man
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.