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Warnersister Vice Captain
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 Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 5:41 am
So, anyone seen it yet? Thoughts?
I went last night - I love living a mile from the nearest cinema. I can just turn up on the off-chance that a showing has seats biggrin
Spoilers are in white text, highlight to read. Thoughts are in no particular order!
Where was Salah (sp)? Sorely missed. Nice touches with the references to Marcus & Henry Jones Senior. I will always miss Denholm Elliot - as I've said elsewhere, no one gets lost in his own museum like he does. He was also very good in "The Signalman" and "The Persuaders!"
I'm glad they didn't have Mud or Mutt or whatever his name was actually put on the fedora. That's Indy's, thank you very much!
Indy still hates snakes smile
"Yeah, there were other women. But there was one thing wrong with them. They weren't you, sweetheart." Altogether now, "awwwwwww!"
I was a bit put out by the whole alien / Roswell thing, until I remembered it was no less believable than the Holy Grail, the Ark of the Covenant and voodoo.
There is something very satisfying about watching the Paramount mountain transmogrify into part of the first scene, with the magic word "Lucasfilm" appearing. John Williams' score, as always, rocked. Some old familiar themes appeared at various points, along with new music. I was expecting "Scherzo for Motorcycle & Sidecar" at one point, but I suspect they resisted that.
Is it me, or has John Hurt looked about the same age for the last 20 odd years?
The movie definitely had the spirit of the originals, altogether enjoyable, albeit channelling "The Mummy" at times. The nasty-things-happening-to-people quotient kept up with the originals. There were definitely a couple of "ick" moments where I did look away - and this was a 12A! I'm going soft smile
DW
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 4:33 am
I enjoyed the first half much more than the second- felt it became somewhat self-indulgent, and had too many main characters. Indy and Mutt had a nice double-act going on, and I think it would have worked rather better to base the film entirely around them instead of cluttering it.
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 7:59 pm
Despite the fact that I've really forgotten what happened in the original trilogy, I still thought the newest one was pretty good. It's a fun movie overall, and one last hurrah for Indy. smile
Spoilers: I thought the sci-fi aspect was pretty cool, and in terms of ancient civilizations, not so far out-there. There's always been theories about aliens helping with the pyramids and the like, after all.
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Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:21 am
Had I seen it before the original trilogy, I'd have lapped it up - but with the original trilogy to stand up to, it was a good movie but not a great one, with some definite "Oh, come on!" moments.
I'm afraid I can completely understand why "Nuking the fridge" has now entered geek parlance...
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