Indiana Jones and the blah blah Fail *SPOILERS*

Severely disappointed. It showed on the map when flying to Peru that Belize was a country!!!!!! Belize wasn't a country until 1981 and was called British Honduras up until 1973!!!!

I'm so livid! I could eat my hat! :mad:
 
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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. On a plus point, Cate Blanchett was pretty fricking sweet.
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When will people realise that your not supposed to pay much attention to the story ? this was strictly a turn your brain off, sit back relax and have fun sort of movie!
 
DarkPrince86 said:
When will people realise that your not supposed to pay much attention to the story ? this was strictly a turn your brain off, sit back relax and have fun sort of movie!
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Maybe that's how you watch things in Moronsville, but personally i'll switch my brain off only when the film builds a sufficiently decent story and background for me to do so without questioning it. Maybe Lucas an Spielberg just realised that movie standards among viewers were slipping so just produced and directed accordingly... :D

me227 said:
Severely disappointed. It showed on the map when flying to Peru that Belize was a country!!!!!! Belize wasn't a country until 1981 and was called British Honduras up until 1973!!!!

I'm so livid! I could eat my hat! :mad:
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Lysander said:
Funny, I'd say it was the other way round...
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Of course you would Lysander, of course you would. ;)
 
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DarkPrince86 said:
When will people realise that you're not supposed to pay much attention to the story ? this was strictly a turn your brain off, sit back relax and have fun sort of movie!
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You'd need mind numbing drugs for that.

seek said:
No, the monkey swinging was just plain retarded and took the pee out of the audience.
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I think it's a class example of George's influence on the film.
 
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Good bits
- Beginning with the warehouse and then nuke explosion looked awesome when indy went up onto the bank to see the mushroom cloud.
- Motobike chase at college was great.
- Jungle chase was pretty sweet as well.

Bad bits
- Temple of doom, the ark, and a cup of life, fair enough..... Silly crystal alien head thn ship flying WTF ???
- So the ark gave us some scary thngs, last crusade cup healed connory, and the crystal skull scard some mel gibson apocalytpo people and some ants, then when reaching alien change they just flew back into space..... Sigh.
- Kate blanchet was wooden and honestly looked more out of her depth as the film progressed. She seem to be hanging on indys every word in the jungle and acting like someone from starship troopers 2 just waiting to say her line from the scipt.

I would give it 3/5 as it was quite enjoyable but just lacked the flair of the others. I don't like temple of doom for some reason and I still rate it above this one. But in the last half of the film I just imagined speilberg anf lucas laughing their assess off all the way to the bank.... Lets just put this in here, and that and that, it's crap but hey we are amazing :rolleyes:


On another note saw the happening trailer, and after watching on youtube at work with no sound I thought.... ZOMG I'm gonna be scared out of my wits. What they showed (because of PG Indy) was a clip of some people looking shocked and some people falling off a building.... SIGH
 
Although I was a little bit disappointed about the whole aliens thing, you have to remember that the timeline in the films has progressed and we are now in the 1950s. When Last Crusade was made, it was set in a timeline of around 1938 so there would be no way for any kind of Roswell link to be made to the film.

Besides, never mind the aliens. Why was Indiana Jones getting married?!? That's what really messed it up for me.
 
I walked out halfway through. The film was full of cheap sense of humour typically found in an American blockbuster. Any glimpse of respect I had for SP and GL had gone down the toilet. Even Mission Impossible III compared to this is a lot more watchable.
Why would a credible actress like Cate Blanchett accepted to be in this film is beyond me. She even appeared to struggle remembering her lines!
Good thing that I didn't have to pay for the ticket or I would have asked for double money refunded for time wasted :)
 
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I hated how everything was CGI or at least touched up with it. I mean they didn't even film in a desert for the opening sequence for some parts :/

George Lucas has gone CGI-mad, and it's ruined every film since he started using it for characters etc
 
I quite enjoyed it. Bit of a no-brainer, and slightly over-polished at the best of times, but I still enjoyed it as a trip to the cinema in general. Not amazing though.

And can I say at this point I literally laughed out loud when I saw this thread title. :D
 
lol at the way this movie is being analyzed and ripped apart

same comments on bad lines, far fetched, silly and bad acting and just too ott, yet last year we had transformers which had all the above and then some............and everyone was in raptures

Indy4 was whether we like it or not aimed at the family, hence 12 certificate, it caters for all, what part of cert 12 dont people get lol

so much inconsistency and fickledome when it comes to commenting on movies, its quite clear that some people hate american blockbusters, cgi and mr lucas so to even have taken 2 hrs out of their lives to go see it well the jokes on them tbh, wouldnt surprise me if some people haven't even seen the movie but have picked up on things enough to post about it and sound like they've seen it just to be keyboard warriors and dis the movie

some of you need to chill and stop taking films like this seriously, honestly have you watched Indy2 since you first saw it in the 80's, its laughably bad in such a way it makes Indy4 look like an academy award film on many levels
 
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Good bits
- Beginning with the warehouse and then nuke explosion looked awesome when indy went up onto the bank to see the mushroom cloud.
- Motobike chase at college was great.
- Jungle chase was pretty sweet as well.

