• Goddamnit movie industry, with this, the James Bond Blu-Ray boxset and the Blu-Ray releases of The Avengers, G.I. Joe 2 and The Dark Night Rises all set to hit in the holiday season this is already looking to be an expensive Christmas.

• Totally agree with you.  It's all about squeezing a bit more cash out of dedicated fans without having to do much work.  

•  No, but at least they got the basics about the Nazis/Soviets right.

• Nope decent childhood. I have always hated kid characters even when I was a kid.  Supposedly kids were suppose to make be be able to relate better, but they never did.  Mostly because they either become hostages that need to be saved, rocket scientist, or help fight by stepping on someone's foot; and if their was a child of similar age and different sex some sort of juvenile love story appeared.  They would go into these situations that no adult should take them into.  They are told to go or do something for their own safety but they don't and somehow doing it their way saves the day.  The same character could act like a genius one second and then in about 10 minutes do something stupid that a kid like me (who was younger) knew better.  The best episodes were though when the kid character, who the adult has been treating like another adult, all of a sudden when the plot needed it wouldn't believe the kid when he said he saw something important.  I'm sure this was to appeal to us kids who felt adults didn't listen but in the end it was just stupid.My turn.  Superman been around since 1938.  Batman, Spiderman, X-men and so fourth have also been around for years when do they become Juvenile?  My kids watch the Muppet Show dvds of episodes that I watched when I was a kid, but in the end it was meant for my parents age does that mean they or my kids are crazy to like them?  You seem worried, almost offended, that some of us hate these badly written characters.  Why?  Are you now, or were you a kid who never felt excepted and need an extraordinary kid character to validate your existence?  Are you looking for approval through these kid characters when they save the day get their good job buddy head rub?  Is watching these characters get rescued again give you that proxy feeling of really being loved?  Have you screwed up as a kid and want to see kids who screw up but then save the day to get over your mistakes?  Are you one of those who as they get older they feel they become less special?  

• No one cares about the Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword. :(

• Awww...did somebody rape your childhood? Again.

• I think it's funny that nerds, who love juvenile pop culture (too much), utterly hate kid characters in movies. Hell, some of them hate kids period. Some jealousy thing? Bad childhoods?

• My heart bleeds for Hindus...not that much. Guess what? All those old movie serials that Indiana Jones playes homage to? They were colonialist, great white male fantasy bullshit full of stereotypes. You think German National Socialism is accurately represented in the Indy films? Or South American natives? Or the Soviet Union? Or the US government?

• they call that "State Capitalism" nowadays

• When she's on the deck of the ship, the wind blows and makes her silky dress cling to her body...............and you can see it clear as day

• No, see, that was Indy 3 with the aliens. It sucked, but at least it didn't fuck up the basic tenets of Hindusim for the sake of making a stereotypical jungle cult ripped out of Colonial propaganda like a hypothetical movie that's supposed to be a prequel to the others.

• What is this "trilogy" nonsense you speak of? Unless you count <em>Shia, Lord of the Monkeys, Versus the Ungrateful Aliens</em> as the third part, there were only two Indiana Jones movies, and they both had Nazis as the villains. There was NEVER an incredibly poorly-researched "Hindu" cult who had less to do with Hindusim than Disney's Hercules had to do with Greek Mythology - and I LIKED Disney's Hercules. There was NEVER a shrill, shrieking replacement for Marion, either.

• crony capitalism!

•  hmmmm.....never noticed that. have to check next time i watch

• Boy logic would make all the movies boring.  Neither Temple of Doom or Crystal Skull is a very good story and there is so much to hate in both.  Refrigerator out of nuclear explosion bugs me as much as the next sentient life form.  I hate AlaLaBeef's character so much I want to punch the screen.  However as a whole it still doesn't bug me as much as temple of doom that has all the classic 80's sequel nonsense that has killed good first movies.  Sidekick elementary school age kid, load second character. (usually female)  And so on.  Don't get me wrong if I was allowed I would wipe both from existence but if I was only allowed to kill one It would be Temple of Doom.  Unfortunately I used that wish up on, "Indiana Jones and the Belle bottom traveling pantsuit." ;)

• Finally, a kindred spirit. It's like the Episode I-III snobs, can deal with people not liking them, just hate the whole "If you liked Crystal Skull, you can't be a REAL Indy fan" chides. And seriously, can we drop the "nuke the fridge was stupid" thing? Come on, this series has spirits out of the Ark, the wrath of God, the Holy Grail, a guy living five minutes after his heart is ripped out of his chest, hanging on the outside of a SUBMARINE and falling out of a plane in a life raft, down an icy mountain, over a hundred foot gorge into a raging river with NO injury and somehow the fridge bit is totally out of the realm of reality?

