Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

[Pan]

Not seen any opinions on this yet, so thought I'd roll the film....

and if you don't wish a spoiler, LOOK AWAY NOW!!

'fraid I have to pan it, very sadly. So poor coming from Spielberg/Lucas. Ultimately I thought it was charmless, which is some feat with such a rich history of charm to build upon!
V. little humour outside of the cringeworthy, no sexual frisson, dialogue rubbish, special effects too obvious, Ford came across as a very curmudgeonly and weary man who just didn't want ot be there, plot was unecessarily complicated, supporting parts were unattractive ( WTF was the point of the constant turncoat buddy?? - he changed every 30 mins!), and the baddies just weren't baddy enough!! Utter waste of John Hurt stubbling round like he was stoned, and Blanchette just looked like Blanchette with an odd accent...

Pacing was rubbish - nothing happens of any entertainment value until about an hour in, and the chase through the jungle was jolly, though we did notice a massive continuity error re Marion going missing and then turns up unscathed driving a truck which wasn't previously in the scene at all - v. sloppy editing from Spielburg .

Other than all of that..it was great!!

anyone else??

Pan - "I don't get the what the hell were we thinking!!" it was clear what we were thinking get it before the French do. Also I don't think you can look at imperialism with a 21st cent. view point. It was not seen as a problem back then

what is 12A then - I was thinking there was no way I could take my 5.8yo. We watched the others when they were on a few weeks ago and he loved them, although found Temple of Doom a bit scary.

Flashy - well a thread re the Falklands could go on and on and on the like....but..it was nothing to do with the French. ALL, well mostly, to do with saving MArgaret Thatchers electable bacon when she was in the subbasement of a middle-term govt.

And sheep! It wasabout sheep! But we digress away from IJ, totally.

And pan - the only thing I will say on the falklands is they were under British protection - they wished to remain British - therefore Maggie had to send them - she did not know she would win - the odds were against it. And you know very well that my last comment was with regard to imperial ventures in general and that was because he wanted to get there first!

yeah..ok.

I recall Gore Vidal's pithy comment at the time - "It's like two bald men fighting over a comb." Perfect.