Carpe Diem » Media, movies n trivia http://leeabennett.com By Lee A Bennett Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:12:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en Indiana Jones and the WTF? http://leeabennett.com/indiana-jones-and-the-wtf http://leeabennett.com/indiana-jones-and-the-wtf#comments Fri, 23 May 2008 12:44:00 +0000 Leeb http://leebennett.terapad.com/index.cfm?fa=contentNews.newsDetails&newsID=59050&from=list Not to be a movie snob, but having worked on movies for a little while now I sorta stop watching [poor, unoriginal] movies and start analysing them……Just watched Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull -as I thought a quick time warp back to my teens would be cool…. I was very dissapointed at the latest offering from two normally awesome directors/producers. Thank god for special effects - as it seems that one doesn’t need a script any longer…just a business plan to sell happy meals and Xbox games.

My god it was bad. Didn’t even see the link between the first 10 minutes and the rest of the film. Sets were OK…nothing we haven’t seen in Kong [did it better as it was original]….sorry but old Cate sold out and John Hurt….wow…..did he really need to do this? Isn’t Indy like 65? Good acting, pity the lines were lame. I even had people laughing out loud at the most trivial slapstick bits….used to be clever humour in the old movies…now dumbed right down to suit modern tastes?

‘Terminator - The Sarah Conner Chronicles’.

My mate Tim De Jardine [who was in a parallel showing elsewhere] stated via txt as my showing concluded -that he started a slow piss take clap at the end…..it was that bad for him. www.timdejardine.com

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