QUOTE(Keats @ May 26 2008, 01:32 PM)

If you're taking issue with the aliens things, it's because you just refuse to mix aliens into Indiana Jones, and I don't think that's legitimate. The plot's internally consistent - the Nazca lines are real, and they're just like crop signs... so the mayans -> aliens connection seems pretty natural. If you want to argue something, argue the fact that Indy survived a nuke by hopping into a fridge.
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Personally, I didn't have a problem with the fact that there were aliens simply because they were aliens, I had a problem with the aliens because of how they were handled. That, and there was a lot of other retarded shit in that movie. But as far as the aliens go, think back to the previous Indy movies. In Temple of Doom, at the end of the movie, did Shiva fucking drop out of the sky and shoot lightning bolts out of his hands into the bad guy? Was Jesus hanging out with them at the end of Last Crusade? All of the movies have been centered around the fantastic, but there's always remained some element of mystery left at the end. Whereas in number four, we get hints throughout the movie that these Mayan gods were actually aliens who visited the earth long ago, then we get some shit right out of Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind when they actually find the other crystal skeletons, then the man who's been batshit crazy the entire movie suddenly is totally coherent and just flat out explains to us that they're not aliens but rather
interdimensional beings. Like, we fucking get it, they're not from earth. Anyone in the audience who's not retarded figured that out way earlier in the movie.
Yeah, and then there's the other retarded shit they packed in to the movie, like Indy's son; Indy's son having an honest-to-god swordfight with the evil chick while they're on two different trucks driving through the jungle; Indy's son
swinging from vine to vine like a monkey; them driving off a cliff onto a tree, knocking the tree over and then driving off of it, only to have it fucking spring back up Wile E. Coyote style to smack a bunch of guy's on the cliff; The fact that the aliens opened an interdimensional portal to ack to whateer dimension they're from, but then for some reason they also needed to take off in a flying saucer into space when the movie just told me a minute ago that they're not from space. And then after the flying saucer takes off the movie once again tells me that they're not from space, so I don't know what the fuck was with that flying saucer.
Oh and when that british guy died, did anyone else not notice any reason why he wasn't getting up? It looked like he just fell over, Indy threw him the whip and then he lay there hoping to be dragged to safety. Was there something I didn't notice like, crushing him or something? Or was he just so useless and lazy that he couldn't just stand up and walk to safety?
Also I can't understand why the Russians would assume that indiana jones is the best guy to help them find something locked away in a big warehouse that he's never been in before; If I were in their position, I'd probably have asked one of the people who worked in that base, instead of just killing them all right away.
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