Check the laws of Physics at the Door

[richardf8]

You can't take them into the theatre with you if you aim to enjoy the new Indiana Jones movie.

It's a fun piece of fluff, and good brain candy - no nutritional value at all.

So don't ask what kind of temperatures the ground reaches during a nuclear test or how one can drop into the standing wave at the foot of a waterfall and not be churned there. This is pure Cartoon Physics.

That said, I wish there were more river between the waterfalls so that we could spend more time watching them run rapids. - You know you're a canoeist when your first thought when the Heroine lands the Amphibious Vehicle in the river is "Shoot for the V's!"

So all in all, cotton candy for the brain, a good fun way to pass an evening, but don't poke at it, because it WILL break under scrutiny.

Comments

[lordrunningclam.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed the movie, but yes, it is basically a cartoon. All it really lacked in that department was having somebody walk off a cliff and not fall until he noticed he walked off the cliff. Also, all the bad guys must have been recycled storm troopers from Star Wars, because none of them could hit the broad side of barn (of course George Lucas wrote the thing).

But it was a good popcorn movie. I sat there with my popcorn and diet pepsi and enjoyed it but I wouldn't buy the DVD. Now Iron Man - that one I'm buying the DVD.

footnote:
I haven't bought DVD since I joined Netflix a couple of years ago. I now reserve DVD purchases for very special movies I think I'd like to see over and over.

[richardf8]

All it really lacked in that department was having somebody walk off a cliff and not fall until he noticed he walked off the cliff.

Ah, but that moment where the Amphibious Vehicle landed in the tree and hung there until she gunned the accelerator came damn close to that! Except that going over the cliff was her plan.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

The Convenient Magnetism gave me problems with suspension of disbelief until the "gold isn't magnetic, either" line, at which point I realized that it WASN'T magnetism, it was just magic, and then I was okay with it.

It was the DUKW (well, technically, a BAV 485, according to Wikipedia, because it was Soviet-made) that broke my suspension of disbelief. 'Cause those things would NEVER have popped back up to the surface of the water . . . once they swamp, they go down and never come back up. . .

[richardf8]

Yeah, I had the same problem with the convenient magnetism. Still want to know whether its rule governed or governed by the skull's will.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

It works a lot better if you assume the latter, and that the skull was trying to set in motion the course of events that would lead to the ending.

[childings.livejournal.com]

So pretty much a standard Indiana Jones movie then.

I guess it's because it's been so long since the last one, but reading people's reactions to the movie (not counting yours) you'd think that they considered the first three movies to be super serious or something. C'mon, I remember watching Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail and tsk'ing at the fight sequence on the tank treads and the knight melting after drinking water from the false grail (awesome stop motion that concluded with said knight's eyeballs popping out). All the movies were supposed to be fluff to begin with.

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Well-put, mr meow! Perhaps it's like the Star Trek movies... every other one is cut from a lesser cloth.. ;D

[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday richardf8! You haven't posted in a while; I hope all is well.