Just a total failure of casting and writing. The use of phony nostalgia as a shortcut for emotional investment is something that is just boring at best and incredibly poisonous at worst. The stuff where it turned out he was the secret unknown son of Indiana Jones and his former lover, Karen Allen, felt completely trite. His characterization was almost entirely irritating. I am not sure how the powers that be with this film convinced themselves that Shia La Boof was capable of tackling this role and being a conceivable replacement for Harrison Ford. It is not to say that the older Indiana Jones films did not have their fair share of ridiculousness, but this one just went too far too often, and it was not working at all. That nuclear bomb sequence really set the tone for the whole movie where every sequence takes it to 11 on stakes to the point that you get so numb to everything that all the tension and drama is cut from the movie. I don’t care that refrigerators were made of lead at the time! JUST A BIT TOO FUCKING MUCH. He survived a nuclear bomb by hiding in a refrigerator. What is one to do? With no classroom in sight and thus no desk to hide under, Indiana Jones simply jumped into a refrigerator. And this test site was about to test one of these said nuclear bombs at that exact moment. Indiana Jones Uses a Refrigerator to Survive a Nuclear BombĪfter escaping the bad guys and overcoming the betrayal of his beloved Ray Winstone, Indiana Jones stumbles into a test site for nuclear bombs. Impossible to get emotionally invested in him despite him having essentially the fourth most screen time at a minimum.Ĥ. Then right before he dies at the end, Indiana Jones still tries to save him, and I guess we are supposed to have some feelings about Winstone essentially making peace with his own death, as he says, “Jonesy, I’m gonna be alright”? I don’t know. ![]() Towards the end of the film, he essentially rejoins Team Indiana at the end as if HE HAD NOT BETRAYED HIM LIKE DAYS EARLIER IN THE FILM? BUT THEN HE BETRAYS INDIANA YET AGAIN A FEW MINUTES LATER. Five minutes later Winstone turns on Indiana and joins the bad guys. Winstone gets introduced at the beginning as an old friend and semi-partner of Indiana in the time since The Last Crusade. The immediate Ray Winstone heel turn and then later babyface turn? What? This was wild. It is a similar feeling to how fake the Star Wars prequels look in so many crucial scenes compared to the original trilogy. It takes you completely out of the movie in so many crucial moments and feels jarringly different from what Indiana Jones generally looked like. It has that fake MCU background looking shit going on The actors look superimposed into every shot. It just set this awful tone for the whole film.Ĭrystal Skull really seems like a crucial film for understanding how fake and bad looking so many big budget movies are now. BUT this shot of an awful-looking CGI groundhog coming out of the ground while Elvis plays in the background was frankly just nauseating. Listen, on one hand, you should not let one little thing at the start of the film really affect your opinion of the whole film all that much. In fact, some of the things that made it bad, have been infecting big franchise films ever since. Beyond that though, it was much more remarkably bad than I had remembered. I write all of that to say that I do not really care all that much about Indiana Jones and my initial reaction to Crystal Skull was mild disappointment.Īll these years later, I have finally watched it again. I am a fan of Harrison Ford though, and that makes any Indiana Jones film intriguing to me. Now, I am not an Indiana Jones nut or anything. The 7 Worst Parts of Indiana Jones & the Crystal Skull Make sure to listen to our site’s podcast episode on Raiders of the Lost Ark.Ĩ Thoughts on the Harrison Ford Episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Jerome & Kevin Present – Cancelled Too Soon: GLOW (Season 3).Untitled BoJack Horseman Project: Episode 6.Ranking the Arrested Development Seasons.Search for: Follow The Reel World on My Tweets Top Posts & Pages The Matt Signal Beyond – A Batman Beyond Recap.The Matt Signal – A Batman The Animated Series Recap.Search for Justice – Reviews of all Justice League Films.The Superhero Pantheon Presents: Spider-Man ’94.The Wheel Breakers – A Game of Thrones Podcast.Mike & Matt’s X-Cellent Adventures – An X-Men Podcast.There’s Always Another Podcast – A Halt and Catch Fire Podcast.Mars Investigated – A Veronica Mars Podcast.Firefly Now, Serenity Later – A Firefly Podcast. ![]() Countdown to Destruction? – A Leftovers Podcast.More (And Less!) Than Meets the Eye – A Transformers Podcast.Flooping the Pig – An Adventure Time Podcast.Ben & Matt’s Marvellous Journey – An MCU Podcast.
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