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| Time Mage 2678th Post
 
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|  "Indiana Jones & Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" , posted Fri 23 May 02:18
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, I mean. Damn character limit in the titles :P
Well, I just arrived after watching it, and I must say, I really liked it. Don't expect anything new, or surprising. And that's not bad, it's a damn solid, well filmed adventure movie, with a Harrison Ford that doesn't look like he is 60 years old, awesome action scenes, a great female villian, and a 100% Indy feeling in it.
I won't post spoilers, not even under spoiler tags, since it's still too early. We'll discuss the finer details later. Until then, I just can say I loved it!
"News flash big guy: You can wax on wax off all you want I'm still... KICKIN' YOUR ASS!"
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| Undead Fred 2974th Post
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| "Re(5):Indiana Jones & Kingdom of the Crystal" , posted Sat 24 May 13:47
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Temple of Doom was fine. A little racist and/or typecast but otherwise fine.
Of course if you think about it all characters of Indiana Jones are racist/stereotypical.
Indiana is the typical smart-ass American, all the Germans are uber evil Nazis, the Arabs are sword wielding shiekhs, and now the Russians are Boris and Natasha all over again, but that is what made the movies fun in an odd non-PC way.
IN BEFORE RETARDED RACIAL DISCUSSION \( ' v ' )/
I saw this one with my friends from work the other day. I went in with really low expectations, so I wasn't really disappointed. I expected a should-have-quit-while-you-were-ahead movie with a tired, aging Indy and that's what I got. It was well-made, and the Russians were kind of fun, so overall I enjoyed it. I wasn't really on the edge of my seat at any point, but it's okay because I didn't expect to be.
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I was dreading the direction that the movie was going when the Roswell casket showed up, though... the whole alien thing was stupid, in my opinion. And I really wanted to see something freaky happen to the main villain, since the previous main villains usually have melted faces by the time the adventure's over. Catching fire was okay, I guess... I did like the ant pile death, though.
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Anyway, if you're expecting a great Indy adventure like the old ones, you'll get little spurts of it here and there, but you might leave disappointed. But if you're prepared to just be entertained a bit and then go home like I was, then go for it.
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| Sensenic 1617th Post
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| "Re(7):Indiana Jones & Kingdom of the Crystal" , posted Sun 25 May 20:22
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(Temple of Doom) has nothing wrong. But some people think Nazis are the only possible enemies for Indy.
Seconded.
It's a little different, but not worse than the other two, IMHO.
On the contrary, it's ok to have some originality/variation, seeing the 4th going back to repeating exactly the 1st and 3rd's formula disappointed me a little (not much because I was already expecting it though).
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One question about KotCS: is Indy older in the story or do they just hide it with Movie Magic(tm)?
He's 20 years older. Like Harrison Ford. But you'll only notice because the film tells you: Indy in action doesn't look old.
Yup, they managed the aging really well, IMHO.
As well as Shia's character and Indy's "old/new generation" relationship with him.
If anything, perhaps, the only problem was precisely the "the movie tells you" part. They made so many "you're so old, man" jokes and comments that it got a little tiresome.
You almost end up thinking "yes, we get the joke, Indy's older but still kicking, move along..."
As for my review....
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Completely agree with Fred on the alien thing (oh well, extradimensional beings. Wuteva).
I didn't like the ending being so explicit. They HAD to put a flying saucer, hadn't they?
I'd have enjoyed it a lot more if it was left just insinuating the possibility but leaving it as a supernatural thing altogether, just like the previous ones (i.e. neither God himself appeared in the first or third movies, nor Shiva or Kali in the second, even if their existence/presence was heavily implied because of all the Ark's/Shankara Stones'/Grail's supernatural properties.)
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That, and the plot, while it has never been Indy's strongest point, it felt less worked on (ironic, considering how it took them so long) as the other three. There are quite lots of incongruencies here and there, or things that felt like they were put there just for the heck of it.
See: "indian-ninjas" in cemetery. Or background:
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How did the skull get taken out of the 13 guys' chamber in the first place?
Also, no Indy "genius archaeologist" work. Crazy Prof. Oak with the skull had done all the job, all Indy had to do was follow his deductions. And when they were in need, there comes ol' man ploth4x with the skull and solves the problem.
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Other than that, I really enjoyed it a lot, specially the first half or so, till they go to Peru. The typical Indy scenes were really well executed, the comedy scenes such as the library, were funny, and the nuclear blast scene was so lovely cheesy... XD
In short: bad plot, great execution.
Oh, except the monkeys. That screamed "Lucas' doing!" and "Ewoks!" so badly it hurt. u.u
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