It has the strongest opening out of the first five films
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shareI think there are all good with the exception, maybe, of the fourth one.
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I'd say nope. the opening reminded me of the opening to the first recent Avengers film (where the city gets a big hole in it). just a 'big explosion' happens. I did think having the opening warehouse scene being where Raiders left off was a nice touch
tbh, there were a few moments before the nuclear blast which sort of tainted it. the first thing we see is a computer generated rodent, and the part in the warehouse where he gets slammed into the front of the truck and ends up sitting inside the windscreen, I just thought...."no, he'd get his back broken and wouldn't walk away from that" or something. don't get me wrong it's always fun to have a big explosion. I think the third movie (Last Crusade) had the best start - it didn't have a huge bang, but had style ("oh that's where he got his fear of snakes and his chin scar") shrug /opinion
The Avengers movie you describe happened over 10 years ago. It's not recent. Also I like this movie more than others but Raiders and Last Crusade have the best openings imo.
sharewhen I say recent, I'm discerning it from the "new avengers" which was a TV series in the 70's or so. 10 years is still relatively recent to me. tbh the original Matrix films aren't really that old. or maybe they are
shareI never watched that show. And I am 38 so I do sort of feel you.
shareno I didn't see the new avengers either - I'm not Taylor Swift fan age, but I'm not that much not Taylor Swift fan age
shareI liked the Avengers movies. I've liked Superheroes since I was a kid and spend a lot of my time reading older Marvel Comics and DC comics. I also do my own audiobooks of novels as a hobby. I have made The Big Nowhere, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, the Howling 1 and 2, Who censored Roger Rabbit, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and several other novels into audiobooks. I listen to them from time to time. We all like what we like.
shareah. yeah. I didn't see the "new avengers" - the 70s TV show. the, er, "new" avengers movies are fine. actually that's another review
sharemac was good in the opening scene. when indy whips him a gun was cool. a few tweaks should be made, the magnetic gun powder should have been toned down, ark cameo wasn’t necessary, too much fridge rolls. but i liked the town and the nuke shot. temple of doom has a good opening.
shareI really disliked the start with the gophers (NOT because of them) and the kids racing. Why would the kids race in the first place in that area? And then the rest made some nice build ups like Mac, but totally fall flat when Mac is double crossing Indy for the felt 10th time. The warehouse was also more of a disappointment, they should have at least tried to get the Arc, why would the Russians know about the Skull, but nothing else in this warehouse?
The bomb/fridge scene was fine to me, I dislike that Indy got there with the test car and in THAT scene I hated the gophers.
By openings:
Raiders (iconic and imo perfect introduction of the Indy character)
Temple (I really like Club Obi-Wan)
Last Crusade
Dial of Destiny
Crystal Skull
It's fine. I"m much less hateful of the movie now. I think the fourth film could have only been more over the top no matter when they got around to making it. You gotta keep taking everything up a notch. So even if it came out back in the 90s i think it would have been something like we got. I just swear this movie got murdered with reshoots. There's so many little setup scenes that don't end up paying off or going anywhere. It's really weird. I probably hate the gophers more than the nuke.
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