Gawd..... I'm ancient enough to get the _Space 1999_ reference.

The fridge thing was the original time machine concept for Back to the Future. Time travel by a nuclear blast. Luckily they dropped that idea.

The inflatable boat thing was sold via editing, it was silly but followed enough basic physics like air resistance and a soft landing for slo-mo to make it feel possible. The fridge idea turbo jumped the shark, even without the frickin’ nuclear bomb (!?) there’s no way in hell anyone could survive that harsh ground smashing. He’d be a meat pretzel.

In defense of Mutt, er whatever, he does mention early in the movie that he does "fencing" so, before you dismiss this potentially hidden cinematic masterpiece....there's that.

Just love Stam Fine vids. Easily one of my favourite You Tubers 😃😃

Genuinely laughed out (very) loud at the course to the sun bit, well played Stam.

Don't worry guys. The next Indiana Jones movie will be better...right? It can't possibly get worse.

I don’t mind Crystal Skull. It’s just a bit of fun.

When I watched "Last Crusade" in the theater, the whole house was roaring and applauding at the "hat-transition" from River Phoenix to Harrison Ford. When I watched "Crystal Skulls" in the theater, there was so much awkward silence right from the CGI gopher-mound scene ... and eventually people started to walk out. I'd say it wasn't quite up there with the Star Wars prequels in the "disappointed expectations department", but it wasn't far off.

I enjoyed it for what it was. The franchise had run it's course. It only really worked set in the 1930's so a post war story was always going to be a longshot, but their lead was too old to it still be in the 30's. One last attempt to lay a hopeful foundation for a reinvigoration of the franchise with a new younger lead by the studio and producers.

It's not the worst movie ever and in the couple of weeks it will be remembered better, but by 2008 Spielberg had lost that zany energy which made original trilogy great. Frank Darabont's original script probably would have improved the movie, but i don't think that under any circumstance it could have been comparable to the OT.

So I had zero expectations for this film back in 2008. Didn’t think it’d be good because there was no way you could follow up on Last Crusade and, for me anyway, Spielberg and Lucas hadn’t done anything I liked for a good while. But goddamn, I’ve never had low expectations actually be too high for what I saw. Pacing and structure are terrible, and there’s no energy brought to anything within. A waste of time.

Love your videos and can’t wait to hear your review of Dial of Destiny

Thanks Stam for all the reviews!!

Your a teacher? Part time. I don't know why but it makes me laugh.😂😂😂

Pretty spot on analysis. However I think you are too hard on Shia. Yes he may have or had personal issues. But I can't think of any role where he didn't do a fine acting job. Some of the roles (transformers, crystal skull) had poor writing and thus were not as good as they could have been. But the acting, action, often effects, are usually great

Kingdom of the Crysta Sliders

I apologize if this is not the right location to put this. This does bring back great memories. I may be over looking this, but you seem to be missing one William Katt, the son of Barbara Hale (Perry Mason's secretary Della Street) as The Greatest American Hero. The show based on the Theory "What is an agerage Homan were given special powers" - and the first thing he lost the instructions. 1981 - 1983? It brought us the great theme song heard on the radio - "Believe it Or Not." - Song by Joey Scarbury - Believe it or not, I'm walkin' on air I never thought I could feel so free Flyin' away on a wing and a prayer Who could it be? Believe it or not it's just me To me, this would be interesting. However, it is just an Idea! In the words of Bob Hope - Thanks for the memories!

People fixate on the negatives of this movie... Monkeys, refrigerators, rubber snakes, the criminal underuse of John Hurt etc... Okay, it's not great, but it's not Police Academy 3: Back in Training. It's fun enough.

I wish I never got ...."some of that"

I actually like the whole fridge scene it's when the at the time over casted shia shows up that I thought it tanked that and the CGI and Aliens BS , it was nice to see Marian though

Yup.....it was the fridge...

The major problem with this film is that the macguffin sucked. Most of the film is devoted to explaining why that silly skull is important and it still made no sense at the end of the day. Why did the tall alien look nothing like small Roswell aliens? There's half assed explanation by Natasha Fatale, a distant cousin? Why was it a combination of like a dozen other aliens? Why was there a portal to another dimension, I think, inside the spaceship? The whole explanation is, the single alien was waiting for it's skull and it just wanted to go home? There's just too many questions unanswered.

Why are people so prima donna-ish about CGI? If they'd had the same attitude about stop motion back in the day Ray Harryhausen would have died an unknown pauper. I think the problem is that people think "oh, you just have to feed in the specs and the computer does the rest", which is utter bullshit. Every CGI scene from "Breaking the Ice" to the latest Avatar movie is a triumph of hard work and creativity that rivals any breakthrough in stop motion or practical effects. This hatred of CGI also has people mistakenly belittling the effort of practical effects artists, like the guys who created the live action Lycans in Underworld or the full-body robot suit worn by Robie Williams in Bicentennial Man. CGI is an awesome human achievement and it's brought us some of the best cinema ever.

I give it 5 bags of popcorn and 3 sodas, its no Hobbit or Jack Reacher but it gets the job done.

