Sigh

I spent my 21st birthday (well, midnight the day of my 21st birthday) watching George Lucas attempt to ruin Indiana Jones. No surprise here, but you could tell what parts were Lucas and what parts were Spielberg. The revelation that it was Lucas himself who pitched the story brings my spirits even lower.

Is it a surprise that the movie was bad? Not really…it was to be expected. It pains me because I see how good it could have been. Easily.

As late as 2005 the Jones camp was saying that, in the spirit of the other films, the new Indiana Jones films would feature minimal to no computer generated images. When something exploded in Raiders of the Lost Ark, it exploded.

Instead the film was built around a plot dependent on CGI. The film took the normal “suspension of disbelief” of the other Indy films to an unbelievable level. Most of this was a result of CGI.

For example, when Shia LaBeouf swings through the trees and catches up to a car chase its bad enough. But the fact that the CGI monkey’s that he met second before attack on his command is just plain stupid.

There are CGI ants that add nothing and CGI prairie dogs that literally added nothing to the plot. The CGI ending with aliens was fake and, again, plain stupid.

Thank you George Lucas. Please stop making movies.