George Lucas ruins another great trilogy... | The Coffeehouse

AndyC

... and this time Steven Spielberg helped.

Indy 4: what a waste. It's was like watching Phantom Menace all over again and feeling your childhood get dumped all over. Should've handed the whole thing over to the guys behind National Treasure 2, which was a much better Indy film even without Indy.

Mad

stun

You are really making me feel discouraged to go watch the movie now.
I don't want to go through the same feeling that I felt when I watched the Star Wars prequels.

AndyC

Rent the Tomb Raider movies instead. They are also awful, but at least they have Angelina Jolie in.

Ion Todirel
buuu

LOL I hope Bas went to the C9 event instead of the Indiana Jones premiere Smiley

jason818_253.33
Yippi skippy

please say it aint so! alas i read in the news it got 2 out of 4 stars. It must be something like watching david cook win american idol.[6]

ManipUni
Proving QQ for 5 years!

Really? ... That sucks...

I was hoping they would be good after reading so many positive reviews about the movie. IMDB has it rated at 8.6 which is pretty good considering how most movies seem to get around a 7.0 on average.

You really think Tomb Raider is better? That was one of the worst films (or series of films) ever made... I just won't watch any of them. They were just adverts for Siemens phones with a bunch of shooting...

JeremyJ
The pioneers would be appalled!

I will probably still go see it. Everyone has different opinions about movies. Some people hate movies I have loved and other people love movies I hate.

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

Ion Todirel wrote:
LOL I hope Bas went to the C9 event instead of the Indiana Jones premiere

I actually went to the premiere in Belgium, which was a day earlier, and to the Microsoft event.

And as I told Dan there, most people are gonna say it sucked, but I loved it. Whee!

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

I liked it. It was, of course, different by the previous three, but the corniness and the rambacious swashbuckling theme was all there.

Shia Lebouf is setting himself up to be the next young action hero Smiley

dahat

Damn it shut up! I'm going to see it tomorrow afternoon!

JohnAskew
9 girl in pink sweater

I liked it too. But it was on par with the 3 star wars prequels for those who have unrealistic expectations. Greed, Envy, and Pride all have their cameos, by formula... what? You want to be 9, guy? You've outgrown bubblegum, haven't you, but you don't hate the flavor, now, do you? Be such as it may.

TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

TommyCarlier wrote:

Not quite accurate. I actually thought Indy's age and the fact that the world changed in those 19 years was one of the more interesting themes of the movie.

androidi

Haven't seen it yet.

I loved the themes/objects of the previous movies and even the PC game (Fate of the Atlantis).

However the first thing I thought of this movie was, what the * is "Crystal Skull"? The name already gives you thought of some cheesy cartoony he-man etc fantasy that was way too unbelievable to begin with. I've seen a ton of documentaries about Atlantis etc but last thing I saw "Crystal Skull" in was StarGate, known for it's cheesy plots.

I'm already imagining that Indy will find this Crystal Skull, it's probably made with CGI and has some glow effect. Totally a turn off. [C]

... Now you might be tempted to ask if what my avatar represents is that much different but that's beside the point. Lucas/Spielberg in interview just few weeks ago emphasize on how important it is for the object of the movie to have some familiarity to make it believable. So far I'm not convinced and not even sure I want to be convinced by the movie. Crystall skull is as bad name as Phantom Menace. It just sounds lame/cheesy.

Klaus Enevoldsen
Development has never been easier nor more complicated...

Hmmm, I love Star Wars and I love Indiana Jones... Looking forward to it... Maybe this weekend?

I found a few funny clip from Star Wars...

Vader Sessions (James Earl Jones dialogs above Darth Vader scenes)
Darth Vader Rap - well made rap!!!
Darth Vader being a jerk - nice made video...

Enjoy!

Pace
In The Mix...

PaoloM wrote:
but the corniness and the rambacious swashbuckling theme was all there.

