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| # Posted 2008-05-26 09:43:24 | |
| DInglis: | http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/indiana_jones_and_...
It's probably the worst of the 4 Indy movies, but it's still head and shoulders above almost everything else that's come out of Hollywood of late (well, except Iron Man). |
| # Posted 2008-05-28 01:49:07 | |
| kupackman: | Everything is just too implausible, even for Indiana Jones. Sword fighting on the backs of jeeps driving through the jungle? How are there roads that straight and smooth in 1950's Peru? (The similar fencing scene in the final Pierce Brosnan James Bond film puts that movie at the bottom of my Bond movie rankings...)
And everyone surviving three waterfalls? Come on! And giant human-eating ants? Ugh. And the warriors who popped out of the temple rocks? What? Just like the blowdart guy... where did that guy come from? And don't even get me started about the aliens. This isn't X-Files... |
| # Posted 2008-05-28 01:58:03 | |
| maprunner: | I think your expectations are too high... :)
A giant rock rolling through a cave in 1930's S America? Surviving tranatulas and snakes? Being dragged under a jeep for miles in the desert? Curing mortal woods with water from a cup? Finding a 700 year old man? How is this movie any different? :) I enjoyed it, but then, I had absolutely NO expectations |
| # Posted 2008-05-28 05:16:38 | |
| kupackman: | In the new movie, I didn't have a problem with all of the mechanical temple stuff similar to the famous giant rolling rock. That was kinda cool.
However, I need my action scenes more believeable. In the previous movies, being dragged under a jeep, fighting on top of a tank, etc, were believeable because either Harrison Ford or a stuntman was actually doing those things. The jungle-jeep-swordfight scene didn't feel real to me. However, the motorcycle chase scene through Yale was really good. As was most of the warehouse chase scene, until the rocket car and nuclear blast... Indy would have been cooked inside the fridge, despite being radiation free... I have similar feelings about Temple of Doom. The raft falling from the plane.... and then landing in the snow, sliding down and jumping a cliff? The roller coaster mine car? Temple of Doom doesn't get a lot of love from me, either. About the snakes in the chamber in Raiders... sure there were snakes, but they acted like snakes and were actually snakes. Giant human-eating ants just don't exist. How am I supposed to believe that? And now to address the spiritual stuff... I'm not religous, nor have I ever been, but I find the storylines with the Ark and Holy Grail fascinating, along with the presence of a higher power capable of melting faces, creating earthquakes, and curing mortal wounds. (The 700 year-old man was confined in the chamber with a cup that gave eternal life- I'm thinking it was the cup that helped him out, not good genes and regular exercise). I like these plotlines because wars have been waged, and people have been searching for these answers for so long. The history and the mythology involved creates an adventure with huge implications. The crystal skull and aliens doesn't seem as profound. Oh, there are these aliens that the pre-Columbians worshipped, and we happened to find a magnetic crystal skull that repels giant ants and turns brains into mush, let's go return it to the temple to get eternal knowledge? What? Had this been the first Indiana Jones, I might have liked it. But because the two best previous movies followed a similar theme --and this one severely broke course-- I didn't like it. And I have nothing against aliens (Star Wars, X-Files), nor unexplained supernatual powers (Lost). I didn't have any expectations until I saw the trailer. And I thought, "Oh, this looks bad." And I thought it was... /rant |
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