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You’d think I’d have learnt my lesson by now…

For those of you that didn’t get the joke this is your last warning. There are spoilers ahead. It’s no longer my problem.
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So I saw Indy 4 last night, and truth be told, really enjoyed it. It was a fun adventure movie. Anyone who just loves a good adventure movie (a genre that is severely lacking outside of child orientated fantasy films) will probably have a good’ol time.

However, the alien and the ‘space’ craft were goddamn fucking stupid! I can deal with the artifacts supposedly being alien, I actually think that it can fit into the Indy mythology. BUT showing the aliens and the fucking “flying saucer” was just moronic! And the line “the space between spaces”, what the hell was that? String theory has no place in an Indy film!

Here’s what I think happened:

Speilberg: Hey George, you really fucked up those Star Wars Prequels.
Lucas: Shuttup Steven. I bet you could fuckup just as badly.
Speilberg: No way. I am teh Master Director! No matter what anyone gave me, I can make it gold!
Lucas: How about a bet then? I pick something for you to direct and if you fuck it up you have to direct a movie with Mel Gibson in it!
Spielberg: And if I win?
Lucas: I’ll buy every copy of AI in existence and burn them.
Speilberg (in an instant): You’re on. What did you have in mind?
Lucas: Indiana Jones 4
Spielberg: HAH! That’s a movie that that NO-ONE could possibly fuck up. I’ve got it in the bag. It’s one of those franchises that is so fun that the theme song alone could carry the movie!
Lucas: Ahh, yes. But it has to have an alien in it.
Spielberg: An…..?
Lucas: That’s right. An alien.
Spielberg: Fuck.

Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), the jury is still out on who won the bet. I’ll have to see it 2 or perhaps 3 more times before I come to a descision myself.

Damnit.

Comment by litharis — 27th May, 2008 @ 8:01 pm

The alien at the end felt a little weird, but I don’t think it was too out of place. This Indy was set in the 1950s and was aiming more for that sort of thing, genre-wise. But I can see where other people would be all double-you tee eff.

Comment by Matt Newton — 27th May, 2008 @ 9:33 pm

It’s Pulp!

It followed the transition from religious and supernatural artifacts into the sci-fi era born of the atomic age. Wasn’t as good as some others, but it was fine in it’s own right. That is, of course, opinion.

Comment by Jack T Robyn — 28th May, 2008 @ 7:48 am

While Indy has primarily been about the hunt, the artifacts play an important role in the series. Artifacts of power. Maybe I’m just getting hung up about it, but the fact that the end of the movies didn’t reveal such an object ticks me off. In Raiders, Doom and Crusade, Indy never met god at the end – and the existance of the god itself is never actually confirmed.

I’ve said that I agree that the sci-fi component can work with Indy. I just don’t think we should have ever seen the alien or that god-awful flying saucer.

Comment by litharis — 28th May, 2008 @ 8:24 am

My major problem with the movie was not the alien at the end it was the fact that Indy survives the blast from a freaken a bomb by hiding in a fridge. So what if its lead lined the blast would have incinerated the fridge and him inside, and even if the fridge wasn’t destroyed with how far it was thrown and how many times it bounced he should have died from that!
/rant

Comment by Stickfodder — 28th May, 2008 @ 1:00 pm

Now, I’m not necessarily disagreeing with you Stick, but I dont think the fridge would have been disintegrated because it was far enough away from the blasts center, had those been real solid homes and not dummy homes they MIGHT have fared a bit better to, as for whether or not he would have died from being banged around, I think the sheer lack of space in the fridge would have given him enough protecting, its hard to bounce around with enough force to really hurt yourself when you only have less then an inch to move. Of course i could be so wrong its not funny but hey, thats life.

Comment by Verick — 13th June, 2008 @ 1:06 am

I agree with Matt on that they were aiming for that B-grade alien shtick, since it is set in the 50′s and thats what the typical person was thinking about at that time. I also agree with the fridge thing being a little extreme. But then again, the Indiana Jones series has always been a parody on the classic B-grade adventure movies, and i found Indy 4 to be no exception. Not as good as the originals, to be sure, but still an entertaining movie.

Comment by Hethra — 29th October, 2008 @ 4:17 pm

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