I wasn’t a big fan of the alien stuff. It didn’t feel very Indiana Jones to me. Also, I thought many of the action scenes were overdone. One of the things I’ve always liked about Indiana Jones is that its a bit of a stretch to believe that this college professor is out running around in jungles or whatever laying down the law with his fedora and bullwhip, yet, Harrison Ford was such a classic, he made us buy into it. In Raiders, there was so much tension in the opening scene where he jumps across the pit, nearly falls in, and narrowly gets up and through the closing door. However, in Crystal Skull, we are treated to the same overdone, CGI action scenes that we get in movies like Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man’s Chest where they are having a 3 way sword fight on a water wheel when Shia is swinging through the jungle like he’s Tarzan, and then swinging right into the cab of the speeding jeep with his army of monkeys who attack the Russians. I just felt like that was a little absurd for an Indiana Jones movie. The whole thing just seemed hokey to me. Like the little CGI gophers. I was like, “what is this? Caddyshack?” I felt like it suffers from the same disease most action movies suffer from these days. They try to appeal to everyone – kids, men, women – and, in the process, lose any sense of direction and become diluted. Who cares though? The whole goal now is to just make something that everyone can go see, promote the hell out of it, and make 250 million dollars. That was their goal, and they accomplished it. I mean, what about the ending? A wedding? Thank God, because it was just going to kill me if I didn’t see Indy and Marion get married. Can’t we just assume they lived happily ever after? It’s just so cheese. And, again – aliens?