Me too. Honestly I didn't think this even deserved to be included in the
Indiana Jones canon. Temple of Doom blew this one away.
I don't care if this thing is going to make thee hundred million bones. The
original trilogy should have been kept holy by using one of Indy's favorite
lines: "They all belong in a museum!" They should have been left alone.
Now we have to allow this fourth film to taint the brilliance of the first
three.
SPOILERS BELOW!
Ok, first thing, which is also the WORST thing. Aliens. Come on Steven,
couldn't think of anything else up to Indy's standards of archaeology?
Second thing. What the heck was up with Mac (Ray Winstone's character)?
First he's a good guy, one of Indy's best mates. Well, nope, he's a bad
guy. Then, oh wait a minute, he's really a good guy again. Whoops, fooled
you again, he's really, really a bad guy. Then he dies. Should have made
that last item first. What a joke.
Third. Harrison had none of the gusto he once had. Blame it on his age,
but he was trying to make it look easy, and instead made it look hard. His
lines were delivered with none of the flair of the previous films. The
physicality of the first three films were part of what made Indy Indy.
Period. This movie didn't have it. You could almost pick out his stunt
double, because they used him about a hundred times.
Fourth. Shia Lebeouf. What was his role exactly? Apart from being named
"Mutt", and who's character is a mutt with no real pedigree. Is this the
guy that's supposed to pick up Indy's hat at the end and be our new friendly
neighborhood archaeologist? I'll pass thank you very much.
Fifth thing that should have put as number two: Indy survives a nuclear
blast by hiding in a refrigerator. What!?!? Was this an attempt at a
gritty Jason Bourne 'do what it takes to survive' moment?
Lastly. How about a coherent script. First it's a warehouse raid, then a
nuke going off, then back to school, throw in Jim Broadbent to replace
Denholm Elliot (RIP), then Indy gets fired, meets up with the son he never
knew he had, finds a rickity, insane John Hurt, throw in a chase with cars
and a mutant army of man-eating red ants, which culminates in a crystal
skull that is really an alien, who finally meets up with (sorry, "Returns"
to) his six buddies who then fly their spaceship back to Mars.
Wish I would have saved my seven bucks, and imagined a movie far better than
this grab for a little extra franchise payout. Had to rinse out the
aftertaste of this one.
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 5:00 PM, channinglylethomson <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Saw it yesterday. Thought it was a real dud! Channing
>
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