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- BinaryDelt, on 05/26/2008, -28/+116George Lucas managed to ruin Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Quite an achievement.
- Doomsan, on 05/26/2008, -1/+84Those Russians have the worst aim ever!
- diigero, on 05/26/2008, -28/+104It didn't really feel like an Indy movie though...
- punchinelli, on 05/26/2008, -11/+84The overuse of CGI and alien plot ruined the movie. The scenes which felt the most nostalgic and true to the series were the ones where they did the smallest amount of effects - the motorcycle chase was great.
Most of the action scenes just seemed flat out fake. Green screen FTL. - NeoCortex, on 05/26/2008, -1/+68To be fair, the movie could have been Indiana Jones dancing an Irish Jig for 2 hours and the movie would have broken $100 million.
It's Indiana Jones, everybody is going to see it. The real test is how it performs it's second week. - inactive, on 05/26/2008, -5/+62A few times during the movie I felt like they had some of the magic back, but the real way to judge a movie it how you feel after you walk out. My overall experience of the film was that there were a few good scenes but a horrible story and very weak ending made it feel like a rehash and an excuse to take everyone down memory lane.
- wendelgee2, on 05/26/2008, -0/+46They're the same extras that played storm troopers, that's why.
- ebonn101, on 05/26/2008, -1/+47Just because you *CAN* create a stupid freaking prairie dog via CGI and choose to open the film with it, and for whatever reason keep showing it again over and over for a Jar Jar Binks-esque attempt at comic relief, doesn't mean you SHOULD.
Just because you CAN have Shia Lebouf swinging through the CGI forest like Tarzan doesn't mean you SHOULD...correction, just because you CAN cast Shia Lebouf in the movie at all doesn't mean you SHOULD.
Just because you CAN make Marion Ravenwood, the once strongwilled woman who apparently raised her son alone, turn into a mushy gushy heap for Indy to suddenly sweep off her feet doesn't mean you SHOULD. - pennvneff, on 05/26/2008, -2/+48Toward the end of this flick I was wondering if Jar Jar Binks was going to show up.
- TexasFlood93, on 05/26/2008, -6/+44SPOILER ALERT
Did the aliens ruin it for anyone else?
END SPOILERS - inactive, on 05/26/2008, -11/+49This movie does not deserve to carry the Indy name. The other movies had a few unbelievable parts, but this one was just ridiculous!
5 words for ya:
Refrigerator
Tarzan
Niagara
Ants
Greys - aleishman, on 05/26/2008, -19/+55I wish I had read some of the blogs about how bad this movie was. The CGI, effects and the ending were very poor.
Maybe I'm just too damn old. - juliandunbar11, on 05/26/2008, -1/+33THEIR TREASURE WAS KNOWLEDGE
- RandomGuySteve, on 05/26/2008, -3/+34Yeah.. it sucks that they banned and burned all copies of the old movies so that no one could watch them again after you were born.
- paulrus, on 05/26/2008, -3/+34This movie was like Lucas and Spielberg got together and decided to make a movie that was LIKE an Indy movie, but not actually try very hard. The entire alien plot is way outside the realm of the first 3 movies - those all dealt with spiritual realms of fantasy. Bringing in Area51 and the whole alien plot just wrecked it for me. Had they gone with a plot where the crystal skull had some sort of archaeological significance and then added in a spiritual/fantasy element to it, the film would have fit right in with the other 3. But this was just Indy meets Close Encounters.
Additionally, there were so many simply poorly written elements - the thing is "magnetic" but only to certain things at certain times (which just so happen to fit that particular moment of the plot). Indy has always had moments of "that's totally impossible, but I'm going to let it go because it's a movie" but they always were at least barely plausible. This one had moments where it was just plain silly - swinging with the monkeys???
Harrison Ford has held up well and really did a great job overall - but honestly Lucas and Spielberg jumped the shark with this one. I imagine the two of them sitting down and discussing how they could just phone in another Indy movie and it's a license to print free money. - laterthandawn, on 05/26/2008, -1/+32Why do I feel like studios are constantly coming up with new variations on criteria to make every ***** release sound record breaking? "Second biggest opening on a full moon Friday in August!"
"Second biggest MEMORIAL DAY opening?" The Blockbuster format really emerged in like the 70s...so, say 30 Memorial Days, give or take, since then...so, 2nd of 30. And I'm guessing this includes the Thurs - Mon tally...wonder if they included that in '78. Whatever...it's not bad, of course, but kinda freaking silly. They can't just say it topped the box office, it needs to break some strangely-concocted record. - alantocheri, on 05/26/2008, -2/+29Lucas and other film makers lately suffer from what I like to call "animated GIF syndrome".
Just because they CAN do something in a movie because of today's technology, doesn't mean they should, and in such large quantities. - inactive, on 05/26/2008, -3/+28Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is, by far, my favorite Indy movie. I they don't make movies like the used to.
- paranoiabacon, on 05/26/2008, -2/+22the "box office gold" was actually knowledge.
