The Man said:Just look at Allen's smile in that photo. Positively demonic. She's a shoo-in for The Joker's mom in The Dark Knight's follow-on...
Crusade>Raiders said:Too soon?
The Man said:Nah. Trust me, there are far more disgraceful attitudes towards this guy's death floating around cyberspace. Far worse...
Crusade>Raiders said:Yeah my dad keeps insisting that he was doped up and killed himself purposely ;_; I tried to explain and he's all like "Yeah, right..."
Then he wants to get mad when I don't share his love of the Dallas Cowboys. "This is an obsession dad! I never understood it! Never!"
The whole father-son story was complete crap. It actually worked in crusade...but in KOTCS, ya can't really notice when the changes start to happen. Just at the end of the movie, they're all buddy-buddy all the sudden. Felt altogether, really rushed and thrown togetherBvance said:So I'm sure this has been mentioned before but contemplating 'Crystal Skull' today, I realized that its just a mash-up of what SS and GL thought the fans MIGHT want to see.
It's like they took a blender and said, "Ok, lets throw in the hat, jacket, whip, some jungle, some army going after an artifact, at least one grotesque scene, at least one horrific villain death, some creepy crawlies, a recurrent character aka. Karen Allen, comedy sprinkled throughout, at least one booby trap, some artifact with mystical powers, a dark cave somewhere, our own little agenda/message we want to portray, some crazy action stunts, a big one on one fist fight, a CGI heavy ending, etc, etc, etc, and blend it all together in the blender for 30 minutes and wallah we have Indy 4."
I swear this is what they did! It seemed to me they were just going through the motions. But all of the ingredients in the blender were for some reason diluted, or rationed, to the point that these things just happened randomly without any rhyme or reason. An example of this for me was the retracting staircase at Akator. It seems they thought, "Ok, let's throw a random booby trap in there." But it goes off, nothing happens to Indy and Co. and we forget about it. Why would you make a movie like this???
Am I completely missing the point or something?
muttjones said:it wasnt that good but i wasnt expecting it to be like the others. It is impossible to make a film like films from the 80s . The film was directed at the old school fans but more at the new generation of kids who have not seen Indiana Jones before and have not experienced it properly.
It was a good movie IF it was not an Indiana Jones film.
Otherwise it was fine.
Crusade>Raiders said:Shia screws it up with that dopey mustache
Leiter91 said:It has come to my attention that there are numerous forum members who have a deep hatred of KOTCS...So instead of trolling in random threads...why don't we just take all our negativity, all of our dissapointments, and all of our hate...and funnel it into one dark thread. So...let the sleeze run, let the smear build up. And Lovers, stay away, and don't pull this thread down...This is my attempt to indecent, decently. Okay...let the games begin...
HECKLEVISION: Indiana Jones 4
ALAMO MASON Thurs, Jan 6
ALAMO WEST OAKS Tues, Jan 11
ALAMO RITZ Sun, Jan 23
ALAMO WESTLAKES Sun, Jan 9
ALAMO PARK NORTH Weds, Jan 26
INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL
presented in HeckleVision ? your texted jokes appear live on the screen with the movie!
d. Steven Spielberg, 2008, 122 min, DVD presentation
?Nuking the fridge? is a colloquialism used to refer to the moment in a film series that is so incredible that it lessens the excitement of subsequent scenes that rely on more understated action or suspense. When a fridge is nuked, it generally becomes apparent that a certain installment is not as good as a previous installments, due to ridiculous or low quality storylines, events or characters.
INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL metaphorically nuked it?s fridge in the first 45 seconds. Then it actually blew up a refrigerator with a nuclear explosion later on in the film.
Sure, it?s easy enough to suspend your disbelief when you?re watching a fantastical adventure fantasy (outrunning boulders is pretty outrageous, after all), but when that disbelief jumps out of a jeep and starts swinging with monkeys from trees, escaping from nuclear explosions in refrigerators and pursuing crystal skulls in an attempt to unlock alien secrets? Well, that?s when it?s time for you to tell that disbelief you?ve had it with him and move on ?cause you?re too good for him girl.
