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

Might as well change the Nazi's guns to walkie talkies...


I don't think my heart could take it

Swastikas become have a nice day stickers.

The Ark becomes "universal faith bucket"

And Indiana Jones starts using condoms.

And thus you have just described the end of the universe!

Raiders was incredible... the best movie of them all... proof is with the vilian that pulls out the weird metal poles attached by chains, and begins to manipulate it... into a hanger!!  I remember seeing that as a kid, the suspense and release was awesome.

Last Crusade had Sean Connery... that and it had the famous "No Ticket" line

Temple of Doom... well, I liked the mad magazine version better, but Short Long was one of the few kids added to a movie of adults that actually was fun... and it had the "You call him Dr. Jones!! Doll!"

KotCS had some fun reminicing scenes that made it enjoyable... like how every movie started with the paramount logo fading into the view of a mountain... this time it was a prarie dog hill..  cute, and the "I've got a bad feeling about this" line homage to Star Wars... a nice little inside joke.  The scene in the graveyard was well done, and it was cool to see Dr. Jones in action again.  The physics of this movie was TERRIBLE though.  Sorry, if the magnetic field is strong enough to get gunpowder to fly through the air, their guns would be at least significantly pulled as well.  Fridges aren't great places to hide from a Nuclear Explosion, and how much squish would he feel when that fridge landed?  And the ending was very silly... the Indy movies were always kinda fantasy sci-fi in a low level almost lovecraftian hidden from the common man's sight kind of way.  Actually, it was the ending I think everyone hated the most... I mean, we already saw this episode of Star-Gate with the crystal skull and the aliens and the other dimension... and star-gate did it not only first but better.  The other crazy action scenes, I wasn't as upset about... they were modernish romps, and not the classic action scenes we grew up with and loved.  Now that they have the technology, they will continue to go over the top with the cartoonish nature film is taking on, and we will complain about it, just like our grandparents complained that the Errol Flynn was the greatest action hero, and the explosions and craziness of the original Indiana Jones movie was over the top with the whole melting faces and death by propeller.

So in the end, I did enjoy watching this latest Indiana Jones movie.  Not sure if it's #3 or #4, as there are some things in Temple I didn't like.  But I think it will be like indepenence day was for me... I didn't like it at first, then I came to enjoy it for what it was.  A movie that didn't worry about the plot making sense... only that the plot had the appropriate pieces to it so it could fit in all the scenes and inside jokes they wanted to lace it with.

I have to agree with every negative review written. I felt it was slap-dashed together just to get it done. There was no atmosphere. Just constant action. Id have to almost say it was too modern. I was extremely disappointed.

I have to agree with Mike.  I enjoyed it for what it was... or wasn't for that matter... 

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