Yeah, that had to be the biggest steaming pile of celluloid I've seen in awhile. I could actually hear the pitchmen in the board room with Lucas: "Yeah....and then...uh....yeah! We'll have a guy get carried off by a bunch of ants!!" Lucas: "Ants? Yeah! I totally like ants!" Pitchmen: "..and, uh...this is going to sound crazy, ok? But what if we drop a nuke on Indy?" Lucas: "Nuclear explosions?? Yeah! Yeah! Those are big and sparkly! Let's put those in!"
A list off the top of my head of various things that were wrong with this movie:
- Fucking Russians invading a U.S. Nuclear Weapons Facility on U.S. soil, that right there set the tone for this being a poorly thought out film. - The Gophers, Shitty cgi cute animals have no place in an Indy film. - Now Indy is A former CIA Opperative as well? WTF!? - Surviving a nuclear blast by hiding in a fridge. The kind of fridge that killed kids by latching from the outside. If a nuclear blast wouldn't tear this super-fridge appart, how the fuck can Indy just kick the door off? - The motorcycle chase scene with Mutt. Apparently you can just slide sideways under tables on a motorcycle. Speilberg saw the Indian move with a horse sliding under a truck and thought it would some how make more sense with a bike. - The entire script. Too many examples to list here. - The crazy ninja natives that blast out of the rock in the tombs. Some how these primitve peoples have incased themselves in the walls and ceiling of this crypt and lie in wait for adventurers. Absoultuely stupid. - Shia Laboeuf Swinging through vines with monkeys. - Monkeys that are naturally hostile to Russians. Shia is swinging away with the monkeys in the jungle and having a great time, but when the monkies see russians, they go into crazy attack mode. - Billions of flesh eating ants. - Interdimensional Aliens. WTF was George Lucas thinking? If somebody told me that the plot for the new Indy movie involved psychic Russians, Nuclear explosions and aliens, I would have not believed them for a second.
The thing that really pisses me off about this movie is that the Indiana Jones franchise was so awesome before that, during the planning, I'm sure Lucas and Speilberg agreed that the plot didn't matter at all, Everyone will pay to go see an Indy movie, its pure gold. The plot was shit, and the move made a ridiculous amount of money. There is nothing to stop this from happening again.
Monkeys that are naturally hostile to Russians. Shia is swinging away with the monkeys in the jungle and having a great time, but when the monkies see russians, they go into crazy attack mode.
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Lucas: "Ants? Yeah! I totally like ants!"
Pitchmen: "..and, uh...this is going to sound crazy, ok? But what if we drop a nuke on Indy?"
Lucas: "Nuclear explosions?? Yeah! Yeah! Those are big and sparkly! Let's put those in!"
I don't know why ants were in this movie. Sheesh. It reminded me of The Scorpion King movie.
*promote
- Fucking Russians invading a U.S. Nuclear Weapons Facility on U.S. soil, that right there set the tone for this being a poorly thought out film.
- The Gophers, Shitty cgi cute animals have no place in an Indy film.
- Now Indy is A former CIA Opperative as well? WTF!?
- Surviving a nuclear blast by hiding in a fridge. The kind of fridge that killed kids by latching from the outside. If a nuclear blast wouldn't tear this super-fridge appart, how the fuck can Indy just kick the door off?
- The motorcycle chase scene with Mutt. Apparently you can just slide sideways under tables on a motorcycle. Speilberg saw the Indian move with a horse sliding under a truck and thought it would some how make more sense with a bike.
- The entire script. Too many examples to list here.
- The crazy ninja natives that blast out of the rock in the tombs. Some how these primitve peoples have incased themselves in the walls and ceiling of this crypt and lie in wait for adventurers. Absoultuely stupid.
- Shia Laboeuf Swinging through vines with monkeys.
- Monkeys that are naturally hostile to Russians. Shia is swinging away with the monkeys in the jungle and having a great time, but when the monkies see russians, they go into crazy attack mode.
- Billions of flesh eating ants.
- Interdimensional Aliens. WTF was George Lucas thinking? If somebody told me that the plot for the new Indy movie involved psychic Russians, Nuclear explosions and aliens, I would have not believed them for a second.
The thing that really pisses me off about this movie is that the Indiana Jones franchise was so awesome before that, during the planning, I'm sure Lucas and Speilberg agreed that the plot didn't matter at all, Everyone will pay to go see an Indy movie, its pure gold.
The plot was shit, and the move made a ridiculous amount of money. There is nothing to stop this from happening again.
Capitalist pigs! Four legs good, two legs bad!
Seriously, WTF is wrong with Lucas and Spielberg???