Indiana Jones Trailer

The trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was released yesterday to much fanfare. After watching the trailer a couple times, I have to say I was very underwhelmed. Harrison Ford is 65 and looks it, making the over-the-top stunts (even for Indiana Jones) look that much more ridiculous.

The amount of CGI is also very disappointing. A lot of the charm of the original movies were the in-camera, real world stunts. In the trailer, however, there are several examples of silly, poorly executed CGI work. The car chase along the cliff showcases some particularly bad blue screen work. A couple of the sequences looked rather unoriginal, such as the spiral staircase that is very reminiscent of National Treasure.

Indiana Jones movies should be breaking new ground, not retreading old ideas. I hate when franchises get dusted off for one more go around and can't keep up the level of quality (see the Alien, Terminator and Die Hard franchises). I realize this is just a teaser, but usually the teaser is so abbreviated that even bad movies look good. A teaser is supposed to get you psyched for the main event (like the Dark Knight trailer did). I hope I am wrong about this movie, but based on this trailer we could be in for a disappointment of Star Wars proportions.

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