Maybe the genre hasn’t kept up with the times, or perhaps Steven Spielberg is himself out of style–or maybe I’m just older–but Indiana Jones and the Kindgom of the Silver Skull seemed really hokey to me when I saw it yesterday.
I kept thinking that Spielberg et al. had designed everything to become a ride at Disneyland as I watched the putative action (which in truth wasn’t the least bit exciting but seemed contrived and unreal) unfurl. Plus, they seemed to regurgitate every trick from past Indiana Jones adventures and even throw in some plot devices from Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
It’s pretty much a drudge. Even when they tried to wax nostalgic, it seemed ridiculous and, again, contrived.
I remember back in the 1980s when every new segment of either Star Wars or Indiana Jones opened, I’d go to the 7 a.m. screening on opening day and wait in a huge line to sit in a packed theater amid screaming fans.
This time, there was no 7 a.m. screening of Kingdom. The earliest was 9:30 a.m., and there were about 12 of us in the audience. None was younger than 50.
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