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Petty Bourgeoisie wrote:... in the lobby I looked around for somebody in charge and all I could see was teenagers behind the concessions counter.

In most modern multiplexes, there's only one projectionist running all the booths simultaneously. The films are run from giant platters to allow fast -- and consequently, often sloppy -- reloading. Next time tell one of those kids and they'll probably pass the word along. If no one complains, nothing get fixed.

I discovered, that if you eat chili with the Indiana Jones light up spoon, turning the light on while eating gives you the impression that you are eating something utterly disgusting and vile.

It is a pretty cool effect, the only enjoyment I have received from this film yet!

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008)

Indiana Jones movies

This is for exte.

John Cope wrote:This is for exte.

Darn. It's gone now. Has anyone read it? What do you think?

Here is a review of the Darabont script.

I saved it. Not particularly interested in it, but I knew it would disappear.

Orphic Lycidas wrote:

John Cope wrote:This is for exte.

Darn. It's gone now. Has anyone read it? What do you think?

Here is a review of the Darabont script.

I have it. I haven't finished reading it yet, but so far it is better overall but still suffers from the same stupid problems that originally plagued the '95 Jeb Stuart draft and the released film.

Are we allowed to open up a thread so that we can do script trading in here? I have all kinds of stuff, old and new, and would like to know if anyone else has anything worth trading for in here, old and new in .pdf format.

Another link for the Darabont script.

EDIT: It's gone.

Having just seen I, Robot, and already having seen Indy 4 and Transformers, the possibility occurred to me that Shia Lebeouf doesn't actually exist - I think he's a cgi character. He's exactly the same in all three films.

Indiana Jones needs a quote? To sell it? Unbelievable.

It would still sell even if the quote was at all accurate, something like "Fucking terrible!"

chaddoli wrote:"Fucking terrible!"

LMAO! "I'd rather eat dog shit!"

I'm sort of stunned at how much people hate this.

Cde. wrote:I'm sort of stunned at how much people hate this.

I'd probably hate it even more than I do now if I had stayed in the theatre to watch the whole thing.

it was painfully bad.

Anyone else noticed that Indiana Jones and the KOCS written like this may sound like a gay porn flick...

Hail_Cesar wrote:Anyone else noticed that Indiana Jones and the KOCS written like this may sound like a gay porn flick...

Definitely.

Spielberg: all of the alien nonsense was George's idea. But he does accept responsibility for nuking the fridge.

I never understood why the fridge thing was such a no-no.

exte wrote:

chaddoli wrote:"Fucking terrible!"

LMAO! "I'd rather eat dog shit!"

"Make me another billion, BITCHES!" - George Lucas

The concept has been done before, most notably in this episode of Batman. Spielberg just changed it into a fridge and a nuclear explosion.

hearthesilence wrote:The concept has been done before, most notably in this episode of Batman. Spielberg just changed it into a fridge and a nuclear explosion.

And? I would think that would only go on to prove that the idea isn't something to treat as a negative. More a neutral I would think.

Someone has been watching the DVD extras to come up with this story!

Lucas seemed very present from the moment an overly cute gopher turned up at the opening of the film (only Caddyshack has been able to use that animal correctly!)

I'm still of the camp that would have preferred a live action adaptation of The Fate of Atlantis, which would have been mythical and spooky without featuring aliens, but then I also don't think Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was a bad film, just a deeply unnecessary one, as any Indy film after the Last Crusade would have to have been (though I suppose it does fit the title character more fully into the theme of Spielberg's films from the late 80s on being about grown men, fatherhood and/or mentoring rather than the kids and man-children of the films up to and including Empire of the Sun - with Hook being the exception that proves the rule).

hearthesilence wrote:The concept has been done before, most notably in this episode of Batman. Spielberg just changed it into a fridge and a nuclear explosion.

I think Spielberg "borrowed" the idea from another film he produced...

The time machine has been through several variations. In the first draft of the screenplay the time machine was a laser device that was housed in a room. At the end of the first draft the device was attached to a refrigerator and taken to an atomic bomb test. Robert Zemeckis said in an interview that the idea was scrapped because he and Steven Spielberg did not want children to start climbing into refrigerators and getting trapped inside.

knives wrote:And? I would think that would only go on to prove that the idea isn't something to treat as a negative. More a neutral I would think.

I didn't say it was a bad idea, it just didn't do much for me because I had seen it before. As soon as he eyed the fridge, the first thought I had was that Batman cartoon.

Roger Ryan wrote:

hearthesilence wrote:The concept has been done before, most notably in this episode of Batman. Spielberg just changed it into a fridge and a nuclear explosion.

I think Spielberg "borrowed" the idea from another film he produced...

The time machine has been through several variations. In the first draft of the screenplay the time machine was a laser device that was housed in a room. At the end of the first draft the device was attached to a refrigerator and taken to an atomic bomb test. Robert Zemeckis said in an interview that the idea was scrapped because he and Steven Spielberg did not want children to start climbing into refrigerators and getting trapped inside.

Yeah, probably more likely, but as an escape device, the idea was already done, whether or not he knew it.