Comments | kate_nepveu: Indiana Jones and the really long title (spoilers)

kate_nepveu

Indiana Jones and the really long title (spoilers)

May 23, 2008 22:13

Okay, when a movie ends its introductory sequence the way this one does? That's a signal that you've either got to buy in and turn off your disbelief, or just leave.

Non-spoiler version: mostly entertaining, felt a little long, doesn't bear a lot of thinking about, has some nice touches. Third's still my favorite, but hey: that was Yale Law School ( Read more... )

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rilina May 24 2008, 05:24:35 UTC

Now I need to rewatch the third one to see the Yale buildings. Somehow I didn't know they were used there. (Though I did go to the great YSO Halloween concert where the film featured several scenes inspired by Indiana Jones, including a giant ball rolling down the ramp between Machine City and the lobby of CCL.)

kate_nepveu May 24 2008, 13:59:49 UTC

At the time I watched the third, I doubt I'd have recognized them, but now it was a kick, especially the lovely Hollywood rearrangement of geography!

rilina May 24 2008, 16:43:59 UTC

They put that up on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_5WsiJZvEk

and sent it around last halloween. Jonathan Spence as Sean Connery really is perfect.

Aaron

kate_nepveu May 24 2008, 18:24:56 UTC

Love the shot where you can see the feet on the boulder!

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kate_nepveu May 24 2008, 14:02:20 UTC

Also, when the ship started spinning up and the alien started talking about "gifts", I had a flash of all the Good Guys being taken into another dimension where they'd live forever, as in our memories, which I thought would be much more interestingly meta.

orzelc May 24 2008, 14:28:54 UTC

I thought they could've done something interesting with the opening, had they been willing to attribute his survival to being "kind of immortal" thanks to the Grail. They kind of blew that, though, by having Sean Connery be dead.

I took the "gift" line to be one of those ominous don't-trust-powerful-beings-from-another-dimension things. It was more or less in line with the other movies, in that regard.

kate_nepveu May 24 2008, 18:20:28 UTC

Or the gift was getting rid of the bad guys, which would've fit the tone, too.

It appears that the canon explanation is that the Grail only confers immortality if you stay put in the cave, which really doesn't bear thinking about either . . .

cofax7 May 25 2008, 01:38:44 UTC

Oh, was that Yale Law School? I was wondering where they filmed that sequence.

It was fun. It had massive plot holes and lots of dubious physics, and I could have wished Marion got to do more--I really wanted her to slug him at least once, for old time's sake--but over all? I'm not dissatisfied. Was cute.

kate_nepveu May 26 2008, 01:35:40 UTC

The corridor with wall on one side and arches to the outside on the other, was the bit that made me sit up and say, Law School! I didn't recognize the dean's office, which was apparently the faculty dining room.

The library was the big main one, and the doors they crashed out of belonged to a completely different building. =>