The Writing of Indiana Jones was a Sh*t Show

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Finding a MacGuffin is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to write Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, from George Lucas trying to convince Steven Spielberg to use aliens to Frank Darabont getting zero credit for the final film.
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In the entertainment world, there are millions of dollars on the line and troubled productions are bound to happen. Whether it's big egos, bigger budgets, or just plain bad luck, we are going behind-the-scenes on these disastrous, never ending, and sometimes dangerous productions. From the creators of WTF Happened To This Movie?, It Was A Sh*t Show is a video essay/documentary/podcast series looking at some of your favorite films and tv shows, and why they were such a nightmare to make.
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:35 - George Lucas’ Indiana Jones
01:31 - Temple of Doom Struggles
02:06 - Indiana Jones and the Monkey King
02:44 - Ending with The Last Crusade
03:19 - The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
05:07 - Aliens and Crystal Skulls
05:39 - From Serials to B-movies
07:21 - Steven Spielberg Resists, Harrison Ford Waits
08:15 - Indiana Jones and the Lost Continent
09:03 - Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars
09:48 - Indiana Jones and the Sons of Darkness
10:34 - Indiana Jones and the Saucermen
11:23 - Internet Rumors Go Overboard
12:38 - So Many Fake Scripts…
13:55 - Reigniting the Passion for Indy 4
15:02 - Lucas Hires Frank Darabont
15:46 - Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods
18:04 - Indiana Jones and the Atomic Ants
18:33 - Indiana Jones and the Destroyer of Worlds
19:23 - Sean Connery’s Return
19:53 - Smooth Production, Chaotic Fans
22:10 - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
22:53 - Fan Backlash and Shia LaBeouf’s Defense
24:31 - Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
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Script Apart: bit.ly/3oInCP7
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Tales from Development Hell: bit.ly/439tf7Y
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Featured Footage:
Black Panther (2018)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Congo (1995)
Die Hard (1988)
The Dark Knight (2008)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
The Fugitive (1993)
The Goonies (1983)
The Green Mile (1999)
Home Alone 3 (1997)
Independence Day (1996)
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
Indiana Jones films (1981-2023)*
Invaders from Mars (1953)
Iron Man (2008)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993-2009)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Lost in Space (1998)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Mamma Mia! (2008)
The Man from Planet X (1951)
Men in Black (1997)
Minority Report (2002)
The Mummy (1999)
The Mummy Returns (2001)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Poltergeist (1982)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Secret Service in Darkest Africa (1943)
Seinfeld (1989-1998)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Spy Smasher (1942)
Star Wars films (1977-2019)
South Park (1997- )
Supercop (1992)
Ted Lasso (2020-2023)
The Terminal (2004)
Them! (1954)
THX 1138 (1971)
Unbreakable (2000)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Wyatt Earp (1994)
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992-1996)
Zoolander (2001)
Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939)
* and special features
AFI Lifetime Achievement Award
Barbara Walters Special
Bobbie Wygant
Collider
Entertainment Tonight
History Channel: Ancient Aliens
Inside the Actors Studio
MTV Video Music Awards
The Oprah Winfrey Show
Post Mortem
Today
Music:
John Williams - Indiana Jones original soundtracks
Bo Burnham - Welcome to the Internet
Ryan Hudson - Sh*t Show Theme
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@TunkTheTank 11 месяцев назад

Whoops. Said Temple of Doom was 1985. Oh well. But as John Cleese says "an infallible sign of intelligence is to be able to distinguish between the important and the trivial." ^ this is for everyone who comments, thinking they "got me."

@il100374 11 месяцев назад

Hey Temple of Doom came out in 1984, not 1985.

@1BrknHrtdRomeo 11 месяцев назад

@@il100374 Read what he said there again...but slowly.

@punchieouchieguy 11 месяцев назад

You also dissed my man Tobe Hoopdreams. He tried his best :"(

@davidjames579 11 месяцев назад

Can you go back and Greedo Shot First that line?

@jeromevaleska2014 11 месяцев назад

@@1BrknHrtdRomeor/woosh

@TheCommandoSnail 11 месяцев назад

Lucas: "They're not aliens! They're interdimensional beings" Spielberg: "Okay, what do they look like?" Lucas: "Aliens!" Spielberg: "This fuckin guy"

@nanoglitch6693 11 месяцев назад

In all fairness, that's what a lot of people believe the "aliens" people supposedly have encounters with actually are.

@alexdawson4571 11 месяцев назад

That's probably my favorite thing about the making of Indy 4; Spielberg's attitude of, "Okay, fine! But I'm only doing this for YOU!!!"

@linewalker 11 месяцев назад

😂 BFF

@thisfreakingguy3833 11 месяцев назад

......

@THEODSTKING117 11 месяцев назад

@@alexdawson4571that was essentially his mindset for the whole Indiana jones franchise

@daelen.cclark 11 месяцев назад

The fact that rumour came from someone wanting to prove to his mother that tabloids lie all the time is kinda funny to me.

@lakelandbuzz2252 11 месяцев назад

Sad to say mate, if someone believes the daily mail to begin with, they're probably too far gone.

@daelen.cclark 11 месяцев назад

@@lakelandbuzz2252 I have a bit of hope for some.

@curtismantle 11 месяцев назад

@@lakelandbuzz2252while all other newspapers are highly trustworthy of course 😂

@jacksmith7881 10 месяцев назад

Glad to see the Daily Mail has never changed

@dantheanimator5072 6 месяцев назад

@@lakelandbuzz2252you mean “if someone believes what [insert any and all news media] puts out……”

@haydenlane9600 11 месяцев назад

My favorite thing I've heard about the fourth Indy movie is it's a movie everybody wanted to see, but nobody wanted to make

@thomasjohnson1885 11 месяцев назад

Seems like a Mr. Plinkett saying

@giulioscanferlato9693 11 месяцев назад

Except Harrison Ford apparently

@WallyHolland 11 месяцев назад

I watch red letter media too

@saborlord123 11 месяцев назад

@@thomasjohnson1885it straight up is

@JediKnight207 11 месяцев назад

What does it mean? Does it mean the 4th movie doesn't exist?

