I watched it with my son and it breaks down like this:
- terrible first hour or so
- terrific final sequences, once Indy snaps out of it and they make their escape
Crystal Skull is better. Yes, I mean it.
Five minute golf clap
Tell me it ain’t so, Joe!
I mean, with no Shia LeBoeuf or CGI monkeys or that fridge, this has got to be a little better, no?
Like this…
I’d call that “aggressively dismissive”.
I have no serious feelings on the movie either way, but I just have to mention that there’s a short-circuit in my brain that forces me to read the title as “Indiana Jones and the Dildo of Destiny” every goddamn time. Which, honestly, would be a pretty interesting movie, though targeted at a different audience.
And probably already exists on Pornhub…
So far at Rotten Tomatoes it is only getting 51% approval from film reviewers–pretty poor for a movie which cost $300 million to make:
It wasn’t directed by Spielberg. End of story. An Indiana Jones sequel not directed by Steven Spielberg is as pointless as a Pulp Fiction sequel not directed by Quentin Tarantino.
ToD is a terrible film but a great console game.
Crystal Skull just pushed the suspension of disbelief way beyond breaking point too many times, but at least it had Karen Allen in it.
I don’t care which way around they get ranked - they’re both stupid even for the genre.
It’s out here in Australia, and I went to the first session at my local cinema. It’s great! I loved it all! It really feels like a proper Indiana Jones movie, it has all the elements in exactly the right balance, and goes in directions I didn’t expect. If you’re on the fence, definitely go see it.
I have no idea what all the trolling rumours were about, because they were way off. Clearly entirely made up out of whole cloth.
I’ve got a ticket for Saturday afternoon. I’m hoping it will be good (like the first and third movies).
Trolling rumors?
There’s a thought.
Way back when the two movie franchises were getting started, their creators went to Satan to bid on success for their movies.
Satan said he could only guarantee success for one franchise. So they started quarreling among themselves about who would gain that success.
Becoming bored with the argument, Satan said they could divvy up one franchise’s worth of success between the two of them.
Spielberg said quickly “I’ll take the odd numbered films!”
Roddenberry said, “I guess that leaves me with the evens.”
It would explain so much…
A lot of trolls and later legitimate news sites were reporting plot leaks, which were convincing a lot of gullible people that the story would go in lame directions, so they were pre-emptively critically lambasting the movie before seeing it.
None of those rumoured plot threads were true. It was all lies made up by trolls.
Oh, I see. Glad to hear. I’m glad to be going in blind on, most likely, Saturday of this week.
I saw Kingdom of the Crystal Skull totally blind and always liked it a lot, been very surprised these past 15(!) years to see that is so widely panned.
I’ll give it a thumbs up. I’m not a tough reviewer, so I won’t criticize the “you led them right TO the thing!” aspect of the movie. It’s VERY Indiana Jones, though. Nazis want a thing, Indy doesn’t want them to get the thing, Indy finds the thing first, Nazis steal it from him.
GREAT chase with a Tuk Tuk through Tangier. Funny moments, cheering moments, nostalgic moments, Nazis getting what they deserve.
They’re lying, its hot garbage and because Pheobe Waller Bridge is in it, they won’t give it the one start it truly deserves.
Just another film in a long list of wrecked franchises by Disney
I love when people say that someone who likes a movie they don’t is “lying.”
I saw it last night, I thought it was fun, though nowhere near as good as the original trilogy. It’s too long with too many similar chase scenes. It’s way better than Crystal Skull though.
I saw it last night too and this was my biggest complaint about it. I enjoyed it and I am going to see if my daughter wants to go see it this weekend. I don’t know if it’s better than Temple of Doom, but they are close I would say.
They missed at the very end, Marion should have said here on her forehead and then lips like Indy did in Raiders. Why did she point at her shoulder?