Agreed

So your liking of the movie is based on your memories of watching it with your father. Not the movie itself removed from that experience which likely skewed what may have been your reaction to it otherwise.

@@boomieboo So what?

@@WraithWriter What a dumb question. 😆

@@boomieboo Go sell your MLM, you chud...

I never thought about it but if I had been in the same situation I would have said the same lol

So true!!! 😂

Laugh or cry?

I get the comparison with Crystal Skull and the X Files, that one's obvious. But how does listening to a pedophile priest while trying to save a woman from a killer (and failing) remind anyone of Indiana Jones?

Nice double feature!!

Majority certainly not Universal I know more people that like the movie then dislike it

What's refreshing about it? Especially in this day and age were people are all about virtue signalling and proclaiming everything to be amazing, underrated and a legend?

I really like this movie.

They definitely wasted Harrison Ford’s prime years by not doing more. Just like they did with Star Wars and waited so long until the original trio were really old.

​@@randomkillerx2157facts💯

Indy during WWII.

​@@michaeldemarco9950 That wouldve been brilliant

It was surprisingly quite convincing.

You have extremely poor taste in movies. :)

Right.

I’ve got a bad feeling about this.

Exactly, that's the exact example that came to mind. Or jumping the train carts. I thought absolutely nothing of it.

Then there are 2 stupid scenes

I don’t hate the crystal skull mythos - it’s just the execution was silly

Yeah, as it’s not as though there haven’t been any silly or campy moments in Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade.

The most unrealistic part was that the fridge popped open at the end lol. They had to start taking the handles off those old fridges when they went to junkyards because kids would get locked in playing in them. Though I suppose if I went through a nuclear blast, I might fly off at the handle too lol. That was a terrible joke. I'll go now.

I used to think my Dad looked a lot like Harrison Ford also... and we'd "play" Indiana Jones together where he would be Indy and I was "Short Round". Sorry for your loss. We lost my Dad in 2007.

It's embarassing that the last Indy movie he had to see before he died was such a Sh*tshow. :)

@My Retro Life my sympathies as well I list my father janurary 22nd 2011.

I'm sorry to hear that . The passing part

Get over it.

I mean, he just watches the directors commentary and reads the wiki page, it's not hard.

​@@sarcasticstartrek7719 yes but he puts all the disparate information together and shares his passion with us. So it's a lot more than you seem to think.

@@archmage7813 That's true.

Thank you very much :)

​@@MintyComedicArts Minty! I highly recommend you watch the fan edit of INDY 4! Some very very talented fan editors re edited INDY 4 and made some changes. They got rid of that nuclear refrigerator scene AND the scene where John Hurt confuses a giant snake for A ROPE !!!! Gawd Almighty! The fan editors also brought back the classic John Williams music score from,, "' RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK."' The classic music score changes the entire tone of the movie ! The new title of this INDY 4 FAN EDIT is.... "'RAIDERS OF THE LOST SKULL."' Highly recommended!

She's in it. You might not like it though.

Crap

​@Krazy Kajeevie IJ5........Crap.

I agree. It's a good movie.

You can have your opinion and will let you decide but you are wrong

@@plato363 Well, would you prefer Dial of Destiny as the finale which apparently features Indy as a bitter old divorced man?

@@johnnyd3158 Exactly. This is the problem with Gen Xers more so then any other demographic, they'll shit all over Indy 4 but then they'll praise the latest Marvel bilge that Disney ejects out it's rear end. I don't get it. I'd take a hundred Indy 4's before sitting through a single Marvel movie. Why? Because marvel movies all suck. Even the good ones are awful.

@@johnnyd3158 the series ended with last crusade.

Doom is the best IMO. If it were the first movie released it would be viewed in a different light.

Absolutely right! Well put!

Also, aliens? Interdimensional beings in point of fact, as the film would say. LOL

Except those prequels are absolutely terrible. There were two good Star Wars movies.

But "Temple of Doom" is the WORST Indy movie by far. There's NO contest. And I always loved the Star Wars Prequels - sometimes i felt like I was the ONLY one who liked them. The sequels are absolute GARBAGE, though, especially compared to the 30+ years of the Expanded Universe novels.

Junior. I’ve seen “a new hope” 8 times.

I go in circles explaining that, as well as that seals and sea lions are two different animals. Also, prairie dogs have a higher incidence of harboring plague than gophers. It’s why Arizona has one of the highest plague populations. They’re adorable little plague baring rodents though.

@@Catmom-gl5nt I hear ya. What infuriates me most though is that, even right here in Kansas, I STILL hear local schoolchildren referring to Prairie-dogs as "Meerkats"! AAAGH! (and hey; koalas are known for carrying STDs, but we still love them, and they're a vital part of the ecosystem.) =)

Wow we're the same age and yeah this was the first Indiana Jones movie i saw too. But i still went back and watched the original trilogy and loved it too.

@@Ace_of_Horns To be honest, I like all four movies but it’s really cool that you and I are the same age seeing Crystal Skull in theaters for the first time

@@christopherrichards2350 yeah i read your comment and was like, "huh, i was 11 in 2008 as well." Maybe you played the Lego Indiana Jones game around that time like me

@@Ace_of_Horns I didn’t get that game until sometime in 2009.

@@christopherrichards2350 same here actually.

