Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - Special Edition (Please)
I've done a search for 'Indiana Jones' and 'Fate of Atlantis' in this forum, and I haven't yet come across a thread dedicated specifically to this topic, but if one exists, please excuse my creating a new thread. I would simply like to reiterate the point if it's already been made:
I would love to see TellTale Games develop a Special Edition of 'Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis'. If an original Indy game in the same style could be developed, that would also be very welcome. FoA was such a great game with an excellent soundtrack as well!
I would love to see TellTale Games develop a Special Edition of 'Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis'. If an original Indy game in the same style could be developed, that would also be very welcome. FoA was such a great game with an excellent soundtrack as well!
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I understand Monkey Island 1 and 2 are considered classics, untouchable but FOA is a stand alone CLASSIC, TIMELESS. MI series has 4 sequels and constant and active whiny fan boys.
Just like the Final Fantasy series that is remaking all their classics...
FOA is not a game in the same boat, it's a one time hit wonder, it's a CLASSIC Indiana Jones game.
They should leave it alone, just like they should leave LC alone.
It's not current, it serves as a one hit wonder in time, it's timeless. It doesn't need current whiny fan boys' sugar coating the franchise...*ECK*
PLEASE leave FOA alone...
It's as rotten an idea as Star Wars special edition.
Look, it's perfect already.
Oh, wait, FoA already have voices. There's no need to remake, since it's just PERFECT as is.
There, I said it.
No, it's more like
KOTCS= TOD + LC + 50s adventure movies
Why would it have to be animated?
Because it was the fifties. Every Indiana Jones movie is a different genre from the era it takes place in--"Raiders" is a 30s adventure serial, "Last Crusade" is a 30s road comedy, so it makes sense that "Crystal Skull" would be a 50s Sci-Fi movie.
I've said it 100s of times before but I'm saying it again, I think KOTCS reminds me best of the original Journey To The Center of The Earth.
Because Harrison Ford is just too old to be Indiana Jones in Nazi time.
That said; I'm for an animated series, especially if it adapts some of the comics or books.
I too really like ToD, mainly because I saw it first as a kid
In ToD there is this highly annoying kid that ruins the entire movie for me. In KotCS there are a lot of stupid scenes and it has Shia LaBitch in one of the leading roles. Enough reasons to make it the worst movie in the series.
I can only speak for myself, but the main reason I hate Temple of Doom is that Indy hardly does anything in the movie. Everything he does is reactionary. Raiders had lots of memorable scenes of Indy doing things, like shooting the guy in the marketplace or fighting the nazi near the plane.
What's Temple of Doom's most memorable scene? The heart being ripped from the chest. A scene that doesn't involve Indy, aside from as a spectator. Even in the action sequence with the biggest coolness potential, the mine cart scene, basically the most action Indy takes is ducking.
When I go to an Indiana Jones movie, it's to see Indiana Jones do things. Not to see him watch things happen.
Of course, it doesn't help that both Willie and Short Round are incredibly obnoxious. Willie especially ruins things, because a lot of the romantic screwball comedy bits could have been fun had it involved a girl I actually cared about. And the inexplicable decision to make the movie a prequel raises too many questions when Indy says at the beginning of Raiders that he "doesn't believe in magic, a lot of superstitious hocus pocus."
Then again, I didn't see the movie until I was an adult, and everyone I know who loves the movie saw it when they were kids. My theory? If you saw Temple of Doom as a kid, you enjoyed it because (A) it was dark, like a "grown-up" movie, and (B) you saw Short Round, a kid who got to hang out with Indiana Jones, and subconsciously, you wanted to be that kid hanging out with Indiana Jones. Just a theory, of course.
And there are quite a few memorable scenes. The crushing room. The dining table. The mine cart. The bridge where Indy goes badass with my favorite line from the movie. The fight on the collapsed bridge. The gun not being there as a reference to Raiders. The heart. Indy turning evil. Indy on the conveyor belt fighting while being hurt with a voodoo doll. The opening scene in the diner. The falling raft from the airplane. The child stumbling out of the darkness into Indy's arms. The fortune and glory line. The scene where Indy hangs the guy with his whip (a VERY dark pulp adventure sort of thing). Really, I think you have to be a lover of those old pulp novels and pulp serials to really get full enjoyment out of the brilliant things in the movie; there are a lot of cool scenes in that vein. Oh and I remembered all of these scenes without having to watch the movie again.
Oh, and I don't get the complaint with LeBeouf. You really think a different actor would have made the role better or different? Come on. He was perfect for that role, and I always wanted to see him in an Indy movie ever since I saw Holes. Spielberg thought the same thing. The kid looked good. Know who he reminded me of? Oh this will really get your spurs. I could get flamed for this one. Guybrush Threepwood. Yeah, he was like a modern Guybrush Threepwood if Guybrush said "I want to be a greaser!" Same curly hair, same determination to kick ass, same build, and when Mutt was swordfighting Spalko that pretty much sent the similarities over the edge. The monkeys too. And how can you call someone a bitch who got his hand slit open and still kept fighting. The only thing I REALLY didn't like was the temple and aliens at the end. It was boring; there was nothing to it; I saw better in National Treasure. I liked the rest though.
I enjoy classic pulp adventure, but the majority of those bits made me go "meh" at best, and felt painfully stupid or out of place at worst. But, hey, different strokes, and all that.
Blasphemy!
*Goes to secretly write a script for a Monkey Island movie starring Shia LeBeouf*
It's cool to hate Shia LaBeouf, kind of like it used to be cool to hate Leonardo DiCaprio before people started to realize he was one of the best actors of the generation.
The problem I have with KotCS has nothing to do with him, or even with the sometimes silly story. The problem is that it really didn't have the core of an Indiana Jones movie, except for the fact that Indiana Jones was in it.
What I mean is that all the original Indy movies had a specific core: they were based on taking ancient religious mythology and (pseudo)history, twisting it up a bit, assuming it's all true, and then making a big adventure around it. There is a reason Indy was an archaeologist, and not, say, a detective. It's because the core of the movies is based around that sense of history, which was largely tossed aside in KotCS. It's not a *bad* movie, it's just not really an Indiana Jones movie.
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And there's a couple of fan edits out there that trim back a fair bit of the excess 'goofiness' of KotCS. Here's one. Here's another. They definitely make the film better, but it's still not as good as the others.
If an edit should be made it should take in the opinions of multiple Indy fans all over the world, not the editors own opinion of what everyone else should like.
It's also why I love The Librarian.
But Shia is not one of the best actors of his generation. He is pretty bad and completely overused.
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