I finally bought it and watched it again and not much has changed of my opinion of it. However...
1.) I'm not as annoyed by the fridge or the tarzan monkey thing anymore. Neither was really THAT big of a deal. Although I still feel the atomic bomb scene was a little over the top... Indy could have just survived all the crazy warehouse stuff (maybe some more thrown in for good measure) and then got away and it wouldn't have been as over the top.
2.) After watching the special features... I was surprised at how much stuff was practical stunts. ESPECIALLY the scene where Indy drives through the crates in the warehouse and the bad guys fly backwards. That was pretty much all real. Crazy.
3.) The score did seem slightly better this go round, although I still can't remember anything in particular from it. It wasn't as poppy/catchy as the other Indiana Jones flicks, it was more subtle. And I'm sorry but I prefer the catchy pop tunes like Escape from Venice or Sherzo for Motorcycle or whatever. It was mainly just moody music.
4.) There was nothing wrong in particular with how they shot it. If anything it seemed like they went one step too far in post production of shots with CGI and made it a little surreal feeling. Like there's this scene of the temple breaking away and I think I liked the shot they showed before the final more, lol.
5.) I think the biggest problem with KOTCS is, after the opening it just is kind of boring. I didn't find the jungle chase scene all that interesting... it was okay. I know it was a very complex chase scene, but it didn't quite hit me like the Tank chase or the truck chase. The ants are okay I guess but I still don't really like them, but I don't really care anymore either. The Akator thing was only okay too. I just wasn't that into it after the warehouse. The opening at "Area 51" is the best part of the film and definitely feels the most like an Indiana Jones movie to me.
6.) I laughed my ass off when Spielberg explained how Lucas came to him and said "What if they're inter dimensional beings!?" and Spielberg is like "oooookay George... so what're they gonna look like?" --- "Well they'll look like aliens, but we'll call them inter dimensional beings." It's almost like Spielberg going, "It's a stupid idea, I know, but that's what George wanted and that's what it took to make the film."
7.) It was definitely not as bad as I remembered it being, but it definitely is still the most boring Indiana Jones movie. I mean I got so bored after Mutt came in, I paused the movie for about 40 minutes while I did something else and came back.
8.) Oh. And I felt like in the graveyard, that really was the best time to do the creepy crawly scene. I think if Indy had accidentally released a trap of scorpions that would've been really cool. It wouldn't have hurt if they had to escape some sort of "booby trap" in there either. I heard they shot some floor that falls away ro something. Well that should have been in the movie I think. That scene is just boring after the long boring scene of talk talk talk talk talk in the prison cell. I mean, in LC they followed all the talk with Rats and fire and a boat chase.
So I still think KOTCS is the worst "Raiders picture" but I don't think it has anything to do with refrigerators. I think the story just wasn't as interesting. It could have been, but I just don't think it was.
I also still don't get why the crystal skull skeletons combine into an alien or why dead aliens need to have a skull returned in order to "come back to life when they combine?" and take off into the space between spaces. The ending is just lame because nobody really has a clue what happened.
I think Harrison Ford is so damn awesome though. He did more of the stunts then I expected! Dang man.
This change I am certain of.