I wouldnt pay any attention to what other people think until you watch it.myself I'll be there I wonder if their releasing a movie novel on this one.the last indy film the book was out before the film was.

Fate of the Atlantis is considered one of the best point and click adventure games and Indy sequels. I remember being so pissed they didn't use it as a script for the next movie. That thing was already written and on top of that it was good writing!

Never heard of any of these. But they sound pretty good. I think they would have been allot better than the skulls!

@@user-gl2wh8eq1c Beaten Skulls and Dial with miles long lances!

I think they were really competing for credit over its infamy, because those guys make movies for themselves.

The Crystal Skulls were known to be hoaxes before this movie even came out.

I don't see it as any weirder than witch doctors removing hearts and the flesh closing back up. I think it kind of fits with the sort popularity of the ancient aliens stuff that was starting to get some traction back then. I guess clouds that look like skulls melting faces and 600 year old medieval knights hanging around tombs are more realistic?

Also, them being from another dimension is a little original as that has been barely done over the years.

Yup agreed.....it was the ants scene that got me. Other than that it's watchable

@@jimbowers1693 I appreciate the confirmation. Not only because it was CGI, but it looked so fake. I just thought it was lazy filmmaking.

when The Last Crusade came out, people thought exactly the same about it that what they think about the 4th movie, the difference between the 2? Internet wasn't around when Last Crusade came out. Back then, it wasn't the popular thing to do to just take a shit on anything, mostly because the "public toilet" that is Internet wasn't invented yet.

classy of Shia to blame himself for not selling it but he's in the clear as far as I'm concerned the cheesy stuff like the monkeys was the director's fault.

Plus there was the band ? and the Mysterians (I think they only had one hit - 96 Tears).

The spiritual element was a major pillar of what made the movies work. You can't drop that and replace it with aliens. It would be the same as taking the force out of Star Wars.

​@@shanester1832 and yet the force was ruined by midi-chlorians.

@@shanester1832 not replacing it, just saying that maybe it was also part of the reason Jones kept surviving events in the last movie.

Yeah, the protector was in this case the almighty Plot Armor. The hero wins because the author said he would, not because of any intrinsic merit of the character. See Batman, he's the poster child for this trope.

Yeah, the Indy trilogy did have a lot of humility and reverence toward the mystical and the divine being the saving grace, the element that the protagonists have which saves them and antagonists lack which dooms them. The Ark, the Stones, and the Grail all. Honestly, I want to make a joke that Alien vs Predator did a more Indy-esque ending than Crystal Skull.

Yes, i also love the movie!

Or a guy ripping out your heart and its still beating

@@curbydinobot8633 exactly lol

Is that what they fucking said, "realism?!" That's fucking stupid, the movies are so unrealistic and fantastical especially The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I personally enjoyed the fourth entry. Is it amazing? No, is it still a fun time, regardless? Yes.

There is lots to like. I love the fridge scene! For me, I think the difference is not realism exactly but in the set-up and the execution. Throughout the first three films, the magical MacGuffin is identified and described very clearly from the beginning of the film. The films then continue with shenanigans and escaping or chasing Nazis, but we are pretty clear on what the objective is going to be. We are also broadly familiar with each chosen object of mystery, which have a mythological basis upon which to draw to suspend our disbelief. The Crystal Skulls have the disadvantage of being obvious and provable frauds - neither Mesoamerican in origin nor related to aliens. It was already fairly hokey and forced before the film was even made. Crystal Skull still begins fairly well with a set-up: we learn about the skull, and we learn from both hero and villain of its supposed psychic powers. So far, so good. But it really feels as if the creative team were not sure themselves what they wanted their film to be after that. Whilst the direction builds up the anticipation for an exploration through hidden Mayan temples, this is almost rushed through and forgotten as the script takes a dramatic turn and reveals that there is an actual alien inside and a flyer saucer - which then demolishes the site of this lost civilization. Neither location nor MacGuffin nor even the reveal are terrible per se. But I feel that they do not coalesce well together. Lack of clarity confused the story and the audience felt frustrated on first viewing. It would benefit from a single, clearer focus. If its an ancient Mayan relic, focus on the Mayan setting and the ancient civilization. Its the skull of their first high priest or a Mayan god, vital for their protection, much as with the Shankara Stones in the Temple of Doom. The villain has her mind melted in much the same way, although now the images she sees are of Mayan gods and rituals. Or... if its the skull of an extraterrestrial creature, base the main part of the film near Roswell, Area 51, or a base for the early space programme or atomic research - somewhere with a strong affinity with and aesthetic related to the 1950s era of UFOs, sci-fi, Sputnik, and the Cold War.

I second this, A.I. is a very special movie to me as well and I'd love to see a video on it :)

*raises hand* Yes please

True dat ✌️

Fate of Atlantis has its moments of ridiculousness that the nerds would have whined about if they used ideas from that into a film. But of course it came out in the 90's, when these cry babies were still kids.

@@filmbuff2777 thats true but you have to agree its a fantastic story

Its no more dumber than a bunch of pale white guys & their black liquid that leads to the creation of the Xenomorphs in Ridley Hack's garbage prequels.

The difference is the nerds that whine about Crystal Skull were kids when the originals were released, & are blinded by nostalgia.

@Film Buff I agree sure my dad grew up with the originals and he's a big fan of crystal skull