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In Retrospect, The Writer Of ‘Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull’ Thinks The Aliens Were Probably A Mistake
uproxx ^ | 07122022 | josh kurp

Posted on 07/12/2022 3:13:22 PM PDT by max americana

It took awhile, but the Star Wars prequels are now considered cool. Will Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull get the same critical re-evaluation? It hasn’t happened yet, and maybe it shouldn’t considering the film features a scene where Shia LaBeouf swings through the jungle with a bunch of CGI monkeys, but… what was I talking about again? Oh yeah, the Indiana Jones movie with the aliens.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull writer David Koepp recently appeared on the Script Apart podcast, where he discussed the decision to add extra-terrestrials to the Indy canon. “I was never happy with the idea [of the aliens]. When I came on, I tried to convince [Spielberg and co-writer George Lucas] to change it. I had this other idea. They didn’t want to change it,” he said.


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Reference; UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: crystalskull; davidkoepp; georgelucas; hollywood; indianajones; itjustsucked; overthehillgang; shialabeouf; stevenspielberg; ufo
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To: max americana

It’s the worse one of the bunch.


41 posted on 07/12/2022 4:44:23 PM PDT by uptowngirl
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To: max americana

The first and third are my favorites. Sean Connery should have had another Oscar for that one.


42 posted on 07/12/2022 4:47:09 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: skr
The reason we liked the first one was because of the historical and spiritual significance of a very real archaeological treasure, the Ark of the Covenant, although dramatic license was in play. God’s power triumphing over evil never gets old.

The first one was very good. The next disappointing. The next even more disappointing. The Next sucked.

43 posted on 07/12/2022 4:47:26 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: conservativeimage

That is an insult to Corman, he would have made a better movie and with a killer script by Jack Nicholson. Yes Nicholson is a script writer.


44 posted on 07/12/2022 4:49:56 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: max americana

Crystal Skulls had aliens in it????

I must have fallen asleep each time I tried to watch it.

Some parts were OK but Shia LeBoob is such a jerk I couldn’t stand to watch it now.


45 posted on 07/12/2022 4:56:33 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

“Sean Connery should have had another Oscar for that one.”

believe it or not, I saw that at the theater and watched at Mann’s Chinese Theater in H’wood when I was a kid. Gosh, how time flies and I agree, he gave a better performance here than Untouchables.


46 posted on 07/12/2022 4:58:23 PM PDT by max americana (Fired leftards at work since 2008 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
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To: max americana

He really did. I still love watching that one just to see Sean. Now what they should have done was a followup to that, it would have been great.


47 posted on 07/12/2022 5:03:18 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Antoninus

‘Indiana Jones and that Stupid Crystal Skull’ was the last movie I saw at a theater. I felt ripped off at the time. I do not watch it now if it shows up on free tv!
Shia swinging thru the jungle, bad special effects, bad story.

The new Indiana Jones movie has a woman taking over the role. Indiana is involved in time travel and dies in the story.


48 posted on 07/12/2022 5:43:49 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: max americana

Whatever. Crystal Skull was a good movie. Not the best movie of all time, but good solid entertainment. Most importantly is it still felt like an Indiana Jones movie, especially the beginning sequence with the Russians and Area 51.

Indiana Jones is an obtainer of rare antiquities, not just a religious artifact treasure hunter. It’s mind blowing how simplistic and easily manipulated people have become to other people’s opinions on films (and music and other entertainment). So, a couple of big timer reviewers didn’t like Crystal Skull, so that means you’re not supposed to like it either. I guess you better proclaim your hatred for the movie to be with the cool people online.


49 posted on 07/12/2022 5:51:08 PM PDT by KobraKai
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To: max americana
Then there was that scene with Indiana Jones in his leather jacket and shorts waterskiing... oh, no, wait a minute - that was Fonzie Jumping the Shark

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Jumping+the+shark

50 posted on 07/12/2022 6:04:14 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: KobraKai

I liked the movie. I try to manage my expectations. Not every movie has to be the greatest.


51 posted on 07/12/2022 6:33:11 PM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: max americana

I enjoyed “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”. It was fun, and I was entertained the whole time. I got my money’s worth.


52 posted on 07/12/2022 6:37:28 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: minnesota_bound
The new Indiana Jones movie has a woman taking over the role. Indiana is involved in time travel and dies in the story.

So they decided they didn't kill the series hard enough with the Crystal Skull then, eh?
53 posted on 07/12/2022 8:19:47 PM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: max americana

Everything about that movie was a mistake.


54 posted on 07/12/2022 8:22:43 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: max americana
Putting the Maya in fricking PERU was a mistake as well.

The kind of mistake that made me want to hunt down the script writer and clockwork orange him (her?) until they learned the difference between the Inca and the Maya and the difference between Peru and Belize.

Would it have been so hard for them to have put the setting in Belize?

55 posted on 07/12/2022 8:30:06 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
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To: max americana

Saying one movie is worse than another seems a pointless exercise when they all suck.


56 posted on 07/13/2022 7:12:59 AM PDT by Scarlett156 (What about those women with NO ACCESS TO CALENDARS??? WHAT ABOUT THEM???!!!!!)
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Dogs returning to their own vomit....

America’s Pop Culture Is Stagnating. Here’s Why That’s a Problem

https://cnsnews.com/commentary/douglas-blair/americas-pop-culture-stagnating-heres-why-thats-problem


57 posted on 02/19/2023 6:25:44 AM PST by Texan4Life
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