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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Feb 12, 2021 1:26:41 GMT
Are there any films that you like now, but didn't when you were younger (or a kid) because of a silly thing that bothered you about it? When I was around 9 years old, I loved Raiders of the Lost Ark and Temple of Doom, and watched them over and over again, but I wasn't into Last Crusade as much (now I love the latter and have soured on Temple of Doom). Looking back on it, I think my simple, 9-year-old brain was just thrown off by the idea of a femme fatale... after seeing Indy with Marion and Willie, I guess I just didn't like seeing him betrayed by who was supposed to be the love interest.  And then when Indy tries to save Elsa at the end, I must have been like "Oh good, things might be okay between them now... wait, she DIES?! WTF??" I think part of me also was bothered by the fact that it takes a while before we see Harrison Ford in his classic Indy attire again after a brief moment at the beginning... and when we do see him in it again, he's wearing a necktie, which didn't jibe with my mental image of what Indy was supposed to look like. |
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Post by countjohn on Feb 12, 2021 2:28:12 GMT
I've always liked the Venice sequences in Last Crusade. Reminds me of a Bond movie with him in a suit in an elegant European location and of course Elsa being there. I guess that's not what you expect from Indiana Jones, though.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Feb 12, 2021 2:35:05 GMT
I've always liked the Venice sequences in Last Crusade. Reminds me of a Bond movie with him in a suit in an elegant European location and of course Elsa being there. I guess that's not what you expect from Indiana Jones, though. I wish my younger self thought of it that way considering Indiana Jones is Spielberg's way of doing his own take on Bond! |
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Post by countjohn on Feb 12, 2021 2:41:33 GMT
I've always liked the Venice sequences in Last Crusade. Reminds me of a Bond movie with him in a suit in an elegant European location and of course Elsa being there. I guess that's not what you expect from Indiana Jones, though. I wish my younger self thought of it that way considering Indiana Jones is Spielberg's way of doing his own take on Bond! I just always like that stuff since I'm a huge fan of Bond and that kind of spy fiction. Someone likes a gritter adventure movie type thing might not care for it that much. |
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Post by mhynson27 on Feb 12, 2021 3:23:09 GMT
Last Crusade is comfortably my favourite.
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Post by stephen on Feb 12, 2021 14:59:04 GMT
Last Crusade is comfortably my favourite. Far and away, and it's not even close for me. Raiders is great but there's still something about it that keeps me at arm's length. All the elements are there, but it just lacks that special something that Last Crusade nails down. Maybe it's the Connery factor, maybe it's that they gave Marcus more to do, maybe it's the tone, I don't know, but Last Crusade rules so hard. |
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 12, 2021 15:17:53 GMT
Not sure it was a dumb reason exactly but I was too young (um!) to get Last Tango in Paris which I thought was going to be a hot, sexy movie the way adults talked about it and its reputation when it's rather an anti-romance, and the characters use sex to work out their failures, fear, mental states - more sadly than anything else. You need an awful lot of self-awareness and whole lot of life experience to really get that movie and to even begin to comprehend Brando's performance as Paul...  |
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Post by ibbi on Feb 12, 2021 15:20:42 GMT
When my little brother was a kid he HATED Back to the Future 3 because Doc and Marty got broken up. To this day he rolls his eyes and groans whenever Mary Steenburgen shows up in anything because he blames it all on her for inflicting that childhood trauma on him.
Personally, (and I was a teenager, not a little kid) I used to hate The House of the Spirits because Glenn Close used to fucking creep me out in it.
Oh, and I used to hate Blade Runner because it was so dark. SOMEONE TURN ON A FUCKING LIGHT ALREADY!
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Post by MsMovieStar on Feb 12, 2021 16:52:46 GMT
Not sure it was a dumb reason exactly but I was too young (um!) to get Last Tango in Paris which I thought was going to be a hot, sexy movie the way adults talked about it and its reputation when it's rather an anti-romance, and the characters use sex to work out their failures, fear, mental states - more sadly than anything else. You need an awful lot of self-awareness and whole lot of life experience to really get that movie and to even begin to comprehend Brando's performance as Paul... Oh honey, even today I feel uncomfortable around butter. |
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Post by wilcinema on Feb 12, 2021 16:53:18 GMT
Not sure it was a dumb reason exactly but I was too young (um!) to get Last Tango in Paris which I thought was going to be a hot, sexy movie the way adults talked about it and its reputation when it's rather an anti-romance, and the characters use sex to work out their failures, fear, mental states - more sadly than anything else. You need an awful lot of self-awareness and whole lot of life experience to really get that movie and to even begin to comprehend Brando's performance as Paul... Oh honey, even today I feel uncomfortable around butter. lmaoooooooooo |
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Post by jakesully on Feb 12, 2021 18:14:08 GMT
Last Crusade is comfortably my favourite. Fuck yeah same here!  You have chosen wisely  From the beginning (with River Phoenix) to the end it was just such a thrill ride. Also loved the chemistry between Connery and Ford as father & son. Movie magic all around imo. Damn now I want to watch it again ASAP haha |
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Feb 12, 2021 20:24:10 GMT
When my little brother was a kid he HATED Back to the Future 3 because Doc and Marty got broken up. To this day he rolls his eyes and groans whenever Mary Steenburgen shows up in anything because he blames it all on her for inflicting that childhood trauma on him. She's the Yoko Ono of the Doc and Marty dream team!! |
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Feb 12, 2021 20:46:04 GMT
Last Crusade is comfortably my favourite. Far and away, and it's not even close for me. Raiders is great but there's still something about it that keeps me at arm's length. All the elements are there, but it just lacks that special something that Last Crusade nails down. Maybe it's the Connery factor, maybe it's that they gave Marcus more to do, maybe it's the tone, I don't know, but Last Crusade rules so hard. I can see how Connery's presence might put it at the top for a lot of people, but Raiders is still my favorite partly because of its tone. While I still love Crusade, it leans a bit more in the lighthearted direction, which I don't mean as a slight against it, just more of a personal preference. I like the idea of giving Marcus more to do, but not so much if it means making him more of a buffoon in the process. |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Feb 13, 2021 19:49:41 GMT
Lots. It's why I'm always second guessing myself. True Grit is a shining example. Watched it in theaters with my dad in 2010 and hated it because the characters talked funny (it really bothered me for some reason that no one used contractions) and I didn't get any of the self-aware/ironical humor. It might've been my first Coen Bros movie ever. Now it's one of my favorite films.
