Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

It was the X files meets Indiana Jones meets Tomb Raider.

I thought it was a two hour long commercial for toys and amusement park rides. I had a hard time believing in the character Indiana Jones..who looks like a grandfather is able to do all the physical stuff he did in that movie and his "protege" was The Fonz...how lame..

on a 1-10 scale I would give it a 3. Definate matinee material or a dollar rental. But I have no need to ever see it again.
 
FoxholeAtheist said:
A) The existing crystal skulls are no mystery... they have rotary tooling marks on them; modern items, not antiquities.
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I was just saying what my girlfriend told me she learned from one her history/archeology courses at Berkeley.

I agree that the movie could have been better, nearly all movies could. I liked it a lot though, Indy's my hero :p
 
My wife and I just saw it. Frankly, can't imagine what all the complaining is about. It's an Indiana Jones Movie. Big stunts, wild chases, nasty creatures....
What are you expecting?
Kind of like James Bond. When you go to a Bond film, you know what's coming, and you'd be disappointed if you didn't get it.

Ford is too old? They handled that pretty well in the film. Lots of snide cracks about his age and all.

Plenty of fun.
 
I saw it today and enjoyed it. It's true to the spirit and style of the series. Fits right in with the others. Lots of period jokes with the opening even crossing a bit of the American Graffitti car scene with Indiana Jones. Sort of Harrison Ford coming full circle with Lucas film complete with a nod to his fame with space critters.

It's not great cinema, no. But none of the Raiders stories were meant to be. Just old-style adventure eye-candy.
 
FoxholeAtheist said:
B) Swinging through the trees like Tarzan? Please. I could have accepted a single swing, but not swinging from vine to vine fast enough to keep up with the jeeps.
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Nobody, but nobody, swings through the trees like Tarzan. :D

Having established that ... what were Tarzan's last words? -- "Who greased the viiiiinnne ???"

I didn't think Junior was the Fonz, I though he was Bobby Darin doing Mack the Knife. The first time he pulled that shiv, I had to restrain myself from jumping up and down and cheering. :p

I go along with the El Dorado story, but the reality was almost as wild as the hokey legend they made up for the movie. So much has been lost, but the peoples of South America had long and complex and amazing histories.

I missed having nazis for villains. I don't get the same sense of menace from Russians.
 
Just doing their job. If they trusted everybody, they'd never catch any terrorists, would they?

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ... ... ...
 
Doesn't he have a compass???
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He didn't really have anything with him at the time. He asked the Russians for a compass, but they didn't have one.
Go figure, when this is your mine sweeper...
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I was just saying what my girlfriend told me she learned from one her history/archeology courses at Berkeley.
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Berekely is run by the villians of this film...
The whole Roswell thing is interesting, but I'd wish they'd stuck with existing myths. Maybe something like the Garden of Eden.
 
Even in Roswell, they don't take Roswell very seriously.
They make money off it, though. :)
 
I enjoyed it. Indy was a big part of my cinematic childhood experiences.
The whole thing with the crystal skulls is straight out of "Chariots of the Gods," as are the markings in the ground (literally, strange paintings, etc. If you read that book and the other ones, you'll be less skeptical about the whole "aliens came to earth and helped past civilizations."
On a different note...RC Church says its ok to believe in aliens, Brits and Frenchies release UFO files, and Indiana Jones was at Roswell...what's coming out next?:eek::eek::eek:
 
The Nazca lines, the markings on the ground, are a legitimate study in themselves, but not necessarily alien artifacts. :)
 
Overall, irregardless of the HUGE plot holes, obvious on-set script rewrites, poor CGI and the usual Lucas juvenile one liners, it was just a lousy movie. Very poorly done.

If it wasn't Indiana Jones, it would be straight to DVD.

-dan
 
jim preston said:
Berekely is run by the villians of this film...
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Hey, just because the school is run by no good commies doesn't mean that their history department isn't the 2nd best in the country :p
I'm incredibly proud that Kate graduated with honors from there, please don't belittle that, shes an amazing girl.
 
Speaking of Indy, can anyone help me find his pocket knife? :confused:

I've been told it's a Solingen hunter or else a Mikov in the same patern. I know very little about German or Czech made knives and so far I've had no luck finding one that looks like it. Does anyone know where I might find a simillar knife?
 

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Not dissing your girlfriend. Berkely is a good school, and if you can graduate with honors, more power to ya.
It is run by commies, though.
 
jim preston said:
Not dissing your girlfriend. Berkely is a good school, and if you can graduate with honors, more power to ya.
It is run by commies, though.
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Fair enough, you're probably right. In my admittedly limited experience however, in some respects, the separation of wealth within the management and employees of the school is reminiscent of a capitalist system. The free speech and activist movement that the school is clinging to is a joke.

In the hopes of keeping this thread on track however, I'll leave it at that. Indy does a good job kicking commie butt, and thats what counts:cool:
 
yinyang said:
My opinion seems to be the concensus here. Considering my eight year old sat quietly throughout the flick, I would have to say it was what it was meant to be. . .entertaining. BTW, was there ever a time that refrigerators, sorry, iceboxes, were lead-lined? (Or blast-proof for that matter?)
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Yes, but those refrigerators are used to store radioactive isotopes in labs and medical facilities; they are, were not, household items; not that it makes a difference since you would need meter thick lead walls and a self contained oxgene supply to protect you from that much radiation. Then again, the heat would vaporize you and the box, just before the shock waves shattered every bone in your body.

n2s
 
True about the refrigerators. (theoretically, as the site was made by the government, they could have taken a surplus lead-lined refrigerator and placed it there instead of buying a new one)
Your bones would be dust by the time you landed, if you didn't melt.
Commies always take money, lots of money, and hoard it for themselves so they can buy their dachas.
Indy's knife looks like a single blade with a jigged bone handle. You might want to ask this in the Traditional subforum- there is nothing those guys don't know.
 
Saw it last night.

I thought it was OK. Definitely worth seeing if you like Indiana Jones at all. The first one is so far superior in so many ways, though. I think all the others are just trying to capture the magic of the first.

The 1930s mystique as a backdrop for adventure archaeology is pretty hard to beat. the late 50s? Well ... not so romantic.

Harrison Ford was 38 when he did Raiders (my age now). It makes me sad and a little scared to see him as an old guy today after what seems like such a short time.
 
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