The worst thing I can say about Crystal Skull is that at no time during the whole movie was I on the edge of my seat.I kept waiting and waiting for it to kick in gear but it never did.You can talk about the lead lined refrigerators,aliens,and all the other nonsense it contained,but it never had the feel of a Indiana Jones movie.

Get outta town! It worked?! Damn, now I’m going to have to watch that movie again with a revised opinion of that opening.

How the heck did they test it though? You wouldn’t catch me doing that. I mean, sure you could catch me but you’d HAVE to AND push me out of the plane with the raft besides and even then there’s no guarantee that I wouldn’t just plunge to my death without ever opening the raft.

Did I take your comment a little too seriously? Damn Oxycodone. I can’t wait until my back’s better! I have two choices: pain or stupidity. And when I choose pain I’m an evil bitch and you couldn’t even talk to me so there’s just no winning.

I don’t know. Did they really? I’m sure that would be hard to resist for those guys. But they weren’t around during Temple of Doom time, were they?

ROTFL regarding your junk food addition.

Temple of Doom is not one of my favorites. And it’s much easier to pick apart. Too bad we can’t go back in time and rip that a new one.

Of course a lead line refrigerator! THAT’S what you have a problem with? Not the fact that fridge’s back then had no mechanism to open it from the inside and that had Indy been in a real fridge he might be a little more out of breath?

Now where’s your lead lined refridgerator problem?

I too never thought of Indiana Jones as a superhero. That was only a comparison of our willingness to allow fantasy to replace fact. Hmmm…you couldn’t jump on the boobs remark, could you? That’s the comment I was waiting for…LOL…

But in the Indiana Jones series, there has never been anything “superhero-ish” about Dr. Jones. Sure, there’s been magic involved in very specific ways, but MOST of it is pretty much real world/reality based.

So to see him survive a nuclear explosion by climbing into a refrigerator and then have that fridge launched miles into the air and land as if dropped from an airplane – only to have him walk away… is WAY beyond my limits of suspension of disbelief.

Vic

The basic requirement in reading or viewing most fictional work is the ability to suspend logic for the development of the story line.

Does anyone really believe that the Brad Pitt character was born an old man? Do superheros really fly? Can Wolverine make knives come out of his fingers? Are those boobs on Angelina J. real?

See what I mean…suspend a little logic. What’s a lead lined refrigerator compared to…well, almost anything in the movies or on TV.

HOWEVER, I thought that whole scene with the fake town and the nazi’s trying to drive away was kinda’ cool. You knew it was coming from the time they broke onto the base. The only question was how Indy was going to outsmart an atom bomb. It was no more of a stretch than some of the other “escapes” in the earlier Indy’s.

The willingness to suspend logic seems to rise or fall in direct proportion to how well the individual likes/dislikes the story line and/or actors.

~evil grin~

My only vice is junk food, lol.

Concerning Indy4 I have a three word question:

Lead lined refrigerator?

Oh lord! You and Ken playing Poker? The game would never get started. You’d probably argue over who got to shuffle first.

I AM KIDDING! I don’t want anyone to think that I’m stiring the pot. The image that came to mind when I read your post. Well, LOL

If another studio EVER gives Miller the reins to a movie they are stupid. It’s that clear.

He wrote AND directed this thing – at least Shyamalan started out making great movies and then went downhill. But this… Good Lord.

Vic