I saw it and it was alright. Not even close to being as good as the original three by any means, but what sequals ever live up to the original? So I wasn't expecting much but it was entertaining nonetheless.
I thought the ending was really cheesy.
I thought a LOT of parts of it were really cheesy...
For instance, the scene where the kid was swinging on vines through the forest with an army of monkeys. I was like "WTF?!? This is retarded!" Also, you've got the scene where he survives the nuclear explosion by hiding in the fridge? Seriously? Even if he did manage to survive the blast it's not like he'd survive being thrown a mile away inside a refrigerator. To me it just seemed like an excuse for Spielberg to recreate a set from E.T....
I don't remember the old ones being super cheesy and having stupid scenes like that. All the action and fight scenes in the previous movies were more realistic; the only fantasy parts were the artifacts themselves. Watching this one didn't even feel like an Indy movie to me; it could have just as easily been any number of sub-par action/adventure flicks released in the past ten years or so (i.e. the Mummy movies, etc.)...
Oh, and weren't Spielberg and Lucas making a big deal about how they weren't going to use much CGI for this film and rely more on traditional stunt work to make it feel more like the old ones? Well they failed big time there. It looked like a typical CGI fest to me. I guess when George Lucas says "we're not going to use much CGI" he means "not as much CGI as my last Star Wars bomb, but still a helluva lot."
And honestly the whole thing felt pretty contrived. I felt like I was watching "Steven Spielberg's Greatest Hits" rather than a new Indiana Jones story. They threw in a little bit of everything (E.T., Close Encounters, recycled stuff from all the other Indy movies, etc.). There were a few decent moments that made me think of the old movies (the motorcycle chase for instance, that was classic Indy and well done), but overall, it just felt overblown and forced.
EDIT: **SPOILERS IN THE NEXT PARAGRAPH! DON'T READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE!**
And then you've got the alien angle. Honestly, I don't really feel like I can complain about this with some of the stuff they've done in the other movies (the ark of the covenant melting people's faces off, the dude that magically pulls people's hearts out of their chests, the thousand-year-old knight guarding the grail, etc.) but still, I just wish they hadn't taken that angle. Haven't Spielberg and Lucas done enough with aliens???
The crappy story and cheesy scenes and dialogue has Lucas's greasy hands all over it. Shit, they should have just given Jar Jar Binks a cameo...maybe have him swinging on vines in the woods with Shia Lebouf... :disgust1:
STUPID NOT BEING ABLE TO REP PEOPLE AGAIN CRAP! *kicks dirt on rep feature*