Indiana Jones 4

[BrianC]

I was imagining a short guy with a pointed hat and a small mustache next to Cate Blanchet's character throughout the movie.

[Ceph]

Indy says that he could teach in Leipzig next.

I took that as sarcasm...

Actually, that may be a good way to look at the whole script.

[Turrican]

No-one in their right mind would have gone there on his own free will.

Well, no one in their right mind would vote for Ike either!

[Jon]

I would give it a C+. The vine swinging scene with the monkeys was just stupid.

I did get to see a very cool extended trailer for Hancock though.

[undamned]

I'm too tired to read through the previous pages, but my short assessment was Indiana Jones 4 is to Indiana Jones what SW Episode 1 was to Starwars (i.e. not a good thing).
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[t0yrobo]

I thought it was pretty good. Indiana Jones has always been a kinda campy actionfest without much else. While they went a little overboard with the ridiculous stuff (monkeys, wtf) I think it actually fit pretty well with the whole USSR/aliens plot they had going.
What bugs me though is that apparently George Lucas has the ability to make the guys at ILM looks like a bunch of amateurs. From all the other movies they've done it's pretty clear that they're one of the better special effects houses out there. But in this movie and the star wars prequels they just suck.

[Ed Oscuro]

What bugs me though is that apparently George Lucas has the ability to make the guys at ILM looks like a bunch of amateurs.

That's because the idiot stands around their computers and tells them HOW IT MUST BE and makes little racer pod/monkey noises.

"Gee aren't you going to polish that up?"
"No...it's HOW IT MUST BE"
"Ah...I see"

[MX7]

Does anyone else reckon that Cate Blanchet should play Franziska von Karma in a Phoenix Wright movie? I know she's not 19, but stranger things have happened.

All throughout the film me and my girlfriend were going "Mr Wright, you foolish man!" in her dodgy accent. This middle aged couple told us to shut up. Then I accidentally sprayed beer all over them. They didn't say anything lol.

[Ceph]

Wait a second, we haven't even mentioned the worst flaw: CGI gophers. I bet they were Lucas' idea.

Of all bad CGI critters, those were certainly the worst. When I saw the first of them at the beginning of the movie, I died a little inside.

[Ghegs]

Just saw this today. I was entertained the whole time, though I might've preferred the plot stay in the more traditional mythological place instead of going for the 50's sci-fi thing in the end. Still, good show.

[Minzoku]

May as well add my bit:

Oddly enough, and it feels weird to say, I thought Indy needed to be more like National Treasure[!!!]. Why I like Last Crusade best is the whole "follow the clues, find the goal" thing--you know, the intellectual scavenger hunt dealie that Da Vinci Code was trying to be. It felt much more like something an archaeologist would do, after all.

Fight/chase scenes were great, but unlike with Speed Racer, I wouldn't see it again just for those.

I'm too tired to read through the previous pages, but my short assessment was Indiana Jones 4 is to Indiana Jones what SW Episode 1 was to Starwars (i.e. not a good thing).
-ud

That's what I thought--is this how people felt after seeing Phantom Menace? [I didn't until after seeing AOTC, which blunted the edge a bit]

[it290]

I was imagining a short guy with a pointed hat and a small mustache next to Cate Blanchet's character throughout the movie.

Heh, me too. She was by far the best part of the movie, though. Her character was played with the perfect amount of camp.