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"Did anyone else get tired of him punching the guy IN THE CIRCLE OF DEATH ANTS?!"

that russian had a gun on his hip the whole time.

5/26/2008 4:38:28 PM

Hahaha

I saw they were trying to make him into the traditional monster of a guy that Indy has to fight, but the camera angles didn't really accomplish that at all and made the russian look smaller than he was.

5/26/2008 4:40:05 PM

I blame fucking George Lucas for fucking this film up. Someone should have reminded him he was working on an Indian Jones movie not Starwars. I had no problem with the first half of the movie. Shit got ridiculous though when we had tarzan swinging vine to vine; monkeys attacking Russians, resurrecting aliens, and flying saucers taking off.

Honestly i had no problem with the "alien crystal skull" however the way they ended it though i thought was stupid.

Also i think they over did the fight scenes. Seems like every 5 minutes indy was running from someone or punching someone in the face.

[Edited on May 26, 2008 at 6:30 PM. Reason : l]

5/26/2008 6:29:20 PM

i think thats a fair assessment, but i liked it overall.

subtract out the vine swing, make a couple of the chases a smidge shorter, and take out the CGI alien at the end and you've got a pretty decent flick. i mean, the crystal skeletons looked cool, why not just have them fry her brain instead of turning into some lame looking fleshy alien?

5/26/2008 7:29:42 PM

i didnt really like the whole ant thing

5/26/2008 7:33:17 PM

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"Seems like every 5 minutes indy was running from someone or punching someone in the face."

That's sort of the point of the series.

5/26/2008 7:51:22 PM

In the other films it wasn't as bad. They used more time for plot building and shit

5/26/2008 8:07:05 PM

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"I saw they were trying to make him into the traditional monster of a guy that Indy has to fight"

Pat Roach played every monster of a guy in the first three. He died a few years back.

5/26/2008 8:48:05 PM

The movie wasn't great but I don't understand why you guys are so mad about aliens. Out of all the crazy things in the plots from the different movies, Aliens having visited the planet and helped ancient civilizations is the most feasible and has the most evidence. I mean cmon now. Humans were living in caves chasing animals forever then all of a sudden at the same time, great civilizations pop up across the globe and suddenly theres all this technology bringing us to where we are today. All that is not even the last 1% of human history.

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" Lucas is a faggy nerd who has ruined his legacy over the past decade. He should be stripped of his film-producing rights before he does further damage. "

um...star wars? Probably the greatest series in American film history? nah... he couldn't have been the guy behind those films!

5/26/2008 10:59:45 PM

did you really just completely not understand what you quoted there, or what was the deal with that?

5/26/2008 11:07:20 PM

For realsies.

5/26/2008 11:12:44 PM

the more hate i hear

the more this movie was fun

i wish you guys were around for "radar men on the moon"

it was better than fucking transformers

5/26/2008 11:37:56 PM

I believe one reason everyone has been able to swallow raiders and crusade was its plot devices and their relevance to America's major religion, thus everyone has some familiarity with them.

I thought the movie was pretty good...a little outlandish, but it wouldnt be Indy if it wasnt.

I could have done without the vine swinging and the refrigerator bit, but I thought Lebouf and Ford worked well together.

5/27/2008 12:38:27 AM

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"ut of all the crazy things in the plots from the different movies, Aliens having visited the planet and helped ancient civilizations is the most feasible and has the most evidence."

just the alien part didn't bother me; it was the way they executed it. Crystal skull magically reincarnates alien who jumps in his ship to take off last minute.

5/27/2008 12:39:48 AM

well because they had the technology to get to earth, any other technology they may have would be realistic.

5/27/2008 12:52:40 AM

All of you people bashing CGI seem to forget:

1) Horrid Gostbusters graphics of Ark spirits in Raiders
2) Horrid graphics during the mine chase in Temple of Doom
3) Horrid graphics of nazi dude shaking his fist at escaping zeppelin in Last Crusade

Not that any are a big deal, but George Lucas isn't a stranger to using weak sauce to tell a story.

At least Jar Jar didn't pop up.

[Edited on May 27, 2008 at 2:51 AM. Reason : [/i]]

5/27/2008 2:51:14 AM

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"Pat Roach played every monster of a guy in the first three. He died a few years back."

big bald nazi mechanic who gets chopped up by an airplane propeller....we'll miss you

5/27/2008 7:45:23 AM

look, i'm all for aliens, just keep them out of my Indy movies

5/27/2008 7:48:12 AM

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"Out of all the crazy things in the plots from the different movies, Aliens having visited the planet and helped ancient civilizations is the most feasible and has the most evidence."

Where is this evidence? Based on our current knowledge, aliens helping ancient civilizations has no more evidence backing it than saying the Ark of the Covenant can melt peoples faces off. That is to say there is no evidence to back either of those claims. You may think it sounds reasonable, but I could say flying spaghetti monster helped them out and neither of us could prove the other wrong. Or I could say that the dawn of agriculture allowed for great leaps in the advancement of human kind, and I'd be right.

[Edited on May 27, 2008 at 8:15 AM. Reason : .]

5/27/2008 8:12:45 AM

I haven't seen it. I'm waiting on the DVD.

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"tarzan swinging vine to vine; monkeys attacking Russians"

Seriously? So they pulled a Return of the Jedi, made Chewbacca yell like Tarzan and had all the Ewoks take out the Stormtroopers.

the daire, thanks for the laughs.

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"Crystal skull magically reincarnates alien who jumps in his ship to take off last minute."

So they threw in some E.T. moments as well Did "Mutt" resurrect at the same time the alien did?

