I had a friend that worked as a stunt man on this film. He told me that Harrison Ford did all of the whip work himself, no doubles. He also told a cool story of how he was driving one of the trucks in a chase sequence. He had George Lucas and Steven Spielberg in the back of his truck. After one take the two of them were dissatisfied and discussing how to fix the scene. My friend said he turned around and made a suggestion which the both of them seemed to like. My friend turned back around abd said to himself "I just gave direction to George Lucas and Steven Spielberg!"
They filmed the motorcycle chase in my town, so that neighborhood was like Back to the Future for a couple days, old cars scattered about and signs changed... Pretty neat.
John Hurt is the old guy that you recognized. He was the actor who had the wand shop in the Harry Potter movie and gave Harry his wand. He was also the actor in Alien that had an alien explode from his chest.
12:23 Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus, and murine typhus.[1] Common symptoms include fever, headache, and a rash.[1] Typically these begin one to two weeks after exposure.[2]
A refrigerator in an atomic blast was the original time machine in the BTTF script but they were worried about kids suffocating. (BTTF 3 also used the Howdie Doodie theme.)
Yep. And they used a lead refrigerator to test if it would keep the food safe from radiation, which it did. But lead refrigerators are way too expensive and too heavy to produce.
I saw this movie in theaters when I was 12 and I’ve been one of its biggest defenders ever since. It’s not perfect, but it’s still Spielberg doing his thing and damn it if it isn’t a blast.
I saw Raiders in the theater when I was 11 and Crystal Skull does not come anywhere near to being at the level of Raiders or any of the original trilogy.
The animal at the beginning is a Prairie Dog, they live in big colonies in the western plains. Groundhogs (aka Woodchuck, aka Whistle Pig) are bigger than Prairie Dogs, and live in solo burrows in woods and meadows in the Eastern US and Canada.
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In answer to your question, Dawn Marie. Those types of refrigerators could only be opened from the outside. You could literally suffocate in one of those. They're airtight. That's why refrigerators use mangnets today.
In the 80's and 90's there was a term for when a show has gone far past it's prime called "jumping the shark" based on a ridiculous episode of Happy Days where the 'Fonze water skied over a shark. Now that term has changed to "nuking the fridge" after the ridiculous scene in this movie.
It wasn't just when a show was past its prime, it specifically referred to when a show injected something that was outrageous and incongruent with the overall show in an attempt to increase viewership but ultimately goes too far and turns fans off.
It was a web site in the late '90s that coined the term "jump the shark" from the Happy Day episode. Nobody was using "jump the shark" before this web site. Also, the web site jumped the shark itself when it sold out to studio interests.
It's not actually magnetic, as Mutt points out later it also suddenly attracts gold. The skull has a mind of its own. It's like with the stones in Temple of Doom that only starts burning when Indy starts chanting, it's mysticism, not science. I think too many say this as science fiction because it had aliens in it and forgot that it was just a different type of god.
I LIKE IKE was the campaign slogan for President Eisenhower. He was also the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe during WWII.
"1957, oh I thought it was going to be the 60's the way those people were dressed." You do know that people all dont change their close on December 31 at the end of each decade? This move takes place 36 months before the 60's and the Beatniks are already starting to turn into hippies.
Hi Dawn!🙂The "Red" protest was against communism. The plot with interdimensional space aliens was not well received. There are some things that are good about the film, but overall it did not please fans. Great reactions to your fourth Indiana Jones film, Dawn!!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
One thing that makes #4 difficult over #3 - Sean Connery. His insertion into the Indy tale is a huge, a giant leap forward to all others. I like #4 for what it is - a mass influx of CGI, and the audience is required to have some 1950's Red Scare and Nuke Development awareness. We see what happens without that education.
Superman II and Superman II (the Donner cut), Airplane II, Bride Of Frankenstein…. Do what you want. I’m glad u did this one even though some said to skip it.
17:40 the exchange between Indy and Mutt regarding the scorpion is word for word what an insect wrangler said to Harrison Ford on the set of one of the previous Indy films (Temple I think)
It's easy to say, "The fridge scene doesn't work and isn't believable". But consider this! What if drinking from the holy grail had given him some sort of special longevity or power that enabled him to survive this? Also I believe the fifth movie has some WW2 sequences, and if so, maybe he had to survive those as well. Not only that, but consider how many adventures Indy has had. Even if the holy grail couldn't have protected him, all it would take is just one unseen adventure in which he was protected with some other magical trinket. In short, the fridge scene WORKS for me. I forgot John Hurt was in this! And Jim Broadbent!
Language brought our species into civilization. Knowledge is absolutely something that is valuable. THE most valuable thing, if you think about it. Monetary treasure is a very narrow way to attribute value.
This wasn't the best, but the new one is cratering at the box office. No spoilers, but don't get your hopes up. 😥 Opinions seem to be divided on which one is better--the new one, or Crystal Skull. Indy's nice house makes sense. One explorer acknowledged to be a real-life Indiana Jones from back in the day eventually became celebrated, president of the adventurer's club, director of a museum, and retired on a nice, large estate (with his wife) and spent the rest of his days writing books and his memoirs. I'd rather imagine that was Indy's final days, chronicling his adventures (with some embellishments).
