Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull sure did suck

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DeadHorse

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So, we finally got around to watching the Indiana Jones Crystal Skull movie. That thing blew ***. Since when did Indiana Jones become a sci-fi character? Did I miss something?

The movie actually reminded me how much I liked the other ones to the point I might go back and watch them again. They were original and interesting.

Did anyone like this turd blossom of a movie?
 
I rationalized this with myself. The ending is not that far out there when you consider the first three movies. I think the main reason why people my age and above dislike the movie is Shia Lebouf, but if the movie were made 10 years ago, it would have just been Dawson or Pacey or Heath Ledger or that dude who married Buffy. They have to have some way of bringing young girls to watch an action flick.
 
Horrible, horrible movie. My main concern going in was Harrison Ford playing Indiana Jones at age 65, but he did just fine. George Lucas totally ****** it up, just like the Star Wars prequels.
 
as dumb a movie as i have ever seen. and that's coming from yours truly who usually makes fun of the rest of the posters on this board who refuse to adhere to the concept of "the suspension of disbelief."
 
This was a kids movie. Period. Boys ages 8-15 ate this up and I guess that was what they were going for.

My 7 year old daugher enjoyed it and couldnt understand why Daddy had such a disgusted look on his face afterwards.
 
received it from netflix and sent it back without watching it after hearing that it was a waste of time from so many people.
 
The other movies are fun because there is a progressive revelation and the thrill of discovery. In Crystal Skull, any fool can see the aliens coming from the area 51 scene on.
The others are fun because they show powers that we don't understand and leave most of the mystery intact at the end of the film. At the end of Crystal Skull, the aliens come to life, blow the Commie's head up and leave in their interdimensional ship.

The movie would've been better had it lasted 5 minutes and featured that clip from Raiders where Indy shoots the sword guy followed by the text "Aliens made everything that you know and they hate communists." Come to think of it, that's pretty much a synopsis.
 
I think a big part of the appeal is that previously Jones was always kind of the underdog who came out ahead in the end. In this last one he seems almost like a superhero.

In the first one the action and special effects helped tell a pretty awesome story. This time it seems like we have a plot built around some amazing special effects. Honestly though, it took some analysis for me to figure out why I loved the first one and didn't care much for the last one. I think I woud have liked it better if I didn't remember how much I loved Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I hate comparing it to the Star Wars franchise. Maybe I'm easy, but I liked all of 'em.
 
Shockingly bad.

I watched the movie extras including an interview with Georgr Lucas about how they came up with the premise of the movie. It completely shattered any illusion I ever had that he was a quality director/producer.
 
I thought it was good for an action/adventure film, but bad for an Indiana Jones film. I saw it the night it came out and was dissapointed. I was expecting another Raiders of the Lost Ark, one of my favorite movies of all time. I thought it was fun but was too different from the other Indy films. What I liked about the other movies was that it was all fairly realistic until the end, when something supernatural happened. Crystal skull had the unrealistic parts peppered throughout the movie. I told all of my friends that asked me what I thought, I told them if they go see it don't expect an Indiana Jones film expect a fun action/adventure film. I went and saw this movie a second time with a friend who hadnt seen it, I went in knowing what to expect and found that I enjoyed it a lot more.
 
Great escape movie-I loved it. My only regret is that the motherr ship at the end was not the same mother ship from Close Encounters.
 
Here's what I posted after I saw it:



My wife and I enjoyed it very much.

We thought it almost tied with "Raiders of the Lost Ark" for best of the series with that earlier film winning out perhaps simply because we were already so fond of it.

We enjoyed the story, the characters, the acting (which was just melodramatic and campy enough for us), the blend of humor and action, John Williams' familiar, stirring music, the pace (both when it was fast and slow) and the ending, all of which were in tune with or equal to the best of the corresponding qualities in the previous trilogy of these Steven Spielberg/George Lucas archaeological, treasure seeking, action adventure flicks starring Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones.

"The Temple of Doom" was darker than any of the other three and I didn't care as much for that vibe or Short Round or Kate Capshaw.

