Iambaytor Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 For Silent Bob, Arch, and anyone else who will find this funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycaon Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 Shortpacked is great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drifter Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 Here's another appropriate spoof: Louisiana Smith and the Bastard Son Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alive she cried Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: The Abridged Script By: Rod Hilton FADE IN: EXT. NEVADA DESERT PRODUCER FRANK MARSHALL immediately proves his commitment to using CGI “only when necessary” by featuring completely necessary CGI prairie dogs in the first shot of the movie. A bunch of cars drive through the DESERT to AREA 51. HARRISON FORD’S SHADOW, then HARRISON FORD’S SHOE, then HARRISON FORD’S ARM, then HARRISON FORD’S HAT and finally HARRISON FUCKING FORD are eventually revealed. HARRISON FORD Alright folks, let’s get this show on the road. I want to make it to Country Buffet by four. CATE BLANCHETT Pryvet, Harrison. I am evil Soviet. You vill help me find Moose and Squirrel, yes? HARRISON FORD Holy Christ, you’re not going to talk like that the whole movie are you? CATE BLANCHETT Da. You vill help locate MacKuffin now. HARRISON FORD Fine. The thing you’re looking for is super magnetic, so if we just throw this gunpowder into the air it will lead us to the MacGuffin. RAY WINSTONE Nineteen years to write this movie and that’s how it’s going to start? Really? I think I’m going to write myself out of this movie as much as possible by revealing myself to be a double agent. RAY turns on HARRISON. CATE escapes with the MACGUFFIN and HARRISON gets away, only to find himself in the middle of a NUCLEAR TEST SITE that is apparently located within walking distance of AREA 51. HARRISON FORD Holy shit, a nuclear bomb! I’ll hide in this lead-lined fridge to protect myself from the radiation that will permeate the area shortly after the ten-million degree heat generated by the blast is done obliterating every single object in a 5 mile radius! Somehow, this WORKS. HARRISON FORD emerges from the fridge with his face covered in black soot, holding a sign that reads “ouch.” INT. MARSHALL COLLEGE HARRISON teaches his film class entitled “How To Ruin Millions Of Childhoods In 2 Hours” when he is interrupted by the DEAN, JIM BROADBENT. JIM BROADBENT Sorry Harrison, I have to let you go. The government thinks you might be a Soviet. Apparently someone rented “K-19: The Widowmaker” and panicked. HARRISON FORD Bullshit, nobody saw that movie. HARRISON packs up props from the prior films, but is interrupted by SHIA LABEOUF. SHIA LABEOUF Hey, my mother and John Hurt have been kidnapped. My mom said you’d help me because every great adventure film needs an insufferable douchebag sidekick. HARRISON FORD Your mom knew me? Well it seems painfully obvious that you’re going to turn out to be my son, then. SHIA LABEOUF And yet, that’s going to be mentioned later in the movie as though it’s some kind of shocking revelation. Suddenly, more CARTOONY SOVIETS show up and try to kidnap SHIA and HARRISON. SHIA LABEOUF Shit, they have guns. What do we do? HARRISON FORD Just wait until the movie gets re-released in a few years and they’ll be replaced with walkie-talkies. SHIA and HARRISON escape on a motorcycle. Crazy stunts are performed in order to evade the SOVIETS. SHIA LABEOUF Are we really expecting audiences to put up with this? We’re violating like ten thousand laws of physics here. HARRISON FORD Are you joking, kid? That makes this the most realistic action scene in the movie. EXT. SOUTH AMERICA SHIA and HARRISON go to SOUTH AMERICA to look for the next CLUE. SHIA flips his knife around in his hand trying to look badass, but actually grabs it by the blade. Twice. Seriously. HARRISON FORD Alright, the walkthrough for the movie says that our next clue is in a spooky graveyard. We should probably save our game here. SHIA LABEOUF Pick up MAP. Use MAP on HARRISON FORD. Walk To TOMB. They travel to an underground tomb and find a CRYSTAL MACGUFFIN using its super-powerful magnetic properties. SHIA LABEOUF That crystal skull looks like an alien head. And the Soviets were looking for an alien corpse stored in Area 51. Golly, there sure is a lot of alien stuff. HARRISON FORD If you’re trying to mentally ready the audience for the ending, don’t bother. I’ve