Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

[71 dB]

I was well-entertained by Indy 4. It is a very funny movie plus the 50's paranoia/ufo set-up is fresh. It's nice Lucas and Spielberg are still making this kind of movies when people have become very cynical.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Its called "The Movies"............

Well, I did like the first three Indiana Jones offerings. But this latest instalment is just a lazy string of, often tongue-in-cheek, self-quotations.

[knight66]

There was only one moment that stayed with me as worthwhile. It was early on and set up an expectation that was not then fulfilled. Indie looks at the photo of his recently dead father. He says something along the lines of; "I am at a time when life is taking things away more often than it is giving them to me."

I thought that was a nice line; and the plot disproved it thoroughly.

All this talk of it merely being an entertainment; yes, I agree, but it was not entertaining, just reheated, rehashed reject material from earlier adventures. Codswallop with little genuine imagination and relying on constant chases to move the supposed plot forward. I loved the first film, rather as I enjoyed the first Piarates of the Caribbean; that series went downhill fast. Part two was dire, I decided they were not going to nick more my money, or a proportion of my life to see part three.

Mike

[mn dave]

It made more sense than some operas.   

*runs away*

[knight66]

Yeah....run and HIDE.

Mike

[greg]

Any else catch the Brahms reference in the score?

ummmmmm no.......

[Wanderer]

It made more sense than some operas.

I bet the music isn't half as good, though.

[M forever]

It made more sense than some operas.   

That's not the point. Nobody here criticized that the movie was "just entertainment" or that it was "unlikely", just like nobody here said that there was anything wrong with good entertainment as such. The people here who criticized the movie were all just very disappointed because it is a very major production, a sequel to a series of extremely entertaining (and also extremely unlikely) movies - and for those of us who are a little bit older, we also have very fond memories of the times when we first saw the original movies - a movie that could have been so much, much more great entertainment but turned out to be pretty forgettable, unimaginative and pale (literally, it also looked like shit because of all the computer graphics, totally washed out, flat images).

plus the 50's paranoia/ufo set-up is fresh.

You have apparently never seen a Spielberg movie before.

[DavidRoss]

I was well-entertained by Indy 4. It is a very funny movie plus the 50's paranoia/ufo set-up is fresh. It's nice Lucas and Spielberg are still making this kind of movies when people have become very cynical.

Thanks for weighing in.  That settles the question for me.

[71 dB]

You have apparently never seen a Spielberg movie before.

Sorry, you coudn't be more wrong mr besserwisser. 

I mean Indy + 50's paranoia/ufos is fresh.

[Marcel]

Och, its only a bit of fun, not meant to be serious, so lets enjoy the absurdity.

 

[M forever]

Sorry, you coudn't be more wrong mr besserwisser. 

I mean Indy + 50's paranoia/ufos is fresh.

What's "fresh" about the combination of two very unfresh and sucked-dry elements? I had wondered how they would master the challenging task of coming up with something to continue the series' style, yet be original and "top" the earlier movies. I know that must be very hard to do, but then, there are tons of very good screenwriters who could come up with a really original and fun script for this. Or maybe not. Or maybe it has to do with Lucas' involvement. Spielberg still makes mostly rather good movies, but everything Lucas has done in many decades now is complete crap.

[mn dave]

I was never a huge fan of the franchise. I went Saturday night because my wife asked me to. I expected nothing from this movie but got a little entertainment out of it. That is all. It's a throwaway movie but it killed some time. No big thing and no great defense of it coming from me. I knew what I was getting going in the door. Pulp fiction is meant to be enjoyed and discarded. And so it goes.

[Saul]

I just saw the film, and I thought it was a great movie.

[knight66]

Somehow that does not come as a surprise.

Mike

[Saul]

Somehow that does not come as a surprise.

Mike

Explain?

[knight66]

Oh Saul...why do you present such an open goal?

Having seen the kind of painter you so admire and the work he produces, (I avoid the terms artist and art in this specific context.) then I am not surprised you thought that the Indie film was 'a great movie'.....just another form of the dross to which you seem to be attracted.



Mike

[mn dave]

...just another form of the dross to which you seem to be attracted.

As were the first three movies. We're talking degrees of "dross" here.

[M forever]

I just saw the film, and I thought it was a great movie.

Weren't you shocked that the Ark of the Covenant was thrown around and just pushed aside at the beginning?

[Joe_Campbell]

I was wondering why they had to throw metallic dust into the air to spot the coffin. After all, the lights swayed wherever it was; why not just look where they're pointing in the first place?