@Aegis2k:

most fun in a movie???

where were you for Ironman??? everyone on Giz had instant multiple nerdgasms!!! LOL...how's that for fun!

jcrockerman

@OMG! Ponies! Deservs It:

Just in case anyone's confused by that, Warriors of the Wind was the name of the heavily edited and dubbed version of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind released back in the 80's (the one which led to a strict no edits policy for future Ghibli films). Looks like Shia was involved with the dub of the re-release of Nausicaa in 2005; haven't heard the dub of it though so no idea how terrible he was.

Zadillo

Bunch of whiners. This movie was not a documentary, nor wasn't designed to be feasible, real, truthful. It was designed to be FUN. FUN. FUN. I had the MOST FUN this year watching this movie. If you are looking for mature cinema, go rent Schindler's List. If you are looking for great art, see Wall-E. If you want good acting, see Batman, etc. etc.

Some movies are like Cheap Pizza --- it doesn't have to be complex or elaborate to be enjoyed. It is JUST CHEAP PIZZA and we ENJOY IT and do not compare it to a Steak, cause simply there are days for a Great Steak, but other for CHEAP PIZZA.

Indy was successful for me as an Entertainment Film. I laughed a lot, I had fun, it was exciting. It was worth every penny, as much as the other great films of the summer.

STOP OVER-ANALYZING ACTION FILMS!!!!!!

Aegis2k

no older movie remaster box set = no buy

lilaliendog

Lucas is an example of why it's best for stars/entertainers to die of drug overdoses at a young age.

Could have become a tragic legend and left on a high note. Instead he made shitty prequels and let all his friends and family play Jedis in the big fight scenes. Seriously, worst fight scenes full of extras EVER.

GeekyNerdGuy

@Derek, IN: You're right. Kudos to you. My IMDB search revealed Michael Stahl-Something as being in Cloverfield, whose resemblance to The Great Beef confused me.

Interesting fun fact - according to IMDB, Shia LeBouef recently ruined Princess Nausicaa/Warriors of the Wind, which is another reason that more research needs to be done in anti-Shia LeBouef technology.

OMG! Ponies! Deservs It

@Pope John Peeps II: The worst part is how ridiculously inaccurate the historical references are.

For instance- The Nazcas didn't elongate their skulls, it was the Paracas. The Mayans were never in the Amazon forests, and they consistently attribute artifacts language and archaeological sites with Mayan myths instead of the Incas, who actually did live in Peru.

What a disasterous movie.

IamNotToddDavis

@diverguy: Why pay extra for shit? This entire movie is like a 2 hour bonus feature for the Indy box set which no one would watch.

-What if we didn't care how bad the plot was? (2 hours, HD)

sisedi

@Noobs-R-Us:
They are waiting for the early adopters to buy this one first, then will do a surprise special 4 Film set.

dogcow

Yea, where's the entire set?

Noobs-R-Us

I didn't mind it too much. It wasn't Raiders but then no movie ever well be.

That said, I'm not going to buy this one of disk. Blu-ray or otherwise. Why they're not releasing the 4 disk set on BD is beyond me, but there's no point in buying the one off when the box set is likely available for Christmas...at least, you'd think it would be available for Christmas.

diverguy

Can't we just pretend this movie never happened and move on?

It's amazing how much better WALL-E was than this movie. And I mean like light years better. Had you said that before both were released I'd have said you were crazy, but the truth is the truth.

Seriously, can't we just vote on never mentioning anything about Indy and Crystal Skulls again?

IamNotToddDavis

how about the first three movies? when will they be released? or do we need to wait for 3 more versions of this one to be released first?

gwerner

Everything Lucas has touched since The Last Crusade has been shit. Gross, dripping burning piles of shit.

Why is he allowed to make movies still? And ruin, completely trash, treasured pieces of cinematic history? Cause he created them? So? He shouldn't be allowed to follow them up with the worst prequels in history and then this lump of coal.

Ugh. Lucas' existence in cinema is frustrating.

