May 30 2008
Indy 4
I’ve held of talking about the latest Indiana Jones movie because I wanted to let my feelings about it settle, so I commented on Mike’s website about it, but I’d decided not to really talk about it here.
Well, I can’t hold back any more.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is fucking awful.
I left the cinema feeling exactly like I did after watching Phantom Menace. Overpowered with a sense of disappointment and disbelief. I mentioned over at Mike’s that the worst thing about the film was the dialogue, and I hold to that. It was painful to watch at points, and after letting the whole experience sink in I’ve come to this conclusion…
I will never go to the cinema to see a movie George Lucas has anything to do with again.
That man has completely destroyed the two franchises that made him famous. The two franchises that I grew up with are now nothing more than CGI filled, ham fisted scripts that just make me sad. There were lines in that movie that made me cringe, and others that made me want to get up and walk out of the cinema.
It could have been so much more, instead it completely ruined any chance Lucas had of saving his plummeting reputation. The simple fact that it actually made it to our screens is testimony to the fact the Lucas has completely jumped the shark.
Oh… I almost forgot about the gophers and the monkeys.
Lucas, you should be fucking ashamed of yourself.
May 30th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Haha, wow man. I didn’t realize you thought it was so bad!
As I said in my own post, I enjoyed the movie, but I didn’t see the originals at a young age. I wonder if there is a relation between what age you saw the original at and enjoyment of this movie?
May 30th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Yeah I pretty much thought it was terrible.
I’d been trying to not go off on one about it though, but the more I talked to other people about it the more annoyed I got. My flat mate and I were discussing it’s shitness in great depth last night and I just couldn’t stop myself.