@alexmaverick6647 11 месяцев назад

I like the first half of Crystal Skull reasonably well. The opening Area 51 scene is fun and mysterious, the chase on the college campus is shot magnificently, the scene where Indy and Mutt explore the tombs in Peru feels very in line with the series. After that though, the film nose dives off a cliff and doesn’t even feel like the same person was directing it anymore.

@dongulio5539 11 месяцев назад

As a Peruvian, I have to adamantly disagree with you, the way the movie gives the western world an impression that we’re all still tribal and believe in aliens is 100% accurate, I pray to my alien god every day

@davidjames579 11 месяцев назад

@@dongulio5539 I for one, welcome our Alien God Overlords.

@dongulio5539 11 месяцев назад

@@davidjames579 praise the weird headed ones

@jahimjauh-hey5653 11 месяцев назад

@@davidjames579it's no match for our future robot overlords.

@il100374 11 месяцев назад

THIS

@sinjinreed2091 11 месяцев назад

A lot of these fan-scripts actually sound really cool.

@sebastianrosa7935 11 месяцев назад

Somone should think about adapting them into novels honestly.

@zacharyjochumsen9677 11 месяцев назад

@@sebastianrosa7935orveven adpt them into comic boks cznnyou ijgine indina Jones and king Arthur in ssne sentences

@enjoyyoursleep1 8 месяцев назад

fans would make a bad CEO, they'd give other fans through their writing, everything theyu want, at what ever cost. This is why directors and studio executives rarely get along.

@kristianfagerstrom7011 Месяц назад

All of them sound better than the actual script.

@jordanbridges Месяц назад

@zacharyjochumsen9677 were you drunk when you commented? 😆

@joki9121 11 месяцев назад

I think one of my big problems with Crystal skull was how it looked. Everything looked very airbrushed and set piece. Like in raiders, you get the desert and the sunset with all the people digging or going through the market places. It really threw me off. Shia was also not a great pick. I love him in other things, but this was not it. Also aliens.

@jasonblalock4429 11 месяцев назад

Yeah, there was way way too much bluescreen and comp'ing in Crystal Skull. It *looked* fake, which did nothing to help people maintain suspension of disbelief. Even like at 24:19, what should have been a simple shot just looks wrong somehow because there's something wonky about the lighting.

@diamond_dogs 11 месяцев назад

The 4K version is an improvement visually

@davidjames579 11 месяцев назад

I was quite miffed at how much stuff that isn't there. The first three films and the TV Series shot around the world, and look and feel so atmospheric. Plus you don't have the late Douglas Slocombe's marvellous old school cinematography.

@tonym.8069 11 месяцев назад

Right, its sorta ambigious what the fuck came out of the ark, I think doing something similar and not blatantly alien aliens would've been neat. I rather the aliens be gray skin but much more humans like than idk gray god aliens or whatever they were. I did like the twist their treasure wasn't just treasure it was knowledge, sorta reminded me of the dragon-owl spirit from Avatar who was an insane bibliophile

@PlaySA 11 месяцев назад

Basically everything George Lucas couldn't live without. And I agree. It had no reality to it. The original trilogy was definitely campy and sometimes unrealistic, but still WAY more grounded than Crystal Skull.

@DewitNow 11 месяцев назад

Honestly, the backdrop of the 1950's, the Cold War, and the popularity of aliens during that time period was really promising. It all comes down to the execution.

@dantraficonte8752 11 месяцев назад

Agreed completely. The UFO stuff was never the problem it was just the way they revealed them and also LaBeef’s character just wasn’t good

@MrMejia187 9 месяцев назад

Yesss. The alien stuff was too nonchalant. Needed to dangle clues here and there and rip the bandaid off for a bit at the end.

@CameronM1138 9 месяцев назад

@@MrMejia187 yeah, revealing that the aliens were 100% definitely real halfway through the movie with no fanfare was the movie's biggest mistake. None of the macguffins in the other movies are shown to actually have powers until the climax, it's just hinted at.

@Parker-- 7 месяцев назад

Yes, they should have taken the aliens idea out back and executed it against the wall immediately then come up with a better idea.

@TheAwsomeSawse 11 месяцев назад

If Crystal Skull came out in the 90s it would be remembered very differently. I also think out of all the potential McGuffins, Excalibur and The Garden of Eden are the strongest concepts.

@zacharyjochumsen9677 11 месяцев назад

@theaswesomesawse can you imagine indin Jones with excaliber or indin jobescfjghting giant atomic ants

@iLikeTheUDK 10 месяцев назад

What about Atlantis? There was already the LucasArts adventure game that Hal Barwood conceived and wrote, and it's already quite cinematic as it is. It would just take more character developing scenes and some streamlining and decluttering and it would adapt to the screen so well

@GrosvnerMcaffrey 10 месяцев назад

The Hollow earth from one of the Indy books wasn't a bad idea

@white-dragon4424 Месяц назад

What they don't realise is that Excalibur's from Celtic mythology, not Norse.

@dennisr6385 19 дней назад

Speer of Destiny would have been the only good follow up.

@SmoothCriminal12 11 месяцев назад

I love how he acknowledges how blatant it is that Spielberg ghost directed Poltergeist. That made me laugh a bit ngl.

@davidjames579 11 месяцев назад

Ghost Directed. Tee Hee.....

@LaurenceQuint 11 месяцев назад

That's a rumor that needs to die.