I liked Sean Connery as Indy's dad, but, in retrospect, his presence changed the dynamics of "The Last Crusade" a little too much for me.

Just my opinion, you are welcome to yours.

This time with the reappearance of Karen Allen and more of the flavor of the cliffhanger serials I enjoyed as a kid, this movie pleased me.

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I found this Harrison Ford showpiece much better than Michael Douglas' offerings as Jack T. Colton in "Romancing the Stone" or "The Jewel of the Nile," although Kathleen Turner, in her prime, was a very hot leading lady almost offsetting the smarmy presence of Danny DeVito.

Significantly better than Brendan Fraser as Rick O'Connor adventuring and encountering the Mummy, probably including the latest one which was previewed today and opens at a theater near you this August, although those films are quite stylish and entertaining.

Certainly better than Nicholas Cage as Ben Gates in "National Treasure" and "Book of Secrets," a brazen Indiana Jones wannabe who, IMHO, just doesn't measure up.

All these movies were entertaining, but only to the point of making me remember Indy and long for Harrison Ford when I saw the comparable cinema.

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There were several parts of "The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" that I didn't like.

The prairie dogs and the monkeys were cheesy, but my grand kids will dig them.

And I definitely thought Shia LaBeouf swinging on the vines with the mokeys was bad, particularly after seeing King King and three T-Rexs ridiculously doing the same thing in another adventure movie which I thought was lessened by such ridiculously cartoonish cinema.

To me, it seemed like Walt Disney's imagineers could have made parts of the latest "King King" and I thought the storyboard artists for ".....Crystal Skull" made a mistake by slipping out of Adventureland and into Fantasyland too much here also.

Plus, some of the CGI effects were not as good as I have come to expect.

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Lots of good stuff using stunt men, however.

But Cate Blanchett was excellent, as good as Lotte Lenya playing villainess Rosa Kleb in "From Russia With Love," rivaling Ilse Steppat as Irma Bunt in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," closely close to Glenn Close as Cruella de Vil and occasionally almost as coldly menacing as that shark in "Jaws."

Shia LaBeouf fit in very well and was good as a new member of the Indiana Jones movie family.

John Hurt was as unrecognizable in makeup as he was in "The Elephant Man" for most of the movie, but he appeared for a bit at the end.

And watching those totalitarian Red Army soldiers being eaten alive by those totalitarian red army ants was totally neat.

I liked that part a lot.

Feisty Karen Allen rejoins the cast for this movie after being jilted at the altar by Indiana in the back story and completely left out of the next two movies by Spielberg.

She hasn't been in that many memorable movies, besides her first one, "Animal House," and maybe "Starman," with Jeff Bridges, but I'm glad someone remembered to put her in this one.

She's not given a much to do here besides driving an all purpose jeep through the bushes and making Indiana Jones crazy with her presence, but I welcomed her and the plot developments she embodied.

I thought the Russian half track that led the bad guys' expedition through the Amazon rain forest was pretty cool and all the chase scenes with motorcycles, cars, trucks and floating vehicles were imaginative and exciting.

And there are several pieces of business that I thought served this flick about as well as that memorable bit where Indy pulled out his almost forgotten revolver and shot that scary scimitar swinging dude in "Raiders."

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I lived through the fifties and I will give this movie credit for showing that time period well.

Believe me, the Russians, atomic bombs and aliens visiting Earth were threatening things which acually were much on our minds during those years.

So, that all rang true for me, as did Harrison Ford portraying Indy at an accurately advanced age.

I thoroughly liked this film as a sequel which, for me, continued a worthwhile series in a style and manner that I enjoyed and I genuinely appreciated it for probably being the very last time Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones will ever put on that fedora or lash out with a bullwhip........or favor us with his sly, silly grin.

Your opinion, of course, may vary.

This was mine.

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I enjoyd it.

I was entertained.

Was it as good as other movies, no. But I did not go in looking for a cinematic masterpiece.
 
Don't believe the hype. Re-watch the first three and breath deep the hokieness. If you do this the fourth will fit right in. I thought it was great.
 
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