My wife said the very same thing about the skull prop, with me as a prop and costume collector, it looks like a cheap prop, although I have seen the other 5 skulls out of the 13 real life crystal skulls that also looks pretty bad in shape, but NONE alien looking.

Watched the movie tonight, even went with a very low expectation, I left the cinema somewhat disappointed for the following reasons: This movie is forgettable, there are some plot issues that doesn’t separate well from one to another, and they do not connect well either, everything is like one big blur, so if all the actors and actresses did well, then who’s fault is it? This is definitely NOT the best in the series, but the part with punching each other in the face between the Russian soldier and Indiana Jones over a very long period of time (no less than 3 minutes but felt like a next to forever 5 minutes) is definitely a problem. The problem: EDITING. I enjoyed the warehouse scene, as we all have been wondering what is with the warehouse since the original movie in the 1970’s, but wouldn’t everyone else have done more than just seeking the one single item in mind specially when you were told that this is the warehouse of the US secrets? That’s just too much of a one track mind with me. The entrance of Karen Allen was just simply did her wrong, no matter how much I like her character and her acting, and her as a person. She came out from the tent and there she was, is that it? I can open my mind and accept the sword fight and the jungle chase, and all those other easy to predict things leading to the inside of the tomb with 13 sets of alien skeletons with one skull missing, but what pissed me off the most is the scene when the flying saucer was taking off, Indiana Jones didn’t even bother to duck behind the large stone to his left when derbies was flying everywhere, totally unlike the original movie at the lost ark opening scene, “No matter what happens, don’t open your eyes”, which created the emotion that perhaps we should close ours either but of course we kept ours opened anyway. The ending is too convenient, Indiana Jones was getting married with no incident, and a too simple of a setup for Shia LaBeouf to be the next Indiana Jones, but yet didn’t even bother to leave us a sense of hope nor any reason to hope that he would even be better than the Harrison Ford Indiana Jones character, so if that is the case, why even bother to set him up and screw up the ending to begin with? Is Steven Spielberg loosing his creative mind and all he cares is to CASH IN on 30 years old previous accomplishments?

To Steven Spielberg: have you seen any of the BOURNE movies? You seem very out of touch with the today audience. You might want to consider stopping your CASH IN method on your 30 years old previous accomplishments.

GO WATCH IRON MAN instead. It was my money well spent.

^^EXACTLY! Stuffed with aluminum foil. Ridiculous. And I see now that the grammar in my previous post is atrocious. oops.

Sari--- yeah, really. In some shots it looked like the skull was stuffed with aluminum foil, and its whole menacing alien face was a little much. Would've made more sense to tone it down to appear like the actual quartz carvings.

(Loved the movie anyway; they deserve the success).

Pretty good haul considering how lousy the economy is this year. If this is released in 06 or 07 it easily beats the record for Memorial Day.

The economy is going to kill the summer season this year. I read yesterday that to date only 3 films in 2008 have made more then 100 million compared to 7 films over the same time in 2007 (Prince Caspian will be the 4th in 2008 by next week). Looking ahead, I only see 3 or 4 sure fire bets to crack 100 million this summer(TDK, Hancock, Wall-E and maybe Tropic Thunder or Zohan). I'm excluding SATC on general principals.

As impressive as Iron Man's take, it still won't equal the big 3 last year (Spiderman 3, Shrek 3, POTC 3).

This movie was fun but I am just amazed that out of the hundreds of people handling/seeing/interacting with the crystal skull didn't stop and go WOW THIS PROP IS TERRIBLE.

I'm with cellchild. I loved it. Given, there were some cheesy moments (too much CGI, mostly, and the scene with the rope-swining monkeys?), overall it was a lot of fun.

I'd really like to see a series with Mutt. I like Shia LaBeouf - I think there's a lot of potential for some fun there.

this movie earned this money. Absolute joyride!

No more Indiana Jones movies. No more. Crystal Skull was as obnoxious as Alien Resurrection!

very respectable for a movie that was "just ok" and a icon that has been MIA for 19 years.