read through the script, nothing can prepare moviegoers for what happens at the end. Suddenly, SOVIETS show up and kidnap SHIA and HARRISON. They bring them back to their camp, where HARRISON finds JOHN HURT and KAREN ALLEN. CATE BLANCHETT embarrasses herself some more and eventually they all travel into the AMAZON FOREST. HARRISON FORD What are we doing in the Amazon? KAREN ALLEN Cate wants to return the Crystal MacGuffin to the ancient City of Gold. HARRISON FORD City of Gold? Isn’t that what Nicolas Cage was looking for in National Treasure 2? Are we seriously getting the plot for our shitty sequel to Indiana Jones by ripping off the plot of a shitty sequel to a shitty knock-off of Indiana Jones? I feel like that should unravel the space-time continuum or something. A caravan of vehicles, led by a giant tree-cutting machine, travels deep into the AMAZON FOREST. HARRISON uses a CHEAT CODE to spawn a ROCKET LAUNCHER, then uses it to blow up the tree-cutting machine. SHIA LABEOUF I’m pretty sure the audience came here to see more Shia LaBeouf, so I’m going to fence Cate Blanchett in front of an obvious green screen. HARRISON FORD Wait, what are they chasing us through? Are there roads in the middle of the jungle? Why the hell did we bother showing that tree-cutting thing if we were just going to contradict the very thing it was trying to establish? KAREN ALLEN That’s what’s so great about this movie - we can just do whatever the hell we want, because even glaringly obvious flaws like that are dwarfed by the sheer magnitude of failure that is the rest of the movie. To illustrate this, SHIA LEBEOUF flies up into the FUCKING JUNGLE and swings like FUCKING TARZAN along the FUCKING VINES with a FUCKING ARMY of CGI FUCKING MONKEYS. That actually FUCKING HAPPENS. Everyone eventually winds up in the CITY OF GOLD. INT. CITY OF GOLD HARRISON solves a few simple puzzles and gains access to the CITY. Some natives show up and attack, but are quickly dispatched, making the AUDIENCE wonder why they were introduced at all. HARRISON FORD Alright, the aliens or whatever want me to return the crystal to some ridiculous alien throne room. CATE BLANCHETT Not zo fast. I vill return skull instead. HARRISON FORD Shouldn’t it have been taken as an indicator of a writing problem when the good guy and the bad guy in a movie have the exact same goal? CATE takes the skull and places it on a THRONE. It then turns into an ACTUAL ALIEN and makes her head explode. The ALIENS pile into a GIANT UFO and fly off into SPACE. HARRISON FORD Wow. Considering that the first movie revolved around a magical box made by God that melts faces when opened, it’s really astonishing that this movie managed to be so incredibly stupid by comparison. JOHN HURT I can’t believe that the crystal skull wanted you to return it to the city just so that aliens could have blown your head up. Those aliens are total assholes. SHIA LABEOUF Seriously, what kind of jerks would intentionally trick people into thinking they were going to get something awesome, but then give them something so awful it makes their brains melt instead? GEORGE LUCAS AND STEVEN SPIELBERG Rich jerks! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! END Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 It seems particularly scathing until you realize he's done scripts like that for pretty much every movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alive she cried Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 (edited) yeah he does alright. like rambo, yeah the script is'nt great but it's one of the best films this year, it's like the black sabbath* of movie's * i know there's a movie called black sabbath Edited June 29, 2008 by alive she cried Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acalis Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: The Abridged Script By: Rod Hilton FADE IN: EXT. NEVADA DESERT PRODUCER FRANK MARSHALL immediately proves his commitment to using CGI “only when necessary” by featuring completely necessary CGI prairie dogs in the first shot of the movie. A bunch of cars drive through the DESERT to AREA 51. HARRISON FORD’S SHADOW, then HARRISON FORD’S SHOE, then HARRISON FORD’S ARM, then HARRISON FORD’S HAT and finally HARRISON FUCKING FORD are eventually revealed. HARRISON FORD Alright folks, let’s get this show on the road. I want to make it to Country Buffet by four. CATE BLANCHETT Pryvet, Harrison. I am evil Soviet. You vill help me find Moose and