Indy Joneses!

[Nacho]

The name of that writer has allways sound familiar to me... It' s the same Jimmy Kahn who performed Santino in "The Godfather"?

Pre-edit before posting... I' ve wikied... Apparently it' s not the same guy.

Edit 2: Oh... Apparently the actor is "Caan". 

[skuttleman]

Everything from Dragonslayer to Biggles, by way of Flash Gordon and Krull!

Krull? I thought I was the only one who saw that movie.

OK, so the new Indiana Jones movie is about

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aliens

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and John Hurt is in it.... so how come

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there wasn't an alien that broke out of his stomach?

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I think if they had done that, I think I could have forgiven all the other flaws. 

[rharpe]

I really enjoyed this film. The Indiana Jones series is my all time favorite. It was too short though -- I could have sat through, at least, another hour of this action packed film! (Can't wait for the whole thing to come out in a special DVD collection set.)

[ildu]

If you wanna see John Hurt in a good recent movie, watch Recount, which premiered on HBO a week ago Sunday. Now that was a great film with an incredible cast.

[Ryan Timothy B]

Ok.  I watched this on the weekend.  There were a few scenes that were pretty useless, but not many.  I didn't have the same negative feelings towards this film as the majority of you seem to have.  But the ending WAS definitely too much.

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I didn't mind the whole crystal skull and what not.  Meh, it's just like the rest of the movies.  The thing I did NOT like was where the aliens starting circling around until all their bones merged into one living breathing alien.  That was just stupid.  It wasn't needed.  I would have been happy with the room falling apart as it was, they ran away like they did.  I don't care about that russian lady, so she can still burn.  But WHY oh WHY did they feel they needed this damn thing to come to life?

The one thing I noticed you guys saying about the skull how it looks like some cheap prop item.  I think the only reason it looks so bad, is because it should have had a small amount of dust on the skull when Indy first collected it.  I know it was already picked up very recently, so it shouldn't be too dusty.  But it lacks all interest when the item you're collecting is already polished and shiny with no need for elbow grease.  Just doesn't have the priceless and old feeling anymore.  Also NO one in that movie, that held the skull, acted out the real weight of it.  They all handled it like it was only a plastic skull.

Also the intro scene outside the Area51 bunker could have actually been outside.  There was no reason they needed spotlights pretending to be the sun.  It just doesn't cut it, they did a poor job on the lighting.

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That's all I needed to say.

[evenwolf]

Also NO one in that movie, that held the skull, acted out the real weight of it.  They all handled it like it was only a plastic skull.

Very good point.  Supposedly the *real* crystal skulls ( a hoax ) were made out of quartz.   Fairly dense material..... and 7 on Mohs hardness scale!