Iron Man definitely was good, and same goes for Crystal Skull.
Indiana Jones was straight retarded.
What? There were some far-fetched stunts... and it was predictable, but it was fun, Indiana Jones style adventure.
I want Irina Spalko, the antagonist. If only I had a mustache, and was named Stalin...
Speed Racer was a long, boring disappointment.
It... I don't even know what I watched, really. I got the same feeling during Spider Man 3, I looked back and forth to the people I was with, and we were all "Are we asleep? Hallucinating? What's going on?"
Spoilers follow, don't know how to do the code on this board/don't think it exists/
I mean I know its stupid to complain about plot in an Indiana Jones movie (... from the snobby critic perspective anyway, but certainly not the internal-logic perspective), but there was just no development here, I didn't hate the villain at all (right, I know, nobody hates Darth Vader, but you know he's the bad guy. The only reason this chick was that bad guy was because she was communist, which... yeah, ok, I get that. But she didn't
do anything to make me feel like she needed to explode. Those aliens, by the way, were total jerks). There was the lack of a concrete finale, too. Sure we got the race through the jungle, but that's the sequence before the finale, not the finale. They get to the city and nothing of consequence happens (weren't even any booby traps!
How can there not be booby traps in an indiana jones movie!) and then Mac is all "in case you didn't watch the Mummy, this is what happens to Benny" and the communists are all "look! Aliens! Lets... wait nothing really happens in this scene!"
Also, no apparent significance to anything that was happening. Sure she was all "we can use this to mind control stuff! Really! No we totally can!" but it was clear that was not what would happen in any capacity. It just... was sort of stupid.
What I'm trying to say here is that the movie was a disappointment to me for
entirely the wrong reasons. I had no problem with Ford, who I was afraid would be old and vacant, or Shia Lewhatsits, because he's kind of a punk, and was in a remake of Rear Window. I had no problem with the monkey vines or the nuke or anything else like that. The problem was that the whole crystal skull thing, the way it was worked into the story, hell even
what it was was just plain stupid.
Also Speed Racer was an amazing film.
