The summer of 1989 was pretty crazy at the box office. Last Crusade broke the opening weekend record. A week or two later, Ghostbusters II broke it again, and then the following week, Batman shattered it.
Kudos to Ebert for liking Miracle Mile, one of the best overlooked apocalypse films of all time. It figures Siskel would as usual dislike the film for what it wasn't instead of what it is.
Siskel didn’t like The Last Crusade? That was a very good action film and the best Indiana Jones movie besides Raiders. Sorry Gene, but Roger is definitely right on this one.
Last Crusade was the weakest Indy movie until Crystal Skulls came out. Last Crusade is still a good movie, but it provides very little new to it's arsenal that the previous two films gave, so I can understand Siskel's criticism, even if I don't agree with it.
I saw "Last Crusade" recently and believe it to have been the worst movie in the franchise by far. I thought Siskel and Ebert were both too generous in their review.
@@franksmith613 I am not a huge fan of Crystal Skull, but I enjoyed parts of it. Marion helped that movie, as she had great chemistry with Indie. As lame as the nuclear refrigerator was, all of the Indiana Jones movies had those kinds of scenes, but Crystal Skull gets more flack for it.
@@seanabbins5481 As Plinkett so aptly stated, Marion worked best as a feisty lover from a younger, less mature Indy's past. Her return was completely unnecessary.
I died. R.I.P to these two legends At least they were spared how terrible movies have gotten. There's nothing interesting to discuss about today's movies
Who knew back then that Roadhouse would become known as the Greatest Movie Ever Made. Lol. I love their assessment of it and how they begrudgingly came to admit a certain affection for the movie.
Totally disagree with both reviews. Indiana Jones is a tribute to B movie serials. And Last Crusade holds up well as sequel and is just shade under Raiders and better than Temple Of Doom.
Giving a thumbs down to Last Crusade is insane. Sure you can definitely argue it is worse than Raiders and very similar, but it is almost as good as raiders and that makes it better than 95% of all other action movies. And it's really only similar to Raiders in the overarching plot, archaeologist is tasked by Americans to beat the Nazis to a ancient Judeo-Christian artifact that may be weaponized. All of the story beats and action set pieces and character dynamics and finale are radically different.
While there are definitely elements that are different from Raiders, I'd still argue it's too similar to the first for me to really say it's almost as good as Raiders. Of the original three movies, it's probably my least favorite because of this, but also because it turns up the volume on whacky hijinks and dramatically tones down the violence and gore from the first two movies, despite Spielberg getting his precious PG-13 rating.
Spielberg said he was reluctantly pulled back into the series. Such a shame Steven never stood his ground and passed that turd off to a young director like he initially planned.
Just recently watch it and Siskel nails it. Pretty mediocre film where Spielberg and Williams(what a generic score) phone in their jobs; Indy isn’t really even Indy in it, only Ford playing him makes him Indy. The way he so easily falls for Elsa and feels betrayed by her is helpful for the plot but isn’t cynical, world weary, Indian Jones. Connery is the films saving grace which makes the film enjoyable. Raiders is an action adventure masterpiece, probably the greatest of all time, but this is far echo of it
Let's face it: Indiana Jones 4 was a mistake. They should've left it at Last Crusade. But they just had to go after those nostalgia dollars. And when you're making a movie for the sole purpose of squeezing money out of your audience, the movie's gonna be shit. It's unavoidable.
@@citygirl5705 Just for starters, the Daniel Craig James Bond movies are waaaaaaay more convincing than "Road House." Bruce Lee has had some very convincing scenes, and so has Keanu Reeves. The belt-thrashing scene in "Fargo" was incredible. I know they're not super-realistic, but even the fight scenes in the Indiana Jones movies are far more believable than anything in "Road House."
Yes, exactly, the last Indian Jones movie. Right... if they only lived to know two more would be made. One that was awful, then next set to be a Disney wokified nightmare.
Road House is one of those good "bad movies" which has reached cult status now. No doubt at the time it was seen as silly and way too over the top. But Siskel was off the mark on Crusade, and probably one of the worst reviews he's given.
