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May. 25th, 2008 10:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tresjolie9This film would have been nice in 1990...
Honestly, in 1990, this movie would have been good, before a film could get away with having UFOs turn out to be the ancient evil, and not have the film reek like it was ripping off Stargate and The Ancients. Back then you could do a storyline about alien having a hive mind, and not feel like it being a rip off of Star Trek and The Borg. Also one note evil Soviet cartoon villains might have seemed so silly almost to the point of being laughable.
But this was released in 2008, and just felt like it was dated. I had no problems with Harrison Ford and Shia LeBeuf. But they could have done a different storyline? How about the main plotline being about an academic rivalry, Indiana Jones, and a rival US archaeologist. Write something similar to the Pilt Down Man incident, which has ruined the reputation of Indy's institution, The University of Chicago. Would have been nice if Indy were taking some flack in academic circles for some of his claims of the supernatural. I'm thinking of Mark Hamil for the snarky "anti Indy." The Crystal Skull is found, and throughout academia there are various claims about its origins. Indy thinks it is supernatural, perhaps the academic rival thinks it is something else. Take a page from the origins of Lost, the bad guys are mysterious, and no one quite knows who or what they are.
Honestly, in 1990, this movie would have been good, before a film could get away with having UFOs turn out to be the ancient evil, and not have the film reek like it was ripping off Stargate and The Ancients. Back then you could do a storyline about alien having a hive mind, and not feel like it being a rip off of Star Trek and The Borg. Also one note evil Soviet cartoon villains might have seemed so silly almost to the point of being laughable.
But this was released in 2008, and just felt like it was dated. I had no problems with Harrison Ford and Shia LeBeuf. But they could have done a different storyline? How about the main plotline being about an academic rivalry, Indiana Jones, and a rival US archaeologist. Write something similar to the Pilt Down Man incident, which has ruined the reputation of Indy's institution, The University of Chicago. Would have been nice if Indy were taking some flack in academic circles for some of his claims of the supernatural. I'm thinking of Mark Hamil for the snarky "anti Indy." The Crystal Skull is found, and throughout academia there are various claims about its origins. Indy thinks it is supernatural, perhaps the academic rival thinks it is something else. Take a page from the origins of Lost, the bad guys are mysterious, and no one quite knows who or what they are.