The bomb at the start was for the atomic nuclear testing and the made up town was to gauge the effects of what it does to such things. That all took place at "Area 51" or the Nevada test site, which is where real testing took place and where radioactive waste has been stored. Here in Nevada we have the "Atomic Testing Museum" and if your ever in Vegas, give it a visit, as it's a great history lesson.
7:19 "Ike for President", sometimes referred to as "We'll Take Ike" or "I Like Ike", was a political television advertisement for Dwight D. Eisenhower presidential campaign of 1952.
The biggest problem this one suffers from, in my estimation, is a product of the eras the original three vs. this one came from. 80's and 90s action/adventure movies struck a much better balance between downtime with character building and exposition and set piece action sequences. The feeling of "theres too much going on" is exactly a symptom of that. It also makes those big action sequences feel very much not earned. Like they exist to just tick a box rather then serve a purpose. The glaring plot holes that you so adeptly pointed out are also a big issue with this one. I personally expect a lot more from a Spielberg movie.
I've do enjoy this one, but I've always thought the problem with it was the shift from creating a more modern take on the adventure stories of the 30s & 40s to their take on the more sci-fi adventures of the 60s. It's too big a shift from what came before and it comes off as les believable and a bit silly. The first three were fantastical, sure, but more grounded somehow. I think this one also had an eye on making Mutt's character a succesor to Indy, which was never going to work, because he just isn't that likeable.
I don't mind the movie myself, but your criticisms are solid. I do want to address just one, though. 5:53 That's not how magnets work. The only magnetic metals are iron, cobalt, and nickel. Tooth fillings for example wouldn't be affected. That said, the crystal skull attracts so many things that wouldn't be pulled to a real life magnet, that's pretty much its own plothole.
The first three tied into ancient mythologies mankind knew of for ages, and that IMHO added to the coolness. It was also fitting for an archeologist to be involved into tracking down those mythical objects. UFOs and aliens are just not the same kind of thing, that is new age pop culture type of stuff and the movie lacks the weight of the others because of it.
I don't agree. This was very much tied into South American mythology, especially the alien part with the Star people/Sky gods of Native American mythology. Their mythology literally is that beings came down from the sky and gave them knowledge. The idea that they were too high tech and must have had help from higher beings is not new. I think the real problem is that people are less aware of Native American mythology than Jewish and Christian. It was the same with Temple of Doom, people didn't know about Indian mythology and complained about the mythology in it. Just because aliens have become pop culture doesn't mean we should ignore their part in mythology, and it would have been wrong to make a crystal skull movie without them. This was, IMO, a perfect plot for an Indiana Jones movie that took place during the alien craze of the 1950's, like the originals was about the religious artifact hunts of the 1930's and the clash between old faith and modern society in India. I also find it cool that Indy got to experience that. And the so-called pre-Colombian crystal skulls started to appear during the 1800's and was originally believe to be ancient.
@@StalKalle The whole aliens came and helped man advance stuff was the creation of Erich von Däniken in his 1968 book Chariot of the Gods. He interprets certain ancient art drawings as depicting aliens interacting with humans and claims several advances by humans in history were a result of alien help, but it was dismissed by experts as pseudoscience and was later it was shown he faked a bunch of stuff to juice up his claims. Kingdom of the Crystal skull is based on a fraudulent version of Mesoamerica mythology, not actual historical Mesoamerica mythology. If they wanted to delve into 'real' mythology for that area, they would be talking about Quetzalcoatl or Xibalba or stuff like that.
This movie still feels like an Indiana Jones movie. Indiana Jones is still the Indy we know. The opening scene, through the credit sequence, was shot so well. Each shot matters. The opening up to the end of the chase around the college was fun. Stunts were crafted in a classic way. Mac and Oxley were annoying though, and the jungle sequences went on too long. The movie isn't as horrible as people let on, although I only recently rewatched it for the first time in years.
@@Michael-dl2cf, it doesn't matter. It was still shot in the style of previous Indiana Jones movies. Misusing the word "literally" pegs someone as not being too bright.
@@Michael-dl2cf No, it's just that what worked in the 1980's doesn't work anymore. If they had made it just after the third one, nobody would have had many problems with it.
The magnetic part in the beginning isn’t inconsistent. Small objects are easily moved by magnets but larger objects take a lot more magnetism to move. Also fillings aren’t magnetic. Not all metals are magnetic.
Indy is a direct copy of Charlton Heston in The Secret of the Incas (1954). His whole aesthetic and persona is a bit of a love letter to those adventuring treasure hunt films. They are a bit of a "product of their time" being a bit cheesy and campy but they are certainly a fun watch and the just don't make them like that anymore.
Gunpowder is made up of nitrocellulose, carbon and sulfur. None of which are magnetic. Indy has always been metaphysical nonsense, but the full-green-screen production was what made this movie ass.
I just come out from having a root canal and decided to distract myself by watching this at the local Kensington cinema. This just made this movie a somewhat bearable distraction from my discomfort.
