Matinee Idyll
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Young Indiana Jones Chronicles boxset!? Not the awful re-edited with awful 'joining' segments and no Old Indy abominations?
Oh please let it be true!
Oh please let it be true!
?October 13th, the first [Young Indiana Jones DVD] comes out. We?ve spent about three and a half years making 100 documentaries to go with each episode of the Chronicles. So the first set comes out in mid-October, and then [a second batch] in January and [a third] just right after Indy IV.?
The Old Indy bookends and Especially his Narrations are too valuable for setting the stage for each episode and summing it all up. They shouldn't be lost. I also liked that he gave further insights into Young Indy's thoughts and emotional development as time went by.
Old Indy helped make a lot of episodes work as standalones.
And I came to see the bookends as charming and good comic relief to provide contrast in some of the really heavy episodes.
They hacked it out and tried to create new bridging material, but That stuff was truly Awful. Grainy film, Sean Flannery's hair all wrong, it just didn't Fit in there and it was painfully obvious.
The single-hour episodes should remain in episodic format and only the two-parters Created to be viewed as a single story should be presented that way.
Young Indy and the Scandal Of 1920 hasn't come out, has it? I wanna see that one out, but Intact. I don't believe they Could excise Old Indy out of that film, he's too integral to it, it would lose too much. The lady in the cab, the critic in the theater, all good stuff that shouldn't be lost if you wanted to put that movie out.
I also didn't like some of the new overdubbing they did. I much preferred the voices of the original actors in the Congo episodes over the new ones they used for home video release.
The originals had more urgency, they made the scenes more Intense. The guy playing Major Bouchet was great in that scene where he's faced with mutiny and is ranting how he'll shoot every last man. The new voice just wasn't into the moment, to my ears. The original was dramatic, the new guy's take was Flat... Running lines instead of Acting.
I remember some strange edits in places, too. Some different sequencing and alternated shots used that made me wonder, What was the POINT of that? They just took away a Good shot for a Nothing shot.
I miss the opening title sequence of the 'Chronicles, too, that was a Very nice piece of work. (A DVD set also ought to include the ABC trailers from before the series debut. They were cool and got me All pumped up about the series.)
Anyway, lest I get off on a rant myself... Let's just have The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, please. Pleeasse?
The official site has no mention of any YIJC DVD's at all, so don't make any assumptions based on the material there.Matinee Idyll said:EDIT:
Well I just checked the website, and they're still stuck together "India/China" "Princeton/Mexico", etc... This sucks.
Moedred said:11 hours on 12 discs? That's the first 7 or 8 Young Indy 'movies,' spread out indefinitely. The absurd price has to plummet. Otherwise, with tax the 3 volumes will cost $382. What do they take us for, Trekkies? Any other 2-season drama would go for about $100.
Matinee Idyll said:And that they won't be the episodes in their original forms is the biggest kick in the backside...
Matinee Idyll said:Don't mind me man, I'm just a pessimist... plus, on the official sites episode guide they're still stuck together in 'adventures'.