I assume you've seen Snatch. If you haven't, you'd like it. I like all three of those movies.
I've seen all of Guy Ritchie's movies except King Arthur, Man From UNCLE, and that godawful one he did when he was married to Madonna that starred her.
Snatch is basically Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels taken up a few notches and distilled. Fantastic movie.
Revolver was interesting but very trippy and doesn't quite work as well. It was hard to buy Jason Statham as a mastermind who out-thought and manipulated instead of just kicking all of the ass. Bonus points for having Big Pussy and Ludacris as major supporting characters though.
RocknRolla is escalated again from Snatch but only a few of the cast are colorful East End gangsters, so it feels very different. Great cast, and Tom Hardy looks so incredibly different than he does in Mad Max it's hard to believe it's the same guy. Thandie Newton is, as she usually is, the weakest link of the movie, but she is very sexy and that's really all that's asked of her.[DOUBLEPOST=1496946380,1496945849][/DOUBLEPOST]
When I rewatched the Indy movies a while ago I was sort of obligated to say pretty much the same. It's probably still my #4 in a list, but it's not as much of a disaster as people made it out to be.
Introducing a useless family member - sure, but Daddy Jones wasn't all that much better. I mean, better actor, better script, better chemistry, but just a way to insert a famous actor and shake things up, nonetheless.
Obvious CGI - sure, and ripping out the guyt's heart looked absolutely real.
The story makes no sense - as said, Raiders isn't a hero movie, it's a story about a guy who should simply have stayed home.
It certainly is the most phoned-in movie, though.
Better actor, better script, and better chemistry COUNT FOR A FUCKING LOT. There's a big difference between "It was incredible working with Mr. Connery" and "The only interesting thing Mutt did while filming was hunt, kill, and eat one of the busboys."
Also, Daddy Jones was involved because he was the foremost expert on the archaeological pursuit of The Holy Grail. He was absolutely vital in getting them there, not only from interpreting the signs, but the sheer amount of information he'd sifted through during his life and identified the most pertinent bits.
The Ripping Out Of the Heart was partially implied to be supernatural, and I'm gonna say that 99.9999% of the moviegoing audience doesn't really know what a heart being pulled out through a chest should look like. However, most everyone knows what monkeys and prairie dogs look like and how they move. I mean, shit, even a puppet for the prairie dogs would have had an acceptable effect. Instead it's a gratuitous silly use of obvious CGI that takes you out of the movie. It's a big, "Hey, just reminding you this isn't real" moment, which breaks immersion.