Ray Winstones's character Mack just had that look on his face that entire warehouse scene of "you people DO NOT want to test this man, this man is an insane person, a maniac. He's going to super punch one of you and escape". I think my main issue is how clean and sparkling, all greenscreen and technicolor it all looks. The first three movie were dirty, had a degree of grittiness and grounded quality even with the outrageous shit that went on
Not only is it ridiculous that he survived in the fridge (even if it survived the blast, he would have been battered to death inside it), but back in the time period that this film is set it, it was normal for refrigerator doors to latch closed, such that they couldn't be opened from the inside. According to Google, a law was passed in 1956 that all refrigerator doors had to be able to be opened from the inside, but it's unlikely that the government would have bought one of the latest fridges for their test town. The reason the law was passed is that children would sometimes climb inside a refrigerator as a hiding place and then shut the door, trapping themselves inside. And since there was an airtight seal around the door, if nobody found them in time, they would suffocate. It's also the reason that we have a law saying that any refrigerators or freezers put out for trash have to have their doors taken off. "Better dead than red" - "Red" refers to communism. "Reds" = Communists, etc. And if you want someone to wash you in the shower, I'm sure you'd have no shortage of volunteers. ')
Would you believe there’s Five movies, a tv show, a bunch of original video game stories, comics, novels and a theme park attraction or two? It’s SUPER weird people only think there’s three stories. It’s wacky
Thanks so much for including this one. If you've turning into a fan of Indy then watch them all. I'm sick and tired of people saying the oher two don't exist that's so stupid. They may not be as good but they are still part of the series. It's just the first three were made in a different time of movie making. I'm so glad you are someone who makes up her own mind.
Great reaction, Dawn. You called quite a few things, good on ya! And you didn't let the lame stuff go unmentioned, well done. Future sequel reactions- I was going to suggest Lethal Weapon sequels, but I don't think you've watched the 1st one yet. So I'll say, Die Hard sequels, Superman (Christopher Reeve) , or Beverly Hills Cop sequels. Great reactions! Your comments always make laugh. Well done! Take care. From the PNW USA. 🏞🌲
In my opinion, there's no point in going back and watching all the original sequels of The Planet of the Apes, but watching the reboot films that began with Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) would be good.
This movie was the result of combining too many ideas into one without any of them properly gelling with each other. They kept picking and choosing what they liked from various scripts until they got this Frankenstein's monster. The other problem is an overreliance on CGI instead of practical sets and effects. The best-looking parts of the film are everything that happens around the university. Not to mention the absurd leaps of logic you need to take with this film, especially in comparison with the others. The nuclear fridge? Mutt swinging like Tarzan and catching up to the cars? This movie should have been so much better than it ended up being, especially with 3 under their belts already.
As well as over-use of CGI, the movie also suffers from overdone digital color grading, which makes the image look fake due to ignoring the way real light reacts with objects. If you just compare it with the original trilogy, the difference is stark.
i also feel sad,when i see Connery at the picture,now as he really is no longer with us.he was awesome in"the last crusade" and of course in many other movies.🥲
We liked it. Not everything needs to be practical. Never seen ants carry a body of a man underground. That's okay, just part of the fun story like everything else. It's just a movie and we like the Indiana Jones saga. So, we like the pacing, the cinematography, the acting, the characters, the special effects. We doubt a boat full of people would survive 3 Niagara falls sized waterfalls 3 times. It's one of those movies that we enjoy watching over and over again. In fact, Disney has all of the Indiana Jones movies on their streaming service for our viewing pleasure. Plus, we like action/adventure movies a lot. So, thanks for watching. 😊
9:40 "total BS" just like outrunning a 200 ton Boulder, having his arms slammed in a door without it breaking, a monkey as a Nazi spy, replace three parachutes with an inflatable raft, having your heart ripped out and still live without a problem, run away from water coming at you at 100 miles an hour, falling into a pit of giant poisonous snakes without being bitten, surviving an ocean storm with just a lifesaver, blowing up a boat in the middle of a horrible rainstorm with a tiny little spark, Catholic catacombs filled with gasoline right under venice's most busy outdoor dining area, not to mention all the deadly traps that keep the people from getting to their own artifacts, the ark melting faces, and everyday golden cup making a person age till death, fire curing people of hallucinogenic drugs... Need I go? If you grew up during the nuclear Holocaust you would believe this scene with the refrigerator. PS. 1950s refrigerators latched and were airtight. Today's refrigerators got rid of those for safety sake. Too many kids suffocated in refrigerators and freezer units because they latched automatically when you closed the door.
from the box office numbers and rumors tis one is much better than the next one. Like I said there is only 3 indiana jones movies, and have no plans on ever watching the new one.
Yes, Oxley IS from Harry Potter. He's the guy that minds the "store" with all the wands. "Curious that this wand would choose you...when its brother gave you that scar." He's also in the first Alien movie as Cain,,,the guy that had the facehugger on his face.
I've seen this movie once a long time ago & disliked it so much that I'm not gonna even bother with the new one. This franchise is done for me after the 3rd movie, which I loved btw.
I don't get why people hated this one so much, it wasn't that bad. Imo, the only real issue is that skull turned out to be alien instead of being like Anasazi or Mayan or something we know little about.
It was/is hated because it was completely unnecessary, Last Crusade was a perfect end to the franchise & this was such a silly departure from what had come before.
