david icke
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I'm sorry but there will in no way be some kind of critical re-evaluation of KOTCS in years to come. The problem wasn't the aliens(which I liked as a concept in IJ)the problem was it was generally unexciting and had no iconic moments of adventure.
Raiders had too many to mention; Temple of doom finishes off with the amazing mine-cart ride going into the fantastic rope bridge sequence; Last Crusade had the tests of faith and the memorable 'He chose...poorly' chalice scene.
Crystal skull had...Indy and his mates running down a flight of stairs from some natives, that was the height of excitement there, nothing happened.
Before that we had some sub-par jungle chase scenes(compared to the 3 previous entries) that looked fake in places and had ridiculous monkey swinging madness.
I think if we're all being honest, the one scene that will be be talked about above all others from Crystal Skull is the fridge surviving the nuke scene, no question. I liked that scene, thought it was funny and outrageous. But most folk will talk about it as being a joke, that it is the most memorable scene from teh movie refelcts badly on the rest.
The thing is , people were hard on ToD when it came out because it was dark, and not as good as Raiders, after time they realised, so what, it had awsome parts, the opening sequence, the spooky village, chilled monkey brains, mine carts, rope bridge.
The same with the SW prequels, no amount of time can disguise the fact that the young Darth Vader was a mis-fire of potential. Bad dialoge and bad acting, the whole trilogy swung around him.
Time will not be kind to Jar-Jar binks either, about teh only thing going for him was that he was the first fully integrated CGI character on film. In ten years time he'll look even worse than he's looking today compared to Gollum.
Adverse reactions to Empire perhaps came about because folk were all set to give SW a good kicking after the almost universal praise the 1st one got. Critics trying to make a name for themselves. Saying there is too much emphasis on sfx when it's this kind of movie? Hilarious.
That's a problem I had with the criticism of the prequel's CGI being souless, it wasn't the sfx that were souless, it was the stilted dialoge and acting, the sfx were great.
If anything the reps of the prequels and KOTCS will get worse over time.
I even think Lucas and co now realise the mistakes they made. Look how quickly they're trying to get another Indy movie out after the decades of procastination over the last one. They want to go out on a good one.
And all this talk of the new live action SW series being like the Sopranos', like a 'HBO series'. They want to make a drama that the adults can get into as much as the kids, like the OT.
I'm hoping both ventures are a vast improvement.
As for reviews of ROTJ, they were right. It' sfun, but the Ewoks are just not as effective as watching Rebels fighting Stormtroopers, you can't take it as seriously at all. It's a bit of a joke, one that you can get into when you're a kid. All it does is make the Stormtroopers into a joke too. If they were going to make it this way with some real good fighting little bears, they should have had more Ewoks like the scary looking guy who is poking solo at the start of their encounter. Have more of them getting viscious with the troopers and grabbing their guns and equipment.
The first idea was for it to be wookies, but it was not pheasable budget wise and practically I think. They would have had to completely shut down the basketball leagues for a season to get the required amount of Wookies I think.
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