HovitosKing
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Niteshade007 said:
I wholeheartedly agree with you. Indy facing off against a Nazi cyborg just isn't my idea of a great adventure film.
Toht's Robotic Arm
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I wholeheartedly agree with you. Indy facing off against a Nazi cyborg just isn't my idea of a great adventure film.
Cagefighterkip
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i remember being about 7 or 8 and seeing that robo-arm pic in a making of Star Wars/Indy book and thinking "thats stupid that doesnt look like somethign from indiana jones"
Cagefighterkip
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JerryKing said:
if Indy 5 happens and they do as the 50s B movie again it WILL work...
but if it was still in the 30s as a jungle serial it would NOT work.
WillKill4Food
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In my opinion, the robotic arm would have been a cool idea in RotLA, if it had been used.
But it wasn't, and the series was chosen to be grittier and more realistic, so the arm was dropped.
So, now, if the robotic arm is used, it will deter away from the realistic Indy (which was already dealt a sharp blow when aliens entered KotCS
) and, now that the series is supposed to be realistic and gritty, the robotic arm can't be used.
But it wasn't, and the series was chosen to be grittier and more realistic, so the arm was dropped.
So, now, if the robotic arm is used, it will deter away from the realistic Indy (which was already dealt a sharp blow when aliens entered KotCS
) and, now that the series is supposed to be realistic and gritty, the robotic arm can't be used.
Kooshmeister
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I tend to agree. I like robotic limbs on bad guys, but they belong in more "fantasy-based" action films. Speaking of which, not to derail the topic, but in action movies set in contemporary times that have villains with functioning robotic limbs, does it bother anyone that the bad guy(s) don't make money off them?
Case in point, Zigesfeld in If Looks Could Kill. I already mentioned him, I believe. He works for the movie's main villain, Steranko, whose evil plan is to steal all of Europe's gold and mint his own coins (!). And yet, he has a henchman with a fully-functioning robotic hand, that was apparently invented and installed onto Zigesfeld within the span of but a few days (he loses his hand at the beginning of the movie, then later on he reappears and has the robotic one).
I know it's a cheesy spy movie but why doesn't Steranko patent this technology? He'd become the richest man on Earth overnight. The same applies to the original version of Toht and by extension the Nazis. Why only equip one amputee with a high-tech mechanized limb that doubles as a weapon??? Injured soldiers could be back on the front lines fighting the Allies in no time, with a weapon that can't be easily taken from them because it's attached to their bodies.
Seriously. Whenever writers add in these cyborg enhancements to their villains in movies set during time periods where such technology is either scarce or unheard-of, they fail to address the fact the bad guys could revolutionalize prosthetics and become filthy stinking rich.
Case in point, Zigesfeld in If Looks Could Kill. I already mentioned him, I believe. He works for the movie's main villain, Steranko, whose evil plan is to steal all of Europe's gold and mint his own coins (!). And yet, he has a henchman with a fully-functioning robotic hand, that was apparently invented and installed onto Zigesfeld within the span of but a few days (he loses his hand at the beginning of the movie, then later on he reappears and has the robotic one).
I know it's a cheesy spy movie but why doesn't Steranko patent this technology? He'd become the richest man on Earth overnight. The same applies to the original version of Toht and by extension the Nazis. Why only equip one amputee with a high-tech mechanized limb that doubles as a weapon??? Injured soldiers could be back on the front lines fighting the Allies in no time, with a weapon that can't be easily taken from them because it's attached to their bodies.
Seriously. Whenever writers add in these cyborg enhancements to their villains in movies set during time periods where such technology is either scarce or unheard-of, they fail to address the fact the bad guys could revolutionalize prosthetics and become filthy stinking rich.
WillKill4Food
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Yeah, but evil characters getting rich off of their inventions doesn't usually happen in movies - the characters are too busy using them for themselves and their evil purposes. The same goes for good characters, too. Batman could sell his equipment as spelunking/sky-diving/police equipment, but he doesn't because he spends his time doing good.
Kooshmeister
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Well I was speaking strictly of the kind of villains who are in it for the money, but insist on doing things the hard way.
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"GROOVY!"
Johnny Jones
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Great, next the aliens will be turning him into Darth Vader. Knowing Mac, though, he probably would use that technology to make money.
Knowing Mac, though, he probably would use that technology to make money.
Indy&HanFan
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I'm glad they decided to make Toht the way they did.
Agent Spalko
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The Man said:
What's da matta? C.I.A. got you pushing too many pencils?
Agent Spalko
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Noooooooooooooooo!!!!
martinland
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Ha, I even remember (from the Complete Making of book?) George Lucas snapping off the additional engines/wing span to the horror of the model builder. That's a cool way to cut costs.Canyon said:
