All 5 Indiana Jones Movies Ranked
All five of Harrison Ford's Indy films definitively ranked from worst to best
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I only consider there to be THREE Indiana Jones movies, and rank them accordingly: 1) Raiders, 2) LAST Crusade, 3) Temple of Doom.
And before you say "Too bad, Crystal Skull and Dial of Destiny exists whether you like it or not", Hollywood studios simply ignore films in a franchise THEY don't like, like the James Bond film "Never Say Never Again" or the Pink Panther film "Inspector Closeau" If they can exclude those films from their "list" of films in a franchise, I can too!
I don't think one can legitimately exclude Crystal Skull. The story was conceived by the original creator and it was directed by the same person as the first three.
So disappointing as it may be, it's still true movie canon. This new effort however has no real legitimacy.
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I don't think one can legitimately exclude Crystal Skull. The story was conceived by the original creator and it was directed by the same person as the first three.
So disappointing as it may be, it's still true movie canon.
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So was Halloween II (1981), but then Halloween 2018 came along and INSISTED the second film "never happened".
So I'm putting Crystal Skull in the "non-canon" category. In my universe, Indy never had an illegitimate son named "Mutt" or survived a nuclear blast while hiding in a refrigerator.
So was Halloween II (1981), but then Halloween 2018 came along and INSISTED the second film "never happened".
Eh, Halloween 2018 has no canon connection in terms of the writer / director to the original?
And even if it had, as far as I'm aware Lucas / Spielberg never came along and made a follow up to Last Crusade which wiped out Crystal Skull.
So sure personal canon wise, ignore Crystal Skull (which probably is the same for me, them riding off into the sunset is the perfect ending) but just saying there's no real legitimate way to discount the film from the series. share
>> Eh, Halloween 2018 has no canon connection in terms of the writer / director to the original? <<
It had an entirely different writer-director team, but it marketed itself around having the "approval" of the original creator (John Carpenter), who put his name on the movie as "Executive Producer", the composer from the original film (again, Carpenter) and "stars" of the original (Nick Castle as Michael Myers and Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode)
Dial of Destiny pretty much did the same gimmick by saying it had the Spielberg/Lucas seal of approval, and brought back the "stars" of the original and John Williams as composer. Terminator 5 and 6 pulled a similar stunt (and claimed 3 and 4 "never happened"). Seems to common in Hollywood these days.
>> And even if it had, as far as I'm aware Lucas / Spielberg never came along and made a follow up to Last Crusade which wiped out Crystal Skull. <<
Eh, Dial of Destiny didn't try to claim Crystal Skull "never happened", but it DID effectively render the events of the that movie null and void by killing off this "Mutt" character off screen, and ending Indy's "marriage" from the end of the previous film.
Fortunately I don't regard Indy 4 OR 5 as canon, so whatever "events" happened in EITHER movie are non-existent in my Indy universe. :-D
Having the approval of the original creator doesn't really count for much. That's just the original creator saying, "sure, go ahead, do whatever you like". Unless he embraces it as canon (and not just tacitly by giving permission), there is no real reason for anyone else to, either - unless they want to.
Eh, Dial of Destiny didn't try to claim Crystal Skull "never happened", but it DID effectively render the events of the that movie null and void by killing off this "Mutt" character off screen, and ending Indy's "marriage" from the end of the previous film.
The only way those things would have been rendered null and void is if Dial had pretended they never happened. Kingdom took place after Henry Sr. had passed away, that doesn't render his character "null and void" in Crusade. Likewise, Dial recognises both the existence of Mutt as well as the marriage of Indy and Marion. It just takes place after Mutt's death and the subsequent separation of Indy and Marion. share
Dammit, you can't just chose to ignore films in a franchise. There are 5 movies to rank. Please don't exclude any
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