Indiana Jones 4 thoughts [SPOILERS]

[iceburn]

phew..i went to watch Ironman again on Saturday instead of Indiana Jones...
alternative source coming up....

sexual tension...i'm indi, indiana, indiana jones

[Pulse]

Sheesh, you guys sure are doing a good job in convincing me not to see it.

[kup]

I saw it with Dirge and Lord_Zed.

Now that it has settled in, here is my verdict:

I liked it but some of it was way over the top even by Indiana Jones standards such as Shiah swinging his way back to the cars with the monkeys and the triple waterfall drop.

It was also a bit weird how the end went more into Sci-Fi than the usual mystical stuff they have. It felt completely out of place for an Indy movie.

I saw it as maybe a bit better or on par with Temple of Doom but lacking memorable scenes such as the rope bridge. However no where near as good as Last Crusade or Raiders. A good effort but nothing ground breaking.

Both Lucas and Spielberg are now seasoned Hollywood veterans so its a bit dissapointing to see their latest movie to be a lesser cousin to the previous movies. It is also scary how you can point out the 'Lucas driven Ideas' such as the monkeys and stuff.

[Burn]

I liked it, sort of. I would watch it again but I wouldn't call it a really great movie. In fact it felt like a National Treasure movie set in the 50's.

It was Indiana Jones, but it didn't "feel" Indiana Jones.

Frankly I think this is another fine testament to just how much of the plot George Lucas has lost. He's never really been a great writer (go and read Star Wars novels written by the likes of Timothy Zahn and you'll see just how bad Lucas is) and this movie really showed that.

Given that Lucas, Speilberg and Ford have wanted to do this for years but never found the time, it felt to me like they'd quickly thrown the story together the week before filming began.

All the hype won't save it from being massacred in the long run by Iron Man.

[Kyle]

I liked it but some of it was way over the top even by Indiana Jones standards such as Shiah swinging his way back to the cars with the monkeys and the triple waterfall drop.

I didn't mind the triple waterfall drop so much. Hiding in a fridge to avoid the atomic bomb explosion was pretty bad. But Shiah swinging with the monkeys was definitely the worst.

[1orion2many]

I actually enjoyed it. My wife dragged me down to the local cinemas to watch it with some friends. It wasn't on my must see list as I was going to wait until it came out on DVD. I would say go and see it and decide for yourself, if you don't expect anything to serious and GOD forbid that 60 year olds can have sexual tension, (yes people your parents do have sex and can have the sexual tension that goes with it) then I think you may enjoy it. Then again you may hate it, could be a generation thing for all you whippa snappas.

[Paulbot]

Indiana and Marion were a cute couple but not knowing their history, I thought Indiana and Irina Spalko was the relationship were all the sparks were.

[Lord_Zed]

Well as mentioned above I saw it with Kup and Dirge a few days ago, and overall I liked it. It wasn't awesome but it still did its job.

The movie I think was esentialy Indy, it had all the standards like it was ticking of boxes, the chase scenes, creepy crawlys, nasty death scenes for some of the bad guys, the magic Hat, I could go on and on.

uh oh Spoilers










The two main things that bugged me were there was abit to much over the top special effects. Sure the ants were cool, and the nuclear bomb was to, but add it to the spaceship and the monkeys and the Prarie dogs and it was just to much. I don't know if this is cause they have to compete with all the new effects driven block busters or cause Lucas Just loves putting in excessivie CGI scenes but it was all to much. Indiana Jones has always had a fantasy element but usualy it was only one thing, magic Ark, or Heart Ripping Ritual master, Crystal Skull just seemed to have so many that that individualy they didn't feel as special.

I also agree the plot was unecessarily scatered, they took a simple plot and tried to twist it around and make it clever but failed. They should have left it simple, here's the Skull go return it. I mean the other movies were simple.

My last gripe is that you saw the silly alien at the end, Spielberg always shows you the damn alien, but somethings are better left to the imagination. You think he'd have learned this from Jaws 1.

Overall though still enjoyed it, it was still Indiana Jones. Not Classic Indiana Jones, modern but still Indiana. Much like the new Star Wars films are still Star Wars but not classic Star Wars.

And best of all they still used the same old unrealistic but meaty sound effect when Indy punches someone, gotta love Indy's magic punch.