indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull.

just watched indiana 4 last night with family. you can tell how old harrison ford is. it's cool that he wanted to do all the stunts himself. he said the audience can tell if someone else did them. this is the 3rd time my brother is watching this. he said he couldn't wait till indie picks up his fedora in the end before the credits. he really enjoyed the movie by the way. just that 3 times is kinda too much. unless its batman begins, the prestige and coming soon..the dark knight.( which he probably will).

anyway cate blanchett played her role as a russian dictator quite well. but i assume this was nothing to her compared to her more challenging roles like queen elizabeth , and the more recent, bob dylan in "i'm not there".

shia labeouf played the rugged/james dean/rebel without a cause/greased hair/harley kinda teenager, mutt williams. he was ok. now the reason i say ok is that he wasn't quite in his element. ...as the usual comic role he plays in even stevens, disturbia and transformers. but i respect his breaking out of the stereotype role and trying something different. he even said in an interview that he was tired of playing the teenager. he wants "to be a bad guy". at least this is a start. a BIG SPIELBERG ONE.

there were a few scenes which seemed more than familiar.
1. the temple which collapsed in the end was like in the mummy returns when the jungle gets sucked into the pyramid.

2. also in the mummy, the big giant ants ate the russian soldiers. only in the mummy, they were bugs.

and my bro spotted some catchy lines at the end.

indie: where'd they go? into space?(referring to the aliens)
ox: not into space..into the space between spaces.(whatever the hell that means)

ah..theres one more scene at the wedding when indie gets married. he kisses the bride. mutt licks his lips. and his mum is the bride. they focused it ..like it's supposed to mean something.

anyway, on the whole i enjoyed the movie. 7/10. got nothing really much to say about the score by john williams. cause, the previous movies..i was too young to remember the music. but listening to all of it now...i realise his music has also grown as well as indie has. the difference to me, this score compared to the previous ones..the raiders march is much longer and fans can really enjoy that. raiders march is the theme song for all the movies. hopefully no one is scratching their heads right now.