[QuickTidal]

I still think Temple of Doom is brilliantly dark and awesome! It's my fave.

[Optimus Prime]

I'm really questioning this film. Two of my friends saw it the other night and are Die hard Indy fans, said it was a horrible, horrible film.

I've gotta see it, but now i'm worried it sucks.

[cerveza_fiesta]

don't go in expecting a friggin oscar performance and you'll be fine. Most people I know that dissed it were griping mainly because they were old indy fans and remembered teh older films as much more.

[Aptorian]

Greatest Indy film ever... it's that easy. The old ones do not compare.

[QuickTidal]

cerveza_fiesta;324610 said:

don't go in expecting a friggin oscar performance and you'll be fine. Most people I know that dissed it were griping mainly because they were old indy fans and remembered teh older films as much more.

Yeah, absolutely agreed. A LOT of people seem to remember Indy as gritty and dark as a trilogy, but it's really not. It IS kind of out there on the believability scale, and it CAN be goofy. It's just been 20 years since anyone has seen one and so it appears those people forgot.

CF is right, if you don't go in expecting oscar, then you ought to be fine. Try to remember the old ones were about fun and adventure...and for the most part, so is this one.

[Salt-Man Z]

My 5-word review:

Completely ridiculous; totally fricking awesome.

[sewer.rat]

The sight gags (groundhogs...!) made me groan in a bad way. The refrigerator scene was cool if all reality was suspended. I gave up when they pulled out the snake rope.

I liked the ant bit tho'.

[Cold Iron]

Snake rope was definitely not needed. But it's an indy movie. It's supposed to be fun.

[Flawed]

I saw this the other week. I was a little disappointed. Some of it was ridiculous ( eg the monkeys )
But in retrospect my narkedness ( yes this is a word ) isn't really relative anymore. Sure the film didn't seem to have that magical wow factor that made me want to grab the nearest skipping rope and make Whishtissh noises while wearing a pair of y fronts on my head. Sure the tongue and cheek jokes, and Indy were a bit tired but that's mainly due to the fact that I'm not 10 years old anymore and the indicative aura of your own personal imagination and magic at that sort of age would of bridged the gap to make me think this film was awesome. The way that young kid rode his bike through the uni, or swung with monkey's, or that ants behave in that way, or that magical aliens did help ancient south American peoples to create massive cities etc.
So in hindsight i do not think the film was that rubbish, just my imagination.

[paladin]

Cold Iron;329209 said:

Snake rope was definitely not needed. But it's an indy movie. It's supposed to be fun.

i thought the snake rope was hilarious

[cerveza_fiesta]

sewer.rat;329116 said:

The sight gags (groundhogs...!) made me groan in a bad way. The refrigerator scene was cool if all reality was suspended. I gave up when they pulled out the snake rope.

I liked the ant bit tho'.

The ground hogs absolutely reeked of george lucas. What a turd. The stupid ass groundhog was the opening scene and almost put me in a bad mood and mindset for the movie, until the shooting and awesome action started of course.

It was just a too-early reminder of how Lucas would be smearing his shit-stained influence on every scene and CF was not happy about it..

[QuickTidal]

cerveza_fiesta;329806 said:

The ground hogs absolutely reeked of george lucas. What a turd. The stupid ass groundhog was the opening scene and almost put me in a bad mood and mindset for the movie, until the shooting and awesome action started of course.

It was just a too-early reminder of how Lucas would be smearing his shit-stained influence on every scene and CF was not happy about it..

Yeah, this is the proverbial nail in the coffin for anything George Lucas touches from here on out. He turns everything he touches to shit. He's like Midas for shit.

[Aptorian]

When he came crawling out of the refrigerator and the little critter was looking up at him, I really wanted him to punt it straight out of the cameras view. It would had been so satisfying.

And it would had made all the kids cry.

[Dag]

Well... I went to see the movie without great expectations, but still managed to get out of the cinema a bit disappointed. It wasn't so bad, and certain parts I even found funny, but... Naah, that was not it.

That old man with slow, arthritic movements and with no charme at all may have worn Indy's hat, but it wasn't Indy.

And I could have lived with aliens, but... interdimensional beings? WTH?!?

[Mezla PigDog]

(without having read through the whole thread)

I thought it was total tripe and I will sit through a lot of tripe. I found myself really bored which rarely happens to me, as sitting still doing nothing is my favourite pastime, regardless of the colourful talky stuff in front of me.

In no particular order:

My dislike started early. As if the kids racing through Nevada listening to Elvis didn't put the era into context, Indy had to live through a fucking nuclear explosion?!??! Setting the era was hammered so hard, they lost 20mins of movie.

What's with the CGI fricking animals? Gophers were bad enough, the monkeys were a step too far. The whole Tarzan thing, just no.

Fencing on the trucks. When it looks like CGI in this day and age, don't do it!

They totally wasted the use of Marion and their relationship was a pastiche of itself.

I became obsessed in looking to see if Blanchett had a camels toe in those trousers!

ALIENS?!?! If there's one thing the franchise didn't need, it's bloody aliens! OK, so they had to think of something bigger than the Holy Grail, that's kinda tough, but INTER-DIMENSIONAL ALIENS????

I've ranted myself into forgetting the other issues I had......

I was most upset by the whole ordeal and now need to watch the first three movies to see if they were equally shallow and rubbish to decide if it's just nostalgia that caused my distress. To put it into context, The Last Crusade is my first real experience of seeing a film at the cinema that just blew me away when I was 9 years old.

EDIT - Actually, just to temper my rant. There were 2 good bits! The fight in the diner and the killer ants. I covered my eyes during some of the killer ant antics.

[paladin]

the fight at the diner was probably the most unexpected and best "era" defining moments in the movie.

karen allen didnt age well at all. the latest movie i saw her in before this was 15 years ago and she was still very pretty(sandlot). feel kind of bad.