here's my review:

facepalm

5/23/2008 10:38:43 AM

you can get the scorpions they used at any exotic animal place for about 10 bucks a piece (if that's your thing...) I believe they're called emperor scorpions.

5/23/2008 12:09:35 PM

The second I saw the gophers at the beginning I figured it was going to be bad.

5/23/2008 12:14:16 PM

prairie dogs, please.



[Edited on May 23, 2008 at 12:26 PM. Reason : g]

5/23/2008 12:24:28 PM

Sounds like it sucked. I've got a friend that has seen it twice already Can't listen to his opinion though, as he has liked every movie he has ever seen except one, Star Trek Nemesis.

5/23/2008 12:30:52 PM

i would be willing to buy the trilogy before it on dvd

but if there was a quadrilogy (?? word) that was sold together, i would not buy it

5/23/2008 12:48:08 PM

it's called a quadrophenia i think.

[Edited on May 23, 2008 at 12:54 PM. Reason : k]

5/23/2008 12:54:30 PM

I own the original Indy DVD set and will not be buying any reissue that includes this one.

5/23/2008 2:19:14 PM

another thing that irked me was the lack of a side quest in this one like at the beginning of last crusade and raiders

instead they just throw him(literally) into the main action of the film

5/23/2008 2:53:07 PM

There are also no issues of confidence here. Indy was never fully confident in his actions in the earlier movies, and now that he's old and slow, he knows exactly what he's doing? I never felt like any of the heroes were in real danger.

Blah.

5/23/2008 3:23:32 PM

yeah there was a weird relationship with the russians going on. i was kinda confused if they wanted to kill him at some points...then they escape; russians go into immeninent KILL MODE...i dunno how to explain it...

5/23/2008 3:38:37 PM

^^yeah i kinda feel the same way...its like they just went through the motions, got the film done, and that was it

5/23/2008 5:40:42 PM

^^^ that's a good point. i don't think i could have explained it, but i felt the same way.

5/23/2008 5:56:53 PM

^,^^,^^^,^^^^

You could just chalk that up to experience.
He's been doing this stuff for decades now.

He probably saves the world...every two....maybe three years

5/23/2008 7:51:16 PM

in the Film, Indy explains that he spent some time spying on the Russians ...

That would have been a pretty good one.

Or maybe if the movie was just about finding El Dorado.

5/23/2008 8:26:59 PM

I didn't like it too much

A lot of people still Harrison Ford is a great actor

But look at his movies since 1995

# Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) .... Indiana Jones
# Firewall (2006) .... Jack Stanfield
# Water to Wine (2004) (V) (as Jethro the Bus Driver) .... Jethro the Bus Driver
# Hollywood Homicide (2003) .... Sgt. Joe Gavilan
# K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) .... Alexei Vostrikov
... aka K*19: The Widowmaker (USA: poster title)
... aka K-19 - Showdown in der Tiefe (Germany)
... aka K-19: Terreur sous la mer (Canada: French title)
# What Lies Beneath (2000) .... Dr. Norman Spencer

# Random Hearts (1999) .... Sergeant William 'Dutch' Van Den Broeck
# Six Days Seven Nights (1998) .... Quinn Harris
... aka 6 Days 7 Nights
# Air Force One (1997) .... President James Marshall
... aka AFO
... aka Air Force One (Germany)
# The Devil's Own (1997) .... Tom O'Meara
# Sabrina (1995) .... Linus Larrabee



Air Force one was pretty good, and What Lies beneath was OK

but other than those, he's been in a lot of crappy movies in the last decade and a half

He stopped being a great actor in the early 90's

5/23/2008 8:46:06 PM

i thought firewall was awesome

what lies beneath was spooky

5/23/2008 9:09:07 PM

firewall sucked

Paul Bettany plays a bad guy about as convincingly as Jason Biggs would

5/23/2008 9:11:56 PM

i saw it today...meh. i mean it wasn't like it wasn't entertaining...i wasn't bored or anything. but yea, it just felt sort of unbelievable. didn't seem like they were in danger and didn't really like the storyline...too too far fetched.

5/23/2008 9:28:48 PM

Being 2008 they tried waaaay too hard with the fight scenes where they really didn't need to. The cgi stuff got a tad old and they took the "twist" (you all that I have seen it know what I mean) too far.

What I did like very very much was how they paid homage to the originals. It needed a better or at least more snake jokes/references.

5/23/2008 9:39:52 PM

Quote :

"He stopped being a great actor in the early 90's"

I've never heard him called a great actor before. I think the term you want is "movie star".

5/23/2008 9:40:37 PM

Fuck all you haters, I thought it was great.

Sure the whole plot was a little silly, but i didn't hear you bitches complaining when the ark of the covenant was melting nazis faces off.

5/23/2008 10:09:23 PM

hollywood homicide was terrible

5/23/2008 10:16:34 PM

God hates Nazis.

Anyway, I like how the ending used the bit from Raiders (human seeks knowledge beyond our understanding, body can't handle said knowledge and is destroyed) and Last Crusade (greedy guy bites it yearning for one last bit of treasure).

No, wait...that's why I hated it.

There's nothing clever in this fucking movie. When a bunch of Nazis pull guns on Indy in the Cairo cafe, Sallah sends in a bunch of kids to cover Indy and get him out of trouble. It's silly and cheap, but it works and makes you smile. When a bunch of bloodthirsty natives or bloodthirsty ants or bloodthirsty Reds (oh, wait, they're not affected by mystical powers like fucking ANTS are...isn't the point of the Reds getting the skull so that they can use its power against other civilized humans?) are chasing the gang in this movie, they just unleash the magical skull and it makes everything better.

CATCHALL ESCAPE PLANS ARE NOT CLEVER, OR COOL, OR FUN TO WATCH.

