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- Add comment | Back to adam Written on 23-May-2008 by declangunnthis is in no way spoilerific...
Indy 4 starts of promisingly, but is soon scuppered by a shite macguffin and too many characters left with not a lot to do. The dirty Ruski Commie baddies could have filled in nicely for the Nazis, but they never really step up, Indy barely cracks a whip and the "plot" lumbers along awkwardly from one set piece to another. Lacking gusto, wit, imagination, childlike awe (all the things Raiders, and to a degree the last two, had in spades), Crystal Skull is not the rape of childhood that Phantom Menace was, it's just not good enough. One character swaps allegiances three times! That's just lazy writing. And the less said about the plot device driving this rickety cash mobile along the better. I could just swallow the Christian jiggery pokery of Raiders and Crusade, it was silly, but grounded in something, this, this? Well, it beggars belief, and it's pretty obvious what the big secret is long before anyone dares say it out loud.
What did I expect, it's just an Indy film right? Well, given that Raiders is pretty much perfect and the template for most action adventure romps, is it too much too ask for Spielberg and Lucas to up their game and try something different. Indy 4 is nothing more than a box ticking exercise of things Indy has done before and unfortunately that doesn't fly anymore.
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written on 23-May-2008
sam says:
You beat me to it, although I think you've been a little kind.
I was pretty upset, I felt like they'd taken my £8 and thrown it back into my face and who were half of the characters? dead and forgotten a whole army of pretty nifty looking amazonians. And what was ET doing in it and 'It's not space. It's the space between space.' nice one Ox.
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written on 23-May-2008
declangunn says:
I wonder what those Amazonian guys do while they wait for intruders... just hang about stuck in walls i guess. Surely they have better things to do than wait for the once in a blue moon attack by western explorers. I would think they would be all sat round having a cup of tea and talking about their favourite monkeys. I found their portrayal slightly racist to be honest, like they were just props to come out and attack Indy and pals with their painted faces and primitive weapons. Or maybe that's political correctness gone mad...
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written on 23-May-2008
theotherside says:
and in the grave the guy with the poison straw. I mean please. give his tribe a part, get them invovled. It's way better when there are people after people, like in the Last Crusade when the guys set fire to the library and chase him on the boat- there's more depth and it's just way more interesting.
and did I miss it, becasue there should definately have been a line 'I'm getting too old for this' and where was the music?? -
written on 23-May-2008
declangunn says:
they kept piping in music cues from the old movies, like when you see a snatch of the arc of the covenant they played a bit of raiders, but yeh, i know what you mean, it was all very subdued. the whole thing seemed to cannibalise the best bits of the last three movies, reheat them and serve them up in a very uninteresting way (if you'll excuse my lame food analogy). And how/why did Ox get the skull take it all the way to the amazon, and then bring all the way back. made no sense
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