Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls (SPOILER HEAVY)

Hey, Just a warning, there will be a loooot of spoilers, considering how this is what got me to make this blog in the first place.

Alright, so, it opens with the amazing Elvis and his Hound Dog song, as the camera pans across the desert. Teens speeding along carefree in a car. Amazing. It’s how I always pictured the 50’s. They drive up to a bunch of army cars and race them down the highway, until the army cars turn off down a stray road and right up to, you guessed it, Area 51. Turns out, these guys are Reds and have infiltrated parts of the government to gain access to certain areas. They kill the guys guarding the entrance and drive to a large warehouse. In their trunk the whole time was Jones and his friend Mac. Here we meet Kate Blancett’s character. And omg she’s amazing. Alright…well, at this rate, I’m going to over kill this page SOOOO, Jones unwillingly helps them find a crate from the Roswell crash, which contains a mummified body and Mac turns on him, cause the Red’s pay better. Indy escapes them, then an atomic blast, and gets fired from his teaching job. He gets on a train to go to New York when he is stopped by Mutt, who was sent to him by his mother, Mary. Mary knows a friend of Jones’s and they’ve both been kidnapped. Here the skulls are introduced. Blahblahblah, they go to Peru and find the skull, they get captured by Reds, and Indy is forced to succumb to the power of the skull. Here they run into Mutt’s mom, whom is none other than Marion Ravenwood. YAY! Hehe, yep, and she reveals later that, *gasp* Indy is the father!? Oh yes. Mutt is really Henry Jones the Third. From there they fight for the skull and make it to El Dorado where they find a room full of alien skeletons and the Russians catch up and return the head and are abducted and destroyed and the aliens fly away and Indy and Marion get married.

What I liked:

1. The whole 50’s air was perfect. The music and the greasers and the styles. It was so great.
2. Indy’s spirit wasn’t weakened by his age. He fought like he was 30 again.
3. All of the characters were perfectly written.
4. Indy had a kid!!!!
5. And he finally settles down and marries Marion.
6. The sound effects were great. They had all of the POW and WHAM that the others had.
7. The visual effects were absolutely astounding!
8. The music was spectacular.
9. The hat saving. Oh yes.

What I DIDN’T like:

1. The aliens. Ok, just….wtf? I wanted the skulls to be like..the glasses in transformers. With secrets embedded inside and all…it just kinda killed it for me when a space ship flew outta the ground.
2. Random things like the ground hogs and the monkeys that just appeared and made faces at the characters.
3. Marcus Brody’s beheaded statue. D; I almost cried.

So, I got most of what I wanted. And I know many people were happy with the ending. I feel that most people didn’t really get it though. It’s still my Indy though. It’s just another adventure.

Metal Meets Alloy + new Indy 4 trailer

Ok, well I was kind of putting off this post because I wasn’t sure how to expression my opinion in words.

Ironman was all in all a great film. The character was superbly written. Cocky and condescending. Its cleverly written and very anti-war pro-peace, portrayed with violence and science. I don’t want to go in and explain the plot because I’m likely to go spoiler nuts and make you read a huge block of text. So here is my Pro Con list for the movie, starting with con.

Con:

1. The pacing sucked. It just kind of went everywhere all at once and it annoyed me. It settled out fine in the end, but the beginning just drove me nuts.
2. It was portrayed in all the trailers as a BOOM EXPLODE IRONMAN MAKE BOOOOM type of movie, and i wanted to see IRONMAN MAKE BOOOOOM! There were some explosions, but it was advertised as a kind of free-for-all explosion frenzy where Ironman was like “Hulk go smash!” Except he isn’t the Hulk. But he still would go smash. It’s good that they focused mainly on the plot, but it didn’t seem to have a good balance of both.

Pro:

1. Amazing dialog, acting, graphics, and camera angles. I was stunned.
2. The music score was intense. Brain pounding metal, heck yes!
3. The overall story line was very good. It seemed like I’ve seen it ten thousand times before, but it was originalized enough for it not to matter.

So, it’s super awesome. It should totally been seen in the theaters, especially one with surround sound and HD screens.

In other news, tagged onto the Ironman movie was a new trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. In this trailer, Indy himself gives a voice over explaining the Crystal Skulls. Then we get a better sense of the plot when his new nemesis, (A soviet! AHA!) has captured him and commands him to bring her the skull.

So, it seems that most of my predictions were correct so far. I called the Soviet thing 3 years ago. And that someone would want something of great importance and try to get Indy’s help. Of course, we all know Jones isn’t going to help the Russians. I personally think that once he refuses to help them, they decide to go on their own, sing a more brutal force than he would have, thus causing him to go after them and get the skull before they do to stop them.

The Movie of the Month is coming later this week!