Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

[bunk]

I was quite let down with this movie and I lay most of the blame squarely on Lucas and his digital fetish as well as his love affair with aliens.

Your avatar/sig rock pretty hard.

 

[That'ssuper!]

They really should have done Excalibur.

 

[RockSP]

They really should have done Excalibur.

Was that something they were considering?

 

[nocomics]

I'm sorry. I have little respect for people that walk out during the middle of a movie...It's just morally disturbing to me.

-TNC

/sigh its morally wrong sitting thru a movie that blows imo..Why waste my time even more...I've walked out of movies before for sucking(solaris,pathfinder),and I'm sure it won't be the last...
No matter how u look at it its a waste of money either way. I'd rather just go do something else than sit thru a movie I find terrible..
Far as the respect thing, well my respect for Lucas/spielberg dropped a little after this debacle not sure what they were thinking...This movie just did'nt click imo,just felt like it was thrown together and pushed out the door....

 

[Cagefighterkip]

i almost never walk out of movies. the only ones i can think of are Pathfinder, Benchwarmers, Catwoman, Pirates 3 and Oceans 12 and Oceans 13. (keep in mind i see about 2 movies in theaters a week)

 

[Sam Fisher]

Why would you want to waste your money on Catwoman or Benchwarmers???


Indy 4 has some major flaws but overall it's a good movie. 7/10

 

[BloodyWolverine]

Pathfinder i thought was cool really just had no marketing what so ever and some people don't like Indian or battle movies.

 

[SFII]

i don't think "Indiana Jones" and "aliens" mix well. the enjoyable point of an Indiana Jones movie is that it strays away from that "Space" stuff. there's already too many sci-fi movies that are pumped in our faces. some good, some bad.
Indiana Jones movies are supposed to be a nice old-time action flick. and it works the best with "religious" type of artifacts that he chases after. the Ark of the Covenant, the Holy Grail, and to a lesser degree the voodoo rock crap. but UFOs? that's too technologically advanced for an Indiana Jones movie.
i would've preferred something with more earthly-based religious-themed supernatural powers. not some spaceman crap. that's a whole other movie.

 

[BloodyWolverine]

Think about the 50s and area 51 is a big thing then and teh story really does make since too me. Hitlar was after christian powerful artifacts and thats those connection. For INdy Speilberg wanted to use the myth of area 51 and the whole alien perhaps cover up.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

Think about the 50s and area 51 is a big thing then and teh story really does make since too me. Hitlar was after christian powerful artifacts and thats those connection. For INdy Speilberg wanted to use the myth of area 51 and the whole alien perhaps cover up.

again... everyone brings this up... just because a theme happened in a certain genre doesn't mean it needs to be in an indy movie.. i dont see whats wrong with keeping all the indy movies based on nothing but 30's and 40's adventure serials, rather then expanding them.. what's next? indy in the 60's battling a mutation into a mutant due to being too close to the atomic bomb? theres some things that fit, somethings that don't and some things that are just meh... sorta works but coulda been better. this was exactly that... it's a bit to out there from what it could have been.

 

[블라스]

I can't be the only one who gets what Spielberg tried to do with this

Red scare, commies, Area 51, UFO conspiracies....all big things in the 50's.

Come on, let's be more open minded

Or not, whatever, I don't care, I loved the movie

 

[spideyboy_1111]

o i'm not saying i don't get it... cuz i completely do. i just don't think that kind of sci-fi needs to be in an indy movie

 

[블라스]

Huh...
Well, fair enough

 

[spideyboy_1111]

why huh? aliens tend to be thrown in with "high-tech" and futuristic stuff to me... that kind of science fiction i don't feel meshes well with indy... it's too "sciencey" if that makes sense?

 

[블라스]

I can see where you're coming from, my "huh" was because I guess I just see things in a different way.
I totally dig the concept of

Spoiler

aliens coming to Earth to build the pyramids and contacting ancient civilizations

and all that stuff that has been mentioned by everyone from scientists to conspiracy nuts.
It just seems so cool and mysterious to me, so I loved what Spielberg and co. did with it.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

I can see where you're coming from, my "huh" was because I guess I just see things in a different way.
I totally dig the concept of

Spoiler

aliens coming to Earth to build the pyramids and contacting ancient civilizations

and all that stuff that has been mentioned by everyone from scientists to conspiracy nuts.
It just seems so cool and mysterious to me, so I loved what Spielberg and co. did with it.

see im fine with the whole story of them teaching the myans.. i just felt that it still should have more of an accurate historical feel... i felt the skull should have been more based of the hedges skull.. rather then alien shaped. and have it more about power then the aliens. i felt the aliens shouldn't of even been revealed till the end. and definately not come to life.

