: Crystal Skull has never gone beyond 7.0...and is now slipping lower. This myth that the majority of viewers 'embraced' Indy 4 is a desperate exaggeration. Mixed. Average. Lukewarm. Not remotely good enough.
The value of the dollar was an all-time high in the mid-eighties when it was roughly the double of what it is now. However, even if you give a x2 for ToD it still doesn't reach the sums KotCS did.AtomicAge said:
In the late eighties the world was entering a recession and the dollar was about as weak as it is now.
So if we do take the inflation into account, we get the BO list as:
1. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2. Temple of Doom
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. The Last Crusade
Funny... the two films of the tetralogy generally considered the worst dominate the market. Now I wonder how people are going twist this.