Hectorvex

I didn't think it was that bad. Most of the movie runs on nostalgia, but what's wrong with a little fan-service if it's enjoyable enough.
@OMG! Ponies! Deservs It: The Beef From God wasn't in Cloverfield. If he was, I would have been completely unable to enjoy that movie in any way whatsoever. As it is, I liked the tense parts, the in-between was not good.
Back on topic, WHERE"S RAIDERS ON BLU-RAY?!?!

Derek, IN

Reasons why I hated this movie:
- CGI Prairie Dogs

- CGI Monkeys

- The thought that Indiana Jones would actually be a spy and be all proud of it.

- The fact that the "living dead" guardians of the tomb of the Crystal Skull gave up when Indy shot his gun into the air. Yeah, sure, we've been dressed as skeletons and living in these ruins for years and years of our lives JUST IN CASE somebody might show up to steal the skull, but if they shoot a gun in the air, we'll just run away -- riiiiiight.

- The fact that Indy and Mariam's repartee is completely weak. Talk about two actors just phoning it in.

- Shia Lebouf being Indy's son. Retarded.

- There's more, but I can't remember them right now, and I refuse to watch that pile of stink again just to remember what I hate.

GeekyNerdGuy

I'm the pariah on this one, but really enjoyed this movie. It's a bit due to my apologist tendencies towards Lucas, and unstoppable love of Indy, but yes I loved it.

Sweeet Bluray too.

Loserface

I haven't seen it, but what I really want to do is get the first 3 on blu-ray.

I for one was hoping for a boxset of the four for Christmas, in fact, I am hoping it is released simultaneously.

jiffy

@tridtaei: Sadly enough, some things can't be UNseen...

dambo29

Kingdom of the Crystal Dull - Ronnie 2-shows.

el0d

i never saw it. after i heard about the opening scene involving the nuclear explosion and the refrigerator, i decided not to go. also i can't stand that horrible actor shia labeouf. the kid has two different facial expressions - "surprised" and "determined". no reason to waste perfect good money seeing shia stink up the screen.

theorieofself

they should just accidently over ride it with one of the other three, that'd save it. or what it... they split the screen 4 ways and had all 4 playing at once!!

that... would rock.

and hurt my ears

UrIt

Aliens? Ok (HD)

Shia = money (HD)

Spielberg complains for 3 minutes (HD)

Galleries

Actors reacting to page #135 of script (Alien psychotic bullshit)
Actors reacting to page #157 of script (CGI monkeys)

sisedi

If only the special features had an option to erase all memory of seeing the movie.

tridtaei

I'm going to pass on this.

Spielberg's research into anti-Shia LeBouef technology has failed to deliver any real results, as evidenced by Transformers and Cloverfield, both of which still include Shia LeBouef.

OMG! Ponies! Deservs It

Historical Timeline: Dives into the real-world historical influences that are referenced in the film.

Reeeeeeeeeallly. Does it now?

Pope John Peeps II

@Zadillo: I'm fairly certain that he did the dub of the 2005 re-dub and not on the original 1985 dub. This is based on the fact that he was born after the movie came out.

Unless Shia LeBouef has the ability to ruin movies in the past, in which case there needs to be more money invested in stopping the threat that Shia LeBouef poses to quality movies. Our cinematic legacy depends on it.

OMG! Ponies! Deservs It

Anyone who says this movie was good in any way, shape or form is a total moron...end of story.

designaked

I'm still glad i never saw it. And i will continue to pretend it doesn't exist.

Btw, what was this article about anyway?

bobojuice

@Aegis2k: It's not the over-analysis that kills this movie for most of us. And I'm glad you enjoyed it.

For me, and several other big time Indy fans like myself, this was a huge let down from the previous Indy series for so many reasons it's difficult to know where to start. But the biggest one was that this movie had zero of the "Indy moments" like the opening to Raiders, where you actually on the edge of your seat.

IamNotToddDavis

Oh, I do hope that instead of adding Deleted Scenes to the Bluray they actually add a 'Remove Scene' in order to get the 'Tarzan' scene out of the movie. Even I, who am defending the movie here have no argument to defend one of the Top 10 Worst Scenes in Movie History.