@Mr_Kenneth 11 месяцев назад

No way Tobe Hooper directed Poltergeist. It has Spielbergs directing style all over it.

@LaurenceQuint 10 месяцев назад

@@Mr_Kenneth Except he did.

@bluerobin7051 7 месяцев назад

Apparently, Tobe Hooper and most of the cast disagrees with that description.

@DeadLikeMeJ 11 месяцев назад

If only Spielberg would have held is ground for longer :( Atlantis film could have been magnificent, shame Lucas was so obsessed with Aliens we could have had more Indiana films with Harrison when he was younger :(

@tek_soup 7 месяцев назад

yeh, funny how the best selling most loved films, sequels take forever. not anymore which is good.

@matte-d349 7 месяцев назад

I mean, there is no reason Atlantis and Aliens couldn't have been combined in some way. It's a damn shame!

@MrZachtheKingsfan 11 месяцев назад

It sounds like Spielberg was just so done with Lucas pestering him about a 4th Indy movie for 18 years, he just caved and went with the “interdementional beings” story Lucas wanted to write

@white-dragon4424 10 месяцев назад

It makes you wonder why Lucas didn't direct it himself, seeing that he's supposedly this film making genius that his bootlickers all claim he is.

@MrZachtheKingsfan 10 месяцев назад

@@white-dragon4424 I don’t think Lucas likes to direct unless he absolutely has to. He tried to get other people to direct the prequels (like how he did with the OT), and they all turned him down. Including Spielberg.

@white-dragon4424 10 месяцев назад

@@MrZachtheKingsfan Not liking to direct certainly shows in his work. Watching him direct is like watching a member of the undead.

@laserbeamlightning 10 месяцев назад

@@white-dragon4424 Spielberg is the better director. Period. End of story. Lucas is a good idea and businessman but that’s where his involvement should begin and end as in this case his idea drove them off a cliff (and the characters)

@stevenportillo7353 10 месяцев назад

@laserbeamlightning to be fair, the Star Wars prequels were not at all good either back in its hay day. I would not say he was a filmaking genius then even now.

@assymptoad4989 11 месяцев назад

Wrong, there are only 3 Indiana Jones movies.

@biggsducklighter6171 10 месяцев назад

I kinda respect Lucas for just digging his feet in, saying "I want aliens," and not budging for 18 years. Like Darabont said, that's next level stubborn.

@xzonia1 7 месяцев назад

If only he'd spent that 18 years writing a phenomenal script for which aliens were essential. Spielberg would've said yes in a heartbeat to that, and we'd all have been happier. I did like that Marion and Indy finally got married, though. Lol :)

@FD98HZMT 11 месяцев назад

“No version of the film will live up to fan expectations, a fact proven time and again by sequels separated by decades” Top Gun: Maverick- hold my beer

@johnnydkota5709 11 месяцев назад

Please no. That’s the last thing anyone wants is Hollywood rehashing old movies over and over again. Top gun wasn’t a franchise, just a summer blockbuster that the studios weren’t desperately trying to milk money out of every five years

@leithaziz2716 11 месяцев назад

How long was the gap between Fury Road and the last Mad Max film? Cause that's a great movie as well.

@johnnydkota5709 11 месяцев назад

@@leithaziz2716 That’s a fair point

@shakes.dontknowwhatyergettin 11 месяцев назад

Blade Runner 2049 - and mine

@DrasticFox2004 11 месяцев назад

Halloween (2018)?

@michaelhawk6077 11 месяцев назад

I never disparaged Indy 4 because of the Nuked fridge scene.... To me, it was one of the better aspects of crystal skull.

@function0077 6 месяцев назад

I loved the 1st 3 Indy movies. I just wish they made more sequels before Harrison Ford got too old. Ford was already too old for the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

@pyguy7 6 месяцев назад

I think it's really uncool how George Lucas fired Frank Darabont because he hated the script, then proceeds to use near ALL of his script beats and still has the audacity to remove Frank Darabont from the credits. What a disgusting low blow.

@lobsterwhisperer7932 11 месяцев назад

Maybe its just me, but i cannot suspend my disbelief when it comes to watching an action/adventure movie with an 80 year old lead.

@BrunoMalmann 11 месяцев назад

hey, at least most of the time he wasn't even the lead, we got HELENA SHAWWWW YEAHHHH EVERYBODY WENT TO THE CINEMA TO HER AS THE LEAD HELL YEAHHHH

@scottb3034 7 месяцев назад

i think that's the biggest issue more than anything. a 1980s Ford probably sells the movie better...in which case it was probably best to retire Indy before 4 or 5 and keep him to books and video games.

@spear1504 6 месяцев назад

Probably, all though many fans of the series would going miss new upcoming movie if he just retired

@lovehatecomments 11 месяцев назад

Wow. I wish Spielberg had put his foot down for Darabont's version. Can't know if it would've been an awesome Indy movie but maybe better than what we got?! Thanks Ian for another great one. This would've been a real fun one with the gang as a podcast.

@LaurenceQuint 11 месяцев назад

Podcast? Nah, the visuals are fun!

@lovehatecomments 11 месяцев назад

@@LaurenceQuint It makes for a better video, yes. Can't beat the commentary and fun with Jenirae and Clint imo.

@TeensierPython 11 месяцев назад

Lucas got used to having people say ‘yes’ to everything and couldn’t take no for an answer to his dumb ideas in both SW and Indy.

@benjaminbierley2074 11 месяцев назад

This, was his BIG failing, his wife was also an influence that, to my understanding, helped curb some of his less-than-stellar creative instincts, and by the time of the prequels, they were divorced...with some arguing that part of the motivation for the special edition was to alter the films going forward such that contractually she didn't get any more money from them, as she was receiving royalties from the original films in their original form. For those new to the fandom reading this, watch the behind-the-scenes for episode 1. It becomes clear pretty quick that the talking heads around him are all yes men nodding along. It's both horrible and fascinating to watch. There is even a moment Lucas himself realizes "they" might have messed up...and these yes men continue to NOD along to his every word.

