even though the movie was horrendously disappointing. i still had good fun in the theatre. hearing that brass section opening the movie still gives me the chills and makes me smile.

this trailer does make up for the movie... the laugh track was a nice touch.

Well... I guess that's another film I won't be able to enjoy without the voices of a million hateful little nerds reverberating around my head. Joyless pr!cks like you shouldn't even be allowed to watch movies. I do love the way you people state these opinions as if they are fact, just because you have a (nearly) public platform to shove 'em down everyone's throat. Thank fook George Lucas cares more about his kids than the bandwagon jumping, herd following idiots that write this $hit.

Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel.

You have terrible taste in movies.

Well that 'new' trailer certainly summed my comments and emotions up after seeing 'Indy 4' for the first and last time. I didn't get it too Shia LeBeouf, I just didn't get why...

indy why. oh indy why.

Cutting from Indy farting to Shia Labeouf swinging on vines with monkeys and Smash Mouth playing in the background? I approve.

That's also when I knew this had struck genius, Racist. Smash Mouth!!

ahaha. Its fucking Even Stevens as Tarzan! If thats not comedy gold then I don't know what is! Also what the hell ever happened to Smash Mouth?

George Lucas: making pissing people off since '99.

I've only watched half of this movie and haven't seen any of those scenes. You know, those scenes that ruin the movie. Oh wait I did see the refrigerator scene, that was horrendous. Anyway, this trailer makes me not want to watch the other half.

Haha it was good! didnt like the ectra sound effects though! couldve been jsut as effective without them

People get melted and exploded in the first film, a still-beating heart is ripped out of someone's chest in the second, and for some reason, the fridge scene is unrealistic? You nerds...

Those moments you speak of did something to propel the story within the fantasy. The nuked fridge was just plain ridiculous.

Come now. It wasn't all that important to the end of Raiders that one guy caught on fire, one guy exploded, and one guy melted. Or that Indy came across an indian village by riding a boat down a mountain.

My argument was how unrealistic those moments were. Who cares if it propelled the story? Jesus, it's not like Raiders was a carefully plotted story or anything. It was just a fantasy.

Every movie is a fantasy. Did you like Transformers? How about Iron Man? TDK perhaps? Even romantic comedies and historical dramas are complete fantasies.

No movie is "realistic." What Howdy was trying to say is that audiences are willing to suspend disbelief for the parameters of an invented world, but that suspension can only go so far. If you start breaking the rules of physics when you have set up your story to take place in the "real" world, then those things seem ridiculous where something like faces melting in the presence of the Ark don't because the story has already set the ark up as a "fantastic" object with powers that work outside our understanding of the "real" world.

If "ridiculous" elements of a story fit within the parameters of the world and serve to move the plot along, then audiences are willing to accept them, if they break those rules and don't make sense in the plot of the story then we lose trust in the story and the storyteller.

That movie was a piece of shit. I don't know if it was the directing or if Ford phoned it in, but the acting was horrendous.
The only thing that would redeem this movie is if we got to see MST3K's take on it.

I think the term I'm looking for is 'go root yourself'...
Seriously, if it was just /film and these 'nerds' you speak of I'd be like, okay fair enough.
But everyone thought that.
I did, my friends did, my family did even FRIGGEN SOUTH PARK DID!
So like stop being an anus on a gnarls website.

Sincerely,

rockinrors

What? South Park didnt like something and made fun of it? NO!...LIAR!!!!!!!!!

I chose not to see this. I wanted to be one of those people who spared themselves. This trailer really makes me feel good about my decision.

You can. The guys that did MST3K have a thing called Riff Tracks now. They did one for INDY 4. You're welcome.

http://www.rifftrax.com/

The laugh track had me in tears, this was so freaking funny

people are way too hard on this movie...I personally liked it more than Temple of Doom.

You're way too easy on yourself.

no, I just happen to be able to watch the film with an open mind...rather than being a bullshit internet fanboy.

Agreed. I can't watch Temple of Doom without turning it off.

The funny thing is, it's because of Spielberg's directing.

Agreed. I can't watch Temple of Doom without turning it off.

The funny thing is, it's because of Spielberg's directing.

No matter which way you cut it, and no matter which nickname you want to incorrectly swear at me, enjoying what is undoubtedly a horrible film says a lot about you and your opinion. This is what I meant by the fact that you're way too easy on yourself. Buy a self esteem book and start to feel better.

people are way too soft on this movie... it was even worse than the Star Wars prequels. it was... just unbelievably bad. and i mean i couldn't believe how bad it was. veryone involved should be ashamed. ashamed.

