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to me, it's not lucas that doesn't have an idea or clue but YOU CLOSE MINDED MORONS." i don't understand why people can't wrap their minds over this story line. all you people do is whine. mr lacayo said it best "this movies is awesome and i love all indiana jones. i'm a latin american and i really loved this story because their definitely is speculation into how the mayans, incas, and aztecs created some of their artifacts. THIS STUFF IS REAL MYTHOLOGY PEOPLE, WAKE UP. "lucas ruined my childhood, lucas ruined star wars and indiana jones" whine, whine, whine. i hate all the lucas bashing, without him, you'd still be watching cheap ed wood sci fi movies.
most people seem to think that lucas pulled this story out of his ass but the crystal skull mystery is real. also, it seems people didn't understand the concept of the anti-communist/post nuclear/50's era they were going for. whine, whine, whine. LUCAS IS THE AUTHOR OF STAR WARS AND INDIANA JONES, HE CAN DO WHATEVER HE WANTS, IT'S HIS STORY. the myths surrounding extraterestials and latin america are real.
also, it seems people didn't understand the concept of the anti-communist/post nuclear/50's era they were going for. to me, it's not lucas that doesn't have an idea or clue but YOU CLOSE MINDED MORONS. i'm a latin american and i really loved this story because their definitely is speculation into how the mayans, incas, and aztecs created some of their artifacts. the myths surrounding extraterestials and latin america are real. i don't understand why people can't wrap their minds over this story line. this movies is awesome and i love all indiana jones. most people seem to think that lucas pulled this story out of his ass but the crystal skull mystery is real. THIS STUFF IS REAL MYTHOLOGY PEOPLE, WAKE UP.
The movie would ultimately gross nearly $800,000,000 at the boxoffice becoming the second most popular Indiana Jones movie of all-time. The DVD contains am informative featurette entitled "The Return of the Legend". In this version Indiana is teamed up with his first love Marion from the original movie, played by Karen Allen. Action-packed with a great script, I enjoyed the movie the four times I saw it in theatres and I was extremely satisfied by what I saw. Critics loved the movie, but ardent fans of the franchise were dissapointed in the script and the finalized film. The second highest grossing film of 2008, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" took 19 years to make. However, being one of Indiana Jones' biggest fans I loved the movie. They also have a son who teams up with them in their battle against a beautiful evil agent, played by Kate Blanchett, who wants the rare crystal skull.
Watching it today, and thoroughly enjoying it while I did so, I found myself wondering exactly what kind of movie people are expecting it to be. It is in no way a black mark on the Indiana Jones series, and fans of the original trilogy should have no problems setting it on the shelf with the other three. Or that a man can rip someone's beating heart out of his chest and have it burst into flames when he falls into lava. So when I was talking to a friend about it at 12:15, his response was "I heard it sucks." An odd thing to hear about a movie that had been out for about fourteen minutes and really had probably not even started yet when you consider the trailers. All four movies continue to keep me as a fan, and if it could be as good as this one, I would gladly go see a fifth. This *might* be a valid complaint if it weren't for the fact that Harrison Ford has been putting out action movies on a somewhat regular basis, the most recent being 2006's Firewall.
I'm always happy to see John Hurt and his crazed professor is a much less malicious and intimidating character than his V For Vendetta Adam Sutler. There are a couple of moments in fight scenes where a shadow on Indy's face suggests maybe Ford wasn't doing the stunt himself, but for the most part it is clearly him, and I also welcome the occasional stuntman over the CGI mess that most action movies today feature. The era of negative buzz. For the water from the right cup to heal wounds while the wrong will melt a Nazi good. I pointed this fact out to him. The supporting case is strong, Karen Allen is a welcome return as Marion, and Shia La Beouf does not usurp the focus of the movie from it's rightful place on Indy. The crux of which is the caravan chase slash fight slash jump from vehicle to vehicle sequence that is basically the staple of the franchise, having been used in every movie save for Temple of Doom. And Ford delivers.
And as the secrets of the titular Skull is revealed, some might roll their eyes and think "lame." But I ask Indy fans, is it any less a stretch of the imagination that a mystical Ark, when opened, will melt all who don't look away. It's hard to really make an official judgement call on where it ranks among the Indiana Jones series, considering I have two decades of nostalgia built up from the others, but having only seen it once I would say it falls somewhere behind Raiders and Crusade, but is better than Temple of Doom. Indiana Jones 4, it seems, exists in a new era of franchise films. But people "hear" it'll suck. It's a summer blockbuster action film at its heart, and it lives up to that promise with great skill. It isn't a perfect movie.
Far from it in fact. I say no. A post-Star Wars Prequel movie going climate. It's Indiana Jones. The reality again is that the reviews, while not stellar, have not been bad. Because of course Crystal Skull is not going to be this year's The Departed or No Country For Old Men.
And he's also the exact same age his Last Crusade co-star Sean Connery was when he made The Rock. Oh and Scrubs' Janitor, Neil Flynn is in it. One of the biggest "it's going to suck" complaints I have heard about the movie is that he is too old. Indy doesn't do "realism." What Indy does is fun action, with a little humor mixed in. The movie has floated between 77-80% freshness on RottenTomatoes, and that percentage has been increasing, not declining, as it opens nationwide. But all of these movies have convoluted moments, giant boulders, mine car chases, zeppelin dog-fighting. And the Soviets do not make any less of a quality villain than those Nazis, especially with Cate Blanchett at the helm. I decided that I had waited 19 years for a new Indy, I could wait 'til Thursday morning.
And there are some convoluted moments, sure, probably the two biggest involve a nuclear explosion and Tarzan-like vine swinging. "Oh but the reviews are bad," he said.
Indy 4 is being assumed by the pre-viewing audience to be something that will suck. I think they try a little too hard to explain what has been happening in Indy's life during the interim, wedging in exposition when unnecessary.
It does not fail to entertain in this film just as it hasn't in the previous two. "This movie will suck." But it doesn't suck.
Despite my deep geek side wanting to, I resisted the temptation to go see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull at the "12:01" screening. It's bringing back something we loved from our childhood, and surely they can't do anything good with that.
I'd say the vast majority of the action in this movie works, with only a couple of "oh come on, really." moments that briefly take you out if the movie (see previous reference to Tarzan).
For those Indy fans who got their kicks - great, but this was lame. I knew I had a problem with this movie when I could watch all three Indy movies as a kid and not have to figure out what was going on. How in the world did they get this wrong. The casting was good, the poster looks about right - but the story was non-existent. And ironically, as an adult, I got lost in the plotting of this meandering mess.
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