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Post by hugobolso on Feb 15, 2021 17:09:16 GMT
Bambi
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Apr 15, 2021 23:14:58 GMT
I've always liked the Venice sequences in Last Crusade. Reminds me of a Bond movie with him in a suit in an elegant European location and of course Elsa being there. I guess that's not what you expect from Indiana Jones, though. Something else I just remembered about Last Crusade that bothered me as a kid is the fact that Indy only uses his whip like 2 times in the whole movie. Unless I'm forgetting something, the only times he uses it are when he swings through the window into the room where his father is held captive in the castle, and when he saves Connery from falling off the tank near the end (not counting the beginning when he first finds the whip on the train as a kid). |
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Post by mhynson27 on Apr 15, 2021 23:50:54 GMT
I've always liked the Venice sequences in Last Crusade. Reminds me of a Bond movie with him in a suit in an elegant European location and of course Elsa being there. I guess that's not what you expect from Indiana Jones, though. Something else I just remembered about Last Crusade that bothered me as a kid is the fact that Indy only uses his whip like 2 times in the whole movie. Unless I'm forgetting something, the only times he uses it are when he swings through the window into the room where his father is held captive in the castle, and when he saves Connery from falling off the tank near the end (not counting the beginning when he first finds the whip on the train as a kid). Were you fervently into BDSM as a child or something?? |
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Apr 16, 2021 3:37:57 GMT
Something else I just remembered about Last Crusade that bothered me as a kid is the fact that Indy only uses his whip like 2 times in the whole movie. Unless I'm forgetting something, the only times he uses it are when he swings through the window into the room where his father is held captive in the castle, and when he saves Connery from falling off the tank near the end (not counting the beginning when he first finds the whip on the train as a kid). Were you fervently into BDSM as a child or something?? It's Indy's special tool! It'd be like Daredevil barely using his billy club! |
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Post by wonky on Apr 16, 2021 4:19:20 GMT
I didn't like Fellowship of the Ring because I kept getting Boromir and Aragorn confused and when Boromir died I thought he was the one with Arwen and it was dumb that they had that one boring scene together just to kill him off. I was like "Oh whatever, they're trying to make me sad about this, stupid."
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Post by mhynson27 on Apr 16, 2021 4:42:04 GMT
Were you fervently into BDSM as a child or something?? It's Indy's special tool! It'd be like Daredevil barely using his billy club! Yeah I know, a whip is just such a boring weapon/tool though. |
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Apr 16, 2021 4:55:41 GMT
It's Indy's special tool! It'd be like Daredevil barely using his billy club! Yeah I know, a whip is just such a boring weapon/tool though. Not if you do this with it! |
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jun 22, 2023 1:00:36 GMT
Slightly off topic... more about part of a movie rather than the whole thing - When I was younger, I loved the original Star Wars, but whenever I watched it, I would frequently turn it off after the Vader/Obi-Wan lightsaber duel. It’s not so much that I disliked all the Battle of Yavin stuff, I just wasn’t as into it as the rest of the movie, and the lightsaber duel was basically where the movie peaked for me. For me the movie was pretty much over after Obi-Wan’s death (I was a weird child). What’s funny is that, years later, the Battle of Yavin is now my favorite part of the movie. |
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Jun 22, 2023 3:30:23 GMT
Slightly off topic... more about part of a movie rather than the whole thing - When I was younger, I loved the original Star Wars, but whenever I watched it, I would frequently turn it off after the Vader/Obi-Wan lightsaber duel. It’s not so much that I disliked all the Battle of Yavin stuff, I just wasn’t as into it as the rest of the movie, and the lightsaber duel was basically where the movie peaked for me. For me the movie was pretty much over after Obi-Wan’s death (I was a weird child). What’s funny is that, years later, the Battle of Yavin is now my favorite part of the movie. Stunned that you'd skip over the space battle but not C-3PO and R2-D2 walking around in the desert for 10 minutes. |
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Post by FallenWarrior on Jul 1, 2023 2:20:18 GMT
A History of Violence, too young to understand subtext
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And then when Indy tries to save Elsa at the end, I must have been like "Oh good, things might be okay between them now... wait, she DIES?! WTF??" I think part of me also was bothered by the fact that it takes a while before we see Harrison Ford in his classic Indy attire again after a brief moment at the beginning... and when we do see him in it again, he's wearing a necktie, which didn't jibe with my mental image of what Indy was supposed to look like.
You have chosen wisely 
