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Watched Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

CaptainWacky

CaptainWacky

I want to smell dark matter
(Yes, I know I'm late.)

It was pretty good. I don't really understand why the internet hated it, beyond it being a Spielberg and Lucas film...okay, I do understand. A lot of the complaints I've read look silly. Like I remember ltos of complaints about "the gophers" so I was looking out for something embarrassing involving gophers...err, they just looked at Indy. That was it. And the most overblown complaint of all was the fridge scene. Okay, it was silly, but it played out well in the context of the movie, I thought. It seems to be one of those things that people of below average intelligence make a big fucking deal about onling in little gangs because they think it'll make them look clever.

I would agree that the monkeys and the vine swinging should have been left out, mainly because the monkeys looked like crap (and how did they know to attack the Russians? Do monkeys hate commies?) The story could have been a bit better and there didn't seem to be as much at stake in the end, it wasn't really clear what the Russians thought the skulls would do other than something vague about mind control. Then all Indy and friends had to do was run away. Cate Blacnett was kind of hot in a russian way. They should have made her a bit eviler though, to make her death more satisfying.

BUT STILL, it was good enough and Ford did a great job and I woulnd't miind seeing him make another one or two.
 
So, South Park lied? I KNEW IT, THE LYING ASSHOLES!

Anyway, I'll see it when it hits cable, and I'll probably like it too.
 
I think the skull was controling the monkeys, same as it did the ants.
 
It was good campy fun, just like the other three. They are all filled with glaring implausibilities, the web should get over it.

However, aliens? Of all of the historical artifacts the had to choose from they went with something made up... Bad form.
 
Well, the crystal skulls are real (maybe not the ones seen in the movie) and some believe that aliens might have influenced aztec culture...stupid people, yeah, but it's still a thing.

And they were "extra-dimensional" beings!
 
Ishcabittle said:
However, aliens? Of all of the historical artifacts the had to choose from they went with something made up... Bad form.
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Oh, right, like all the ghosts coming out of the ark of the covenant are believable but you call bull on the aliens? phst. Every movie had a supernatural element linked to the archeological element.

That said, I agree with your first paragraph.
 
I suppose the villains are always killed by their own arrogant attempts to control what they don't understand, the nazis opening the Ark, the guy drinking from the wrong cup (he chose poorly) and Cate Blanchett trying to take on all knowledge and it consuming her...and Temple of Doom was just weird.
 
Well he tried to grab a magical stone when he should have been holding onto a ladder hundreds of feet above jagged rocks and hungry crocodiles, so he chose poorly too.
 
It's a shame Connery didn't come back. Last Crusade was about the last good movie he was in (okay, I like The Rock as well.)
 
They should have just had Roger Moore play Indy's dad with no explanation given for the change.
 
"Why do you keep doing things with your eyebrows, dad?"
 
My 4-year-old son said, "Indiana Jones was good, but there were no robots, like Iron Man. Iron Man is better because Tony Stark becomes a robot. I like Iron Man and Wall-E because of the robots. But Indiana Jones was good too."

BEST. REVIEW. EVER.
 
I've seen better.

;)
 
Well, we are talking about the kid who can watch the same Scooby-Doo dvd fifteen times in a row, and laugh out loud at the same parts every time.
 
Rooby Roo!
 
The movie is utterly preposterous. I know magical powers of the ark is a stretch, but was there a need for aliens and spaceships in the Indiana Jones universe? The action whilst fun served little point. This was an ego trip that didn't need to be offered, IMO.
 
Depends which you find the more ridiculous concept, aliens or god.
 
But I think you can view the Ark beyond the concept of God - especially as a child. You just see it as a box with power. Aliens however are aliens and pretty much out of keeping.
 
Well I can see how some people would be put off by it, but to me, this is the Indy film I always wanted them to make, back when they were talking about a new film ten years ago I hoped it would be at roswell, but they wasted so much time it ended up being ten years later.

I always loved the book chariots of the gods, even though not much of it stands up to close inspection, and this film was vertually a tickbox of the highlights of that book.

Nascan lines, crystal skulls, ancient aliens, pyramids.

For me, pretty sweet.
 
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