 

[The_Vision]

I can't be the only one who gets what Spielberg tried to do with this

Red scare, commies, Area 51, UFO conspiracies....all big things in the 50's.

Come on, let's be more open minded

Or not, whatever, I don't care, I loved the movie

I completely agree

 

[X-Maniac]

see im fine with the whole story of them teaching the myans.. i just felt that it still should have more of an accurate historical feel... i felt the skull should have been more based of the hedges skull.. rather then alien shaped. and have it more about power then the aliens. i felt the aliens shouldn't of even been revealed till the end. and definately not come to life.

I kind of agree. I didn't want to see an actual living alien, it just took it a step too far.

But I did think this movie was terrific entertainment. My review for my newspaper blog is here:

http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/2008/05/indy-review.html

...and my local archaeology professor spoke about it here (dismissing the movies as myth and entirely unrelated to reality):

http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/2008/06/fact-vs-fantasy-a-reallife-ind.html

 

[Bim]

I can't be the only one who gets what Spielberg tried to do with this

Red scare, commies, Area 51, UFO conspiracies....all big things in the 50's.

Come on, let's be more open minded

Or not, whatever, I don't care, I loved the movie

ur not alone, dont worry.

I dont get why the alien twist bugs some. Personally, i thought it was inevitable as soon as i saw "Area 51" and the timeline that the movie was taking place in. I liked the alien twist, and i found it interesting how it was portrayed in the movie, as interdimensional beings and not little green men from outer space

 

[BloodyWolverine]

Um Indy was never about future SCi-Fi stuff. Indy was a relic hunter that took place in real times and Indy theme is what ever was happening in that period of time. No one is picking on the Nazi's but put in Area 51 and its not an Indy film. It is no diffreant then the other movies except for better written stories. Its Indiana Jones just he is in a stage of alien consperacy and government developments. You gotta see its a matter of the times here. If not then i am sorry.

 

[RockSP]

i and it works the best with "religious" type of artifacts that he chases after. the Ark of the Covenant, the Holy Grail, and to a lesser degree the voodoo rock crap.

It wasn't Voodoo. But even if it was...why would it be "crap"? Christian and Jewish artifacts are okay but not other religions...?

 

[BloodyWolverine]

I agree there there are other ancient relics besides christian ones and believe me to people who believe them. they are as real and important as the holy grail.

 

[last_life]

You know what would have been cooler IMO?

A fortune telling artifact like the Cup of Jamshid or the Urim and Thummim.

 

[GhostPoet]

I can't be the only one who gets what Spielberg tried to do with this

Red scare, commies, Area 51, UFO conspiracies....all big things in the 50's.

Come on, let's be more open minded

Or not, whatever, I don't care, I loved the movie

Yup. I totally got what they went for and loved it. There is a HUGE difference between the 30's and the 50's in just about everyway...so of course it'll feel a little different...but on the other hand I still thought it felt like an Indy film and was fantastic.

 

[Hectorminator]

Yup. I totally got what they went for and loved it. There is a HUGE difference between the 30's and the 50's in just about everyway...so of course it'll feel a little different...but on the other hand I still thought it felt like an Indy film and was fantastic.

Indy is a character like Forrest Gump. He's in every significant historical moment that occurs during his lifetime. But the problem I think a lot of people had (myself included) was that just because it's 1957, doesn't mean Indiana Jones has to do EVERYTHING that might have been significant in 1957. Mostly surviving a nuclear bomb test. Granted, Indy did some pretty impossible things in all his previous movies, like jump out of a plane, escape numerous tombs, survive becoming poisoned, it still doesn't compare to being blown miles away in a fridge and surviving. This scene really challenged people to care about Indy's danger level later on in the movie, when we knew earlier that 65 year-old Indiana "nuked the fridge."

I wanted to love this movie, but it didn't have that grittiness from the classics. And it didn't have anything we haven't seen in movies recently.