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[coraa]

There is no point to this poll, and I'm not trying to correlate the three questions to each other or to anything else. I'm just hot enough that all my brain cells are dead, and this seems amusing.

(Why these three series? Because they're popular enough that a lot of people will be able to answer the question.)

[Poll #1214004]

Comments

[gwyneira.livejournal.com]

I might choose Last Crusade for Sean Connery, but Raiders is the only one with a decent love interest (and hurrah for getting her back for the new movie).

(Agh, need Harrison Ford icon!)

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Marion is why I waffled on that one. I think it's the combination of Sean Connery and the third one being the funniest that made it my favorite -- but they're really close, because Marion. ♥ (Actually, I think Raiders is the better movie in terms of quality -- I am just easily won by anything that makes me laugh.)

Harrison Ford was the first serious crush of my adolescence.

[gwyneira.livejournal.com]

Last Crusade is definitely funnier. (Man, I just watched them all a couple of months ago, and now I want to watch them again.)

I would be embarrassed to admit to the number of Harrison Ford magnets I have. Not to mention the lifesize stand-up Han Solo cardboard figure. (Which my husband actually bought for me.)

[thegreatgonz.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was a close call for me too, but Marion put Raiders over the top. Also, when I re-watched Raiders recently I started noticing its filmic qualities, like the way light often shines through an obstruction so as to illuminate just Indy's eye, or the way the lighting is constantly producing that now-classic Indy silhouette without ever seeming forced. I remember Last Crusade as having a much more routine visual style, but I need to watch it again.

[donaithnen.livejournal.com]

It's been awhile since i've seen/read all of these, so aside from Star Wars my choice is a bit hazy. I'd have to rewatch Raiders and Last Crusade to be sure which was my favorite Indy movie.

As for Harry Potter, i rather like the romance angle which starts to show up significantly in Goblet of Fire, however i don't really like the ending, and find the needless Xanatos Gambit rather silly. I _would_ have picked Order of the Phoenix, again because of the relationship stuff with Cho, but i can't remember if that's the one where Harry becomes stupidly angsty or not, and i was afraid it might be. If it's not then i'd probably pick that. If it is then i'll stick with Goblet of Fire, or after some further thinking i might relapse to Prisoner of Azkaban or Philospher's Stone. Or perhaps i ought to reread the entire series and get back to you ;)

[jmpava.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Phoenix is the one where I just gave up halfway through becuase it was SO OMG angstefull and didn't come back to finish up the rest of the series until they were done.

Made following the beginning of the 6th one kinda difficult...

[paperclippy.livejournal.com]

Haha, I was annoyed at Phoenix for being so angsty too. I was like, chill out, stupid angsty teens! Chamber of Secrets is my favorite.

[morganlf.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is completely off topic, but do you and Pava want an Ikea Poang chair and ottoman (both are in great condition)? We're going to sell ours and I figured I'd ask you before I put it on Craigslist.

[jmpava.livejournal.com]

Thanks but I don't know where we would put one. The one I currently have doesn't quite really fit as it is ;->

[sthaddeus.livejournal.com]

Empire. Ding.

Raiders. Ding.

Didn't make it past the first Harry Potter book (although the movies are sloooowly growing on me). The creatures were too much a hodgepodge of classical and Northern European myths, and the use of pseudo-Latin for magic bothered me. Latin is the opposite of magic, especially if you have all the history and mystery of the British isles at your disposal. See Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell or The Dark is Rising.

[paperclippy.livejournal.com]

I think you need another category . . . I have seen all three Star Wars movies and all the Indiana Jones movies, but not in many years and I don't remember them much at all. I think I saw the first star wars movie again in high school and a couple of the Indiana Jones ones a few years ago, but I don't remember enough to have an opinion. In any case, I only voted in the HP category. :)