Have their been any Reviews of Latest "Indiana Jones" movie here in Lounge?

[KoKo]

Asking because I don't come here...and didn't want to post it in GDForum...figuring it would be moved here.

Have you seen it? What did you think?

We just went and walked out of it after 45 Minutes... Should we have stayed? Did it get better? Only about 45 People in the theater...so many empty seats. :shrug:

Is there a link here to a review from DU'ers. Most of the Critics loved it...said it was "family movie" where "Young and Old" would go to see it. In the theater I tried to see it in...it was mostly 20 Somethings...and very few of them...

[Frank Cannon]

1. Mine

It sucked. I only wish I'd walked out after 45 minutes.

I have no idea what the critics were thinking, unless they were just scared to piss off Lucas or Spielberg. But sometimes you just have to tell it like it is.

[KoKo]

3. Thanks for your reply....

I was worried it was just us...and that's why I posted.

But maybe it's only the three of us. :scared:

[murray hill farm]

2. I do not have the answer,

but i was planning to go with a friend to see it next week. So, I will be interested in the answers. Sounds like u would not recommend it.

[KoKo]

5. I think it was that it took a long time to get into the plot and Harrison Ford

was portrayed as a very old man...who lost the "light in his eyes" and the whole opening didn't have a "ZIP" that we associate with those movies.

It was kinda down...and we thought we knew how it would end in the first 45 minutes..the way it was going...and neither of us were in the mood for a "downer" movie.

But, I don't want to spoil it for anyone. I've learned being here that there are over a hundred different views on DU about everything.

I just wondered if anyone else found the movie much different from what the media is saying about "BLOCKBUSTER"...movie for ALL AGES!!!

As I posted....I was at a theater on a Friday Night...that should have been PACKED since it opened so well last weekend...and the seats were not filled...and so few...and only 20 somethings in the audience.

It was weird....... but the popcorn in this theater is very good...we brought the rest of it home with us...:-(

[DarkTirade]

4. All the reviews so far have either been, "It sucked!" or "My expectations weren't high, so I wasn't

let down." :P

[KoKo]

6. I guess it comes down to what folks are in the mood for and if their expectations

aren't as high as ours (we go to very few movies) and we needed a break...and have loved the other ones so we were excited to see it.

I'm sure many will not have as high hopes...not looking for "ESCAPE" and might find it good. Maybe it picks up later on ...after we left.

[Frank Cannon]

16. My expectations were about average going in

As much as I loved the first movie and liked the third one, I remembered what a tower of suck the second film was.

I thought this latest movie was worse than "Temple of Doom".

Our whole family was bored to tears and wished we'd seen "Iron Man" again.

[KoKo]

30. Thanks...interesting...in that you saw it like we did...

I guess it all comes down to "expectations" and where one is on that scale of "expectations."

[LeftyMom]

7. The refrigerator thing was just horrible, and it went downhill from there.

The ants, and the monkeys, and the obvious plot twist with the kid... It was like Lucas sat down and said "what stupid thing can I shoehorn into this movie to insult the audience?" over and over, until he had something that made that gawdawful nSW:epi1 look like Citizen Kane.

[JTG of the PRB]

8. I guess I'm one of the rare ones here, but I loved it.

Indiana Jones movies are meant to be entertaining, and I was thoroughly entertained both times I've seen it. I just might to to see it one more time - a matinee show, of course - before the movie has run its course. I don't know why so many people wore their logic hats when they went to go see this movie, because trying to dissect Indiana Jones logically is almost futile.

If it doesn't entertain you, then it doesn't entertain you. That's just how it happens. Some people were entertained, and some were not. You can count me amongst the entertained.

[yellowdogintexas]

11. well put. Logic and an Indiana Jones movie are not meant to be together

it isn't supposed to be logical, it's supposed to be entertainment, pure fiction and if something doesn't make sense don't worry about it.

When going to a movie like this one assumes reality is checked at the door. I attend with no expectation other than high (if rather silly at points) adventure, humor, snake jokes,whip tricks, ingenious traps and mad car chases.

[Orrex]

14. That's a cop-out, and it lets Lucas and Spielberg off the hook too easily

Even if the "logic" of the film isn't as solid as the logic of the real world, it should at least be on par with the films that preceded it.

So much of what was so bad about Indy4 is a direct result of a failure to remain consistent with the reality set forth in the earlier three films.


If Lucas/Spielberg can't get at least that much right (and they can't), then they shouldn't have revisited the character in the first place (and they shouldn't).

