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Originally Posted by MattyC
What I think people lose sight of in these types of movies is theyre just supposed to be good fun. No one said anything about them putting together a completely beleivable story.
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Spoiler alert.
You're right, I don't expect a completely believable story. What I do expect is a story that holds together in the world that story creates. Once-established conventions need to be followed, or the film falls apart.
Places that Crystal Skull falls apart include:
KGB agents running loose in a paranoid 50's America. An america that is SO paranoid that Indy loses his proffesorship and his college campus is having an "anti-red" rally (thatKGB agents chase him and Shia Lebouf through).
A highly magnetized crystal alien skull that sucks gunpowder through the air and drags even non-magnetic metals along the ground behind it - yet can be thrown from metal car to metal car with ease.
A Highly magnetized crystal alien skull - 'nuff said.
A triple-crossing MI6/CIA/KGB tracking-device dropping treasure-hunting boob who, somehow, knows he's "going to be okay" when he gets sucked into the dimensional-portal-space-ship. If he's such a self-interested capitalist, why isn't he trying to get the hell out of there?
A dimensional-portal-space-ship.Indiana Jones survivng a nuclear test-blast in a lead-lined refrigerator (minor cuts and bruising)
Opportunistic locals NOT scavenging Shia's motorcycle for parts.
Computer-animated gophers.
etc. etc. etc.
Entertaining films can be good films, they can even be great films (Lord of the Rings, Batman, Ghostbusters, The Matrix), expecting a film to be both entertaining and competently made is not "asking too much" of a movie. Settling for a film that is merely entertaining is just that, settling. Staggeringly bad film. Can't say enough bad things about it. Avoid. Save your money. Don't give the studios money for this garbage. We deserve better as a movie-watching public.