I actually quite enjoyed it. Was great to see Indy reunited with Karen Allen, who is such a great actress. Lebeuf did a good job as Jr, Jr, & I think if the torch was to be passed in a few yrs I would have accepted a now maturer Lebeuf in the role. The only thing that took away from the previous magic was that it was just lazily crammed with green screen in literally every scene. Indy 5, from what has been revealed, is a 100% hard pass for me. It didn't need to be made, & the disrespect given to Indy is an insult to the movies & the Legend of his character

Still would have prefered if they had made Fate of Atlantis instead.

This is by far the best Indiana Jones film of the franchise. In fact, this film is the best Spielberg film ever made. Frankly, it is the best film ever made by George Lucas. Actually, this is the best action film of all time. I swear, this film is better than every Oscar winning film. Seriously, this film is even better than Citizen Kane. This film is better than Alc*hol, Dr*gs, R*ck n R*ll and S*x. Hands down, this film is better than Relig*on, Sp*rts, Tax Ret*rns, Indoor Plumb*ng, Scho*l and Electr*c L*ghting .. Holy Cr*p. The Great Asterix is back, he will censor us all. Save yourselves. Run for this hills. Ha Ha Ha. Cluck Clunk. F'Tang.

It would have been a great movie in the Mummy series

Yeah, I've watched this one a few times over the years, but I just can't deal with it. The ONLY part of it I actually enjoy is the big cafe brawl and chase through the campus, which I feel like is the only time it really gets back to the original magic. The rest is just too silly for me. Otherwise, my rankings are simply release order. ROTLA>TOD>TLC>KOTCS. I'm vaguely curious if DOD will manage to break this trend, but in truth, I have so little enthusiasm for it I'm not even sure when I'll get around to watching it. Probably once it's on streaming. Maybe.

My take on his movie was... I didn't hate it but didn't love it. When Ford decided to get up on his feet it almost felt like an Indiana Jones movie. But he's just not young enough to pull off the required physicality of the role and so it ended up with the title character kinda just sitting there too often.

FYI, the term we use in the UK for what LeBouf does is "Piss Artist".

I think the real point of these videos is that the world needs a new franchise: AUNTY BERYL AND DICKHEAD DAVE: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS.

The best part of this movie was the Fallout: New Vegas Easter egg.

Also hearing ppl dissing the prairie dogs, but didn't anyone else out there notice it was a parody of the Jawas "wchedieee!" scene fom the pod race in SW Ep 1?

Stam, how's your auntie Beryl? We've not heard from her in a while.

You've actually made me wanna rewatch this. Instead of that heap of rubbish that'll be out soon. Fantasy/scifi, it's all the same. Was Cate's accent that bad?

A fair review

Watched this over the years with the kids and we always enjoy it.

I love all of them, like for Batman Forever and Batman and Robin, it's just a bit of fun :)

ohhh nooo

There's a town in Iowa called Nevada and they pronounce it ne-VAY-da. So there.

You rate temple of Doom as the worst?! Big mistake ...KALI MAAAHHH!

I have less problem with the fridge than most folks it seems. If they had reduced the CGI flying through the air bit that would have reduced him to goo inside it and just concentrated on him trying to survive the initial blast then that was not a bad choice! But they didn’t... The second half of the film and the ultimate blow off was horrid. I had my suspension of disbelief all ready to go and they blew it with those ants, the stupid sword fight and undead or slightly dead, or mostly dead (only MOSTLY dead!) aliens from a convenient parallel dimension to which they wanted to return.

I was fine with the fridge, Mutt and his dumb hat, the CGI animals (even the dumb monkeys) and a lot of assorted nonsense. But Mac being a triple crossing agent when we have no history with him hurt it and the MacGuffin being interdimensional saucer people just didn't seem right to me. Id rather they have just made it an Mayan/Aztec religion or something and kept the supernatural/religious element but left unexplained, just like the Ark, the Grail and the Sacred Stones. Even if interdimensional beings/aliens was part of the design or hinted at and are the in-universe explanation. I just think it felt weird to peek behind the curtain. Like if it turned out there were interdimensional beings living in the Ark and it was them that killed the Nazis the whole time. It's just a stupid extra layer. The films is too sympathetic to the bad guys too which hurt it. Too eager to show Russians aren't just evil Nazis in a series than needs unambiguous baddies for Indy to be the good guy even though he's a bit of a grave-robber/murderer/thief/cradle-snatcher. But I definitely like this movie more over time.

Never saw this movie. Never saw the SW prequels.

"That just happens to be part of an atomic test" Add that line to any human activity and you got all sorts of drama. Unfortunately, even an atom bomb could not ironically protect this movie from its innate nature. That being said, I like Indie and, demonstrating my personal low viewing standards, I enjoyed this movie right up to the climax which was, well, what it was.

I liked the movie. Still better than the Temple of Doom.

