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Post #341209

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HeKS
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Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Edit Suggestions
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Date created
4-Jan-2009, 2:02 AM
jones1899 said:

Some good suggestions Doc. 

I never nocticed that Spalko shoots one of her own men, I'll have to watch again to catch that. 

As for Marion, I've mentioned it several times. Her goofy "I don't care if I get shot or if my son dies...IM IN A MOVIE YAY!" look through most of the film is just too much. I HATE HATE HATE the scene where she is holding on to the steering wheel laughing after the waterfall. KILLS me everytime. The trust me line was poorly delivered as well.

Glad you liked our suggestions (me, topdawg, etc). Laser's doing a great job so far.

 

This reminded me of something I was going to say in my previous post. One of the absolute dumbest plot devices of this whole movie comes right after this bit with Marion holding the wheel, where Indy tells everyone that nobody has to continue but him, and when he's asked why he says it's because the skull told him he had to. SHUT UP!!! I've never heard anything so stupid and it's just one more instance in this movie where Indy is being a puppet led around by someone or something else.

It seems to me that a good piece of this scene could be cut. Once they recognize that they need to be going up to those "eyes" it should just cut to them up there ... or possibly have some establishing shot of where they're heading again that slowly zooms into the area, possibly with the well of souls music in the background, then cuts to them in the entrance ... where the stupid reference to the torches recently being lit should cease to exist.

 

HeKS