May 27 2008'Indiana Jones' Whips Weekend Competition, Using His Famous Whip
1. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - A dutiful sense of responsibility combined with the subconscious desire to kill your idols brought Indiana Jones to $126 million, nestling it at #2, between Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and X-Men: The Last Stand, on the chart of Horribly Disappointing Memorial Day Weekend Sequels.
2. The Chronciles of Narnia: Prince Caspian - The substantial drop to $28.6 million is widely thought to be related to Prince Caspian's running theme of not being Indiana Jones.
3. Iron Man - $25.7 million, which is still a ton when you consider that this is its fourth week, and that the film frequently digresses into quoting Swingers.
4. What Happens in Vegas... - $11.1 million, making it the most profitable marketing slogan-based movie since Where's the Beef? 2.
5. Speed Racer - $5.2 million, which isn't that bad if you disregard that it cost $120 million to cover Earth in a pupil-wrecking CGI lacquer.

Reader Comments
1. GFS3 - May 27, 2008 1:54 PM
It's not surprising that Indiana Jones brought in the big bucks this weekend -- he's an American hero afterall. Which leads to an interesting thing about Indy -- he's a misogynist. The evidence is there from all four films. Here's the evidence: http://tiny.cc/RK1D8
2. Wix - May 27, 2008 2:00 PM
I'm so disappointed that I actually contributed to that piece of shit movie being #1
3. trickykel78 - May 27, 2008 2:13 PM
Indy 4 was better than I anticipated. Thats not to say there arn't a couple groaner moments. And it's definitly not the best of the series. But it's hands down better than the Star Wars prequals.
4. TetterkeT - May 27, 2008 2:15 PM
I am tempted to call the theater I saw Indy 4 at and ask them to please give my money to Iron Man instead. What a shitty movie!!
5. Last of the Mohicans - May 27, 2008 2:22 PM
I thought Indy was really good, yes Shia swinging on the vines was a groaner but overall it was a really good movie. To all the people who aren't happy this isn't the best, just remember nothing beats Raiders. Also, kudos to Iron Man for staying in to top five for over a month.
6. Antonio - May 27, 2008 2:23 PM
I saw This movie on Saturday after watching the last 3. this was as good as the 'Lost ark' it follows the Indiana formula perfectly with the exception of 2 key scenes, the refrigerator, stupid but cool. and the Vine swinging, just flat out STUPID
other than those 2 scenes, the movie was seriously fantastic!
7. Redd - May 27, 2008 2:40 PM
For all of you complaining about spending your hard earned cash on Indy 4, allow me to clue you in on a formula that will help you spend your movie dollars more wisely in the future. In the case of a sequel, subsequent films will suck exponentially more than the original.
For example Speed2 took Speed's already formidable suck factor and squared it resulting in a movie so retarded, even Kenau Reeves thought hismself to be ablove it. Godfather 3 took the minimal suck factor of Godfather, that was already multiplied by itself in Godfather 2, and by taking that to the power of 3 (cubing it) it managed to reach of level of awfulness usually associated with M.Knight Symalan movies.
The only exception to this case, is when the film was originally intended to part of a series, particularly a trilogy. Example, Empire Strikes Back was twice as awesome as A New Hope. So using this formula, we can deduce that Indy 4 had a fearsome level of suckiness, the likes of which likely won't be seen until the release of "Clone Wars".
8. Caligula - May 27, 2008 3:00 PM
I bet the season finale of LOST will be better than this movie.
9. kompleet - May 27, 2008 3:11 PM
Yes, who cares about aliens ??? Thera are tons of movies with aliens, I don't want to watch an Indiana Jones movie to see damn CG aliens, or very poor sci-fi, I want to watch an Indiana Jones Movie to see stuff related to mythology, religion, etc. With aliens, there are no more mysteries, "ok everything is alien's fault" end of the movie , and end of your imagination...
And those damn 3D prairie dogs...
