As someone who has posted several suggestions in the SUGGESTION THREAD for KOTCS, I have to say many of the claims here are ignorant and unfounded. We aren't demanding the entire list be completed. In fact, if you'd take a moment to actually read the thread you'll see those with there own ideas actually discussing edits and cuts with those talented and knowledable individuals who are actually doing the near impossible task of making ths a good movie. AND we've been complimentry and appreciative every step of the way. Once or twice some of us may have gotten a bit TOO excited about seeing new updates, but we've since handled those issues.
In fact, getting such a good list of edits (which range in importance) has prompted several of us over on that thread to learn the tools of editing ourselves and try our own hand at it.
It's clear many of you haven't even read through the thread and/or just need something to cry about.
I think the list we have is very thorough. I think it addresses several problems wth the film. Some of these are quite small and some are not, but every step of the way we've discussed the feasability of these edits with those doing the edits. Things like Ox dancing for instance is, for many of us, another goofy, kiddy scene in a film that has far too many goofy and kiddy scenes.
The main problem with the alien stuff is not that there are aliens (or whatever interdemensional beings they're refered to as) but that there's no sense of peril or danger or character moments to ground the film in any manner to handle such a thing. Scenes that were over the top were made more so by the fact that there was never any sense of danger due to an over reliance on CGI and jsut plain bad filmmaking. Is is terrible to have a character in an adventure film swinging on vines? No. In fact its sort of expected. But seeing the way said scene ws executed makes it stand out as weightless and goofy. Are aliens THAT far out of left field for the Indy franchise? Nope. But the way they were presented here is just plain terrible.