Plinkett mentions Applebee's in Indy 4 review. *A few years later* "Spend $35 at Applebee's and get a free ticket to Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny." I wish I was making this up.
Everyone knows fridges are nuclear blast-resistant. That's basic science. That's why I made Stephen put it in, since he didn't like my idea of Indy dying and becoming a force ghost teaming up with Hayden Christiansen to help Shia LaBeouf fight aliens.
There was this one space snake that saved my life. he let me grab him by the head and pulled me away from that blackhole. He died though. But he saved my life.
56:51 That bugged me because in 1957 nobody would have said Nuclear Blast or Nucular Blast, they would have said Atomic Blast. The term nuclear didn't become part of the general lexicon until the 1960's.
@@raven4k998 And if you set a movie in a time period, you should put in an effort at making it true to the period. But do tell us more about how comfortable you are with sloppy, lazy mediocrity. What's it like being what's wrong with the media-consuming public?
It truly was that bad. No one can convince me otherwise. They could do a dozen more, and I would still think Crystal Skull was the shark-jumping-est shark jump movie of all time.
Just because the new movie will be the hottest brain cancer ever created doesnt mean this movie wasn't steaming shit. Sure, you'll eat shit before choosing brain cancer, but you won't be happy.
Mr. Plinkett does have a point about the aliens: it would have been far better if the plot was centered around an ancient artifact from Russian Orthodox, Mongol, Siberian, or Turkic mythology, something the Soviets would have been interested in digging up on their own soil. That, and it would have been neat seeing Indy traveling around Siberia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, or even Persia/Iran.
He also has a good point about how the Soviets in this film aren't really portrayed as being all that evil (probably so hypocrite George can get more digs in at American society) compared to the Nazis and Thuggees in the previous movies. There's another missed opportunity in depicting the Communists as being pretty monstrous, especially since the brutal suppression of anti-Communist rebellion in Hungary would be pretty recent in KotCS.
DinosaurFan88 Though in the 50-70 this movie supposedly takes place mind control was something that both Soviets and Americans wanted no matter what. So artifact that can give them that (Crystal Skull) is thematically appropriate. Also it's difficult to find any monotheistic religious artefact more hallow than the Arc of the Covenant.
The Crystal Skull is really a very poor McGuffin...first of all, there's nothing really supernatural about it, it's just an alien head/technology? And second, there's no real-world mystery about it, they were proved to be fakes.
I like Luca's idea of revealing indy where he is trapped in the back of a car. It would show the audience he was kidnapped and forced to do a movie no-one asked for.
The stuff with the FBI guys makes me realize this movie could have been so much better if Indy spent the movie trying to keep both them AND the Soviets from getting the skull - it would reinforce the idea that the skull is actually dangerous, it would make Max's constant betrayals make a bit more sense, and it would actually pay off all the McCarthy stuff from earlier in the movie.
My main memory of "Crystal Skull" is wanting to walk out on the ending sequence, like the story had utterly failed in every single way--even basic curiosity to see how Indy ends up. I can't even fault the "Star Wars" prequels in being that bad. Seems like every decision they made was somehow the worst compromise possible.
also Max should have been a German archeologist played by Stellan Skarsgard "paperclipped" to the US who would probably be the real villain. Making the Russians more of a "Red" Herring.
“In real life, he’d probably contract some weird foreign disease” The memorable time-honored scene in Raiders where he shoots the sword guy exists purely because Harrison Ford didn’t want to perform an epic fight scene due to his _dysentary_ that he caught shooting the scenes in Cairo
Also, Harrison asked Steven if there was a way they could shorten the scene. Steven's suggestion, just pull your gun out and shoot him, got everyone on location laughing. So they went with that. The scene is also referenced in The Pirate Movie. The swordsman in that shows off his "skill" a bit more dramatically, and the man who shoots said swordsman looks nothing like Harrison, but the film and that sequence is bloody hilarious.
To those interested, the beautiful poem recited towards the end was 'To an Athlete Dying Young', by A.E. Housman. Thanks, Mr. Plinkett, who is neither young, an athlete, nor dying.
This movie was so bad when I was younger I never really re-visited it. But the scene where Indy escaped the Diner by telling Mut to hit someone, then Mut being hit by others, as they both escape is classic Indy. Cool, suave, witty, improvasional, and he gets out without a scratch. Legend. A good set piece for the character.
There is a scene in Peru where you can hear Mexican mariachi music being played... totally inaccurate. It was so easy to put traditional Peruvian music in the background, and even make the scene more mystical. It is the country of Machu Pichu... and they chose freaking mariachi music to be played in the scene...aye aye aye
Even though the Indy movies are not supposed to be historically or archeologically accurate, the scenes on Peru are too damn lazy. Like "part time" and the rest of the movie. Greetings from Trujillo, puro.
Kevin Van Vooren are you some sort of psychopath? Are you ok? Do you need a taxi? Uber? I probably have enough to send you anywhere in town, I can give you some? Are you sure? Do you have a fever? Are you sick? Calm down dude.
Having Indy trying to recover an alien artifact might have worked. But they handled it so poorly in every sense of the word. Like, there's a reason you don't actually SEE GOD in Raiders.
Funny story. Way back when this movie was released I was in college and my friends and I were disappointed. The alien as you mentioned was a big reason. So over pizza and beer we sat down and wrote up an outline for our version of the movie. It keeps the title, it involves alien artifacts, and it involves Mutt. But so much else is different including not actually seeing an alien. It was actually a fun story that maybe would have worked.
Actually the alien thing seems really stupid At least with the Ark, the shiva stones and the chalice they were grounded in religious mythology that was natural and belonging to the earth They could have kept the actual crystal skulls and made it more mysterious to their origin rather than go with the alien trope
@@Margo-No-T Erm... I think its more because UA-cam has become a politically-correct cesspool of Copyright Strikes, Community Guidelines that are unfairly and unequally forced, Endless Video Takedowns, shadowbans, CHANNELS OBLITERATED OUT OF NOWHERE, and an Ivory-Tower mindset that Gives ZERO f--ks about the Loss of Ad revenue that comes from their self-imposed Adpocalypse (x 2) becuae things are not "Advertise-Friendly" enough for them. PS No, I didn't want to censor my f--k, but UA-cam automatically removes comments that do not align with their Utpoian worldview
Tasty Loaf lol do you really think 2006-2012 yt was politically incorrect LMAO? You’ve obviously not been on youtube for long, it used to be the mostly harmless and kid friendly content. Political youtube channels are a relatively new thing. I mean even the “adpocalypse” is nothing compared to how hard it was to get your channel approved for monetization
bananian I guess he knows them but disregards them. Could be that he is just completely oblivious to them and has these ideas that needs focusing from a producer or screenwriter who would question his decisions and ideas. I mean maybe he has lots of ideas and we get to see some of the shittiest because no one dares to question him. Or at least that is how I feel about the prequels.
+gspendlove *if* a new indiana jones movie ever comes out, i'm almost certain it will try to not repeat the same mistakes (just like "the force awakens" seems to be the result of what so many people hated about the prequels).
The film should have been set in Romania and played some kind of Slavic Goth theme. The Soviet Union was very mysterious back in the 50s. There was so many rumours and there is a wash of history and mythology in Eastern Europe. I actually like the idea of the Russians trying to get mind control, there was a big fear back at that time that had the CIA do LSD experiments and stuff. That would have made a great theme if done right. Almost like Stranger Things.
"The Russians could already have done it" was literally how the CIA convinced the government into letting them abduct and torture random people on the flimsy promise of mind control, extra-sensory perception espionage, and split-personality double agents. It was also how the military convinced the government into funding research and mass production of the hydrogen bomb.
@@davidwuhrer6704 But we already did. The government should've let CIA mindfuck as much people as possible, othervice you wouldn't be close to awekening only in this kinds of movies. Not like you can fully awake. We've befriended lizards, hohoho.
@@This_side_of_the_internet _> The government should've let CIA mindfuck as much people as possible_ They did. It was called OPERATION MK ULTRA. (Capitals in the original.)
Please do more Plinkett reviews! When Christmas came and went without a new Plinkett it made me sad. I know Half in the Bag is much easier to produce but these psychotic dissections are incredible.
the old school wrestling reviews and mr plinkett star wars reviews are probably my favourite things to watch online. WHAT BAR is Mr. Plinkett? much love to osw and redlettermedia.
I agree that the major problems here were two things: Too mucgh fake/clean looking CGI taking away the realness and the grittiness, and a lack of violence that was present in all other movies. This felt too much like a Disney theme ride...
It's interesting how Lucas' talent decreased in direct proportion to his success. I truly wonder how much the original Star Wars movies succeeded in spite of him, rather than because of him.
