Indiana Jones & the Crystal Skull. Should Spielberg have left well enough alone?
By init_towinit
@init_towinit (53)
United States
October 3, 2008 12:10am CST
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. That movie got some mixed reviews. There was so much hype around it. Honestly, I was scared to think of poor Harrison Ford trying to run around as the whip-carrying crusader. The Last Crusade was awesome! I think my favourite of the first three parts. So I was really looking forward to see the 4th part of the series but I was disappointed by the Crystal Skull. I know Spielberg wanted to make the movie as old-fashioned as possible and without a lot of computer graphics which I can understand. He wanted to stay true to the series but I'm not sure it came across the way he hoped it would. What do you think?
2 responses
@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
25 Oct 08
To put it blunt I was quite a bit disappointed with the new movie. It did not live up to the hype created around it. For me it was a bit of a disappointment when compared to the previous Indiana Jones films. © ronaldinu 2008
@penski (51)
• Philippines
4 Oct 08
I'm satisfied with Crystal Skull. It's not the best in the series, but I would consider it the third best -- behind Raiders and Last Crusade, but well ahead of Temple of Doom.
Things I liked (in no particular order):
- Cate Blanchett as the baddie;
- the return of Marion;
- nods to the Ark of the Covenant and to Marcus Brody;
- Indy!
Things I didn't quite like:
- Karen Allen sometimes looked like she's out of it;
- the entire nuclear explosion scene and how Indy survived it;
- the aliens' departure
But I'd still watch the movie when it gets aired on TV. :)
