NEWS: 9 Things I Learned From Indiana Jones

Terrible movie. There would be 3 minutes of Indiana Jones feel and enjoyable scene, then 3 minutes of utter and total shit. It contained a huge amount of the very worst that Lucas and Spielberg have started doing to movies in recent years.

Suspension of disbelief and whimsical enjoyment unable to maintain.

Aliens -see comment one above.

Bad and overused CGI -again, see comment one above.

The gophers, monkeys and ants - all four of the above comments and then some.

Lots of bad acting, especially painful in those that you know can act.

I went to see it with common sense firmly in place. It probably won't live up, but I'll give it a chance. Indy's age might be ungetpastable. Shia looks cringeworthy. It's hard to make a go-back-to film hold up at all to the original, loved, films and their characters.

But, for those every-other 3 minutes Ford rocked the older Indiana and you could see how well he could've pulled it off. During the good minutes, you get amazingly good movie with a later-episode but same series feel that matched with the earlier films, again letting you know it could've been really good as an addition to the other movies... different, later, but a nice installment.

Then the alternating 3 minutes or so would happen. Then the entire ending happened.

This is what happens when you bring back a series that has been gone for 20 years. People can't take off their nostalgia goggles long enough to objectively compare the new product to the original.

I don't think nostalgia has anything to do with it. It's actually just a mediocre movie.

Unlike Raiders of the Lost Ark, a fantastic one.

I don't dispute either of those claims. But I think the people saying that George Lucas raped their childhood again are brushing aside Temple of Doom because it was one of the originals, which I think is pretty absurd. It's as mediocre as Crystal Skull.

Racism is slightly more entertaining than Shia Lebouf.

Fair enough...

See, but every time I watch it I start craving fresh chilled monkey brains. Do you know how hard it is to get those in San Diego?

I enjoyed this. It was fun for funs sake, Karen Allen is still pretty hot, and I enjoyed the fact that they used some old school techniques like miniatures.

On the subject of movie sequels that shouldn't be made, how about the forthcoming "S. Darko". A sequel to Donnie Darko about his sister Samantha, directed by some guy whose biggest credit to this point is "Nightstalker". You read that right. Wanna talk about bad movie sequels? Check that one out.

lack of Nazis

I was expecting an after-the-credits surprise sequence where Indy fights Iron Man.