Indiana Jones Rocked.

[GTaudiophile]

I disagree completely.

The movie was pure Lucas shite.

If they did "Raiders" today, the temple/boulder scene would be done in CGI, but because it was done in the early 80s, the scene was a lot more tactile.

CGI in this movie ruined the feel compared to the old ones.

Harrison did not have his heart in it. His character totally lacked what made "Indiana" so great in the past. He was there because he had to be.

The plot was just a total mishmash or barely inaudible this and that...leading up to aliens? What a farce!

Acting all around was terrible. Plot was terrible.

I think it is the worst of the entire series, even below ToD.

People can wait for it on Blu-Ray!

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: loup garou
This movie was fucking terrible. Even if you forget about the interdimensional acrylic aliens....
Dramatic gophers? Check.
Snake used as a rope? Check.
Greaser swinging through the jungle like Tarzan with a bunch of greaser-haired monkeys? Check.

Everybody ready for Mutt Jones sequels? Sigh...

Lucas just had to add his Ewoks!!!

Mother fvcker needs to stop having to do anything with films!

Oh, and part of the movie was just a throw back to Lucas' first movie, "American Graffiti".

 

[srp49ers]

Just got back from watching it. I liked it.....classic Indy.
The ending was a little bit of a let down, but I liked Indy's line about the true treasure being knowledge.
Shia was better than i thought he was going to be.
All in all a pretty good movie. Especially for us Indy fans.

Last Crusade is still my fav Indy movie, though.

 

[five40]

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
I dunno, it'll take me a few days to digest what i just saw...aliens? seriously, that's the best you could come up with? I don't know if that sits well with me. First 1.5 hours = classic genius Indy. Last 30 minutes = oooooooh, look at what ILM can do.

Yeah I would agree. The first 1.5 hours was awesome. Over the top and a little cheesy but pretty much classic Indy. Once we had to see an alien it pretty much ruined the movie for me. I was like WTF?!!?

Indy:"Where are they going? Space?"
Ox:"The space inbetween space"
Me:<punches self in face>


Couldn't they just put the alien head on and a huge boulder falls on the russian chick and the movie ends? I mean hell that would have been 10x better than a spaceship coming out of the ground and "intern dimensional portals". It's damn Indiana Jones not stargate or some sci-fi movie.

 

[Bateluer]

I enjoyed nearly everything in the movie except Indy surviving the nuclear blast by hiding in a fridge. Even if the fridge had survived the blast intact, which it wouldn't have, the air inside would have been superheated to the point of turning Indy to ash instantly.

There's science fiction, fiction, and then there's just plain bull shit.

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
I enjoyed nearly everything in the movie except Indy surviving the nuclear blast by hiding in a fridge. Even if the fridge had survived the blast intact, which it wouldn't have, the air inside would have been superheated to the point of turning Indy to ash instantly.

There's science fiction, fiction, and then there's just plain bull shit.

If you analyze every movie based on how real-world accurate it is then you'd never have anything worth watching. Indy has always been over the top, it's pretty much expected.

 

[KingGheedora]

Horrible movie. Let me recount the ways in which it sucked:

Indiana surviving the the nuclear blast in the fridge was ridiculous, and also the fall and tumbling inside the fridge without getting hurt, and without the fridge's door flying open and him being flung out was ridiculous.

Aliens were retarded. And the magnetism was stupid. In some scenes metal didn't start being attracted to it until they took off cloth that was covering it.

Tarzan scene.

Alien saucer scene at the end.

Skull repelling ants, and ants carrying full grown man into their colony.

People shooting at Indiana & crew in plain sight with machine guns and no one ever getting hit with a bullet.

EDIT: Oh yeah, the natives, and shrimpy jumping around people too.

The only good part was Mutt using the snake as a rope.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: KingGheedora
Horrible movie. Let me recount the ways in which it sucked:

Indiana surviving the the nuclear blast in the fridge was ridiculous, and also the fall and tumbling inside the fridge without getting hurt, and without the fridge's door flying open and him being flung out was ridiculous.

Aliens were retarded. And the magnetism was stupid. In some scenes metal didn't start being attracted to it until they took off cloth that was covering it.

Tarzan scene.

Alien saucer scene at the end.

Skull repelling ants, and ants carrying full grown man into their colony.

People shooting at Indiana & crew in plain sight with machine guns and no one ever getting hit with a bullet.

EDIT: Oh yeah, the natives, and shrimpy jumping around people too.

The only good part was Mutt using the snake as a rope.

I just love how movies like this (from Liberal directors) enforce myopic American stereotypes of the rest of the world.

At least this was my thought when they landed in Peru on what was a horribly designed set. Everyone wearing what could have been traditional Peruvian garb but with that music in the background? The same kind of music you hear at every Tex-Mex restaurant in the USA? WTF?

At least in "Crusade" they went to Venice for fuck's sake. I guess Lucas & Co had to stick to their blue room instead of take a trip to Peru...and don't get me started on the graveyard scene...dark, lightning, and then a few minutes later find themselves in a perfectly lit cave, sun streaming in through holes in the walls.

As someone said earlier, there is a BIG difference between suspending reality and complete BS. All previous Indiana movies were believable to an extent. This latest farce was total BS weaksauce!

 

[Kev]

Aliens? WTF?

