Indiana Jones 4 thoughts [SPOILERS]

[STL]

I really hated it.

I'm not a purist by any means and only watched the franchise itself late last year w/ a mate on a lazy weekend. I can't say I had high expectations but nor did I have low expectations. I didn't expect to get blown out of the water but just expected a bit of fun.

But that plot is so convoluted its ridiculous. What the hell were the writers and Luca smoking? To be terribly blunt, that required the imagination of a 8 yr old.

We had the "Force" moments, the ET moments, the lightsaber sounds... it was awful. I half expected Yoda to pop out of the Incan pyramids at some point.

I'm not attacking the movie from a believability angle. I mean, we had immortality and the like in the other movies. It just pissed me off that it strayed so far from the historical adventure comedy mix of the movie. That's what excites you about archealogy.

There just also wasn't that sexual tension till much later on which was always part of the humour. The chase scenes never had that intensity. It was like a stroll in the park. With the other movies, you had the against the odds feel. Here, it was more "oh what's next".

There were also a lot of leaps in logic that just jarred me. The one that stuck out was how they enter the cavern w/ battery operated torches when they fell through a three sets of waterfalls. Did they even have anything left at that point?

Probably one of the worst movies of the year imo.

[Paulbot]

I've never seen a full Indiana Jones movie so I didn't have such high expectations. I enjoyed it enough but wasn't blown away by it.

I was surprised by the alien influence but it made sense since they were homaging the 50s B films, instead of the 30's film serials.

Did you really want 50-60 year olds with sexual tension?

I did find the climax a bit lacklustre.

One of the worst movies of the year? Hardly when there's all that torture porn and crap US remakes of Asian horror movies coming out.

[STL]

I've never seen a full Indiana Jones movie so I didn't have such high expectations. I enjoyed it enough but wasn't blown away by it.

I was surprised by the alien influence but it made sense since they were homaging the 50s B films, instead of the 30's film serials.

Did you really want 50-60 year olds with sexual tension?

I did find the climax a bit lacklustre.

One of the worst movies of the year? Hardly when there's all that torture porn and crap US remakes of Asian horror movies coming out.

Okay, okay, okay... one of the worst movies I will see this year.

I don't think I'm suicidal enough to watch some of the other crap due out this year.

[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.