I've changed my mind about KOTCS

[die]

When I saw it in the theater, I felt letdown. I mean I was honestly letdown by it. I decided to give it another try when it came out on DVD and now I swear I've watched it 6 more times and I really like it alot.

I think that with such a long wait for this movie and all the hype, it was alot to take in. Sure, it's still got flaws & some things could've been handled better... but somehow it's worked it's way into my heart. It helps that my daughter LOVES it and we can enjoy it the same way that me & my mom did with Temple of doom.

Anybody else changes their mind about KOTCS after multiple viewings?

 

[nash]

no, i still think it's a mediocre movie at best.

 

[King Darkness]

I havent seen since it was in the theater, and I can hardly remember it

 

[uscmhicks]

I've always loved it from the start.

 

[rw23]

It has some redeeming qualities but in the end they didn't give Indy much to work with. I still enjoy it for what it is though, a decent popcorn flick.

 

[tomandshell]

I enjoyed it more watching it again on video, but I didn't hate it in theaters to begin with.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Actually have come to like it less with multiple DVD viewings.

 

[TheObsoleteMan]

I've seen it a couple of times on dvd since and I still enjoyed it every bit as much as I did in the theater. I never tire of the warehouse sequence, that is pure Indy.

 

[Murderofcrows71]

Even though I felt the sci fi story may have had it's shortcomings, there's no doubt I still had the thrill of seeing Ford as good as ever as Indy.

 

[EVILFACE]

I havent seen since it was in the theater, and I can hardly remember it

I just remember swining greaser monkeys and a ufo taking off.

 

[jstep13]

Probably one of the worst movies I have ever seen. ever.

 

[kl241]

Right up there with Batman & Robin.

 

[lerath666]

I still feel the same about it as i did when i first saw it.

Just as good as the rest of them. It's hard to see things when you've got teh blinders of childhood making movies thousands of times more awesome then they actualy were.
IMO it's no better and no worse than the rest of the indy films.
They're ALL 40's and 50's Errol Flynn Style adventure films.

 

[King Darkness]

I just remember swining greaser monkeys and a ufo taking off.

Thats about all I remember too.

 

[Entropy]

I was just talking about this today with a co-worker. Why did the skull of a biological creature, made out of crystal no less, have psychic power after it was dead? But it wasn't really dead, as when reunited with it's body, it reanimated and melded with the other crystal skeletons to form one living alien? I didn't have a problem with the notion of aliens just with the way they were handled like some sort of tomb raider-ish magical gobbledygook.


The movie still stinks.

 

[King Darkness]

I was just talking about this today with a co-worker. Why did the skull of a biological creature, made out of crystal no less, have psychic power after it was dead? But it wasn't really dead, as when reunited with it's body, it reanimated and melded with the other crystal skeletons to form one living alien? I didn't have a problem with the notion of aliens just with the way they were handled like some sort of tomb raider-ish magical gobbledygook.

I will forward your question to Teemu. I am sure he knows the answer.

 

[Dally]

I enjoyed it more once I watched the DVD too. I did like it when I saw it in theaters, but it was no ROTLA.

 

[Darren Carnall]

The above comment is good. The film is no raiders. But then seriously... is anything? I haven't seen it at home, I need to get it on DVD, but in the theater I really liked it. The only two things I remember *really* standing out for me and making me go "what the hell?" is when Shia started swining through the trees... I remember thinking "oh no, they're not are they..." .... and then he did. Unbelievable. So cartoonish and badly done. I'd just cut that out if I could. And the other thing is Spielbergs really bad lighting on some of the early scenes when they get Indy out of the boot of the car, at area 51. It's outdoors... evening, and they've all got this weird bright white light shining on their heads from the opposite direction where the sun was going down.

Now I understand movie trickery, but this just looked false. It made it look like they filmed it all in a studio, but I've seen footage of them outdoors there.. and the behind the scenes stuff has perfect, NATURAL lighting. Yet in the actual film they gave it this false 'wrong direction, wrong colour, wrong strength' light. Terrible. Just terrible.

But apart from those things I remember enjoying the film as a whole. It was an Indy film. It did what it said on the tin.

(oh, and I thought the alien thing was no more daft than all the religious hocus pokus. It's all silly made up stuff... so the aliens were fine with me. Really enjoyed it in fact)

 

[BadMoon]

When I saw it in the theater, I felt letdown. I mean I was honestly letdown by it. I decided to give it another try when it came out on DVD and now I swear I've watched it 6 more times and I really like it alot.

I think that with such a long wait for this movie and all the hype, it was alot to take in. Sure, it's still got flaws & some things could've been handled better... but somehow it's worked it's way into my heart. It helps that my daughter LOVES it and we can enjoy it the same way that me & my mom did with Temple of doom.

Anybody else changes their mind about KOTCS after multiple viewings?

I had the opposite reaction to the DVD. I saw it in the theaters twice and thought it was good. I have tried to watch it a couple times on Bluray and just end up turning it off. It just isn't the same Indy.

 

[J-Wild]

Very letdown at the movie theater.

Bought the dvd hoping it would grow on me. No, it didn't. I could barely even finish it out of boredom...I gave the dvd to my mom because she likes just about everything.

Seriously, I could sit and watch Raiders over and over--that movie is pure perfection! CS wasn't even engaging on any level for me.