@Connor17199 11 месяцев назад

@@benjaminbierley2074they were getting divorced during ROTJ. All I have to say about that is... Ewoks. Also she won an Oscar for star wars but George didn't 🤣

@al112v4 11 месяцев назад

I'm glad he's no longer around SW or Indy by that matter.

@tonym.8069 11 месяцев назад

Yeaaaaaaaaah thats a fair point

@Y.Moroboshi 11 месяцев назад

Yeah, the one thing I'm getting from this video is that Crystal Skull happened because George had a shitty idea and no one had the gumption to tell him to drop it. There are a ton of possible mcguffins he could have gone with (I really liked the idea of Excalibur, even if it was a fan idea and not something Goerge came up with), so the fixation with aliens was something that should have been bonked out of George's head.

@JsscRchlDrsy 11 месяцев назад

I didn’t mind the idea of showing inter-dimensional beings at all. The crystal skull may not be a historical McMuffin, but the idea of beings like the Annunaki who possibly came thousands of years ago to help mankind is in Sumerian writings. I thought it was a great idea. I think some of the execution and choices made for the film were off. I still enjoyed the movie.

@admiralseabass8993 11 месяцев назад

This is my take. It's trendy to blame Lucas for the alien idea but Spielberg dropped the ball big time in the execution.

@gergokun7154 7 месяцев назад

Rigth? Like people were fine with actual magic but not with aliens?

@slackstarfish8133 11 месяцев назад

George Lucas is a great example of someone who has stumbled onto greatness, while being kinda terrible at the same time.

@white-dragon4424 10 месяцев назад

Lucas suffers from "The Emperor's New Clothes" syndrome when it comes to his reputation for being a film making genius.

@OrgaNik_Music 10 месяцев назад

Lucas is an ideas man who absolutely needs someone who has the guts to tell him no beside him.

@benclark4823 9 месяцев назад

@@OrgaNik_Music and yet that didn’t happen despite Spielberg being the director. 🤦‍♂️ So much for the argument that “George Lucas” needing someone to tell him “no” about his own fictional story’s in order to be “good” nonsense. 🤥

@sarov7658 9 месяцев назад

And disney only stumbles with his property

@white-dragon4424 8 месяцев назад

@@sarov7658 The reason was because the patient was dead on arrival. Lucas killed it with the PT. The rushed conclusion of ROTJ also didn't help when it came to continuing the story with the ST movies.

@peterpidrak9501 11 месяцев назад

The Valhalla script sounds cool, but honestly Indiana Jones racing Soviets to find Hitler’s occult bunker, would tie it in rather nicely with the first three movies while still moving it forward in time.

@white-dragon4424 10 месяцев назад

Wasn't that the concept which included Excalibur? If so, then I think someone should inform Lucas that Excalibur is Celtic myth, not Norse myth...

@xsniperx366 11 месяцев назад

Please don't leave us without these videos for too long again!

@ItWasAShtShow 11 месяцев назад

Sorry. They’re hard. They take time. And they don’t pay the bills.

@pedroaguilera7129 11 месяцев назад

@@ItWasAShtShow Appreciate the work you put in, also the podcast is great

@mrshmuga9 11 месяцев назад

@@ItWasAShtShow Just wanted to say I appreciate the roadmap visual tracking the history between scripts and fan scripts. Nice job!

@ItWasAShtShow 11 месяцев назад

@@mrshmuga9 Thank you! You're the first to mention it.

@Gmthekiller 11 месяцев назад

@@ItWasAShtShow massive respect for you bro

@angelcitygirl 4 месяца назад

There are only three Indiana Jones films. He rode off into the sunset with his dad and friends. Perfect ending. ❤

@HaterOfReddit 11 месяцев назад

I really really liked how you added the visual at the bottom of the videos when showing people and the subject of what they did on the said movies/shows you are talking about! This is a fantastic change and I hope you have it in every video from here on! Keep up the great work!

@ItWasAShtShow 11 месяцев назад

Maybe... haha. There were a lot of names being thrown around in this one, so I wanted visualize it somehow to keep it straight.

@HaterOfReddit 11 месяцев назад

@@ItWasAShtShow That's exactly why I liked it so much, I'll be honest I am quite dumb and having this as a reference to always see when a new person shows up is a great visualizer! I watched the Bourne Identity video the other day, and even though there wasn't a lot of people involed, I sometime had to backtrack to really make sure I was following it whole completely! This change really helped, keep up the great work!

@Gum_Cuzzler 11 месяцев назад

I don’t even think the aliens in Indy 4 were the problem. It was how ostentatiously they were presented, showing up at the end with a big dumb CGI alien after a final act already filled with over the top cheesy crap. Like, the supernatural stuff in the Indy franchise was subtle and mysterious. Maybe aliens could have worked if you had just had a bit of goddamn restraint with the concept and maybe just have like one saucer show up at the end or something.

@arandompasserby7940 8 месяцев назад

Ironically, they should have handled the aliens in Indy 4 the same way Speilberg handled the aliens in Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind

@valthenvega2434 11 месяцев назад

It feels a bit rage inducing to look back at how things went. George was wrong, it wasn’t fan backlash. It was his absolute stubbornness to yield and drop the almost-cynical alien thing, and be more open to accept a nice-enough script his friend Steven Spielberg had taken a liking. If he wanted aliens, he should’ve made Episode 7, not an Indy film.

