i was someone who went at midnight and left feeling disappointed. it just was not the movie i had wanted. and it felt a bit "flat". i went again a few months later - right before it left theaters - and enjoyed it for what it was ... really liking the parts i thought were cool.
i realized the bummer of the movie - which, even as i grow to like/respect it i don't think i can deny - there was no part in anything you could call a climax of the movie where indy was THE MAN!
you know?
it was like they squeezed a lot of cool stuff earlier like the longer-than-usual opening stuff so that we fans would get to see indy back in action. and i loved that stuff (even the fridge!). then - the bit where he blows that dart ... awesome! but after that comes the jungle chase and while giving mutt some action was fine it went on too long and for me IT NEEDED TO ULTIMATELY SHOW INDY SAVING EVERYONE ELSE and grabbing the skull. i wouldn't have even cared how he did it - vines ... whatever! just let indy have the same sort of moment he had on the truck in raiders, in temple's mines and on the awesome tank chase in crusade. as it was - indy was gonna get pushed off the cliff before mutt saved the day. it was cool when shorty saved him in TEMPLE and it would have been cool if mutt had also rescued him in some way ... but there needed to be a moment like when that guy is beating the kid in the mines and the whip comes in and then the shot that reveals jones standing there ... sort of silhouetted - it makes you go YEAH!!!!! (no matter what you think of each film critically - isn't that why most of us watch the indy movies and love them - despite any "faults" of the films??
i don't mind the aliens, the son, the wedding - i just wish after all those years they had given us a chance to root for our hero again throughout the whole movie. as is - the second half just still seems a ramble and kind of boring - maybe like this post!!
if they could have knocked out a few more of these movies back in the nineties (or at least one more!) then SKULL wouldn't have had to deliver so much ... but i'm grateful for the movies they made - even this one ...
i realized the bummer of the movie - which, even as i grow to like/respect it i don't think i can deny - there was no part in anything you could call a climax of the movie where indy was THE MAN!
you know?
it was like they squeezed a lot of cool stuff earlier like the longer-than-usual opening stuff so that we fans would get to see indy back in action. and i loved that stuff (even the fridge!). then - the bit where he blows that dart ... awesome! but after that comes the jungle chase and while giving mutt some action was fine it went on too long and for me IT NEEDED TO ULTIMATELY SHOW INDY SAVING EVERYONE ELSE and grabbing the skull. i wouldn't have even cared how he did it - vines ... whatever! just let indy have the same sort of moment he had on the truck in raiders, in temple's mines and on the awesome tank chase in crusade. as it was - indy was gonna get pushed off the cliff before mutt saved the day. it was cool when shorty saved him in TEMPLE and it would have been cool if mutt had also rescued him in some way ... but there needed to be a moment like when that guy is beating the kid in the mines and the whip comes in and then the shot that reveals jones standing there ... sort of silhouetted - it makes you go YEAH!!!!! (no matter what you think of each film critically - isn't that why most of us watch the indy movies and love them - despite any "faults" of the films??
i don't mind the aliens, the son, the wedding - i just wish after all those years they had given us a chance to root for our hero again throughout the whole movie. as is - the second half just still seems a ramble and kind of boring - maybe like this post!!
if they could have knocked out a few more of these movies back in the nineties (or at least one more!) then SKULL wouldn't have had to deliver so much ... but i'm grateful for the movies they made - even this one ...