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The effects were not as bad as the prequels except maybe for the alien spaceship at the end, and the fake prairie dogs at the beginning.
ox was comic relief by being a complete mind wiped retard by the alien crystal skull artifact
He was like the human equivalent of Jar Jar without all the racist charicatures .
Many of the scenes in the movie were inspired by the trilogy that came before, almost as if they tried to do the best of indiana jones rehash compilation without a story. The movie only works on nostalgia and does not stand on its own.
I will admit i clapped and cheered at the beginning when harrison first comes on screen and picks up the hat and puts it on.
To me the best thing about the movie was Karen Allen i found her and Harrison's characters reunion to be delightful. Mostly Because I love the film Raiders. I liked mutt the greaser character as well.
Spalko felt like right out of rocky and bullwinkle, or a bad 007 film. I love Cate Blanchett but this character was horribly unbelievable and poorly written.
I was almost as if they tried to make a female version of belloq.
also picking and choosing elements from 5 different scripts and trying to stitch together a single narrative from that did not work.
The reason Raiders and Last crusade are good movies if because of the scripts by Lawrence Kasden and Jeffrey Boam. The huycks script for doom sucks, but hey they also wrote howard the duck and radioland murders. The only good writing they ever did was on the first star wars and american graffiti.
After seeing how awful the film the mist was i'm not so sure the darabount script would have been any better though.
Kasden wrote brilliant sharp and witty scripts for both Raiders and empire strikes back and then his career took a nosedive. Every movie he made and script he wrote afterword sucked. Yeah the critics liked body heat, but ive never seen it so i cannot say since that is not a particular genre I dabble in.
I like primarily good drama, as well as science fiction and fantasy movies. Not always exactly working together Drama and sci fi, science fiction seen as for geeks and a bastard genre for trekkies who cannot get any.
As for the star wars prequels temple of doom and young indiana jones were prequels and perhaps George did not learn his lesson.
As for the Nazca drawings they reminded me of the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiha anime where she drew them on the school grounds to attract aliens, LOL.
Also the Area 51 wahehouse scene was Like X-files without Mulder and Scully being there or m snows music scored under the scene. Even the nazca drawings reminded me of the phenomenon of crop circles and the m night rammalammadingdong movie signs.