OK, I just finished watching Indiana Jones and the Plot of Doom.
What
the
HELL?
I was looking forward to this movie more than any other one coming out this summer. and
it
sucks
Go ahead and watch it I guess. You should probably experience its badness. I remember the last election when the results started coming in and everything was looking good and then around 10pm or so, everything went to hell. This was kind of like that except 10pm came about 5 minutes into the movie. Much like the result of the election, the remainder of the experience was AWFUL.
They had some ideas...that I'm guessing they got from the first 3 Indiana Jones movies since it was all the same stuff- moving ancient bricks showing a hidden palace and rivers of sand followed by underground rivers. You have the guy that gets killed because he won't stop trying to loot some treasure. Nothing really new at all there, except that despite the advances in special effects, this was done shittier.
Add in some aliens, falling over 3 1000 foot falls in a row without even falling out of their Ride the Ducksmobile, some 80 mile per hour vine swinging, and (even for this movie, what the hell?) Indiana Jones surviving a nuclear blast by hiding in a fricking refrigerator that gets blown about 3 miles from which he emerges uninjured, and you have this pile of crap movie.
Actually, no there are more stupid parts too.
Worse than Transformers (but still w/ Shia Lebouf).
The best I can say is it wasn't as bad as Ghosts of Mars or Ghost Rider. Had they managed to throw Ghost in the title and given Nick Cage a role though, they might have had a chance.
I give it a 2 just because it wasn't as torturous as those movies or as boring as say Remains of the Day.
Blech!
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..But they semi-saved the movie with that super awesome and realistic sword fight! Not.
I had totally forgetten about the lead fridge. I'm going to get one of those for my house...just in case.
Okay, I can't believe that you hated it that much. If you have seen the other ones, you know that not only are they not realistic but they are corny. This one kept true to form. I didn't think that it was bad. You should go and see Sex and the City. It was funny.
Sex and the City? Isn't that the show about the two hookers and their mom?
Aaron, were the special effects in Indiana Jones better than that kick ass train from the future in Ghosts of Mars. That thing was made with some seriously high-grade cardboard.
Hmmm, yeah I think the special effects are better quality thand Ghosts of Mars. But, they weren't very believable. And, this movie didn't have the bonus of the acting virtuoso Ice Cube.
Sure there were some borderline things in the other movies, but this one was just one absurd thing after another. That swordfight was just indescribably stupid.
I will leave open the possibility that compared to some other movies, this wasn't as bad and that I think it was so bad because I wanted it to be good. That probably is the case. For example, this one was probably better than National Treasure, but switch Nick Cage and H. Ford and I'm not sure you could really tell them apart.
I am telling Brian. He loves National Treasure.
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