Nostalgia. Simple as. Yeah it's flawed but it gets way more hate than it deserves because it is a newer one and the other 3 are from people's childhood. When people do reactions like this and watch the films all for the first time or they go back and rewatch 4, they often say they were too harsh on it
@14:22 At this time in the US, the Soviet and US politics were at a high and Red was another term for Russians as the Red Party won in the Russian revolution back in 1917 overthrowing the Russian Monarchy (as seen in Anastasia(1997)). while Kingdom of the Crystal skull isn't my favorite of the films, it's still an entertaining and fun film and still fits the mold of Indiana Jones films. I think most people were put off by them going from Supernatural wonders (Ark, stone, and cup) to know extraterrestrial even though that fits in the era of this film taking place(1957). One thing I noticed is I love how they kept the timeline the same with the same amount of years from 1989 to 2008 and 1938(Last crusade) to 1957, both 19 years.
Before I watched this in 2008, I rewatched the entire Young Indy TV series, them the first three films, and I got SO much more out of it, with episodes on Pancho Villa and dealing with Henry, Sr. I liked how the film used the zeitgeist of the 1950s with not only the Communism (“Better Dead Than Red”), The Cold War, but also aliens, instead of fighting Nazis yet again. Alien themes and nuclear threats in the 50s were not only symbolic of invasion from Russia, but came from the alleged flying saucer crash in Roswell, New Mexico and govt. cover up, which Indy was asked to inspect, was mentioned in the beginning of the film.
A series with great sequels" Lethal Weapon" you will enjoy all 4! Another, "Dirty Harry" great first and great sequels! And don't forget, you have to finish your Clint Eastwood Western series. I think the best one with " Outlaw Josey Wales." You'll get a lot of viewers for all of these! Thanks again, for sharing.
To answer your question: The reason they nuked a fake town is because this film is set during the Cold War between the USA and the USSR. Both the Americans and the Soviets built and tested thousands of nuclear weapons in the 50s and 60s. The movie was supposed to be showing an example of a bomb test
I had a friend that worked as a stunt man on this film. He told me that Harrison Ford did all of the whip work himself, no doubles. He also told a cool story of how he was driving one of the trucks in a chase sequence. He had George Lucas and Steven Spielberg in the back of his truck. After one take the two of them were dissatisfied and discussing how to fix the scene. My friend said he turned around and made a suggestion which the both of them seemed to like. My friend turned back around abd said to himself "I just gave direction to George Lucas and Steven Spielberg!"
They filmed the motorcycle chase in my town, so that neighborhood was like Back to the Future for a couple days, old cars scattered about and signs changed... Pretty neat.
Would that be Connecticut?
That’s also the best part of the movie, so congrats ha
@@Joe-hh8gd Yeah, over by Yale.
John Hurt is the old guy that you recognized. He was the actor who had the wand shop in the Harry Potter movie and gave Harry his wand. He was also the actor in Alien that had an alien explode from his chest.
He was also in Spaceballs. "Oh no, not again" 😅
And the Elephant Man. "I am not an animal!"
He was also Professor Broom in Hellboy.
Hurt was The War Doctor!
1984, V for Vendetta
I never realized how I was missing out on a Scot breaking down plot holes in movies. Very fun. 😅
😂“I’m worried scientists will kidnap me to study my brain.”😂
In 2023 you're too normal for that. 😄
Believe me, if they kidnap you, it won't be for your brain.
If only they could find that tiny little thing.
So say we all!
I'm worried they will reject me cuz they won't find anything in my brain to study. Lol
12:23 Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus, and murine typhus.[1] Common symptoms include fever, headache, and a rash.[1] Typically these begin one to two weeks after exposure.[2]
That's how Anne Frank and her sister died.
@@jansenart0 Take your own advice-he isn't wrong.
The little boy from 2 hasn't done much since but last year made a come-back and won an oscar for Everything Everywhere all at once!
Also remembered for "The Goonies".
The little kid was actually River Phoenix and he passed away a long time ago
Duh sorry.... wrong little kid
Oh, yeah. He was heartbreakingly brilliant in "Everything..."
Wasn't he on the TV show Head of the Class
9:52 Yup. The US government literally did this on the desert to see what the effect of an atomic bomb would be on a town.
A refrigerator in an atomic blast was the original time machine in the BTTF script but they were worried about kids suffocating. (BTTF 3 also used the Howdie Doodie theme.)
Many times. And gave countless people down wind cancer from the fallout....
And covered it up for decades.
Yep. And they used a lead refrigerator to test if it would keep the food safe from radiation, which it did. But lead refrigerators are way too expensive and too heavy to produce.
@@voodoochild1975az and wasn't it one of these that killed John Wayne and Agnes Moorhead?
I saw this movie in theaters when I was 12 and I’ve been one of its biggest defenders ever since. It’s not perfect, but it’s still Spielberg doing his thing and damn it if it isn’t a blast.
I saw Raiders in the theater when I was 11 and Crystal Skull does not come anywhere near to being at the level of Raiders or any of the original trilogy.
@@DV80syea no shit
@@DV80sTemple of Doom isn’t great. I’d put this on the same level.
The animal at the beginning is a Prairie Dog, they live in big colonies in the western plains. Groundhogs (aka Woodchuck, aka Whistle Pig) are bigger than Prairie Dogs, and live in solo burrows in woods and meadows in the Eastern US and Canada.
Right on.
LMAO at "Whistle Pig". That is the best name ever. :)
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Same
In answer to your question, Dawn Marie. Those types of refrigerators could only be opened from the outside. You could literally suffocate in one of those. They're airtight. That's why refrigerators use mangnets today.
Once again Dawn makes the movie better than it was.
There's something to say about who you're watching it with.
