Posts Tagged ‘INDIANA JONES’
Last Updated on Monday, 1 December 2008 07:48
Written by Axel
Tuesday, 27 May 2008 01:18
This being the first time there’s a SMEx evening while I’m in Oslo, I was happy to join that big group of 14 who went to see the new Indiana Jones. I was promptly given the job to write the review, so here it is.
We follow Indy as he suddenly finds himself yanked into the middle of a Soviet secret mission, which revolves around the secrets of the eponymous Crystal Skull. It leads him (and not only him :zip:) to Peru to eventually discover it.
Having been at the catch up event the day before was very conducive, if not essential, for me to enjoy the film, as it remains very true to the spirit of its predecessors and often requires a good recollection of them to succeed – it’s got the classic classroom scene, the comic action scenes, disgusting crawling things :bug:, Indy shattering/ripping apart/in other ways destroying countless irreplacable artifacts, and generally lots of back-references. What it luckily doesn’t have is annoying/screaming chicks/children (Temple of Doom anyone? Bleh).
The special effects are naturally more sophisticated, but the film luckily doesn’t rely on them more than the previous ones to work. Of course the plot has the usual dose of supernatural forces – which brings me to my main gripe about the film: As the film closes in on the final showdown, what was probably meant as a tongue-in-cheek reuse of an old and tried theme increasingly comes across as too cheesy and very worn-out, and generally not creative enough for what we’ve come to expect from Indiana Jones. The showdown itself was a huge letdown for me, it really made me cringe. Many of the action scenes actually did – they are supposed to be over-the-top and slightly impossible (complete with thousands of bullets fired at close range and… missing), that’s Indy for you, but the film makers really went overboard with some of them. I can only muster up so much suspension of disbelief before it becomes annoying and you begin to be insulted for being expected to believe anyone could actually survive *that*.
All in all, while you won’t walk out of the cinema with that “now that was interesting!”-feeling which Last Crusade gave me (IMO still by far the best one of the series), it’s certainly a flick you can enjoy if you liked its predecessors.
Hoff says: “I won't have that many grey hairs when I'm 65!”
Tags: Action, GEORGE LUCAS, INDIANA JONES, STEVEN SPIELBERG | Posted under Reviews | No Comments
Last Updated on Monday, 1 December 2008 07:50
Written by minch
Monday, 26 May 2008 09:25
A few of us got together on the Saturday before the big SMEx XXIX to see the first three Indiana Jones movies again. That’s right we watched, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade all in a row! Well it wasn’t that bad we got to have a nice BBQ break in between the last two.
It was great to see all these movies again, all of them still as fun as the first time, but I really didn’t remember how crazy Temple of Doom was! The Last Crusade is still my favorite Indiana Jones movie. A great lead up to the new movie.
Here’s the full board with the Spanish versions of the movies 
Tags: DOOM, HARRISON FORD, INDIANA JONES, LOST | Posted under Videos | No Comments
Last Updated on Monday, 1 December 2008 08:28
Written by Andy
Monday, 14 January 2008 07:44
First I have to start by saying that I think that Nicolas Cage cannot act and has played the same character in all his films, while grinning stupidly with his very white teeth, and talking with his annoying voice. He must have a lot of dirt on a few directors so that they keep casting him in their films, because he is useless, he cannot act, or am I the only one to notice this!
The writers strike is now a few months old, but I suspect that the strike started when they were shooting this film, as they obviously got the script of the first film, and went “this plot will do”, they did add a couple of scene changes to make it more bizarre, but the plot is the same, if there is a plot.
There is a baddie character, played by Ed Harris who does try to shoot and kill our heroes at the start of the film, but it turns out that he really is a good American and just wants to go down in history. But the “plot” includes breaking into Buckingham Place, without getting shot, (I did not know that you can hack into all the security systems from the toilet!), and kidnapping the president of the USA, but no one really notices. The thing that takes the biscuit is Helen Mirren, crossing a river and large drop while swinging on a rope, who thought the Queen would be able to do that?
All of this to find the mythical city of gold, and clear someones Grandfathers name, while following a trail of not so simple clues.
The worst bit, of a very bad film, was the scene in London, were they committed complete sacrilege, were they spilled the very fine beer London Pride, off the back of a lorry onto the streets. Now if this was Ringnes they would be doing a service to the world, by getting ride of the devil’s urine, but wasting London Pride is a criminal act, and had me crying in the cinema.
I do hope that this the last film in this series as it has already run out of ideas, but with an opening weekend of 120 million USD I suspect it will not be, but when the next ones out I hope will avoid it, like I should off done with this one.
All I can say in conclusion is I really do hope that the Indiana Jones film is better than this pile of garbage.
I pleased to say that I managed to get this review posted in record time for me!!
Hoff says: “That was a nice family movie, I wonder if my daughters will come and see it with me!”
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