Went to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. From the opening, I could at least appreciate we were getting typical Indiana Jones cheesy stunts. It's part of what's endearing about this franchise.
Then the Ukranian Dr. Mrs. Evil shows up, and immediately reminds me of a contestant on The Next Food Network Star.
Then we have a treasure map...with a riddle! Ooooh, I like where this is going!
Then we have a giant swarm of giant ants. I couldn't watch that part.
Then nothing quite unfolded in the direction it should have. There are aliens involved.
They had the option to go somewhere else with the script. They didn't.
What a waste.
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You went out on a school night? You're so cool.
*snort* It was the 4:40 showing.
La-la-la-la-la
I can't hear you! I am going to go to the movie and just enjoy it. Start to finish! Yes I am!
Ant swarms = good.
Aliens = good.
Swami <---optimist.
Well, I enjoyed everything but where the story went and I missed Sean Connery. :-)
And I wouldn't have given away the alien bit of the story, but considering it starts in Roswell, you get that figured out in the first two minutes.
I'm with Swami.
La-la-la-la=la
I will probably still go to see it because Michael will want to go. And it will give us a chance to hire our neighbor boy to watch Conner. I want to break him in gradually.
I saw it last week Kim. And agree with pretty much everything you just said.
It was okay, but after nearly twenty years of waiting, it was rather "meh."
Guess what the problem was.
That's right: LUCAS WROTE THE SCRIPT.
The man is a terrible, terrible writer. See Star Wars: Episode One. Or Episode Two. Or Episode Three. He could not write if someone held a gun to his head.
The thing that pissed me off about this movie, aside from the hideous script, was the fact that Indy apparently knew the answer to EVERY FREAKING PUZZLE immediately. The dude's speaking Mayan? AMAZING: Indy knows Mayan! Indy knows EVERYTHING in this movie.
Compare that with Raiders and the Last Crusade. Indy had to figure stuff out the hard way. That's why those movies ROCK.
(note: I do not consider Temple of Doom to be an Indy movie, because I prefer to imagine that it does not exist. It has Kate Capshaw, better known as Spielberg's wife, as Willie, and she destroys every second of the film)
Last Crusade was awesome, and I expected something closer to that.
Hm...I guess I never considered that Lucas isn't much of a writer. I can see your point!
I was always glad that Marion did not have to eat chilled monkey brains. From a monkey head. Temple of Doom is the least of the movies, that's for sure.
Ha! I disagree about TOD. I loved it! I don't really care for Karen Allen. I did love Crusade though.
I agree completely about Lucas. I think he has become such an egomaniac and no one that is around him can say he is insane or don't do that. He is far to interested in his special effects now and sadly it shows.
Yet he gets all huffy when the public criticize his story telling. See: Star Wars pre-equals.
My kids and DH went and saw it while I was at work yesterday. :( I do like Shia LaBeouf (sp??) so I might still see it. Plus I love anything with Roswell! I will probably think it was great now that my expectations have dropped, lol.
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