comment #1

D.Z. says ...

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/442704

comment #2

D.Z. says ...

I got a kick out of the PC game in-jokes.

comment #3

CinemaPhreek says ...

And you were hours late for Stan Winston's death - so what?

That was brilliant and perfect. I was distracted by the god-awfulness of the chase/monkeys/river thing it never occurred to me to ask "Yeah, where the fuck did the roads come from...?"

comment #4

Legowombat says ...

Wow. I only saw this a fortnight ago, and had *completely forgotten it existed*. Must have been quality work.

comment #5

frankbooth says ...

I'm becoming more and more convinced I made the right decision.

It's easy. Just say "hell no -- I won't go!"

(I think I'll try an experiment and watch Raiders and Crusade, skipping Temple. Anyone ever tried this?)

comment #6

D.Z. says ...

frank: I did during a brief theatrical re-release. It made Doom slightly better and more disappointing at the same time.

comment #7

frankbooth says ...

Not watching Doom made it better?

comment #8

Spacesheik says ...

TEMPLE OF DOOM has more rousing thrills and technical excellence in the first 10 minutes than the wretched SKULL does its whole running time.

You could detect Spielberg's love of CINEMA, the choreography, the editing, cinematography, the great music and kinetic action in that flick from beginning to end.

He wasn't a lazy 1 take director in those days, shooting one film while editing another.

He has lost it. Even the method the movie opens, with the credits placement over the action and frame was so casuall and uninvolving - no menace, no drama -

The problem with SKULL is the script is full of holes and doesnt make bloody sense, and the humorous spoof above pretty much nailed most of the issues with the flick.

I saw TEMPLE OF DOOM in 70mm at the Empire Leicester Square and even though the violence was slightly edited by the British board of censors (heart being ripped out etc) it was a solid, very entertaining rollercoaster ride, it looked great, it sounded great, and it was thrilling - it wasnt RAIDERS but credit goes to Spielberg at the time for taking a dark detour - after the backlash of that flick he never really regained his INDY footing (although CRUSADE had some good moments, notably the opening River Phoenix prologue).

comment #9

JChasse says ...

This was like reading MAD Magazine without drawings! I loved it!

comment #10

D.Z. says ...

Sheik: The only school of cinema being applied to Doom is the Mondo Cane variety. I will agree that there are a lot of nifty set designs and action scenes in it, but the characters really grate on you; and I need to actually feel for them to care what happens to them.