[barb162]

25. These are summer action movies and they're fun.

I wasn't expecting Shakespeare's Othello. I was expecting a good summer action movie and that's what I got.

[Frank Cannon]

17. There is suspension of disbelief, and then there's launching it into orbit

You're right, all the IJ movies have lapses in logic. But this movie was just one nonstop assault on sensibility.

I found this movie as "entertaining" as watching someone play Donkey Kong for two hours.

[JTG of the PRB]

20. Maybe I just have an easier time suspending my disbelief then.

Either that, or I already like those kinds of movies, so it was right down my alley to begin with. :shrug:

Either way, I loved it.

[yellowdogintexas]

22. me too so there. If I had fun at the movie, I don't really care how they

got there. Everybody has something they allow themselves to be totally shallow over.
Mine is books and movies.

[barb162]

26. me too.

Summer action movies, even the best of them, should not be overthought.

[BlueJazz]

9. I was expecting more. If I had to grade it....ah...maybe a C or C+

[yellowdogintexas]

10. saw it today, enjoyed it thoroughly

it is exactly what it should be, and all the expected Indiana Jones goodies were included:
snake joke
ingenious traps in very ancient places
mad car chases
whip tricks
a good day at the movies

[MedleyMisty]

12. I agree

It was good for what it was. I wasn't expecting Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon or Amelie or (trying to think of a great American movie....Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?) or anything. Sure, it stretched the suspension of disbelief at points but oh well, it's an Indiana Jones movie. It's just for fun.

[Orrex]

13. For comparison, one need look no farther than the earlier Indiana Jones films

By that metric, this one sucked.

Hell, by any objective metric, this one sucked.


I appreciate that others may have a different view, and I won't try to convince them otherwise, but I was so furiously disappointed in the film that I can't stop howling about it.

[KoKo]

27. Compared with the earlier movies...I have to agree.....this one did seem to SUCK...

I wish I could be more objective...but if I had to walk out of it...I guess i don't qualify for "objective."

[Mojambo]

15. Totally fine until the last 15 minutes

Protagonists aren't supposed to just be along for the ride.

Really shoddy writing at the end of that film.

[chknltl]

18. A friend of mine saw this and Ironman in the same month

She is normally NOT into comic-books, she thought that the X-Man movies and the Spiderman movies were OK at best. She felt that Ironman was a GREAT movie and this latest Indiana Jones was, like the other comic book movies mentioned: "OK.... but nowhere near as good as Ironman!" I have seen neither movie but look forward to both...on TV in several months.

[Redneck Socialist]

19. It got marginally better, but not by much

I was pretty disappointed. The opening scene was really dumb. I don't remember the originals being quite that stupid.

[KoKo]

28. The "Elvis them" sort of got me interested...but it was "downhill" after that

because the "opening scenes" didn't really seem to get with what the rest of the 45 Minutes of the movie was about. It lacked the "atmosphere and time frame" to give flavor and nuance to what was portrayed in the Opening Scenes....

Then it got off into "aliens" and seemed weird before we left it. :shrug: I can't speak to after that as to how Lucas tied it all together...because, as I posted...we got outta there...because it just wasn't what we thought we came to that movie for. :shrug:

[KoKo]

31. It took such a long time to "set up" the "plot." And Harrison Ford has lost that "edge"

that always made his performances in "past films" that "fun" quality. Ford seemed to be very old...and sad...with "dead eyes" and maybe he perked up after we left...but it just made us sad and depressed with so long to get to the plot...the "alien theme" and the weirdness" ...we just didn't want another "downer" so we left...

[Paladin]

21. I Really, Really Wanted To Like This Flick.

Unfortunately, it just wasn't as good as I expected it to be---really came off flat, overall.

Not as bad as the Godawful second movie in the series, but still somewhat disappointing....

[yurbud]

23. the first 45 was probably the best part. The rest was a weak retread of Raiders

I'm actually having trouble separating it in my memory from National Treasure 2, which I also recently saw because I needed some mindless entertainment.

The other thing it reminded me of was a videogame, at least for the level of emotional involvement.

They missed a real opportunity with this that was suggested in the first act--instead of keeping the Ruskies from getting some stupid crystal skull, it should have been Indiana Jones and the Atom Bomb and they were trying get uranium from secret location or something.

[KoKo]

29. Seeing your post...I'm glad we didn't stay..

UGH...but, obviously there are DU'ers who really liked it...so who knows. :eyes:

[barb162]

24. I saw it. It's good! You should have stayed.