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Go see a doctor immediately. The original triology are perfecto and yes that includes temple of doom.

I've only seen them once, and it seemed like the kind of thing that'd be right up my alley, but I just thought they were so cheesy. I guess that's how they're supposed to be? I just came away thinking "this is what people have been clamoring about?!". I'm going to see them again, perhaps now that I'm a little older I'll get a greater appreciation for them.

To each his own, as always, but every single takedown of Crystal Skull I've ever read gets hung-up on moments like Shia swingin' through the trees. That moment is unapologetically awful, but it's like 10 seconds long. Nuked the fridge? Yawn. Those are such petty complaints in a 2 hour flick.

I wholeheartedly agree that KotCS is mediocre, but only just. Anyone who claims it's an afront to cinema is just not being objective, in my opinion.

Just think if what it might have been without having to apologize for all the bad moments. The great films don't need apologies.

And it's not an affront, just a lazy, weak sequel.

It could have been so much better, absolutely -- but that doesn't mean it's not worth defending. People extrapolate on those bad moments (and they ARE bad) and act like the entire film is dreck.

Again, I'd just reference the critical reception to the film, which sits in the 60% range on both Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes. Bullseye. Crystal Skull is a lackluster sequel, but still a decent flick taken on its own merits.

It's not cheesy in my view..It is "fun" and little elements of dark.

Like do you really consider a guy being spiked through the head by a booby trap to be "cheesy". Seems pretty heavy content haha. Just with the "serial" tone it lightens it.

Even John Williams score makes it more impacting and nothing like cheesy. Take the Basket scene. Sure it starts cheesy and funny but tell me that when Indy runs out and gets hailed on by machine fire that the music gives you a "this is cheesy" feeling. Negative. It does the opposite "this is life and death, this is badass"

Yeah, you're probably right...

I find this caption:whip: more exciting than crystal skulls. I still consider Indiana Jones as a trilogy

lol,, maybe need a cat scan..

Heh, fair enough. I'm certainly not suggesting there's one bright, clear line between stuff that works and stuff that doesn't.

I just know that for me the boulder trap and the submarine and the ark were way over one side and some of this other stuff...eh, not so much.

$50 USD??? are you mad?? The DVD set came out at $65 USD. I don't mind paying that for the BD set which includes more extras + 1 more film

I agree that the hate for KotCS is mostly undeserved. However the reason that people extrapolate on those bad moments is because they are moments that leave with a WTF? feeling and then the film lets you sit with it. For example the Fridge scene, there is not even the slightest possibility that anyone could survive that. I would have a hard time believing Neo surviving an atomic blast nevermind an old man, and nothing happens for a while afterward plotwise to take your mind off of it. We are given one of the most ridiculous scenes in cinema history and then everything settles down giving us plenty of time to think about how stupid that was.

The whole Tarzan scene is even worse; First we are asked to suspend disbelief when Mutt is able to sword fight whilst spread between two moving vehicles , then he is swooped up into the trees (which in its self makes no sense), then he Tarzan swings as if he is the master of the Jungle (which he is not), then the monkeys that randomly follow Mutt attack the Russians (we are at Ludicrous speed now), followed up by a big guy getting carried by ants, to a vehicle driving off a cliff and safely landing in the river (by help of a tree), all the way to our gang dropping down 3 waterfalls each more ridiculous than the last. There is suspending disbelief (like the raft scene, outrunning a giant boulder) and then there is plain stupid.

Funnily enough without CGI the worst scenes in the movie are not possible and most likely wouldn't exist.

Too much fighting in here.




Why can't everyone on the internet just all agree on the same things?



You know, like in real life where people always agree and get along.


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vey hard to disagree with anything you've said there





but I'm sure someone is going to :laugh:

I think the fridge scene is incorrect. It took decades to teach children not to go into abandon fridges. Now more children are going die due to this films stupid idea.

Tarzan scene reminded me of disney's jungle book. I was disappointed that they did not break into song.

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Always fun to see yet another person try and extrapolate how improbable the fridge scene is in a franchise full of similar scenes. Very cool how the ancient tribes of Peru could make light detecting sensors to active death traps. Or an ancient burried chamber left undiscovered for hundreds of years but oh don't look over by the airfield at that brick wall and wonder what might be behind it. Oh no it's the wratch of God. Just close your eyes and you will be fine!

Continuie to hate KotCS all you like but each time you try and blast any of the "outrageous" and "rediculous" points you just look dumb. You went to the movie to hate it, hated everything while watching it and now feel special voicing your hating opinion online for the world to see. All while supporting the equaly rediculous things from at hte very least the first film. Mutt can't sword fight standing between 2 moving vehicles but Indy certainly can hang on for dear life to the front of a moving jeep, slide down underneath (in a trench dug into the road, oh how convinient) and then strap his whip to the underside and get dragged for miles only to climb back up onto the truck and win a fist-fight in the cab. Your only suspension of dissbeliefe is your ignorance to your own self hatred :)

Dude. Get laid. :thumbsup:

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