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[trinityvixen]

I almost don't want to even comment on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls. I felt it lacked coherency for the most part--I never knew why one thing led necessarily to another. There's also the weird sense that it wasn't as breathless as the previous films--even though that's usually a compliment, in this case it wasn't. Because having just watched the first three, they really were nothing but chase sequences with a few things happening in between. And while there is one long chase scene (and a shorter one) in Crystal Skulls, a lot of the rest is really sitting down and figuring stuff out with hardly any action as we've come to know it from the series.

A lot of that is Harrison Ford being older, I get it. I still have this sense that Bruce Willis was more spry despite having gotten older in that last Die Hard movie. It's a different sort of hero, though--McClane was a running joke for being down-on-his-luck in every hostile encounter; Indy is the amazingly smart, athletic fighter. He has to be more physical that he looked capable of being in this. I spent a lot of the movie cringing at the lazy delivery and performance from Harrison Ford. Is it just me or did his voice get higher? It sounded...less deep. I can't explain it except that it was off from the low growl of constant vexation Indy usually has (unless he is in his professor guise.

Marion was great, even though Karen Allen wasn't given much to do. They should have had her in earlier. And drinking! Damn it, that was the whole point of Raiders that I didn't get until I was older: Marion's liver could kill a Mormon.

And that's all she wrote. In other news, one of our lab benches was deemed the most photogenic and a bunch of people are now taking pictures of a guy in a lab coat pretending to work at our bench while the post-doc and I do our darnedest to stay out of the photo.

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[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Indy's just not meant to get married. Period. That's not the archetype. Also? There's not enough build-up when the love interest isn't even introduced until the movie is half over. Even if we knew her from before. There's far too much stuff to work out, given their past history, that it shouldn't have worked out in just the one movie. It's a death knell for the character because what now?