New Indiana Jones Movie

[formermav43]

Anyone ripping this movie for a lack of realism has obviously never seen an Indiana Jones movie before.

Seriously people, this was pretty good. Better than Temple of Doom. And I thought Ford was good - he played it a little differently, but this is 20 years down the road. I bought him as an older, wiser, less impetuous Indy.

 

[ballrific]

I'm really looking forward to it now after reading this thread.

 

[Kramer Horn]

i'll probably go watch it. but now i have no expectations. i'll go in assuming that it sucks. i love my hornfans.

 

[Lone Star]

Extremely mediocre. Part were just painful.

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[Michael Knight]

I saw, it was not as bad as I expected. It was better than Temple of Doom, Shia Lebouf was not as annoying as I expected. But this movie really just didn't feel like Indiana Jones. It all seemed too fake like nothing was real. Probably just the overdone CGI. Really this movie is Episode 1 with Spielberg's steady hand to guide it as opposed to Lucas's incompetent directing.

 

[RomaVicta]

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[RockyBalboa]

You can't slip anything past me.

 

[FAST FRED]

My wife and I enjoyed it very much.

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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), 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 archeological, 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 can choose your own order of favorites.

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.

There were a few parts of "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" that I didn't like very much.

The prairie dogs and the monkeys were a little cheesy, but my grandkids will dig them.

And some of the CGI effects were perhaps not as good as I have come to expect from these moviemakers.

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 quite 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.

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 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 equaled the bit where Indy pulled out his almost forgotten revolver and shot that scary scimitar swinging dude in "Raiders."

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

 

[TexasTower]

I liked it. Anyone saying that Raiders was great but this one was unrealistic maybe didn't notice that people got their face burned off by the spirit of God in Raiders.

 

[SomeMildLanguage]

Worst movie since Jar Jar Binks.