@scottb3034 7 месяцев назад

or fans could just be more consistent...that's a thing too. People hate the fridge nuking but have no issues with surviving a skydive with simply an inflatable raft. And the Sankara Stones are really a better Macguffin than Aliens/Crystal skull? Not saying Indy 4 was the best movie but it isn't nearly as bad as some claim nor is it far out of line from the series....at least Temple of Doom. Raiders and Crusade are their own thing and shame the other 3 movies because of their brilliance.

@SLIDESPOT 11 месяцев назад

More proof Spielberg, despite JAWS being my favourite film of all time, is a better director than I tend to place him. He knew it was a bad decision to do anymore Indy films. I wish he took more of a stand vs Ford and Lucas.

@wesleykim6523 11 месяцев назад

14:51 Ever since I watched the making of videos on the DVD special features, I will never forget the reaction Steven Spielberg had to George Lucus’s Extra-dimensional beings idea!

@DanCummins 11 месяцев назад

For me, it was over when Steven chose to use Janucz Kaminski as DP. If you look at all the other movies he's shot with SS, they all have that 'look' - which is great for something like Minority Report or War of the Worlds, even Saving Private Ryan, but that desarated hazy look feels completely out of place on an Indy film. Doug Slocombe's photography in the first 3 had an old-school almost technicolor pallete of high contrast and sharp colors. Doesn't matter that Kingdom was shot and edited on film if it's not lit right on the set. I love Kaminski's style in other movies, but he was just a wrong choice for Indy. I feel like if they had Dean Cundey or *gasp* Roger Deakins or some other more 'analog' looking DP, that movie would have been recieved SO much better, and even with the over-reliance on CGI, would still have felt more of a piece with the orig trig.

@ItWasAShtShow 11 месяцев назад

I completely agree with this.

@CookieMonsterJams 10 месяцев назад

They mostly have corrected the look to be more in line with the old movies on the 4k Bluray and the recent Disney + release.

@watzumoro 11 месяцев назад

bro. Lucas didn't change his mind about aliens in so many years even though someone like Spielberg told him it was too much... Anyway, I think if they had left the aliens a mystery, it would have been better. not show them, leaving them in the void, a dark room or whatever makes us draw our own conclusions about what happened and so

@anotheryoutubeaccount9852 11 месяцев назад

The Last Crusade, was the last one for me. It was called "LAST" Crusade for a reason. The Crystal Skull by the way,, was an A-Team episode from 1986.

@thevaccinator666 3 месяца назад

The last crusade for the Holy Grail, in reference to the first crusades made centuries earlier, which I think are mentioned in the film. But it was probably a double meaning also, yeah.

@mrshmuga9 11 месяцев назад

Those other scripts sound better than what we got. George’s stubbornness knows no bounds.

@white-dragon4424 11 месяцев назад

You know Lucas was badly bullied at school? Hmm...I wonder why?

@tomaszskowronski1406 6 месяцев назад

@@white-dragon4424Ok, this is taking it too far. Lucas is a twat, sure, but encouraging bullying? come on.

@white-dragon4424 6 месяцев назад

@@tomaszskowronski1406 I never once encouraged bullying. However, I can see what personality traits attracted the bullies.

@JSwag_Reviews 11 месяцев назад

Temple of Doom is so underrated especially how fresh it feels the first time I had never been that edge of my seat in an action movie.

@il100374 11 месяцев назад

That bit at the end about Chris Pines was hilarious 😂 Love Harrison Ford lmao, I'm in tears

@thrillcollectors 11 месяцев назад

I wish you guys could somehow upload a video every day I can’t get enough of these. Truly great content thank you for the awesome work you guys do.

@ItWasAShtShow 11 месяцев назад

Every day?! These are exhausting! Haha

@AmusedWalrus 11 месяцев назад

Love this series and love Indiana Jones, keep up the good work!

@Karlach_ 11 месяцев назад

Loved the video man I appreciate all the work you put into them so thank you!

@OnlyDanFN 11 месяцев назад

great video as always mate. love the effort you put into these and the lil edit clips are great...

@ItWasAShtShow 11 месяцев назад

Thank you kindly for watching!

@kevinmajorca 11 месяцев назад

There is only 3 movies in the series tho. The Last Crusade was an amazing send-off to Indiana. I'm glad they left it at that and didn't soil the legacy of such great character.

@dac5782 11 месяцев назад

I'd say there's only four, though. Crystal Skull had it's flaws, but it was still an enjoyable movie with good send-off for the series; Jones gets to have one last adventure and marries the love of his life at the end of it. At least to me, there's more of a sense of "resolution", as it were, with the ending rather than the classic "hero rides off into the sunset". It's not that great of a movie, but it still has a place in the series.

@crocodileguy4319 11 месяцев назад

@@dac5782I'd say there's 5 Indiana Jones movies though

@crocodileguy4319 11 месяцев назад

Dial wasn't that bad

@ironmatto3 11 месяцев назад

There's 5, stay mad.

@dac5782 11 месяцев назад

@@ironmatto3 And I found the redditor.

@TummyAche128 11 месяцев назад

I absolutely adore how you're able to compile all these details that I had no idea about!

@willadeefriesland5107 11 месяцев назад

I really like your choices of other films' clips to illustrate the various possible story ideas and speculations. Isn't it amazing how many there were...

@noticiasinmundicias 11 месяцев назад

Dude you are about my favorite youtuber ever PLEASE MAKE MORE STUFF my anxiety needs it.

@thrillcollectors 11 месяцев назад

The sheer amount of different titles the fourth film had over the years should’ve been be a sign to just maybe just leave it well enough alone. Especially when you know how easily the original trilogy all seemed to fall into place

@alm5992 11 месяцев назад

I didn't hate the story of Crystal Skull as much as I hated the horrible CGI.

