Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: possibly late

I saw this the other day with Brendan, Liz and Dave.  I got to say...I'm not sure I liked it too much.  It wasn't a bad movie..but it wasn't Indy and there were several parts (especially the ending) that just had me staring at sheer disbelief at the screen.  Overall, I rate this one below Temple of Doom (which I happen to like)

Agreed.  All the elements were there - the whip, the villans, the hat, the ruins, the maps, the waterfalls, the temple, the natives, the local insects, etc. - but it wasn't the same.  The MacGuffin (the Skull itself) and the ending just weren't... Indy enough.

I especially hated.

"Wow..this skull is reaaaallly special.  Almost unhumanly special.  You know whats really special? This skull.  Look how special it is.."

Damn it George Lucas, we all ready figured the skull out in the first 20 minutes of the film.  Ahead of you here Georgie...

Joe,

I am right there with you, While I like Spielberg and Lucas and they are both responsible for some of the greatest movies out there...I cant help but feeling a little gipped from Indy. Sure it was a decent movie and I did not leave the cinema wanting my money back, but I did leave scratching my head wondering where and when the highpoint was...I just feel Lucas had finally lost the plot and this time taken poor Steven with him.

I think the problem is George Lucas can't write a bit of dialogue worth a damn..or a script for that matter.  So in his first few movies (the original trilogy and IJ trilogies) he writes the script, a scriptdoctor looks at it and goes "wow this script has more wooden parts in it then Jellystone Park" and then rewrites it.  But now George has it in his head that he did good the last few times so has final rewrites on the scripts thus giving us such winners as "If your not with me..then you are my enemy." and "Hold me Annie like you did on Naboo."

Aside from the novelty of Harrison Ford all gussied up as Indiana Jones again, this movie had no redeeming qualities. 

I had many of the same problems with this movie as I did with the secone Pirates movie.  Just like in Pirates, when they're fighting on that water wheel for 20 damn minutes, this movie asked to to suspend disbelief for too long.  I understand it's a movie, and so I'm alright with some ridiculousness, but when you've got people swordfighting on top of speeding cars, it just shouldn't last longer than a few minutes.  And swinging through the jungle from vine to vine should just never happen.  Ever.  Unless you're Brendan Fraser.

Even worse than that though was just the overall direction they went with the plot.  I was fine with the concept of "ohh maybe this skull isn't human", until the end.  Then it was just rediculous.  Since when has Indiana Jones been a Sci-Fi movie?

This was far and away the worst Indiana Jones film of the series.  It was seriously terrible.

--Skimmel