Major condolences. My grandmother took me to see it. I still hang out with her a lot, but we both agreed to never see an Indiana Jones film in theaters again. I was around _Ten_ when I saw it, and still thought it was terrible. Not as regrettable as seeing The Lightning Thief with her, though.
1:00:28 this represents the saddest part of an older artist. They lose the edge they had when they were younger. Sharp edges get rounded off with age and responsibilities. Raiders was an adult movie that still appealed to the whole family. It was a modern violent complex thrilling adventure that didn’t patronize the audience. Skulls and now Dial of Destiny are kid movies.
Agreed. That does leave me with a question. Do RLM & Mr. Plinkett now fit in to that category? Have they lost their edge and are now more careful about what they say? I've been a fan since the begining and have seen all of the "Best of the Worst" ,"Nerd Crew" and "Mr. Plinkett reviews many times. The only content of theirs, that I have not viewed multiple times is "Half in the bag" and that's only because of the potential spoilers. So to make a long paragraph short, (too late) I know their content well and would count them, as the Best of the Movie reviewers online. Overall Mst3k is the best but what they do, is different enough to fall in to a slightly different category. "What the fuck was I talking about?" Oh yeah. Has RLM lost it's edge? I find them to be as entertaining, as they were 5 years ago but I do think there are small signs, here and there, of a softening of the style and a reduction of the angst, they once had. Nothing that would lead me to stop watching but age does have an effect, on all of us, eventually. What do you think Sir? Feel free to let me know, ya Hack Fraud ;)
Interesting you mention this. I'm 37 and like many folks age, I was obsessed with Jurassic Park. Watching it now, it's an action thriller for adults that happens to appeal to kids. The newer installments are more family friendly. I enjoy the hell out of them but I can feel the slight adjustment in tone towards more family friendly fare.
@@steveharvey2102 RLM is also a business, and they need to keep an eye on what they say, to continue getting monetized. It's the same with these millionaire/billionaire directors. RLM are older and more mature as well, which means they don't think it's cutting edge humor to offend as much. With life experience comes empathy. I personally still love them, and I also very much enjoy when it's just 2 RLM dudes talking at length in their black void, about whatever they love or dislike. It's so fun.
@@steveharvey2102 I think it's mostly UA-cam that is to blame for their "softening". They're now going to extremes to make everything ad-friendly, the platform has basically become a kids channel at this point. They're not even letting them swear anymore so I can't blame RLM for having to lose some of their edge to stay monetized.
@@TarMinastir333 As long as they never try to hide Mike's elderly abuse fetish I'll be fine with a toned down RLM. Masturbating to the Olsen twins is definitely something I want people to think I'm disgusted by.
Frank Darabont's script for the alien idea (he wrote a draft for it) was *infinitely* better than what we got. Spielberg loved it. Ford loved it. Marion is all through the film, the dialogue is great, it all makes sense. But Lucas, idiot that he'd become, rejected it. If they made Darabont's version of this story, it may have ended up being a much, much better film.
There’s an alternate universe where people actually respect Darabont and we get a great 4th Indiana Jones movie and a great Walking Dead show that didn’t suck after the first season.
I've never seen a single Star Trek episode or movie, but every reference Mike makes is amazing. Not only because he essentially memorized the series, but also it seems like Star Trek did everything first.
You’ve never seen Star Trek? You’d love it!! It’s got these people trying to take a ring to some mountain, and they get hunted by these ghost things that can suck your soul, there’s a super awesome bad guy that collects rings and can change history by snapping his fingers and travel using a boot in some field, or a fire place. It’s a good series, you’ll love it. Especially if you like light sabers
Same I've never seen a single episode or movie but the reviewer's knowledge of the franchise is crazy, I mean a human brain can only hold so much information
"This movie feels like a visual imitation of an Indiana Jones film" This *exactly* describes the core of what bothered me about this movie. It just does not feel like a true Indiana Jones movie, but like a knockoff. And I am still sooo pissed that they did not go with the story and visual style of the Fate of Atlantis adventure game. It would have been a million times better, and this game had by far the best visual style for Atlantis I've ever seen. It did have aliens, but only very subtly, and it is only implied that aliens visited Earth in the distant past (we never see any). Also, Atlantis would have been the logical next step for Indiana Jones. I mean, an adventurer archaeologist who found the holy grail, and Atlantis is never even mentioned?
Would've been cool if he went to find Excalibur or something. And a scene where someone does fancy sword stuff with Excalibur and gets shot like before. Indy: "they never learn"
I first saw the Star Wars reviews like 8 years ago. Finally, today I watched the Indiana Jones series so I could watch this Plinkett review. I've been waiting the majority of my adult life to watch this fucking video. And now the day is finally here! I love you Mr. Plinkett!!
Why would his family making it matter? Is his family's kitchen magic? Does ethanol have a different chemical formula when it is made in his family's kitchen?
The weirdest part of this whole movie is the look of the picture. They shot on real film but then had what appears to be an 11 year old girl using photoshop do the color timing and color correction. Looks like they used the cheesy built-in FX on the whole picture. Diffused glow! shitty hue shifts making puke colored skin tones! The BTS footage looks more cinematic than the finished picture.
That jungle chase looks *awful*. I don't know if it's the colour grading or film processing or what, but it literally looks like they shot it on a soundstage.
After watching some BTS stuff, it's almost entirely bad CGI. They actually shot it on an almost featureless dirt road, and added all the jungle stuff after as visual effects. It all feels so weightless and lacking in any kind of visceral intensity. Perfect example of how NOT to use CGI...
@@desmondd1984 It looks like exactly that, not even remotely real. The original Raiders blew me away as a young teen, it was gritty, the action was plausible and it was seriously gory for a PG. Those were the days.
22:06 - and @48:25 This is a great point about how "Crystal Skull" can't make up its mind about its villains. The movie's opening kicks off with the now-obligatory anti-McCarthyist riffs; and yet the main plot depends on the Soviets being genuine bad guys. The first three Indiana Jones installments never suffered from this kind of confusion, in part presumably because there's no current respectable political sympathy for Indian death cults or Nazis.
"the original plot for the third movie was a haunted castle movie. But Steven had just done Poltergeirst and said he didnt want to do another haunted house movie"" Ummm.... Poltergeist came out in 1982 George. Pretty sure Steven just thought that was a dumb as shit idea and made an excuse.
He was only a producer on poltergeist, too. Just like gremlins, he had a minor role in producing, joe dante did gremlins and tobe Hooper did poltergeist.
elongated skulls are actually a thing though in archeology whether alien or otherwise, i don't get why everyone throughout the comments section feels the need to constantly bash on this film for the alien plot when this idea is actually consistent with the reality of archeology, it really only serves to draw attention to how ignorant everyone is about archeology, it's like they think Lloyd Pie and his research on the Starchild skull never happened, it's really only the psychic telepath properties of the skull and the dramatic alien related conclusion that the film takes creative licence with the alien skull plot, because it's hollywood, if the film handled the alien crystal skull phenomena with no overly dramatic elements to it then people would have complained it wasn't an engaging enough plot, there's just no pleasing some people
@@rickshawwheelchair It's amazing how many think Spielberg did Poltergeist and Gremlins. It's up there with Tim Burton directing A Nightmare Before Christmas.
The girl who punches Mutt Williams (Shia LeBeouf) in the diner scene is Sasha Spielberg, daughter of director Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw (Willie Scott from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)). Cate Blanchett and Harrison Ford had never met before this movie. The first time they were introduced was on the first day of filming, where Indiana and Spalko first meet. Blanchett said it was ideal to be introduced to him dressed as Indiana Jones, because she'd always been a big fan of the character. This is the first Indiana Jones movie without Pat Roach, who had a role in the first three movies. Roach died in 2004. The character Mutt Williams is named after composer John Williams This is the only movie in the franchise in which Indy does not fire his pistol. This is the only Indiana Jones movie not to receive any Oscar nominations. The only movie directed by Steven Spielberg to win a Razzie Award (Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off, or Sequel.) Though others have been nominated Steven Spielberg cast Russian actors in the roles of Russian soldiers, so their accents would be authentic.
@@malickfan7461I remember joking back then that they should have saved "The Last Crusade" title for this movie, and simultaneously referring to the Rambo movie around the same time as "Rambo IV: The Hunt For Viagra"
Best line ever..."The audience had to sit through another chapter of the 'What Could've Been Great' book that is currently being written by George Lucas."
Mr Plinkett typically reviews films by George Lucas, and Indy 5 isn't a film by Lucas. Though the decline in quality over at Lucasfilm continues unabated in his absence. That having been said, I'd certainly watch it. But it would be more interesting to see them do a full autopsy on Lucasfilm, using Indy 5 as a jumping off point.
"Im pretty sure lucas wrote that line himself because hes the most fervent anti capitalist ive ever seen" that is the best part of this entire review never fails to make me laugh
Cgi was used mostly for Furiosa hand, backgrounds, and some big explosions. Most of cars were real. Side effect of this was that movie sometime felt speedup.