• Oh I see... you wanted logic and plausibility in Indiana Jones. So I suppose an ark from God that melts peoples faces off is fine with you... and a goblet that heals all wounds instantly.. :P

• They're going to digitally erase Marion's hairy muff you can see through her dress on the ship

• He never had people telling him over and over for decades that he "created Indiana Jones" or he probably would have messed with it. He seems like a nice guy though - raised his kids to be decent people, not much more you can say.

•  I defend George all the time when it comes to the prequels, but if he fucks up one bit of my Raiders, we're done. Period.

• Not denying that - I just find the collector attitude that drives stories like these to be odd. For the record I don't see the point of 3D or High Def like BluRay - it's a little more clear, so what? It doesn't add anything to the story and is never going to be as clear as it is in my minds eye. Meh.

•  Temple of Doom was my introduction to the Indy-verse. I blame the internet for convincing me to hate it.

• Oh oh.  A Temple of Doom fan.  Act natural.  Don't look him in the eye.  Just ask him to explain bullet proof gongs, magical heart removal, Short Round and how the load Willie Scott doesn't set women back a thousand years, then RUN!!!

•  What are you talking about? I know they were planning on doing a fourth movie, but it never happened, right? I mean, they came to their senses and left things as they were, right? R-right?! *curls up in corner repeatedly mumbling "No Shia, no aliens, no CGI gopher" to himself and quietly weeping*

• Both of you, the door is that way, please leave your nerd cards in the box over there.

• You forgot the poop jokes. Lucas loves adding poop jokes.

• Amusingly enough The Temple of Doom used to be the Bastard child of the Indiana Jones movies before Crystal Skull.  I'm with you though in some ways I hated Crystal Skull just a tad bit less then I hated Temple of Doom.  (that's what you were saying, right?) Hopefully they will also sell them individually so I can get Raiders and Last Crusade.  

• You misinterpreted it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD138saK_4M

•  Still sounds preferable to the actual Short Round.

• Haters gonna hate, but I still enjoyed Crystal Skull more than Temple of Doom. Deal with it. ;)

• On the other hand, CGI Kate Capshaw would likely be a vast improvement in the acting department.

• what I take away is this, of that entire promo  Indi 4 had maybe 10 seconds of footage,   they know it sucked but wont ever ever say it publicly 

• They're going to re-dub it so that the Gestapo guy screams 'Noooooooooo' as his face melts off; and they're going to replace Short Round with an entirely CGI creature that says inane things like "Yooosa people gonna dieee?"

• The only reason I'd upgrade is if Spielberg did a commentary track, and we know that's not going to happen. Otherwise, the DVDs were generally excellent transfers and look just fine on the PS3.

• Because Spielberg never tinkers with his movies at all.  Those government agents always tried to make ET stop with walkie-talkies!

• We live in a capitalist world, my friend. 

•  Well, Volume 4 is already out on BD, so it's not like it costs Paramount any money.  And since the marginal retail mark up for the extra disc is probably like $10, I can't see that being a deal breaker for many fans, unlike say putting Alien[cubed] and Alien:Resurrection in the Alien box set.

• Spielberg learned his lesson with E.T. http://www.totalfilm.com/news/spielberg-speaks-out-against-post-release-alterations  He just needs to carve that lesson into the inside of Lucas' eyelids now.

• Tellingly, I only counted 5 scenes from "Shia, Lord of the Monkeys, Versus the Ungrateful Aliens" included in the trailer.

• I wonder how much I can get if I take the DVD of Indiana Jones and the Invincible Refrigerator to the local recycler. Something tells me this would have sold BETTER as a 3-disc set.

•  well there's always what he did to indy 4

• I guess we can count our lucky stars Lucas leaves Indy completely as it is... hopefully.

• Is it just me or does a lot of "nerd news" seem to fall under the heading of "stuff you can buy"?

• I hope Indy still shoots the guy with the whip first, or did I misinterpret that scene?

• Are all the Nazis gonna hold radios instead of guns?

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