Apparently there is a word for this now, although it escapes me.
Armando - Happy Birthday! (sure I saw somewhere that it was your b’day…)
I believe the word you’re looking for is “lazy”… 
True that. But also I’ve found myself in that predicament many a time.
When I sit down to watch a film, I don’t want to be interrupted. I want to enjoy the film and not be distracted. When I watch TV, (BSG and Lost excluded) it’s time to veg-out. So when something interesting like Indy or Matrix or Blade Runner comes on I’ll find myself watching it even though I own the films. I like having the breaks and my children can interrupt and it’s no big deal. They may even talk through out and ask questions and such.
Sometimes I may catch a film in the middle or in passing on my way to Nick Jr and I may say to myself, “I haven’t seen that in a while.” So it serves as a reminder.
I guess it all comes down to enjoyment. If you’re flipping through the channels and see Indy you’re not gonna go, “Oh I have that and i don’t need to watch it.” Nope. You go, “Oh frak! It’s Indy! I love this part.”
couldn’t have said it better, my friend
Good question. No idea. There are bits I like in ToD, mostly the opening and ending. The whole bad Indy bit is what annoys me the most.
Congrats on reaching OG status, Armando. When’s the ascension party?
Congrats on OG status, Armando. And on your birthday, too!!
Kate Capshaw annoyed me through that movie. I actually didn’t mind Shortround. Bad Indy made sense to the plot and allowed him to prove his strength of will, when he was able to break the trance with the help of Shortround.
Saw the movie, here are my Likes and Grievences:
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Likes
- Harrison Ford still kicks ass
- Shia Laboef is pretty good as well (except for his name, see below)
- Marion? Kick ass
- Nods to Brody and Dad. Well done. Mostly. (see below)
- Action scenes…all good
Grievances
- The very beginning…good lord…tighten the dialogue and get to the money shots…we have been waiting 18 years people!
- Ok…magnetic crystal skull I can accept…what I cannot accept is to make a huge deal about how the skulls are magnetic and then immediately discard the fact that it should be attracting every piece of metal within a twenty foot radius. This seriously distracted me the entire movie.
- “Mutt”? George and Steven named him, “Mutt”? <shakes his head ruefully>
- Did we need to see the frakking saucer lift off? Seriously? If they are not going into space why didn’t they simply wink off into the next dimension (besides for the visual effects mastrabatory reasons)
- “I’m a double agent!” “Oh, ok!”
Overall, a good film. They could have messed up the whole, “He’s your father” thing but pulled it off. Even with George Lucas trying desperately to destroy yet another franchise. I kept waiting for Jar Jar to show up.[/spoiler]
One part that annoyed upon further review was the beginning where Indy was trading a Mummy for a diamond. I know Indy straddles the line between being an archeologist and looter, but what would he want with a diamond? I would think that he would find more value in an archeologically significant mummy than a mummy.
Oh, Armando, let me too congratulate you on your significant achievement…
I thought that was reference to Indiana himself taking the moniker of the family dog…
Wow. That is clever. I am not sure if they match your cleverness, but if they do, bravo.
[spoiler]I agree with you on most everything. Some of the dialogue blew - I blame Lucas for that. And the whole thing with Marion driving off the cliff and landing on a giant tree - dumb. The snake as rope thing was stupid - there were so many other ways to do the “indy is afraid of snakes” bit. Last - Mutt as Tarzan - wanted to shoot myself in the face.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]Agree, agree, agree. I had already blotted those out of my memory. What was the whole animal running theme in this movie? I swear to you it was like they were planting reasons for us not to like it. Even with all that baggage I credit Steven with his directing to pull the gems out of the mud.[/spoiler]
I loved the movie because it chose to embraced the 50’s theme instead of rehashing the 30’s Serials.
A lot of people seem to be put off because of the shift in thematic content from Supernatural to Paranormal.
But it makes perfect sence thematically.
Possible Spoilers:
The 50’s was the heydey of B-movie Scifi.
The movies were about Giant Irradiated Ants, Atom Bomb Mutants, Saucer Men from Mars, and Socialist Mind Contol.
It was a really bold move for the film-makers to embrace this era, and I applaud them for it.
Right, and that’s why I can sort of handle the source of the crystal skulls. Sort of. Because it takes a lot for me to suspend my disbelief to accept the paranormal (full disclosure: I never liked the XFiles, and I hate terror/horror movies) in film/TV.
But I still can’t get over the really giant mistakes that I mentioned before, particularly in a climate that assumes all Spanish speakers are Mexican and in the United States illegally. Maybe I’m cynical, but that really stuck in my craw.
Now, that doesn’t mean that I don’t plan to watch it again for a fun time. But it won’t be my first choice.
Your point is VERY valid. I’m often annoyed when Non-WASP culture is depicted in overly simplified or wholey inccorrect ways.
But at the same time, I understand that cultural accuracy is just not something commercial film-makers care about.
It’s too bad. But if it’s going to be rectified, then it’s up to us to assert our creative impulses to put out stories that reflect our own desires for cultural accuracy and representation.
Overall, I was disappointed. I agree with everyone’s frustrations. My fifteen year old was aghast at the aliens. He felt that was so not Indy. I would have been fine with it if they had been interesting. What’s fun about looking for aliens and then never really interacting with them? I’m hoping the second view (because how can I not?) will prove more enjoyable, sometimes that happens.
I just got out of the theater, and I must say Indy 4 was a bit of a let down. It starts off so good then starts to tumble downhill.
I love the references to the previous movies (be sure to be on the look out for those)
This isn’t a spoiler, just a funny goof for those that know, but in the scene where it shows Indy travelling by airplane, it shows a RUSSIAN AN-2 Colt birplane in Pan American Airways livery…pretty amusing with setting in the anti-commie 50’s
Oh…one moment that totally pulled me out of the moment…but I couldn’t help smiling…
JANITOR!
Edward James Olmos provides the voice of the guide in the 1996 video game The Crystal Skull.