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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

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#1  Edited By Willy105

Seriously.
 
Where is all the hate coming from!?!
 
How could the Indy fans hate an Indiana Jones movie that is not only EXACTLY like the old movies, but a good movie as well?
 
At least the Star Wars prequels had the argument that they were completely different (politically minded, instead of bam! bam! minded). But Indy 4 is classic Indy, with silly CGI backgrounds instead of silly watercolor backgrounds.

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#2  Edited By zeforgotten

Shia LeButtfuck ruined it for me the most. 
It was an ok movie, but nothing near as good as the old Indy movies. 
Not even close.. not even a mouses pube hair length close to the old movies.. 
I'm not making sense, but still..  
Not even the ending ripped straight out of Raiders of the Lost Ark could make me feel that it would be up there with the old ones. 

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#3  Edited By mordukai

I don't even consider it canon. 

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#4  Edited By Al3xand3r

Didn't like the ending. A lot of the rest was good. Oh, I was very glad to see him pick up his hat in the end. I was all like FUCK, NO, DON'T LET THE DOUCHE BE THE NEXT INDIE, PLEASE DON'T! And they totally corrected that. Nice touch. Loved that bit. Hope they make more.

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#5  Edited By Famov

I do not understand how people can hate on this one without also hating Temple of Doom. Shia whoever isn't nearly as annoying as the side characters in that movie. 
 
WHY DO YOU INGORE ME MISTAH JONES!?!? 
 
The original, quite predictably, is my favorite.
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#6  Edited By EvilTwin

I actually enjoyed it more than two, which I found to be pretty boring.  I understand why people think it was a pretty big departure, though.

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#7  Edited By breadfan
@Famov said:
 WHY DO YOU INGORE ME MISTAH JONES!?!? 
Docta Jones! 
 
I thought Crystal Skull was alright.  I mean I love every Indiana Jones movie and I enjoyed the fourth as well.
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#8  Edited By TheGremp

WHERE MAH SKULL!?

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#9  Edited By iam3green

it was interesting. i haven't watched an Indiana Jones in a LONG time beside crystal skull. i watched it because some of the movie was taped in New Heaven, Connecticut, if u didn't know. it was cool seeing Harrison riding.

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#10  Edited By Black_Rose

It's probably the worst movie I saw last year. 

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#11  Edited By teh_destroyer

The first 45 minutes of the movie was gold, thats about it though.

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#12  Edited By Xeiphyer

The movie needed more 50cent in it. He would be great. "Yo Indie, hit dat bigass ramp!" and the "Wheres my skull, bitch?" still totally applies :D

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#13  Edited By deadmonkeys

A couple of my buddies went to see this movie when it came out, but I didn't go 'cause I was sick.
 
Saved me 12 bucks.

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#14  Edited By BlazeHedgehog

I liked Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It definitely had it's moments of "Wow, that's stupid as hell." (See: swinging with the monkeys) but it was enjoyable enough. Didn't top Last Crusade, but let's face it, not many movies can or ever will.

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Fiddy had to hit a big ass ramp to get this movie made.

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#16  Edited By ArchScabby

I hate you so much for comparing this to the first three.  To me Indiana Jones was and always will be a trilogy, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull  was an abomination.

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#17  Edited By maxszy
@Willy105 said:
" Seriously.  Where is all the hate coming from!?!  How could the Indy fans hate an Indiana Jones movie that is not only EXACTLY like the old movies, but a good movie as well?  At least the Star Wars prequels had the argument that they were completely different (politically minded, instead of bam! bam! minded). But Indy 4 is classic Indy, with silly CGI backgrounds instead of silly watercolor backgrounds. "
I'm afraid you are off base. Glowing skulls? Aliens? Aliens in an ancient ruin and flying off into space? Aliens in Indian Jones? WTF? That's why its horrible. It doesn't fit with the other Indiana Jones, i'm sorry.
 
As for your Star Wars reference I would disagree there as well (minus maybe Phantom Menace) but I wont go into detail :-P This is about Indy.
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#18  Edited By Al3xand3r

I don't see how aliens are sillier than an ark that magically kills people around it... Anyway, the aliens were @ the very end, what of the rest?

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#19  Edited By WilliamRLBaker

1.every indiana jones before was steeped in fantasy. This one turned out to be SCIFI. 
2.If the skulls are so insanely magnetic why didn't every one die? i mean being in the one place alone should have brought every thing around.  When is gold magnetic? 
3.One would think they'd atleast come up with some better villians my god was the one person annoying. 
4.Theres over the top then theres retardation we all know the scene im refering. 
5.swinging CGI monkies and CGI gophers? why? 
6.The movie didn't seem like a earnest attempt at furthering the franchise it screamed I've ran out of ideas so im just gonna rely on my older material now.
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#20  Edited By HandsomeDead
@Willy105 said:
" Seriously.  Where is all the hate coming from!?!  How could the Indy fans hate an Indiana Jones movie that is not only EXACTLY like the old movies, but a good movie as well?  At least the Star Wars prequels had the argument that they were completely different (politically minded, instead of bam! bam! minded). But Indy 4 is classic Indy, with silly CGI backgrounds instead of silly watercolor backgrounds. "
I agree completely. I really enjoyed it.  
 
