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I am a huge Indiana Jones fan. Not to the extent that my room is packed with limited edition collectors figurines, but I have many fond memories associated with the three previous films.

So, I started this thread to raise levels of anticipation and find out which of the last three movies is held dear to the hearts of the Describe community. Personally, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is my favourite.

What's not to like? Wise cracking miniature Indiana Jones 'Short Round', hearts being ripped from people's chests before they are lowered into a hypnotic pit of lava; a tough conveyor belt battle influenced by voodoo, a cracking mine cart case, and real sense of adventure as the heroes return to a village bursting with emotion, whilst the bad guys deal with the Indian soldiers and are ripped apart by crocodiles.

I am! I am! *jumps up and down and waves hand up*

The Temple Of Doom was certainly fun, but for me, my favourite would definitely have to be Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade. I love how the movie explored Indy's relationship with his dad (the bantering's hilarious!), and I feel Sean Connery stole the show as his father. I love the whole Holy Grail idea, and I love seeing Indy figuring out his father's diary and getting through the three trials, especially the 'leap of faith' bit. However, my favourite scene would have to be the part Indy climbs up the cliff edge, pops up behind everyone, and joins them looking over the edge as they thought he had gone down with the tanks and that Vogel fella. And Marcus Brody was so adorable, being ever so slightly-senile.

I was really looking forward to Connery being in the new one. If it hadn't been in development hell for the past 20 years, Connery wouldn't be retired and he'd be along for the ride as well.

Who's pumped for the new Indy movie? Not Harrison Ford's chest! BURN! Because he's old, and got saggy man-boo...ah, forget it.

Last Crusade has to be my favourite, although I loved how dark Temple of Doom was. Especially the bad guy's Wile E Coyote fall into the chasm, and that shot of the crocs tearing his robes apart. But the love interest ruined it for me...that character was flatter than roadkill. Something gross >> piercing scream! Something scary >> piercing scream! Something sudden >> piercing scream!

Give me hard-drinkin' mountain women and double-crossing Nazis any day of the week.

I hope the new one doesn't suck a**e. But Hollywood's history of releasing decent movies past a trilogy is very patchy. Hello Star Wars, Alien[s], Batman (Forever, not Returns)...

Marmalade wrote:I hope the new one doesn't suck a**e. But Hollywood's history of releasing decent movies past a trilogy is very patchy. Hello Star Wars, Alien[s], Batman (Forever, not Returns)...

Batman Begins was refreshing. Quite possibly my favourite superhero movie.

Damn. I meant Batman Begins. What I wanted to say was the first and second Batman films were good, the third hurt and the fourth was so bad it was good again.

I liked Begins. Probably suffered from the lack of a truly awesome villain...the Ninja Master Dude/ Scarecrow combo wasn't a patch on Jack Nicholson's Joker. Hope Heath's method-acting resulted in something other than his death in the new film. Big loss. Brokeback remains one of my favourite movies of the last five years, and he was so good in that.

To me the villain in Begins was almost Batman himself, he was struggling with self identiy and value and the whole story was his quest to find himself and his destiny. I look at it very heavilly as a character piece, and Bale is amazing in that. I felt the Scarecrow and Ras Al Ghaul were very fantastic villains in supporting that inner struggle, especiailly with fear.

To me the Begins is the only good film out of the lot of them, it's the only film which really adresses Batman as he appears in the comics. He is an arse kicker and a deeply disturbed man. He should have the strength to take on Superman in a fight. Keaton never came close to that level or darkness, and the films to me just appeared as a Burton style explosion attacking super heroes, I'm still impressed he didn't get Deep for Batman.

I am a massive fan of Ledger and he is already being hinted at an Oscar nom for his portrayal as the Joker, a comicbook film first. Ledger is good, I very much enjoyed him in Candy and still like Ten Things and Two Hands.

Back on topic, I very much didn't like the new Indy, there was far too much Spielberg and Lucas. WTF was with the tarzan scene and ET strolling through the film for the last ten minutes. THAT said, the first half of the movie was amazing, but after the scene where SHia was revealed as Indy's son, which was already fucking obvious, the film droped to a complete shit hole.