Indiana Jones IV: don't bother (no spoilers)

[Mars]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

In my opinion each one of these films has been worse than the last.

No way you could rank The Holy Grail behind Temple of Doom.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

Bummer. My wife and I are going out tonight and she wants to see Indy.

I have heard nothing but so-so reviews from people I know.

I would rather go see The Cure at the Hollywood Bowl. Maybe I will try to talk her out of this horrible movie.

I hope you went to see The Cure. I was unable to see them here in SLC on Thursday as that was the same night our oldest had her 9th grade promotion exercises. I'd rather have seen Robert and the boys.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by creekster

No, but you're warm. THink Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Mashed potatoes in the form of ET?

[RockyBalboa]

Originally Posted by SteelBlue

I think people forget how over the top the previous films were. This one was most like Temple of Doom in its unbelievability (remember Indy and co. jumping out of a plane with nothing but a life raft, plunging thousands of feet, slamming into the ground and then shooshing down a glacier with no injuries?). I rank it 3rd of the 4 (Temple of Doom was the worst for me).

That's where I rank it to.

Every movie was way over the top and done so on purpose.

That's kinda the point. Just fun popcorn turn your brain off adventure.

[Mrs. Funk]

Crystal Skull is by no means a work of art. The ending with the aliens was ridiculous even for an Indiana Jones movie, and the line, "Knowledge was their treasure" made me want to barf.

But, it was at least mildly entertaining. I don't think it's on par with the Last Crusade. Anybody going in with... any expectations will be disappointed. Only go if you care to zone out in a dark theatre for $8.50. No higher mental functions required.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by Mrs. Funk

Crystal Skull is by no means a work of art. The ending with the aliens was ridiculous even for an Indiana Jones movie, and the line, "Knowledge was their treasure" made me want to barf.

But, it was at least mildly entertaining. I don't think it's on par with the Last Crusade. Anybody going in with... any expectations will be disappointed. Only go if you care to zone out in a dark theatre for $8.50. No higher mental functions required.

I agree. The plot was certainly not worthy of years of arguing among the "big three" (Ford, Lucas, Spielberg) but it was action-y enough to entertain. I don't know in retrospect if it was worth the money--probably just as easy to watch it on DVD--but it was worth the 2 hours.

Better than Doom, worse than Raiders and Last Crusade, IMO.

[TripletDaddy]

This just in.....my wife is rad. After my brother and my mom confirmed that Indiana Jones was a complete waste of time, my wife agreed to see The Cure. We drove up to the Bowl, bought a pair of tickets for under face (the opening act was already onstage...they were called 65daysofstatic and I didnt care if we missed them) and enjoyed an amazing show. It was LONG. Over 3 hours. But if you are a fan of the Cure, holy crap. What a fantastic setlist.

The 5 songs to close the show was worth the entire wait, although as you can see, they pulled stuff ranging from 3 Imaginary Boys to Pornography to Disintegration. I was worried they would be heavily tilted towards their new, bad stuff.

Again, for fans of The Cure, they did the extended opening to A Forest...the one on 17 Seconds...very menacing.

We got home at about 1AM and now I am very sleepy.

Simply Elegant!

1 Plainsong
2 Prayers for Rain
3 A Strange Day
4 alt.end
5 The Walk
6 The End of the World
7 Lovesong
8 To Wish Impossible Things
9 Pictures of You
10 Lullaby
11 The Perfect Boy
12 From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
13 Hot Hot Hot
14 The Only One
15 Push
16 Friday I'm in Love
17 In Between Days
18 Just Like Heaven
19 Primary
20 Shake Dog Shake
21 Never Enough
22 Wrong Number
23 One Hundred Years
24 Disintegration

First Encore

25 At Night
26 M
27 Play for Today
28 A Forest

Second Encore

29 Some sort of instrumental
30 Lovecats
31 Let's Go to Bed
32 Freakshow
33 Close to Me
34 Why Can't I Be You

Third Encore

35 Boys Don't Cry
36 Jumping Someone Else's Train
37 Grinding Halt
38 10:15 Saturday Night
39 Killing an Arab

[landpoke]

I loved this movie, if only for the simple fact that it answered the age old question: Is Cate Blanchett sexy? Though I wouldn't put her in the same class as Barbara Bach in The Spy Who Loved Me, she filled the role of sexy Godless commie villain in with an aplomb not seen since Bridgette Nielson's Ludmilla Drago.

A slight disclaimer: I viewed Indy IV immediately after sitting through the Sex and the City movie so I can't vouch for my objectivity. (Spoiler: Sara Jessica Parker has not aged well, Chris "Mr. Big" Noth is still to die for and the girls drank Cosmos while discussing their man troubles.)

[marsupial]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

This just in.....my wife is rad. After my brother and my mom confirmed that Indiana Jones was a complete waste of time, my wife agreed to see The Cure. We drove up to the Bowl, bought a pair of tickets for under face (the opening act was already onstage...they were called 65daysofstatic and I didnt care if we missed them) and enjoyed an amazing show. It was LONG. Over 3 hours. But if you are a fan of the Cure, holy crap. What a fantastic setlist.

The 5 songs to close the show was worth the entire wait, although as you can see, they pulled stuff ranging from 3 Imaginary Boys to Pornography to Disintegration. I was worried they would be heavily tilted towards their new, bad stuff.

Again, for fans of The Cure, they did the extended opening to A Forest...the one on 17 Seconds...very menacing.

We got home at about 1AM and now I am very sleepy.

Simply Elegant!

1 Plainsong
2 Prayers for Rain
3 A Strange Day
4 alt.end
5 The Walk
6 The End of the World
7 Lovesong
8 To Wish Impossible Things
9 Pictures of You
10 Lullaby
11 The Perfect Boy
12 From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
13 Hot Hot Hot
14 The Only One
15 Push
16 Friday I'm in Love
17 In Between Days
18 Just Like Heaven
19 Primary
20 Shake Dog Shake
21 Never Enough
22 Wrong Number
23 One Hundred Years
24 Disintegration

First Encore

25 At Night
26 M
27 Play for Today
28 A Forest

Second Encore

29 Some sort of instrumental
30 Lovecats
31 Let's Go to Bed
32 Freakshow
33 Close to Me
34 Why Can't I Be You

Third Encore

35 Boys Don't Cry
36 Jumping Someone Else's Train
37 Grinding Halt
38 10:15 Saturday Night
39 Killing an Arab

I saw the Cure once in SLC. I thought Robert Smith had a poor stage presence. He's no Mick Jagger.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by marsupial

I saw the Cure once in SLC. I thought Robert Smith had a poor stage presence. He's no Mick Jagger.

Well, I would agree with that comparison, albeit a strange comparison.

Robert Smith is also no Julio Iglesias or Billy Ray Cyrus, either.

Mick Jagger may run around a lot in tight stretch pants, which can be exciting for some demographics, but I prefer the music to the stage show. If I want to see an over-the-top stage show with gimmicks, flashing lights, and video screens, I go see U2.