Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Scull

[alexandral]

Don't count me disappointed, my family and I enjoyed our family outing to watch "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Scull" yesterday. My daughter was a particular fan and she is already getting excited about the other 3 Indianas. My plan to distract her from watching "Bratz movies" and similar is working very well so far.

But to be honest, I have seen it all before. Like some people who get stuck wearing the fashion trend of their youth, it seems that Steven Spielberg got stuck somewhere in 80s with his film-making. The storyline is straight out of his past sci-fi films, the jokes have seen their better days and even the special effects are cheesy and dated. I would expect Steven to have enough money for something better than a crystal scull stuffed with foil.

On the plus side, it really seems that the cold war between USA and Russia is over. Even though stereotypes of stupid Russian baddies destined for certain death are still abound, Russian language isn't tortured and murdered anymore. Cate Blanchett spoke a very decent Russian (and Ukrainian, thank you to spankmayer for pointing this out!). And she was a very good baddie indeed, making it into my "Top ten of evil fictional characters". I have an irresistible urge to imitate the way her character Irina Spalko spoke (and my daughter says I already speak like Irina) and wear similar clothes of grey utilitarian goodness. I am particular in love with the belt and the gloves:



What else? Harrison Ford , like good wine, grows old nicely and gets better with age, weary and sarcastic.







On the minus side, I wasn't impressed by Karen Allen's and Shia LaBeouf's characters. I think movie could have benefited from omitting of their storyline.

To conclude: this was a good fun to go with a family but not something I would have enjoyed watching by myself.

Comments

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

))) sorry to mention, but Irina speaks not Russian, but Ukrainian, since she is from Ukraine.
Russian soldiers speaks Russian very good, since the actors are Russian)

Hmm, I dunno - she did speak what seemed to be Russian to the soldiers. I thought that in the Russian military unit she spoke Russian to them , right?

But YAY! You reminded me that she is supposed to be Ukranian. In this case, the way she spoke Russian (with a slight accent) is just perfect.

And I appreciated that the soldiers were Russian actors.

[spankmayer.livejournal.com]

great userpic!)))))

of cause, I cannot be sure for all her text, because I saw the movie dubbed, but there are definitely some phrases she speaks Ukrainian (very funny, by the way)
great job of Kate anyway, her part was nice to look at

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

great userpic!)))))

I am very fond of "Daywatch". :D

of cause, I cannot be sure for all her text, because I saw the movie dubbed, but there are definitely some phrases she speaks Ukrainian (very funny, by the way)

Oh, I see! I think you are right , and thank you for the info! She definitely spoke Russian to the soldiers but some phrases (when swearing and such) she spoke very quickly and I didn't catch the meaning. That must have been Ukrainian. This is so cool!

[spankmayer.livejournal.com]

You are welcome!
I like the idea of mixing languages, it is funny and original, but I'm afraid that nobody except Russians and Ukrainians in the world are able to value it)

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I don't know, in the age of Globalization I think the film creators should make an effort to depict other languages (and not only Russian, any foreign non-English language) as correct as possible. There always will be big numbers of movie watchers from other countries watching. It is as if they don't have resources for it.