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Post by coxy1979 on Feb 14, 2008 15:39:01 GMT
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Post by QuincyMD on Feb 14, 2008 16:50:42 GMT
I think I just wet myself!
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Post by carlygig on Feb 15, 2008 8:37:05 GMT
Cate Blanchett! In a wig! Running! Brilliant!
This will be the first time Ill have seen an Indie film in the cinema too.
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Post by Splend42 on May 18, 2008 21:44:13 GMT
Soooooooooo sooooooooon! Though I won't be able to see it on release weekend as I'm insanely busy, I can't wait till I do!
This will be a milestone in my life. Even if the film is rubbish, which is both conceptually and physically impossible - it WILL be awesome, it WILL it WILL it WILL.
I'm sad enough to be wearing an Indy-alike hat to the cinema (er, will take it off for the sake of those behind me, of course, but it's the gesture that counts). Anyone else??
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Post by jerriblank on May 20, 2008 7:39:05 GMT
I'm off to see this tonight and am for one extremely excitable - mostly because I can't wait to see Cate and her Louise Brooks hair but also because I haven't seen Karen Allen in a film for AGES. Amazingly, it seems she has been busy knitting for a living: www.karenallen-fiberarts.com/show.php Think a return to acting might be a good idea judging by that zip-up |
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Post by jerriblank on May 20, 2008 20:09:19 GMT
Good news: it's still a lot of fun (although there are extraordinarily silly parts to endure) and Cate was clearly having the time of her life during shooting - she's ace (the hair is a constant source of amazement too).
Bad news: WORST ENDING EVER. It has George Lucas's grubby mitts all over it and he should be fucking ashamed of himself. |
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Post by The Moog on May 22, 2008 23:01:59 GMT
It was absolute fucking gash.
I'm too angry to even type a constructive post.
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Post by Elly on May 26, 2008 10:12:28 GMT
It's really bad. I don't actually hold any affection for the original trilogy, having seen them for the first time when I was an eighteen year old Film student, and thus a bit of a pretentious bitch, but I can at least appreciate why people loved them. This is just one giant fuck-up from start to finish, with no sense of fun about it. I hope they don't make anymore.
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Post by ninjasarenotcool on May 26, 2008 15:39:52 GMT
Well I thought it was great apart from the plot. Good characters, some nice development, a couple of good lines, CGI was ok Shia was looking hot and I'd still do Harrison Ford as Indi but the end was just the most awful fucking thing I've ever seen. I did like the bit at the end of the wedding when the magical wind blew the hat toward Shia and he picks it up to put it on but Harrison takes it off him with a "let's see how much money this film makes before we think of making any /more/ sequels with you in it" |
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Post by Bungle on May 26, 2008 21:40:08 GMT
Just been to see it. My friend: 'That was silly'. Yeah.
Quite good fun though with some very nice set pieces. Loved Cate.
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Post by pauliepoos on Jun 2, 2008 21:38:24 GMT
Having finally got around to see it today, and really enjoyed it, although it wasn't anything that Tomb Raider/National Treasure/Generic Action Film hadn't done recently.
My stand out highlight though was Jim Robinson. Jim Robinson! In Indiana Jones! Is there anything left that he hasn't appeared in? Cranford? Strictly Come Dancing? The Vagina Monologues?
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Post by audrey notwhatsheusedtobe on Jun 3, 2008 9:56:47 GMT
Hmm I am one of the disappointed masses. I was so bored. It wasn't just the decreptitude of the actors, more the crap story, completely unscary baddies and lack of extreme violence.
Mind you, the only decent Indiana Jones film is Raiders, which may be one of the greatest films ever made, so it's a tough act to follow. Sorry, but if there are no Nazis, people getting their heads mashed by propellers, sleepy face-kissing on Mr Katunga's boat, or wrath of God, it's no good in my book.
I also didn't like the Le Boof boy's hair and Brando-fashions. Hmph!
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Post by Adrian on Jun 3, 2008 18:41:05 GMT
I found out today that there were plans to hold the UK premiere for this in my workplace until my boss some idiot said no.
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Post by Mike on Jun 4, 2008 16:03:43 GMT
Hmm I am one of the disappointed masses. I was so bored. It wasn't just the decreptitude of the actors, more the crap story, completely unscary baddies and lack of extreme violence. I completely agree, on all counts. I used to think there was no such thing as a film so bad Cate Blanchett couldn't save it, but not anymore. It wasn't remotely imaginative either - just a series of chase sequences and rubbish 'twists'. For example: did anyone actually give a toss whose side Ray Winstone was on? . And Shia LeBoeuf was AWFUL. I don't have much attachment to the originals - I'm not even sure I've seen them all - but my sympathies lie with anyone who waited 19 years for that. |
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Post by jode* on Jun 6, 2008 8:15:25 GMT
I'm not posting things in spoiler tags as it has been out for a while, and if anyone is stupid enough to read a thread about a film they haven't seen if it's been out for 2 weeks then they should expect to be spoiled.
Okay, so it was entertaining.... but aliens? ??
Indiana Jones is supposed to be about myth & legend, especially religious/biblical themed. How dare Steve and George suddenly make it all Sci-Fi. Have they not done enough UFO-based films already?
And a completely pointless nuclear bomb too. Basically just so Lucas Arts could experiment with some of their new CGI programmes.
Average at best.
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Post by mcqueen on Jun 7, 2008 23:07:23 GMT
I've just seen it and was thinking that all the bad reviews were people who's expectations were too high- I went in thinking it wasnt gonna be amazing but would be solidly entertaining.
I was completely and utterly bored- too much "Basil Exposition", crap uninteresting and indeciferable story, OTT acting, unscary cardboard baddies and SHIT CGI!! I thought Spielberg said it would not have gratuitious CGI?? The car chase in the amazon was a complete borefest and what the fuck with the monkies attacking the Ruskies?.
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Steven Speilberg, Jim Broadbent, Cate Blanchett, Jon Hurt (Quentin Crisp for god sakes!!) and Jim Robinson, hang your head in shame for signing up to this lame script and lending it some iota of credibility.
La boeff was so shit- I actually thought he was ok in Transformers.
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Post by coxy1979 on Jun 9, 2008 14:00:51 GMT
OK, well as a true aficionado of the original trilogy, I have have to say I loved most of it.
Yes the flying saucer was a bit rubbish, yes Shia LeBoeuf becoming a monkey was laughable, but for most of it, I felt like I was nine years old again.
I think if I tried to deconstruct it too much, then I would start to dislike it, so I won't bother.
I thought it was a hoot.
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