Hey guys, since I could probably use more blogs, I decided to do a top 10 countdown. Since I can talk for days about movies, this should give me something to talk about. Obviously, I don't expect people to care much about my preferences in movies but what the heck? At least I get extra blogs in.I decided to do this list because it's fun to trash movies you hate (I used to have so much fun doing it with my brothers) and it's actually very easy to compile a list of films that annoy you and what you hate about them.
So, here we go.
Top 10 Movies I Hate the Most
10: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
To be perfectly honest, I sort of loved and despised this movie all at once. I mean, I love Indiana Jones. He's a great character and the first two films, Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade, are some of my favorites. Especially The Last Crusade, which is my favorite in the series. Then along came this movie and I had hopes. My parents saw it on a date night and didn't like it at all. Still, I held out hope that I personally would like it.
Then I saw the movie and much to my disappointment, my parents were right. While I liked almost everything about the film, the key element failed. The story.
What the flying heck was George Lucas thinking? Aliens?!? Seriously?!? Aliens just don't mesh with Indiana Jones. He finds religious artifacts and ancient civilizations, not sci-fi ancient/future alien cultures!
Stupid, lame, moronic.
And the real pity is, I would have liked this movie very much otherwise. No one can make an exciting action film like Steven Spielberg and this film was no exception. Aside from the "hiding in a refrigerator to escape a nuclear blast" part (seriously, there's suspension of disbelief and then there's that), I was as invested as I could be in the movie. It's just every other scene kept reminding me that there were aliens in the movie. Uuuuuuugggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! How could Spielberg let Lucas work the script to this film with aliens in mind? That one story line ruined an otherwise good movie.
Final thoughts:
One rotten apple ruins the whole batch.
Most complaints stem from either the aliens or the refrigerator. The sad thing is, if he had gone with just one, and stuck to his own rules he could have made it work. At the end of Jaws the shark blows up in a massive explosion. This doesn't make logical sense, but when called out on it he said something along the lines of, "If I've had them for the last hour and a half it doesn't matter what happens these last 2 minutes." Well, Crystal Skull didn't even have me for 30 minutes before it was asking me to just go with stuff that didn't make sense within the rules of the universe Spielberg had made.
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