Oh God No, Part Infinity.
Before I start my review of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Along With Crystal Skull and an Ark, I would like to say that I read that Robert Downey Jr is considering making a Travis McGee movie.
Please, for the love of God, don't do it. Yes, you're a great actor, especially when you're sober. And yes, the success of Iron Man practically gives you carte blanche to do whatever you like. And yes, the McGee books are full of stories that practically beg to be made into movies of some kind, but that doesn't mean you should. Yes, you can probably do just about anything if you put your mind to it but please leave McGee alone. I'm not one to say that the person being cast has to look exactly like the character described in the book-but it does help and you are almost physically the opposite of the way the character is described.
On the other hand, sticking to the way a character is described means someone who can't act might get the part, so what do I know?
Who will play Meyer?
So, Indy was good. It wasn't great but there was never a dull moment, there was non-stop action and some parts were very cool (I speak, of course, of the scene in the beginning when Indy is brought by the bad guys to a warehouse to find a certain box-and in the ensuing mayhem there is a brief glimpse in a broken box of the Ark of the Covenant. So, there's a lost temple and some alien looking creatures and some scorpions and killer ants...a typical Indiana Jones movie. It was perfectly entertaining, although I will say that I thought Cate Blanchett's accent had a tendency to slip. Yes, she was evil (and through a quest for knowledge, destroyed herself, as they always do) but every time I heard her Aussie accent coming through, I thought it was funny that someone so good at what she does let that happen. I liked Shia, he sold his performance, as he always does. And it was good to see Karen Allen again-could you please act more now that your kids are older? And as for Harrison Ford...well, he still looks pretty good for 65 but the man is NOT a great actor and the older he gets, the less he seems to care. Ah for the Harrison of Star Wars who was a charming rogue or the Harrison of Witness, who danced with Kelly in the barn. Even the Harrison of What Lies Beneath, playing the nice doctor who wondered why is wife was going a little crazy all the while knowing the cause. I won't say he was phoning it in in Indiana Jones when it was more than that-but it wasn't much more than that.
Please, for the love of God, don't do it. Yes, you're a great actor, especially when you're sober. And yes, the success of Iron Man practically gives you carte blanche to do whatever you like. And yes, the McGee books are full of stories that practically beg to be made into movies of some kind, but that doesn't mean you should. Yes, you can probably do just about anything if you put your mind to it but please leave McGee alone. I'm not one to say that the person being cast has to look exactly like the character described in the book-but it does help and you are almost physically the opposite of the way the character is described.
On the other hand, sticking to the way a character is described means someone who can't act might get the part, so what do I know?
Who will play Meyer?
So, Indy was good. It wasn't great but there was never a dull moment, there was non-stop action and some parts were very cool (I speak, of course, of the scene in the beginning when Indy is brought by the bad guys to a warehouse to find a certain box-and in the ensuing mayhem there is a brief glimpse in a broken box of the Ark of the Covenant. So, there's a lost temple and some alien looking creatures and some scorpions and killer ants...a typical Indiana Jones movie. It was perfectly entertaining, although I will say that I thought Cate Blanchett's accent had a tendency to slip. Yes, she was evil (and through a quest for knowledge, destroyed herself, as they always do) but every time I heard her Aussie accent coming through, I thought it was funny that someone so good at what she does let that happen. I liked Shia, he sold his performance, as he always does. And it was good to see Karen Allen again-could you please act more now that your kids are older? And as for Harrison Ford...well, he still looks pretty good for 65 but the man is NOT a great actor and the older he gets, the less he seems to care. Ah for the Harrison of Star Wars who was a charming rogue or the Harrison of Witness, who danced with Kelly in the barn. Even the Harrison of What Lies Beneath, playing the nice doctor who wondered why is wife was going a little crazy all the while knowing the cause. I won't say he was phoning it in in Indiana Jones when it was more than that-but it wasn't much more than that.
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