Best Indy Girl!

Maybe movies like Indy4 are not something we SHOULD be bothered about. After all, as the great master of movie making Hitchcock used to say: it's only a movie.

.....Said the big fat millionaire who made all that money from WHICH artist medium...?

Indeed... and what a resume.

He had his own silhouette and music and everything.

But he was very very good. He made some 82 movies in his life. Not all of them great, but he made a lot of masterpieces.

Indeed. Genius stuff.
A master storyteller.
And a killer belt size.

And a great sense of humour.

Indeed. A keen sense of irony.

Very.

One bit of his work that illustrates that perfectly sticks in my head: a great episode of his 80s series that had a woman wrongfully sent to prison, and she gets the rough end of the stick all the way.

So the old guy who works in the morgue feels sorry for her and agrees that if she stows herself in the coffin with whatever body is prepared to go at midnight, she could be buried witht he body, and the morgue guy qould then dig her up and she escapes.

So she gets to where the coffin is at and quickly climbs in and hides waiting in the dark for the coffin to be buried.
So the coffin gets buried then she lights a lighter to see who she shared the coffin with...the morgue guy.
The camera dollys up from above her unplanned grave with the muffled screams getting quiter as the camera goes further away.

Excellent!!! I gotta see that one.

It was awesome enough a twist to stick in my mind for 20-odd years.

It also created a mindset of suspicion always waiting for a twist that ruined Shyamalan's chances at getting me twice after Sixth Sense.

Whilst Im having difficulty locating the remade 80s version I refer to, I found that the 80s series appears to be a remake of an earlier, 50s Hitchcock series...! Heres the original equivalent episode.
Only now its a bloke instead of a bird: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbCAMk-mn5E

Very nice.

Personally I think Shyamalan only did a good job at The Sixth Sense... the others were okayish but no more that than.

I agree. Signs was pretty good though. Maybe a little inconsistant.

And predictable.

Yes. But 'predictable', right now is describing more or less anything released ever, other than LOST. 😛

I dunno. I didn't think Raiders was very predictable.

I mean, Signs was about crop circles, presumably created by aliens and what do we get: aliens.

Raiders was the early eighties.

I mean these days, really.

Can't say, can we. Every movie stands for its time. I still think Raiders is a pretty flawless movie.

As do I.