Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?!?? We can do better than THAT!

any of the mummy movies i've seen were better than this

"awful" is not hyperbolic for kingdom of crystal skull

this movie was about ten times better than the mummy or national treasure flicks imo. it was dumb but still entertaining, though maybe i think i'd think it sucked if i was measuring it up to a couple of the previous series entries. otherwise it was better than i thought it would be. not bad for a 19 year gap, i guess. loved the nuke scene and the jungle chase.

maybe i think i'd think

some of you folx need new eyes.

did this bomb or what? everything I read/heard about it has been terrible

everyone i know has either said it's terrible or just okay, nobody has said it's been great yet

Shakey, it's grossed $300 M domestically, I sincerely doubt the neg cost was that high.

neg cost was only in goodwill for all parties involved except for, like Karen Allen.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080709/sc_afp/sciencearchaeologyentertainmentfilmskull

shocking news

Indiana Jones and the D'OH!

Morbius's love of Spielberg knows no bounds.

Morbs sort of hated this movie, but don't let that change anyone's story.

indiana jones and the kingdom of the cubic zirconia foil skull

Morbs sort of hated this movie, but don't let that change anyone's story.

He did not hate it enough.

REVIVE. haha! Watched this again on dvd last night (after one viewing in theatre last summer) and enjoyed it much more second time around. Will still never match up to the first two (eff the third one. Always hated it.) but was just some good ol' cartoon nonsense when watched on the small screen. Still looks like it was filmed in "SWPrequelVision" for the most part, though. I give Spielberg the benefit of the doubt here as I could hear Lucas say " Hey! We've got this tech now! Why go to the Amazon?" as I watched. I'm sure his nuts were tied.

The nuts being Spielberg's. The knot maker being Lucas.

I think I'd co-sign just about everything you just said. But the second one really does the cartoon-nonsense-fun thing way better than Crystal Skull.

a much better fantasy than Slumdog Millionaire.

Yeah, like Hunger is a better Bollywood movie than Slumdog Millionaire.

Never understood why the "space between spaces" thing always got pointed to as evidence that this is a horrible movie. It's just a nice way to say "alternate dimensions".

"Wubble-u's" OTOH, is some David Lynchian how-do-people-talk-in-real-life-is-it-like-this? *shudder* I thought the screen was going to fall down after that.

Eric, we are gonna have so much fun next Sunday. :)

saw the DVD last night. this is totally an OK movie (roughly as good as Temple Of Doom at least). The crystal skeletons and skull were wonderfully creepy but not a lot of Spielbergian magic otherwise. 'making of' docu telling tho - Spielberg never seemed really into the idea of doing this film (tho his protest at 'doing aliens again' not v convincing considering WOTW) so no wonder it feels so auto-pilot at times. and given the earlier proposed titles KOTCS sounds much better.

teasing glimpse of the Ark was kinda dumb. i guess they gave up on trying to get it to work properly and not just kill whoever opened it.

Shia says Spielberg Has 'cracked' Indy 5

I hope for Chris Columbus to direct

Shia says Spielberg has 'cracked': Indy 5

hope it includes a scene where shia gets out of a tight spot in the ocean by swimming and leaping through the water alongside a school of dolphins

You should start a petition on Facebook. (And disavow all knowledge of it.)

The Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland was better than this movie.

but it's also better than the 2nd movie about about as good as the 3rd

(I really like that ride)

Yeah, no doubt it's the best ride at Disneyland (next to Space Mountain).

Indiana Jones and the Spear Of Destiny

hope it includes a scene where shia gets out of a tight spot in the ocean by swimming and leaping through the water alongside a school of dolphins

― ramón gastro (omar little), Wednesday, June 17, 2009 4:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol ^^^^^^^^

COME ON MAN. EXCALIBUR.

Why is a switchblady greaser on a treasure hunt for magical power doohickeys again?

daddy issues

The problem with Excalibur is that the UK is not nearly exotic and full of boogidy boogidy dark skinned natives enough.