@WilliamRLBaker said:
" 1.every indiana jones before was steeped in fantasy. This one turned out to be SCIFI. 2.If the skulls are so insanely magnetic why didn't every one die? i mean being in the one place alone should have brought every thing around.  When is gold magnetic? 3.One would think they'd atleast come up with some better villians my god was the one person annoying. 4.Theres over the top then theres retardation we all know the scene im refering. 5.swinging CGI monkies and CGI gophers? why? 6.The movie didn't seem like a earnest attempt at furthering the franchise it screamed I've ran out of ideas so im just gonna rely on my older material now. "
You're criticising a film series which featured Nazis being melted by ghosts, a guy who can rip your heart out through your chest, a Knight which has lived a thousand years by drinking from the Holy Grail and so much more for being retarded because he survived a nuclear bomb by hiding in a fridge? Yeah, way to go against the well established realism of the franchise, Spielberg.
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#21  Edited By Canberra

Knowledge was their gold...

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#22  Edited By GunstarRed

The film is brilliant up until the stupidly long exposition scene in the graveyard...as soon as theyre captured by the russians everything good about the film gets completely erased. 
 
I'm also pretty amused by the fridge sequence.
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#23  Edited By TwoOneFive

shia mostly killed it for me. he was like the jar jar binks of the movie  
 
 
i did enjoy the movie though. i was never a huge indy fan so i didnt understand what the fuss was about.  
only the hardcore fanboys got mad. they get mad over everything though. only things that were made at least more than 20 years ago were good to those kinds of people. 

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#25  Edited By Tiwi
@HandsomeDead: Dude... he was in a fridge... that's not even possible with magic.
also If you tell people the ending of the movie with real intensity they won't believe you.
"AND THEN AT THE END THE ALIENS TAKE OF IN THEIR SPACESHIP; AND JUST WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH INTO THE SKY AND IT ALL GOES APESHIT!" 
I've had two friends go" yeah... sure...." and get real disappointed when they saw it. and then it's the fact that all the other movies had some relation to myths and legends.
this does not have any at all.
The holy grail has holy powers. sure
The temple of doom has magic stones. sure
The lost ark had ghosts in it. Sure.
The crystal scull belonged to an alien. sur.. wait what? FAIL
 
all the other had something to do with magic in some, shape, form or way. this had nothing with it.
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#26  Edited By HandsomeDead
@tiwi: Do you actually know anything about Crystal Skulls and Mayan mythology? Claiming this film had no ties to myths and legends is really not having a grasp on the film at all. Also, it's weird how you're defending the other films for using magic but when this one takes the creative liberty of assuming someone could survive a nuclear blast hiding in a lead lined fridge, it's suddenly too much to take.
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#27  Edited By CL60
@Famov said:
" I do not understand how people can hate on this one without also hating Temple of Doom. Shia whoever isn't nearly as annoying as the side characters in that movie.  WHY DO YOU INGORE ME MISTAH JONES!?!?  The original, quite predictably, is my favorite. "
People just like to hate on Shia because he is in Transformers.
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#28  Edited By BlazeHedgehog

Some people sure take the Indiana Jones movies way too seriously.
 
It's still a mystical element. Sure, it's not magic, but then again there's also the saying - "any sufficiently advanced civilization has technology indistinguishable from what was once considered magic" (to paraphrase).  I mean, jeeze, of all the stuff you could whine about.

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#29  Edited By Willy105
@Fragstoff said:

" Indy 4 was terrible, it was NOT like the other movies remember the refrigerator scene, or the monkeys, or the waterfall/ tree landing,  it was total garbage.   I try to block it from memory... i just cant... "

What about the refrigerator scene, or the monkey, or the waterfall/tree landing have that's different from the last three movies?
 
Can't be all that much different from the giant boulder, the lion, or the cliff with the tank. 
 
I bet you guys wanted a realistic movie, but that's not what Indy is. They are pulp comics, just like the adventure serials of the 30's and 40's. Star Wars is just like that too.
 
@WilliamRLBaker said:
" 1.every indiana jones before was steeped in fantasy. This one turned out to be SCIFI. 2.If the skulls are so insanely magnetic why didn't every one die? i mean being in the one place alone should have brought every thing around.  When is gold magnetic? 3.One would think they'd atleast come up with some better villians my god was the one person annoying. 4.Theres over the top then theres retardation we all know the scene im refering. 5.swinging CGI monkies and CGI gophers? why? 6.The movie didn't seem like a earnest attempt at furthering the franchise it screamed I've ran out of ideas so im just gonna rely on my older material now. "

1. Sci-Fi is fantasy.
2. The gold is not magnetic, the gold just outlines the ship from the inside, which itself was magnetic, which fragments would surely have made things go crazy up in there.
3. Irina Spalko? What was wrong about her? Was it because she was a woman? She a fine villain, and with the standard Indy big guy with her, she could do a lot of damage. Also, the sword fight with Mutt in top of running trucks was awesome as heck.
4. Standards may change, especially with movies like The Dark Knight and Iron Man coming out that are SUPER realistic, but it fits just fine with Indy cannon. Definitely the most absurd moment in the series.
5. Well, monkeys and gophers in real life are expensive and hard to train, let alone needing to have a lot of approval gained from organizations to use them. Having them CGI saves frustration.
6. Didn't attempt at furthering the franchise? Indy got married! It's in the 50's, and he's a war general! Senior Jones died! Mutt Williams is going to be Indy's replacement! How else would you further it, killing off Indy?
 
Memories can ruin something, even though it's what you wanted.