So, I went and saw the highly anticipated INDY 4 movie this past weekend, and I have to admit I'm very dissapointed. My friends and I were so excited that we bought tickets to the 12:15 in the morning show. I even had to work the next morning, but was too excited to pass up the opportunity. Now, I do have to prerequisite this with the fact that I grew up watching the original three movies. They were some of my dad's favorites, so I have a a warm place in my heart for the Indiana Jones character. I think that might have led to why I disliked this movie so much. I'm not the type to just hate a movie, so I'm going to give you all the reasons why I didn't think it was very good.
1. Harrison wasn't even Indiana Jones for the first half of the movie. It took him a good 45 minutes to eve get back into the character. That just made me sad.
2. The acting in general wasn't very good. I LOVE Cate Blanchett, but didn't think she did a very good job in this movie. Same story with Shia...even though I thought he was better than the others.
3. It was all CGI greenscreen stuff. The old Indy movies had their elements of cheesy graphics and such, but the whole movie was greenscreen with over the top stuff going on. There wasn't even a little bit of reality.
4. The worst part for me was the story. Obviously, I won't go into detail cause I don't want to ruin it for anyone that hasn't seen it, but the I thought the story was a huge cop out. It was like, "We need to make this movie so we can make a bunch of money, but we're not going to take the time (AFTER 20 YEARS) to find a good script."
Now, I know I'm not the resident movie guy, but I was so passionate about this I had to tell some people. So, to make things come full circle here's my advice for this week. HAVE LOW HOPES WHEN GOING TO WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!!!
Hope you guys have a great week, and I'll talk to you soon.
Kevin