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It's a crowd splitter.
63% among "cream of the crop" critics. 85% among everybody else. 22% is, I think, a larger than normal split. |
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This is a response to mousepod’s original list post, since he addressed me directly. I’ve not read further than that yet.
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I'm excited to see it again tonight. I am. I love the energy of opening weekend crowds. :)
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The crowd last night was more subdued than I'd hoped. Though I will say ....
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Thanks for the response iSm... I had hoped you would address those points... glad you did.
I'm thinking that time will mellow me on the movie, and when I eventually see it again (not this week!), I'll like it a whole lot more. |
I was bad - I went to see it today. I will save my final judgement for after Saturdays viewing, though I tend to agree with what has been said already. Although I will add this one thing...
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I found the movie pleasant to watch, but I was never excited. Indeed, I'm beginning to wonder if I'm capable of being excited by action sequences anymore. They all just seem like stitched together collages, bits of animation and live footage manipulated to death, with no palpable sense of peril. And this is all action movies, not just Indy. (Although, the action sequences here struck me as strangely low key. Where is that delicious tension that had me gasping back in 1981? Can it ever happen for me again? Please?)
So, agreeable time killer, but I can tell that thinking about it is going to do the movie no favors. Oh, and the CGI gophers. They may as well have been hand drawn cel animation by Bob Clampett for how blatantly unreal they came off. Actual gophers are cute and funny without doing anything at all. Could they not have somehow gotten real honest to goodness footage of gophers giving a dramatic stare or just gazing straight ahead and wiggling their noses? I'm sure to have other thoughts, but these were the non-spoilery ones. |
A repeat viewing does nothing to improve it.
Of course, the emotional reaction I had the first screening can never be repeated. And an enthusiastic audience makes all the difference as well. (Opening Night reserved seating Dome crowd = bleh; First Show general admission fan-packed Village = excitement.) This may have been a one-trick pony. Well, we'll always have Paris. |
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