Movies Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Read 4528 times)

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I thought David Schwimmer was really good in Band of Brothers. I was surprised.
He was good, but was only in there for like 1 episode + show-ups in 2 others for small periods. But of course, that's how it happened in their lives so yeah.
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I mean, I realize that the other Indiana Jones movies touched upon some supernatural stuff (as I had to explain to my friends who watched the movie with me) but... The presentation of it just completely ruined the whole "willing suspension of disbelief" thing for me. It started okay, but when I saw the I sort of called it quits, and we all left our theater before the end of the and snuck into the one across the hall to see Iron Man (which pretty much made up for this movie's shortcomings).
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Overlooked this topic!

I saw it the first day it was out and was really disappointed. Thought it lacked most of what made the originals good, the CGI was god-awful and the dialogue was all round not inspiring.

Decent blockbuster kind of film I spose, but definitely not up to Indy standards in my eyes.
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people keep saying BAD CGI and i don't really disagree (oh god the monkey scene) but i see a lot of movies with pretty bad cgi and this seems to be getting an inordinate amount of attention for it!
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people keep saying BAD CGI and i don't really disagree (oh god the monkey scene) but i see a lot of movies with pretty bad cgi and this seems to be getting an inordinate amount of attention for it!
i think a lot of that comes from how completely out of line all of it was from the rest of the movies in the series, and how totally unnecessary it was in this movie. i can't really think of a movie where the cgi felt so forced and unnatural. i think with most other movies you don't have this sort of reference point, but with the indiana jones movies you expect a degree of visual believability and the poor cgi ruined that completely. whenever something visually abnormal happened in the indiana jones movies, it was always pretty well justified within the context of the movie, but the cgi in this movie really wasn't at all. you really know that it was just there because george lucas is a worthless human being, not because anybody honestly believed that it would contribute to what the film was trying to do.

yeah, there's worse cgi out there, but through the cgi you can really see how big of a shit george lucas laid on this movie. i don't really think that cgi is usually this influential in the ultimate failure of a film.
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Basically what Hundley said is totally what I feel. The Mist had pretty poor CGI (although cool designs) but since the movie focused a lot on the human element I still felt it was a success. It's just totally out of place in an Indy film and really shook me out of enjoying the film as much as I could have.
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yeah i guess this is a pretty good point!  i mostly thought people meant poor cgi on a superficial level rather than on a uh... cinematic one i guess.