Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

[Bookworm616]

I'd give it 3 crystal skulls (out of 4)-- spoilers
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dug it.. I would have wanted the movie to be longer (close to 3 hours would have been cool) some more violent villain deaths, but the way it was put together was cool.. i'm ticked that it took this long to have another story, though..

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what, if any, significance were the prairie dogs early on?


could an old-school Frigidaire really survive the blast-impact of a nuclear explosion, even a few miles from ground zero? must have been a 'small' bomb..

..are there really man-eating ants?

...the subplot of McCarthyism affecting Indy's career was timely..

...I want a new film ASAP.. I wish we could see more on the Wartime Indy, though.. I don't mind Nazis being his standard bad guys.. of course, "Marcus" is deceased...

...they could film the next two films concurrently.. a second trilogy.. and they could do an animated TV series like Clone Wars..

I would love to see some more sequels. I think Shia LeBeof (I'm sure I butchered his last name) was great. I'd love to see him step into the fedora hat.

I thought they handled Indy's age really well. There weren't many "he's so old" jokes. Which was good. I liked the interplay between the characters.

The one thing missing from this movie vs. the previous ones (at least Indy 1 & 3) was the religious aspect of it. I'm the first to admit that I'm not a religious person, but I did love the following of clues and such leading to a huge religious artifact discovery. I found that aspect of Indy 4 lacking. I thought there was too much action (how can there be TOO MUCH action in an action flick?? :? ) and not enough story . I wanted to see more story (it's the archaeologist in me, apparently). :lol:

I also saw major influences from The Mummy movies in this - like the man-eating ants - those scenes were stolen right out from under the nose of The Mummy and the scarab beetles.

But, like I told a friend of mine, who hated the movie because of the subject matter, how can you top finding the Holy Grail?? I'm not sure.

Anyway, I'm going to give the movie another chance this weekend. I have 2 other anthropology friends and 1 of them didn't see it, so we're making it an Indy 4 outing this weekend. (I apparently have too much money or something. :? ) :lol:

I did like how they made sure to note that that fridge was lead-lined. I'm not sure about how durable those fridges were - but then again, back in the day things WERE made to last.

Also, the significance of the prairie dogs escaped me, as well.