But seriously, as much as we all wanted to welcome Indy back with open arms and enjoy the heck out of CRYSTAL SKULL? we just? didn?t. Our excitement faded shortly after the opening credits, as the film became a hodge-podge of self-parody, phony nostalgia, and constant winks to the audience. And yet? And yet? Even though we deserved better, we keep coming back to this latest chapter of a once perfect trilogy and staring into its dead, soulless eyes searching for some clue as to where it exactly all went wrong.
To exhume this movie?s remains with the entire crowd, we decided to unleash our patented HeckleVision technology so that we can all text out our frustrations with each scene and then have those texts appear on the screen underneath the film. As with any HeckleVision show, you?ll be free to make insightful comments on the film?s special effects (CGI gophers!), or just make fun of it with perfectly timed witticisms that cut George Lucas right in his floppy neck. ANYTHING you text during the movie will show up on the screen, and we?re hoping that with that commentary track to distract us we can actually find a way to enjoy this turd pile of a film.
It?s time to boot up your alien ware technology and belt out ?Kali Ma Shakti de,? because we?re aiming to rip this one?s heart right out of it?s chest.
Call me ignorant but it's my understanding that the term is akin to Jumped-the-Shark (attributed to the a season finale cliffhanger of "Happy Days"); a point in a TV/film series where situations become so HOKEY, that it's apparent the series should have stopped earlier while it was still respectable.?Nuking the fridge? is a colloquialism used to refer to the moment in a film series that is so incredible that it lessens the excitement of subsequent scenes that rely on more understated action or suspense.
"cut George Lucas right in his floppy neck" = Lucas Basher Red Alert. The gophers were Spielberg's idea...As with any HeckleVision show, you?ll be free to make insightful comments on the film?s special effects (CGI gophers!), or just make fun of it with perfectly timed witticisms that cut George Lucas right in his floppy neck.
"HeckleVision". Anyone who would get their jollies participating in such an affair is a freaking SUPER NERD! What kind of a loser would $pend their money (AGAIN) to go see a movie they didn't like? Sad, pathetic, pitiful...It?s time to boot up your alien ware technology and belt out ?Kali Ma Shakti de,? because we?re aiming to rip this one?s heart right out of it?s chest.
Stoo said:Call me ignorant but it's my understanding that the term is akin to Jumped-the-Shark (attributed to the a season finale cliffhanger of "Happy Days"); a point in a TV/film series where situations become so HOKEY, that it's apparent the series should have stopped earlier while it was still respectable.
"cut George Lucas right in his floppy neck" = Lucas Basher Red Alert. The gophers were Spielberg's idea...
"HeckleVision". Anyone who would get their jollies participating in such an affair is a freaking SUPER NERD! What kind of a loser would $pend their money (AGAIN) to go see a movie they didn't like? Sad, pathetic, pitiful...
Henry W Jones said:I remember the first movie to ever disappoint me to where I left the theater mad was Last Crusade. It also felt very different to me than the first two. I felt it relies to much on the humor and it really ruined some characters for me. I think its great they named characters after pets but it doesn't need to be added to the script. Marcus in Raiders talks of going after the Ark himself yet in Crusade he's lost and confused most of the movie. I saw it again in the theater a week later and enjoyed it more than the first time. Now I like Last Crusade but still it seems different. To me it is a superior movie to KOTCS and yet it was not as disappointing because of previous Lucas let downs. (IJLC, YIJC, SW Prequels, which have all grown on me) My point is we expect perfection from a sequel and the original was perfection thats why we love it so much. Now after SW kicked my expectations in the n*ts with Phantom Menace I go with low expectations so when the movie isn't half bad I don't feel so let down since I thought it would be worse. KOTCS could have been better but we could say that about most sequels couldn't we?
Mickiana said:I'm going to keep my expectations high and suffer any disappointment. You have to maintain your standards, you know...
Mickiana said:I'm going to keep my expectations high and suffer any disappointment. You have to maintain your standards, you know...