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

[innerSpaceman]

The Bond films do all their stunts the old-fashioned way, and no one notices. I don't see the impetus to keep doing that. Everyone assumes most unrealistic things are done with CGI ... even when they're not.


As for Indy 4's GGI laden-effects ... I have to admit I liked them better than the truly awful photographic effects in the old series (they had particular trouble with airplanes in both sequels) and prefered the CGI-enhanced locations to the horrible switch to fake backlot from grand outdoors in both sequels.


Anyway, keep in mind a mine car jumping the tracks to land squarely on ... the tracks after a leap of 400 feet, or a wingless plane passing a car inside a tunnel, or an inflatable raft falling from a plane, careening down a mountain, falling over a cliff and landing in a river without any harm to the occupants.


I can't believe I'm defending this crap. Actually, I hate it. But it's nothing new in Indy World. Complaints at this point are rather meaningless.



If you'd hoped for a return to the comparatively gritty realism of Raiders of the Lost Ark, you haven't been paying attention to the talent arcs of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.