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The Comedians (2015)
No Thanks, Crystal is Old and Gad Just Stinks
I remember when Billy Crystal used to be funny. He was one of the few good Academy Awards hosts and it seems the only one who was any good that the Academy would bring back year after year... I'm not including his last couple times hosting, particularly the last one, where he was not funny at all. I think that's actually the problem, that he was once very funny (a couple of his movies in the 1980's are among my favourite comedies), but he got old and stopped being funny. Watching him stumble and ham his way through this show The Comedians just hammered that home for me.
Much worse than Billy Crystal (what's he supposed to do say no to doing a series and turning down the money?) is Josh Gad who is young but is still a hundred million times less funny than Billy Crystal... Billy Crystal today that is... and about a hundred billion trillion times less funny than Billy Crystal back when Billy Crystal was funny. Watching him stink his way through sketch after sketch and desperately plead for laughs with his over the top comedy acting actually made me angry. I almost threw things at my television a couple of times.
In short, the show is terrible, Billy Crystal is not good any more, and Josh Gad is walking, talking garbage.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Ruins the Series
I loved Indiana Jones so much when I was a kid, I still remember the first time I watched it when my mom brought it home from the video rental place and we had so much fun watching it, and the end of the movie scared me with the melting Nazis etc. So I was really very excited when I found out that a new movie in the Indiana Jones series was finally being made and I thought for sure that it would be better than the Star Wars reissues and special editions and especially the Star Wars prequels, but then what we got was this, a really horrible movie that doesn't even make sense.
First of all Indiana Jones's son is a horrible, horrible character and Shia Labeouf is a terrible actor, I have no idea why they would even put him in this at all let alone as the new Indiana Jones for the next generation.
Second the story is ridiculous, in the first ten minutes he survives a nuclear bomb by hiding in a fridge. It is so stupid and the rest of the movie is even worse.