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

[Ghoulish Delight]

I'm guessing that some of the lines from the movie where they talked about things Indy did in the intervening time were rejected script ideas.

I haven't read this thread, so I'm sure I'll be repeating stuff but:

Spoiler:

Overall, I feel about the same about this one as I felt about Last Crusade. Maybe even liked it a little less. It was fun, definitely better than the disaster it could have been. But they lost me at interdimensional aliens. Bleh.

And a whole host of other issues of course. After Steve reminded me of the ToD raft ride, I conceded to give the triple waterfall thing a pass, but jeep landing on open-topped duck? Fridge ride? Terrible terrible terrible.

And I know they tried to give themselves an out by stressing that it wasn't really "magnetism" (crystals and gold aren't magnetic afterall), but the utter inconsistency was beyond bad. I mean, throw the gunpowder in the air and it immediately gets pulled through the air. So, umm, why weren't the bullets being pulled the moment they walked in there? The magnetism only seemed to work when people were paying attention to it. Lame.

Other than that, good opening scene. I liked the relationships, through the movie, I liked the banter, I liked the characters. I liked some of the action, but the jungle car scene was waaay to drawn out, which just gave plenty of opportunity for the rubbery cgi to stick out like a sore thumb.

So yeah, luke warm. Enjoyable. Flawed.