In my opinion, the crystal skull is really too recent of a myth that had already been debunked by the time the movie had come out. Like, it's a standard ancient aliens story from the 60s and doesn't really carry the same legendary weight as the ark of covenant or the Jesus cup

Harrison Toyota lol

Pretty Sure its the famous warehouse 51

Based Duckhead David is always a winner.

Oh dear 🎥

You know, contemporary reviews of the movie by the press were actually rather positive for this film; you can look it up. The reviews that weren't positive were mostly those of new fresh-faced pop culture reviewers on KZfaq who had a severe axe to grind with George Lucas for 'ruining' the prequel trilogy of Star Wars (and also the reworked rereleases of the originals). It seems strange now but online opinion for the prequels bordered on a hatred akin to the current sequel trilogy, but only on certain subsections of the internet. You can now find tons of reactions and reviews of people going into this movie dreading it by its reputation and coming out having really enjoyed it. People with absolutely no horse in that weird ass race between George Lucas and his betrayed fans from the 00s and the kids who watched their reviews and internalised that dislike.

Hey, there's a script going around that is a rewrite of Crystal Skull. It's really good and way better than the movie. Have you read it?

I enjoy all these movies, i mean are UFO and aliens any worse or netter than taking to god, ripping beating hearts out or a immortal cup.

Monkeys Ants Fridge. UFO Sword Fighting Scene Tarzan That's all I can see when remembering this movie and its just stupid.

I'm with Butters (Twitch?) on this one. I liked it! It was entertaining! It's an Fing FANTASY!

They should have put the movie back in the fridge, and left it there.

Shia and Mutt are going to be the biggest winners of the new movie, because if you hated Mutt, wait till you get a load of Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

Kingdom of the Crystal Skull reminds me of Beverly Hills Cop 3 in that they aren't bad films had they been standalone movies. But given they were sequels they were seen quite rightly in tandem with those

While I absolutely despise this film (except for the ending... I do like the ending...), I'd never blame Shia LeBouf for it. It's the unbelievable b.s. they had his character doing, not LeBouf's acting skills. It's only happened a few times in my life, but laughing out loud while in the theater at something that was unintentionally funny definitely happened when he started swinging on the vines with CGI monkeys. It just looked sooo...BAAAAD... and even if it'd been picture-perfect CGI, it still would've been so unbelievable. That, to me, is the real problem with CGI. It's hard enough to get people to suspend disbelief at fantastical ideas, but when those ideas are rendered in the uncanny valley (and may as well have gone fully-animated like Superman taking off in the early Kirk Alyn serials), there's no hope of retaining or regaining it.

Thanks, Stam. As bad as this is, it is still better than Temple of Doom.

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Crystal Skull might be an okay middling film on its own, but you're talking about the Indiana Jones franchise. It's a higher standard.

I’d give it a B. More good than bad. Cate Blancette can do no wrong in my eyes

The aliens ruined this movie. The kid was worse than the aliens. Not looking forward to the next one, but hoping they surprise me.

Ive always wondered why people focus on the fridge considering the nonsense situations indy gets into and out of in other films. Similarly for the skulls, the first film had god melting nazis. The fridge and skulls are the least of the films problems and there are many problems.

Oh my god you poor babies who hate this movie because of the ants and the cgi and whatever you guys are sad. You can't have fun .

Lots to dislike, the Russian just weren't particularly good as villain compared to other villians in the series, and even the crystal skull was a bit crap, the nonsense around 'real' crystal skulls would have made a fun film without the very disappointing tacked on aliens bit, all round a bit of a wasted opportunity. Great video as always.

While watching it in the theater, I was fine until the stupid Russian vehicle with the buzz saws came on the screen. Took me completely out of the experience.

As is often tragically the case, throwaway lines in the film suggest a far more interesting film. I'd have much rather seen the wartime adventures of Mac and Indy.

Just gonna say it..The directing in this movie may be the worst I’ve ever seen!.The actual story is really good..His son,marrying Marion,the communist scare,even the Crystal Skull legend is a great storyline..Spielberg’s directing choices were terrible!.To many jokes and a cartoony second half really crush this movie..But there are still a few fun nuggets here and there in this movie

I don't dislike this movie. I saw it with my Dad in high school. It was nice. But it's not very good, either.

At least Shia is merely forgotten these days - rather than reviled like Kathleen Kennedy!

Too much bad SFX, good SFX last, like Jurassic Park, or Raiders.

It never happened. Why did Stam Fine invent a 4th Indiana Jones film just to have something to review today?

There’s a fourth Indy film? Oh, no there isn’t.

I Must be one of the 5 people on the planet that enjoyed this movie. Yes it's daft, but it's an adventure/fantasy film ffs

all i say is south park

You rank Crystal Skull at 3? Wow, you do live on the bottom of a planet!

I did not like this one very much…. Was missing something…. Ooo yea.. reality! Just too many imposible action scenes.

UGH! Easily the worst film you've ever reviewed. Everything about this film just seems off. When I heard they'd made yet *another* one of these movies I was just dumb struck. The Last Crusade is the last of these movies for me.

No. It really is a bad film. Sorry.

Nah, its disappointing AND bad