Wales might be.

also they still have coal mines for the cart chase

Watched the Rifftrax version tonight, which was hilarious and made it totally worthwhile to sit through this again. But I realize the ending (villian tricked into turning into immaterial being) is a direct visual ripoff of that awesome Fate of Atlantis PC Game from back in the day. Not as cool though.

Or from 'The Five Doctors'.

Just saw this (it was just okay) and I thought I could provide some answers to some questions (Tuomas' mostly):

* Who were the skull-masked Indians at the cemetery, and why were they protecting it?

Oxley's note written in the ancient code said that the "cradle" was "guarded by the"living dead".

* Why did Oxley return the crystal skull to the tomb?

Because he couldn't find out where to put it in Akator and he knew that people were coming after him.

* Why would a skull of an alien have psychic powers?

The person that returned the skull to its original place would be granted the powers of the super-beings themselves (?)

* Had the Mayan tribe lived at El Dorado all this time? What was their story?

Their civilization failed once the crystal skull was taken from the chamber of alien skeletons.

* Why was the treasure room filled with artifacts from other cultures? Why had the aliens collected them?

To learn and absorb Earth culture.

* Why did returning the skull to it's proper place summon the alien, when the skull had presumably been in the same place for centuries before the Conquistador guy stole it?

The conquistador didn't steal the skull, an enemy of the Mayan tribe did. The conquistador found the skull but not in Akator.

* Why had the aliens set up such a system in the first place?

Tourism/Colonialism?

Shia The Beef explains a few things:

"I feel like I dropped the ball on the legacy that people loved and cherished," LaBeouf said, explaining that this upped the ante for him before he began shooting the "Wall Street" sequel. "If I was going to do it twice, my career was over. So this was fight-or-flight for me."

Meeting with reporters Saturday on a terrace at the Hotel du Cap, he had some strong, confessional words about his acting in the film, which he said he felt didn't convince anyone that he was the action hero the movie claimed him to be. "You get to monkey-swinging and things like that and you can blame it on the writer and you can blame it on Steven [Spielberg, who directed]. But the actor's job is to make it come alive and make it work, and I couldn't do it. So that's my fault. Simple."

LaBeouf said that he could have kept quiet, especially given the movie's blockbuster status, but didn't think the film had fooled anyone. "I think the audience is pretty intelligent. I think they know when you've made (slop). And I think if you don't acknowledge it, then why do they trust you the next time you're promoting a movie." LaBeouf went on to say he wasn't the only star on the film who felt that way. "We [Harrison Ford and LaBeouf] had major discussions. He wasn't happy with it either. Look, the movie could have been updated. There was a reason it wasn't universally accepted."

Asked whether this was difficult to say, given his deep relationship with Spielberg, LaBeouf continued with the directness.

"I'll probably get a call. But he needs to hear this. I love him. I love Steven. I have a relationship with Steven that supersedes our business work. And believe me, I talk to him often enough to know that I'm not out of line. And I would never disrespect the man. I think he's a genius, and he's given me my whole life. He's done so much great work that there's no need for him to feel vulnerable about one film. But when you drop the ball you drop the ball."

I can already see him naming his memoirs "Shia LaBeouf: Truth Bombs and REAL TALK"

Oas a footnote, searching for "lebeouf 'truth bombs'" on Google brings you this.

shia labeouf is pretty horrendous

― memo from norv turner (omar little), Thursday, February 12, 2009 6:55 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

labaoueouf also said that transformers 2 lost the "heart" of the first installment, so I guess he's challoping too.

for the defense:

http://www.reverseshot.com/article/indiana_jones_and_kingdom_crystal_skull_0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFKu_bwMoYE

Just saw this on io9. Nice cheap shot at Karen Allen, who is pointedly called "less attractive" because lol old women, amirite?

Yeah it ain't perfect.