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At the end, when the Russians were following the good guys into the city of gold, how did they get down there? We clearly saw the stairs moving into the wall to the point where the good guys fell down into the water. However, none of the Russians looked any worse for the wear or even wet when they charged into the room.
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probably absailed, thats how they got down the cliff face.
Anyway’s, Just back from second helpings. We’re done with spoiler boxes, surely?
1: I think Spalko could have been introduced as the baddie in a much better way; as it is, she just comes across as a very good communist, sent to do a job. There’s nothing particularly evil about the woman, she just wants to win a war for her country. I was hoping that she would shoot the tyres out of the hotrod in the opening scenes, killing the kids, setting her up as a take-no-shit kinda gal.
2: The fridge; The seven hundred people in the theater tonight all groaned when Indy emerged unscathed. There’s no reason for Indy to have to survive a nuclear blast, other than that awesomely cool shot of him silhouetted against the mushroom cloud. That was awesome.
3: Yep, he cracks the whip TWICE in the movie; to disarm a guard, then to swing towards the jeep. THATS IT.
4: Mutt’s opening scene in the diner, explaining about Oxley and Marion being kidnapped, is SO clunky. There’s such a concentrated dose of exposition, that even on second helpings, I was lost.
5: Again, bronze statues aren’t as tough as they should be. Hitting one will dislodge it’s head, instead of just denting the statue, as I would have thought. Are bronze statues not all one piece? Seemingly not.
6: In my mind, the character of Oxley isn’t really vital to the plot. They could have written him out. As it is, John Hurt annoyed the piss out of me. Henry..Jones… JUNIOR! If I heard that one more time, I was gonna barf. John Hurt is to Indy 4 as jar Jar Binks is to Episode 1.
7: Why is Spalko trying to run Indy off the cliff? She needs him to bring her to the temple! If thats not th’ case, why not just shoot him in the camp?
8: The waterfalls. This is gow I would have played it; Three Times They Drop! have the first waterfall to be a wee bitty thing. The second, not much better. Have indy say hey, this isn’t too bad! Then BANG, the big massive waterfall. Funnier, I think. As it is, you could practically hear every eye in the theater rolling.
9: Mac’s change of heart is strange; he dies a noble death, even though seconds earlier, he was stuffing his pockets with jewels. Given his character up to then, he would have clung onto Indy, and even dragged him with him. He wouldnt just give up.
10: Loved Indy’s “I’ve got a bad feeling about this…”. Brilliant.
11: They’re not spacemen, they’re “Interdimensional Beings”. That line is delivered as if them being spacemen was some crazy notion. Also, they’ve gone to “the space BETWEEN spaces”. I smiled at this line, because it was SO '50s sci-fi.
12: The swirling temple vortex at the end looked practically IDENTICAL to the end of The Mummy Returns. Again, another fantastic shot of Indy watching the saucer rise.
13: Questions; what is the book that Jim Broadbent takes out of the drawer at the end? Also, when Mutt tosses his knife to Indy in the truck to cut his bonds, there’s a tearing noise, following Mutt sayiong “Oh shit”. It looked like Indy cut his pants, or stabbed himself in the arse, but nothing came of it. What was going on there? And would it have killed them to have Short Round at the wedding?
I’m finding it very hard to Love or Hate this movie. It’s just so… Meh.
How sad is that?
