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I've read mostly "it's not great, but it's pretty good" reviews.
The myth of the crystal skulls has widely been proven a hoax or fairy like tale. They're man made but that doesn't mean it wouldn't translate into a good Jones story. Anyhow I hope the movie can hold some weight but from what I've seen it does seem to have a childish Episode 1 type of appeal to it. Which I think would suck some serious balls if that ends up being the case. Hoping for the best here.
I've read mostly "it's not great, but it's pretty good" reviews.
But I wouldn't be the least bit interested in the Transformers dork being the new Indy in future films. That has failure pile written all over it.
This thread went away for a while, has now been bumped, and "Indian Jones" still bugs me.
lol, didnt even notice
I read on Wikipedia that Harrison Ford has a rear nudity scene in this.
and for the record, Darth Vader went from the most badass villain of all time to a whiny emo . That's how bad Episodes 1-3 ed him up. I now think Darth ing Vader is a little .
@ and numskull peewee defending Vader.
What a ing moron.
NPR did a story on it recently
Loves me my NPR.All Things Considered, May 19, 2008 · A swashbuckling archaeologist returns to the big screen next week, in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. As the le suggests, the precious artifact this time around is a crystal skull. In reality, crystal skulls are immersed in intrigue — and not just the kind Hollywood would have you believe.
Some of the skulls are in museums; others are held by private collectors. The largest known specimen can be found at the Smithsonian Ins ution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. But you won't see it on display. You have to wend your way down a long hallway lined with ceiling-high cabinets filled with human bones. In a back office, inside a locked filing cabinet, the skull is in the care of anthropologist Jane Walsh.
"This is actually called milky quartz," Walsh explains as she gingerly lifts the carved quartz skull out of a drawer. It's the size of a bowling ball, smooth as ice, with hollow eye sockets. "It weighs 31 pounds," she says. "I know because I carried it to London."
This skull was mailed to the Smithsonian in 1992. The anonymous donor said it was a genuine artifact of the Aztec empire, which collapsed in the 1500s.
Walsh wondered if her skull was the real McCoy.
She did some reading and discovered that there are dozens of crystal skulls around the world. Most are quite small, the size of golf balls. They started to appear in the antiquities trade in the 1860s. Several were sold from Mexico by a French collector named Eugene Boban.
Revealing Origins
But Walsh's studies didn't shed light on the big question: Could the Aztecs have carved these pieces? Walsh studied the kinds of tools the Aztecs used to carve stone, such as the pump drill, a wood-and-rope contraption that spins a wooden rod with a stone tip. Such tools left distinctive marks, different from those left by modern tools such as fast-spinning rotary wheels.
Walsh needed someone to help analyze the skull, so she took it to Margaret Sax at the British Museum in London. Sax is an expert on markings from carving and polishing. She examined the tool marks under a powerful scanning electron microscope, just as she had done with another big crystal skull her museum had owned for over a century. It, too, was supposed to be ancient Mexican.
But just like the British specimen, Walsh's artifact wasn't authentic.
"The tool marks on both the Smithsonian skull and the British Museum skull were clearly produced by wheel cutting," she says, "and so we are able to say they are of post-Columbian date." The marks' shape, depth and surface texture indicated the skulls had been made by rotary tools, and no one in Central or South America was known to have those until Europeans arrived.
Now Walsh and Sax are looking at the type of quartz from which the skulls are made. Small imperfections could help identify where it came from. They say neither of the two skulls is likely from Mexico, home of the Aztecs.
An Invented Artifact
One thing the scientists have figured out is that the British Museum's skull came from Boban, that mysterious French collector. In the late 1800s, he first described it as a piece of artwork. Then he began calling it an Aztec artifact, in an attempt, Sax says, to make it "more appealing in order to sell it."
So, what are these things? Walsh says they're not exactly "fakes" because they aren't copies of anything.
"I don't think there are any real ones," she explains. "They're really a kind of invented artifact. ... Some person or some workshop was cranking them out and selling them to a European or North American audience, which is where they all wind up."
Eventually, they wind up locked away in the bowels of a museum.
Walsh returns the skull to its place in the drawer. "We should have him face out," she says, and then laughs. "People keep telling me not to look it in the eye."
Thanks RandomGuy I didn't feel going back and digging for info.
pego:
hahahahaha in your face.
Now that is one sexy man.
oh damn thats rock-solid proof if i've ever seen it!
You get what you ask for greedy american.oh damn thats rock-solid proof if i've ever seen it!
If you wanted full on deep researched proof you should know this isn't the place for that.
I was drunk when I created the thread.
www.ain cool.com
Check out the reviews there.
They're actually pretty good.
I think if you're an Indy fan, you'll love the movie.
If you're not, it will probably be just "okay".
I'm a fan and I can't wait for it to come out.
I love the Indiana Jones movies and the only review that matters is mine. I may actually break down and go watch this on the big screen....as soon as I get my stimulus check.
I can't wait to see it this weekend. Unless I can manage to get to an earlier showing. They are opening a new theater in this area and thats the big movie they are pushing for the GO.
Two words:
Shia LeBouf
lol
i remember that All Things Considered show. Crystal Skulls are ing gay anyways.
dr jones kicked shortrounds ass to the curb a long time ago, the ultimate scoff they were best friends dah
I'd be seeing it tonight if not for the game... GO SPURS!
Tell me about it!
kali ma!
They stole the Sankara Stone!
Perhaps you would care to counter with results from your own tunneling electron microscope?oh damn thats rock-solid proof if i've ever seen it!
It is quite good enough for me.
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