Bad bits
- Temple of doom, the ark, and a cup of life, fair enough..... Silly crystal alien head thn ship flying WTF ???
- So the ark gave us some scary thngs, last crusade cup healed connory, and the crystal skull scard some mel gibson apocalytpo people and some ants, then when reaching alien change they just flew back into space..... Sigh.
- Kate blanchet was wooden and honestly looked more out of her depth as the film progressed. She seem to be hanging on indys every word in the jungle and acting like someone from starship troopers 2 just waiting to say her line from the scipt.

I would give it 3/5 as it was quite enjoyable but just lacked the flair of the others. I don't like temple of doom for some reason and I still rate it above this one. But in the last half of the film I just imagined speilberg anf lucas laughing their assess off all the way to the bank.... Lets just put this in here, and that and that, it's crap but hey we are amazing :rolleyes:


On another note saw the happening trailer, and after watching on youtube at work with no sound I thought.... ZOMG I'm gonna be scared out of my wits. What they showed (because of PG Indy) was a clip of some people looking shocked and some people falling off a building.... SIGH
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I think what you have said there is spot on!

First half of the film was great and minus the alien corpse felt like and Indiana Jones film.

Second half's only highlight was the jungle chase (minus the monkeys).

What I think the main problem with this was that Indiana Jones in an adventure story, so historic artifacts is great and what Indiana was about was hunting for treasure, (he is an archiologist FFS)

What Indiana Jones isn't is a science fiction film, so keep ALIENS and techno gadgets out of the equation.

Despite the fact that obviously people dont think that the ark of the covenant or the cup of life or even magic jewels are real, they have a certain air of mystery about them. Something based on olden fable!

Aliens just felt wrong and sooo 1990's!
My girlfriend who has never seen another Indiana Jones film, said she felt the aliens were wrong too!

On the subject of sooo 1990's I noticed a poster for an X-Files film on the wall :S
 
Briefly following what was posted on the movie so far, I cant believe that nothing was yet said about the lame idea of so many commies ending up deep on US soil. This is itself a case scenario that scare-mongered lots of Americans over the Cold War but there is no proof of something like that ever occuring(for whatever reason).

Also, having plenty of soldiers + lots of their Soviet machinery shipped to South America in the 1950s when the Soviets in general felt over-stretched is also a bit weird. After all,the USSR took the biggest blow from Nazi Germany while the US practically exitted WW2 as much richer than it was when entered so it was the Soviets themselves that were more scared of invasion around the 1950s.
 
I cannot believe how poor Crystal Skull is compared to the other Indiana Jones movies - there are too many 'what the hell were they thinking moments' to mention. I'm a big Indy and action/adventure movie fan and found myself alternating between boredom and open jawed disbelief at how comically poor this movie was from start to finish.
 
I enjoyed it..
No major complaints.. went into it on the back of watching the trilogy over the 3 nights before going to see this.. and loved it.

I watch these movies to have fun.. and tbh thats what I had when I watched this.
I share the sentiments about the aliens etc.. but in all honesty I really didn't think it spoilt the ending that much.

Liked the little bit at the end where the hat fell at the young lads shoes (can't spell his name lol).. imo it was a little nudge to say that they aren't gonna continue the films on with him as the lead role..
 
As said previously...it just seemed to lack the charm. I turned my brain off before i went into the cinema as I half knew what to expect but it was just...nothing...the most generic action film I've seen for a while, I definitely wouldn't be bothered if I never saw it again.

Die Hard 4.0 did over-the-top unbelievable action better, at least that was genuinely exciting/hilarious in places.

4/10

We all know Crocodile Dundee is harder than Indy anyway. :D
 
ten80p said:
Indy4 was whether we like it or not aimed at the family, hence 12 certificate, it caters for all, what part of cert 12 dont people get lol
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You're missing the point. The previous movies had this same goal, yet were still great movies. Not only does Crystal Skull fail at being an Indy movie, it fails at being a good movie fullstop. What really grated with me was the complete absence of mystery, charm, and sense of peril - all elements that make Indiana Jones. The plot jumped all over the place and lacked any drive or momentum, every attempt of comedy fell flat, and the action sequences took a marathon step too far into Captain Insano territory. Sure, the previous films had some far fetched moments, but none that completely destroyed the illusion. Indy surviving a nuclear explosion at ground zero (??!!!!), Mutt swinging through the trees leading a Monkey army, the UFO ending (people were laughing in the cinema!!). The Young Indiana Jones series captured the sense of Indiana Jones far better than Crystal Skull.
 
I just re-watched Last Crusade and I have to say even though I enjoyed Indy4 TLC is much funnier, the timing is just perfect on everything!
 
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