MTV: A few months later, can you be objective about the film now?
Ford: I have two heads. I can go inside or outside the film. I think that's important for me to see it in an external way.
MTV: Does that external head think this one stands up to the other three films?
Ford: That external head has no mouth. That external head is smart enough to keep his goddamn mouth shut. (Laughs.)
MTV: There were a number of potential plotlines and scripts considered for this film over the years. Was this your favorite?
Ford: This was the final incarnation. I came to agree to it.
Am I the only one thinking that the most interesting part of that very interview was the one I just quoted above??
I don't want to sound polemical, but... those statements are clear hints to the fact that
Harrison himself considered this film to be crap.
Damn, some days ago I was at a shopping centre in town and on some of those ultra-cool HDTVs for sale they were showing a promotional DVD of "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull".
I was there, so I simply decided to stay and watch some ten minutes of the film. It was the part when Indy and Mutt fly to Nazca, 'til the point they arrive at the cemetery, and enter the catacombs.
And, well. Watching those scenes after all of these months had the effect of irritating me so much that I personally think I will never buy that DVD. Really, it's a movie that I sincerely don't want to see anymore.
I had NEVER imagined that a hardcore fan like
me could ever arrive to the point of
despise "Indy 4" that much.
It's like something personal at this point. Damn, there were only a couple of things that I was REALLY hoping not to see in "Indiana Jones IV", because I considered them
horrible ideas. And then, when I saw the DVD, I was suddenly reminded of the fact that ALL OF THOSE FREAKIN' THINGS were ACTUALLY in the film. ALL OF THEM. Like a bad joke, where EVERYTHING goes bad exactly the way it hurts more.
I am sad...
Now... sorry for this outburst, guys... really... it's not in my style... but I felt like writing it, to try and fight the frustration of still being an Indyfan in 2008...
Sorry again.