Indiana Jones 4

[Random One]

this was not good, even snakes on a plane was better than this! 2-3/10 i wouldn't waste my money on it, and wouldn't have if it wasn't for some Mr K Eternity

 

[Vash]

I think it damages the original trilogy, I'm not sure what Karen Allen's role was in this she doesn't appear until an hour and a half in and doesn't really do much.

Something happens about 20 minutes into the film and nothing that happens after that can top it. thats where it goes wrong IMHO.

 

[Joey Deacon]

That screenshot is not someone in the cinema, it is someone sat in the back of the car in the film

 

[bushphobia]

Yeah, he is a bad man, making US watch such utter bollocks.

Thing is, I was thinking that all the new age-isms in the film could have worked.
After finding the lost Ark, I pretty much figure that anything is up for grabs when it comes to Mr. Jones.

But....nuclear bomb!

 

[bushphobia]

Hmmmm.
After 3 seconds consideration, I give this film -10/10.
(Deductions made for Mr. Lucas shitting all over a good idea, AGAIN, after the Phantom Penis and the other star wars abortions.)


Know what, I'm going to spend the rest of the bank holiday weekend blanking my mind of this, and watch Raiders of the lost ark.
And getting drunk.

Burp.

 

[T & P]

Surely it can't be worse than Temple of Doom. Can it?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Surely it can't be worse than Temple of Doom. Can it?

Easily (and I don't think much of Temple either but its a master piece compared to this).

 

[dlx1]

the ending good.

seemed to be slow and drawn out

 

[DotCommunist]

Good grief, blanchett, what the fuck accent is that supposed to be?

 

[snadge]

Indiana Jones and the wheelchair of Horus.

 

[DotCommunist]

The red line! yay!


awesome so far.

 

[Yossarian]

Saw it tonight - definitely a lot of corny and stupid moments but was entertaining, I think it measures up to parts 2 and 3, but the series did plunge somewhat in quality after Raiders of the Lost Ark.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Good grief, blanchett, what the fuck accent is that supposed to be?

Yep, notice how she has less and less lines as the film goes on? Blessing in disguise that...

 

[DotCommunist]

It was freaking awesome, as our american cousins term it. Over the top, horrible deaths, hidden temples, a ridiculouse swordfight. Good show.

Also I think this fim now joins the scant few others on the 'chief luitenant of baddies has a more gruesome death than the main baddie' list.

Hurt was wasted and Winstone misplaced, but these petty things aside, it was the tits.

 

[Yossarian]

It was kind of weird seeing Indiana Jones running around in the late '50s - 'Raiders' came out in 1981, a few years closer to 1957 than it is to today! If they keep the franchise going, maybe someday we'll see a cranky old Professor Jones moaning about hippies on a campus rocked by anti-Vietnam War protests...

 

[Chairman Meow]

I really enjoyed it, and my sprog thought it was fantastic! I haven't seen the other ones though ( downloading them now).

Alright, its no movie of the year, but its meant to be over the top silliness, isn't it?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

One thing that stood out was seeing Indy going from a academic suspicious of the government in Raiders ("we have top people working on it" "who?") to a CIA agent...

 

[DotCommunist]

One thing that stood out was seeing Indy going from a academic suspicious of the government in Raiders ("we have top people working on it" "who?") to a CIA agent...

yes but internal logic isn't really what these sort of films are strong on, but it's not exactly why I like them I mean if you can suspend your disbelief enough to have

Spoiler

indy survive a nuclear explosion in a fridge

then character changes aren't going to faze you.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

yes but internal logic isn't really what these sort of films are strong on, but it's not exactly why I like them I mean if you can suspend your disbelief enough to have

Spoiler

indy survive a nuclear explosion in a fridge

then character changes aren't going to faze you.

The first three films managed not to be this idiotic, confused or have anywhere near the same level of contempt for the notion of story telling. Indy 4 was a mess, boring as hell and so relentlessly over the top it made those parody films (Naked Gun, Scary Movie etc) look like serious dramas by comparison.

Roll on The Dark Knight for those of us hoping for a decent cinema experience this summer...

 

[Stigmata]

It was good. Could have done without some of those CGI animal scenes but other than that it was excellent. Not usually a big fan of long action scenes but I thought the jungle car chase was great.

 

[Chairman Meow]

How come there was no other soldiers in the army camp at the start, apart from the ones on the gate?