+degree7 He actually had a guitar though, and he was really on a bungie. Really to me the only thing that looked clearly fake was the steering wheel at the end, but even then they actually crashed the rest of the truck that you see in the shot.
Lucas is like an actual kid with this movie, he just comes up with random shot and tells Steven to do it. He entirely misses the point of the original 3 IJ movies. KOTCS doesn’t feel like an Indiana Jones movie, it feels like a parody of an Indiana Jones movie.
Mau Jo Eh, I wouldn't call it fair. I didn't watch his reviews for the other two but the first one was mostly nitpicking if even that. If you were to go into the comment section to tell your opinion on the review, you'd be promptly put in place for thinking the Nostalgia Critic is a professional. Apparently, the "critic" in his name is just for show. He's a comedy guy first and is so on the expense of actual worthwhile criticism. I dunno, his reviews suddenly just felt like a waste of time after that. Not even the jokes make it worthwhile when they're so forced and based on things from the movie that more often than not weren't flaws in the first place. I'd absolutely love to see Plinkett review The Matrix though. He's got that thorough structure to his reviews where things are made clear and obvious to the point where it can get outright hilarious. And hopefully he'd focus on the things that actually matter, instead of rooting around for things to make fun of just to fill his review with something.
***** Hey, it's my opinion. You don't consider it a fair review? That's your opinion. I'm sure Plinkett would do a dissection similar to that he's done before to the _Star Wars_ and _Star Trek_ series, which seemingly we both would enjoy, but I believe NC has his own way to present his critique mixed up with a lot of comedy, which is equally valuable and, more important, enjoyable. Plinkett, on the other side, focuses more in the cinematographic aspects and the technicalities of filming. That's cool too. For me, it's the variety of approaches what makes it fun.
I feel SO bad for Steven Spielberg. It seems like he really wanted out of the project and didn't want to do it in order to preserve the magic of the first three but he got pressured into doing it by George Lucas so he could make a few more bucks. What a damn shame!
I don't think Lucas was motivated by money to make the fourth installment. He has more than enough money. I think he wanted to prove he still "has it" after his disastrous Star Wars prequels.. but clearly Lucas has lost whatever good film and storytelling instincts he ever had.
@@hv3115 Lucas in 1977: Well cinema is about paying homage to Westerns,Samurai films and old serials from the 40´s and 50´s. Lucas in 1999: Cinema is about VFX. Did you see Jurassic Park and Independence day? You can do pretty much damn everything !!
I don't feel bad for severely out of touch, ego driven directors that are waaaaay past their prime. Just look at Ready Player 1 or his trash Westside Story remake. "I want to give power to Hispanics by not adding subtitles in the Spanish speaking parts" WTF? As a Hispanic myself, I must thank him for using us as a means to become richer! So powerful!! Thank you, Mr Spielberg and Hollywood, didn't know that people not understanding what I'm trying to say is so empowering and validating! In fact, I can speak Quechua too, that means I can even look down on other Hispanics because I can speak a native tongue and they can't understand me! So empowering!!
God dammit, I didn't even catch that. I was wondering why there wasn't a "oh, you might have heard of it. It was a little something called... (insert historic moment besides Red Scare in all caps)!"
I think the MPAA is to blame for the whole sanitized violence thing. For some reason they'll allow for surprisingly high levels of gruesome violence in movies with kid friendly ratings, as long as the violence isn't depicted explicitly (or as you say, "far away/off screen"). I personally think this is a horrible policy, since we're not only exposing kids to tons of violence, but the violence they're seeing is unrealistically benign and sanitized. This could give kids false impressions of real violence. They might think a gunshot murder is just some faceless nobody falling over in some overly dramatic manner, rather than a real person suffering a painful, drawn out and horrible death. I think if you're going to have violence in movies, it should be as realistic as possible. Depictions of violence should shock people. They should never seem normal or tame.
There is a weird notion with some people that visually observing violence and gore is harmful while for some reason ignoring the psychological impact of knowing it happened at all. Probably the same morons that think its better to tell their kids the dog went to live on a farm.
BollocksUtwat Yep, well put. Attitudes towards violence, particularly in America are quite nonsensical. Seeing s pair of boobs is taboo, yet people getting murdered is considered fun for the whole family.
Demon Rantz Don't get me wrong, that's an incredible thing to do. But still, he shouldn't have been given as nearly as much free reign, seeing that 90% of his ideas are awful.
It's been the circle of many discussions, but it's pretty arguable that Star Wars was created in editing. Even with all the stuff Jake John mentions, the movie would have been utterly shit had Lucas' edit of the film been the one used.
Sometimes it is the best when the artist are not given too much freedom, but are instead pushed around and kept on a leash by the studio, Lucas has talents but he does not recognize them, also the technical limitations of his time worked greatly into his favor, if he could have he would have made Yoda cgi and had him walk next to Luke, instead of a puppet Luke carried on his back.
If you actually read more into the making of the Original Trilogy especially a New Hope, Lucas had a lot of creative people helping him and giving him input and more importantly knew when to call him out on his bad ideas. Lucas's original first draft for Star Wars was supposedly a freaking mess and was forced to make a rewrite. According to what I've heard Lucas's ex-wife and producer Gary Kurtz basically had to help rewrite the script. Empire Strikes Back (the one that nearly everyone claims is the best one) was the film Lucas had the least amount of control over. In fact you could say he severed little more then a creative consultant. He basically just handed in a story treatment and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan worked it into a script while Irvin Kershner directed the film. Return of the Jedi while still good had a noticeably downgrade in quality compared to Empire due to the fact Gary Kurtz left after disputes with Lucas over the fact Kurtz wanted the series to continue to have the same dark storytelling as Empire, but said that Lucas voted against, seemingly being more concerned with the merchandising element and wanted to end things more happily. As for Indiana Jones, all Lucas pretty much did was come up with the initial idea of what Indiana Jones would be and gave rough story treatments and left people like Spielberg and screenwriters like Lawrence Kasdan take care of everything else. With Indiana Jones 4 Spielberg himself called Lucas's idea of aliens being central to the film pretty much stupid, but eventually caved in after Lucas's constant pressuring. So basically all Lucas has ever been good at was an idea man. But when he doesn't have a good creative team not afraid to speak out to keep him right it's a fucking disaster. This is exactly the reason why I think the Clone Wars TV show was so freaking good compared to the Prequels. Cause all Lucas did was giving out a few story ideas and letting people who knew how to write screenplays and direct take care of everything else.
The "Nucular" pronunciation was popularized by Richard Feynman, who - in his work on the Manhattan project - toured the nation talking to engineers about their roles. People very originally "in the know" about nuclear weapons may have been likely to use that pronunciation.
Wouldn't surprise me that Feynman said it that way. For all his brilliance, he was said to have notoriously low verbal intelligence. That's why he sounds like a Bronx street bum when he talks. I'd kill to see what a conversation between him and rich Evans would turn out sounding like.
@@MoreParksLessParking "Low verbal intelligence" is rdiculous, he was incredibly erudite, he just had a rather strong new york accent. He sounds almost exactly like my grandfather, but way way smarter BTW.
In your own post you contradict yourself. 'Nucular' is a localized dialectic pronunciation. Highly educated people no doubt simply accept various takes on words, understanding this. It's actually kinda neat how pervasive and untouchable 'accents' are given how interconnected our World is through the Cancer known as the Intarwebz.
What If instead of the Crystal skull being an actual alien artifact, the Crystal skull was a magical artifact made by the natives of Peru? that way they could have kept the Crystal skull and not made it actually about aliens.
@@user-hf9hf6hw8j seems making it about aliens was George Lucas' idea.. once again proving he has long lost whatever good storytelling instincts he ever had.
@@hv3115 Lucas thought Star Wars (A New Hope if I have to call it that. Tch!) was going to be a flop so I'm not sure if his instincts were ever correct. It was the people around him (Marcia) and the effects people who ultimately fixed them.
Plinkett mentions Applebee's in Indy 4 review.
*A few years later*
"Spend $35 at Applebee's and get a free ticket to Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny."
I wish I was making this up.
Yeah, when I heard about that I immediately thought about this review and laughed my ass off.
@jamesvanoss9575 It's Solo at Denny's all over again.
The fact the the phrase ‘50’s Diner’ appears multiple times without Dexter Jetster makes me confused and scared.
kingdancekiller it’s Plinkett, so I’d imagine it’s implied.
I hadn't noticed.....but my brain did...
I pooped. 😊
Obi! Hahaha
::Pulls up ass crack pants::
Tf are you talking about dickweed.