@gremblegrombletheclown6157 11 месяцев назад

I always look forward to your new vids! Thank you for creating such entertaining and interesting content :)

@Katranga 11 месяцев назад

Great stuff as usual! I came from the podcast feed to watch it here bc I wanted the visuals 😊 also I didn’t know there was a 5th one coming out, but it makes sense now because this is the 3rd Indiana Jones video from RU-vidrs I follow in the past 2 weeks lmao

@compatriot852 11 месяцев назад

I find it funny how they wanted to go with something more "realistic" and went with aliens. You'd think El Dorado or the 7 cities of gold would have been enough considering these are much more well known Latin American myths and not ridiculous like the crystal skulls/aliens that were forced in

@bluerobin7051 7 месяцев назад

Clearly, you dont understand George Lucas' brain.

@TheNameisPlissken1981 11 месяцев назад

Actually, Phil Kaufman and George Lucas only worked on Raiders together in the mid to late 70s. They put it away when Phil went off to direct The Outlaw Josie Wales with Clint Eastwood (to which Clint fired him and directed it himself). Kaufman's involvement with Raiders ended there. George didn't work on it again until the late 70's when he got Spielberg involved, then Steven hired Kasden after reading Larry's Continental Divide script that Spielberg ended up producing. The three day story session where the Raiders script was hammered out is on line and consists of Lucas and Spielberg spit balling while Larry takes notes and tosses out the occasional idea (I suggest every true Indy fan read this transcript, it's amazing).

@Anubis-hl6wh 11 месяцев назад

great video as always I never young indiana jones was a show, I read all of the novels from that series. I how informative your videos are, I miss the other two from your show & your funny dynamic. Thank you for a excellent video & for helping me through the work day

@JackDespero 3 месяца назад

That reminds me of my doctoral thesis. I had two supervisors and often they would ask me to correct stuff that the other had suggested.

@hellfire5108 11 месяцев назад

Lucas has some good ideas and then he can come up with really stupid ideas. Amazing.

@theetreyleager 11 месяцев назад

As a man who has grown up with Indiana Jones, I can say I enjoyed Crystal Skull, it does truly feel like an Indiana Jones movie looking back, I hope the new one can at least capture that element.

@DerFinder 11 месяцев назад

14:32 to 14:52 is my favourite moment from any interview with Steven Spielberg xD it reminds me of me and my friends when where argueing and stuff, I can imagine their conversation so well xD

@anotherdrummingenigma2882 11 месяцев назад

Ironically, even though he liked playing Indy more than Han Solo, he brought a lot more energy and character to the role in Force Awakens than he did in Crystal Skull.

@clownnookie 11 месяцев назад

Darabount's script was probably stellar. It's just the Lucas stinks at what he does.

@TaylorMade4Zero 11 месяцев назад

Great video as usual.

@muttpost 11 месяцев назад

Love these videos, keep it up!!! 😎

@lifewithoutfudge 10 месяцев назад

This may seem a little nit-picky, but the only criticism of this very well-made, well-researched video is that the 1953 War of the Worlds, while rather quaint to modern eyes, was very much a big-budget A-movie of its time. It won an Academy Award for Special Effects and was nominated for two more, Sound and Editing, and was one of the highest grossing films of that year.

@jmp7140 11 месяцев назад

I never understood how aliens is too much of a stretch but immortality, ripping someone’s heart out and them still living, and melting faces is okay and totally reasonable

@CameraX_FNAF 11 месяцев назад

Idk man, this is a universe where a box contains ethereal spirits, being able to live without your heart and a cup that heals and makes you old. Aliens definitely wasn’t a stretch.

@punishedbarca761 11 месяцев назад

I think the subconscious divide between mysticism and science fiction is the reason. It's like adding a UFO to a game of Dungeons and Dragons. Personally I liked the idea but the execution was horrible

@scottb3034 7 месяцев назад

Let's not forget surviving a skydive in only a thin inflatable raft. It's simply because the 7 year olds then became 30 year olds when Crystal Skull arrived. Same phenomenon as people loving a cartoon growing up but finding out it wasn't as good as they remembered as an adult.

@gamestation2690 7 месяцев назад

@@scottb3034 People have forgotten their suspension of disbelief as they got older.

@scottb3034 7 месяцев назад

@@gamestation2690 yeah that's a big part.

@poolboyofficial7148 10 месяцев назад

You guys should seriously do a podcast on “the thing (2011)” I heard it was a production disaster with a very large amount of the films creature effects being done practically and then last minute changing it too CGI… I think the history of “the thing” would be an interesting and fascinating tale too speak of… really love the podcast, ran through every episode within a week. Good work guys! Can’t wait for more!

@ItWasAShtShow 10 месяцев назад

Definitely on the list! Glad you’re enjoying the podcast!

@yahwehswarrior 11 месяцев назад

i waited ages for your video to be uploaded man

@WolfStrife 11 месяцев назад

Great video! And I am surprised at how many bad titles they came up with, I would think it would be easy to title an Indiana Jones adventure😅

@lanceash 11 месяцев назад

"Indiana Jones and the Never-Ending Search for Profits..."

@jtgd 11 месяцев назад

“So, he runs into a nuclear testing site and jumps into a refrigerator”

@RaviNayyar 11 месяцев назад

well, it's lead-lined - doesn't that count for something?

@misbehaven1237 10 месяцев назад

Love the video, and I love how the thumbnail has changed like 4 times now lol

@ItWasAShtShow 10 месяцев назад

Hey, only 3 times! It’s the only way to see if jumpstart the algorithm, because the video isn’t doing, as well as I’d like.

@misbehaven1237 10 месяцев назад

@@ItWasAShtShow totally understandable, and it's a real shame because it's one of my favourites on your channel

@ItWasAShtShow 10 месяцев назад

@@misbehaven1237 Aww thanks!

@frankcarlosanaliza 11 месяцев назад

Great video!!!

