Not quite done with Indy yet

[annathepiper]

Because it occurred to me tonight that I am all by my lonesome in the living room with a big ol' TV and a DVD player and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

"Listen, Herr Mac, I don't know what kind of people you're used to dealing with, but nobody tells me what to do in my place!"

*sigh!* I love this movie so much.

And also, some quick numbers because I miscalculated yesterday's!

Missed Monday mileage: 0.5
Tuesday evening miles: 2.5
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1268.2
Miles out of Rivendell: 810.2
Miles out of Lothlórien: 348.2
Miles to Rauros Falls: 40.8

Comments

[ii2none59.livejournal.com]

Now if we can just keep George Lucas and Steven Spielberg from "destroying" it! LOL (Yep...I still remember that wonderful South Park episode).

I used to know every single line in that movie! It's been a while, but I'll bet you anything if I had the movie playing again, I could ease right back into it like it was nothing. I saw Raiders back in the days before the VCR. When the only way you could replay the movie was to keep going to see it (25 times in just over a year) and to *shhhhhhhhh* slip a tape recorder in the theater and tape it. Then play it at home to your heart's content. (Which is probably why I became a fan of sound effects too).

Anyway :-) you bring back very happy memories. It's still my second favorite movie of all time (Master and Commander is #1).

So...are you dreading or hoping for an Indy 4???

[annathepiper]

Oh, I have this movie memorized backwards and forwards, lines and music both. :) I think it's still ahead of M&C for my favorite movies--but I have to admit that M&C may well have hit #2.

I posted about my thoughts on Indy IV a few days ago, in fact! :)

[ii2none59.livejournal.com]

Hey, M&C being #2 in your heart isn't bad at all?

Am reading and commenting in your Indy IV thread right now!

[annathepiper]

M&C is, I think, possibly duking it out with the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, A New Hope, and Empire Strikes Back for my all time favorite movies. :) The original Christopher Reeve Superman flick is probably in there, too. I'll have to figure out the actual ranking at some point!

[ii2none59.livejournal.com]

Oh I love Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. I was a tad disappointed with Return of the King because I think it should have been (get ready) LONGER! LOL Everyone had built up my expectations with this scene and that scene...and none of them made the theatrical release. *sigh* I would have sat 4 or 5 hours to get what I wanted but...oh well....Anyway, I was much happier after I saw the extended edition of it -- THAT was the movie I wanted to pay $7.50 to see *bg*

[annathepiper]

solarbird told me at one point that she believed that the extended editions of the LotR flicks, at least in the cases of Two Towers and Return of the King. Fellowship, not so much. Dara sez she really prefers the extended Return of the King and that Two Towers is helped with the Boromir footage, but for her, Fellowship's additions didn't do much.

Me, I think I prefer the extended versions of all three, and I'd definitely pay money to see all of them on the big screen at some point. There are some local theaters who'd periodically run them, too, I recall!

[ii2none59.livejournal.com]

I would love to see all the extended versions play here. And I noticed that PJ is now going the George Lucas route and releasing new editions of all three LOTR movies, only they aren't really new editions, just new packaging. You can get both the theatrical and the extended of each movie...buying them as a set of 2 or a complete package of 6.

Really I wish he'd tackle putting it all into some chronological order like I've heard rumors of, but maybe in a few years.

It's been forever since I've seen the extended Fellowship, but I think I'd have to agree with Dara in that the extended Two Towers and most definitely Return of the King gave me a whole lot more.

[annathepiper]

I heard about the newly packaged releases, yeah. And much as I love those movies--I'm not buying them again. ;) But hey, if there are actually still people out there who haven't gotten around to buying them yet, more power to 'em!

[ii2none59.livejournal.com]

Well, I have all the versions except the theatrical release of ROTK, so there's no need in me getting them again. I'm sure there are some that don't own them, so as you said "more power to 'em."

I'm just waiting now for the September release of the original, untouched, theatrical, not-quite-special-except-for-being-before-their-time-at-the-time versions of Star Wars (before it became A New Hope) and The Empire Strikes Back!

[annathepiper]

God, I'm waffling about those forthcoming releases. Part of me wouldn't mind having them in the slightest, and part of me doesn't want to fork over any more quarters to George. ;P :)

We've got the pre-mucked-with versions of the Holy Star Wars Trilogy here at my house, but we have 'em on laserdisc. That's three discs per movie, so we have to change disks twice, AND each disc has to flip in the middle. So it kinda breaks the flow, you know?

[ii2none59.livejournal.com]

Good grief -- you have to flip them???

I was very torn about buying them...well, buying Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back (I was never, EVER a fan of Jedi), but the original "pre-mucked-with versions" that I owned had been on video...and all of them were kidnapped during a burglary of my old house, never to be seen again. Well, they were seen again...sort of. The bag with the videos was found dumped...and it had rained *sigh* So I guess this will be my chance to own them again. You know what? I just realized I never bought the "special edition" DVDs from a year or two back. How did that happen? LOL

[annathepiper]

Well, it kind of depends on the laserdisc player. You don't have to actually physically flip the disc in ours, but it does pause as it shifts from playing material on one side to material on the other. So you get a distinct halt in the movie flow. And you do have to change discs if it's a multi-disc movie, so.

Huh, yeah, in your case? Totally reasonable to buy the new DVDs. And heh, we never bought the Special Edition DVDs either. ;)

[ii2none59.livejournal.com]

I think it's a good reason to buy them. Those are the ones I fell in love with and will always love.

My sister can't wait for my niece and nephew to see the originals (I've ordered it for their family). My nephew has only seen eps 1 to 3, and the "special editions" of eps 4 to 6, so he was perplexed when my sister told him things that no longer existed (like Hayden Thingy replacing that old guy in Jedi at the end).

I'm just glad he finally understands why his "Auntie Tina" has such an aversion to episodes 1, 2 and 3! LOL He used to be very puzzled at that.

Raiders

[(Anonymous)]

Just in case you didn't know, the Bay theater in Ballard is showing all three Raiders movies at midnight shows starting with this weekend and for the next two after. "I am the monarch of the sea."

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[annathepiper]

I did not know this! Thank you for bringing it to my attention! :)

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[ii2none59.livejournal.com]

I saw Raiders for the twenty-sixth time theatrically two years ago when we had a local film festival of "modern classic" movies. It was wonderful seeing it on the big screen again.

That means that Raiders is in second running for movie I've seen the most AT the movies! Master and Commander comes first at 27!!!!

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[annathepiper]

Yay! Two very fine movies to be contending for that honor!

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[ii2none59.livejournal.com]

Absolutely....Others I may have seen at the movies a dozen times or so (like The Empire Strikes Back, the original Star Wars, The Right Stuff, Batman, Titanic, Gladiator...but Raiders and Master and Commander came to mean so much to me. Now I need to take time and relax some evening and watch them both again. It's been way too long!

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[annathepiper]

I need to get in another viewing of M&C, I think. :)

And mamishka and I were feeling too lame to go see big screen Raiders this weekend, but we're going to make up for it in two weeks and go see the showing of Last Crusade at the same theater. :D