OT - Indiana Jones 4

[Knightro2]

Anybody out there that is a fan of the first original three (well, atleast 1 and 3...I didn't much care for Temple of Doom as much) and has seen the new 4th installment?

I'm just trying to see if anyone else out there hated it. I almost got up and left a few times during the movie but toughed it out. All Indy Jones films were always a little supernatural but this one was just ridiculous. Spielberg has gone way out there lately. Kinda like A.I. That freakin' movie could have ended 4 different times but it kept going.

[xtwoonamatchx]

from the standpoint of a 17 year old... the MOVIE was good... the STORYLINE flat out sucked... i dont want to give it away... but it went completely wayy overboard with certain aspects.

[blindsnyper]

my roommate said it was very good, but he also likes x-files

[Visaversa]

Spielberg should be ashamed of himself for letting something this ridiculous to reach the theaters. It was like a torture test to sit through it and some parts I almost fell asleep.

HATED IT!

[07Vsdn]

i thought it was aight... not as good as the other three. honestly, ford is too old to pull that stuff off. at least when sean connery played his father and was taking part in indy's adventures they used his age in a comedic way... (i.e. making mistakes)

i am glad i saw it though, i wanted to decide for myself and wanted to see it in the theatre. i'd give it a 6 out of 10.

[Gr8dave37]

it sucked...I hated it....I think the story line was crappy and not believeable...maybe if they had stuck more to the real life crystal skull stuff it may have been better.

[Knightro2]

Ok, good then I'm not alone. lol. Everyone at my work loved it and I was the outcast. I think the overused cgi took away from the movie as well. Atleast with the original 3 what you saw for the most part was actually there when they filmed it...making it more believable. Spielberg/Lucas used their way of weird looking cgi. Like they wanted to make it look real but then had to try and not make it look real...like the jungle car chase scene.

I also felt like they filmed the movie starting at the beginning and straight through the end. It seemed Ford was comfortable with being Indy again in the beginning of the movie but fell into step later. I dunno. I'm just glad I'm not the only one that hated it.

Iron Man on the other hand...ROCKED! I saw it last night finally.

[frankoV]

Spielberg should be ashamed of himself for letting something this ridiculous to reach the theaters.

[KimberKenobi]

less cgi and less monkeys would have gone a long way...

oh, and aliens? wtf, Spielberg, you've got more senses than that.

[Avidshifty]

Yep Deffinatly X-Files meets Indiana Jones. It wasnt completly terrible but wasnt the greatest movie i have seen lately. the only scene i had fun with was the fight scene in the restaurant. (not giving too much away i dont think)

[Knightro2]

oh, and aliens? wtf, Spielberg, you've got more senses than that.

STFU!! (<--heh heh, apparently that's been used on this forum alot lately so I figured I'd jump on the band wagon).I don't want to talk about the plot too much incase other people here still want to see it.

Something just looked weird at the first scene. It didn't have that "movie film camera" look. It looked .... just off. Weird lighting and video quality. It had that quality that is TOO good for a theater. I dunno, hard to explain.

[rwanttaja]

STFU!! (<--heh heh, apparently that's been used on this forum alot lately so I figured I'd jump on the band wagon).I don't want to talk about the plot too much incase other people here still want to see it.

Something just looked weird at the first scene. It didn't have that "movie film camera" look. It looked .... just off. Weird lighting and video quality. It had that quality that is TOO good for a theater. I dunno, hard to explain.

I get the same feeling with most CGI. It's like the people animating it just want it to get from X to Y, without considering all the random little motions and random little effects on the way.

There was a CGI-intensive movie a few years back where there was a brief scene with a car. The car slowed to a stop, opened the door, some (live) actors got out, then the door closed and the car pulled away.

The scene just *looked* fakey, and when I took a look at closely it was because there was no effect of the motion on the car rather than to move the car. The car's nose didn't dip when the brakes were applied, the people getting out didn't make the car rock slightly, and when the car pulled away from the curb, the nose didn't rise when the "driver" hit the gas, nor did the wheels turn slightly as the car pulled back into the main road.

Not something you normally notice, but when it ain't there, it makes things look wrong.

Another thing the animators do is light the objects perfectly. There are always areas on an actual object that are in much deeper shadow, and natural objects pick up a bit of diffuse lighting and color tone from the other things around them. But the CGI is always perfect....

Ron