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Post by Rotting Corpse on Jan 20, 2016 18:11:49 GMT -5
Any fans here? One of my favorite movie series and heroes of all-time and I'm in the minority of fans who loves all of the films, even the fourth. My ranking of the series is sure to be controversial and I'm sure some will want to kill me for it, but it goes:
Temple Of Doom Raiders Of The Lost Ark Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull The Last Crusade
I'm an unashamed Temple Of Doom fan and it's always been my favorite. I'd never argue with anyone saying Raiders is the best and it's a classic, but I find TOD the most entertaining. It's darker, creepier and meaner tone combined with the amazing setpieces and action make it my favorite and I also think it has the best villains and version of Indy. I love how at times it gets very Horror-like.
I actually tend to rotate on the last two but honestly tend to like Last Crusade the least. Don't get me wrong as I still like it very much, but it just seems to hold up the least well for me. The much more goofy, comical and jokey nature of it with the constant gags and slapstick got jarring and I think it was a mistake for it to try to essentially be Raiders 2.0 after TOD being such a different movie from the original was one of it's strengths to me. The Nazis again, desert setting, biblical relic, etc. just felt repetitive and I found the villains the most boring of the series. I still like it but I'm in the uber-small minority who rates it last.
Crystal Skull grew on me. It's not without problems but it was awesome seeing Indy back and I enjoyed the story, setpieces, villains and action scenes, and it definitely brought back that fun and non-stop adventure feeling for me. It used to be my least favorite but with rewatches it improved a great deal for me.
All in all, a great series and I'm very happy to a hear a fifth one is planned.
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Post by endo on Jan 20, 2016 19:11:45 GMT -5
I honestly think I've ever only seen Raiders and that was a long time ago. May have seen the first sequel, but not sure. Need to at least watch the first one again, I remember loving it.
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Post by Rotting Corpse on Jan 20, 2016 19:43:37 GMT -5
It'd be a good series to re-visit, definitely.
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Post by MacReadyOrNot on Feb 5, 2020 11:58:45 GMT -5
This is a great series, and, on first view, I did enjoy Crystal Skull quite a bit. I was like Butters in that South Park episode. Now, I'm not so sure. I would love to rewatch all of them again. As it is my ranking would be as so:
Raiders Last Crusade Temple Crystal Skull
I never watched the series, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, but I might someday.
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Post by NDX on Feb 6, 2020 22:19:14 GMT -5
Yes yes, we all, well, almost all, rate Crystal Skull last, but that doesn't mean it's a bad movie. Just silly as hell.
I love the Indy series. Although I'm glad we never got the 5th one.
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Post by MacReadyOrNot on Feb 7, 2020 5:48:38 GMT -5
Although I'm glad we never got the 5th one. Maybe. Still could happen. You never know. I'm fine with leaving the series alone though too.
Maybe they could take a beat from The Incredibles and have Indy bored with his new life and yearning for the good old days of traveling the world to find lost relics.
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