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Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull – movie quotes:

“This ain’t gonna be easy.”
“Not as easy as it used to be.”

“When it comes to scorpions, the bigger the better. If a small one bites you, don’t keep it to yourself.” MMM – okay, good safety tip, there!

“Legend says that a crystal skull was stolen from a mythical lost city in the Amazon, supposedly built out of solid gold, guarded by the living dead. Whoever returns the skull to the city temple will be given control over its power.” MMM – where can I get me one of those?

Movie lines from Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull

Director: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Shia LaBeouf , Ray Winstone, John Hurt

Well, Indy is looking alot older, but Harrison shows that he can still deliver the action goods in the fourth outing of the world’s most determined archeologist. The story is a bit light, and this is covered up by making it unclear, as well. The dialog is awkward at times, but Spielberg’s overblown (and seemingly endless) action scenes and campy humor still make this film fun. Ford has more big name back up, including Blanchett in a deliciously evil role. They shot for stars on this one and missed, but at least it didn’t crash back to Earth.

It’s 1957, and Indiana Jones is back as a war hero and part time professor, who finds himself kidnapped by an evil KGB agent played by Cate Blanchett who wants help figuring out the supernatural powers of an artifact that she’s just stolen. A few fistfights, a couple gunfights, a rocket car ride and a nuclear explosion later, Indy is free and off and running to solve the mystery before the Russians. In tow, he has a Marlon Brando style greaser named Mutt, played by Shia LaBeouf and in pursuit he has some FBI agents who thinks he’s a Russian spy (it is the McCarthy era 50s). There are plenty of mysteries to figure out, traps to duck and baddies to beat, on the way to an ending that needed more originality, but it is loud, fun and rocket-paced, so the action crowd will enjoy the ride.

Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is the second best of the four film Indy series, and comes closest to capturing the flavor of the original, but aging characters, a script that lets down in places and the nagging feeling that we have seen all this before keep it from approaching the lofty heights of its legendary mother film. nice try, though.

Speed Racer – movie quotes:

Stop steering and start driving. This ain’t no dead piece of metal. A car’s a living, breathing thing, and she’s alive. Feel it talking to you. Telling you what she wants, what she needs. All you gotta do is listen. Close your eyes and listen. MMM – Use the force, Luke.

“How could it be meaningless? I saw my son become a man. I watched a man with courage and integrity drive the pants off of every other driver on that road. This is not meaningless. This is the reason for a father’s life.”

Movie lines from Speed Racer

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian – movie quotes:

“You may find Narnia a more savage place than you remember…”

“Minotaurs? They’re real?”
“Not to mention big, huge.” MMM – If I met a minotaur, I’d kind of expect them to be huge, but maybe that‘s just me..

Movie lines from The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

What Happens in Vegas – movie quotes:
“She’s awfully hostile for a girl named Joy.”

“Junk punch him right up in his man business.”

Movie lines from What Happens in Vegas

Director: Tom Vaughan

Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Cameron Diaz, Rob Corddry, Lake Bell, Jason Sudeikis, Queen Latifah, Dennis Farina

What Happens in Vegas is a mediocre formula film with a predictable formula story, stock characters right out of the screenwriters’ handbook, and ending that you see from two hours away and an over reliance on not-so comical fight scenes between men and women.

Ashton Kutcher is Jack, a fun, but aimless guy who can’t even hold a job when his father is the boss and Cameron Diaz is Joy, an successful, but uptight stock trader who can’t hold on to her man, even though she is a successful stock trader who looks like Cameron Diaz. Go figure. Anyway, these two both decide that the solution to their problems lies in a wild weekend trip with their friends, Hater (Rob Corddry) and Tipper (Lake Bell). The pairs are drawn together by fate and while Hater and Tipper zinging each other with insults, Jack and Joy have an alcohol-fueled evening of debauchery and marriage. Yup, they awake in Holy Matrimony and are all set to pursue an annulment when a 3 million dollar jackpot gets in the way. Now a fed up judge sentences then to ‘six months hard marriage’ and the story is off and limping.

What Happens in Vegas is funny in some spots and blandly interesting in others, but it is really too silly and predictable to stand out from the crowd, leaving it as the default choice for couples who can‘t agree on what they really want to see and teenagers who are young to know what they really want to see.

Spider-Man 2 – movie quotes:

“He knows a hero when he sees one. Too few characters out there, flying around like that, saving old girls like me. And Lord knows, kids like Henry need a hero. Courageous, self-sacrificing people. Setting examples for all of us. Everybody loves a hero. People line up for them, cheer them, scream their names.”

“Precious tritium is what makes this project go. There’s only 25 pounds of it on the whole planet. I’d like to thank Harry Osborn and Oscorp Industries for providing it.”

Movie lines from Spider-Man 2

Director: Sam Raimi

Starring: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina, Rosemary Harris, J.K. Simmons

Sam Raimi is back behind the lens, as he carefully tries to re-create the recipe that made Spider-Man the box office champ of 2002. He succeeds at this for the most part, as he works his blend of humor, action, and touching drama and mixes it all up in a Big Apple bowl. The cast of #1 is back with a few additions, the most notable of which is Alfred Molina as premier Spidey villain, Doc Ock. This film is a little darker than its predecessor, and gets a little heavy at times for a light comic book action film.

Tobey Maguire is back as Peter Parker/Spider-Man and if you thought he his life was rough at times before, wait until you see the first half hour of this one, as poor Peter deals with money issues, problems with girls (still M.J. – Kirsten Dunst), friends, family, bosses, landlords, school and even laundry. If this guy got cancer, it would be a step up! Yup, his life is falling apart, and on top of that, he’s seems to be losing his super powers. There are more street musicians with Spider-Man tunes, more run ins with the fantastically amusing J. Jonah Jameson (J.K. Simmons) and yet another awwww moment with his NYC neighbors. Alfred Molina is Otto Octavius, a scientist working on fusion with the help of four intelligent and ultra powerful artificial arms. But, uh oh, something goes wrong, he goes crazy and the Webslinger has another scrap on his hands. Yup, its just like the first one.

Spider-Man 2 set out to give its fans exactly what they liked in the first outing and they succeeded, too well actually. This almost feels like a scene for scene clone of the first film, though it has a new villain and some new ideas for action scenes, which really pick up in act 3 (last 30-45 mins). The end result will win over fans of the first Spider-Man. Thankfully there were plenty of those, because no new ones will be gained here.

Spider-Man – movie quotes:
“The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy, little tale; if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world; somebody lied.”

Movie lines from Spider-Man

Director: Sam Raimi

Starring: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Willem Dafoe, Cliff Robertson, Rosemary Harris, J.K. Simmons

Spider-Man was the film that re-defined super hero films for the 21st century, living up to the promise of the X-Men series that began in 2000. Sam Raimi’s striking visuals takes David Koepp’s masterfully blended script and gives us a well paced mix of action, drama and humor. The characters are natural, likable and particularly well cast. The dialog gets understandably cheesy at times (it is still a comic book movie, after all), but this is still a fitting tribute to the most popular comic book series in the world.

Tobey Maguire is Peter Parker, a clever, but unpopular high school student, who finds his life is turned upside down when he gains the super powers of a spider. He learns of his new abilities, how to use them and the responsibilities that come along with power (Gee, I can think of a bunch of celebrities who seem to have missed that class). His life is a maelstrom, of money woes, family and friend issues and an unsuccessful love life with a beautiful classmate named Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst), but become a lot more complicated when a super villain shows up.

Well developed characters, a compelling story and exciting original action scenes make this a first rate action flick that still manages to have both a heart and a pulse.