Squirrel, yes? HARRISON FORD Holy Christ, you’re not going to talk like that the whole movie are you? CATE BLANCHETT Da. You vill help locate MacKuffin now. HARRISON FORD Fine. The thing you’re looking for is super magnetic, so if we just throw this gunpowder into the air it will lead us to the MacGuffin. RAY WINSTONE Nineteen years to write this movie and that’s how it’s going to start? Really? I think I’m going to write myself out of this movie as much as possible by revealing myself to be a double agent. RAY turns on HARRISON. CATE escapes with the MACGUFFIN and HARRISON gets away, only to find himself in the middle of a NUCLEAR TEST SITE that is apparently located within walking distance of AREA 51. HARRISON FORD Holy shit, a nuclear bomb! I’ll hide in this lead-lined fridge to protect myself from the radiation that will permeate the area shortly after the ten-million degree heat generated by the blast is done obliterating every single object in a 5 mile radius! Somehow, this WORKS. HARRISON FORD emerges from the fridge with his face covered in black soot, holding a sign that reads “ouch.” INT. MARSHALL COLLEGE HARRISON teaches his film class entitled “How To Ruin Millions Of Childhoods In 2 Hours” when he is interrupted by the DEAN, JIM BROADBENT. JIM BROADBENT Sorry Harrison, I have to let you go. The government thinks you might be a Soviet. Apparently someone rented “K-19: The Widowmaker” and panicked. HARRISON FORD Bullshit, nobody saw that movie. HARRISON packs up props from the prior films, but is interrupted by SHIA LABEOUF. SHIA LABEOUF Hey, my mother and John Hurt have been kidnapped. My mom said you’d help me because every great adventure film needs an insufferable douchebag sidekick. HARRISON FORD Your mom knew me? Well it seems painfully obvious that you’re going to turn out to be my son, then. SHIA LABEOUF And yet, that’s going to be mentioned later in the movie as though it’s some kind of shocking revelation. Suddenly, more CARTOONY SOVIETS show up and try to kidnap SHIA and HARRISON. SHIA LABEOUF Shit, they have guns. What do we do? HARRISON FORD Just wait until the movie gets re-released in a few years and they’ll be replaced with walkie-talkies. SHIA and HARRISON escape on a motorcycle. Crazy stunts are performed in order to evade the SOVIETS. SHIA LABEOUF Are we really expecting audiences to put up with this? We’re violating like ten thousand laws of physics here. HARRISON FORD Are you joking, kid? That makes this the most realistic action scene in the movie. EXT. SOUTH AMERICA SHIA and HARRISON go to SOUTH AMERICA to look for the next CLUE. SHIA flips his knife around in his hand trying to look badass, but actually grabs it by the blade. Twice. Seriously. HARRISON FORD Alright, the walkthrough for the movie says that our next clue is in a spooky graveyard. We should probably save our game here. SHIA LABEOUF Pick up MAP. Use MAP on HARRISON FORD. Walk To TOMB. They travel to an underground tomb and find a CRYSTAL MACGUFFIN using its super-powerful magnetic properties. SHIA LABEOUF That crystal skull looks like an alien head. And the Soviets were looking for an alien corpse stored in Area 51. Golly, there sure is a lot of alien stuff. HARRISON FORD If you’re trying to mentally ready the audience for the ending, don’t bother. I’ve read through the script, nothing can prepare moviegoers for what happens at the end. Suddenly, SOVIETS show up and kidnap SHIA and HARRISON. They bring them back to their camp, where HARRISON finds JOHN HURT and KAREN ALLEN. CATE BLANCHETT embarrasses herself some more and eventually they all travel into the AMAZON FOREST. HARRISON FORD What are we doing in the Amazon? KAREN ALLEN Cate wants to return the Crystal MacGuffin to the ancient City of Gold. HARRISON FORD City of Gold? Isn’t that what Nicolas Cage was looking for in National Treasure 2? Are we seriously getting the plot for our shitty sequel to Indiana Jones by ripping off the plot of a shitty sequel to a shitty knock-off of Indiana Jones? I feel like that should unravel the space-time continuum or something. A caravan of vehicles, led by a giant tree-cutting machine, travels deep into the AMAZON FOREST. HARRISON uses a CHEAT CODE to spawn a ROCKET LAUNCHER, then uses it to blow up the tree-cutting machine. SHIA LABEOUF I’m pretty sure the audience came here to see more Shia LaBeouf, so I’m going to fence Cate Blanchett in front of an obvious green screen. HARRISON FORD Wait, what are they chasing us through? Are there roads in the