What was so bad about Indiana Jones 4

[Sovvolf]

You cannot survive a Nuclear Blast hiding in a fucking fridge.

You can't age incredibly fast by drinking the wrong mug. You can't heal any wound with water from the holy grail. Indy has never been too keen on realism has he?

OT: I thought it was a good movie, people just always moan about any attempt to continue and old film because they don't want their precious, precious memories ruined, they'd rather just sit and watch the old film over and over again.

THANK YOU.
Geez.

The fourth Indy film was right in-line with what Indy always was: A tribute to the 1940s over-the-top all American action hero.
I can't believe people get upset over aliens. What about...
The ark causing people's heads to melt or explode?
The grail causing people to age?
People getting their heart ripped out and they are still alive?
Falling from a plane in a rubber raft and then landing perfectly fine on a mountainside before falling off a waterfall and surviving (Landing upright, of course)?
Bladed booby traps in an ancient temple that still work?
Glowing rocks that get super hot when chanted over?
A special blood drink that brainwashes you?
Voodoo Dolls?
An incredibly impossible mine-cart ride?
Bullet wounds washing away with water?
A knight from the middle ages still alive thanks to a magic cup?
Hiding on board a small Nazi sub without being noticed while it travels the ocean?
The ark shooting lighting and releasing ghosts that kill people who look at it?

But no! ALIENS is too far.
Please. I enjoyed the 4th Indy film very much. A great addition to the series.

I enjoyed it for the fun ride, I think people need to realise what Indy is, a fun ride of pure stupidity. You leave your brain at the door and get ready for some fun, balls out action... talking about realism, they survived the second movie thanks to deus ex machina... do we care? no it was a fun movie that had a fat guy crushed to death and a bold guy getting eaten alive by crocodiles (This managed to get a PG rating too...).

The fourth movie was fun but I will admit that the film didn't have the charm the previous movies had, I didn't enjoy the whole Alien storyline when compared to the Holy Grail or The lost arc. The third being my favourite being the third possibly for my love of the Knights crusaders.

 

[The_Bearded_One]

shia lebeouf ruins every movie he's in and thats without micheal bay

 

[Lord Mutton Chops]

When I look back at the indy films you can see its an average guy that advocates science, saying the supernatural is just madness. Yet time and time again hes thrown in to deal with spirituality and legends to save the day. It was a battle between the rational of science and the logic defying powers of mysticism.

Now lets look at the fourth movie. Get rid of the science, get rid of any ties to any form of faith/mythology, and oh hey its jar jar binks is the key to the riddle.

 

[crewman_number_6]

Aliens, just Aliens.

 

[dwoo21]

Why don't we ask ourselves, Could we do any better?

 

[Trotgar]

Why don't we ask ourselves, Could we do any better?

Well, if we had a hell lot of money, then probably.

 

[Harmondale2]

I thought it was great! I've never laughed so much at horrible plot twists, predictable narrative, dodgy physics, and aliens??? WTF???

heres my list of stupid stuff,

- I could guess every line
- The fridge nuke
- Old Indie
- Triple agent!(I actually said "OMG hes a triple agent!" to my friend as a joke a minute before it happened)
- The fact the skull saved them from EVERYTHING(I mean come on? Are they that unimaginative?)
- The whole thing with his son, which seemed very random and unimportant?, but I just couldn't care??
- And of course the aliens? It seemed so unnecessary?

and before anyone says(again) that the old movies were just as silly, I've seen one of them, and it was just presented so much better, still silly but it just felt right

This felt like george and spielberg taking the piss, seeing how much shit they could throw at their fans and still be defended

Oh! and the monkeys!!!

