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Indiana Jones 5
Delirium:
That's it. I'm working on a way to fission my conciousness into an alternate reality where this doesn't happen, RIGHT NOW.
Wait, I already have it. It's called discontinuity.
Sox:
--- Quote from: Border Reiver on 18 Jun 2009, 06:50 ---Harrison Ford is getting too old for these movies
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I think he only looked old when Shia Lebeouf was saving his ass and he was acting like a clumsy old man. That opening scene he moved like somebody half his age. The problem wasn't Harrison Ford being too old, but Indiana Jones being written as a bumbling old man.
One of the things that made Kingdom of the Crystal Skull so depressingly awful is that is really could have been great if Lucas and Spielberg had wanted to keep it in the same vein as the original trilogy. Harrison Ford's age, the awful CGI, shitty writing all dominated the movie because that is what they were aiming for. They actually sat down and said "we could make a sequel like the others, people would love it." "Nah, let's do it this way instead."
You know you fucked up when your movie makes the original trilogy look subtle.
Border Reiver:
Mr. Ford is 67 years old. It's difficult to maintain the level of activity necessary for a believable action hero at that AGE
Sox:
he's still young enough to have the snot beaten out of him, and those were always the best parts of Indiana Jones.
even though the last movie sucked, it did show that he is still capable of moving around like a young guy.
Alex C:
Yes, but at what cost? Age and good ol' fashioned wear & tear doesn't always limit you immediately, it often just makes you pay in a million small (and sometimes large...) ways after you're finished. Hell, the last time I saw Terrell Davis run for yards in the NFL he actually made a great gain and punished a defender as he went down; he also ended up going to the sidelines and leaving the game because his knee swelled to the size of cantaloupe despite the play being rather mundane. Of course, Ford did say that he'd make another one provided they didn't wait another 20 years to get cracking at it, and who am I to argue?
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