In the 80's and 90's there was a term for when a show has gone far past it's prime called "jumping the shark" based on a ridiculous episode of Happy Days where the 'Fonze water skied over a shark. Now that term has changed to "nuking the fridge" after the ridiculous scene in this movie.
It wasn't just when a show was past its prime, it specifically referred to when a show injected something that was outrageous and incongruent with the overall show in an attempt to increase viewership but ultimately goes too far and turns fans off.
It was a web site in the late '90s that coined the term "jump the shark" from the Happy Day episode. Nobody was using "jump the shark" before this web site. Also, the web site jumped the shark itself when it sold out to studio interests.
I liked this one because of Shia’s character. I liked the scene where the greasers and socs fight . Like the outsiders
I believe the script for this movie was originally written as a sequel to the DuckTales movie, but they decided to use it for Indian Jones instead.
Dawn, you are a genius! Those soldiers in the beginning should have enough magnetic metal on them to feel the pull. Not everyone notices this . . .
It's not actually magnetic, as Mutt points out later it also suddenly attracts gold. The skull has a mind of its own. It's like with the stones in Temple of Doom that only starts burning when Indy starts chanting, it's mysticism, not science. I think too many say this as science fiction because it had aliens in it and forgot that it was just a different type of god.
I LIKE IKE was the campaign slogan for President Eisenhower. He was also the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe during WWII.
"1957, oh I thought it was going to be the 60's the way those people were dressed." You do know that people all dont change their close on December 31 at the end of each decade? This move takes place 36 months before the 60's and the Beatniks are already starting to turn into hippies.
Indy was born July 1, 1899, so he’s 58 in this film.
Hi Dawn!🙂The "Red" protest was against communism. The plot with interdimensional space aliens was not well received. There are some things that are good about the film, but overall it did not please fans. Great reactions to your fourth Indiana Jones film, Dawn!!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
At least it's better than the new one
@@andkon73dex44 If so, that's sad.☹I've avoided any news about the new one.
@@andkon73dex44 i disagree
@Joe-hh8gd cause the person who's making it didn't destroy star wars
@@andkon73dex44 James Mangold didn't direct a Star Wars movie
One thing that makes #4 difficult over #3 - Sean Connery. His insertion into the Indy tale is a huge, a giant leap forward to all others. I like #4 for what it is - a mass influx of CGI, and the audience is required to have some 1950's Red Scare and Nuke Development awareness. We see what happens without that education.
People liked to say hiding in the fridge wouldnt work, well neither would using an inflatable raft to jump out of an airplane.
23:19 yes, Detective Dawn is still a genius
Genius, Moron. Potato, potato.
i hope you wrote down the names of the ppl who suggested you watch this one, cuz now you can discount their opinions for all eternity.
Superman II and Superman II (the Donner cut), Airplane II, Bride Of Frankenstein…. Do what you want. I’m glad u did this one even though some said to skip it.
17:40 the exchange between Indy and Mutt regarding the scorpion is word for word what an insect wrangler said to Harrison Ford on the set of one of the previous Indy films (Temple I think)
It's easy to say, "The fridge scene doesn't work and isn't believable". But consider this! What if drinking from the holy grail had given him some sort of special longevity or power that enabled him to survive this? Also I believe the fifth movie has some WW2 sequences, and if so, maybe he had to survive those as well. Not only that, but consider how many adventures Indy has had. Even if the holy grail couldn't have protected him, all it would take is just one unseen adventure in which he was protected with some other magical trinket. In short, the fridge scene WORKS for me.
I forgot John Hurt was in this! And Jim Broadbent!
Indiana crossed the great seal where the old knight was guarding the grail so he became mortal again.
See Witness, it's an overlooked Harrison Ford classic.
I think you should continue with the Planet of the Apes sequels! They do get better than the second.
Escape From The Planet of The Apes is definitely a favorite!
Yes definitely. IMO The second one is the worst.
Fun Fact: The student who Indy & Mutt slide into in the library is in fact Tom Hanks son.
Language brought our species into civilization. Knowledge is absolutely something that is valuable. THE most valuable thing, if you think about it.
Monetary treasure is a very narrow way to attribute value.
Compere to the last one Disney made... this is a masterpiece.
This wasn't the best, but the new one is cratering at the box office. No spoilers, but don't get your hopes up. 😥 Opinions seem to be divided on which one is better--the new one, or Crystal Skull.
Indy's nice house makes sense. One explorer acknowledged to be a real-life Indiana Jones from back in the day eventually became celebrated, president of the adventurer's club, director of a museum, and retired on a nice, large estate (with his wife) and spent the rest of his days writing books and his memoirs. I'd rather imagine that was Indy's final days, chronicling his adventures (with some embellishments).
The bomb at the start was for the atomic nuclear testing and the made up town was to gauge the effects of what it does to such things. That all took place at "Area 51" or the Nevada test site, which is where real testing took place and where radioactive waste has been stored. Here in Nevada we have the "Atomic Testing Museum" and if your ever in Vegas, give it a visit, as it's a great history lesson.
there is only indiana jones 1 2 3
Yeah that's why you're here watching this and commenting, people like you are so lame including people that loved your cheesy contradicting comment.
The metal used in your teeth or other body parts is not affected by magnets. That's why it's OK to get an MRI if you have fillings.
