Comments on: Recommended: Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Crystal Skull http://www.jeremiahtolbert.com/2008/recommended-indiana-jones-and-the-temple-of-the-crystal-skull/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:11:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Jeremiah Tolbert http://www.jeremiahtolbert.com/2008/recommended-indiana-jones-and-the-temple-of-the-crystal-skull/#comment-689 Jeremiah Tolbert Sun, 25 May 2008 05:25:19 +0000 http://www.jeremiahtolbert.com/?p=136#comment-689 Long comments are not discouraged around here, so no need to apologize. I completely forgot the two utterly ridiculous scenes you mentioned. Our entire theatre was groaning at the tarzan on the vines thing. The boat thing with the treereally did break the suspension of disbelief entirely as well. I agree with your placement of the film for sure. I put it in Temple territory. I thought there was something really off about Karen in the scene where she first meets Jone again. Something odd about her smile or her acting, like it was really forced. I don't know what it was. Long comments are not discouraged around here, so no need to apologize.

I completely forgot the two utterly ridiculous scenes you mentioned. Our entire theatre was groaning at the tarzan on the vines thing. The boat thing with the treereally did break the suspension of disbelief entirely as well.

I agree with your placement of the film for sure. I put it in Temple territory.

I thought there was something really off about Karen in the scene where she first meets Jone again. Something odd about her smile or her acting, like it was really forced. I don’t know what it was.

]]> By: Richard http://www.jeremiahtolbert.com/2008/recommended-indiana-jones-and-the-temple-of-the-crystal-skull/#comment-688 Richard Sun, 25 May 2008 02:40:36 +0000 http://www.jeremiahtolbert.com/?p=136#comment-688 I've already seen the film twice, and I actually liked it more the second time. Maybe because I didn't have any preconceptions. It was a good film, but it doesn't hold a candle to Raiders or even to The Last Crusade. It felt rushed to me, and there were strange scenes like when Indi was reunited with Marion. I thought that it should have been more of a serious scene, instead of a comedic rant between the two. Marion acts like a little schoolgirl. And Jones is, well...giddy as a schoolboy. The inaccuracies didn't bother me that much except for the really impossible scenes, like when Marion drives the autoboat off of the cliff into the tree. Not only does it safely lower them into the water, but it swings back towards the unsuspecting Russians. Not to mention the incredible Tarzan scene, or the fact that a group of Russian soldiers can fire hundreds of rounds and not hit a damn thing. I guess Lucas is staying true to his stormtrooper philosophy of "can't hit a damn thing". Anyway, I liked it, but I felt that it should have been more of a serious film like Raiders, and less like The Mummy or Tomb Raider. Sorry for the long comment by the way. I’ve already seen the film twice, and I actually liked it more the second time. Maybe because I didn’t have any preconceptions. It was a good film, but it doesn’t hold a candle to Raiders or even to The Last Crusade. It felt rushed to me, and there were strange scenes like when Indi was reunited with Marion. I thought that it should have been more of a serious scene, instead of a comedic rant between the two. Marion acts like a little schoolgirl. And Jones is, well…giddy as a schoolboy. The inaccuracies didn’t bother me that much except for the really impossible scenes, like when Marion drives the autoboat off of the cliff into the tree. Not only does it safely lower them into the water, but it swings back towards the unsuspecting Russians. Not to mention the incredible Tarzan scene, or the fact that a group of Russian soldiers can fire hundreds of rounds and not hit a damn thing. I guess Lucas is staying true to his stormtrooper philosophy of “can’t hit a damn thing”. Anyway, I liked it, but I felt that it should have been more of a serious film like Raiders, and less like The Mummy or Tomb Raider. Sorry for the long comment by the way.

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