The Indiana Jones movies are high quality entertainment, with good acting and good action scenes, whereas the Librarian is a stinking pile of garbage that should have never seen the light of day!!!! The acting is bad, the plot is horrible, and the special effects should be renamed into anything-but-special effects. Blurgh, I say. Blurgh!
shareyou know I just got done watching the last of all three and I don't see why anyone would be so critical.
The Libraian movies aren't any worse than Tomb Raider, National Treasure, Night At The Museum or Indiana Jones. All it is, is a different level of Adventure over Comedy.
Scale from 1-10 for Action/Adventure
Indiana Jones 8
Tomb Raider 7
National Treasure 7
The Librarian 7
Night At The Museum 5
Comedy 1-10
Indiana Jones 2
Tomb Raider 3
National Treasure 3
The Librarian 3
Night At The Museum 5
the reason your so critical is because your brain.....is so tiny and you think everything has to be 1 thing or the other. Guess what though? Indiana Jones? and The Librarian movies?? can BOTH BE EQUALY GOOD IN DIFFERENT WAYS! OMG WHAT A CONCEPT THAT IS! JUST THINKING ABOUT THAT MUST BLOW YOUR MIND AWAY! OR AT LEAST GIVE YOU A HEADACHE because you've shown us all how stupid you are.
Its easy to compare the two as there are a lot of parallels, archeology, traps, strong female support, male lead with the dichotomy of bookish/adventurer, support from large organizations, evil group in the race.
Here is the issue though. They were both good, very good even (at least as far as the first 3 Indy movies went) but they were good for different reasons. In both the acting was decent, reasonable for the actors they could afford. The same with special effects, in the Librarian I would say some were better even, simply because of technological advances. As for the script that’s a wash, there was clunky dialog in Indy and in the Librarian but they both made it work.
The biggest thing is the two are completely different storylines. In Indy you have a tough, smart, brave, badass, male lead who just happens to be a professor. In the Librarian you have a bookish, nerdy, shut in who in a fish-out-of-water situation has to go on an adventure. In both you have a strng female lead, but in Indy she takes a backseat as the damsel in distress, where in the Librarian she is the tough fighter protecting him. In Indy the archeology is a side note, he can read the languages, he knows/figures out all the traps instantly, and he finds the hidden secrets with ease, allowing him to move onto the next clue. I essence the Indy movies are more about the race and the fight over the artifact than the hunt and there is next to no really archeology in them. In the Librarian it's all about the brains, decoding languages, figuring out clues, getting to the artifact, not fighting to steal it or keep it.
Where Indy fights impressive enemies like Nazis, Kali worshipers and more Nazis, the Librarian fights first the degradation of time and the secrets that hide things, then maybe some pointless barely there generic villains.
So basically, both good movies but different.
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Come on, lighten up here. I don't think it is like the Indiana Jones movies and yes, those were theater movies. This is a tv movie that is similar as far as legends, artifacts and history as well as archeology. I find them all very interesting, but there is a difference and I think most people know it. Indiana Jones was an archeologist and Flynn just has many similar and a few that Indiana didn't. Indiana was a professor and Flynn is not. He is part of a society that keeps these artifacts safe so they do not get into the wrong hands. I would not be surprised if there is mention of Indiana Jones in an upcoming episode as being someone who helped retrieve some of these. No, the movies were very high quality and the tv ones are too but in different formats. I don't think that there is a way to make a theatrical filming for television.
I think they are both interesting shows/stores. The Lost Arc was the first that I think got people interested in things of the past and the significance. I would not have done the crystal skill though since Indiana found it. However, the way it ended with all the skulls together again, it could be that some of them surfaced. I like them both. They are interesting with the subject matters.
So no one is saying it is like the Indiana Jones series but it is similar regarding the subject matter. Just enjoy it.
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