I can live with Spielberg making Kate Capshaw Indy's love interest without any real buildup in the first quarter of the movie. It's his wife, he loves her, he wanted her to be a leading lady in a serial-style piece...I get it. I can't live with George Lucas yelling, "ALIENS ARE COOL! IT'S THE FIFTIES! I OWN A CGI COMPANY!"

P.S. As far as not building up a love interest goes, there was no build here. The only reason we care about Marion in this movie is because she's Marion. Really, there's none of the fire that was there in Raiders, but just like everything else in this movie, we coast on nostalgia.

*sigh*

5/23/2008 10:27:01 PM

I'm hoping that Indiana Jones is the opposite of Star Trek and every odd numbered one is great.

Maybe Indy 5 will be the best ever.

5/23/2008 10:36:38 PM

I can agree with what you're saying, but I say you're putting the "trilogy" on too high of a pedestal to not find anything redeeming in this new one (and clearly by saying you hated it). Sentimentalists have NO place with the Spielberg/Lucas clique; you should know that.

I doubt kids these days don't give a shit about the other Indy movies. It's sad, I know, but still...

5/23/2008 10:40:46 PM

Yikes, I gotta say I was disappointed. First of all, wtf was with the vine swinging/monkeys? At what point did Mutt cease to be Mutt and turn into fucking Spider-Man? And the monkeys? Suddenly they decide that they are gonna follow the orders of him?

And the prairie dogs at the beginning were a little unnecessary.

Also, aliens? In an Indiana Jones movie? Come on now, this isn't Star Wars.

And why didn't it have the main theme music at the very beginning?


This movie would have been alright if it hadn't been in the shadow of the original three, but as an Indiana Jones movie, it has a certain standard that it is expected to live up to. It just seemed to lack the sense of adventure that the original three had.

5/23/2008 11:20:42 PM

clearly i meant to say i doubt kids give a shit, not DONT give a shit.

good god i can't type.

5/23/2008 11:22:08 PM

Well the Russian Communists are pissed about it.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,357923,00.html

5/24/2008 12:07:50 AM

lol they told Ford not to visit the country

5/24/2008 12:10:13 AM

To be fair, I hate Temple of Doom. There's nothing redeeming past the opening scene and "Doktah Jones, no tii foh love."

5/24/2008 1:23:37 AM

That....well, that was... well.....







FUCKING BULLSHIT! I hated it.

5/24/2008 2:21:50 AM

^^ I thought that Temple of Doom was great, my only WTF moment was when Indy was fluent in Hindi.

Of course Temple of Doom pissed off enough people to warrant making something as awesome as Last Crusade. Maybe Crystal Skulls will do the same.

5/24/2008 2:42:31 AM

more I think about it, the more I hate the new one..

as for temple of doom.. "Indy! Cova ya hahhtt!!!"

5/24/2008 2:44:56 AM

Calimar motherfucker

5/24/2008 6:48:10 AM

Peter Travers summed up what I was looking for in a film that re-connects an iconic character with his best female foil:

Quote :

"I'd trade all the paranormal mumbo-jumbo and cutesy computer-generated prairie dogs for scenes that connected the characters on a human level. There was a chance here to show Indy getting smacked by time and the perils of intimacy and commitment. But those stunts leave real bruises."

It's gotten to the point that I'm so mad about this one it's going to piss me off the next time I watch Raiders.

5/24/2008 10:40:25 AM

Quote :

"This movie would have been alright if it hadn't been in the shadow of the original three, but as an Indiana Jones movie, it has a certain standard that it is expected to live up to. It just seemed to lack the sense of adventure that the original three had."

also, i don't like aliens in my indy

there's assloads of mystical mythical objects and places out there they could have used instead

goddamnit lucas

5/24/2008 10:54:08 AM

I Support Temple of Doom. I need a t-shirt that says that.

5/24/2008 11:03:14 AM

^ As long as I can have one that says, "Kate Capshaw Ruined My Night."

5/24/2008 11:12:56 AM

I enjoyed this movie thoroughly, and I am a huge Indiana Jones fan (I also enjoyed ToD).

5/24/2008 11:19:17 AM

Quote :

"Come on now, this isn't Star Wars. "

I know I'm not the only one who caught, "I got a bad feeling about this."
It was towards the end, I can't remember exactly which scene.

5/24/2008 11:25:02 AM

^ Yeah, I laughed at that.

No one else did.

5/24/2008 11:38:31 AM

The movie had everything relevant to 50s subculture; that's where the aliens come into place. I don't have a problem with that.

Also, mock neighborhood/nuclear blast sites for some reason always freak me out. Kalifornia, Hills Have Eyes, and especially this one...

5/24/2008 11:51:42 AM

BTW, the Wild One entrance was so ridiculous I almost spit out my drink.

5/24/2008 12:01:28 PM

He's talking about Shia on his bike at the train station for those of you who don't get it.

5/24/2008 12:03:15 PM

Absolutely horrible... saw it last night with thugabit, who's favorite movies are the indiana jones triology. I've never seen him so pissed off/dissappointed. I wish I never saw this crap, absolutely horrible.

I was trying to like it , I really was... but it is honestly probably the worst movie I have seen in a few years.

5/24/2008 12:11:32 PM

5/24/2008 12:11:32 PM

Too bad there wasn't an Iron Man trilogy for the new one to live up to.

5/24/2008 12:14:30 PM

Your irrational hatred of Iron Man has nothing to do with this shitshow of a film.

I have to say I did like one thing...the way Indy engineered the fight between the jocks and greasers.

5/24/2008 12:20:12 PM

Yeah, it's so irrational. IM SO IRRATIONAL

5/24/2008 12:24:39 PM