Saw Raiders of the Lost ET. Very disappointing. Theater was silent most of the time. Bored, I think. I kept looking at my watch.
#1 problem: George Lucas as the writer. He is simply awful. The story sucks. The dialog is even suckier.
I wanted it to be good. It wasn’t.
The Indiana Jones franchise rests on Christianity or, at least, Biblical stories.
Raiders dealt with the Ark story that millions of people believe to be true.
Temple of Doom took a left turn into eastern mysticism and is rounded dismissed. It also recast Indy as a playboy lacking his boyish/bookish Raiders form. Yeech. And the female lead was less than useless, except as a future wife to Spielberg.
Last Crusade returned to form and dealt with the distinctly Christian (though insignificant) Grail artifact–though Indy’s(and his father’s) moral lapses were again disappointing and hurt the film.
Now another left turn has Indy chasing aliens and his moral lapses are co-starring.
Sorry: I want my heroes to be heroes, not deadbeat dads. And I want my stories noble, not Star Wars retreads.
