Most of what I don't like has already been listed. I'm not entirely confident Lucas really knows what he is talking about artistically. I mean, the last good movie he directed was ANH. Yes, ROTS is cool but anybody could have directed that and made it cool. It's not that hard, you just throw Darth Vader into a lava pit with Obi-Wan and have them duel. I'm sure if someone else had done it, we would've had all the cool parts of the movie retained while the lame ones were thrown out. Lucas is just.... kind of lame, honestly. He's a geek who just happened to fantasize about two cool ideas that hundreds of other people helped flesh out into something worth a damn.
Spielberg is a good director. I stand by that notion. I like most of his movies, although the ones of the last seven years or so are not exactly my favorites. The last movie he directed that I'd consider something awesome was Saving Private Ryan. I realize he's done other cool films, but nothing was really all that special to me to place it in any kind of special recognition. WOW was a good movie but I wouldn't call it "classic" or anything by any means.
Clinton has got it perfectly 100% right on Ford. Well, maybe 90%. I don't think he was too old to play Indy last time. But I think it might be true this time, we'll see I guess. But more so, Ford definitely hasn't done any really good movies in the past 10 years... that's a sad fact. And part of the reason is his typecasting problem. In addition to the fact that I think he probably just picks crappy projects to work on like K-19 or whatever it was. I didn't really like that or What Lies Beneath (which is technically a MP movie, not a Ford movie)... and Hollywood Homicide.... I want to pretend that didn't exist. Please. Someone tell me that was a bad dream. Firewall was slightly better but still bland and weak. That's not the kind of thing Ford needs to be associated with. He's so much better than that.
... in addition, Lucas shelving that script also worries me. That just makes me think of how much Lucas THINKS he knows about his own franchises but maybe he doesn't. I mean, decisions like that led to the prequel trilogy killing the childhood memories of thousands of fans. lol.
I think Lucas and Spielberg and Ford are all well... getting OLD. I think it affects their creativity, their decisions and etc. A younger Spielberg didn't care about guns in E.T., an older one thinks he does. I think they've lost some of the drive and spark that young people have to prove themselves because they all feel as though they have proved what they can do. Now their passion is fading as they have milked it for all it's worth.
I guess we'll see what happens. Hopefully all of them can pull it the hell together for ONE film at least and make something as good as they did almost twenty years ago.
... the ark coming back is a dumb idea... double-edged sword in how it could be cool and also destroy the ending of Raiders.
... Shia being Indy's son. I really didn't want Indy to have a son... seems soooooo................. expected. A daughter would've bee a nice twist but I guess at his age, not having any kids and going adventuring would be weird. I don't necessarily hate the idea. I'm just not gung-ho until I see how they did it.
... Marion's back. Whoop de doo. Unlike some, I don't have a childhood crush on her (based on SOME of the threads I've visited
) and I think she's back for nostalgic reasons to link you back to the older trilogy than anything. I guess it might be cool.
... Aliens. If it has aliens in it. That just kind of sounds dumb. I'm trying to be open minded. But then I visualize an alien standing next to Indiana Jones.
But despite myself sounding very negative. I am excited for the movie and hope it's awesome.
