Posted on 05/20/2008 11:37:58 PM PDT by drzz
Today, at one past midnight, I have seen the latest Indiana Jones movie.
Like many among you, I presume, I was a fan of that American raider travelling all over the world to look for treasures.
A BIG warning : the latest Indy is absolutely AWFUL. This is the worst thing you can imagine. Actors are nuts, there are so many special effects even when Spielberg said he wouldn't use them, the screeplay is ridiculous.
This is a nightmare, and I really encourage fans to boycott it. This is a shame, far away from the original Indiana Jones trilogy.
Even Ford seems to not believe in the crap he is playing in. Not to say the ghost Shia Lebeouf, whose performance is pathetic.
The first 30 minutes are great. But when Jones begins to look for the Krystal Skull, all the movie collapses.
Beware, big failure ahead.
Mainstream media is supporting it only to support a failing industry like Hollywood. But this... thing should deserve below zero star.
Indiana Jones will be forever a trilogy, and this thing will be forgotten. Shame on Spielberg and Lucas to have produced such horror.
Critics Cheer Return of Indiana Jones in New Film
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017872/posts
And would that be a sign that the movie is good, or that it is bad?
It would be impossible to be worse than the 2nd Indy movie with the gawdawful actress as his sidekick and the annoying kid whose presence was more grating than Jar Jar binks in Star Wars.
This Indiana Jones is full of Jar Jar Binks humor.
CGI are everywhere. The jokes are really bad and George Lucas put in the movie a lot of pets to sell puppets and LEGOs.
The stunts are done with CGI - no realism.
Believe me, it’s a nightmare. And I am a big Indiana Jones fan.
It is absolutely disappointing.
The press is running for Indy IV in order to save a failing industry - Hollywood.
The French fans of Indy are mad. This is worse than you may think.
Leboeuf and Allen are awful. The script stops being interesting after the first half-hour and the final is just depressing.
Believe me, don’t hope a good movie, you will be disappointed. And I’m a huge fan of Indy.
I stayed the entire night awake to see the movie at midnight.
I’m a huge fan of Indy and I expected a lot of this new one.
I’m just trying to warn people : don’t expect much, or you will be disappointed, probably angry.
It’s just an advise from someone who has loves Indy for 20 years.
Is it even worse than “Pirates of the Caribbean—At World’s End”? That was the lamest sequel EVER.
I live in France. The movie has been released on the night of Tuesday-Wednesday, at 12.01
I didn’t spoil ! I didn’t describe any part of the movie. I just gave my overall impression.
The French fans of Indy are depressed. I just don’t want Americans to expect much and feel betrayed the same way I did.
It is FAR worse than the Temple of Doom.
I don’t know what happened to Spielberg, but he just lost his nerves.
The lines are extremly mediocre. Gosh, there are things in that movie that remind Jar-Jar Binks in the Phantom Menace... !
Different tastes, I guess. The second was my favorite.
Sounds to me like you expected too much. The Indy series, good installations and bad, has always been about fun romps with incredibly thin and patently silly plots.
What got to me was how SERIOUSLY the program took all that breathless excitement. And, these are the guys who call US kooks for believing in God. I took it as long as I could, but they lost me in Sedona. LOL!
What got to me was how SERIOUSLY the program took all that breathless excitement. And, these are the guys who call US kooks for believing in God. I took it as long as I could, but they lost me in Sedona. LOL!
Far worse. Some stunts are made for children, in the same way Lucas did in the 1st movie of the Star Wars trilogy.
There are good ideas at the beginning, but the 2/3 of the movie are awful.
Not bad, just awful.
I still don’t realize I have been waiting 19 years for this. So don’t take this as a man who hates blockbuster. I just love them. I love Indiana Jones and have seen the movies thousand times. But this latest has nothing to do with Jones. It is more a bad mix between the Mummy and Benjamin Gates, without a real screenplay.
I’m trying to warn people around me, especially Indy fans. They will go see it anyway but they will be prepared and not as shocked as I was.
No, believe me.
YOU just expect the minimum of an Indy movie, as I did.
You don’t expect what you gonna see. There are fans crying in the forums of France, and other are asking wether it would be necessary to collect signatures in order to avoid the “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” to be part of the Indiana Jones saga.
I won’t spoil, so just remember these words.
Here is the Google translation of the comments French fans left on my blog : http://chfr.babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&url=http%3A%2F%2Fleblogdrzz.over-blog.com%2Farticle-19752752.html&lp=fr_en&fr=avbbf-ch_fr
” Gosh, there are things in that movie that remind Jar-Jar Binks in the Phantom Menace... !”
ACK! Garlic and crosses are required to ward off the vampires of bad movie memories!
You don't have any sympathy from me if you stay at midnight to watch a movie and you ended up not liking it. That's the risk you took.
You expected a lot? What did you expect? To have that childhood thrill you had 27 years ago with Raiders? Sounds to me like the problem is with your unrealistic expectations. It is only a popcorn movie, not Francis Truffaut. It is entertainment for a couple of hours. Even George Lucas said to just sit back and enjoy it for what it is. I expect to see a homage to the old serials of the 1930's, like Gene Autry's 'The Phantom Empire', have some fun, and a few laughs. That's it. I don't expect to have the deep philosophical enlightenment of Stanley Kubrick 's "2001" or the greatest action movie ever made.
Like I said previously, this is the same banshee cries the Star Wars fans laid out for all the prequels. It was nauseating then, as it is now. As Bill Shatner once said, "Get a life, will ya people." It's only a movie.
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