 

[SpaceSpork]

Also I wasn't aware that you could survive a nuclear blast by hiding inside a fridge, I must remember that one. *Extreme Saracasm was used here*

Actually, I did surive a nuclear blast by hiding in a fridge once. It was a cold winter morning during WW2 - I had taken a vacation to Poland, (I suppose I had a bad travel agent) and I was staying at a jewish relative's place. Now, me and him were having a bit of a bite to eat; Specifically, a roast turkey; when a Nazi fleet bomed us nuclearly. Now, my relative jew just sat there, crying, but I took action. I ran into the kitchen and notced the refrigerator had 3 settings - Refrigerator, Nuclear Bomb Safety Site, and Doomsday Device. I quickly set the fridge to Nuclear Bomb Safety Site, hopped in, and stayed there until the explosions ended. I came out, and found almost nothing but rubble. Well, as you can imagine, I quickly called Nightwing to pick me up, (I'm close friends with Nightwing after I revealed my secret identity as Aquaman to him) and I returned home safely.

 

[MassiveGeek]

First off; I'm not really that much of an Indy fan. Last time I saw one of the original movies was about... 6-8 something years ago. I'll watch them again. Sometime.

I do remember how these movies really had me going. They scared the hell out of me, and at the same time they were very entertaining. I'm not really into Indy, so I don't know which one of the older movies this is from; but I still remember the "eating monkey brain" scene and the person(was i guy or girl? *Goldifhs memory*) horrificly dropping down to his/her in a crack at some temple because he/she was obsessed with getting what-the-douche-was-it-now thing, and Indy stood watching helplessly, and the heart scene freaked me out.

Yeah.

However, I must say, after seeing this fourth movie, I didn't feel anything like that. No excitement. No fright. No care. I just simply didn't enjoy it that much, it was okay, but it wasn't really special.

I did laugh my ass off at the fridge scene, though, that was just so hilariously stupid.

Just saying.

 

[Valksy]

Another vote for Shia Lebeouf - talentless little twerp.

Harrison Ford looking and moving like someone's Grandpa

Aliens

Too much hinkey CGI - movie felt oddly small to me.

 

[GrinningManiac]

I thought that the Monkey-on-vines bit was a bit too...disney.

I actually loved the fridge bit. It was hilarious.

 

[Carboncrown]

The fridge didn't actually bother me that much, and Shia la Beouf and the sudden but inevitable betrayal were bad, yet not untolerable, but the aliens...

It's not that aliens aren't acceptable in a Indiana Jones movie but it's that they were just presented so fucking badly it's amazing and that just completely ruined the movie for me.

 

[DeathByTheSword]

Indiana Jones 4? Oh silly you. Everyone knows there were only 3 Indiana Jones movies, right? RIGHT?

 

[sicsfo]

it was an awesome movie, and everyone who disagrees does so because they think its cool. now if you want to see a bad movie, go watch transformers 2.

 

[MultiPurposeBlue]

What killed the movie for me was the scene lots of people disliked too.

the scene when Shia Labeouf is swinging threw the trees with the monkeys. Know what would of made that better; if he dropped onto the back of a motorcycle kicks a commie off and drives back to the action.

 

[ButtonedDownParadox]

it was an awesome movie, and everyone who disagrees does so because they think its cool.

Oh there you go!

This guy got it! Everybody call off your opinions! He's onto us. We all just wanted to be cool on a video game message board.

 

[wolf thing]

the aliens where a cool idea but they were not handled well and the baddy was a steryotype which could be a way of showing what the reds looked to the us. also i profferd the ww2 setting.
it wasnt a bad movie at all in fact it was pritty good but because of harrans fords age and some bad ideas it was not as good as the others.

Also for some reasons people have lost there suspenion of disbelive which will kill the action movie genera. people need to understand that it was not ment to be real it is a ation movie not a documentry

 

[WayOutThere]

I didn't hate it but I didn't particulary like it. Indiana Jones is about ancients religious treausre not fucking aliens. They built up a unquie world only to ruin it. What would you think of sci-fi that half-way through made a complete gear shift to fantasy? We'd think any writer who did that was out of his gourd so why let Indiana Jones off the hook?

 

[sicsfo]

it was an awesome movie, and everyone who disagrees does so because they think its cool.

Oh there you go!

This guy got it! Everybody call off your opinions! He's onto us. We all just wanted to be cool on a video game message board.

but its true, there is absolutely nothing you can pick you out of this movie that is justifiable as a bad movie making choice.