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Peacock's-Eye said:Wow. I cannot believe the anger & vitriol being aimed at this movie. I went to see it on Thursday with my brother - we saw Raiders back in '81 together, and we both LOVED KotCS. We were grinning from ear to ear. We cheered, applauded, gasped & laughed along with the sizable audience.
I agree that the ending - upon first viewing - was a letdown, and that the script had way too many things going on at once. Just like TOD, which I love. So we have two strong Indy's (RotLA & LC) and two weaker entries (TOD & KotCS). So what? This flic was ridiculously fun & inventive. Mutt was awesome, Marion was great, Spalko was cool (as was her underused henchman) and Indy - c'mon, he rocked this movie, a cross between Doc Savage & Allan Quatermain.
A coupla quick things:
1] I thought the ending was confusing until I checked out the scene as described in the novelization & comic book: nope, what you think happens is what happens - Spalko's body is burned up but her mind joins with the Entities & all the rest are trapped in the "space between spaces". Could it have been done better - yeah. But the movie was made by humans - sometimes even the most talented people get things wrong.
2] Read some articles & magazine interviews: most of the pic was done old-school with sets & locations. It was filmed digitally so it has that pristine look - I regret that, but it is NOT all CGI.
3] Koepp worked with Spielberg NOT Lucas (latest ish of Creative Screenwriting) stop blaming GL for every little thing you didn't like in the movie.
Anyway, there are lots of popular movies I'm not crazy about, if you don't like this, cool. But why so angry? It's just a movie.
Wait, wait... ........... WHAT?!!
It was filmed DIGITALLY!!???!!!
I thought Spielberg got Lucas to agree to do it on film... the old-fashioned way, because Spielberg never filmed a film digitally. This better not be true or I'm slightly angry at Sir Spielberg for giving in on something that important.