Jeff Gurwood decided to remake the first six-plus minutes of Raiders of the Lost Ark with Hasbro's action figures and some of the finest fan-made sets you will ever see. Seriously, it's incredible. It's why I had to title the article "Temple of Stop-Motion Animation," even though it's based on Raiders -- not because Gurwood's work is so fabulous it deserves to be treated as a temple, although it does, but because I'm pretty sure he ripped out some kind of professional model-maker's heart and ate it to gain his immense power. Seriously, look at all the foliage. The only way one man did that is if he had the power of 10 professional model-makers inside him. (Via Blastr)
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All that time and talent... and he used one of the ugly Indy heads.
Hasbro produced Indiana Jones figures with much, much better likenesses than that one. That head is bastard-ugly.
There was an KOTC Indy released in that Hasbro line, and I think it had the best likeness of the Jones figures, even though it's supposed to represent Retirement Home Indy.
I see what you did there, Rob. XD Also, as much as I adore CGI, there are just some things that only stop-motion can ever truly capture. Alas, it's a lost art now.
And that proves, no matter the medium, good film making is good film making and George Lucas is now an idiot.
These 6 minutes of Indiana done in stop motion are much more entertaining than the entirety of Indy IV....... What a waste....:-(
That may be so, but I enjoyed Kingdom of the Crystal Skull more than I did Temple of Doom. I wonder what that says...
I enjoyed all six Star Wars movies rather equally. Each has its merits and its stupidities. Liking the prequels does not make me less of a Star Wars fan.
On the same token, Crystal Skull had its great moments. I enjoyed the warehouse fight, much of the chase sequences, the fist fight on the ant hill. It reminded me of all the good parts of Raiders, my alltime favorite film. Enjoying that does not make me less of a Indy fan either.
