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

flippyshark · 05-22-2008, 10:43 PM

I found the movie pleasant to watch, but I was never excited. Indeed, I'm beginning to wonder if I'm capable of being excited by action sequences anymore. They all just seem like stitched together collages, bits of animation and live footage manipulated to death, with no palpable sense of peril. And this is all action movies, not just Indy. (Although, the action sequences here struck me as strangely low key. Where is that delicious tension that had me gasping back in 1981? Can it ever happen for me again? Please?)

So, agreeable time killer, but I can tell that thinking about it is going to do the movie no favors.

Oh, and the CGI gophers. They may as well have been hand drawn cel animation by Bob Clampett for how blatantly unreal they came off. Actual gophers are cute and funny without doing anything at all. Could they not have somehow gotten real honest to goodness footage of gophers giving a dramatic stare or just gazing straight ahead and wiggling their noses?

I'm sure to have other thoughts, but these were the non-spoilery ones.

05-22-2008, 10:43 PM	#11
flippyshark Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 2,852	I found the movie pleasant to watch, but I was never excited. Indeed, I'm beginning to wonder if I'm capable of being excited by action sequences anymore. They all just seem like stitched together collages, bits of animation and live footage manipulated to death, with no palpable sense of peril. And this is all action movies, not just Indy. (Although, the action sequences here struck me as strangely low key. Where is that delicious tension that had me gasping back in 1981? Can it ever happen for me again? Please?) So, agreeable time killer, but I can tell that thinking about it is going to do the movie no favors. Oh, and the CGI gophers. They may as well have been hand drawn cel animation by Bob Clampett for how blatantly unreal they came off. Actual gophers are cute and funny without doing anything at all. Could they not have somehow gotten real honest to goodness footage of gophers giving a dramatic stare or just gazing straight ahead and wiggling their noses? I'm sure to have other thoughts, but these were the non-spoilery ones.
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