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1. Last Crusade
2. Temple of Doom
3. Lost Ark
4. Crystal Skull

The first one is an amazing movie that's exciting from start to finish. 100% Pure Entertainment.

Temple of Doom is fun, but it tries to go for Bigger is Better, and it doesn't always work. Also the tone of this movie is so uneven going from very dark to slapstick in seconds. Willie Scott?  :lookingup: So Annoying.

Last Crusade is pretty solid but it tries to copy the original film's formula too much. I think it was trying to go for a safe bet after Doom got panned by so many critics.

Crystal Skull... Oh boy.  :drink:  Horrible beginning and Horrible ending, with an entertaining middle section in the jungles.

1. Lost Ark
2. Temple of Doom
3. Last Crusade

Never seen Crystal Skull.

First movie's great, like RD said, 100% pure entertainment.

I probably like Temple of Doom more than most people.  It doesn't annoy me quite as much as it does others, I guess it's fairly fast paced, and overall a good fun time.  Not in the same league as the original though.

Really didn't care too much for the Last Crusade.  I dunno, it felt uninspired, like everyone involved was just doing it for a paycheck. 

Haven't seen Crystal Skull, but I'll check it out one of these days.  Maybe when it shows up on Netflix streaming   :teddyr:

I really like "Temple of Doom" and alot of people don't rate it as high as "Last Crusade." I like them in the order they were realeased. "Raiders" was the best. "Doom" was great. "Crusade" was really good. But unfortunatly "Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls" was a steaming pile of dog crap! I know Indy always delt with the suppernatural in small doses, but UFO's? Really? WTF!

1. Last Crusade
2. Raiders
3. Temple of doom








4. Crystal Skull


I don't hate Crystal Skull. I thought it was a decent movie, but it wasn't on the level of any of the first 3.

I also didn't hate Crystal Skull. I DO however think it's not on par with the rest.

1.) Temple Of Doom - I never got the hate and still don't.  It has a decent pace and some really cool visuals.  The plot is a welcome jump into a different stylel of religion featured in the first one.

2.) Lost Ark - great, great fun and adventure.  Truly captures the serials that inspired it.

3.) Last Crusade - I found Connery and Ford had great chemistry together on the screen.  Plus the pace was great.  My favorite part is the young Indy backstory in the beginning.  He wasn't originally afraid of snakes until he fell into a vat of them.

4.) Crystal Skull - Terrible...painful...probably could have been great if Lucas butted the frig out of it.  Oh and Shia Lebouf ruins every movie I've seen him in.  He's the male version of Sandra Bulock for me. 

^ Come on! Was Shia Lebouf Really the worst part of Transformers 2?

Raiders of the Lost Ark = Excellent movie.

Temple of Doom = Underrated.

Last Crusade = Kickass.

Kingdom of the Crystal skull doesn't exist in my opinion.

touche although he didn't help it either

1. Lost Ark, and by a very large margin as I've never been too fond of the rest.
2. Last Crusade
3. Temple of Doom
4. Crystal Skull

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (It's in my Top 3 favorite films of all time)
2. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
3. Last Crusade
4. Temple of Doom (Once did an entire riff on the film my young cousins before we even knew what riffing was).


*Gasp*  So you don't like Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind or does that not count since you don't see because he was a voice actor?

The scene where Willie Scott is changing clothes in the jungle and screams at everything bothers me sooo much, it's painful.

1) The Last Crusade
2)Raiders
3)Temple of Doom
4) Crystal Skull

*SPIT TAKE*

He was in Nausicaä?!

1. Raiders Of The Lost Ark.  Fantastic, energetic film that never lets up.  Ark opening scene toward the end NEVER gets old.
2. Last Crusade.  Also very entertaining.  Also pretty ridiculous at times but good chemistry between Ford and Connery.
3. Temple Of Doom.  Good action but Spielberg's wife and Short Round almost completely kill it.  Same goes for the "gross out" dinner scenes; totally unnecessary.
4. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.  Ouch ouch ouch.  Stupid, unbelievable situations abound.  The CGI monkeys and Shia swinging from the vines like Tarzan damaged my soul in ways I didn't think possible.  Ugh!

Indeed, he was Asbel, the brother of the girl who died in the airship early in the film.

The Last Crusade
Temple of Doom
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Temple of Doom
Last Crusade
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull


  I would have been surprised if any of the sequals could have equaled the original butt they seemed to lose a little more energy and inspiration as they went along.   I think they were just less and less interested in the characters and stories as they grew older.

Raiders
Crusade
Doom
Skull

1. Raiders: Classic adventure serial style modified for the 80s audience. Works very well IMO.
2. Last Crusade: Almost as good as the first movie but not quite.
3. Temple of Doom: a disappointing follow-up with too many unnecessary things sidetracking its focus.
4. Crystal Skull: I actually liked it and on some levels better than Temple but well Temple ultimately wins out for being from the actual 80s with no CGI.

wow I have not seen Crystal Skull (and I thought I was the only one)... In a way I want to see it but it seems a few years too late (it's the cold war subject that pulling me away from the film)

I like Raiders and Last Crusade... I'm not sure if I need to say anything else...

Temple of Doom is ok, the sidekick does get annoying at times... yet it seems unessary too much action at times... maybe the escape from the crashing airplane and the Rollercoaster ride in a mine (Rollercoaster ride???) seem quite simular to each other and it also seem like the simular formula was rehashed in used in Jurassic Park series (ok omit the Rollercoaster rides but the over extended thrilling action senes were getting boring fast.)

(1) Raiders of the Lost Ark: One of the my favourite movies of all time. Lots of action and great acting by everyone - main actors and supporting cast.

(2) Temple of Doom: Not so great. Lots of action, but most of it was just ridiculous (e.g) roller coaster ride. Kate Capshaw was not even in the same league as Karen Allen.  As for "Short Round"  :thumbdown:.

(3) Last Crusade: Not as great as Raiders, but still loved it.

(4) Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Setting it during the Cold War kind of ruined it for me. Mind you, with Ford's age it would have been hard to set it pre-WWII. Shia LaBeouf, 'enuff said.

Short Round was just there for the kids to relate to. But kids never relate to other kids in action movies, they wanna be the grown up heroes. It's just like the parents are only in kids movies for us older folks to relate to, but I still wanna be like the kids. As for Kate Capshaw, she was hot and she was the director's wife. Karen Allen wasn't availible for the sequel that's why it's set before "Raiders" in case she wanted to come back for part 3. Wiley might not be Marion, but it didn't stop me from loving "Temple of Doom."

Create a category called "Suck", and put them all in there -

Okay, I'm fine with the fact that they were trying to recreate the whole "Oh, Wow!!" thing about the serials of the '30's and '40's, but I am apparently the only person on Earth who thinks they never got it right -

There are costume and prop holes beyond listing, plus a dreadful sense of history - eg.  The Afrika Korps did not exist until 1941, way before the stuff in the first one was supposed to have taken place, yet Korps insignia are on everything - plus plot holes you would never have been able to drive a truck through in the REAL serials - eg.  Indy stows away on the SURFACE of the German submarine, which would have gone under water at some point, and reappears at the end of the voyage, with no explanation.  Had there been ANY scene of him hiding below deck, or any explanation at all, this would have been better than seeing the guy just jump onto the sub & then, later, Whoops! There he is!! - Nah, the whole series sucked for me - no attention to detail at all - Real serials are way better -

peter

I wasn't aware Speilberg wasn't married to Kate at the time. But I still love "Temple of Doom" and still hate the new one!

RAIDERS
CRUSADE
TEMPLE OF DOOM / SKULL (about equal)