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... and of course you can't survive a point-blank nuclear blast by hiding in a fridge.I don't judge you for liking it. I don't think it was trash. A combination of little things marred my enjoyment of the film.
1) I thought that that Harrison Ford was a bit old to be doing an action movie.
2) Karen Allen/Marian Ravenwood was old to be the center of a romantic B-plot. Maybe I'm shallow but I don't generally like seeing old people romance unless Jack Nicholson is involved. I liked Something's Gotta Give and the The Bucket List (it's a bromance, but he does play wingman to his buddies struggling marriage) and I really liked As Good as it Gets.
3) I didn't think aliens meshed well with the pre-existing mythos of the franchise. It might have worked but I think it could have been handled well.
4) I don't think Shia LaBeouf is a bad person, but don't think is a good actor.
5) The first three movies used the Nazis as the institutional bad guys, but they couldn't really do that in a movie set in the 1950s. The Soviet Union was a natural stand-in and it could have worked but I don't think it was handled well by the writers because they frequently put in anti-capitalist barbs while still having Communists as the villains. Imagine if the first three Indiana Jones had characters periodically bringing up the upsides of fascist government systems?
Really the ancient Crystal Skull aliens would have not been conceptually if Nazis were trying to find them in the 1930s or if Soviets were trying to find them in the 1950s or black ops Americans were trying to find them in the 2000s. If you are going to use alien technology, it should have been worked into the Cold War and/or Space Race better to reinforce the setting/villains.
6. A lot of the best and the worst movies mix genres. The first Indiana Jones reflected George Lucas' and Steven Spielberg's love of the adventure serials when they were kids. Crystal Skull tried to work in GL's love of 1950s B-horror movies and it was an awkward fit here.
7. Like just about every old franchise that was dusted off and repurposed in the 21st century, this movie had interfering committees had a "Too Many Cooks problem".
8. The original Indiana Jones movies had a lot of gritty 1980s style violence. This movie was tamer and it's not what I expected or wanted to see.
Compared to what came before it was trash. Compared to what is about to be released, it will look like a masterpiece.I don't think it was trash.
You always do. You always prefer the weaker installments of any franchise. Star Wars, The Matrix, Indiana Jones, The Hobbit... BeastmenWhy, out of interest? I personally enjoyed Crystal Skull as much as the original three.




