Indiana Jones - Crystal Skull...
Indiana Jones - Crystal Skull...
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Jasandjules

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71,225 posts

245 months

Wednesday 15th July 2009
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Ok,

Started watching this film the other night (got too late so switched it off), but I am not exactly impressed with the first 20 mins or so. Is it going to improve at all, or shall I just bin it?

ewenm

28,506 posts

261 months

Wednesday 15th July 2009
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Entertaining rubbish that I enjoyed but it requires no thought or concentration.

chibbard

1,554 posts

276 months

Wednesday 15th July 2009
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Without a doubt it was the worst Indiana Jones film made IMO.

The Hypno-Toad

12,928 posts

221 months

Wednesday 15th July 2009
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Good start & then he got in the fridge......rolleyes

It was all downhill from there.

T89 Callan

8,422 posts

209 months

Wednesday 15th July 2009
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I think the Sumary on South Park summed it up perfectly.

"our freind was raped in Peru by George Lucas"

FourWheelDrift

91,067 posts

300 months

Wednesday 15th July 2009
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Truly dismal film.

Jasandjules

Original Poster:

71,225 posts

245 months

Wednesday 15th July 2009
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The Hypno-Toad said:
Good start & then he got in the fridge......rolleyes

It was all downhill from there.
Yes, that was the part that got me, then the Russian Special forces and him on the jet and the Russian passes out from the strain but the somewhat aged Indie doesn't....

Northern Munkee

5,354 posts

216 months

Wednesday 15th July 2009
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To quote Kermode, has Shia Le Beouf made a good film? He was particularly awful in Crystal Skull, Ray Winstone & John Hurt must have enjoyed the big pay day, and Kate Blanchett was in a strange dodgy haircut, strangely arousing dominatrix role. Ford showing his age, franchise was best left alone, plot and last 20 mins boringly unoriginal and I saw it coming the entire film.

qube_TA

8,405 posts

261 months

Wednesday 15th July 2009
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Couldn't be worse, awful rubbish.


crofty1984

16,491 posts

220 months

Wednesday 15th July 2009
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anachronistic harley no capitals today

Negative Creep

25,565 posts

243 months

Thursday 16th July 2009
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More a series of loosely connection action sequences than a coherent film

Antony Moxey

9,853 posts

235 months

Thursday 16th July 2009
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Quite enjoyed it actually. Who cares if the plot's paper thin, the previous three were no more believable and equally switch-off-brain-and-watch-till-credits-roll.

adycav

7,615 posts

233 months

Thursday 16th July 2009
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One of the very few films that I didn't finish watching. A big disappointment.

gbbird

5,193 posts

260 months

Friday 17th July 2009
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Definitely the second worst of the series - not quite as bad as Temple of Doom

Moose.

5,345 posts

257 months

Friday 17th July 2009
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All you need to know:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuking_the_fridge

They should have left it at the trilogy frown

SkinnyBoy

4,635 posts

274 months

Friday 17th July 2009
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i genuinely wanted this movie to be good, like 99% of hollywood's output, it was utter bilge on a scale not seen since Waterworld.

Oakey

27,939 posts

232 months

Friday 17th July 2009
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The biggest problem was the overused CGI. Everything just felt fake, even at the very start when they're outside the hangar and pull Indy out of the trunk of that car. It all felt like it was filmed against a green screen.

I wish filmmakers would realise that CGI isn't the be all and end all and go back to actually filming in proper locations, building proper sets, etc.

adycav

7,615 posts

233 months

Friday 17th July 2009
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I wonder if at least part of the problem is that some of the audience (i.e. us) have changed.

I can remember watching the three earlier Indy fims and enjoying them immensely - I saw them all at the cinema and had a 'treasure chest' box set of all three on VHS.

I watched 'Raiders' recently and honestly thought it was st. It seemed like a kid's film, which I suppose it is.

philwhite

259 posts

197 months

Friday 17th July 2009
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Oakey said:
The biggest problem was the overused CGI. Everything just felt fake, even at the very start when they're outside the hangar and pull Indy out of the trunk of that car. It all felt like it was filmed against a green screen.

I wish filmmakers would realise that CGI isn't the be all and end all and go back to actually filming in proper locations, building proper sets, etc.
100% agree, part of the charm of the original films was that it actually happened, Harrison Ford was chased by a big boulder, the temple in Temple of Doom was actually built, okay there was some CGI in The Last Crusade (the Zeppelin) but for the most part what you were watching wasn’t filmed in front a of blue screen. Film makers have got so lazy!

Oh, and what’s with Spielberg’s obsession with Aliens!!! Not content with ruining AI he goes a throws them into Indiana Jones too!!! I’m sure a director’s cut of Schindler’s List will appear where all the Jew’s are rescued by Aliens.


Edited by philwhite on Friday 17th July 15:43


Edited by philwhite on Friday 17th July 15:44

Lefty Guns

18,434 posts

218 months

Friday 17th July 2009
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gbbird said:
Definitely the second worst of the series - not quite as bad as Temple of Doom
I agree, I Feckin hated ToD, it was dung.

Crystal Skull not much better.