Everyone knows fridges are nuclear blast-resistant. That's basic science. That's why I made Stephen put it in, since he didn't like my idea of Indy dying and becoming a force ghost teaming up with Hayden Christiansen to help Shia LaBeouf fight aliens.
I know, and its stylistically designed to be that way, but I can diminish the effect of it...
My SHIT is dense...and doctor says that's a problem.
***** Again, it's like poetry. He, uh-he rhymes.
I shit in stanzas.
The chemical reaction from combining cold water with molten aluminum definitely can though.
A guy with a whip,... in a haunted castle.
I think that’s castlevania.
If they had made a whole movie like that, I would've cried Bloody Tears.
Yeeeaaah
Mike doesn’t know what that is
It's also Temple of Doom
Snakes are actually the strongest metal known to man and are what is used to tether the Moon to the Earth so it doesn't float away.
There was this one space snake that saved my life. he let me grab him by the head and pulled me away from that blackhole. He died though. But he saved my life.
As a space snake myself, I appreciate that neither of you seem to believe the common stereotypes perpetuated by racists like Mr. Plinkett and Trump.
+viscountalpha truly a brave soul.
He will be missed
There is a lot all of us could learn from Space Snake. I'm looking at you interplanetary alligators.
That is extremely bigoted. You should be ashamed.
56:51 That bugged me because in 1957 nobody would have said Nuclear Blast or Nucular Blast, they would have said Atomic Blast. The term nuclear didn't become part of the general lexicon until the 1960's.
oh common it's a movie it does not have to have true facts in it they can make what ever they like up for the movie and call it true
NERD!
Raven4K I think the fact that he said it wrong is what makes it an issue
@@raven4k998 And if you set a movie in a time period, you should put in an effort at making it true to the period.
But do tell us more about how comfortable you are with sloppy, lazy mediocrity. What's it like being what's wrong with the media-consuming public?
It is pronounced nucular. Nucular!
"A movie nobody wanted to make, but everybody wanted to see until they did" End of Review ^_^
The photo of a smiling Karen Allen in a tollbooth never fails to make me laugh
It wouldn't be RLM without hilariously mean-spirited humor.
They gave her another break from her job at the tollbooth
It was the first thing I thought of when I saw her wheeled out for the new one
@@clarence9593 get back in the toll booth
@@clarence9593tueuweiwueueutiyirtàteiteisutsuyi😢
Prairie Dogs are here because Lucas is a huge fan of the classic "Exploding Varmints Vol.1" tape.
sasaki999pro he didn’t just shoot them, he bullseye’d them. Showing Luke was it psychopathic.
That movie is in Tarantino's Top 10.
Release Vol 2 now.
No, release the snyder cut!
@@MrJohnlennon007 What? Wouldn't it be better to shoot them an guarantee a clean kill than to shoot to wound for a slow, painful death?
Fun fact: The Nazi muscle guy and the Turban muscle guy Indie fights were played by the same actor, pro wrestler Pat Roach.
Also, cool awesome Indy guy from the first movie and sad old fart from this movie, same guy.
That fuckin cheeseburger walrus??
He also played General Kael in Willow : )
My mommy's dead, that shit's illegal, cucktopus.
Are you talking about my shit? I didn't even change anything fuckblast
They should've just made the aliens in the movie Gungans.
Erik Elio It's gonna be great!
"Wait. Gungans? I thought they were called Gungas."
Goongas
Gungans. Why did it have to be gungans?
Goombas.
Here before the 5th one drops making everyone question if the 4th one was really that bad
There’s still hope since it hasn’t come out just yet
''the prequels weren't that bad''-syndrome
My pp huwts
It truly was that bad. No one can convince me otherwise. They could do a dozen more, and I would still think Crystal Skull was the shark-jumping-est shark jump movie of all time.
Just because the new movie will be the hottest brain cancer ever created doesnt mean this movie wasn't steaming shit. Sure, you'll eat shit before choosing brain cancer, but you won't be happy.
Mr. Plinkett does have a point about the aliens: it would have been far better if the plot was centered around an ancient artifact from Russian Orthodox, Mongol, Siberian, or Turkic mythology, something the Soviets would have been interested in digging up on their own soil. That, and it would have been neat seeing Indy traveling around Siberia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, or even Persia/Iran.
He also has a good point about how the Soviets in this film aren't really portrayed as being all that evil (probably so hypocrite George can get more digs in at American society) compared to the Nazis and Thuggees in the previous movies. There's another missed opportunity in depicting the Communists as being pretty monstrous, especially since the brutal suppression of anti-Communist rebellion in Hungary would be pretty recent in KotCS.
DinosaurFan88 Though in the 50-70 this movie supposedly takes place mind control was something that both Soviets and Americans wanted no matter what. So artifact that can give them that (Crystal Skull) is thematically appropriate.
Also it's difficult to find any monotheistic religious artefact more hallow than the Arc of the Covenant.
Indeed and if they absolutely had to have aliens they could have made it about recovering something from Tunguska.
DinosaurFan88
He also made a good point about the Olsen Twins
The Crystal Skull is really a very poor McGuffin...first of all, there's nothing really supernatural about it, it's just an alien head/technology? And second, there's no real-world mystery about it, they were proved to be fakes.
I like Luca's idea of revealing indy where he is trapped in the back of a car. It would show the audience he was kidnapped and forced to do a movie no-one asked for.
Yanked him right out of the toll booth.
All this movie was missing was Space Taxes & Trade Negotiations :D
+mywizbiz no line about sand?
+Marko Docevski what movie was 10:43?
+Nathan Snyder So much going on
It's like poetry
MyWizBiz anyone know what movie was at 10:43???
The classic Plinkett reviews continue to be some of the funniest and most thorough movie critiques on UA-cam.
Now UA-cam has a ton of Plinkett wannabes that don't have a fraction of the knowledge and wit Plinkett has.
Porcupines
@@aexcezz9573 true, no youtuber come close to Mr plinkett reviews
@@aexcezz9573 trash like the critical drinker
@@ataketesamuel9542 Ever heard of MauLer and EFAP? They're funny and insightful too.
The stuff with the FBI guys makes me realize this movie could have been so much better if Indy spent the movie trying to keep both them AND the Soviets from getting the skull - it would reinforce the idea that the skull is actually dangerous, it would make Max's constant betrayals make a bit more sense, and it would actually pay off all the McCarthy stuff from earlier in the movie.
My main memory of "Crystal Skull" is wanting to walk out on the ending sequence, like the story had utterly failed in every single way--even basic curiosity to see how Indy ends up. I can't even fault the "Star Wars" prequels in being that bad. Seems like every decision they made was somehow the worst compromise possible.
His name is Mac.. Not that anyone cares :^(
Ye
also Max should have been a German archeologist played by Stellan Skarsgard "paperclipped" to the US who would probably be the real villain. Making the Russians more of a "Red" Herring.
It would also be a nice reinforcement of the “both sides” angle that the movie highlights.
“In real life, he’d probably contract some weird foreign disease”
The memorable time-honored scene in Raiders where he shoots the sword guy exists purely because Harrison Ford didn’t want to perform an epic fight scene due to his _dysentary_ that he caught shooting the scenes in Cairo
Also, Harrison asked Steven if there was a way they could shorten the scene. Steven's suggestion, just pull your gun out and shoot him, got everyone on location laughing. So they went with that.
The scene is also referenced in The Pirate Movie. The swordsman in that shows off his "skill" a bit more dramatically, and the man who shoots said swordsman looks nothing like Harrison, but the film and that sequence is bloody hilarious.
Dysentery.
Not a line that would come back and haunt us in 2020, not at all...
Floyd Looney I saw this comment and CLAPPPED!!!!!
I thought it was because he was high.
It's ok. I'm also a Ford ;)
To those interested, the beautiful poem recited towards the end was 'To an Athlete Dying Young', by A.E. Housman.
Thanks, Mr. Plinkett, who is neither young, an athlete, nor dying.
Thanks! I was wondering who had written that poem but I could not find it.
and a serial killer of women
Ye
He is dying... to smash young Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen..
Dying internally maybe
This movie was so bad when I was younger I never really re-visited it. But the scene where Indy escaped the Diner by telling Mut to hit someone, then Mut being hit by others, as they both escape is classic Indy.
Cool, suave, witty, improvasional, and he gets out without a scratch. Legend.
A good set piece for the character.
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“What were these people smoking? Cigarettes?!”
There is a scene in Peru where you can hear Mexican mariachi music being played... totally inaccurate. It was so easy to put traditional Peruvian music in the background, and even make the scene more mystical. It is the country of Machu Pichu... and they chose freaking mariachi music to be played in the scene...aye aye aye
They should’ve added taco stands every couple feet and have everyone wear sombreros for accuracy
"No, no, no." -Consuela
Even though the Indy movies are not supposed to be historically or archeologically accurate, the scenes on Peru are too damn lazy. Like "part time" and the rest of the movie.
