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

[swanie]

Indy tickets $22.50
Movie Snacks $15.50
Getting to hum the Indy theme with two very excited kids as the credits rolled....PRICELESS



Overall the film had its share of flaws, but we had a ton of fun. This film will always stand out to me for being the one that I was able to share with my girls. They loved it and it was a blast being able to see them watch it with the same awe that I did as a kid.

swanie

[RStar]

Originally Posted by mousepod

There were no aliens in A.I.

Weren't those aliens that dug the child robot out of the ice and brough his mother back for one day?


I loved the Indy movie. I found very little fault with it (yes, he would have never survived the fridge ride or the door should have popped open on the first impact, but other than that...).

[mousepod]

Originally Posted by RStar

Weren't those aliens that dug the child robot out of the ice and brough his mother back for one day?

Nope. Robots. That's the point of the ending. It was apparently in Kubrick's original draft, as well.

[Alex]

One thing that has bugged me more than most is that they went out of the way to say that Indy had run out on Marion just a couple weeks before their wedding. And then don't in any way explain why.

Considering that, it seems to me that Marion mooned over Indy just a bit too easily.

What bugged me about the hair combing thing was that it seemed to be a gimmick-for-gimmick-replacement pattern. Whip->Knife. Hat->Comb.

In Indy 6 there the first scene will be a flashback to Mutt's youth. Played by Angus T. Jones there'll be a key scene where he escapes from baddies only by having perfectly combed hair and then stabbing them with a well wielded knife.

On the quirk for quirk exchange I was glad that they didn't give him an animal phobia a la snakes and Indy or rats and Connery.

I swear that when we first saw the ants I leaned over to Lani and whispered the Mutt would be deathly afraid of insects. So, I'm glad that Spielberg and company did pass up one obvious choice.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

(BTW ... did anyone think his name was "Mud?" I didn't notice it was Mutt till the end credits ... which is too bad, since that's a great joke.)

I mentioned in my MP review that I didn't realize his name was Mutt until I was confirming the spelling of LeBeouf's name when writing the review.

Originally Posted by tracilicious

But why is nobody else pissed about Mac?

Not pissed. Just a completely pointless character. He could have been removed from the movie without changing a single thing. However, the broken nose joke was almost enough justification for it.

[tracilicious]

That's true. The one redeeming moment for that character.

[RStar]

Yah, Mac pissed me off too.

And I went in knowing that his name was Mutt only because I saw it in print a couple of times prior to the movie. I suppose as a critic, you don't want to read much info prior to viewing the film, right Alex?

I just wish they would have spent at least two seconds to tell us why MUTT???

[LSPoorEeyorick]

I think there is something flawed about a movie where multiple people separately come to the same incorrect assumption about the plot. All of these years and I (and numerous others with whom I've discussed the film) never knew that there were no aliens in AI. Clearly some sort of clearer dialogue, and design that does not LOOK alien, should have prevented this confusion. Though I still wish it ended at the feet of the Blue Fairy.

Damn you, Jesse, I am going to have to watch AI again.

[Gn2Dlnd]

I loved AI, I understood that the "aliens" were some version of AI millenium into the future. I think it's a beautiful movie, and it makes me cry. I remember walking out of the theater and saying, "This movie will be one that is better appreciated in retrospect."

AI viewing on the biggie TV in our living room? Jesse can vouch for our speakers!

[lashbear]

Originally Posted by RStar

Yah, Mac pissed me off too.

And I went in knowing that his name was Mutt only because I saw it in print a couple of times prior to the movie. I suppose as a critic, you don't want to read much info prior to viewing the film, right Alex?

I just wish they would have spent at least two seconds to tell us why MUTT???

It's the running In-joke

Indiana was the name of Indy's dog.
Willie was the name of Spielberg's dog.
Mutt is a name for a dog with multiple lineage....

Not the sort of thing explainable in the movie.