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Like I said before, it is a really bad movie. It's an entertaining mess, at least. And the score is fantastic

see for yourself And here are the Turkeys in Spain before Columbus even returned from his first journey:

I think the movie has exactly two good scenes: when the fog reveals the sight of land and when the gets bitten by a snake during a downpour in the jungle. Everything else...its absolutely awful. From having turkeys at the Spanish monastery at the start of the movie, to Columbus arguing the Earth is round (which was never a point of contention for his proposed expedition), to the horrendous accent (they did have a French actor, speaking in English, playing the role of a Genovese working for Spain), I love the score and specially love the album. But the script is atrocious

I particularly like when Donovan says to Indy: "Find the man and you will find the Grail". We only get the true meaning of that sentence at the end of the movie

Ah, so there's some hope

"The Grail cannot pass the Great Seal. That is the price of immortality"

And a really fantastic album

I really do not like that poster. Even the games had way better poster art than that

1492 is shockingly bad. How they decided to move forward with that script remains a mystery to me. It really is quite horrendous

I'm really looking forward to the movie, but that track had far too many "BAAAAAM"'s for my taste

I love that cover. I really wish this was a CD release

It's not a question of verisimilitude, it's a question of tone and aesthetic. You had three movies that were rooted in religious mysticism, and it gave the films a certain tone, with a mix of Haggard, Kipling, Victorian Exploration, Humphrey Bogart cool, with 1930's serials thrown in the mix, with villains that mostly fit with this sort of quest for mystical artifacts. And then you have a McGuffin that's tied to a very different era, Roswell and sci-fi b-movies and so on. It just doesn't feel part of the same series. Everything starts to clash and not mix very well. Even Indiana's attire doesn't seem to fit. And when I saw that flying saucer, with a design straight out of an Ed Wood movie, I knew this wasn't working. It's far from being the movies only problem. But it is part of it

I must say, Chen, as a neophyte Wagnerian, I've been greatly enjoying your posts on the subject. With both this subject and the George Lucas inspirations for Star Wars, your volume of knowledge is impressive

I do enjoy the original CD (probably even more the suite on Music for a Darkened Theater). Is much music missing?

I do like some of the casting and some sections of the scores

I cannot go through those movies for more that 2 minutes straight before coming across something that deeply irks me

I have a strong dislike for the LOTR film trilogy, never made any secret of it

I forgot one: Seven Years in Tibet. I only watched a few years after the theatrical release. But I loved the book, the director (Annaud) usually made interesting and compelling stuff, I was a big fan of Thewlis and I was already absolutely in love with the score. What an absolute turd this movie turned out to be

It was doubly disappointing. Not only did I love the book (like you), but Peter Weir was coming off directing his masterpiece and one the all time great films. Nothing particularly wrong with The Way Back, but it never reach the heights it promised given the pedigree of the project Although I quite like the movie in its director's cut version, I can't ignore that central performance. If the movie had a central performance half as good as Gladiator, it would be one of Scott's best. As it stands, it's close to to greatness...but Orlando Bloom is far too much in it

The Dark Knight Rises Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Batman & Robin The Fellowship of the Ring Alexander The Way Back (by Peter Weir) Funny People

I really can't get a sense of what this movie is going for. It seems to be both generic and unique

I must say, although many of the most memorable scenes from the Indiana Jones movies are action scenes, some of my very favorite scenes are when the featured relic is first introduced and explained. It generally also is when the theme for the relic is introduced and the sense of mystery of unknown is usually quite enticing. In Raiders, for example, not only is the scene much more interesting and gripping than it has any right to be (for a scene that is pretty much exposition) but it simultaneously suggests quite effectively the danger of the Ark and gives some great glimpses into the character of Indiana Jones (I particularly love when Indy asks the agents if they didn't go to Sunday School): I think I value these sort of scenes more highly that I do the action sequences. Both musically and in the movie itself

Last Jedi is such an uneven movie. It's some of absolute favorite scenes in the whole saga. But then you get stuff like this. The performance is fantastic, though, of a really great cue.