Awww...an unbiased opinion!

[ii2none59]

I wasn't sure how many saw this posted on the Yahoo groups, but someone sent the link and text to me, and I had to made sure the word got out. This is fantastic. And I love it that it (hopefully) came from someone that isn't a fan. *g* Just someone who recognizes what sounds to be a very good flick. So in the midst of my excitement over 300 (and

Comments

[ii2none59]

Oh Lord...when you're right, you're right. He did get the problem of starting to look old enough to be my father (and I probably just insulted my father LOL). I know that on one web-blog, the running joke was whether Cate Blanchett was playing his daughter in Indy 4, or actually his love interest. (I think it's the latter, but God knows the former would be more realistic).

I'd forgotten Air Force One and you're right -- that was probably his last decent film. I saw K19 and am sorry I did; his Russian accent such as it was came and went and came and went again. Firewall I had hopes for, but when you start pulling for the very over-the-top villain (Stephen Maturin goes BAD LOL) and the little family dog, then the movie's gone way off LOL I saw What Lies Beneath, and I'm with you: I thought it was going to be a very clever Hitchcock salute; it turned into a Hitchcock nightmare...and I don't mean in a good way either LOL

The only way I'll go see Indy 4 is...well, I don't think there is any way I'll go see it LOL I am still in hopes that something will happen (not something tragic of course) and the project will become null and void. But if it is released, I'll be hiding behind my copy of Raiders of the Lost Ark and singing the Raiders march as loud as I can!

[annathepiper]

Half of me went "ooo" when I heard Cate Blanchett was going to be in this film. I mean, I loves me some Cate Blanchett. But yeah, I'm scared as to whether she'll play his child or his love interest. ;)

I think the one (1) way this movie could work is if they do in fact acknowledge Indy's age, and don't try to have Ford do something he's clearly no longer physically capable of doing. There's a little leeway here in that if you accept the Young Indiana Jones series as canon, wherein you have a very old Indy showing up and looking quite weatherbeaten and even wearing an eye patch as I recall, this means that Indy was clearly active right up into his old age...

... but there's a difference between accepting that as a general concept for the character and seeing it played out. Much will depend on whether Ford, as he has been recently quoted as claiming, is in fact still capable of pulling off the sort of physical action that an Indiana Jones story will require.

Between that and just not quite trusting George Lucas to hand me a really good story anymore--thanks to the newer Star Wars trilogy--I will probably only go see this flick if it gets stellar, yea, even intergalactic reviews. We'll just have to see.

Mostly, I expect to be hiding behind my copy of Raiders. ;)

[ii2none59]

Oh I think Cate Blanchett is one of my favorite actresses (I can't wait to see her as Elizabeth again), but I had these mixed feelings when I saw that she was being cast in Indy 4. Part of me was like "Fantastic -- she may become my most favorite heroine since Marion Ravenwood!" And then it was like I got hit by a ton of bricks. "Hrm...is she his daughter or what?" I'm sure she'll be wonderful no matter what!

I've heard so many rumors off and on of what the plot would be. But the last I had heard, it was being released this year. And the storyline was that Indy's long lost brother (I hate a lot of these long lost relative stories LOL) appeared with a map to the lost civilization of Atlantis....Then there was the King Solomon's Mines plot....Or that Ben Affleck was going to play his son....Who the heck knows? At the rate we're going, an adult Short Round may be back. Maybe the Nazis will join forces with the evil Thugee cult. And is Sean Connery in this one? What about John Rhys-Davies? (I guess as long as Mrs. Spielberg's Willie Smith isn't back, I'll be happy).

I'm asking a lot of questions for a movie I have little interest in LOL

Seriously though, I'm with you. I might go see it if the reviews are to die for. But I've grown incredibly mistrustful of Mr. Lucas over the last couple of decades, and those last three so-called Star Wars movies didn't help....I do think that if they acknowledge that Indy is older (nearly 20 years older than he was in the last flick, which I think took place in 1938 -- it's been a while since I've seen it) it would help. I don't know *sigh* It wasn't like he was all that physical in say Firewall, but it was still uncomfortable watching him. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it just felt...weird. Oh well...guess we'll see.