I wish that had never happened, my eyes still bleed a little.

Aegis2k

Ironman was Gizmorgasmic, indeed! It was awesome and fun! But, in my opinion, so was Indy. For me, it was its sooooooo impossibility of realism what made it fun. It was like They didn't expect you to take it seriously at all. And in that silly way I handled it. It was 2 hours of impossible, improbable, lame fun... I don't know --- Weekend at Bernie's type of Lame Fun. BUT FUN.

Compared to the other movies, yes, is extremely shallow. But it had its high points -- like the Russian Hot Girl, which is easily the hottest of all characters on all 4 movies :-)

But, compared to other 'comeback' movies, like Star Wars, Indy, at least for me, managed to survive in terms of Fun. FUUUNNN!!!!

FFFUUUUNNN!!!!

Aegis2k

Yow, am I the only person who actually liked this movie and thought it was a very worthy continuation of the series? Sure, there were a few things that bothered me, but it was mostly stuff like the anticommie witch hunt at Indy's school (complete with students randomly protesting against Communism) well after Joseph McCarthy had been discredited. Certainly, this one was much better than either The Last Crusade or The Temple of Doom, which I count among Spielberg's worst. I doubt I'll look at the extras more than once (if at all), but I definitely look forward to revisiting the movie.

Johnny_Clueless

@theorieofself: that part was pretty bad...... but not half as bad as "monkey-greaser" scene where Mr Laboof swung through on vines like a 3rd rate Tarzan...

smitherssocal

Crystal Skull could have been okay if it hadn't been an Indiana Jones movie. However, as an Indy movie it was awful. Like most everyone else here, wake me up when they blu-ray the original.

makanai

@designaked: Just because people have unrefined taste does not mean they are stupid, they simply need to be taught to recognize when they are watching a POS and wasting their money.

If they still had fun watching it perhaps due to their friends' excitement of if they made fun of it then well why not let it be?

sisedi

Maybe there is something like I-HAVE-SEEN-TOO-MANY-MOVIES syndrome. Or something to that diminishing effect.

MarlboroTestMonkey7

@bobojuice: It's nice to be accompanied in the same boat.

Late_Night

@Aegis2k: TOTALLY agree. its not the most well made film, or realistic AT all(are any of them?), but i had a DAMN good time.

i will give it to people that i had a better time at iron man, but aside from that, it was the most fun i had at a movie all summer. there were 3 things i really didnt care for:

refrigorator
tarzan
12 skeletons swirling together to form one(wtf?)

seriously though, aside from the tarzan part, the jungle chase scene was AWESOME. you guys honestly didnt love that? everybody switches vehicles like 5 times, shit getting blown up, gunz, crashes. LOVED it.

and now i really wanna know if it is possible to swing through vines like that. anybody wanna go on a safari with me?

makeseven

My god these are the most annoying fucking comments! Thank God the tech blog added the really cool part of this story that one of the Hollywood greats who pretty much opposes HD is now finally supporting an HD format!

After Close Encounters this is Spielberg's first film to hit BluRay, and that's newsworthy- Not cramming your damn opinion down my throat.

I'll be getting it for sure.

matthewrex

I'm also curious, why is a 2 Disk Blu-ray version needed? Wasn't the Blu-ray battle cry '50gig capacity!'? Wasn't that the one lone advantage that format had over HDDVD? All those people clamouring about how they'll never need multiple disk sets now that you can fit everything on a single disk? If blu-ray disk production is so expensive why make 2 of them (and passing the cost to the consumer) for a single box when it was advertised that everything would fit on a single disk?

Why the 2 Disks?

diverguy

@diverguy: Why two disks?

Because one disk cannot hold the sheer amount of FAIL that is Shia LeBouef.

OMG! Ponies! Deservs It

I actually liked this movie... except for the scene where the beef was swinging through the trees with the monkeys... he can go away now

kathartik

Didn't see it in theatres, will rent it first when it comes on blu-ray.

I am a HUGE fan of the original 3, but that Shea kid is annoying. I really ( REALLY ) don't know what the fuss is about. He's a pretty bad actor. One of the main reasons ( if not the only one even ) I dislike Transformers.