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"All of you people bashing CGI seem to forget..."

At least they used a real monkey in the first one.

5/27/2008 8:25:23 AM

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"Aliens having visited the planet and helped ancient civilizations is the most feasible and has the most evidence. I mean cmon now. "

seriously? aliens are the most feasible? you have got to be kidding me.

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"um...star wars? Probably the greatest series in American film history? nah... he couldn't have been the guy behind those films! "

hahahahhahhaha. star wars is retarded.

5/27/2008 8:27:59 AM

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"hahahahhahhaha. star wars is retarded."

suspend.


and to this:

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"The movie wasn't great but I don't understand why you guys are so mad about aliens. Out of all the crazy things in the plots from the different movies, Aliens having visited the planet and helped ancient civilizations is the most feasible and has the most evidence. I mean cmon now. Humans were living in caves chasing animals forever then all of a sudden at the same time, great civilizations pop up across the globe and suddenly theres all this technology bringing us to where we are today. All that is not even the last 1% of human history."

/facepalm

[Edited on May 27, 2008 at 8:33 AM. Reason : ]

5/27/2008 8:31:13 AM

you'd think she had never taken a single history or science class in her entire educational career

5/27/2008 8:36:44 AM

I thought it was good until the alien came to life, the ants were pretty cool.

5/27/2008 9:59:45 AM

As I side note, I watched "National Treasure" (the first one) for the first time the other day and it was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than this.

5/27/2008 10:03:06 AM

Wow, given that endorsement I can't even begin to imagine how bad Indiana Jones 4 must be.

5/27/2008 11:20:50 AM

I liked every minute of it

5/27/2008 11:41:24 AM

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"you'd think she had never taken a single history or science class in her entire educational career"

coulda been worse. she could have claimed that humans are only 6000 years old. With god coming down to teach early humans how to start fires and then randomly dropping a detailed history of himself down to earth which was to be the bible.

5/27/2008 11:43:10 AM

everyone can stfu now. This movie was awesome. It was a typical Indiana Jones flick with all the great humor (new humor) and adventure. For anyone expecting some life altering film...you clearly haven't seen the first 3 indy's

5/27/2008 12:37:36 PM

Maybe the first 3 altered our life?

5/27/2008 12:51:24 PM

if by altered it made you become a Christian...then suuuuuure.

5/27/2008 12:59:37 PM

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"suspend. "

well, i'm sorry. if suspension is in order for thinking star wars is retarded, then so be it. hahhahah

5/27/2008 1:22:13 PM

SO BE IT...JEDI

5/27/2008 1:57:53 PM

5/27/2008 2:32:53 PM

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"well, i'm sorry. if suspension is in order for thinking star wars is retarded, then so be it. hahhahah"

it is.

5/27/2008 2:42:13 PM

i thought this movie was fucking awful

5/27/2008 3:03:27 PM

^^^ Harrison Ford + Corduroy

wow

5/27/2008 3:05:42 PM

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"Where is this evidence?"

The evidence is the stuff they had in the film. The Nazca lines, weird artwork in ancient ruins, all that stuff makes some researchers/oddities believe there were ancient aliens. There are also phrases in the Bible about a rain of fire and a man coming out of the sky in a chariot of fire.

I'm not saying there were aliens, but that's some of the evidence. Check out 'Chariots of the Gods'.

5/27/2008 4:06:23 PM

^as in Elijah? Who ascended into heaven in a chariot of fire.

( i think its Elijah)

5/27/2008 4:09:30 PM

^^pseudoscience and speculation is not evidence, which was my point. I wasn't saying the possibility does not exist, just that there is currently nothing to support the claim. It just doesn't work to say, "you cannot explain how these cave drawings/stonehenge/nazca were created so it must have been with the help of extraterrestrials."

5/27/2008 4:35:13 PM

That and similarities in american and african drawings/buildings. Also the precise way certain buildings were line up to face the magnetic north poles and so much more I could literally go on all day.
What about ufo's? are millions of eyewitnesses not evidence?

and where is the evidence for the crazy stuff in the other movies?

5/27/2008 7:12:17 PM

i agree with the people that say star wars is for homosexuals

5/27/2008 7:17:08 PM

^^It's not that the aliens thing was so completely unrealistic, it's just that it was sorta lame.

and like I said, just because you can't explain something does not mean aliens did it. What part of Unidentified flying object is unclear to you?

5/27/2008 8:07:13 PM

means we don't know who it is. So unless its the commies top secret way of defying the laws of physics as we know them just to spy on us since 1946

or some other super advanced civilization here on earth...then its aliens

5/27/2008 9:14:30 PM

well I guess we have to completely throw out the door the possibility that plenty of UFO sightings are a hoax or the result of natural phenomena. Nah, couldn't be, the only possible explanation is aliens. Look, this is stupid and I quit talking about it in this thread. If you want to start an argue about aliens thread I'd be more than happy to join you there.

5/27/2008 9:35:27 PM

ugh, so fucking bad... horrible far far worse than any of the Star Wars prequels, unwatchable

5/27/2008 11:28:47 PM

the daire cracks me up.

5/27/2008 11:47:43 PM

loved this flick

5/27/2008 11:50:08 PM

how did you love it? it was SO dumb... so many plot holes and shit that didnt make sense.

5/27/2008 11:55:56 PM

I think daire has lost it. Don't get me wrong i think it is very likely and almost certain that other lifeforms exist at some point or at some time in the vast domain known as the universe. However, i find it UNLIKELY that aliens use earth as some kind of "observation" project and guided early humanity in its development.

5/27/2008 11:57:23 PM