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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (pg. 12)
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| iammesol |
Bastardization of one of the greatest film series complete! Seriously... I enjoyed myself tonight just out of comedy. :wtf:
I felt like Lucas was directing Star Wars but using Indiana Jones. Nothing was remotely realistic at all. The script was beyond out of place and cheesy, and ALIENS?! bahahahahaha |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
Just saw it...
It was entertaining, but I felt that this movie was a perfect example of how the mere availability of CGI has ed up the whole action-adventure genre in the last ten years. There were a number of scenes the purpose of which was transparently obvious: to show off big bad computer tricks.
The nuclear bomb part
The swinging monkeys
The ants
The extended fight scene straddling the two jeeps
The flying saucer at the end
Can any of you think of any recent good movies in the same pseudo-realistic action-adventure vein as Indiana Jones that don't go overboard with CGI like Lucas did here?
I think CGI is best left for creating wholly "mythical" effects, like the magic in Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings, and maybe for touching up minor things like explosions -- not as the basis for whole scenes as it was in this movie. |
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| Ang ' ela_ie |
| quote: | Originally posted by echosystm
all the other indiana jones movies weren't this ridiculous.
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Yeah they were. |
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| iammesol |
| I had forgotten about the nuke. That was more unnecessary than the aliens, not to mention how he survived it :wtf: |
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| Ang ' ela_ie |
| quote: | Originally posted by iammesol
I had forgotten about the nuke. That was more unnecessary than the aliens, not to mention how he survived it :wtf: |
There were parts of this movie where I felt like it was trying to be a parody of itself. This was definitely one of them. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Project-K
So they had a good hour of great indy stuff that measured up to the originals, but then they ran out of ideas, lucas and spielberg went ape crazy and added aliens and spaceship and stuffed every scene of the last hour with ridiculous ammounts of bad CGI. |
Yeah, basically my assessment. First hour (except for the nuke bit) was pretty decent, last hour was obviously lacking in ideas and the use of CGI to distract from this fact was shameless and transparent. |
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| iammesol |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ang ' ela_ie
There were parts of this movie where I felt like it was trying to be a parody of itself. This was definitely one of them. |
Exactly! |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
IMO the availability and decreasing cost of CGI is letting directors of adventure movies forget about creating real tension and maintaining some level of realism in their stunts and instead substituting computer "magic."
| quote: | Originally posted by Ang ' ela_ie
There were parts of this movie where I felt like it was trying to be a parody of itself. This was definitely one of them. |
Yeah, and the swinging monkeys thing and the waterfall bit as well -- three giant waterfalls, with not one person at least injured?! Those three scenes are the kind of things I would think up if I were trying to make an intentionally ridiculous action-adventure movie.
It already had an element of the fantastic with the bits about aliens and telepathy -- why push it way too far and totally falsify things by making lots of the stunts completely unrealistic and superhuman? Did they really think that's what moviegoers wanted?
To me that smacks of a worrying level of contempt for the audience on the part of the people who made this movie... |
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| Spike |
| quote: | Originally posted by iammesol
Bastardization of one of the greatest film series complete! Seriously... I enjoyed myself tonight just out of comedy. :wtf:
I felt like Lucas was directing Star Wars but using Indiana Jones. Nothing was remotely realistic at all. The script was beyond out of place and cheesy, and ALIENS?! bahahahahaha |
remember who are behind these movies though. George Lucas AND Steven Spielbergh. I'd be more surprised if there was no alien theme/plot present |
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| iammesol |
| The first three weren't that outlandish :wtf: |
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| Alex |
| quote: | Originally posted by iammesol
The first three weren't that outlandish :wtf: |
+1
The second one was a bit weirdish but still?
1 and 3 had NAZIS, haven't you all noticed how NAZIS make every movie more amazing? :toothless |
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| iammesol |
| No kidding! Nazis > Russians. |
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