May 23, 2008
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Um. I feel like maybe I'm one of those frat boys who is secretly gay and maybe went on a camping trip with his frat brothers and maybe there was too much to drink and maybe some things happened and everyone else agreed to never talk about what happened, but I just can't help it.
So, I saw the new Indiana Jones movie this evening.
It is a LOT of gratuitous (and not always very good) CGI effects. There were some bad reels in our theater, too, so some things jumped around and the color shifted now and then. The sound effects -- listen to the sound of the very first punch in the movie -- were not good. It's silly and utterly implausible. Many of the action sequences are frankly cartoonish.
Speaking of cartoonish... There. I said it.
And the physics of the film is wildly inconsistent. The Crystal Skull, for instance, apparently has powerful "magnetic" properties that attract metal filings from all the way across a warehouse. It's so magnetic, in fact, that it attracts non-magnetic metals at times. AT TIMES. Because at other times, it's just a perplexingly light hunk of glass.
I really don't want to go on. It's just so disappointing. But there it is. It happened. I think we'd all be a lot happier if we just acknowledge it, own it, and accept ourselves for having gone to see it. And we all know that if they make another one, we'll go see that one, too.
So, I saw the new Indiana Jones movie this evening.
It is a LOT of gratuitous (and not always very good) CGI effects. There were some bad reels in our theater, too, so some things jumped around and the color shifted now and then. The sound effects -- listen to the sound of the very first punch in the movie -- were not good. It's silly and utterly implausible. Many of the action sequences are frankly cartoonish.
Speaking of cartoonish... There. I said it.
And the physics of the film is wildly inconsistent. The Crystal Skull, for instance, apparently has powerful "magnetic" properties that attract metal filings from all the way across a warehouse. It's so magnetic, in fact, that it attracts non-magnetic metals at times. AT TIMES. Because at other times, it's just a perplexingly light hunk of glass.
I really don't want to go on. It's just so disappointing. But there it is. It happened. I think we'd all be a lot happier if we just acknowledge it, own it, and accept ourselves for having gone to see it. And we all know that if they make another one, we'll go see that one, too.
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Wow. I didn't intend to go see this because it seemed like a parody of the older Indiana Jones flicks--you know, crystal skull that gives the holder special powers...or whatever. I might have made an exception if I wasn't paying for the ticket, but now: No. Just no.
Posted by: Matt at May 23, 2008 09:34 AM (wg7tI)
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I heard a movie critic this morning say he expected the movie to bust 175 million in the first weekend alone. Of course he did not give it one hundred percent props either.
Posted by: sompopo at May 23, 2008 10:21 AM (+E00M)
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Fingers in ears.
I can't hear you! La, la, la, la, la!
But seriously, I'm going to see it tomorrow. Thanks for the spoiler tag. I did find this: Indiana Jones makes communists see red. It's from Reuters, though, so ... well, you know Reuters.
~Q
I can't hear you! La, la, la, la, la!
But seriously, I'm going to see it tomorrow. Thanks for the spoiler tag. I did find this: Indiana Jones makes communists see red. It's from Reuters, though, so ... well, you know Reuters.
~Q
Posted by: Qwertz at May 23, 2008 03:40 PM (oXrE3)
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