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Indiana Jones IV trailer...
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shmokes on February 15, 2008, 04:33:35 pm ---Why? He's a good actor. He was great in Holes, and I know I've seen him in something fairly recently (when he wasn't so young) and remember him being good.
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He is a terrible "actor". He was the same in Holes as he was in Transformers as he was in I, Robot. The same ---goshdarn--- person in each movie and annoying in all of them. It isn't acting to be the same thing in every movie you're in.
One thing that concerns me about this is the fact that every one of these bigtime sequels lately makes the heroes more super than superman. The latest Die Hard was like that too. A lot of the charm of these movies is that the hero is human - caught in an unbelievable situation - but manages to pull of a sequence of very difficult acts to eventually win. Every single act is humanly possible. In that last Die Hard movie Bruce Willis is driving a semi up a crumbling overpass, jumping around on the body of a fighter jet, etc. Just in that trailer Indy is flying through window after window - he shot backwards through the windshield of a moving car and didn't even grimace in pain. It really kills the humanity of the hero when he is doing things Spiderman would have trouble with.
Level42:
I guess I,robot was the most disappointing movie I ever saw. Must have been because I read and loved the book.
Same thing with War of the Worlds. Why does Hollywood always have to Americanize a great story.
Stupid lightning flashes awakening the Martians underground.....read the book !
boykster:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 15, 2008, 04:43:00 pm ---
One thing that concerns me about this is the fact that every one of these bigtime sequels lately makes the heroes more super than superman. The latest Die Hard was like that too. A lot of the charm of these movies is that the hero is human - caught in an unbelievable situation - but manages to pull of a sequence of very difficult acts to eventually win. Every single act is humanly possible. In that last Die Hard movie Bruce Willis is driving a semi up a crumbling overpass, jumping around on the body of a fighter jet, etc. Just in that trailer Indy is flying through window after window - he shot backwards through the windshield of a moving car and didn't even grimace in pain. It really kills the humanity of the hero when he is doing things Spiderman would have trouble with.
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Dammit Chad, stop making sense and saying stuff I agree with ;D I TOTALLY agree with you on this, and my first impression from the Indy IV trailer was "gee, I sure hope all the action scenes aren't as fakey as this one is". Sure, some of the action stuff in the original indy films was outlandish, but he would get hurt when he fell, bled when he got hit, etc....
The new Die Hard movie was so ridiculous....
somunny:
The advance word on this isn't exactly making me feel all warm & fuzzy. :-\
... but I'm still going, of course.
shmokes:
I totally agree with Chad about making the heros superhuman. I've often said that is exactly the difference that makes Indiana Jones movies good and Tomb Raider movies bad -- Indy's vulnerability. It's the same reason that a videogame quickly becomes boring after you turn on cheats like god mode. Winning is no fun if there is no risk of losing. It's also why I find Superman to be such a crappy Superhero. He's basically Jesus + invulnerability + almost all the superpowers. He doesn't risk anything by going up against the bad guys. But I digress . . .
I disagree about what makes an actor. Acting, even acting like yourself is difficult. It's obviously easy to be yourself in real life. Delivering memorized lines, however, so they sound spontaneous and authentic, even with your own personality, is difficult, and few people can do it convincingly. If that's the only personality he can do, then he's a character actor. He lacks versatility. Nevertheless, I've always thought he's done a really good job and been entertained by him in movies. I've only seen him in Holes, Constantine, Transformers and Surf's Up. I've seen iRobot, but I can't for the life of me remember him being in it. The movie wasn't very good, though. I hated Transformers, but I didn't have a problem with him. I thought he was great in Constantine and, contrary to Chad's assertion, he's totally different in Surf's Up. Maybe that's different, though, since he's only providing a voice, and not the whole nine yards. Nevertheless, he was very convincing as a teenage surfer.
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