Indiana Jones and the ewoks aka Indy 4....

[leelastarsky]

We saw it on the first w/e and I haven't had the chance to post about it.

Did I like it?  

I'll admit I went into it quite fearful of a disaster, and when it opened with a cute CG Indewok, sorry, groundhog, I thought all my worst fears were coming true.  But then we got a bit of a homage to American Graffitti, and the whole Roswell/Area 51 thing, which was amusing.  And I was delighted to realise I was really enjoying it!  Harrison was great!  Cate Blanchett was great!  The cameo from the Ark was great! 

Then it went and 'Nuked the Fridge'.  A saying which has instantly become synonymous with 'Jumping the Shark'.  Which I think is fucking hilarious and fills me with love for the geeks.  Much LOLZ, but seriously...  could not suspend my disbelief.  And to add insult to injury, the bloody Indewoks survived!!!  *stabs*

I didn't mind Mutt; at least he wasn't as annoying as Short Round.  And I loved Marion.  (she was always my fave)  I also loved the allusions to Indy being a War hero.  Bloody hell, is there anything Alan Dale isn't in at the moment?! 

I'll admit I had trouble following the plot, but was happy enough to sit back and enjoy the ride.  (for the most part - there was stuff like Mutt 'tarzaning' through the jungle, and the silly monkeys, that just...gah!)  Then I kept having flash-backs to the Mummy!  Don't get me wrong, I adored the Mummy; it's probably the best Indy-ripoff out there, BUT... to see Indy copying the Mummy was just wrong on so many levels, and it messed with my head.   Now, much as I liked a lot of the dialogue in the Mummy 2, the film was shite, especially the ending with the forest swirling around the pyramid and getting sucked in...  So to see that ending in an Indiana Jones movie...  No, I didn't like that.

The Wedding at the end?  Yeah, I'm girly enough to have loved it.  Indy/Marion OTP!  XD



Then we came home and watched Raiders of the Lost Ark as therapy.  Now THAT'S a GOOD movie.  And, deargod Harrison was gorgeous back then!  *drools*

Comments

[may-child.livejournal.com]

Yes, of course, because Lucas is Satan and Saint Stephen can do no wrong, and has never, ever done anything even slightly cheesy in his exalted life.

And Lucas had only two ideas in a movie he wrote the story for.

[alphielj.livejournal.com]

Wow. I meant it as a joke. Of course Stephen does wrong... and Lucas is still more of a genius than I'll ever be. But I can't deny that there were some ultra cheesy things about the prequels that reminded me of the ultra cheesy bits of Indy 4. That's why I said what I did.

[may-child.livejournal.com]

My apologies, I overreacted. I'm just sick of the hatred directed at Lucas all over the Internet and in the media with regards to SW and the Indy movies -- everything "bad" about the movies is his fault, but everything "good" about the movies is credited to someone else.

Lucas has done many things with SW and Indy that I disagree with and/or dislike, but even with my least favorite movie in each of the respective series, the good far outweighs the bad.

[leelastarsky.livejournal.com]

Avatar ROTFLMAO!!!

[leelastarsky.livejournal.com]

Shelley, just cos we diss George from time to time doesn't mean we love him any less. From what I've seen of him in interviews and stuff he looks like a lovely sweet man. But some of his ideas are naff. As for 'saint Steven'...look what he did to ET! :~(

Did you enjoy Indy4?

[may-child.livejournal.com]

Yes, I already said I overreacted. And yes, some of GL's ideas have been dumb; there are things I wish he hadn't done, though my list of what I consider to be his missteps doesn't usually match up with most other people's lists.

No filmmaker is perfect. (Except for maybe Saint Peter "The Great" Jackson -- implication that he is not perfect is a capital offense on every continent.) Saint Steven has had his share of brain-farts, and I don't just mean replacing guns with walkie talkies in "E.T." (a movie I loved when I was ten, yet find rather boring now), but also the sappy battlefield speeches in "Saving Private Ryan" and the "group hug" scene in the otherwise magnificent "Schindler's List."

Yes, I enjoyed Indy 4. I consider it so much a sequel as a nice epilogue to a great trilogy, and a farewell to one of the all-time great action heroes.