Re: Ranking the retro adventure films: Indiana Jones, The Mummy and LX
Liking a piss poor, very badly made movie is a character flaw. It's ignorance, if you truly believe it's good and don't just like it because, like even I do sometimes, it's just so horrible.
You may not have liked
Indy 4, but if you seriously think that the movie was "very badly made", then you need to get a reality check and really check out some "very badly made" movies.
Indy 4 was a well-constructed movie, from the majority of the acting, direction, music, editing, the pace, the special effects (although the gofers were silly and the ants, surprisingly, a little too cartoony). I liked the story, though I can understand where people might have problems was various aspects of it. There were no massive plot holes, story glitches, or deus ex machinas (at least when compared to the earlier films).
If you want to see really "badly made movies" go watch something by Ed Wood or go rent
Highlander 2: The Quickening (or anything that was riffed on MST3K.
Additionally, liking something is very much in the eye of the beholder. Looking down on somebody in, quite frankly, a snobbish and non-joking way, because they found enjoyment in a movie that you didn't says more about you than the person who actually liked the movie.
Wow, I surprised that a lot of people didn't like Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I thought it was a wonderful film.
Sky Captain was such a disappointment for me. I was so looking forward to that movie for many months (which is rare for me as I usually only hotly anticipate movies that I already have a familiarity with such as
Star Trek or
Indy, for example). I thought the first half was really good and enjoyable, but felt the second half was excruciatingly slow paced, which kinda killed the movie for me.
