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JONES!!!!
KvP:
Saw it at midnight last night, and it was pretty telling that even with half the crowd in costume there wasn't any sort of enthusiastic response once the credits rolled. There were two big problems with the film. One is that the script felt undercooked. Indy and Shy theBeef got a lot of screentime but Cate Blanchett never even reached the level of that bespectacled gestapo guy from Raiders, Karen Allen coasted on Raiders goodwill, and Ray Winstone was a poor replacement for John Rhys-Davies (who I guess was too busy shooting In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale to appear here). The second is that you could feel George Lucas' influence throughout so much of the movie. The 3 different CGI gopher reaction shots, surviving a nuke by hiding in a fridge (though that mushroom cloud shot was awesome) and fucking Shia LeBouf intercepting a speeding truck by swinging on vines with fucking attack monkeys. They talked up a storm about good old fashioned stuntwork, but the greenscreening was pretty evident and a lot of the fight scenes weren't all that rousing, at least not as rousing as fights from previous films. The bike chase through Yale was maybe the best part, since it didn't seem to use any CGI at all. Spielberg's always been a brilliant visual manipulator but he just doesn't come through here.
In fact, that was the biggest disappointment for me. Any of the other movies, despite their quality, always had a definite sense of place about them, whether it was the Middle East in Raiders and TLC or India in Temple of Doom. Maybe it's because the guy they've always used for cinematography retired after Last Crusade, but the locales all felt fairly lifeless and the Lost City at the end just felt fake. Maybe it was all the green screening or maybe I'm just crayzee.
RobbieOC:
I was definitely surprised/disappointed with the amount of CGI, considering they had been talking about using almost none... but I've come to expect certain things when Lucas is involved, and I wasn't going to let him ruin it for me.
Emaline:
I went to a midnight showing, it wasn't worth it.
The CGI sucked.
The one liners seemed forced.
Holy fuck the ending fucking sucked.
I'm a fan of the series. I liked the other films. This one was ok, until the fucking end. I mean, what the fuck? What in the world were they thinking? It's like they just fucking completely half assed the end. It was terrible. I was pretty disappointed.
All that said, the movie was absolutely horrid. I probably won't go see it again in theaters anytime soon(like I typically do with movies I really enjoy), but it's not like I had a bad time.
Dissy:
It's time for an Honest Movie Opinion by Kevin "Dissy" Note: Minor Spoilers, nothing you can't get from the trailers, and some useless information that somehow made the final cut.
I'll admit, I went into the movie with mixed opinions. I was really expecting something a la the first three. The introduction was really lame. The first few minutes made me roll my eyes in disgust. But then, then we get some action going. We see the classic fedora before we see the man under the hat. We also get introduced to the main villian, Colonel Doctor Ivanna Humalot, or something. This isn't your old villians. Kate Blanchet's accent keeps switching from crappy Russian to her normal English one. She also is some sort of psi-ops officer.
We jump into the warehouse scene, and the signature character gets betrayed, oh, and the ark is there as well. He attempts an escape, and succeeds, only to get stuck in a "town" where a nuclear bomb is about to be dropped on. How does he escape? He hides in a lead refrigerator, which gets blown a mile or so away, which he crawls out of. Next scene, we get The Janitor from Scrubs, pretending to be an FBI agent. But we all see right through his disguise. This is just one of Janitor's fantasies. Well, the FBI black lists Indy as a possible Commie. The FBI ransacks his office and gets Indy fired, but ... Lucas has another strange tangent which leads to the revelation that Marcos Brody (played by Elliot Delholm in Raiders and Last Crucade died several years ago) is dead, and so is Dad (Sean Connery).
Next scene introduces Mutt, and we get 30 minutes of American Graffiti. After that, we go to Peru, and we find the said Kystal Skull. From here, the movie is all down hill. I saw this movie with a couple of friends. One of us and I laughed through the rest of the movie, while the other two had facial expressions ranging from disgust to complete surprise(and not in a good way.)
The movie ends, the villain dies, Lucas squeezes in his crappy love story (the same one used in every movie of his), and the fedora is passed on to a new generation, wait, nevermind. Indy leaves the last scene with the fedora on his head, and credits roll.
The first thing that comes to all of our minds as we leave is "MY CHILDHOOD! RUINED!" and "LUCASSSSSSSSSSSSSS!"
Yes, I will most likely buy this movie on DVD, I will go see Indy 5, if it comes out, but I won't shell out 10 bucks to sit though the movie in a thearter again.
Boro_Bandito:
I was pretty disappointed with the raping of my childhood yeah. Like Emaline, I went to a midnight showing (really just because that was the only time me and my brother could go with my sister, who is moving down to Texas again). It wasn't worth it. At all. Oh god. The sad thing is, Harrison Ford was pretty good in my opinion, everyone else sucked balls, an you can only do so much with a shitty script, and lines like "How could I have ever doubted you my old friend," inundated the film. I wanted to throw rotting lettuce at the screen and call for an execution. Lucas, you are on my list.
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