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Crni Vuk said:
did you ... really ... enjoyed the crystal skull?
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I did. I mean, I've never understood what all the complaining was about. Just becuase of the alien and the spaceship? Really? After the magical, vaporizing-people ark from Ark, the magical stone things from the Temple of Doom, and the magical healing chalice from Last Crusade? Indy himself may have been a skeptic in the movies, but the movies themselves portrayed the supernatural as a given. Not much of a leap (or even a leap at all) to go from the supernatural aspect of archaeology to the alien thing. Rather logical, in fact.

Stars Wars prequels were crap, though. Except for the lightsaber fights. They could have stood to a be a little *less* stylized, sure. But at least it wasn't like watching a couple of eight-year-olds swinging sticks at each other like the original trilogy's lightsaber fights.
 
yeah well if you dont see the issue then I am afraid there is nothing I or others can do to explain you the case :p

but dude! ALIENS! COME ON! A L I E N S :P
 
I never got the hate for Crystal Skull either. Sure, Shia LaBoeuf was a bit annoying and the nuke scene is really out there, but the rest isin't any more far fetched than face-melting biblical artifacts, mind control, magical healing grail, invisible bridges and pulling a heart out with one's own bare hands, to have it beat still and spontaneously burn. It kinda fits thematically with the 50's, what with the commies and the little aliens.
 
Ilosar said:
I never got the hate for Crystal Skull either. Sure, Shia LaBoeuf was a bit annoying and the nuke scene is really out there, but the rest isin't any more far fetched than face-melting biblical artifacts, mind control, magical healing grail, invisible bridges and pulling a heart out with one's own bare hands, to have it beat still and spontaneously burn. It kinda fits thematically with the 50's, what with the commies and the little aliens.
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I thought the story was just as believable as the others (minus the nuke fridge), but the movie just wasn't that good. It was like..it tried too hard or something. Very mediocre overall.
 
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Walpknut said:
Dude, Voodoo, Face melting ark of the covenant.
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see, I knew you would know what a good Indy movie needs.

It does not contain aliens and nuclear explosions :p
 
Crni Vuk said:
but dude! ALIENS! COME ON! A L I E N S :P
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And? How are aliens less believeable than a nearly millenium old crusader with the Holy Grail? Insane Hindu magic? Or a Jewish magical weapon of mass destruction?

Quote Arthur Clarke:

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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It fits.
 
I didn't have a problem with it, myself. I don't know why so many people were upset with aliens. I was more upset by the CGI and the casting of Shia Labouf.

Thematically, it fits 1950s Atomic Horror, when Aliens really entered the public mindset regarding the pulp-style adventure.

My belief is that some people just wanted those Wacky Nazis and a younger Indiana Jones again. Which, unfortunately, they couldn't have.
 
I didn't mind the aliens all that much. I also liked the setting of the film, the 50's and the russians were very fitting for an old Indiana Jones.
Even Shia Lebabhhsdgfwhatever wasn't too bad. He was less annoying than Willy and Short Round.
However, the film went too over the top at some points: The fridge and the monkey-swinging.
So yeah, I liked the Crystal Skull better than Temple of Doom. That film is, despite its awesome action scenes, almost unwatchable to me. Fuck Willy and Short Round.
 
Hassknecht said:
However, the film went too over the top at some points: The fridge and the monkey-swinging.
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Actually, the only part with the fridge that's "over the top" is that he would survive the landing. If it's a thick-enough lead-lined refrigerator, the explosion and radiation would have been "survivable".
But that landing...yeah. :p

Hassknecht said:
So yeah, I liked the Crystal Skull better than Temple of Doom. That film is, despite its awesome action scenes, almost unwatchable to me. Fuck Willy and Short Round.
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Short Round is awesome!

"Doctor Jones! No time for love!"

"You call him Doctor Jones, doll!"

"Hang on, lady! We going for ride!"

"Slick shoes! Slick shoes!"

Oh wait, I think that's from a different movie. :p
 
I liked the first half of the Crystal Skull, but once they find the professor the movie starts going downhill for me. The group is too big so the movie switches the focus back and forth to give something to do to everyone, there are some very stupid scenes, and the part within the city and the "puzzle" are just too short and rushed and add nothing to the story.
 
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Tagaziel said:
Crni Vuk said:
but dude! ALIENS! COME ON! A L I E N S :P
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And? How are aliens less believeable than a nearly millenium old crusader with the Holy Grail? Insane Hindu magic? Or a Jewish magical weapon of mass destruction?

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I am just exagerating. The Aliens didnt bothered me really. Even though dont they say they are "interdimensional travelers"?

As someone else said, the movie isnt really bad. It just feels like its trying to "hard". You can feel the "this is a computer working in the background!" which many movies sadly have today.

maybe its just me but I enjoy the fact that most of the scenes in the indie movies have been actually filmed in a real setting and not with computer animated ants or apes.

In my eyes there simply was no need for a 4th movie. There are things which I really liked and then BAM as soon as you think hey its alright, Indy hides in a fridge to survive a nuclear explosion.
 
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