Who he ( or his mom ) had to sleep with to get into the business is what I want to know.

StarControl

@diverguy:

One disc alone cannot contain Shia LeBouef.

madmaxmedia

@Aegis2k:

Yet all the same, there's good cheap pizza and there's bad cheap pizza...

madmaxmedia

@Aegis2k: Agreed.

People complain too much these days. Nothing is ever good enough, and nothing can seem to be taken at face value anymore. Too people crying themselves to sleep cuddled up with their action figures, and then coming to Gizmodo to complain about it. Suck it up people.

There are lots of shitty movies out there that are still highly enjoyable. Relax a little, sit back, have some popcorn, and just have some fun. If you spend the entire movie breaking down historical inaccuracies of an Indiana Jones movie then you are missing the whole point. And if you don't like a particular actor... tough shit. There are probably millions of other people that do. Just take the actor out of the equation and focus on the character and story. You know, use that imagination of yours. Ever read a book? Ever seen that book made into a movie just to have the actor playing your favorite character "get it wrong"? Well, for someone else he got it right. You're just one of the people that they don't please this time around.

So wet your panties if you will, just don't lecture everyone about it from your high horse unless you plan on doing better. And good luck with that.

Major_Disbelief

I like the movie and I like "the beef". Not a popular opinion on the internets, but who cares.

Camperton

Stick to gadgets. Leave the movie reviews to the professionals please.

lifterus

@Major_Disbelief: I think people are taking this criticism of the film the wrong way. I said before that if you liked the movie than I'm happy for you because I wish I could have too. I'm a huge Indy fan and wanted nothing more than for this movie to be the best of the summer, more so than any other film.

For me it wasn't even in the top five. To me, after 19 years of waiting to see the next Indy I expected a better movie. Maybe that's my fault for having too high expectations, but so be it. That's the way it was.

Maybe the historical inaccuracies were petty to you, but it was a big part of what made some of the Indy moments in the previous films more exciting. This time along one got the feeling that this was less an Indy movie and more a failed knockoff like the Mummy.

Agree to disagree I guess.

IamNotToddDavis

i agree that the movie was in no way shape or form like Raiders. but really, what movie could be? the movie had plenty of holes in it just like the other three and last i checked, ~$400 million worth of tickets were sold (and not on the first weekend) so lots of people that are not geeks/nerds/fanboys went to see it and went back to see it again.

yeah lucas f'ed up and spielberg f'ed up and lebouf needs to be f'ed up, but in the end Ford is the man and he still has it...

rajivgk

@Pope John Peeps II:
I'm guessing they mean 50's sci-fi (the clear influence behind this movie), the recently-admitted-to-be-fake-as-a-$3-bill crystal skulls that are owned by various museums, the actual factual nukes that were tested in the deserts of southwest United States, and the Mayan architecture that can still be found in the jungles of Peru. You know, _not_ any aliens that Jethro and Cletus claim to have seen on the way home from getting sloshed at the moonshine shack.

Purple Dave

Just wanted to say THANK YOU to Giz for staying true to the cause here:

BIGGEST LETDOWN IN CINEMATIC HISTORY.

Without question. Could not have said it better myself.

Thanks for keeping it real and publishing entries like this :-)

And to anyone (ANYONE!!!) who actually thought this movie was "good" = not only should you actually look into psychological help (I don't care if you're 17 or whatever else excuse you might have, this movie SUCKED), but there's also a high likelihood that you also enjoyed such thrill rides as Time Machine, and The League Of Extraordinary Gentleman. AWESOME SCI FI DUDE!!!

These people defending the movie ("its jsut a movie dude!") need to seriously STFU. Yeah, its just a movie. And a SHITE one at that. The Pacifier was a movie. Are you going to defend that too? And guess what? Movies are supposed to be ENTERTAINING, not stupid and full of enough CHEESY cliches, shite acting, shite script, shite storyboard, etc etc to fill a battleship.

This was OK,but I still like "Ron Jeremy and The Temple of Poon" better,lol

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