Greetings from Trujillo, puro.
I used to stay near Lima in Peru,awesome place. What's the name of that purple corn drink they have?
Chris Justice Chicha Morada
the Adventures of Tin Tin was the best "Indiana jones" in the last decade ...shame no one saw it.
Agreed
A masterpiece and one of my brother and I's favorite movies of all time.
It was a Mastery Film.
Ye
I saw it. It was okay.
So basically a bunch of Russians are after the most exotic vodka of all: the Crystal Head Vodka.
Cough
Very nice
@@charlottecorday8494 Start of the ruination...
@@campfortson4387 OH NO! LARRY! THAT FUCKING VODKA KILLED HIM!!!
It's hilarious seeing the interviews, with Spielberg always trying so hard to put all the blame on Lucas for everything that went wrong.
@@westerling8436 cool
@@westerling8436 no
Kevin Van Vooren are you some sort of psychopath? Are you ok? Do you need a taxi? Uber? I probably have enough to send you anywhere in town, I can give you some? Are you sure? Do you have a fever? Are you sick? Calm down dude.
and “making of” documentary was made before the film came out too.
Well it usually is Lucas's fault.
"You shame the memory of General Custer with this movie..."
I love this channel.
Having Indy trying to recover an alien artifact might have worked. But they handled it so poorly in every sense of the word. Like, there's a reason you don't actually SEE GOD in Raiders.
Could not agree more.
But you do see them opening the Ark. Indiana Jones is about the occult being real. It isn't about aliens and isn't science fiction.
Best part about Jaws is the shark didn't work right so they didn't show the shark.
Funny story. Way back when this movie was released I was in college and my friends and I were disappointed. The alien as you mentioned was a big reason. So over pizza and beer we sat down and wrote up an outline for our version of the movie. It keeps the title, it involves alien artifacts, and it involves Mutt. But so much else is different including not actually seeing an alien. It was actually a fun story that maybe would have worked.
Actually the alien thing seems really stupid
At least with the Ark, the shiva stones and the chalice they were grounded in religious mythology that was natural and belonging to the earth
They could have kept the actual crystal skulls and made it more mysterious to their origin rather than go with the alien trope
Seeing the old youtube layout... damn it's like watching video of a friend that died...
@@Margo-No-T Erm... I think its more because UA-cam has become a politically-correct cesspool of Copyright Strikes, Community Guidelines that are unfairly and unequally forced, Endless Video Takedowns, shadowbans, CHANNELS OBLITERATED OUT OF NOWHERE, and an Ivory-Tower mindset that Gives ZERO f--ks about the Loss of Ad revenue that comes from their self-imposed Adpocalypse (x 2) becuae things are not "Advertise-Friendly" enough for them.
PS No, I didn't want to censor my f--k, but UA-cam automatically removes comments that do not align with their Utpoian worldview
Tasty Loaf lol do you really think 2006-2012 yt was politically incorrect LMAO? You’ve obviously not been on youtube for long, it used to be the mostly harmless and kid friendly content. Political youtube channels are a relatively new thing. I mean even the “adpocalypse” is nothing compared to how hard it was to get your channel approved for monetization
@@Margo-No-T they give a shit, fucking obviously, and so do i. i guess i dont need to read the rest of your genius comment?
@d d using queer as an insult in 2019 lmao
@@tastyloaf5487 give this man a beer
"Where's Paul Veerhoven when you need him?" I apply this to pretty much every action movie of the last 15 years.
Here in 2019, reminiscing of the wild west days of youtube when a man could jizz on a tv image of the olson twins and be happy.
Especially on a tv image of the olsen twins when they weren't already aneuristic teens...
I love RLM, but never watched this before and when that came on I was dying laughing.
Those were very entertaining days. It's a shame the PC losers have ruined everything unique and good.
@@acmenipponair Think the word you're looking for is "anorexic" champ...
LMAO I don't think I will be able to think about the Olsen twins without Plinkett
Shia La Beouf's delivery of "What are you like 80?" is so good
Part-time
People knocked him in this movie but he would have brought a bit more energy to Dial of Destiny that's for sure
How does George hang out with Spielberg so much and not learn a thing about storytelling?
bananian I guess he knows them but disregards them.
Could be that he is just completely oblivious to them and has these ideas that needs focusing from a producer or screenwriter who would question his decisions and ideas.
I mean maybe he has lots of ideas and we get to see some of the shittiest because no one dares to question him.
Or at least that is how I feel about the prequels.
Opposites attract?
To be fair it's Lucas that made RotLA a good movie, and Spielberg had all the shit ideas and was the one who had to be shut up by the others.
We all have that one clueless friend we just let do things because we like them
Ego.
Fifth one ought to be called _Indiana Jones and the Apology of Glass_ (Glass = George Lucas And Steven Spielberg).
GLSS.
SS GL
SS-battalion Gewinn Leibhaber
+gspendlove *if* a new indiana jones movie ever comes out, i'm almost certain it will try to not repeat the same mistakes (just like "the force awakens" seems to be the result of what so many people hated about the prequels).
Alex Feehan do you get a refund if you want to return your plate of after you've eaten half of it. Wait for reviews before you decide.
WOW
More like "the apologies of ass" ooooohhh snap
"No one cares about half in the bag!"
How times changed...
But nobody cares
now hitb takes for ever to come out
@@jawknee4088 what a brave,contrarian soul you are
8 years ago, he was to review Avatar 2. Here we are finally.
The film should have been set in Romania and played some kind of Slavic Goth theme. The Soviet Union was very mysterious back in the 50s. There was so many rumours and there is a wash of history and mythology in Eastern Europe. I actually like the idea of the Russians trying to get mind control, there was a big fear back at that time that had the CIA do LSD experiments and stuff. That would have made a great theme if done right. Almost like Stranger Things.
"The Russians could already have done it" was literally how the CIA convinced the government into letting them abduct and torture random people on the flimsy promise of mind control, extra-sensory perception espionage, and split-personality double agents.
It was also how the military convinced the government into funding research and mass production of the hydrogen bomb.
@@davidwuhrer6704 But we already did.
The government should've let CIA mindfuck as much people as possible,
othervice you wouldn't be close to awekening only in this kinds of movies.
Not like you can fully awake.
We've befriended lizards, hohoho.
@@This_side_of_the_internet
_> The government should've let CIA mindfuck as much people as possible_
They did. It was called OPERATION MK ULTRA. (Capitals in the original.)
@@davidwuhrer6704
That moment, when you are spreading madness on the internet, and ends up being confused.
That’s a great idea for a film, not an Indiana Jones film though
Please do more Plinkett reviews! When Christmas came and went without a new Plinkett it made me sad. I know Half in the Bag is much easier to produce but these psychotic dissections are incredible.
the old school wrestling reviews and mr plinkett star wars reviews are probably my favourite things to watch online. WHAT BAR is Mr. Plinkett? much love to osw and redlettermedia.
Jesus MaryChain What is the old school wrestling videos ????
Sharingan Lord its nice word for gay porn i think.
Jesus MaryChain Thanks brah! WHAT BAR is Mr. Plinkett? He is a Cadbury's Bourneville - classic, dark, with a splash of murder
Sharingan Lord me!
it's my boys! Happy days are here again!
I agree that the major problems here were two things: Too mucgh fake/clean looking CGI taking away the realness and the grittiness, and a lack of violence that was present in all other movies. This felt too much like a Disney theme ride...
It's interesting how Lucas' talent decreased in direct proportion to his success. I truly wonder how much the original Star Wars movies succeeded in spite of him, rather than because of him.
Same with Spielberg. Success eventually ruins all artists.
Film editor Marcia Lucas, I am now convinced, is the real genius behind Star Wars.
“I know it’s a matter of opinion, but mine’s right”
So true Mr. Plinkett 😆
2:58 "A screenwriter that's not George Lucas -- and most importantly, George Lucas isn't the screenwriter."
That makes me laugh every time.
What irritated me most about the movie is that was the last film I got to see with my grandfather. Any other indiana jones film would've been cool.
Major condolences. My grandmother took me to see it. I still hang out with her a lot, but we both agreed to never see an Indiana Jones film in theaters again. I was around _Ten_ when I saw it, and still thought it was terrible. Not as regrettable as seeing The Lightning Thief with her, though.
At first I thought your profile pic was a political compass with Stalin as Authleft.
1:00:28 this represents the saddest part of an older artist. They lose the edge they had when they were younger. Sharp edges get rounded off with age and responsibilities. Raiders was an adult movie that still appealed to the whole family. It was a modern violent complex thrilling adventure that didn’t patronize the audience. Skulls and now Dial of Destiny are kid movies.
Agreed. That does leave me with a question.
Do RLM & Mr. Plinkett now fit in to that category?