10. JWM - May 27, 2008 3:36 PM
People expect too much of movies now. Indy 4 was enjoyable and fun, and that's all you should have been looking for -- and yes, its style departed from the earlier ones on purpose. SFW? It was a stylistic choice. Disagree with it, fine -- trash a fun movie because it didn't fill your diapers, go pound sand.
11. Julian - May 27, 2008 3:38 PM
saw Indy yesterday . . . damn . . . that was the most over the top movie I've seen in a while. But at the end of the day this movie did the same thing that Rocky Balboa, the new Star Wars movies and Rambo did It grabbed nostalgia by the neck and punched it in the nuts . . . screw you Lucas for making crappy versions of your classics and editing the originals. screw you Spielberg for ruining Indiana Jones with tarzan shia leboufe and cgi gofers and Stallone for looking like shit and still playing rocky which was one of my favorite movies and rambo (which was ok but he still looked like crap).
12. Michael "Bishop" Emery - May 27, 2008 8:07 PM
INDY!!!!!
I loved this movie, and personally feel it was worth the 20 year wait!
I'm seeing it again this week...'cause that's the kind of "Indyaholic" I am!
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13. Connor - May 27, 2008 9:30 PM
The people who were disappointed with Indy have delusions of grandeur about the original ones. Yes, the new one was ridiculous at times, but so were the old ones. It was quite enjoyable methinks.
14. proteon - May 27, 2008 9:56 PM
Ahem.
The Indy movie was an utter failure and here are a few reasons why:
1) He has either had plastic surgery - probably not recently - or botox or is on prescription or non prescription medication to where he is incapable of facial expresions and if that isn't bad enough someone seems to have told everyone else in the movie "ok he's spent - do NOT upstage him in any scene no matter how doll like he is!" because Cate Blanchette should have been on FIRE as the Rooskie psychic but was limp. So was Karen Allen and Ray Winstone. Lebouf? Who gives a crap you either adore him on principal or hate him.
The scenes looked to have been shot almost entirely on tiny sound stages; the 'get-to-know-dad' scene in the restaraunt was so awful words cannot describe it. The reunion between Marion and Indy was look-away embarrasing. The snake is a vine scene as well. The refridgerators-can-save-you-from-neuclear-explosions bit I mean who do you turn to when watching that?
The skull itself and it's story - wow Indy was part of the cleanup team called to Rosewell to clean up the alien crash. How X filesian convenient. The skull looked ooh neat until poor John Hurt had to cart it around for an hour or so pretending it was still amazing. The inferior resemblance to National Treasure (NATIONAL TREASURE PEOPLE) with the museum like treasure room - Blanchette's inevitable but trite demise - Indy proclaiming 'their treasure is knowledge!" - the foprced clunky 50's phrases - listen. I could keep writing but I'll do what Spielberg couldn't and let it go.
Round goes to me thank you very much.
15. TetterkeT - May 28, 2008 12:35 AM
Okay, allow me to elaborate on why the latest Indy installment sucked major ass. Basically what has happened is Lucas has forgotten that people go to see his movies because they want to see some cool shit. They don't go because they want to learn a life lesson and that's basically what Crystal Skull is -- a series of life lessons that Lucas wanted to preach to a wide audience and he used Indiana Jones (a highly valued and widely respected American institution) to do so. He's trying to make family oriented movies while still retaining his original audience and it just doesn't work. In fact, it hasn't worked for the last 4 films and that he's put out (possibly with exception to Episode III).
I'm super pissed with what Lucas has done because he's succumbing to what everyone in a position of power succumbs to and that's trying to push your own narrow minded belief system and agenda onto the populous. I don't need to hear Indiana Jones tell his son to "treat his mother right, because you only get one" or any of the myriad of redeeming things that he quipped throughout the picture. I want to see booby traps, misogyny, ass beatings, and Dr. Jones saving the world from the nazi's getting ahold of yet another archaeological treasure.
So fuck you, George Lucas. Go make Fraggle/Muppet movies or some bullshit. Leave your good movies alone.
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