although not bad, just make it better than kingdom of the crystal skull
It's been years since I watched it, but that film never turned the corner where I don't care and can enjoy it for what it is. There was just a whole pile of mistakes, and I mean mistakes. Not choices I disagree with but absolutely wrong decisions in the scripting and film making that ruined that film. Where basically the same script with a few different choices in execution of the film would have made the film a whole lot better. I'm not even talking about the fridge, the film was still enjoyable at that point. Although they over did the animation of the fridge flying through the shockwave.
Things like, the design of the Crystal Skulls and showing a dead alien early in the film. Absolute mistake. The film would have worked better if there was some mystery around the skulls, their origin, man made or alien, do they have power. The CGI alien at the end, nope. Yet they could have still had the epic shot of Indy and the UFO.
Spielbergs decision to shoot it how he'd have shot a film in 1980, with the same type of cinematography made the film look like garbage. Shooting lots of stuff on sets that could have been location, would have been location in the originals but lighting them to look like sets was dumb. Then shooting CGI heavy sequences, how you'd shoot them before CGI was invented means they look horrid. As you're not incorporating all the tools and tricks needed to make CGI heavy sequences look good.
Here's a psychic Russian spy, who then isn't psychic? Or is? Well anyway she follows them by finding a trail of Christmas tree lights in the jungle.
Marrion just intentionally with purpose drives a car off a cliff into a tree to ascend a cliff. There's no sense of danger when those high risk moves are done with intent, knowing they'd work.
Anyway, I could go on and I haven't even mentioned the Shia of it all.
