Okay it seems many people (far fewer than those who DID like it) do NOT like the new Indy film.

I have tried to analyze why this would be and am stumped. I am stumped because every film basically starts the same way, has the same things happen and have the same ending.

What I mean is it starts with an action scene, then Indy is teaching, then he goes on a quest for an artifact, the artifact always has mystical powers he never believes in and can explain why it is hocus pocus YET every time it turns out to be real, then the movie ends.

We got the same thing with the new film yet the other fans who hate it but loved the OT (Oh my that sounds familiar) hated the NEW film many years later.

Now after seeing the new Indy in the theater twice I have no complaints. The action scenes are as far fetched as ever before. We have seen rubber rafts falling out of airplanes and huge waterfall survival things in the other films like Temple and some incredibly insane stunts and effects work in Raiders.

Iniana Jones was patterned and modeled after movie house serials that Spielberg and Lucas saw as kids. THEY ARE MORE OR LESS COMIC BOOKS on the big screen.

They are not supposed to be realistic.

Did you leave the original Superman film complaining about Superman flying around the world really fast and reversing time in the process? I don't think so.

Spiderman? He shoots webs from his wrists and flies around town extremely non-realistically. AND he was bitten by a radio active spider to get his "powers" which is completely ridiculous yet the Spiderman films are not thrown around in the same way the new Indy film is by the small portion who did not like it.

You can all remember the first prequel Star Wars film The Phantom Menace which outraged some OT fans to the point of feeling like the Star Wars saga had been vandalized and sacrileged.

My point here? Well I feel that solely because the first Indy trilogy was such a popular thing and has become a piece of culture itself that a new film somehow has to top it somehow and in the process make unrealistic expectations and then consequently are let down when seeing it.

THE ORIGINAL CREATORS MADE IT! How can it be false? it isn't like Hollywood got their hands on it and decided to try and make new films. THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE THE ORIGINALS DID IT. How can they possibly not know what they are doing or what should or should not be in the new film?

In The Phantom Menace we got something different. Jar Jar, a little boy Vader and a cool villain killed off way too early being that lovely Darth Maul fella.

We didn't get a blowing up of a Death Star for the third time and people couldn't take that.

The new Indy film has me even MORE puzzled as to how it could receive such criticism from SOME fans. They don't like the story for one ...

We have the Russians wanting the secret to the crystal skulls so they can control minds from across the oceans and control the leaders of the rest of the world to be their puppets. Irina Spalko, Cate Blanchett's character has some limited telpathic abilities and is the leading authority on the issue for the red communist Russian party. This is all explained well enough in the movie. maybe some young people won't get what the communist party doctrine was which was world domination and to be communist. The cold war etc .... they do teach this stuff in school right? History class?

Indy doesn't believe in aliens and laughs at Spalko literally at the suggestion (the same as the other films when super natural powers are mentioned to him) and he just wants to learn more about the civilization where the crystal skull is.

Professor Oxley is taken captive after previously finding the crystal skull and having returned it he is a mental case from staring at it too long not helping the Russians out as they cannot understand what he is talking about half the time.

We know the Marion tie in and the Mutt story etc. No need to go there in this blog, if you were in a coma at the theater I could understand not knowing how Indy gets dragged into this.

Oxley sends a letter with his map and notes in it to Mutt and Marion says the only one who can help is Indy as he could read it and sends Mutt to find him without telling him much of anything about Indy.

Pretty simple story and pretty basic to follow. Not sure what the complaint about the story is honestly. it is as good as any other Indy film.

I should remind people also that if you watch The Temple of Doom film the effects are pretty terrible even for ILM back then. After seeing that and then complaining about the cgi in the new film ... well I am just dumbfounded by that. Dumbfounded that the old films are acceptable and the new effetcs in this new one isn't which look so much better in virtually all areas.

It clearly points to not accepting new things because it is NEW just like some fans did with Star Wars and the prequels we got.

That is my opinion on the matter. Over-analytical in nature and over-critical which the pointing out of how unrealistic Mutt's swinging through vines yet they can watch Tarzan and also complain about surviving a nuclear explosion in a fridge yet accepting a film like Superman who reversed time by reversing which way the Earth spins .... well quite honestly you need help.

I feel if this same film were made in the 1980s nobody would be complaining about it. I for one liked this Indy better than Temple and Crusade.

TIE fighters really do not make noise in space since it is a vacuum .... so get rid of your false Star Wars dvds because they are false and unrealistic.

Point made!