@doctoradventure413 11 месяцев назад

As time has gone on I think I've warmed up to Crystal Skull more than when it came out. It's a 7/10 movie in a series with a 9/10 and two 10/10's so it feels a lot worse than it actually is. I think it's over reliance on cgi is my main criticism. I love how the dynamic Indy and Mutt have is really similar to the dynamic he has with his father in Last Crusade.

@thegreatpiginthesky3904 11 месяцев назад

Temple of doom is a 10/10 you bastard

@doctoradventure413 11 месяцев назад

@@thegreatpiginthesky3904 love temple of doom but it’s definitely the weakest of the original movies

@thegreatpiginthesky3904 11 месяцев назад

@doctoradventure413 well atleast it's original. Last crusade is raiders 1.5

@doctoradventure413 11 месяцев назад

@@thegreatpiginthesky3904 what? The only similarities that I can think of between Raiders and Last Crusade are they fight nazi’s and the mcguffin is a Christian artifact. My problems with Temple of Doom are that they have Kate Capshaw constantly screaming and more importantly the culturally insensitive dinner scene. The movie is great and I love it but those things detract from the overall experience for me.

@antitoastthe2nd 11 месяцев назад

I’ve been infected with a disease Every time I see you guys upload, my hand instantly clicks it without warning

@Talis7212 11 месяцев назад

LOL I love that Harrison constantly says the names of newer leading men wrong. "Bryan Gosling" "Chris Pines"

@yazid6301 11 месяцев назад

Man these videos you made are so fucking great

@thatguynipz7454 10 месяцев назад

George lucas creates some of the most iconic film ideas that influence generations. Also lucas: forces aliens into historical fiction adventures

@Pnoman73 11 месяцев назад

I’ve always thought the writers of the Uncharted game stories could’ve come up with an awesome script.

@ItWasAShtShow 11 месяцев назад

Hard disagree.

@TheAmericanPrometheus 11 месяцев назад

Writing for a video game and writing for a movie are two different beasts, but I think Amy Hennig could've pulled it off.

@tylerthomas7763 11 месяцев назад

The uncharted games took inspiration from Indy. They also took inspiration from mummy too. Nathan drake is kind of like Indy in some ways but wildly different.

@JSwag_Reviews 11 месяцев назад

@@ItWasAShtShow Yea especially with Druckman writing the script blech, but if it was Amy Hening or Druckman AND Straley then yes.

@JSwag_Reviews 11 месяцев назад

@@TheAmericanPrometheus Druckman and Straley I always felt were the better combo. Druckman is a wonderful story idea man, but his politics get lost in the execution, Amy Henings idea for UC4 to have an evil brother was scrapped due to the fact it’s been done before, also Amy’s script didn’t have a twist like chapter 15 going into 16 did.

@colormefrankenteddy 11 месяцев назад

The big problem i had, was the pay off wasn't worth it at the end. With the alien saycer just taking off. I haven't watched it in a long time. I might have to rectify that.

@loganford3921 11 месяцев назад

I had a good laugh a couple weeks ago while I was playing Heavy Rain cause one of the scenes was straight out of 10:46 nuke the fridge scene.

@TellySavalas-or5hf 11 месяцев назад

Lucas has thrown the story away. With its alien creatures and Russians. No, it really was a movie that went downhill fast.

@Ryglado 11 месяцев назад

Yeah. Thanks a heap, George. We could have had several better movies if he wasn’t so stubborn.

@starwarsroo2448 10 месяцев назад

Interesting Ford's initial reply to Lucas about having aliens in Indy and how it needed to be kept in ancient artifacts. Unfortunately whatever the problems with story etc they messed about for far too long and imo he was too old to play Indy in 2007

@BRUIN1821 11 месяцев назад

My favorite channel, I feel so blessed when we get movie history uploads from you

@ItWasAShtShow 11 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoy them!

@NickTrulino 11 месяцев назад

couldn't agree more. i always watch these as soon as they're available. best researched channel on the site.

@ItWasAShtShow 11 месяцев назад

@@NickTrulino Thank you!

@AnthologyOfDave 11 месяцев назад

Lucas, Spielberg, Ford and Kennedy: "Lets make a new horrible Indiana Jones movie!" Everyone else: "You belong in a museum!" God have mercy on us.

@daelen.cclark 11 месяцев назад

This comment will be kept out of museums and forgotten.

@markpender5286 11 месяцев назад

I have watched almost all of these and couldn't believe I forgot to sub..

@ItWasAShtShow 11 месяцев назад

Forgiven.

@OrontesRM 11 месяцев назад

I admit I wish the 'sword of Arthur' script was real...

@crixxxxxxxxx 11 месяцев назад

George Lucas is the master of ruining things.

@MooreCruising 7 месяцев назад

Don't you mean Disney

@crixxxxxxxxx 7 месяцев назад

@@MooreCruising No. The Star Wars prequels and Crystal Skull were awful.

@zayanything3124 4 месяца назад

@@crixxxxxxxxxand the sequels and Indy 5 also sucked

@George_M_ 11 месяцев назад

So you're saying #5 is going to have a Scottish castle for sure this time.

@ItWasAShtShow 11 месяцев назад

Hahaha! Let’s hope!

@davidjames579 11 месяцев назад

@@ItWasAShtShow They filmed at Bamburgh Castle, a famous and dramatic looking castle, in England but near The Scottish Border.

@devanworkman8745 14 дней назад

I've always still loved this movie, I just wish the vine swinging and carboat catapulting and dropping down the waterfall three times were somehow cut out.

@pduidesign 5 месяцев назад

Video: no version of the film would live up to fan expectations. No sequel separated by decades has ever done so… Top gun Maverick: cough cough

@TeensierPython 11 месяцев назад

I want to know more about Kathleen Kennedy. Do a story on her. I want to know how she got so powerful and why everything she was in charge of has turned to crap. What did she know/do to get in with Lucas?