- lasertows, on 05/26/2008, -9/+29but George Lucas doesn't... this movie was a huge disappointment for me
- petska, on 05/26/2008, -3/+23Loved the first three, but this was a painful one to watch
- archer75, on 05/26/2008, -2/+21I saw the movie yesterday. It kinda sucked. The story was very weak. Way too much CGI that was simply not needed. So much of the movie felt like filler for a weak story. And aliens and spaceships have no place in an Indy movie.
- SilentRamble42, on 05/26/2008, -4/+20I'm a wee 19 year old, and I think I was too old for it.
- inactive, on 05/26/2008, -1/+17Maybe he can do a sequel to Howard the Duck thats worth watching?
- DermDoc, on 05/26/2008, -27/+42Wow. Indy's still got it.
- AmericanGunner, on 05/26/2008, -0/+15you can REALLY tell which what parts of the movie lucas put down his bong to give his input. i.e. the entire ending.
- stateofmind, on 05/26/2008, -1/+16Lets not go that far... :) National Treasure 2 was atrocious. I'd rather see Indy giving a 2 hour lecture (even in his bow tie), then watch Nicholas Cage trying to be a Indy type.
I liked most of the new Indy, except for ending. (sadly, where most of Lucas's damned ideas got in) - inactive, on 05/26/2008, -2/+17The alien aspect of it was ruined because it was so over the top.
- psylence, on 05/26/2008, -0/+15Would have been a decent X-Files movie. Not Indiana Jones... :(
- ShugNinx21, on 05/26/2008, -4/+19Magic Rocks
Magic Blood
Heart Removal
Mine Cart Chase
Leap from plane in Raft - sab0tage, on 05/26/2008, -0/+14It would have been better if they had remained dead. At least then I wouldn't be thinking "why did one alien not mind having his head removed by a conquistador"?
- synwolf, on 05/26/2008, -18/+32Are you kidding me? I came away with the impression that it was just like the other ones. The cheesiness was just exaggerated a little bit by all the special effects, but it was always there.
The only thing that felt un-Indy to me was that Shia LeBeouf character. I don't need that kid showing up in every random movie I watch with his wanna-be-badass-but-really-just-a-comic-relief character. - wendelgee2, on 05/26/2008, -2/+16"the space between spaces"!
- inactive, on 05/26/2008, -4/+17SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This movie sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - inactive, on 05/26/2008, -0/+12Jar Jar
- ShugNinx21, on 05/26/2008, -2/+14Has Indy ever been hit by any bullets in any of the movies? Ever?
Indiana Jones is not a realistic movie series, never has been, and shouldn't be. - VanillaIcee, on 05/26/2008, -1/+13the series officially nuked the fridge
- inactive, on 05/26/2008, -5/+16I took my grandson to see it last night. I was expecting more that what I got.
It just didn't make a lot of sense. Russians, aliens, mythical crystal skulls. It seemed to contrived. The ending made no sense.
My expectations were too high, I wanted another Raiders or Crusade, I wound up with something closer to Temple. It wasn't Alien4/Letha Weapon 4 bad, it just wasn't that good. - Portagine, on 05/26/2008, -1/+11This movie really stunk.
- archer75, on 05/26/2008, -0/+10yes
- theoristbj, on 05/26/2008, -0/+10Short Round?
- ritzcracker, on 05/26/2008, -0/+10Yeah where was the witty dialogue and characters that we could actually care about?
- kcdstudios, on 05/26/2008, -0/+9"they all had one problem, they weren't you"
*facepalm*
much different than "i hate fast women, and i hate arrogant men" - LeggoMyEgo, on 05/26/2008, -1/+10As much as I wanted to like it, if you had taken the exact same plot and peripheral characters and made it as a non-Indy movie, it would have been a huge nothing, same as Temple of Doom. I did enjoy it, it just didn't feel like a real Indy movie.
- RyomaNagare, on 05/26/2008, -0/+9Ok yes Indy always dealt with supernatural, but there is awesome supernatural, and then there is throwing aliens into it, and not regular aliens from mars, noooooo we get inter-dimensional beings from the dimension between dimensions, come on, the ending would have been a 1000 times better leaving the aliens dead, How did this guys think that the marvel of finding a lost alien civilization on earth, would be eclipsed by a stupid cg saucer destroying stuff.
- BinaryDelt, on 05/26/2008, -2/+11Harrison Ford was the only redeeming quality of the movie. Remember, the new Star Wars had Ewan McGregor, who did a fantastic job. They still sucked though.
- squelched, on 05/26/2008, -3/+12ya the movie was crap by indiana jones standards..
- inactive, on 05/26/2008, -2/+10The difference was in the first three movies those events were far and few, in this movie it seemed we had a new thing happening every couple of minutes.
The giant ants, Miriam driving the boat/car off the cliff, surviving the waterfall three times, on and on and on. - SilentRamble42, on 05/26/2008, -2/+10Plot?
- diggdiggerid, on 05/26/2008, -19/+27The previous Indiana Jones movies had just as ***** a plot and unrealistic events as this one, the only difference is now you are old enough to realize it. ***** angels flying out of a box and jumping out of an airplane and surviving, anyone?
edit: That doesn't mean they're not fun, but take them for what they are, a mindless action movie that should be enjoyable, not some thesis that needs to be dissected for factual verification. -
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