You want bad? Check out a script called Indiana Jones and the Web of Gold and the Monkey Kingscript (they are online and good for laughs). That is horrendous and far worse than a flying fridge or Indy spending 2 hours talking a crsytal skull and how it told him to return it to the temple. Please.

As a fan I agree totally. But as a parent, I have to admit to something, my boys (6, 5 and 4) always choose to watch this one when given the chance. The same thing is true of the SW Prequels, they pick them over the original trilogy every time. So something is going on. However, as a true geek parent, I still make them watch the good stuff. But they often loose interest.

This last Indy movie was EXACTLY like all of the other ones. This trailer is a piece of garbage. Every Indy movie that came out is great. Hate the aliens part? Think its so far-fetched and unbelievable? Okay, because I usually see people's faces melt off if you don't close your eyes when someone opens a chest. And usually if I am dieing, I make sure I drink out of a church cup so I can live. Because THATS believable. People are forgetting what movies are all about. If movies were supposed to be realistic, then we would have a library of maybe 20 films to watch. Barely any would exist. This last Indy might be my favorite of the 4... and I am 26 years old, so I saw the originals as soon as I could back in the day.

Its not about realism, its about relevance. All the other movies are based on magic, mythology, and historical artifacts. Indy is an archeologist who gets to live history and myths. Do you know of any myths or folklore that deal with aliens.

This movie is entertaining and follows the same superficial pattern of the others but is still hollow. Perhaps it would have been easier to digest if the alien part was more subtle or even implied. But, I know that for a lot of people the the close up on a frowning alien killed everything.

Ummm...did you try looking up Crystal Skulls? They're probably, in fact, the MOST relevant object any of these films have selected, because they actually exist. Not only that, but many of their superstitions and such were put in the film. So perhaps people will have a problem with the film being TOO relevant.

The only history linked to the crystal skulls is that of frauds and fakes. Everyone has been disproved as made by westerners. No trace of any myths tied to it. They were made to con ignorant clods. And the movie was terrible.
-cheers

He didn't say they were historical artifacts. He said they EXIST.
And the movie was fine.
-cheers

"I have this theory that most of the bad parts of Crystal Skull were ideas that George Lucas demanded be included, and Spielberg relented under the condition that the marketing for the film would reveal very little of the film’s plot. I’m pretty sure that Spielberg realized the audiences wouldn’t react positively to the alien elements in particular."

Wow, someone on the internet puts all the blame on Lucas rather than on Spielberg or Koepp -- that's quite the unique theory.

I liked the movie but if you didn't, pretending it was just one person's fault is pretty absurd.

Yes, I put more blame on Spielberg, the DIRECTOR, than Lucas, who didn't write the actual screenplay.

Hmmm. Good points. I retract my earlier comment.

if the fridge/saucer were in the real trailer people would have known what to expect...

I'm ashamed at how hard I laughed when I heard the fart sounds.

Slashfilm has made it its mission to knock this film and Lucas at every opportunity for reasons I'll never understand. I loved this movie and thought it was no more silly than any of the other installments. I seem to recall Indy jumping out of an airplane on an inflatable raft into a raging river at the beginning of the second film. Silly? Yes. Ridiculous? Yes. Fun? Damn straight. If you don't like the latest film you don't like any of the films. All of these movies are an homage to the silly serial films of the 40s and 50s. The complaints about the nuclear bomb and the saucer are baseless. This film takes place in the 50s during the atomic age and the themes in the film are completely in line with what was happening in the world at the time.

HEAR HEAR!!

the only thing i kind of rolled my eyes at in this flick was the part where Shia is swinging w/ the monkeys, that was a little too over the top

other than that i loved this flick. its alot of fun to watch and i enjoy it alot. i think its a good flick

Indy 4 sucked. It shouldn't have been made. But since Lucas and Ford needed a big opening weekend, hey, let's dust off the old fedora!

I hated the SW prequels, but Indy 4 was great fun, and the Internet fanboy backlash is way too over the top. Just imagine Temple of Doom were the fourth film. "OMG short round is teh worst - why oh why lucas did you give indy a kid sidekick!" "OMG what is up with Willie shes so winy." "OMG teh mine cart scene is so unrealistic." "OMG teh stupid monkey brains dinner - this isnt supposed to be a sitcom." I'm officially starting the backlash to the fanboy backlash.

This last Indy movie was EXACTLY like all of the other ones.[2]

"Do you know of any myths or folklore that deal with aliens."

20th century US folklore are all about that.

I thought for sure that last clip would be the 'Dramatic Groundhog' clip or somethin when it came up out of the mound, would have been priceless. Yeah 4 sucked.

There was way too much hype for this film. There was no way for it to succeed.

Lucas said it best. If you go back and watch the old jones movies, they're actually not as great as you once thought they were when you were 10, that said, this movie was shit.