No time for love Dr. Jones

So, I went and saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull the other night and even though I love Indy, I was ultimately a little disappointed. Ok, I grew up watching The Last Crusade, I've seen it countless times, and then I eventually saw Raiders and Temple and I love them all, but I had completely forgot about the new one until the other week when I went to see Iron Man (which is awesome, by the way) and saw the trailer for Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Before this I had only seen the poster and a couple of on set photos of Harrison Ford in his Indy get up, which didn't really get me hyped for it, considering its been like 20 years since Crusade, and George Lucas' track record with bringing back old movie franchises isn't quite the best. With this trailer and along with re-watching some of the old ones on TV, I got a little hyped up for it, which is my own fault, I don't know why I let myself do it, as it always ends up in disappointment. But it wasn't all bad, there was all the typical cheesy Indy humour, great action sequences, Harrison Ford kicking some ass, and it even had the Janitor from Scrubs in it. But on the other hand, there are the bads.

I'm just going to sum it up here, there are spoilers, so stop reading now if you haven't seen it yet.

The Good:

• It's Indy.
• References to the old movies, ie. the ark, snakes, Marion, Marcus Brody, Paramount logo etc.
• The action sequences were pretty cool.
• John Hurt was pretty good.

I'll probably add more to this list later on when I can remember, or if I see it again soon.

The Bad:

• Dodgy CGI and keying.
• Cate Blanchett's bad accent.
• Shia LaBeouf is too nerdy, scrawny and not bad ass enough to be Indy's son.
• Monkeys!?! C'mon George, give up with the animals/other species/other race helping the protagonists to win a fight.
• The Fridge.
• Indy is old.
• No Nazi's.
• Aliens!?! I thought this was an action/adventure movie, not sci-fi.
• The ending.
• It's a little boring in places.
• No Sean Connery.

Overall, I think things even out, there's good parts, and there's bad parts, but its still pretty enjoyable.

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In other news, one of my housemates got me a belated birthday present. A plush Link from The Phantom Hourglass, since I'm a huge Zelda nerd I think its awesome and love it. I need to play through Wind Waker and Twilight Princess again sometime soon.

This will be mine soon.

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I also played around with the look of the blog. Changed fonts, text colours, played with the css, edited images and stuff. It wasn't much, but it looks a little better. Might do more of a better job with it at a later date, but for now it will do.

Anyways, thats enough of my aimless rambling for now.