***Spoilers Ahead*** If you still want to enjoy the movie without my jaded opinion clouding your mind don’t read this line….this line right here….ok stop reading now….
“No. It’s true. It really was pretty bad. It starts off okay but it just goes down hill – in a boat car, no less.”
Truer words have never been spoken about this movie… I remember thinking at the beginning of the movie “what are those web guys talking about”…..but then they got to the jungle chase scene…holy CGI (no not cgi-bin) slapping me in the face, it looked like bad matting ala Empire strikes back (with part of the AT-AT visible through the snow speeders cockpit). And my other problem with that whole sequence is the road creation vehicle was destroyed in the first couple of seconds…..so after that how is there cleared forest for them to drive,fence and fight on? Must have been those aliens again…. and on top of all that while they were chasing the bad guys in the boat car at the beginning of the sequence, why didn’t they use the 50Cal. machine gun mounted on the hood to shoot out the tires? or the people take the skull and go on their merry way?
And then there’s the river scene…..this is just a blatant example of Hollywood getting lazy. They’re thinking, “how can we merchandise on this movie and make more money. Oh I know why don’t we incorporate a theme park ride into the movie so we don’t have to design one and think of one later?” Brilliant idea. lets use a boat car on a river with a bunch of waterfalls. Then they can just convert one of their aging flume rides into a theme ride for Indiana Jones and the crystal suck.
Did anyone else think that the native guy at the entrance to El Dorado doing karate (or whatever eastern inspired martial art it was) was a bit much? I mean it was a perfect moment to bring back a classic Jones moment. Raiders of the lost ark….the guy with the sword that Indy just shoots. Classic. But no they couldn’t give us that.
Oh and the ending….”knowledge was the treasure” wow…..just wow….. “let’s pull out the big book of cliche’d things to say in a movie and turn to page oh um…. 54. Here it is, the treasure of el Dorado is knowledge” They couldn’t even give us a golden idol for Indy to chase? or a rehash of the Ark that we saw in the first couple of scenes?
All in all, I will say the movie was ok, the only thing preventing me from saying that it was a total waste of time was the few moments in which they held true to the other movies. But when compared with the first 3 movies this one doesn’t even hold a birthday candle to how good they were…
and that’s my two cents.
//end sarcasm
Amen, brother. I was willing to let the fact that he survived a nuclear blast in a refrigerator (flying at 100+ miles an hour, hitting the ground multiple times, and rolled out without any bruises) pass. But when they insulted my intelligence with the swinging monkey Tarzan scene, I’d had enough. Dear George Lucas, stop making movies, you have forgotten how to make good ones. Signed, everybody.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but “National Treasure” was a BETTER MOVIE, more thought-out, and MUCH easier to suspend disbelief for (aka, good fiction). Scuse me while I go throw up.
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