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

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Chernabog

He makes movies that actually diminish the quality of far superior films in the same series. For the second time.

See, I just don't get how that's possible. Bad Indy films simply point out what's great about great Indy films (of which there is one). I don't see how making a lousy film does anything but highlight the missing quality that was once (and only once) there.



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By way, the purpose of the Mac character was that a constantly double-crossing traitor pal can have Indy's reversals of fortune turn on a dime, without any story effort whatsoever. It's lazy, but it has a purpose.


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Oh, I've neglected to mention my favorite bit. Believe it or not, it's a sound effect. At the start of the Peruvian grave-robbing scene, they reprise the distinctive "Yaquoia" bird sound from the Peru beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Not only is it a wonderfully distinctive sound that is a great Easter Egg .... it was a very significant sound for Steven Spielberg. Though he trusted Ben Burtt to do the sound work on Raiders due to his Star Wars brilliance, Spielberg was only convinced his film was in fantastic sonic hands once he heard the bird sound that transformed his Hawaii footage to an evocative South American jungle.