7:19 "Ike for President", sometimes referred to as "We'll Take Ike" or "I Like Ike", was a political television advertisement for Dwight D. Eisenhower presidential campaign of 1952.
The biggest problem this one suffers from, in my estimation, is a product of the eras the original three vs. this one came from. 80's and 90s action/adventure movies struck a much better balance between downtime with character building and exposition and set piece action sequences. The feeling of "theres too much going on" is exactly a symptom of that. It also makes those big action sequences feel very much not earned. Like they exist to just tick a box rather then serve a purpose. The glaring plot holes that you so adeptly pointed out are also a big issue with this one. I personally expect a lot more from a Spielberg movie.
14:17 communists were referred to as Reds.
Oxly was in Alien , Spaceballs & in " The Elephant Man " . The producer of " The Elephant Man " was produced by Mel Brooks under a different name .
I'd love to see your reactions to the Young Indiana Jones series that was released in 1992 and the Jurassic Park movies.
Well the movie edits are easy to watch on stream, I believe
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones reedited in 2002-2006 as 22 movie length episodes
ONLY stones they're throwing? "They might be sore, but they won't die." Obviously you haven't heard of "stoning". 😂😂😂
I've do enjoy this one, but I've always thought the problem with it was the shift from creating a more modern take on the adventure stories of the 30s & 40s to their take on the more sci-fi adventures of the 60s. It's too big a shift from what came before and it comes off as les believable and a bit silly. The first three were fantastical, sure, but more grounded somehow. I think this one also had an eye on making Mutt's character a succesor to Indy, which was never going to work, because he just isn't that likeable.
Harrison Ford was 66 in the summer of 2008. I think he's just turned 81. His birthday is the first half of July.
I don't mind the movie myself, but your criticisms are solid.
I do want to address just one, though.
5:53 That's not how magnets work. The only magnetic metals are iron, cobalt, and nickel. Tooth fillings for example wouldn't be affected.
That said, the crystal skull attracts so many things that wouldn't be pulled to a real life magnet, that's pretty much its own plothole.
The first three tied into ancient mythologies mankind knew of for ages, and that IMHO added to the coolness. It was also fitting for an archeologist to be involved into tracking down those mythical objects. UFOs and aliens are just not the same kind of thing, that is new age pop culture type of stuff and the movie lacks the weight of the others because of it.
I don't agree. This was very much tied into South American mythology, especially the alien part with the Star people/Sky gods of Native American mythology. Their mythology literally is that beings came down from the sky and gave them knowledge. The idea that they were too high tech and must have had help from higher beings is not new.
I think the real problem is that people are less aware of Native American mythology than Jewish and Christian. It was the same with Temple of Doom, people didn't know about Indian mythology and complained about the mythology in it. Just because aliens have become pop culture doesn't mean we should ignore their part in mythology, and it would have been wrong to make a crystal skull movie without them.
This was, IMO, a perfect plot for an Indiana Jones movie that took place during the alien craze of the 1950's, like the originals was about the religious artifact hunts of the 1930's and the clash between old faith and modern society in India. I also find it cool that Indy got to experience that.
And the so-called pre-Colombian crystal skulls started to appear during the 1800's and was originally believe to be ancient.
@@StalKalle The whole aliens came and helped man advance stuff was the creation of Erich von Däniken in his 1968 book Chariot of the Gods. He interprets certain ancient art drawings as depicting aliens interacting with humans and claims several advances by humans in history were a result of alien help, but it was dismissed by experts as pseudoscience and was later it was shown he faked a bunch of stuff to juice up his claims. Kingdom of the Crystal skull is based on a fraudulent version of Mesoamerica mythology, not actual historical Mesoamerica mythology. If they wanted to delve into 'real' mythology for that area, they would be talking about Quetzalcoatl or Xibalba or stuff like that.
There's a game called Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis released in 1992. I think talking about Atlantis is reference to that.
I like how you figured out early on that Indy was Mutt's dad, and that his mom was one of the women from Indy's past. My pick would have been Marion.
This movie still feels like an Indiana Jones movie. Indiana Jones is still the Indy we know. The opening scene, through the credit sequence, was shot so well. Each shot matters. The opening up to the end of the chase around the college was fun. Stunts were crafted in a classic way.
Mac and Oxley were annoying though, and the jungle sequences went on too long. The movie isn't as horrible as people let on, although I only recently rewatched it for the first time in years.
literally the whole movie was stupid.
@@Michael-dl2cf, it doesn't matter. It was still shot in the style of previous Indiana Jones movies.
Misusing the word "literally" pegs someone as not being too bright.
@@Michael-dl2cf No, it's just that what worked in the 1980's doesn't work anymore. If they had made it just after the third one, nobody would have had many problems with it.
10:00 Careful what you wish for, Dawn. I bet there is a bunch of people that would do this for free 🤣
I’m surprised I haven’t seen any volunteers.
That's John Hurt, he's the one that gets alien chest bursted in Alien.
The magnetic part in the beginning isn’t inconsistent. Small objects are easily moved by magnets but larger objects take a lot more magnetism to move. Also fillings aren’t magnetic. Not all metals are magnetic.
Neither is gold....
Indy 4 was inspired by B movies of the 1950's.
It's a guilty pleasure of mine.
