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

[mousepod]

There were no aliens in A.I.

The robots at the end of that movie behaved in a way that provided a touching and thoughtful conclusion to that underrated film.

I still have no idea what the aliens (or interdimensional beings) were doing at the end of Indy 4.

[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???

[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.

[MouseWife]

That's right, Lash.

Also, we did not learn the 'meaning' of Indiana until Connery came along, right? Which installment was that?

The things that were unbelievable, well, it is Indi. I loved the things they used in it to reflect with the time/place.

I had heard a review where they didn't care for the relationship between Indi and Marion. Well, that is how his relationships are, cheesy. And, I think the biggest problem with her, which I do not find a problem but I think that it may have looked odd, was because she is 25 years older than she was and such girlie behaviour may have seemed more cheesy. It was cute.

Yeah, they really didn't elaborate about why Indi left but

Spoiler:

he did say that he just knew it wouldn't work, and when she said they didn't talk about it he said it would only lead to another argument and that he never won them.

.

I really enjoyed it. What was really cool was sitting there and realizing that I was watching an Indy movie on the big screen again after all of those years!

And, prior to the movie beginning, the theater was noisy. I was getting annoyed because the people who were the loudest sounded like people who would heckle and just make noise. During the movie, it was great, none of that.

Respect. I guess.

{I hope in my late posting I didn't cover something someone else did...}