For me that was the most fun part of the first three Big Smile

I will still go to see this one in the cinema, definately a big screen flik Cool

Dr Herbie
Horses for courses

Two years ago my sister-in-law gave my wife and I a couple of free cinema tickes (the ones redeemable at any of the cinemas within the chain). We still haven't used them and they expire mid-June.

[SIDE NOTE: Never give cinema tickets to parent of young children unless you also throw in a nights baby-sitting! Otherwise, like us, the recipients might never get a chance to use them.]

We've decided that we're going to use them to see the new Indiana Jones film. We don't really care if it's as good as the previous ones because just the concept of going out for the evening without two small children, and having a 'grown up' trip out of the house is a treat in itself. Big Smile

Herbie

TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

Isn't the Indiana Jones tune one of the coolest tunes ever? Every time I hear it, my mood changes to shiny and happy.

steveballmer

The Quest Continues!

TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

I went to see the new Indiana Jones last night and I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, it had all the Indy-elements, it was full of action (of course a lot more spectacular with all the CGI), it had the Indy-tune, ... On the other hand, I'm not very satisfied with the story. OK, the scene with the refridgerator was awesome, but the ending was just over the top. What the hell were the writers smoking when they wrote the plot? But still, Indy is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's still good.

esoteric
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PaoloM wrote:
I liked it. It was, of course, different by the previous three, but the corniness and the rambacious swashbuckling theme was all there.

Shia Lebouf is setting himself up to be the next young action hero

I agree. It was quite good. How much can you squeeze out of Indy? It's an adventure movie series and yet they managed to pull in aliens and a mindbending skull. Smiley

Brings me right back to Zak McKracken and the alien mindbenders.

esoteric
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TommyCarlier wrote:
I went to see the new Indiana Jones last night and I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, it had all the Indy-elements, it was full of action (of course a lot more spectacular with all the CGI), it had the Indy-tune, ... On the other hand, I'm not very satisfied with the story. OK, the scene with the refridgerator was awesome, but the ending was just over the top. What the hell were the writers smoking when they wrote the plot? But still, Indy is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's still good.

What do you mean, the ending was great. What wasn't so cool was the liana swinging - that was rediculous! The monkeys were funny tho. Big Smile

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

I suppose this is a spoiler-heavy zone from now on. Be warned!

esoteric wrote:
What do you mean, the ending was great. What wasn't so cool was the liana swinging - that was rediculous! The monkeys were funny tho.

I think the vine-swinging and, yes, the ending were my least favorite scenes in the movie. I loved the movie, but I didn't really care for the alien plot. I liked the religious themes of the previous movies better. That said, I could've lived with the alien plot if it wasn't that explicit. The whole ending could've been a lot more toned down, in that I didn't need to see the whole place actually take off. They could've kept a bit more mystery.

The bit in the village, in the beginning, is my new favorite scene, topping the swordsman from Raiders. It was just so... bizarrely surreal.

Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

Things that came to mind (SPOILERS)

* Man, Indy was old! He should just retired!

* How did an army of Russians made it to Nevada. In the mid of the Cold War. And these aren't the Kevin Costner type Russians, but the heavily accented types.

* How did they manage to take over Area 51, one of the most heavily-guarded military base in the US.

* Indy is a colonel in the army? WTF?

* The military would never let the feds treat one of theirs like that!

* Who were the "creatures of the night" at the cemetary? And how did they learn martial arts?

* Really? Aliens taught us how to build turn soil? How to farm? Seriously?

* Why did that alien burn that lady after promising to thank her

* How could a pyramid, in the middle a jungle clearing, gone unexplored?

* How can a biological being have crystal skeleton?

* Did it make sense to bring Jar Jar Bing on for a cameo?

esoteric
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TommyCarlier wrote:
Isn't the Indiana Jones tune one of the coolest tunes ever? Every time I hear it, my mood changes to shiny and happy.

Then try this one

http://www.remix64.com/tune_127300.html