middle of the jungle? Why the hell did we bother showing that tree-cutting thing if we were just going to contradict the very thing it was trying to establish? KAREN ALLEN That’s what’s so great about this movie - we can just do whatever the hell we want, because even glaringly obvious flaws like that are dwarfed by the sheer magnitude of failure that is the rest of the movie. To illustrate this, SHIA LEBEOUF flies up into the FUCKING JUNGLE and swings like FUCKING TARZAN along the FUCKING VINES with a FUCKING ARMY of CGI FUCKING MONKEYS. That actually FUCKING HAPPENS. Everyone eventually winds up in the CITY OF GOLD. INT. CITY OF GOLD HARRISON solves a few simple puzzles and gains access to the CITY. Some natives show up and attack, but are quickly dispatched, making the AUDIENCE wonder why they were introduced at all. HARRISON FORD Alright, the aliens or whatever want me to return the crystal to some ridiculous alien throne room. CATE BLANCHETT Not zo fast. I vill return skull instead. HARRISON FORD Shouldn’t it have been taken as an indicator of a writing problem when the good guy and the bad guy in a movie have the exact same goal? CATE takes the skull and places it on a THRONE. It then turns into an ACTUAL ALIEN and makes her head explode. The ALIENS pile into a GIANT UFO and fly off into SPACE. HARRISON FORD Wow. Considering that the first movie revolved around a magical box made by God that melts faces when opened, it’s really astonishing that this movie managed to be so incredibly stupid by comparison. JOHN HURT I can’t believe that the crystal skull wanted you to return it to the city just so that aliens could have blown your head up. Those aliens are total assholes. SHIA LABEOUF Seriously, what kind of jerks would intentionally trick people into thinking they were going to get something awesome, but then give them something so awful it makes their brains melt instead? GEORGE LUCAS AND STEVEN SPIELBERG Rich jerks! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! END LMAO!!!!! Wow that made me laugh so hard I almost shot Pepsi out of my nose! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TulipO Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 He looked so old. That was not the man who made me want to be a hot archaeologist when I grew up! Also, I know Karen Allen as an aquaintance. I took a yoga class from her and she owns a hippy-lady store in Great Barrington, MA. It was just weird for me, She's like, my mom's age. They talk about hats and organic food. Oh well, I was otherwise entertained. Could have done with a little less cheesy moralizing from Indy, but I'll live. I enjoyed the film. It is not in the top 3 for me, but I will watch it again someday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acalis Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 At least they tried to keep the spirit of the other 3 movies. It could've been much MUCH worse, like what happened with Basic Instinct 2... *shudder* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Did anyone else see this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalHeart Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycaon Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Did anyone else see this? Yup. Could've sworn it had been posted here previously. Weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelogan Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Behold what could have been: Frank Darabont's screenplay for Indiana Jones IV: City of the Gods Here's a rundown of the story It doesn't give me an orgasm or anything, but could it have been much worse than Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Darabont sure isn't a stranger to getting screwed over that's for sure :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 been on an indy kick (given that it's a better franchise than star wars), finally watched this one and...it wasn't nearly as bad as i'd heard all these years? getting marion back was a treat, and shia lebouf wasn't as insufferable as i would've expected going in. as baytor said, this was, at the least, better than temple of doom - i'm assuming the presence of aliens was somehow a bridge too far, for folks that had already seen the ark of the covenant, live heart transplants, an immortal crusader and all manner of supernatural pulp before this? i take it back @Benz this one was good too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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