Have they lost their edge and are now more careful about what they say?
I've been a fan since the begining and have seen all of the "Best of the Worst" ,"Nerd Crew" and "Mr. Plinkett reviews many times. The only content of theirs, that I have not viewed multiple times is "Half in the bag" and that's only because of the potential spoilers.
So to make a long paragraph short, (too late)
I know their content well and would count them, as the Best of the Movie reviewers online.
Overall Mst3k is the best but what they do, is different enough to fall in to a slightly different category.
"What the fuck was I talking about?"
Oh yeah. Has RLM lost it's edge?
I find them to be as entertaining, as they were 5 years ago but I do think there are small signs, here and there, of a softening of the style and a reduction of the angst, they once had.
Nothing that would lead me to stop watching but age does have an effect, on all of us, eventually.
What do you think Sir?
Feel free to let me know, ya Hack Fraud ;)
Interesting you mention this. I'm 37 and like many folks age, I was obsessed with Jurassic Park. Watching it now, it's an action thriller for adults that happens to appeal to kids. The newer installments are more family friendly. I enjoy the hell out of them but I can feel the slight adjustment in tone towards more family friendly fare.
@@steveharvey2102 RLM is also a business, and they need to keep an eye on what they say, to continue getting monetized. It's the same with these millionaire/billionaire directors. RLM are older and more mature as well, which means they don't think it's cutting edge humor to offend as much. With life experience comes empathy. I personally still love them, and I also very much enjoy when it's just 2 RLM dudes talking at length in their black void, about whatever they love or dislike. It's so fun.
@@steveharvey2102 I think it's mostly UA-cam that is to blame for their "softening". They're now going to extremes to make everything ad-friendly, the platform has basically become a kids channel at this point. They're not even letting them swear anymore so I can't blame RLM for having to lose some of their edge to stay monetized.
@@TarMinastir333 As long as they never try to hide Mike's elderly abuse fetish I'll be fine with a toned down RLM. Masturbating to the Olsen twins is definitely something I want people to think I'm disgusted by.
Plinkett sending me a pizza roll in the mail is my life's goal
The illusion of grit but missing the teeth, describes almost every horror and action movie of the last 2 decades.
NOT IF U COUNT DAT KEIFER SUTHERLAND MOVIE " MIRRORS " :-I
"It Follows" is another exception 😉
"Avatar 2 when it comes out", ah yes, the beautiful optimism of 2014...
It’s gets worse.
Optimism? I think they were expecting avatar 2, 3, 4 etc etc. Instead star Wars and marvel happened.
Oh it will...
With any luck, Avatar 2 will never happen.
@@shane5896 Too late, most of it's been filmed.
Frank Darabont's script for the alien idea (he wrote a draft for it) was *infinitely* better than what we got. Spielberg loved it. Ford loved it. Marion is all through the film, the dialogue is great, it all makes sense. But Lucas, idiot that he'd become, rejected it. If they made Darabont's version of this story, it may have ended up being a much, much better film.
There’s an alternate universe where people actually respect Darabont and we get a great 4th Indiana Jones movie and a great Walking Dead show that didn’t suck after the first season.
Temple of Doom's heart being ripped out is a reference about Lucas's heart being ripped out by his former wife.
Damn!!!!
oh you mean the one whose actually responsible for a new hope not being a mess...
@@mckenzie.latham91 yup
That's so whiny and pathetic, but also so very George Lucas.
Yes his former wife, the Editor of Star Wars ANHope, who molded that movie into greatness.
I've never seen a single Star Trek episode or movie, but every reference Mike makes is amazing. Not only because he essentially memorized the series, but also it seems like Star Trek did everything first.
and because Star Trek is amazing
hell yeah
You’ve never seen Star Trek? You’d love it!! It’s got these people trying to take a ring to some mountain, and they get hunted by these ghost things that can suck your soul, there’s a super awesome bad guy that collects rings and can change history by snapping his fingers and travel using a boot in some field, or a fire place. It’s a good series, you’ll love it. Especially if you like light sabers
Same I've never seen a single episode or movie but the reviewer's knowledge of the franchise is crazy, I mean a human brain can only hold so much information
@@NATALIEKING1976 hahahahahh fckn legendary comment right here
"This movie feels like a visual imitation of an Indiana Jones film"
This *exactly* describes the core of what bothered me about this movie. It just does not feel like a true Indiana Jones movie, but like a knockoff.
And I am still sooo pissed that they did not go with the story and visual style of the Fate of Atlantis adventure game. It would have been a million times better, and this game had by far the best visual style for Atlantis I've ever seen. It did have aliens, but only very subtly, and it is only implied that aliens visited Earth in the distant past (we never see any). Also, Atlantis would have been the logical next step for Indiana Jones. I mean, an adventurer archaeologist who found the holy grail, and Atlantis is never even mentioned?
Would've been cool if he went to find Excalibur or something. And a scene where someone does fancy sword stuff with Excalibur and gets shot like before. Indy: "they never learn"
I first saw the Star Wars reviews like 8 years ago. Finally, today I watched the Indiana Jones series so I could watch this Plinkett review. I've been waiting the majority of my adult life to watch this fucking video. And now the day is finally here! I love you Mr. Plinkett!!
I literally just got that Belloq was immune to the liquor because his family made it. I always just thought he was hammered and talking nonsense
Fucking same, dude
Me too, but a year later. :)
Why would his family making it matter? Is his family's kitchen magic? Does ethanol have a different chemical formula when it is made in his family's kitchen?
@@GeorgeMonet Because he'd been drinking it his entire life and used to it
@@GeorgeMonet tolerance, smartass
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The weirdest part of this whole movie is the look of the picture. They shot on real film but then had what appears to be an 11 year old girl using photoshop do the color timing and color correction. Looks like they used the cheesy built-in FX on the whole picture. Diffused glow! shitty hue shifts making puke colored skin tones! The BTS footage looks more cinematic than the finished picture.
Spielberg might be a fan of the glow... have seen that in some other films which were directed by him.
That jungle chase looks *awful*. I don't know if it's the colour grading or film processing or what, but it literally looks like they shot it on a soundstage.
After watching some BTS stuff, it's almost entirely bad CGI. They actually shot it on an almost featureless dirt road, and added all the jungle stuff after as visual effects. It all feels so weightless and lacking in any kind of visceral intensity.
Perfect example of how NOT to use CGI...
@@desmondd1984 It looks like exactly that, not even remotely real. The original Raiders blew me away as a young teen, it was gritty, the action was plausible and it was seriously gory for a PG. Those were the days.
@@GregBreden Perfect illustration of young Spielberg vs current Spielberg.
22:06 - and @48:25 This is a great point about how "Crystal Skull" can't make up its mind about its villains. The movie's opening kicks off with the now-obligatory anti-McCarthyist riffs; and yet the main plot depends on the Soviets being genuine bad guys. The first three Indiana Jones installments never suffered from this kind of confusion, in part presumably because there's no current respectable political sympathy for Indian death cults or Nazis.
"the original plot for the third movie was a haunted castle movie. But Steven had just done Poltergeirst and said he didnt want to do another haunted house movie""
Ummm.... Poltergeist came out in 1982 George. Pretty sure Steven just thought that was a dumb as shit idea and made an excuse.
He was only a producer on poltergeist, too. Just like gremlins, he had a minor role in producing, joe dante did gremlins and tobe Hooper did poltergeist.
Still a dumb idea, so was an alien thing, but the alien thing won out, I guess
elongated skulls are actually a thing though in archeology whether alien or otherwise, i don't get why everyone throughout the comments section feels the need to constantly bash on this film for the alien plot when this idea is actually consistent with the reality of archeology, it really only serves to draw attention to how ignorant everyone is about archeology, it's like they think Lloyd Pie and his research on the Starchild skull never happened, it's really only the psychic telepath properties of the skull and the dramatic alien related conclusion that the film takes creative licence with the alien skull plot, because it's hollywood, if the film handled the alien crystal skull phenomena with no overly dramatic elements to it then people would have complained it wasn't an engaging enough plot, there's just no pleasing some people
@@rickshawwheelchair It's amazing how many think Spielberg did Poltergeist and Gremlins. It's up there with Tim Burton directing A Nightmare Before Christmas.
Four years later.... your comments are still gold.
Gold, Jack..... Gold!
Plinkett born in 1898 confirmed; Titanic survivor plausible.
He actually murdered everyone on the ship and sunk it to hide the evidence
They may have gone too far in a few places....
You forgot quote marks
Jar Jar is the key to all of this...
it's gunna be great
+GamesLegitament It's so dense, every single image has just so many things going on.
haha! we're such arseholes
The girl who punches Mutt Williams (Shia LeBeouf) in the diner scene is Sasha Spielberg, daughter of director Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw (Willie Scott from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)).
