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JONES!!!!
est:
Man, fuck all y'all I thought it was good for an action movie. The Indiana Jones series has always been "things exploding" movies. You don't go to a "things exploding" movie and expect realism at all. Here are things in this movie that I took issue with:
- Cate Blanchett's dodgy, wavering accent
- the fucking fridge thing
- Karen Allen's awful, phoned-in "let's do her a favour because she was ok in the first movie" performance
- the monkeys thing
- a few of the action shots were pretty dumb
All that said, go back and watch the original Indiana Jones movies. They were fucking ridiculous. This is probably the weakest of the series, but it was still a lot of fun to watch, which was all these movies were ever supposed to be.
Btw, only having Transformers as a reference I went into the theatre expecting to hate Shia's character, but I think that they did a really good job on his introduction and development.
Boro_Bandito:
It's true, we haven't even brought up the monkeys thing. Est, you're right, for an action movie the entire film wasn't bad, it had more or less pretty much non-stop action. I almost wished for a few more rests from that action actually, I think the pacing would have felt better if there were a couple more spots for dialogue, good places to add the air of mystery to the movie that I feel it lacked.
And actually zerodrone, I was thinking more along the lines of making parallels between the aliens and the Judeo-Christian God. The other three movies show powerful artifacts supposedly made by God, (or in the Temple of Doom, Shiva) and a knight who for some reason had lived an incredibly long life thanks to the power of that God. I think it would have been more effective for a spaceship to take off being powered seemingly by a circle of 13 skeletons, rather than them turning into one "living" one that gave Cate Blanchett a mean look before setting her on fire. If she had been destroyed just by the knowledge of looking into the skull of a transdimensional being it would have been better. I think it was really just the terrible CGI of the alien that got me the most, maybe the monkeys. The other parts that relied heavily on it, like the space-ship (non-living things are just easier to pull off) and the giant ants swarm, weren't that bad.
Also, notice how I've said nothing about the believability of the movie, most people here know my stance on Christianity and God and what I think of their believability. The first three movies were just better with integrating the more fantastic elements into a good story.
Also Also, with all this said and done I was entertained at the theatre (mostly) while watching the movie. I got to sit near my sister and brother and annoy them by correctly predicting plot turns and point out stuff that I noticed like I usually do at most movies. I drank Mr. Pibb and ate skittles, it was a good night. And when all's said and done I'll forget about this movie when the next big thing comes out, say The remake of The Incredible Hulk and The Dark Night come out later this summer, along with whatever other blockbusters that hit theaters.
Edit: And he's not 2,000 years old, that's how old the grail is. He's from one of the Crusades, so only a few hundred years old, duh. [/nerdiness]
**When the hell did we get the delete button?
est:
Haha, I fixed that a while back after seeing Joe complaining about it.
Boro_Bandito:
well it just helped. I actually quoted my own post on accident first instead of modifying it. Now there isn't any annoying extra posts in between the real meat of the discussion.... oh wait shit.
Blue Kitty:
I was okay with the movie. Wasn't the best, but wasn't the worst to me.
I admit though, at the end with the flying saucer I turned to my friend and said, "What the fuck Lucas, what the fuck"
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