I watched Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull last week, and it was fun, Shia was adorable (can't say the same in this latest Transformers, he's kinda an ass) and the aliens camptastic...
I think I know why people didn't think it was awesome.
I think it's because they forgot that the originals were kinda cheesy and politically incorrect, since they've lasted long enough to become iconic.
There were definitely some problematic things (seriously? indigenous peoples as props?) but I thought it was on about par with the first, which I watched earlier this year. LOVED the library parts.
full disclosure: this is the level I've played and won on Lego: Indy, before I saw ANY of the movies.
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was fascinating, because I knew it was prime nerd material, but that somehow had not prepared me for the utter seriousness of it. It's a movie that was quite as earnest about it's SF plotline as Star Wars, and played off the limits of its CG as a sort of aid to the atmosphere.
It also starred an adorable Jeff Bridges (to think I'd ever say that! ...I met him as Obadiah in Iron Man, so) who was completely wasted once in the program-gladiator suit, because his dimples were only rarely in appearance and his face desaturated, and there was no awesome 80s curls...
I'm planning to watch the recent sequel soon. Don't bother saying don't bother, it's RESEARCH.
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Date: 2012-06-26 03:13 pm (UTC)From:I was not a fan of IJatKotCS. I only watched it once, which was not enough for me to determine where my dislike came from, so I don't feel qualified to discuss WHY it sucked for me. I do know that of the other three movies, the Grail movie was by far my favorite.
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Date: 2012-06-26 06:35 pm (UTC)From:I totally get why it's not a movie for everyone, (several things amused me that could have been dealbreakers if they didn't) but the reviews about it being a disappointment just struck me a little odd...
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Date: 2012-06-26 03:17 pm (UTC)From:ALSO. TRON. I LOVE THAT MOVIE SO MUCH. I used to have a ton of macros of Sark saying END OF LINE but now I don't know where any of them are :(
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Date: 2012-06-26 06:43 pm (UTC)From:I felt pretty satisfied by the points of "what happens when he gets old?" and "Who does he end up with?" If it had just been Marion I would have been okay with it--because there's Mutt, it's too adorable. And it seems realistic for Indy, really...he wouldn't have been happy settling down earlier, and maybe Mutt did better having steadier father-figures earlier in his life...
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Date: 2012-06-26 04:53 pm (UTC)From:and DEFINITELY bother watching the new Tron, even though omg it too totally fits into my new "science fiction is becoming syfy" thing I just came up with. But oh man I went to see it in I-MAX with Gingerbread (Lovie's boyfriend) and it was awesome.
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