MASSIVE THUMBS-DOWN. I just back from seeing this in England, where I essentially paid $20 to get in. I got some bad news, me droogies: I think Lucas had A LOT to to do with the script. LOTS. There's never any real sense of danger, there's no chemistry between him & marion (very disappointing that -- he shows up and she's all google-eyed), there's no tension bewteen him and Ilsa, she-wolf of the KGB, and the whole thing is a lot of misplaced sarcasms, anachronisms, and pater famili-ar apologetics. & etc & etc.
Of course he did manage to leave in the problematic representation of Otherness.
LUCAS = FAIL. I am no longer excited about Clone Wars and have decided to put all my excitement-eggs into two baskets: Batman and Hellboy2 --and most of that is going into Hellboy.
2. So, you retort, "'Crystal Skull' isn't all that bad. You're just nostalgic for the first one and you set up impossible expectations".
I defy anyone to watch Raiders and then immediately watch this one and tell me that the first one isn't a superior product. It doesn't matter if it--Raiders-- had plot holes or a silly story; the script worked and the actors were convincing and had chemistry and the effects were a pleasure and the photography/camera work was thrilling and fit the tone of the story and the overall effect was fun and scary and refreshing. the new one accomplishes none of those things: the performances are flat, the script is hokey, the effects are transparent and the whole thing looks like it was phoned in.
Just b/c the film is dripping w/ nostalgia for a time long dead doesn't mean that any critical account of that film is guilty of the same historical subjectivity... Crystal Skull is just plain bad film-making from a team of creators from whom we should expect more (He's Spielberg for Godssake! he can handle character!)
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i'm so tired of you libs whining about movies. RELAX! it's just a movie! you shouldn't THINK about things, or make other people think about them either! geez- lighten up! just enjoy it! just enjoy whatever they cram down our throats and claim to be culture, or politics, or entertainment! your lucky you have the right to enjoy it, and the freedom to bitch and moan-- unlike the so-called 'kingdom' of the Crystal Skull, where everybody is forced to wear crazy clown outfits and jump around with blow-guns and spears and scream jibba-jabba while educated white europeans get to come in and take all of their ancient religious paraphernelia just because they have guns and advanced degrees in ancient languages! And you're lucky that the same white europeans dont come around and pull the rug out from under your culture's finest achievements and scientifc progresses by ATTRIBUTING THOSE ACHIEVEMENTS TO SAUCER MEN FROM SPACE! i mean, how could a bunch of brownies POSSIBLEY build a city, let alone a thriving empire with irrigation, cities, and science?! WHITEY invented that shit, my man, so try to enjoy the FREEDOM of being able to watch OUR ACTION-PACKED, RACIST HISTORY UNFOLD !
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