 

[biggestmuff]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

...

At least this was my thought when they landed in Peru on what was a horribly designed set. Everyone wearing what could have been traditional Peruvian garb but with that music in the background? The same kind of music you hear at every Tex-Mex restaurant in the USA? WTF?
...

A lot of the scenes were shot on a set. The first scene with Ford outside of 'Hanger 51' was indoors. You could see a half-dozen shadows off of every actor in that scene. Shooting inside makes the scene less believable.

 

[thegimp03]

I thought it sucked and was pretty disappointed. I went in with high expectations, but seriously, aliens? That's pretty cheesy.

 

[Regs]

I have to agree with most of the negatives stated here.

The acting was just not there. Harrison Ford, as of late, seems like he's always sedated. Everything else was just like GTaudiophile stated: total mishmash or barely inaudible. I was losing focus half way in the movie and for some reason I thought the problem was me. Then I found out I couldn't focus because the sound of the popcorn mashing in my mouth was crowding out the actors speech coupled with the complete lack emphasis on any of the dialogue.

There is some good however. Steven Spielberg / Lucas did a good job as they kept and preserved that classic over-the-top adventure feeling that we all loved about series. Though not as tasteless or lewd as Bad Boys II, but just as preposterous.

Other than that, there wasn't anything captivating about the movie. Just another run-of-the-mill movie that tries to painfully force its overly simplistic symbolism and themes down our throat. In this cases: aliens, individuality, and heritage. I guess drugs, sex, talking animals, and torture are becoming overly complicated.

When a movie arrives at it's conclusion and I forget how it got there , it's usually a sign that the movie suffered large holes in the plot. Seems like there was some last minute changes in the story and they had to inprov some of the lines. What, Steven would of not directed the film unless there was actual aliens in the end?

 

[judasmachine]

I was pleased with it.

 

[Dacalo]

Watched it tonight and thought it was absolutely horrible. I own the trilogy on DVD and love the movies, but this one just didn't have "it."

 

[Davegod]

I thought it was atrocious. The first half was just poor but then it just turned ludicrous. I can't think of anything that was done well about the movie, possibly Blanchett was up to scratch but that's it. Everything was grossly overplayed to the point that I actually suspect Spielberg simply didn't get the one joke that actually worked (which was when Indy offhandedly refers to the London skull as having "interesting craftmanship" [it's a fake]).

I can go on (and on) but it's mostly been said.

Terrible, terrible movie.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: dr150


Lucas and Spielberg had genius.....once.....now they're old, rich, comfortable and don't have that edge. They're out of touch with telling good stories.

Well said.

 

[Bateluer]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBI...na.jones.ap/index.html

They're being sued by the Russian Communist Party now. Seems they missed the memo about it being fiction.

 

[ElFenix]

that movie was cheese topped corn.

 

[SKORPI0]

Sister plans to bring 10 yr old and 7 yrs old at a PG-13 movie. :roll:

 

[RichUK]

I'd give it a 5/10.

 

[Snapster]

Good, but not great. I never expected them to top Crusade, so I didn't go in with stupidly high expectations which is good to do with any film nowadays.

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: Lifted
The worst of all the Indy movies. Not much in the way of bad guys, acting was bad but there wasn't much to do with the horrible script I guess. The movie just didn't flow and you never felt particularly scared or excited. The laughs were weak at best, I think I may have chuckled once, but it was probably forced.

Crusade - 10/10
Ark 9/10
Temple of Doom 6/10
Skull 4/10

I have no desire to ever see it again.

This pretty much sums it up for me except I would put Raiders above Crusade. I own the trilogy but won't be adding this crapfest to the collection. It was a stupid, weak plot with no character development, at best meagerly acted and numbly directed.

And I sure hope they don't plan on continuing the series with Shia LaDoof as the new Indiana Jones like they intimated at the end.

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: jjones

Originally posted by: Lifted
The worst of all the Indy movies. Not much in the way of bad guys, acting was bad but there wasn't much to do with the horrible script I guess. The movie just didn't flow and you never felt particularly scared or excited. The laughs were weak at best, I think I may have chuckled once, but it was probably forced.

Crusade - 10/10
Ark 9/10
Temple of Doom 6/10
Skull 4/10

I have no desire to ever see it again.

This pretty much sums it up for me except I would put Raiders above Crusade. I own the trilogy but won't be adding this crapfest to the collection. It was a stupid, weak plot with no character development, at best meagerly acted and numbly directed.

And I sure hope they don't plan on continuing the series with Shia LaDoof as the new Indiana Jones like they intimated at the end.

:thumbsup:

 

[Throckmorton]

I liked it, but some things made no sense. Like why was the skull strong enough to attract gunpowder, but didnt affect the soldier's guns when they were a few feet away? Magnetic force should increase exponentially as you get closer.

Repelling the ants, etc, made sense because it's a psionic skull, not just a big magnet.

Was the skull actually magnetic, or was it acting like one at will? Because it only appeared to attract metal when uncovered...

 

[allisolm]

Doing well at the box office, 2nd only to Pirates of the Carribean At World's End:

"Including Thursday's receipts, "Indiana Jones" was expected to collect $151 million over five days, slightly behind "Pirates," which took in $153 million with a partial Thursday included."

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