I enjoyed the movie with only minor quibbles (I'm willing to overlook the fridge saving Indi from a nuke because it's in line with the thinking at the time but the final scene with the inter-dimensional ship and whatnot smacked too heavily of Lucas rather than homage). I suspect I enjoyed the movie because some of the negative pre-hype that I'd heard - various negative reviews and Lucas, himself, saying it was "just a movie." It helped ensure my expectations were firmly grounded so the movie delivered and entertained. It wasn't as good as Arc and Crusade, but that should be expected because both movies were, on many levels, superb. It was, however, much better than Temple which was, by all measures, thoroughly mundane. In other words, it was exactly what we should have expected - fun and campy entertainment.
Marion is exasperated at the implication that she shouldn't have gotten on with her life after she and Indy parted ways. She states that surely there must have been other women in Indy's life after her, to which he replies, in a moment that reminded me that Harrison Ford is in fact a good actor, "Sure there were, but they all had the same problem -- they weren't you."
I totally called that line. It was the ONLY one of possibly three options (no, sarcastic "they were all as annoying as you", and the "they weren't you") that made narrative and emotional sense -- and I was so gratified when they went there.
Indy 4 is pure pulp, through a 50's B-Moies lens. I love it... second only to Raiders.
"You reach a point in your life." says Jim Broadbent, as Marshal College's dean, "where life stops giving you things and starts taking them away." For some reason, this line stuck with me and, although the film itself develops this theme more in the breach than in the observance, it is developed and in ways that, for me anyway, didn't overshadow
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I totally called that line. It was the ONLY one of possibly three options (no, sarcastic "they were all as annoying as you", and the "they weren't you") that made narrative and emotional sense -- and I was so gratified when they went there.
Indy 4 is pure pulp, through a 50's B-Moies lens. I love it... second only to Raiders.
"You reach a point in your life." says Jim Broadbent, as Marshal College's dean, "where life stops giving you things and starts taking them away." For some reason, this line stuck with me and, although the film itself develops this theme more in the breach than in the observance, it is developed and in ways that, for me anyway, didn't overshadow ( ... )
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