I respect you guys. I am debating whether it is worth seeing AT ALL (there
are very few "name" movies I skip altogether, because sometimes I find I
like ones the general public doesn't). As sequels go, would you say it is
kind of a "Godfather Part III"?
Bruce
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 7:18 PM, dsonesheets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 5:00 PM, channinglylethomson <
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>> Saw it yesterday. Thought it was a real dud! Channing
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