Indy is a direct copy of Charlton Heston in The Secret of the Incas (1954). His whole aesthetic and persona is a bit of a love letter to those adventuring treasure hunt films. They are a bit of a "product of their time" being a bit cheesy and campy but they are certainly a fun watch and the just don't make them like that anymore.
1940's.
This is one of the best Indiana Jones films I ever saw in my life!
I’m sure Dawn, you get this all the time, but your evil little laugh is so good 🇨🇦👍🏻🍻
Gunpowder is made up of nitrocellulose, carbon and sulfur. None of which are magnetic.
Indy has always been metaphysical nonsense, but the full-green-screen production was what made this movie ass.
_Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull_ is the film that gave birth to the colloquial phrase "nuking the fridge".
I just come out from having a root canal and decided to distract myself by watching this at the local Kensington cinema. This just made this movie a somewhat bearable distraction from my discomfort.
at the beginning you asked if the was a gopher. i believe it was actually a prarie dog which is oddly related to squirrels
Ray Winstones's character Mack just had that look on his face that entire warehouse scene of "you people DO NOT want to test this man, this man is an insane person, a maniac. He's going to super punch one of you and escape". I think my main issue is how clean and sparkling, all greenscreen and technicolor it all looks. The first three movie were dirty, had a degree of grittiness and grounded quality even with the outrageous shit that went on
Not only is it ridiculous that he survived in the fridge (even if it survived the blast, he would have been battered to death inside it), but back in the time period that this film is set it, it was normal for refrigerator doors to latch closed, such that they couldn't be opened from the inside. According to Google, a law was passed in 1956 that all refrigerator doors had to be able to be opened from the inside, but it's unlikely that the government would have bought one of the latest fridges for their test town. The reason the law was passed is that children would sometimes climb inside a refrigerator as a hiding place and then shut the door, trapping themselves inside. And since there was an airtight seal around the door, if nobody found them in time, they would suffocate. It's also the reason that we have a law saying that any refrigerators or freezers put out for trash have to have their doors taken off.
"Better dead than red" - "Red" refers to communism. "Reds" = Communists, etc.
And if you want someone to wash you in the shower, I'm sure you'd have no shortage of volunteers. ')
Animal at the very start was a Prairie Dog.
19:22 he was mummified. No spiders required 😁
You need to see how South Park showed their disapproval of Indiana Jones and the Crystal skulls.
Impossible, THERE'S ONLY THREE INDIANA JONES MOVIES!!??
Would you believe there’s Five movies, a tv show, a bunch of original video game stories, comics, novels and a theme park attraction or two?
It’s SUPER weird people only think there’s three stories.
It’s wacky
I don't mind the aliens plot. It goes with the whole UFO conspiracies of the 50s but the film is way to over the top for even an Indiana Jones movie.
Thanks so much for including this one. If you've turning into a fan of Indy then watch them all. I'm sick and tired of people saying the oher two don't exist that's so stupid. They may not be as good but they are still part of the series. It's just the first three were made in a different time of movie making. I'm so glad you are someone who makes up her own mind.
Watching her watching KotCS and the way the runtime is cut down- it actually makes the movie nearly enjoyable!
Could have done without Shia. Take him out (and the fridge) and it's an ok entry in the series.
Great reaction, Dawn. You called quite a few things, good on ya! And you didn't let the lame stuff go unmentioned, well done.
Future sequel reactions- I was going to suggest Lethal Weapon sequels, but I don't think you've watched the 1st one yet. So I'll say, Die Hard sequels, Superman (Christopher Reeve) , or Beverly Hills Cop sequels.
Great reactions! Your comments always make laugh. Well done! Take care. From the PNW USA. 🏞🌲
Bottom line is CGI effects are cheaper, and you get what you pay for.
In my opinion, there's no point in going back and watching all the original sequels of The Planet of the Apes, but watching the reboot films that began with Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) would be good.
The reboots were crap.
Less fake looking CGI Scenery (and no Shia) and this Movie would have been quite good. I liked the core mystery quite a lot.
This movie was the result of combining too many ideas into one without any of them properly gelling with each other. They kept picking and choosing what they liked from various scripts until they got this Frankenstein's monster. The other problem is an overreliance on CGI instead of practical sets and effects. The best-looking parts of the film are everything that happens around the university. Not to mention the absurd leaps of logic you need to take with this film, especially in comparison with the others. The nuclear fridge? Mutt swinging like Tarzan and catching up to the cars? This movie should have been so much better than it ended up being, especially with 3 under their belts already.
As well as over-use of CGI, the movie also suffers from overdone digital color grading, which makes the image look fake due to ignoring the way real light reacts with objects. If you just compare it with the original trilogy, the difference is stark.
@@ThreadBomb Good point. Forgot to mention that.
i also feel sad,when i see Connery at the picture,now as he really is no longer with us.he was awesome in"the last crusade" and of course in many other movies.🥲
We liked it. Not everything needs to be practical. Never seen ants carry a body of a man underground. That's okay, just part of the fun story like everything else. It's just a movie and we like the Indiana Jones saga. So, we like the pacing, the cinematography, the acting, the characters, the special effects. We doubt a boat full of people would survive 3 Niagara falls sized waterfalls 3 times. It's one of those movies that we enjoy watching over and over again. In fact, Disney has all of the Indiana Jones movies on their streaming service for our viewing pleasure. Plus, we like action/adventure movies a lot. So, thanks for watching. 😊
Dawn "how is this movie making any sense" thank you Dawn.
