Except someone somewhere must have said "Hey, how about a Yeti too?"

No! Too much fluff!

It looks like a fun summer flick. Good fun summery fun summer popcorny summer funny fun. I will go and see this!

And I'll be sitting here basking in the glorious light of my 'Lost In Space' poster signed by Heather Graham. While you, who has nothing of such wonderment, and will have been proven wrong in an aicn talkback, can only sit there in awful bitter disappointment. Wishing you'd been on the side of all that is good and right and that you'd supported this third Mummy film which doesn't even have the same director or Rachel Heavenly Weisz in it.

I think this is why that movie gets so much positive buzz. You can't expect from an audience that hates Indy 4 and talkes about a fridge every day to prove their point, to recognize a good movie.

Welcome back, Mister O'Connell. I'm there!

Also, it had motherfucking Sonny Corleone as the fucking Bag man! Thats the shit right there. Way Of the Gun is an entertaining little gem of a movie.

How's the finacing coming on the epic film project Mall Ninjas vs The Zombie Hoard. Any movment yet?

I got to say, my man, since you came up with that brilliant idea a few weeks ago I now want to see that movie in the worse way.

Sure, chances are that, objectively speaking, Indy 4 is a better film than Mummy 3. However, a film of Indy 4's quality, coming from the beards and everyone else involved with the previous three films, makes it much worse than it is. It's not wrong to hold the beards to a higher standard than Rob Cohen and therefore judging the pedestrian Indy 4 more harshly, considering its pedigree.

I am truly horrified to admit it, but I have the queasy suspicion that Mummy 3 WILL indeed be a more entertaining film than Indy 4.

I'd like to add that I was the biggest supporter of the Indy 4 project you'd ever likely find on these boards, and that the fridge shenanigans didn't bother me in the slightest.

Look, without question, clearly Spielberg is one of the greatest directors of all time. But as far as making (to use the cliched phrase) fun summer popcorn flicks, let's be honest as well: the Spielberg of old and of JAWS and RAIDERS has long since become the mature director of SCHINDLER, PVT. RYAN, AMISTAD and MUNICH. And when he has tried to do his fun summer popcorn flicks - like a WOTW or an INDY 4 -- their technically fine...sure, you can count on certain showpiece bits appearing in the films...but overall there's just something missing. In the end, part of it isn't even Spielberg's fault. It's the people he's chosen to work with. Hell, I blame 3 of his summer misfires on the same person -- David Koepp who churned out shitty scripts for JURASSIC PARK (the Crichton novel is sooooo much better), WOTW (how you make a boring alien attack movie is beyond me), and now INDY 4.

So do I think Cohen is a better director or filmmaker? No. But am I willing to bet that Cohen -- at this point in time, at this point in both their respective careers -- will make a better summer popcorn flick, complete with fun and doofy Yetis throwing villainous mummies around (ironically the type of thing Spielberg would have excelled at in the 80's)...then the answer is yes. And trust me, I'm am as HUGE a Spielberg fan as you can be, I just think he's matured to the point where his "summer popcorn movies" are never going to be what they once were. The kid in him has long since become too much the adult at this point -- though I'd love to be proven wrong. I'd love to see Spielberg really deliver a true summer movie like JAWS or RAIDERS again.