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Oh and also saw Marley and me

Thought it was kinda average and way too long, but the ending, holy crap, I got such a big lump in my throat that it physically hurt. I'm serious, I was in actual physical pain.

Rating: 6

Peter

Hehe, actually I was just about to edit my post to say 10, 10 and 9½. You're absolutely right!

-100 is a bit out of the 1-10 scale, but yes, it is such a disappointment.

Anyway, I hope they make a 5th movie. Even if the movie fails, it would be great to get another Williams score. It's a shame that they can't bring back the nazis though. I want nazis in the next movie, rather than the boring ruskies.

Peter

Yeah, for lovers of canines this movie will make grown men cry.

I want them to do a few thing. Kill Mutt. Leave Marion at home. Cast Tom Selleck as the bad guy. And I want this to be a globetrotting adventure. Visit all four corners of the world. Make it a race between Selleck and Ford as to who finds the MacGuffin first!

Also, have the open action sequence which explains why Indy goes into retirement. I wrote an Indy script a long time ago where Indy was on a "field trip" with his students. That's when a former enemy of Indy's ambushes the field trip and kills one of the students. With all that guilt on his conscience Indy hangs up the whip, quits as a professor and goes into a deep depression. Ah, maybe that's where Mutt gets it. Yes... oooooh, I like this. Mutt is the student killed. Back home Marion has a cameo just before he is offered one last adventure. We find out that Indy's equal and high school/college best friend Selleck is out to find an artifact, yada, yada, yada and we go on a one last world wide adventure. The MacGuffin is The Lost City of Atlantis, which is in the Bermuda Triangle. But in order to find the city there are four clues scattered across the earth and Indy and Shellek race to find them! The last act takes place in the Burmuda Triangle where all sort of booby traps and super natural shit can happen which is what made Raiders and Temple soooooo awesome!

-Erik-

Obviously you've put alot of thought into this. Anyway, I think most of us have fantasized about Shia LaBeouf getting killed (and Tom Selleck getting a role in a blockbuster movie), so you're not exactly being original.

Still, sounds better than Indy 4.

Peter

For me it's more about the animal's lack of understanding. An animal has a limited ability to understand what's going on, and that must make any ordeal even more harrowing. That's what really gets to me at least, it has very little to do with whether they love us unconditionally or not (which of course only applies to certain pets, rather than in a general sense).

I'm guessing I shouldn't watch Marley & Me... not with other people at least.

lol, he said doody.

Peter

I say leave it in peace there's no chance they will ever reach the previous classics' qualities.

Highly doubt it.

Due Date

Reasonably witty comedy. 5/10

Unstoppable

Tony Scott's best film in a couple of decades. 2/10

The Tourist

Casting Angelina Jolie in your film can make up for a multitude of sins. My god, she is stunning. But for this film to work, you have to believe Johnny Depp is an ordinary chap. He dials all his usual shtick right down, but that makes him fairly pointless. JNH's score is utterly, dumfoundingly cringeworthy, presumably he didn't write any of it himself (shame on him if he did). 4/10

I quite liked it, probably because of the music

That's strange. I think Lady still does have a bit of that magic that is overflowing in his first three films. I like the slightly crazy ensemble cast and how Night gives his characters their own respective meaning in the story.

I watched this on Sky yesterday and oddly, I quite liked this. I got the score when it first came out, listened to it once and hated it. Sounded as if it were trying to be like Duplicity but failed. Completely forgot about it until yesterday when I heard it it sounded like John Powell-lite. Enjoyed it.

Apparantly Gabriel Yared originally scored the movie but it was rejected. Wonder what that was like...

I happen to love Unstoppable, it was one of the most intense action movies I've seen in last years, really. And his filmmaking is not as crazy as it is in most of his recent films, he calmed down here.

I also saw Top Gun recently for the third time maybe. The script is far from brilliant, but literally nobody has visually topped the aerial fight scenes yet. Visually it is the best dogfight movie ever made.

I won't mention that Crimson Tide is one of my all-time favorite movies ever made (yes, it is). Spy Game makes for a very intelligent thriller, which is recently sadly even a rarity in political thrillers, Man on Fire is one of the most misunderstood action films of all time, just because it's very graphic and the filmmaking is almost unbearable at times, but here's the thing - it's the way it's supposed to be.