ShogunMaster Says CRYSTAL SKULL Is 'the Indiana movie that you were dreading'!!

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Generation Gap?
Published 5/8/2008 at Hollywood Elsewhere
Generation Gap? I wasn't going to say anything and just wait until the 5.18 screening of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in Cannes, but since Ain't It Cool has run a neg review from "ShogunMaster" (and since ...

Indiana Jones and the Fortress of Suckitude
Published 5/8/2008 by Mr. Atoz at Agent Bedhead
... has seen a sneak preview of the movie, and the news ain’t good. This guy obviously learned his grammar, syntax, and keyboard skills from Courtney Love, but the message is clear: Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull pulses with all the energy and excitement of a Fred Thompson presidential bid. Worse yet, he claims that the special effects are cheesy and inept, and for the last ten years special effects have been the only thing George Lucas was any good at. Well, rats. Guess I’ll be re-seeing Iron Man and trying to ignore the Indy trailer at the beginning.

Indiana Jones 4 is For Old People
Published 5/8/2008 by Christopher Campbell at SpoutBlog
... aren’t for another ten days, but as long as Aint It Cool News exists, you can count on early reactions from the amateur critics. One such person, going by the alias “ShogunMaster,” has a spoiler-filled review that is unfortunately quite negative. Claiming it lacks tension, employs extremely fake-looking props and sets, and features a “horrible” performance from Shia “LaBeef”, the reviewer at least puts some of it into perspective: ...

Reviews of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Hit the Net
Published 5/8/2008 by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) at /Film
... everything about the film is “bloated” and Spielberg/Lucas try way too hard. it doesn’t feel like Indiana Jones, Harrison Ford may as well be Harvey Keitel or Booger too much unnecessary, analytical dialogue a la the prequels Cate Blanchett’s is the “least interesting” of the franchise’s villains it’s a weak retread, but the reviewer didn’t “hate it” But the first review out and out rips it…here’s a spoiler-free recap, spoilers after the jump ...

Is Indiana Jones 4 Bad, Geriatric Fluff?
Published 5/9/2008 by david at Jossip
... Fair cover. The Entertainment Weekly cover. Can nothing save Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones from being universally panned? “I’m told by other AICN staff members (don’t know if he wants his name formally associated with this info) that other people have contacted him from the same screening & that their feedback has been “uniformly rough”. It’s safe to assume more reviews will arrive in the coming days.” [AICN] Just please don’t hate it as much as Sex and the City! ...

Early Reviews of Indy IV
Published 5/10/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Mystery Man) at Mystery Man on Film
... I'd like to highlight the reviews without revealing any major plot points, because it was interesting to read the various story-centered complaints from the fanboys, of all people, about high-brow things like lack of tension, under-developed or under-used characters, and too much dialogue, if you can believe that. First, ShogunMaster said it was the “Indiana Jones movie you were dreading:” ...

Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of Doom?
Published 5/12/2008 by TRENT (noreply@blogger.com) at Pink Is The New Blog
... -- but you can read it HERE , if you like) and will see the movie for myself as soon as it can. Even with my movie reviews (which I really consider personal opinions) I urge folks to judge for themselves no matter what my take on a movie is. In the end, I don't really believe that Indiana Jones will flop (tho, I thought the same about Speed Racer ) but in the Internet Age, I guess you can never be all that sure this far ahead of a movie's release. [ ...

Bad News (Maybe) for Indy Fans
Published 5/12/2008 by Rick at Coosa Creek Mambo
... Well, it had to happen — several reviews of Indy’s newest outing have hit the fan, and they aren’t all that pretty. The worst one has been posted at Ain’t It Cool News by someone who calls himself (or herself) ShogunMaster: ...

Harrison Ford's Indiana Jones Gets Little Action
Published 5/12/2008 by soc2006 at A Socialite's Life
... there, guy. But he's not the only one crying foul, with Ain't It Cool News citing disappointment over the special effects, stilted dialog and anticlimactic near-death scenes, declaring, "This is the Indiana Jones movie that you were dreading." ...

Press review of Indy arent all favorable..
Published 5/19/2008 by Scott at We Are Movie Geeks
... old man in action again, I was kind of worried that they seemed to be missing ’something’. That something was tension. During the whole of the movie, there was not a single moment that I thought our hero Mr. Jones (actually Colonel Jones as he was a hero in WWII now) was in any sort of peril or even significant inconvenience. In most cases, you were so many steps ahead of the characters that it was really just an arduous wait for them to get through it.” from Aint It Cool News. ”After about an hour, the film abandons any pretense of story ...

50 Flaws of Indy IV
Published 5/26/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Mystery Man) at Mystery Man on Film
... 28) Early Reviewers - I’d like to give a shout-out to ShogunMaster who wrote that scathing early review. He took a lot of heat for that review in the media. ...