Indiana Jones

Review: LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues

source: nathanmeunier.com

“No matter how hard you try, you just can’t beat a LEGO wookiee. Lucas Arts and TT Games’ have struck stud – that’s gold, in LEGO terms – with their lighthearted, blocky take on the Star Wars franchise. Though moving on to tackle Indiana Jones offered similar charm and adventure, the subject m...

Published Fri, Nov 20

What Our Favorite Movies of the Decade Say About Us

source: Gawker

• Steven Spielberg is no Steven Speilberg these days. The director is still held up as the box office gold standard, but the highest he got in the 00's is number 21 with Indiana Jones and the crystal UFO hidden in the volcano or whatever it was called, and that was with Indiana Jones! After that...

Published Tue, Nov 17

The Nintendo Download: Let's Get Ready To Pokémon Rumble [Nintendo]

source: Kotaku.com

Description: Grab your trusty whip and slash your way through all three Indy classics in this no-thrills-barred adventure. If it happened in the movies, it happens here: the giant boulder from Raiders of the Lost Ark, the mine-cart chase from Temple of Doom, the three trials from Last Cru...

Published Mon, Nov 16

My Review of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (+ an explanation)

source: bmj2k (WordPress)

This is the same warehouse glimpsed at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, and sure enough, in a madcap wacky romp through the place, Indy runs into both the Ark of the Covenant and George Lucas’ first draft script of Star Wars where Chewbacca wasn’t a Wookie but instead was played by Art Carne...

Published Sat, Nov 14

Mr. Skin: PG-13 at 25: Will the Movies Ever Grow Up (Again)?

source: Huffington Post

Will Hollywood ever look past the financial attractiveness of the PG-13? Or are we forever at the mercy of adolescent buying power? In 1984, Steven Spielberg released Gremlins and Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom, two PG-rated films sold to children, and the intensity of this box-of...

Published Wed, Nov 11

What if 'Empire Strikes Back' Included a Power Ballad?

source: Cinematical

As far as L.B. Rayne goes, his career pretty much ended in 1985 when he lost to a one-legged mule in a drinking contest ... but his legacy lives on! After the jump, check our Rayne's power ballads for Empire Strikes Back and Indiana Jones (another one Lucas commissioned but never used).Filed under...

Published Wed, Nov 4

Lego Indy Trailer Discreetly Avoids Dr. Jones' Creepy Past [LEGO Indiana Jones]

source: Kotaku

Here's the Nepal bar shootout scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, for Lego Indiana Jones 2. I guess the Lego-talk gibberish can't get across the sequence's subtle implication that Dr. Jones was boinking Marion when she 16. Then again, it's rated E10+, so maybe we should just let Marion's fist...

Published Fri, Oct 30

Whipping out a new Lego Indiana Jones 2 trailer

source: Joystiq

LucasArts has released a new trailer for LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues. Fans of Raiders of the Lost Ark -- everyone, basically -- are in for a treat, as the trailer reenacts the film's bar fight in Nepal, including some hot Nazi hand-burning action. Of course, as we've come to...

Published Fri, Oct 30