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07-31-2009, 07:03 PM
Jmacq1
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two points:
The new Hulk is a hell of alot better than the Hulk movie that came out in 2003 or so, it may not have done as well as some movies, but it's a good movie (my opinion)
The 4th Indy movie was titled Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the
Crystal Skull
Now, me being a fan of crystal skulls and reading up on them a lot, I would have been PISSED had they not made some mention of Aliens in the movie since the rumor of aliens is tied into the real Crystal Skulls' mythology. So that can't really be fail since they were at least working off of source material
On a fundamental level, the plot of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was fine, even good. I totally got the homage to the era, the Commies as the bad guys, the red scare, nuclear annihilation, etc...
But it was the execution of the plot that took a sharp turn for the poorer. The first 10 or 15 minutes or so (up until the end of the "Jet sled" ride) was great. The motorcycle chase through the school was pretty good, and there were some spiffy bits in the graveyard (particularly Indy's "Reverse blowgun" move), but darn near everything in the second half of the movie (and the "Nuke the fridge" incident in the early portion of the movie) just pushed it all too far, from "slightly over the top adventure" to "ridiculously stupid adventure."
The Alien thing didn't bother me at all. Indy's always had its' supernatural mcguffin, and I know it's (literally) heretical to say this but space aliens aren't any more or less believable to me than "the power of an angry Judeo-Christian God."
But anyway, none of my gripes about the movie prevented it from being a huge box-office success, nor dozens of co-workers from commenting on how they thought it was great.
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