Anyone else see it? My wife got tickets for the midnight show last night.
It was entertaining, except for a few really really dumb bits (the kid tarzan-swinging on vines sticks out like a thumb in the eye) and the fact that Cate Blanchett somehow managed to be the weakest member of the cast...and it's amazing that my wife and I thought the plot of this one was far-fetched and a little stilted, compared to, oh, say, finding the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail.
It was, again, fun to watch, but nowhere near as satisfying as the first or third movies, and probably Temple of Doom as well. Covers well-trodden Indy ground and plot devices/forms (wrathful goal of search taking gory revenge on the evildoers who would exploit it, natch), but what else do you expect from Dr. Jones? (And they lay the "Hey, it's the 50s!" on just a little thick, too...add in a little McCarthyism analogies with attempts at resonance in the present...viola...)
Once it was over, you sort of had to laugh at some of it and at yourself for buying it. Certainly never going to grab the DVD.
It was entertaining, except for a few really really dumb bits (the kid tarzan-swinging on vines sticks out like a thumb in the eye) and the fact that Cate Blanchett somehow managed to be the weakest member of the cast...and it's amazing that my wife and I thought the plot of this one was far-fetched and a little stilted, compared to, oh, say, finding the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail.
It was, again, fun to watch, but nowhere near as satisfying as the first or third movies, and probably Temple of Doom as well. Covers well-trodden Indy ground and plot devices/forms (wrathful goal of search taking gory revenge on the evildoers who would exploit it, natch), but what else do you expect from Dr. Jones? (And they lay the "Hey, it's the 50s!" on just a little thick, too...add in a little McCarthyism analogies with attempts at resonance in the present...viola...)
Once it was over, you sort of had to laugh at some of it and at yourself for buying it. Certainly never going to grab the DVD.