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ALMOST WALKED OUT
PostedMay 23, 2008
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All I wanted this movie to be was fun. I wasn't expecting anything nearly as good as 'Raiders' especially given how bad 'Temple of Doom' and how mediocre 'Last Crusade' were. But they were movies of my childhood ('Raiders' being one of my all time faves) and I really wanted to give this movie a chance...
While it was cute in places in a "roll-your-eyes-and-groan" kind of way, making references to the past 3 films...It was overall deadly dull with a dopey plot that they BEAT you over the head with (Indy's leaps in logic have never seemed more forced when he's "putting it all together.") And the action scenes were horribly improbable and the movie wasn't nearly good enough for you to want to play along with them. Seriously, a sword fight on two moving duck boats in the middle of the jungle? And the Tarzan impression?!? And Karen Allen looks like she just wandered out of the hairdresses into captivity. I'm sorry if those are spoilers, but I doubt it. This film arrived spoiled.
And, now, for the final straw...WHAT WAS CATE BLANCHETT THINKING?!? As has been said in other places, I expected her to give up on chasing Indy in order to hook up with Boris and chase Moose and Squirell. That accent was horrible, the dialog was so hamfisted it made 'Star Wars' sound like Shakespeare, and the conclusion...see it to believe it if you have to. Or don't. It will live in camp history someday.
I am not a hater...I really, really wanted to like this film. But it just seems that, with this film and with the last three 'Star Wars' movies, fat, lazy old men are trading in on their prior glories, bringing them down in the process. Like U2 wrote, "You glorify your past when your future dries up." Go rent 'Raiders' and remember what it was like when these filmmakers actually had something to say.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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