I myself don't see anyone other than Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones personally. The only exception I allowed was River Phoenix portraying the boy version for sake of the Last Crusade movie.
It's not that it wasn't a decent idea, it's more that it seemed a pale imitation to the movies.
By the way my flat mate Robin, rates Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull second behind Raiders. He's been twice. He made some good points in defence of it.
Indiana Jones's career is a given a new dimension by this closing chapter. Up until this, he's only grabbed articfacts with religious significance and now he's going after something crazy sci-fi. That's not so bad.
We get to see him round out his life's adventures with people he can have in his life for, with any luck, the rest of his life. As Jim Broadbents University Dean said, "At a certain point life stops giving you things and starts taking them away". It's great to imagine a happy Henry Jones II closing out his life instead of a lonely one.
The serials these movies are based on, often have storylines which are incongruous to each other.
You can still take an interest in the Mayans and their advanced for the time culture from this film. You just don't have to expect to find out too much about UFO's. Same as study on bible artifacts won't actually yield any archaeologist an actual find of the Ark Of The Covenant or Holy Grail.
The only things he'd like to see changed are about the same as myself. The atomic blast. The monkey swing. The waterfall scenes.
Here's what we discussed as a solution for the atomic blast scene.
They should add a scene after where Indy realises where he is, change the voice over to say that he has 10 minutes to clear the blast area. He should go outside, find a car. It won't start, Indy has that look where he can't believe his bad luck, he push starts it, it goes! Then he gets about 1-1/2 to 2 miles further away and then all of a sudden it stalls! Arrrgggghhh!! 2 minutes to go. He looks around seeing only a few more houses. He gets to a nearby house and runs inside. The same fridge scene ensues, and he is thrown about a third of the distance he was.
Or something to that effect. hopefully they filmed something like that, but decided it was too slow and cut it. That's the kind of thing that'd make a directors cut much better. We don't think it'll ever happen, but hey a few fixes would make it much better.
What you think? What scenes would you fix and how?
