Official INDIANA JONES Title is...

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AndyDursin · #1 Post by **AndyDursin** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:25 am

INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL

....forgettable? Lame? Too long? All of the above?

I keep forgetting it. Sure, we all might've thought THE PHANTOM MENACE sounded weird off the bat, but at least it was short.

RAIDERS, TEMPLE OF DOOM, LAST CRUSADE...and this title? Which one doesn't fit?

Eric W. · #2 Post by **Eric W.** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:10 am

Sounds more like a videogame title.

Meh, it's ok.

AndyDursin · #3 Post by **AndyDursin** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:47 am

I think it's way too long. And forgettable.

Eric W. · #4 Post by **Eric W.** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:26 am

AndyDursin wrote:I think it's way too long. And forgettable.

I agree.

Hopefully the movie won't be.

Monterey Jack · #5 Post by **Monterey Jack** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:21 pm

They should have shortened it to Indiana Jones And The Crystal Skull.

AndyDursin · #6 Post by **AndyDursin** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:52 pm

Monterey Jack wrote:They should have shortened it to Indiana Jones And The Crystal Skull.

Would've made more sense.

Monterey Jack · #7 Post by **Monterey Jack** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:48 pm

It's like, Raiders Of The Lost Ark is succinct and punchy, but Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark is cumbersome.

AndyDursin · #8 Post by **AndyDursin** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:05 pm

Yeah.

INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL is too long.

Jedbu · #9 Post by **Jedbu** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:37 pm

If the movie is better than TEMPLE OF DOOM, I really don't care how long the title is. . .

AndyDursin · #10 Post by **AndyDursin** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:39 pm

Jedbu wrote: If the movie is better than TEMPLE OF DOOM, I really don't care how long the title is. . .

Didn't like TEMPLE OF DOOM I take it?

I think given Spielberg's uneasy and, at least for me, disappointing genre excursions of late this one will have a difficult time living up to all three of the earlier movies. Plus it has Janusz Kaminski shooting it.

I'll be there but I have my doubts.

Jedbu · #11 Post by **Jedbu** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:48 pm

I love the opening number of TOD

, but Capshaw and the kid usually make me pop out the disc afterwards. Plus, the whole dinner sequence is just plain yucko, but I do like the scene where Ford and the kid are in the spike chamber, especially the look on Ford's face when they reopen the place-priceless!

Check out the MAD magazine parody-they have Lucas and Spielberg off to the side from time to time and at one point one of them says "now we're going to speed things up!" and the reaction of the cast says it all! The parody is 10x better than the film (the same can be said of the current issue with SPIDEY 3).

Monterey Jack · #12 Post by **Monterey Jack** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:41 am

Hey, Andy, could you possibly edit your first post and remove that GIGANTIC image that's stretching out this thread? Thanks.

DavidM · #13 Post by **DavidM** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:54 am

I'll forgive the title if the movie is good! I have high hopes after AI, Minority Report, War of the Worlds and Munich.

Monterey Jack · #14 Post by **Monterey Jack** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:40 am

I guess I'm in the minority that prefers the kinetic, thrilling Temple Of Doom to the jokey, defanged Last Crusade...

Eric W. · #15 Post by **Eric W.** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:40 am

Monterey Jack wrote:I guess I'm in the minority that prefers the kinetic, thrilling Temple Of Doom to the jokey, defanged Last Crusade...

Probably.