Cate Blanchett and Harrison Ford had never met before this movie. The first time they were introduced was on the first day of filming, where Indiana and Spalko first meet. Blanchett said it was ideal to be introduced to him dressed as Indiana Jones, because she'd always been a big fan of the character.
This is the first Indiana Jones movie without Pat Roach, who had a role in the first three movies. Roach died in 2004.
The character Mutt Williams is named after composer John Williams
This is the only movie in the franchise in which Indy does not fire his pistol.
This is the only Indiana Jones movie not to receive any Oscar nominations.
The only movie directed by Steven Spielberg to win a Razzie Award (Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off, or Sequel.) Though others have been nominated
Steven Spielberg cast Russian actors in the roles of Russian soldiers, so their accents would be authentic.
@@gsesquire3441 This person just copied these from the movie's IMDB trivia page.
I just realized that FBI agent is also one of the Cops in baby's day out.
And also the janitor from the tv-series Scrubs.
Erhart Also he's on the Middle
he was also in The Fugitive
Erhart ok well the relevant movie is babys day out, the only movie I ever watch
I'm loving that these are on youtube. Also make more Plinkett reviews, half in the bag is great but plinkett reviews are fantastic.
Quack
Too bad he followed Speilberg and is now making family friendly content. Gone are the rape jokes and blatant pedophilia
I was in the work cafeteria and the Olsen twins scene came on. I was legit in fight or flight for a solid minute. well played
Oh wow... time flies.
It's been over 9 years since I didn't watch this movie.
Feels more like 15 years to me
@@malickfan7461I remember joking back then that they should have saved "The Last Crusade" title for this movie, and simultaneously referring to the Rambo movie around the same time as "Rambo IV: The Hunt For Viagra"
@@BaronVonQuiply Funny to think both Indiana and Rambo would go on to get one more unnecessary sequel after those.
Best line ever..."The audience had to sit through another chapter of the 'What Could've Been Great' book that is currently being written by George Lucas."
I know the video is a few years old, but real talk...
Is the pizza roll promotion still going on?
I couldn't make a 121 year old man send me pizza rolls :(
AAHH NO, IT WAS THE SAME PIZZA PLACE HILLARITY CLINTON USED TO VISIT AND ORDER FROM . :-I
"traitor, liar, woman" lmao
TRIGGERED
+DiarrheaChain TRIGGERED
GET ON GRAMPS
Pablo Martínez Álvarez What is the difference?
I LITERALLY CANT EVEN!
It looks like it is time for Plinkett to come out of retirement with Indiana Jones 5 🤣
This video started auto playing after I watched the half in the bag for 5
Mr Plinkett typically reviews films by George Lucas, and Indy 5 isn't a film by Lucas. Though the decline in quality over at Lucasfilm continues unabated in his absence. That having been said, I'd certainly watch it. But it would be more interesting to see them do a full autopsy on Lucasfilm, using Indy 5 as a jumping off point.
The woman who played Elsa Schneider though. Damn..
Alison Doody. Oh yes.
Zachary L One of the sexiest femme fatales imo! Fell in love with her when I first watched Indiana Jones as a kid.
arrow fodder I don't blame you..
Too bad ya couldn't get in their pants.
I heard that George Lucas tried to hookup with all the female leads over the trilogy, with varying degrees of success.
How does Mr. Plinkett manage to make such lo-fi retro sets? Does he just live in a 70's trap house?
Jesse Curle what's the difference?
Doesn't he live in "joisey"? I'm so confused... :D
God bless your trap
Jesse Curle Someone didnt pass their state capitals test in 3rd fucking grade if you can't spell Wisconsin correctly.
He collects old equipment like VHS so he can record Minor Attracted Person erotica without being tracked through his IP address.
Can I have a pizza roll please?
Email him and leave a comment in the webzone!
MaroonThief
Post a comment on his webzone. And he'll send you one in the mail.
Sup
Can’t wait for Dial of Destiny review
27:51 Lucas dodging that hug from Ewan McGregor is Grade A cringe.
+therealpat5168 Sooo fucking funny juxtaposed with Spielberg hugging Shia.
The most he has moved in probably twenty years
+therealpat5168 He always was anti-social. Not really surprising
+Metal Bat Yeah it proves he's just an awkward, out-of-touch old man
george jukeis
"Im pretty sure lucas wrote that line himself because hes the most fervent anti capitalist ive ever seen" that is the best part of this entire review never fails to make me laugh
It's like the most out of touch thing that only a super rich person could write lol
@@Mr___f YUO DON'T LIKE CAPITALISM YET YOU EXIST.
IPHONE, VENEZUELA, 100 BILLION DEAD :o
@@Wolf_ManJack Socialism - capitalism leveraged for social causes instead of profit causes. Done.
@@Trendyflute And by social causes you mean white liberals virtue signaling.
@@Trendyflute hey as long as there's some form of free market I'm happy
"Long gone are the days of the simple and fully practical truck chase scenes."
... Until we enter the Fury Road!
+degree7 Mostly practical, but with smart and judicious use of computer effects. But not simple.
Cgi was used mostly for Furiosa hand, backgrounds, and some big explosions. Most of cars were real. Side effect of this was that movie sometime felt speedup.
***** Yes, but it didn't look fake because it was only used for decorative shit.
+degree7 He actually had a guitar though, and he was really on a bungie. Really to me the only thing that looked clearly fake was the steering wheel at the end, but even then they actually crashed the rest of the truck that you see in the shot.
***** Exactly, not sure why he thought it looked fake.
16:25 was not prepared for that Kathleen Kennedy at the bottom of the screen, i need some Mylanta now.
At least Old Paul Walker won't be in Not So Fast, Not So Furious!
Don't worry, Old CGI Paul Walker will be.
I hope this video is the only thing archaeologists of our distant future ever discover about our civilization.
They spend decades analyzing just the Olson twins scene
The young Karen Allen was so hot
She's alright, like a high 7 maybe a low 8 on a good day.
I'd say a 6.18.
@The Strawberry Pimp I revoke your username privlages. You are now "The Strawberry Simp"
Lucas is like an actual kid with this movie, he just comes up with random shot and tells Steven to do it. He entirely misses the point of the original 3 IJ movies. KOTCS doesn’t feel like an Indiana Jones movie, it feels like a parody of an Indiana Jones movie.
The movie just has a terrible look. Every shot looks like it's covered in CGI vaseline.
Not to mention the color correction just pisses me off
It lacks the grit of the originals
Come on, Plinkett, review The Matrix series!
heavytom89 Nostalgia Critic did a fair review of the trilogy recently. So, if we don't have Plinkett's we kinda have the next best thing ^_^
Mau Jo Eh, I wouldn't call it fair. I didn't watch his reviews for the other two but the first one was mostly nitpicking if even that. If you were to go into the comment section to tell your opinion on the review, you'd be promptly put in place for thinking the Nostalgia Critic is a professional. Apparently, the "critic" in his name is just for show. He's a comedy guy first and is so on the expense of actual worthwhile criticism.
I dunno, his reviews suddenly just felt like a waste of time after that. Not even the jokes make it worthwhile when they're so forced and based on things from the movie that more often than not weren't flaws in the first place.
I'd absolutely love to see Plinkett review The Matrix though. He's got that thorough structure to his reviews where things are made clear and obvious to the point where it can get outright hilarious. And hopefully he'd focus on the things that actually matter, instead of rooting around for things to make fun of just to fill his review with something.
***** Hey, it's my opinion. You don't consider it a fair review? That's your opinion. I'm sure Plinkett would do a dissection similar to that he's done before to the _Star Wars_ and _Star Trek_ series, which seemingly we both would enjoy, but I believe NC has his own way to present his critique mixed up with a lot of comedy, which is equally valuable and, more important, enjoyable. Plinkett, on the other side, focuses more in the cinematographic aspects and the technicalities of filming. That's cool too. For me, it's the variety of approaches what makes it fun.
***** Once again, your opinion, bud. I couldn't care less.
I like NC too but I have to agree with CL on this one. I wouldn't consisted NC's video has a critique but just pure comedy.
This guys pretty good at movie reviews.
You must be a secret genius
OH its not a secret.
Who would have thought we'd end up in a timeline where you could get a free ticket to Indiana Jones 5 with your meal at Applebee's
Exactly how I got my tickets
I feel SO bad for Steven Spielberg. It seems like he really wanted out of the project and didn't want to do it in order to preserve the magic of the first three but he got pressured into doing it by George Lucas so he could make a few more bucks. What a damn shame!
I don't think Lucas was motivated by money to make the fourth installment. He has more than enough money. I think he wanted to prove he still "has it" after his disastrous Star Wars prequels.. but clearly Lucas has lost whatever good film and storytelling instincts he ever had.
