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Disappointed Indiana fan
PostedMay 22, 2008
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First off I'm an Indiana fan, a Star Wars fan...Heck...a Lucas/Spielberg fan from way back... I swear Ive seen 'Temple of Doom over 100 times.... not exagerating... Every Indy film found Jones in a perilous situation in which both his bad luck and good luck collided throughout the film. It seemed sometimes like he had the worst luck ever but somehow he would triumph with each of the films having a comic realism to them... such as the scene from 'Last Crusade when Indy was kickin butt on the fighter plane's machine gun until he his inexperience was shown by shooting off his own tail fin...then blaming it on the enemy saying "Dad...they got us!" That being said... this movie was a horrible disappointment to me.... The scenes not only looked fake...but seemed fake as well. The lines were set up as if they were "trying" to make Indiana Jones sound like Indiana Jones and there were many big Hollywood special effects that seemed unnecissary. The scene with the boy swinging from vine to vine in front of the (obvious) blue screen jungle made me move around in my seat with an uncomfortable "wtf?!" sort of squimishness. The "hiding in the fridge to survive the nuclear blast" scene... another "wtf?!" I mean.... I got the gag...the fridge was lined with lead...its just ... just... It was COMPLETELY UNBELIEVABLE... That being said....most of the action scenes seemed to take place in front of a blue screen. This added to the film failing to excite and entertain me. There was NOT ONE point in the action of the film in which I moved around in my seat squimishly due to a feeling of perilousness... Indeed... if they were shooting to put him in more "over the top" situations in this film than the previous films...they succeeded alright... they did this so well in fact that not ONE action scene felt real. I don't know if Spielberg and Lucas are beginning to show their age or if they let someone else actually make this film and just slapped their name on the product to make a quick buck but I will forever think of Indiana Jones as a "Trilogy."
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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