Indiana Jones 4

I want someone to explain to me how that script got turned into the first new Indiana Jones movie in 20 years. I kept thinking "certainly this isn't all there is to it... is it?". And then they find the aliens, return the whatchamacallit, the alien ship flies off, the end. What the ****?
 
Terrible...the swinging through the vines-car chase scene was beyond stupid. And aliens? Give me a ******* break.

They raped him.
 
It wasn't as bad as I expected. Meaning I didn't want to stab my eyes out at the end. Harrison Ford seemed to just be going thru the motions, the kid didn't make me want to wretch but the tarzan part was really dumb, Marion had a stupid look on her face the entire time, she kept looking at the camera saying "Look at me I'm in a movie again!". The aliens didn't bug me as much as it did others, whats the difference between aliens and the bible anyways.
 
Aliens didn't bother me at all. If the ark of the covenant killing people, a priest of kali pulling the still beating heart from a living human, and the holy grail curing a gutshot didn't bother you, why would aliens?

What did bother me:
1. Surviving a nuclear blast in a refrigerator that got thrown like half a mile.

2. Shia LeBouf swinging from vines

3. Going over like 12 waterfalls in a car without even mussing your hair until the last one.

And lots of other assorted ******** like that, which I can't remember right now because I'm too angry from remembering those bits. Argh, like using gunpowder to lead the way to a magnetic artifact? WTF? There's no metal in gunpowder, and even if there were, it wouldn't even be possible to hold a gun near a magnet that strong.

The whole point of Indiana Jones is that it's taking place in our world, but with a few minor tweaks. That is, it's just like 1939 on Earth, except the Ark of the Covenant is real and can kill people. The rest is largely plausible, it's just the one extra tweak that makes our world more interesting. When you add a bunch of other implausible ********, you completely break the entire premise from being an adventure story, to some ridiculously ****** fantasy. Indiana Jones wasn't superhuman, he was an interesting guy who kinda staggered from one part to the next, getting the **** kicked out of him.
 
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exactly. so much better would've been indy studying mayan excavations and pyramids, and suddenly finding himself in a race with the soviets for the hidden ancient technology that the aliens imparted to the mayans that helped the mayans build the pyramids left or some ****. THAT's indy. i can't even explain what happened in indy 4. my mind is slowly starting to block it out.
 
And the Karen Allen thing was spot on. It was great to see her... for about three seconds, and then she started acting like she's been out of the business for 10 years, which she has. That was actually a great idea that ended very badly.

And by the time Dogus Balbay started swinging with the monkeys, I didn't even care. It had already become a parody of the first three movies, like Hot Shots was to Top Gun, or The Naked Gun (ahem) was to Dirty Harry.
 
we're just making it up as we go
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It was an OK yarn until they got to the temple, and SS had to revert back to form and do another Close Encounters movie.

They really need to hire some average Joe off the street to review their script. Someone who would say:

Why are the aliens made of crystal?
Why/how did they let some stinky Spainard armed with a flintlock to steal one of their heads?
Why didn't they then command their painted goons to go after said stinky Spainard to recover the head?
Why do you need a flying saucer if you're from another dimention?

William Hurt should have won the Oscar for being able to say, without burtsing out in a fit of laughter, "Not space, the space between the space."

The DVD has a short speical about the making of the movie. If you can believe it, George Lucas wanted to call this movie I Jones and the Saucer Men. The Saucer Men!!! Way to blow whatever suspense their was in this silly moive. From the interviews it wasn't that he was talked out of it either - just outvoted by everyone else.
 
If you watch some of the DVD extras (no idea why I did that), it's clear this movie was George's fault. Countless times, Spielberg claims he wanted nothing to do with it. He especially hated the aliens idea. He really needs to listen to his inner monologue more often.
 
Can't we put George Lucas in prison or something? He must be stopped.

Ah **** it, what's he got left to **** up. Willow?
 
They should have just ended the series after the first one. The second one was a terrible movie, and even though the third one was an improvement over the second it was still vastly inferior to the first. So what if it had Connery?

Of course, like a lemming I went to the fourth one the day it opened, but I was fighting a flu bug and fell in and out of sleep throughout the movie. Unfortunately, I was awake for the end and have no desire to see the movie again to catch up on what I missed.
 
He might consider doing a sequel to American Grafitti probably his best work...that would be the nail in the coffin. Maybe he'll use CGI stuntmen.
 
After 30 years, I think, like Star Wars, many people expect to be still be thrilled by these films and experience the same wonder they initially experienced when they first saw them through the eyes of a ten-year old. We age and mature, so in reality it doesn't work that way. Failing to recognize this, many people get pissed. Understandable, perhaps, but not realistic.

I just finished watching it, and I didn't think it was that bad.

Just as those that took place in the 30's and 40's were tributes to the serials of that time, this one mirrored the themes of the 50's - aliens, and the Communist menace. For the time period it was forced to take place during given Ford's aging from ROTLA to KOCS, it fit perfectly.

Frankly, my biggest complaint was with the editing. The action scenes seemed to be cut a little long, making them drag and not as suspenseful.

While admittedly the weakest of the series, I still found it to be entertaining enough.
 
We pay per viewed it last night. It may be the dumbest movie I have ever seen. Seriously. I am all for the suspension of disbelief but that movie was ridiculous--and I'm not even talking about the aliens part.
 
I want my 2 hours of life that i just wasted watching that garbage.
And if i wanted to kill brain cells watching TV i would watch some stupid reality show, or some a joint-same difference. At least i would have enjoyed that.
 
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