One word review: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Unforgivable.
Posted on November 10th, 2008 at 1:35pm under Culture, media and sport
Posted on November 10th, 2008 at 1:35pm under Culture, media and sport
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I would give a spoiler warning, but to be honest I think reading spoilers would probably be doing people a big favour.
You’ve sold it to me.
Have you seen W yet Justin?
Not yet. I might give it ten years to see if ‘one day we’ll look back on this and laugh’ actually works.
You could have got it down to “shit”.
Heh.
I avoided it. Glad I did.
I watched Hulk on Sat (the new one with Edward Norton). Not a patch on Iron Man, but not as bad as some reviewers said it was. That said, I’ve a soft-spot for comic book movies.
Mine would be: Painful.
Possibly followed by ‘feelings of violation’. Terrible fucking movie, utterly terrible…
Thanx for the warning, but, really, it isn’t needed.
The latest Indy movie? One word review? Same one I used for The Phantom Menace – “betrayed”. As in “My hopes betrayed, my dreams cast asunder”. Though “dire” is shorter and more polite than the thoroughly appropriate “crap”
Heh. Well, I have to say that i went into the movie with my expectations fairly low – and with my higher brain functions set to ‘popcorn’ – but I did enjoy it. The film was almost an exercise in constantly trying to top the last insane ludicrocity, in an exponential way. So – the bubblegum de bubblegum of actioner-retro-selfhomage movies. Still, I loved the abridged script, that was brilliant.
I do wonder how it is that Spielberg seems not to understand how and why he made the original Indy (same goes for Lucas and StarWars); in a saner world, they would be able to apply the verve and lightness of touch of the early creations with a greater mastery of moviemaking technique. But in our world, the latter is substituted for that creative fusion.
Wonder if Watchmen will be up to the same standards of, say, From Hell, V for Vendetta or The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen…
I’m crying in disappointed pain already
I’m just revelling in the awesome Watchmen trailers. I might not go and see the film and just stick with them.