albone
... SpANG's gripes, while valid, but what do you expect from Indiana Jones?

Exactly what I wrote is what I expected. :D

Suspending disbelief has nothing to do with any of my "gripes". My main issue was that there was no feeling of suspense throughout the whole movie, unlike the last ones. Temple may have been the worst of the three, but you still were on the edge of your seat in a few scenes.

Don't get me wrong, it was really nice seeing Indy and Marion again. And it was fun. It just felt- tired.

I love Indiana Jones. The first 3 are in my top favorite films......thats why I hate to say I didn't like the new one at all. It was like, Ford couldnt find the character after so long.....I saw flickers of the old Indy, just not that many.
Allen, on the other hand, came off as COMPLETELY forgetting how to act at all.....terrible preformance.
I dug the Nuclear stuff, and the beginning action sequence.....but then, it was just tired and un-inspired.
Mutt swinging through the vines, after being inspired by the monkeys to swing like them......then, having the monkeys help attack the Ruskies?? uh.......no thanks. The 4th best out of 4. Please........no more, unless you let a great screenwriter do it up good. Don't let Lucas write anymore....please!!!

must say that Williams music score was great tho...........

Lucas didn't write the script.

Yeah, Lucas did a re-write with another guy....the original script for this was read buy guys at AICN, and they said it rocked.....not the mess it turned out to be once Lucas messed with it.

Also, to me, the franchise has lost its "magic". there once was a time, kiddies, when practical effects were done by hand.....Miniatures, makeup, matte paintings, ect.........they were real, and exsisted in real space. now, EVERYTHING is cgi.............and it shows. Lucas film has even dis-banded its miniatures division.............thats why WETA workshops is kicking the once mighty ILM's behinds nowadays. (Iron man looked great, but I think it had something to do with Stan Winston studios working with ILM.)

The script was rewritten several times, but never by Lucas directly. The story is Lucas's, he gives input to the writers, much like he did with the past movies. The script as it was used for the production of the film was written by David Koepp, who did have to tweak it a bit from his original "final" version to work around Sean Connery's character. From the sound of it in interviews, Lucas was more involved with the original script than the subsequent rewrites. Even Koepp seems to have worked more with Spielberg than Lucas when working on the script.

I've seen it twice now.
It is a good escape from $4.00 gas prices and the growing threat of a global government.

The movie never stops or slows down.
The entire first sequence was amazing.
I like the Ark scene( I always wondered where that thing went after raiders).

shaneronzio
The movie never stops or slows down.
The entire first sequence was amazing.
I like the Ark scene( I always wondered where that thing went after raiders).

I'll agree with all that, though I knew the Ark thing was coming as soon as I saw the opening wide shot of the Area 51 warehouse.

I'd probably see it again when it comes out in video. It just wasn't "hanging me on the edge of my seat" like the other ones. That's all I meant.

I like how they worked in McCarthyism into too. Even someone like Jones who's like the closest thing to a superhero in this world could be viewed as being a Commie by the government.

I'm not sure if it's been pointed out before, but did anybody notice the dungeons in this had no traps at all? Indy and Co. just sort of walk straight through without any sense of danger. No arrows, no boulder, no whirring saw blades, nothing.

I liked it.

When rejuvenating the old franchises like Indy and Die Hard etc, I think the most important thing, really is to get the character right. Its why I never really liked The Young Indiana Jones, because it never really felt like Indy. But this felt like Indiana all the way.

I just wish the McGuffin had been mystic in nature instead of alien, Indiana Jones has always dealt with the realm of the supernatural, making him deal with science fiction just didn't feel right to me.

The worst part of the nuclear blast/refrigerator bit was that it was totally unnessecary. Its like, "Hey, lets throw this completely illogical sequence into our movie, for no goddamned reason"

I didn't mind the CG much, except the groundhogs. That was distracting. And I cant help but feel like they could've done the same thing with real animals and some clever editing.

I loved the soldier ant sequence
and the quicksand sequence

Gripes:
Whoops I tripped carying the gold. I'll just lay here until I'm sucked into a vortex. WTF?
Crystal Skull is ridiculously magnetic when it's convenient?
And in the end, Indy and whatshisface have their jobs back, and are promoted for no reason.