We liked the monkeys, and I though him surving the expolsion in the lead lined fridge was hilarious.

 

[Detroit City]

what the queen thought of IJ4

 

[Yossarian]

I though him surving the expolsion in the lead lined fridge was hilarious.

That's the trouble with having a 65-year-old action film hero - of course no human being would have emerged from that fridge alive, but with somone in their 20s or 30s it'd be easier to suspend disbelief, with Ford it seemed a little too obvious that those brittle old bones would have snapped like twigs and he'd spend the rest of his life shuffling around a nursing home if he'd somehow survived.

 

[Pingu]

yeah it was a mess

but i enjoyed it nevertheless

 

[Wookey]

I can forgive the glaring continuity errors. I can overlook the ropey dentures of a faded sex symbol who makes a better table than he does an actor. I can forgive the writers (sorry, the Raiders of the Lost Story Arc) shoe-horning plot events into place with as much literary panache as a Roadrunner cartoon. I can forgive him escaping an atom bomb blast encased in a 1950s fridge, the three waterfall accidents with no deaths, the father-son plot line that was so well-hidden I only saw it coming a full three weeks before I even walked into the cinema...I can even forgive the unga-bungerisation of the South American tribespeople, coupled with the continued demonisation of communism by a Hollywood which can concurrently refer to it's own McArthyist schizophrenia while at the same time reaching for the Ruskie shelf whenever they need to portray a baddie intent on ruling the world.

What I cannot forgive, and will not forget, is the fact that three fizzy cola bottles, one lump of fudge, two strawberry laces and a sherbet saucer should set me back nearly £1.50 at my local Odeon.

Fuck Mayan gold - Indiana Jones should be making a beeline for the bastard pick-and-mix. A satchel full of that, and the cunt would have no need to make such shite films for his old-age pension.

 

[Yossarian]

What I cannot forgive, and will not forget, is the fact that three fizzy cola bottles, one lump of fudge, two strawberry laces and a sherbet saucer should set me back nearly £1.50 at my local Odeon.

You got all that for one pound fifty? Were they having some kind of promotion where everything was at 1957 prices? I don't remember when I last saw cola for sale for under a pound at a cinema but I think it must have been in the early '90s...

 

[sleaterkinney]

It's bollocks. Crap movie.

 

[jæd]

I can forgive the glaring continuity errors. I can overlook the ropey dentures of a faded sex symbol who makes a better table than he does an actor. I can forgive the writers (sorry, the Raiders of the Lost Story Arc) shoe-horning plot events into place with as much literary panache as a Roadrunner cartoon. I can forgive him escaping an atom bomb blast encased in a 1950s fridge, the three waterfall accidents with no deaths, the father-son plot line that was so well-hidden I only saw it coming a full three weeks before I even walked into the cinema...I can even forgive the unga-bungerisation of the South American tribespeople, coupled with the continued demonisation of communism by a Hollywood which can concurrently refer to it's own McArthyist schizophrenia while at the same time reaching for the Ruskie shelf whenever they need to portray a baddie intent on ruling the world.

Journo confuses action film sequel for art film. Readallaboutit...!

What I cannot forgive, and will not forget, is the fact that three fizzy cola bottles, one lump of fudge, two strawberry laces and a sherbet saucer should set me back nearly £1.50 at my local Odeon.

Fuck Mayan gold - Indiana Jones should be making a beeline for the bastard pick-and-mix. A satchel full of that, and the cunt would have no need to make such shite films for his old-age pension.

Cinema refreshments are over-priced... Expose...!

See inside for : Sequels of films that we saw in our childhood may disappoint adults...

 

[CJohn]

I thought it was great fun! It satisfed me and totally eclipsed any comic book adaption - to which I see it comparable - I've seen of late.

Also I thought it was fairly CGI-lite, lots of nice sets etc. I also thought the story perfectly fitted the times in which it was set, paranoia, the bomb, ufo's, pinkos. Great job! Come on, it was a quality indy film!

 

[Wookey]

You got all that for one pound fifty? Were they having some kind of promotion where everything was at 1957 prices? I don't remember when I last saw cola for sale for under a pound at a cinema but I think it must have been in the early '90s...

Not cola!! Fizzy cola bottles!

It wasn't even enough to cover the bottom of the paper bag.