Raiders of the Lost Ark CGI bullshit comparison

Here's a comparison between the classic cliff fall from the truck chase in RAIDERS (top) ...and the inappropriate CGI 'enhanced' version taken from a recent HDTV broadcast which is completely out of place in a movie almost 30 years old (bottom). This does not look like it could be physically photographed, kids.

How two such successful film makers be so utterly insecure about their past work, I'll never understand...

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Film & Animation

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• george
• lucas
• and
• steven
• spielberg
• should
• have
• let
• indiana
• jones
• retire
• with
• some
• dignity

[TheBlitz1]

why destroy a classic!

[sansfi]

Dont worry, Spielberg has said that he will release ET and Raiders without any tweaking in the Bluray and he has regreted all those changes.

[pillarsofserpents]

I totally agree with you. I hate CGI. The new Indi film had so much of it I was sick to my stomach in the theater. And don't even get me started on the scene where Jabba the Hutt is walking in the Millennium Falcon's hangar. eww

[01000001011100100111]

I don't see the problem. It looks a lot better in my opinion.

[WinstonSmith6079]

@dcwitzke That was a joke, man. I don't know anything about Ireland, not much anyway. The point is that the movie wasn't botched, apparantly, according to another Comment up the thread. So, that's a good thing, eh? hehehehe Well I think so hehehe

[dcwitzke]

@WinstonSmith6079

As an Irish-American born in Dublin and raised in North Carolina, not only are you offensive but you're totally embarrassing. Why give Americans a worse name with the rest of the planet with your ignorant garbage? As you can see, people elsewhere see us as uneducated, arrogant, obese, loud, obnoxious idiots, yet here you are reinforcing it like you're embracing that image. Dude I LOVE America but there are those of us who DON'T deserve the reputation people like you give us.

[WinstonSmith6079]

@trabera Yeah? If that's true, than that's nothing less than spectacularly awesome! hehehehe

Did you meet Spielberg? I bet he's a cool dude!

Is there any more that you can report? Was there any mention of why the new scene was removed (thankfully!) and the original restored? Ooo, ooo! Tell us more! hehehe

BTW, where was the screening? In NYC? In LA? Where? hehehehe Was Lucas there also?

[trabera]

FYI the new shot has been removed and the old one restored in it original state. I saw this at the 30th anniversary screening last night with Spielberg.

[WinstonSmith6079]

@OpeningSalvoe Oh-no! Not you again! BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! LMAO!

[OpeningSalvoe]

@WinstonSmith6079 You thick fucking yank Lucky Charms ans Irish Spring are AMERICAN products lol you just keep showing yourself up for the typically dumb American idiot that you are. Yeah what a great superpower America is, $14 TRILLION in debt and the most despised nation on earth, just look at the fucking mess you've made of it, are we all supposed to feel safer now that America has gone and "kicked ass" in the middle east? Yeah what a great job you did on that CLAP CLAP CLAP!!

[WinstonSmith6079]

@Frizzurd Eeehh, OTOH, that's a great idea! Someone GOOD should actually make that! I think more people than Hollywood realizes would actually pay to see that...well if it were good and not crappy, ya know hehehe

Hey! That IS a good idea after all! You should tell Hollywood, or somethin' hehehe