@@hv3115 Lucas in 1977: Well cinema is about paying homage to Westerns,Samurai films and old serials from the 40´s and 50´s.
Lucas in 1999: Cinema is about VFX. Did you see Jurassic Park and Independence day? You can do pretty much damn everything !!
I don't feel bad for severely out of touch, ego driven directors that are waaaaay past their prime.
Just look at Ready Player 1 or his trash Westside Story remake.
"I want to give power to Hispanics by not adding subtitles in the Spanish speaking parts" WTF?
As a Hispanic myself, I must thank him for using us as a means to become richer! So powerful!! Thank you, Mr Spielberg and Hollywood, didn't know that people not understanding what I'm trying to say is so empowering and validating! In fact, I can speak Quechua too, that means I can even look down on other Hispanics because I can speak a native tongue and they can't understand me! So empowering!!
Maybe part of the problem is Spielberg having a bad attitude about it?
@diamond dogs because if you don’t, have the decency to just not do it.
Did Plinkett finally die at 237 years old cause it's been like 80 years since his last review
no, he did at least 11
*****
Hes done at least 90 reviews
I thought his star wars 7 review was the best
***** Star wars 7 is that obscure disney princess movie from 2015. It's outdated by now but damn, the way Plinkett reviewed it was legendary
***** It came out 2015 ago, you're so behind the times.
***** Plinkett's pizza rolls are fucking good but I don't think he drugs them
"There was once a senator named Paul McCartney" HAHAHA! Well done!
God dammit, I didn't even catch that. I was wondering why there wasn't a "oh, you might have heard of it. It was a little something called... (insert historic moment besides Red Scare in all caps)!"
37:06
The way he pronounced "epitome" is a reference to when Shia LaBouf infamously mispronounced it
I think the MPAA is to blame for the whole sanitized violence thing. For some reason they'll allow for surprisingly high levels of gruesome violence in movies with kid friendly ratings, as long as the violence isn't depicted explicitly (or as you say, "far away/off screen").
I personally think this is a horrible policy, since we're not only exposing kids to tons of violence, but the violence they're seeing is unrealistically benign and sanitized. This could give kids false impressions of real violence. They might think a gunshot murder is just some faceless nobody falling over in some overly dramatic manner, rather than a real person suffering a painful, drawn out and horrible death.
I think if you're going to have violence in movies, it should be as realistic as possible. Depictions of violence should shock people. They should never seem normal or tame.
There is a weird notion with some people that visually observing violence and gore is harmful while for some reason ignoring the psychological impact of knowing it happened at all.
Probably the same morons that think its better to tell their kids the dog went to live on a farm.
BollocksUtwat Yep, well put. Attitudes towards violence, particularly in America are quite nonsensical. Seeing s pair of boobs is taboo, yet people getting murdered is considered fun for the whole family.
Dear MPAA
Fuck you!
From CinemaSins' Jeremy
P.S. Fuck You
splewy Sorry to break it for you, but the MPAA only cares for the studio's inversionists interest they are not here for the sake of art
They should've just done Fate of Atlantis.. you know George.. like the game everyone loved?
Or Emperor's Tomb.
The Olson twin thing basically forced me to hit the like button.
Yes, my mouse pointer was looming at that point, but it finally clicked during the cat poop interlude.
Zain Muhammad Because I liked it.
I haven't stopped ejaculating since.
I mean, who doesn't jerk off to the Olson twins?
KidShoryuken filth
My dad showed me the Indiana Jones Trilogy when I was 6, and I loved every second! Even if they did scare the shit out of me. It builds character
It's so dense...
+Brendan McCallion SHUT UP
ironmaster64 TSHI...
...every single frame has so many things going on.
+Luu Sapphire Worse even than Plinkett Jr.?
*It's so dense...*
Like my stool.
“Ivana Spankoff” LMAO
For those curious: the background music for Plinkett irl around the 45 minute mark is the Danse Macabre, by Camille Saint-Saëns. It's good stuff!
Who's watching this after Rise of Skywalker? This movie gives me foreshadowing chills, of things to come in the Disney trilogy.
Cows.
I got a bit of PTSD when there was a clip of Kathleen Kennedy
I screamed in horror when I saw KK in this video, and every time I see her name in an old movie I let out a sigh in disgust.
@@FairEnoughDude bet she brought a lot to the table.
@@robertfitzgerald3118 maybe under the table
Every problem with this film can be explained in three words:
Fucking George Lucus
Fucking George Lucas would be hard. His ass is so dense.
+Nate Richards The fuckin man who donated 4 billion dollars to charity.
Demon Rantz Don't get me wrong, that's an incredible thing to do. But still, he shouldn't have been given as nearly as much free reign, seeing that 90% of his ideas are awful.
Nate Richards As a movie maker he's crap but he's not a bad person.
+Nate Richards labeouf a greaser?
Did Lucas steal the original Star Wars scripts off someone with talent? He's had two good ideas in the last 40 years
It's been the circle of many discussions, but it's pretty arguable that Star Wars was created in editing.
Even with all the stuff Jake John mentions, the movie would have been utterly shit had Lucas' edit of the film been the one used.
Sometimes it is the best when the artist are not given too much freedom, but are instead pushed around and kept on a leash by the studio, Lucas has talents but he does not recognize them, also the technical limitations of his time worked greatly into his favor, if he could have he would have made Yoda cgi and had him walk next to Luke, instead of a puppet Luke carried on his back.
Yes. Joseph Campbell.
Agreed, see Peter Jackson and King Kong.
If you actually read more into the making of the Original Trilogy especially a New Hope, Lucas had a lot of creative people helping him and giving him input and more importantly knew when to call him out on his bad ideas. Lucas's original first draft for Star Wars was supposedly a freaking mess and was forced to make a rewrite. According to what I've heard Lucas's ex-wife and producer Gary Kurtz basically had to help rewrite the script. Empire Strikes Back (the one that nearly everyone claims is the best one) was the film Lucas had the least amount of control over. In fact you could say he severed little more then a creative consultant. He basically just handed in a story treatment and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan worked it into a script while Irvin Kershner directed the film. Return of the Jedi while still good had a noticeably downgrade in quality compared to Empire due to the fact Gary Kurtz left after disputes with Lucas over the fact Kurtz wanted the series to continue to have the same dark storytelling as Empire, but said that Lucas voted against, seemingly being more concerned with the merchandising element and wanted to end things more happily. As for Indiana Jones, all Lucas pretty much did was come up with the initial idea of what Indiana Jones would be and gave rough story treatments and left people like Spielberg and screenwriters like Lawrence Kasdan take care of everything else. With Indiana Jones 4 Spielberg himself called Lucas's idea of aliens being central to the film pretty much stupid, but eventually caved in after Lucas's constant pressuring. So basically all Lucas has ever been good at was an idea man. But when he doesn't have a good creative team not afraid to speak out to keep him right it's a fucking disaster. This is exactly the reason why I think the Clone Wars TV show was so freaking good compared to the Prequels. Cause all Lucas did was giving out a few story ideas and letting people who knew how to write screenplays and direct take care of everything else.
The "Nucular" pronunciation was popularized by Richard Feynman, who - in his work on the Manhattan project - toured the nation talking to engineers about their roles. People very originally "in the know" about nuclear weapons may have been likely to use that pronunciation.
Wouldn't surprise me that Feynman said it that way. For all his brilliance, he was said to have notoriously low verbal intelligence. That's why he sounds like a Bronx street bum when he talks. I'd kill to see what a conversation between him and rich Evans would turn out sounding like.
@@MoreParksLessParking "Low verbal intelligence" is rdiculous, he was incredibly erudite, he just had a rather strong new york accent. He sounds almost exactly like my grandfather, but way way smarter BTW.
In your own post you contradict yourself. 'Nucular' is a localized dialectic pronunciation. Highly educated people no doubt simply accept various takes on words, understanding this. It's actually kinda neat how pervasive and untouchable 'accents' are given how interconnected our World is through the Cancer known as the Intarwebz.
@@kaiboshvanhortonsnort359 nope there's no contradiction there.
The "...sexy Indian child" still gets me all these years later.
Indiana Jones is about mysticism, so the sci-fi felt weird. Plus, vine swinging.
What If instead of the Crystal skull being an actual alien artifact, the Crystal skull was a magical artifact made by the natives of Peru? that way they could have kept the Crystal skull and not made it actually about aliens.
@@user-hf9hf6hw8j seems making it about aliens was George Lucas' idea.. once again proving he has long lost whatever good storytelling instincts he ever had.
@@user-hf9hf6hw8j but the problem is still that the Crystal Skull is proven forgery
@@hv3115 Lucas thought Star Wars (A New Hope if I have to call it that. Tch!) was going to be a flop so I'm not sure if his instincts were ever correct. It was the people around him (Marcia) and the effects people who ultimately fixed them.