@johnnydkota5709 11 месяцев назад

Who cares?

@LageYouTube 9 месяцев назад

@chuckbuskeeNo. She was just in the right place at the right time and people just tolerated her. She's not highly skilled in anything

@ItWasAShtShow 9 месяцев назад

You haven’t the slightest idea of what a producer does. “She’s terrible at her job!” Produces ET, Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, Roger Rabbit, Gremlins, every Indiana Jones, Star Wars (including Mandalorian and Andor).

@echoowl7742 11 месяцев назад

"There are only 5 Indiana Jones Movies" - Lies. There are 3. I refuse to accept any film past Last Crusade as an Indiana Jones film.

@Ken-xj5gh 10 месяцев назад

I love watching these videos. Could you do one on the dc movies?

@ItWasAShtShow 10 месяцев назад

In the future, yes.

@cw4143 11 месяцев назад

Loved the Lucasarts Indy Adventure games homage. :D

@andrewwebster4348 11 месяцев назад

If memory serves me correct, Lucas had mentioned aliens as the reason behind the supernatural aspects of relics like the ark as far back as the writing of Raiders of the Lost Ark. So I feel like Aliens has always been his thing.

@frontup-dave 11 месяцев назад

"There are only five Indiana Jones movies." Bold to say that we even acknowledge or deem that anything exist beyond Indiana Jones riding off into the sunset with his father and Sallah, rightfully deserved...

@headofcosmospictures1232 11 месяцев назад

And Marcus Brody

@gracefulnachos 11 месяцев назад

Not really bold. The other movies are canon. Genuine fans agree

@DayLateGamerWill 11 месяцев назад

@@gracefulnachos Highly debatable, considering the cluster-fuck the new movies are....

@gracefulnachos 11 месяцев назад

@@DayLateGamerWill Not debatable whatsoever. The movies are canon. You don’t decide what’s canon, the people who make these movies do. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is good. You’re just mad that it’s not as good as the originals. Dial of Destiny looks like it’ll be as amazing as the original trilogy. They’re not cluster fucks. They’re great and you’re a little bitch

@markjackson6431 11 месяцев назад

the Indiana Jones franchise should’ve had more movies. like one in 1993, one in 1998 or 1999, and two in the 2010s. plus Ford always preferred this franchise compared to Star Wars

@QUIRK1019 11 месяцев назад

This channel ought to have 10x its current followers.

@nethaendafendr 11 месяцев назад

Whilst I do like KotCS, I do think that it's not nearly on the level that the previous 3 films are, mainly because it doesn't do much to Indy's character we haven't already seen, hence it isn't much more than another adventure. I hope Indy 5 does give a fond farewell to the beloved legend.

@chrisbullard5901 11 месяцев назад

Lucas has never understood how to write a story. It’s always taken his friends and colleagues to rip the control out of his hands, and make something good out of the original concept. Also notice that Lucas has always been about spectacle, and pushing for direct control over everything, no matter how bad the results are. Spielberg, Kasdan, and Kaufman know the trick about Indiana Jones is that Indy’s character arc is best when he goes from arrogance and self interest, to a doubting humility that’s willing to believe in his long abandoned faith in lieu of science. Jones is not a slapstick, romping character alone, like Lucas believes, but an allegory to agnostic Jews and Christians that rediscover their faith against the backdrop of secular intellectualism.

@kingswing00 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for typing this so I didn't have to.

@mrshmuga9 11 месяцев назад

Very well put. Anytime George Lucas gets more control, it only ever gets worse.

@claytonhenderson2554 11 месяцев назад

I’m fine with Indy surviving a nuke via fridge because he survived jumping out of a plane via a inflatable raft. Obviously I haven’t seen the new one, but it looks miles WORSE than Crystal Skull. Crystal Skull felt like the character of Indiana Jones, but Dial just looks like a sad fan film.

@christopherbucher7017 11 месяцев назад

I get where you're coming from. The thing is, I'm pretty sure MythBusters did a trial of the raft stunt and found while extremely unlikely, it's still possible, whereas the fridge scene is literally impossible due to the explosion, acceleration, radiation, and bouncing around in a metal box for miles and coming out completely unscathed. For me, the Indiana Jones movies have always been about almost impossible things one after the other, just being right at the edge of believable. Things happen that are extremely unlikely but there's a very small chance they could happen, even if that chance is miniscule. The fridge is just too far imo as it's just flat out impossible and seems too large scale to be grounded. That said, I do enjoy a lot of Crystal skull, at least the first half of it.

@whatagreatnameaye1169 11 месяцев назад

It's not even our yet why are you comparing it to a movie you've watched in full?

@diamond_dogs 11 месяцев назад

The raft was filmed to make it float down like a balloon onto a steep snowy cliff. It's fantastical but not too crazy for an action movie. Even Spielberg and Harrison thought the fridge was too far, George naturally had to convince them.

@tobiasmikkelsen98 11 месяцев назад

@@diamond_dogs it was Spielberg’s idea.

@diamond_dogs 11 месяцев назад

@@tobiasmikkelsen98 George says otherwise

@mtank30 11 месяцев назад

Nice CASINO ROYALE '67 shout out. And speaking of Bond.... DANIEL CRAIG ALERT at 3:42!

@ItWasAShtShow 11 месяцев назад

First one to notice!

@romin7255 11 месяцев назад

Though it will never be the same as the three original episodes, I happened to enjoy the fourth iteration. Apart from the ridiculous look of the aliens at the end and the not-so-good son character, (and ridiculous sword fighting, and ridiculous Tarzan-monkeys scene ) it had some of the maestria of the original trilogy...