9:40 "total BS" just like outrunning a 200 ton Boulder, having his arms slammed in a door without it breaking, a monkey as a Nazi spy, replace three parachutes with an inflatable raft, having your heart ripped out and still live without a problem, run away from water coming at you at 100 miles an hour, falling into a pit of giant poisonous snakes without being bitten, surviving an ocean storm with just a lifesaver, blowing up a boat in the middle of a horrible rainstorm with a tiny little spark, Catholic catacombs filled with gasoline right under venice's most busy outdoor dining area, not to mention all the deadly traps that keep the people from getting to their own artifacts, the ark melting faces, and everyday golden cup making a person age till death, fire curing people of hallucinogenic drugs...
Need I go?
If you grew up during the nuclear Holocaust you would believe this scene with the refrigerator.
PS. 1950s refrigerators latched and were airtight.
Today's refrigerators got rid of those for safety sake.
Too many kids suffocated in refrigerators and freezer units because they latched automatically when you closed the door.
I Like Ike was a campaign slogan used to get Dwight Eisenhower elected as US president during the Era set in the film.
from the box office numbers and rumors tis one is much better than the next one. Like I said there is only 3 indiana jones movies, and have no plans on ever watching the new one.
Yes, Oxley IS from Harry Potter. He's the guy that minds the "store" with all the wands. "Curious that this wand would choose you...when its brother gave you that scar." He's also in the first Alien movie as Cain,,,the guy that had the facehugger on his face.
These franchises need to be put out of their misery 10 years from the original.
I've seen so many reviews that just harpoon the new Indiana Jones film I think this will be the last Indiana Jones film for me.
Dawn, only you can get me to watch this movie again. Scorpions: small bad, big good, German are the biggest. They rock you like a hurricane.
I've seen this movie once a long time ago & disliked it so much that I'm not gonna even bother with the new one. This franchise is done for me after the 3rd movie, which I loved btw.
Not my favorite sequel in the Indiana Jones series, but I enjoyed watching Dawn's reaction to it.
I don't get why people hated this one so much, it wasn't that bad. Imo, the only real issue is that skull turned out to be alien instead of being like Anasazi or Mayan or something we know little about.
It was/is hated because it was completely unnecessary, Last Crusade was a perfect end to the franchise & this was such a silly departure from what had come before.
People hated it because they thought it was unnecessary.
If you want to know why people hated this, just scroll down & read the comments 👇
@@leesmapman4764 That's a dumb excuse for hating something. Just because you feel it's unnecessary doesn't mean it's bad.
Nostalgia. Simple as. Yeah it's flawed but it gets way more hate than it deserves because it is a newer one and the other 3 are from people's childhood. When people do reactions like this and watch the films all for the first time or they go back and rewatch 4, they often say they were too harsh on it
@14:22 At this time in the US, the Soviet and US politics were at a high and Red was another term for Russians as the Red Party won in the Russian revolution back in 1917 overthrowing the Russian Monarchy (as seen in Anastasia(1997)). while Kingdom of the Crystal skull isn't my favorite of the films, it's still an entertaining and fun film and still fits the mold of Indiana Jones films. I think most people were put off by them going from Supernatural wonders (Ark, stone, and cup) to know extraterrestrial even though that fits in the era of this film taking place(1957). One thing I noticed is I love how they kept the timeline the same with the same amount of years from 1989 to 2008 and 1938(Last crusade) to 1957, both 19 years.
Before I watched this in 2008, I rewatched the entire Young Indy TV series, them the first three films, and I got SO much more out of it, with episodes on Pancho Villa and dealing with Henry, Sr. I liked how the film used the zeitgeist of the 1950s with not only the Communism (“Better Dead Than Red”), The Cold War, but also aliens, instead of fighting Nazis yet again.
Alien themes and nuclear threats in the 50s were not only symbolic of invasion from Russia, but came from the alleged flying saucer crash in Roswell, New Mexico and govt. cover up, which Indy was asked to inspect, was mentioned in the beginning of the film.
Indy was born in 1899, so he’s 58 in this movie.
The crazy guy is John Hurt. He was the first one to die in Alien, i.e, he had the thing on his face and it burst out of his belly.
Superman 2 should be next! "General, would you care to step outside!?"
*"Magnetic materials are always made of metal, but not all metals are magnetic."*
'..you just brought a knife' - 'to a GUN PARTY!'
nice one :)
You're going to regret watching the latest movie. They need to learn that some things need to be left alone.
A series with great sequels" Lethal Weapon" you will enjoy all 4! Another, "Dirty Harry" great first and great sequels! And don't forget, you have to finish your Clint Eastwood Western series. I think the best one with " Outlaw Josey Wales." You'll get a lot of viewers for all of these! Thanks again, for sharing.
"Brought a knife to a gun party" Thumbs up for that alone.
The word on the new one is that the best that can be said for it is that it makes this one look good.
To answer your question: The reason they nuked a fake town is because this film is set during the Cold War between the USA and the USSR. Both the Americans and the Soviets built and tested thousands of nuclear weapons in the 50s and 60s. The movie was supposed to be showing an example of a bomb test
Swinging with the monkeys, riding the tree branches down the cliff, too much CGI in the chase, and didn't stick the landing.