Its certainly not the best Indiana Jones ever, but it doesn't at all feel out of place in the Indiana Jones lexicon

I just saw it. In a word 'blergh', which represents me throwing up.

Crystal Skull was great.


Raiders of the Lost Ark was better.

I watched it, and I believe that I fell asleep with my eyes open.

I was rooting for Cate Blanchett. Unfortunately for her, the alien was pro-NATO. The Russians did as much for the alien as Dr. Jones did. Blatant favoritism.

What exactly was taken from Area 51? It seemed to have no relation to the crystal skull.

ttyler
Mutt swinging through the vines, after being inspired by the monkeys to swing like them......then, having the monkeys help attack the Ruskies?? uh.......no thanks.

Wait, wait...monkeys help attack the Russians?!? Ugh, and I was about to waste ten dollars on this movie. Thanks for making my decision easier, heh. lol!

Blanchett looked she was right out of a Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoon. At least Natasha's fake Russian accent was more believable.

I liked it. Sure the subject matter was odd, but I guess religion isn't "cool" anymore. It was a fun movie and I worried the Mutt kid would ruin it, but he didn't.

Then again, I'm no Indy buff. Just a guy who likes a fun adventure movie.

jalford
It technically should be "Indiana Jones 3", because Temple Of Doom was a prequal to Raiders. Last Crusade was the actual "ID2". Otherwise, Star Wars: Episodes 1-3 would be Episodes 6-9.

I don't see the logic you are using, unless you are calling Temple Of Doom Indy "0", which makes no sense. It's Indiana Jones 4 no matter how you slice it.

By release:
1. Raiders
2. Temple
3. Crusade
4. Skull


By chronological order:
1. Temple
2. Raiders
3. Crusade
4. Skull

They never do say what happened to Shorty after Temple Of Doom though. Didn't the kid who played him go on to be in The Goonies.

jalford
They never do say what happened to Shorty after Temple Of Doom though. Didn't the kid who played him go on to be in The Goonies.

Yes, and then he went on to be a fight choreographer that worked on X-Men the Movie.

Hawk

jalford
They never do say what happened to Shorty after Temple Of Doom though. Didn't the kid who played him go on to be in The Goonies.

Yes, and then he went on to be a fight choreographer that worked on X-Men the Movie.

I was hoping he'd show up. Wouldn't that have been cool?

ozoneocean
The Last Crusade sucked... Am I the only person who thought that Sean Conery is unnecessary ?

It was just overdoing it to have him in there. HUGELY.

And the "Old dog teaching a young dog new tricks" stuff shits me in a movie like that because he's a character with NO history! He's just parachuted in on the series when the other character has two films under it's belt and we're supposed to believe it has some seniority of experience with the same traits as the other... That's not right.

The first was the best. The second had lovely 1930's stuff in it, loved the scenes in Hong Kong!

Sean Connery is blustery, curmudgeonly, overrated ass. I'd love to see a female wrestler give the boot to his mysogonist butt.

SpANG

Hawk

jalford
They never do say what happened to Shorty after Temple Of Doom though. Didn't the kid who played him go on to be in The Goonies.

Yes, and then he went on to be a fight choreographer that worked on X-Men the Movie.

I was hoping he'd show up. Wouldn't that have been cool?

Yeah, if only to yell, "You call him Doctor Jones!"

Sean Connery is blustery, curmudgeonly, overrated ass. I'd love to see a female wrestler give the boot to his mysogonist butt.

You just jealous of My Hero.

If they do Indy 5, they need to have Doc Jones totally wipe the floor with Brenden Fraser's wannabe character from The Mummy quadrilogy.

jalford
If they do Indy 5, they need to have Doc Jones totally wipe the floor with Brenden Fraser's wannabe character from The Mummy quadrilogy.

That wouldn't be hard if you go by the third Mummy. I like Rick O'connel! Pure escapism and even though the third was weak it wasn't as soul crushingly disapointing as Crystal Skull (it was never going to be good without Imhotep). I cried at the end of IJ4:KCS with laughter, at those crappy, crappy 'sentient beings' (blatantly martians). <;}