Indiana Jones and the blah blah Fail *SPOILERS*

GSXRMovistar said:
The only problem this film had was trying to live up to 20+ years of nostalgia, no matter how good it was or wasn't it's never going to be good as your childhood memories.
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This is what I was saying to my mate who thought it was rubbish, It was the same with the last 3 star wars films to be made, even thought I enjoyed them it still did not make me feel the way the other 3 did and that's because its hard to recreate the feeling of being a little kid again.

I went with 2 children to see the new film and my girlfriend. The kids are the age when I first saw the first one and they and my girlfriend loved it and after one of them thought he was Indiana jumping around after. For me this meant it done its job because it reminded me of being a kid too.

We then went off and starting trying to find the some rope for a whip to swing from the NCP car park in exeter. :D
 
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Went to see it last night. If you take it as a bit of fun then you will enjoy it. I certainly dont feel like I want 2 hours of my life back and actually liked it.
 
Was quite looking forward to watching it but after seeing it can only say it was average.

Am also begining to hate the cinema experience; always get some chattering kids in front or behind me and a guy/girl who has the largest portion of popcorn available munching there way through it throughout the film - oh and the 35minutes of bleeding adverts. When that crappy Radio1 advert came on which seemed to last longer than an elephants lifetime I seriously considered walking out on the whole thing.
 
Linoge said:
I'd recommend people save their money and not see this. There were too many bits that were so over the top, like the kid swinging through the trees with monkeys around him for about 50 yards and he was able to catch up with the two cars despite them travelling much much faster than him. The bit were the woman drove them off the cliff and they landed on a big tree which bent them 200 feet down into the river nice and safely. The snake being used to get them out of the quick sand, etc etc. I could go on. The biggest disappointment was the whole story, aliens. Yeah. Aliens. And a big UFO right at the very end.
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Exactly my thoughts the whole Indy's son thing was also too predictable, they did exactly the same when they revived the Superman movies.

The action scenes went on too long and I never really got the feeling that they needed to find the skull for anything. The puzzles were all to brief and obvious, the scene when he held the skull up to the cave drawings, where we supposed to be amazed or suprised at that point? I just thought "No **** Sherlock" we had all guessed that from the bleeding movie poster:confused:

They needed to solve a riddle to find that final cave, the Russians basically just pointed at it and said "oh look":rolleyes:
 
Did any one else see the lego trailer before the film? Not that the film needed any helping being ruined but that trailer gave away pretty much the whole film!
 
I've seen it twice now, and I have to say I enjoyed it a lot more the second time around. The first time my expectations were too high and I felt let down by the ridiculous ending.

The second time I just enjoyed it for what it was - a quality 'fun' movie with some great action sequences.
 
z0mbi3 said:
Did any one else see the lego trailer before the film? Not that the film needed any helping being ruined but that trailer gave away pretty much the whole film!
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Yeh, that annoyed the hell out of me and was further compounded by making me watch the skanks in the city trailer.
 
500 year old knights, occults and ghosts in ark of covenant and similar far-fetchments are part of the genre.

Aliens are not.

It's that simple.

It's almost as stupid as putting aliens in James Bond movie.
 
Just thinking how much better it would have been if there was no CGI used until right at the end, like the first films. Using CGI in almost all of the (unrealistic) sequences just shows a great lack of imagination and stagnation in Hollywood. Shame on you Lucas and Spielberg
 
v0n said:
500 year old knights, occults and ghosts in ark of covenant and similar far-fetchments are part of the genre.

Aliens are not.

It's that simple.

It's almost as stupid as putting aliens in James Bond movie.
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What genre do you speak of, action? :confused:

I'd say 500 year old knights, ghosts and aliens are in the same ballpark to be honest. Fiction.
 
EVH said:
What genre do you speak of, action? :confused:

I'd say 500 year old knights, ghosts and aliens are in the same ballpark to be honest. Fiction.
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I think he has a point, the stuff from the other films were Earthly and were quite intriguing concepts. The whole alien thing with the way they look and the saucer are highly cliched and somthing you don't want to see, again. It was too out there (with pun) along with the stunts.
 
manoz said:
Just thinking how much better it would have been if there was no CGI used until right at the end, like the first films. Using CGI in almost all of the (unrealistic) sequences just shows a great lack of imagination and stagnation in Hollywood. Shame on you Lucas and Spielberg
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Apparently they argued a lot about this. Spielberg wanted less CGI, but Lucas wanted even more. :/
 
seek said:
Apparently they argued a lot about this. Spielberg wanted less CGI, but Lucas wanted even more. :/
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Not surprised, ILM IS Lucas' company and they are an influence on each other as directors. I think the WGA and lined paper should have put a restraining order on Lucas shortly before the Phantom Menace:p
 
manoz said:
I think he has a point, the stuff from the other films were Earthly and were quite intriguing concepts. The whole alien thing with the way they look and the saucer are highly cliched and somthing you don't want to see, again. It was too out there (with pun) along with the stunts.
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This was the point I was trying to make. This film (mainly the special effects and the aliens) was out of context with the Indiana Jones universe, if you will, that we'd been been shown in the first 3 films.

It felt as though it wasn't canon.
 
As I've said I enjoyed it much more the second time around. The problem is the ending is soo utterly fail that the first time you see it you'll leave the cinema feeling a bit cheated.
 
Thought it was alright tbh. Didn't mind the aliens, as has already been pointed out, the previous films were already well within the realms of fantasy. Having said that, the ending didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
 
The idea of aliens influencing ancient civilizations has been around in many different forms in the past, so I don't think it's a bad fit with Indy fiction at all. The execution could have been done better though without a doubt.
 
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