Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull [use spoiler tags, please]

[Alex]

Using spoiler tags until Sunday is going to SUUUCCCK.

Spoiler:

One thing I liked -- and by liked I mean "thought was stupidly ill considered -- was that in the jungle the Russians have this giant machine that is cutting a path through the jungle for them. The first thing Indy does when catching up to them is disable that giant machine. Then they go on a multiple mile car chase through the jungle. Apparently that giant jungle eating machine was completely unnecessary and someone at ILM had said "hey, I bought this giant bandsaw machine animation in a clip art package from the sale table at Office Max, is it ok if I use it?"

The Tarzan was extremely stupid.

Yes, the waterfall was bad. Yes, the one car landing on top of the other was bad. But how about the car landing on the tree so that it can be gently deposited in the river and then the tree whipsawing back to slap Russians off the cliff face? How awful was that?

I loved the motorcycle chase through the UofC campus. That was the closest the movie ever came to establishing Mutt as an heir and showing Indy's graceful aging. He was still actively involved but not completely in charge.

I loved the opening up until the refridgerator and then standing on the hilltop to watch the mushroom cloud.

I hate to typecast but the presence of the janitor from Scrubs was a distraction.

Poor, poor Ray Winstone. If he had to plaintively shout "Indy!" one more time I suspect he would have retired from filmmaking.