Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skulls
May 26th, 2008 by KenricLast Friday I went to see the new Indy movie. One thing I will never ever understand is why people bring babies or kids to movies. There was a baby that was about 8 months to 1 year old sitting a few seats to my right. At first I didn’t notice because it was probably sleeping, but it woke up about 10 minutes into the movie. Now this baby wasn’t crying but it was making stupid baby sounds like throughout the movie. Finally the mother decided that the baby was making too much noise and left the theater. Then shortly after there was another baby crying somewhere below me. I mean WTF? If you can’t afford or find a baby sitter, don’t go to the fucking movie. It’s sacrifice that you have to make.
On another note, I was wondering why movie theaters even let babies into the theater. Shouldn’t there be an age minimum? My friend suggested that I complain and ask for my money back as an unsatisfied customer. Honestly, the actual baby noise didn’t bother me that much because this was an action movie. You could barely hear it over the loud sound effects and booming bass that I’m sure is really good for the baby. But what was bothering me was the nerve of the ignorant people sitting next to me.
On top of that I felt the movie was ridiculous and sucked. I actually went and read the good reviews on Rotten Tomatoes to see how it got a 79% and many of the reviews basically said, “The plot is stupid and its unbelievable but I’m gonna give it a thumbs up anyway cause its Indiana Jones.”
SPOILER ALERT - Please just skip to below the picture if you are gonna see the movie. So here is where the movie lost me… You can survive a nuclear bomb by hiding in a fridge, you can survive in the fridge after its launched 10 miles in the air, you can catch up to jeeps in the jungle by swinging on vines like tarzan, you can get monkeys to help attach the bad guys, etc…
I finally got my vacation summaries up so you can see more photos of the Havasupai Trip or the OC Adventure Race.
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I saw Indy 4 last night and it was terrible. I’ve watched the other three films over 100 times a piece. I love Indy. This story pained me to no end, systematically see problems and lose interest in the story.
My “audience pain” was not centered around babies but people text messaging throughout the film. SideKicks and iPhones, the Palm Treo would regularly appear and become flashlights in the dark theatre.
I long for the day when cell phone blockers are installed in theatres.
By Clifford on May 26, 2008
Are you kidding me that a 65 year old man is supposed to be doing all the action scenes? Totally unbelievable! He’s not even in great shape or anything! You could almost see the wires hoisting him up the crates he was climbing in the warehouse scene.
I was hoping for the same kind of pleasant surprise that I had with the new James Bond–I was so sure I’d hate a blonde Bond. But, I was so wrong!
I was kinda hoping Lucas would shake up the Indy series with a replacement for Harrison Ford–but, no. So, it looks like the series is going to die a slow death with him.
When are we going to learn that George Lucas has made too much money and no longer cares to make movies actually good? I think his movies will be rentals for me after this….
By Trisha on May 26, 2008
So Harrison Ford is no Sylvester Stallone. That’s what I’m hearing.
By knuckle_headed on May 26, 2008