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Every other movie added fiction that was in-line with the style of the film and backed it up with a great story, great acting and great adventure. It was realistic most of the time with some historical fiction-come-fact element peppered in.

Crystal Skull was like a sideshow from start to finish. Stunt after stunt with no real story or adventure - it was just a big hollywood "looky-see" film.

I have no issue with aliens. In fact I think it makes for a great idea. If the movie had it's feet on the ground instead of trying to constantly cram in the next ridiculous stunt I'd have been fine with aliens (although certainly not as portrayed in the movie we got, but the idea of actual aliens would be fine with me).

Take Holy Grail, replace the knight with an alien and I'd have applauded. Send Indy all around the globe hunting down clues of aliens, have him find the skull along the way, have it taken from him, have him get it back, throw in a few fist/fire fights along the way than send him into an alien temple where he faces a true-to-life alien (dead or alive, whatever, just some "wow, aliens do exist" proof). Done.

No nukes, vine swinging, psychic attacks, or feeling of "what the hell did I just sit through?"

[–]mindtaker87 9 points10 points11 points 10 days ago

I just posted this above but I'll respond since you exemplify to me what's wrong with being so pissed about Crystal Skull.

Everything Crystal Skull does is entirely in line with the series, it's just doing for the 1950s what the first three did for the 1930s/1940s serial: modernized love-letter to the pop culture and boys stories of the time. The material is entirely within the realm of possibility and stories that one would have found floating around in post-WWII-950s America: Soviets, the threat of nuclear annihilation, aliens (Roswell 1947), Shia LaBoeuf doing Brando's The Wild One (1953) AND Tarzan (which was still ridiculously popular in the 1950s, seriously the 1950s saw like 10 Tarzan movies and then throw in the dozen with Weissmuller from 1932 to 1948, people in America had fucking jungle fever, and if you think today's franchises are ridiculous, I mean, seriously, look at all those Tarzan movies in such a short span of time). (On that note, when Weissmuller left the role, he spent the 1950s doing Jungle Jim which is a parody of Tarzan and I think he did like a good 10 of them in a few years).

No, Crystal Skull makes perfect fucking sense for what it is and for what the series is: modernized love letters to particular types of young boys/teens stories from 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.

Yes it felt cheesier and crazier than the rest, yes it felt a little old and tired, and yes, it was not subtle about how it handled all of this, but frankly, that fits in with the general movie trend these days, so I don't really see how this can be all that surprising. I'm also not entirely sure how much more character development one can expect from Indy, or Marion, considering their age and iconic stature.

TL;DR Crystal Skull was as good as Temple of Doom, and arguably better. It is entirely in line with the series and makes perfect sense within the Indiana Jones mythos as well as what Lucas and Spielberg were trying to do with it, albeit they like their material, is now a little older, a little more tired, and lacking the patience for subtlety and proper character/plot development.

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