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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of What the Fuck

Saturday May 24, 2008 @ 09:43 PM (PDT)

My head is still reeling after seeing the new Indiana Jones movie yesterday. It keeps coming back in flashes, like a bad dream. I’m not exaggerating; the movie is so ridiculous and incoherent that my memories of it feel exactly like the memories of some of my more nonsensical dreams. My biggest fear is that watching the first three movies will now remind me of this one, and I’ll enjoy them less as a result.

If you’re an Indiana Jones fan and haven’t seen Kingdom of the Crystal Skull yet, here’s my advice: don’t. For godssake don’t. See something else. Anything. Speed Racer even. Please don’t make the same mistake I did.

Comments

I was disappointed, too.

Sunday May 25, 2008 @ 11:36 AM (PDT) Posted by Todd

welp, i think i’ll still see this in the theatres, but now it’ll be a matinee. that’s terrible news that this one doesn’t live up to the first or the third (the second, that one was bad…go ahead ryan, saying, “fuck you mookie!”). anyways, i would suggest iron man for those who are looking for a good summer hero flick (at least until dark knight comes out).

Sunday May 25, 2008 @ 02:38 PM (PDT) Posted by mookie

I dunno…having just watched Raiders of the Lost Ark yesterday and then Crystal Skull this morning, I didn’t think it was that bad. The story was no less incoherrent/plausible than any of the others. I actually liked it better than Temple of Doom, so Crystal gets a bronze from me.

Sunday May 25, 2008 @ 06:22 PM (PDT) Posted by Oren

Please stop making movies. At the very least please stop remaking movies. Please?

With regards,

The Movie Going Public

Tuesday May 27, 2008 @ 09:01 AM (PDT) Posted by johnr

Your time has come and gone. You suck at making movies. Please retire now. Thanks. Byebye.

Wednesday May 28, 2008 @ 07:59 AM (PDT) Posted by Mike

When I heard that George Lucas killed a proposed script for this movie a couple of years ago, I knew that was it—if Lucas hated it, it was probably the best version and would never be made. He’s good at creating worlds, but he has to step back and let others populate them. I knew I wouldn’t want to see this version, and won’t.

Advice George should be following: I will do the opposite.

Sunday June 01, 2008 @ 05:29 PM (PDT) Posted by Platypus
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