I was totally disappointed; when you see names like Spielberg and Lucas you expect a high standard. They didn’t deliver here.

Top things I hated about this film:

Military has an entire warehouse of priceless relics which have magical powers guarded by a couple of guards and a bb gun.

BTW did I mention this warehouse is located adjacent to a nuclear test site?

Nuke the Firg (Nuff said)

Mutt is driving a 2007 Harley Heritage Softail Springer motorcycle yet the movie is supposed to be set in 1955. The dead give away was the shock absorber on the front forks and the twin cam (released in 1999) motor.

When Indiana finds the highly “Magnetic” Crystal skull in the cave (remember all they had to do was to follow the metal in the warehouse to find it) it was under an armor clad corpse. Why didn’t his armor; sword; or any other metal stick to the skull? Why didn’t the Russian’s equipment; guns etc., stick to it?

Mutt playing Tarzan (over compensation for a weak story)

Surviving the Jeep plunge almost as bad as surviving nuclear blast and plummeting to ground in a metal frig.

I will never again expect greatness when I see Spielberg and Lucas again. They have proven to me they are not as great as they once were and their attention to detail has fallen off the map.

1. Raiders
2. Last Crusade
3. Crystal Skull
4. Temple of Doom

This movie was shockingly bad.

I feel like Ive been mugged.

My kids thought it was from hell too. We stayed because we assumed that it SURELY has to get better.
It never did.

Indy isn’t immortal, Elsa brought the cup past the great seal and Indy had to get the hell out of there thus his powers of immortality were lost.

Also, what do /film readers think would hurt more? A few thwacks from some plants to the groin or a singular thud from a stone bust of Marcus Brody? I’m putting my money on the guy who got lost in his own museum. (Really, Lucas? MULTIPLE GROIN INJURY GAGS?? jesus christ…)

Also, I saw someone say “oh you can believe he fell out of a plane on a raft and survived but cant believe he’d survive an A-bomb blast.” Right on. Think about surviving gravity vs. surviving a nuclear fallout after being thrown thousands of feet in a refrigerator. You probabaly have a 1 in a billion chance of surviving the raft fall, but a nuclear bomb not to mention the ensuing radiation? Give me a break

I refuse to believe Kaminski studied Slocombe’s style that thoroughly or that Steven really tried to maintain the feel of the other films because this was shot atrociously. It looked like they were at a photo shoot for half the movie. WHERE ARE ALL THE FRIGGIN SHADOWS?? WHAT HAPPENED TO SHOOTING ON LOCATION?? For god’s sake if you’re going to shoot on a set at least make it look real. The jungle scene was fantastic until the unnecessary Lucas-patented critters, ants and monkeys THAT ridiculous don’t belong…they just DO NOT.

Speaking of which, they guy who was eaten by the ants, he was supposed to be the second-tier baddie much like the face-melted hand-burnt guy in the Raiders and the Nazi going off the cliff in the tank in Last Crusade. The only problem was he wasn’t worth such a ridiculous kill. He hardly had any lines and he was just annoyingly impervious to Indy’s skills.

And the waterfall….why when they get to the bottom of the THIRD waterfall do they climb back into it and END UP IN A FRIGGIN FIELD?!?!?!? What’s the point of all the falling if you can just i dunno…..find the GIANT VALLEY THAT THE TEMPLE IS IN? I’m squabbling over details….but c’mon!

I really thought Shia did an OK job. I wasn’t bothered by him at all and he was the only one who actually worked with Indy with a certain level of companionship. Was I supposed to feel something when Mac bit the bullet by winking at Indy and letting go of his whip? Was John Hurt’s character supposed to get me emotionally involved with whether or not he will regain control over his mind?

The marriage really doesn’t bother me nor did the hat gag at the end, but once again, the SET!! argh it looked so fake. I think my favorite scene that reminded me the most of the old films was set in the college town from when they were in the diner to escaping through the library and the student gag at the end. Also, although it drug on for a bit, the part in the tomb where the mummies deteriorated in an instant. Thought what was with that SINGLE CRAZY GUY…why was he there? Were they salivating that much for an action beat?

In the end, I can honestly say that no matter what script they decided on, better execution would have made this another Indy classic. Spielberg is not exempt because as the director he has final say, and he let this happen (and he lit half of it like AI). From day one, I was confident this would be good because it was a Spielberg-directed film in his signature series and he wouldn’t let Lucas or anyone else ruin it for him….maybe he did concentrated on that so much that he forgot to take the time to direct

You mean crystal skulls dropped off by ET and pyramid space ships were scientitfic?

O_o

It was a fun, but seriously flawed movie. People seemed to forget that Doom and Crusade are pretty friggin’ ridiculous, but are still lots of fun. That’s all the Indy movies were ever about. Fun, not logic. They were inspired by the wacky serials of Lucas’ and Spielberg’s childhood.

As for the CGI — shut up already. It wasn’t perfect. But guess what? Melting friggin’ heads in stop-motion don’t look so real either, now, do they? Mine shaft chases where you can SEE they are little dolls don’t look real either.

Don’t get me wrong. I have tons of nitpicks with the movie. But, I still loved it. In a little over a year, I will be 40 years old. And you know what? It was a lot of f-ing fun heading out to a matinee on Friday, by myself with a tub of popcorn, just to see old Dr. Jones go at it one more time.

I think this would have been a much better film had Lucas just stayed away from it though. I gather that the Crystal Skull/aliens angle was his baby and it shows (even though it was watered down somewhat by Speilberg/Ford). Still it could have been worse - Jar Jar, anyone?

Oh and wasn’t Indy meant to be immortal after the last outing? Or are we meant to forget about that film?

my comment was in no way an attempt to undercut the potential (obviously probable) life in outerspace.