INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL Behind The Scenes - "Making Of" (2008) 

Screw the haters. I liked it. Saw it in twice in theaters and bought the DVD.

that kathleen kennedy jumpscare @ 0:50

What a magical soundtrack. It definitely made all Indiana Jones fans dream of unique and unforgettable adventures.

Frank Marshall is right Crystal Skull was a surprise for the audience. I spent three days at Yale watching Spielberg shoot the college chase sequence but no one was calling it “Genre” - was impressed by how they went practical with everything, dozens of extras and 50’s cars for what ended up a minute onscreen.

I always really liked this movie. The only negative thing for me was them catapulting into the water with the boat car and them going over the three waterfalls along with the swinging on vines with monkeys if those two things could be edited out it'd be looked at in a better light.

This movie seems to get a lot of hate, but what ever they say, Indiana Jones 4 is a very good movie, fits right in there with his other pulp adventures in the series !

It was brilliant... Spot on to that point in the 1940s/1950s and where Indie's life was in regards to what was going on in the world. And that link to Roswell, bloody spot on. Hater hate but really, it's spot on.

There’s a lot to love about this movie ❤

Indiana Jones is supposed to be entertaining and Crystal Skull was that the whole way through. I loved this movie

Steven wanted it to be a surprise when we saw it in the theater ... It was a surprise alright 🤣

One of my favorite Indiana Jones films ever made!

I like Crystal Skull more than Temple of Doom personally. But Raiders and Last Crusade are my favourite.

I still enjoy this movie, really close to my heart when I was 8

This "making of" is so good it makes me want to see the movie again. Now, I'm so afraid, I'm so petrified...

Lmao Kathleen about pushed Lucas down lol

It was a good movie done well and the cast delivered.

I don’t know why this movie gets so much hate, sure it’s not the original trilogy or one of the best films of all time and some things don’t make sense, but it was still a fun time and seeing Harrison Ford as Indy again will always make me happy!

0:52 George has a look like: “no way, I’m done directing!”

I wonder if either George or Steven had any idea that Kathleen Kennedy despised them so much. Her destruction of Star Wars and Indiana Jones has been a sight to behold.

My favorite of the quadrilogy

honestly this movie got too much hate i actually enjoyed this one a lot brings me back to the days of the last crusade

I own it now on 4k. Crystal Skull is not a bad movie. My favourite will always be Raiders.

I like this film a lot. Haters love a band wagon.

I loved this movie. I still enjoy it more than the last crusade. The last crusade was fine, but it was pretty much just raiders with Sean Connery. It also took forever to get anywhere. Kingdom of the crystal skull was much more fast paced. It still had the feeling of an indy movie. I'm glad it exists. Also, the last crusade was much more family friendly and toned down.

Wonderful directors and story tellers. Love their work! Can’t wait for the next Indiana. Paying full retail in the theaters.😊

It’s crazy how invested they seem here, and then seeing the finished product. What happened??

To everyone saying Spielberg didnt want to do this thats just Spielberg. He directs less and less as time goes by

Can someone explain to me what Steven is doing at 5:35 - what is that lens he is holding? Thanks!

That video was a hell of a lot better than the actual movie!

just when I thought he was way too old back in 2008 . Indiana Jones 5 in 2022 trailer just premiered today.

The best farewell and send off to our indi. Everithing about it is wholesomeness indi

Love the behind the scenes with Steven Speilberg and George Lucas...spellbound these two came.up with Star wars

Here's looking at you kid. Best line ever.

I still like this movie.

I’ll never forget Ray Winstone in the movie Quadrophenia as a rocker. He was quite young

Flawed movie but still has the Lucas & Spielberg magic.

I appreciate this much more now after the pos they just put out. In my mind there will only ever be 3 but this one is 100x better than the new one and the first 3 are perfect.

Not seen much behind the scenes on this film. Glad to see they got out doors more than i thought. KOTCS is the most 'studio bound' of them all. In a way more true to Lucas's inspirations. Which were studio, and back lot made 1930s productions, which would utilize a few exteriors somewhere like iverson movie ranch. I think the film is ok, some stupidity for sure. Tonally more silly. But also some fun sequences. Looking forward to the fresh POV on Indy 5. Which i guess will take things into the beyond with the potential horror / peril of time travel. No one wants to get trapped beyond their time, while some enemy heads off to destroy the world in another time.. I am intrigued, and they will have my ticket fee for that one regardless.

Music: John Williams(2008)

Really liked most of the movie. I had problem with 2 parts or scenes in the movie. First was running to the temple from the indigenes guardians...that scene was weird to me, like it was obvious that think was a model, al do it might have not been (i don't know) and like those guardians with spears were not that intimidating, and second scene was a family one and that jungle chase/fight were nothing worked for me. Other than those two everything else was great.

Wow

had they removed the goffers, the monkeys, and were more subtle with the aliens then it might have been a better movie.

They nailed it with the atomic bomb going off, That was perfect in my opinion.

Indiana Jones 💕

I guess I'm in the minority but I love this film!

Okay the deals up, My intro to the franchise was with THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL. I didn't know there were others movies

I still remember ROTLA like it was yesterday. The de-aging tech used is amazing.

This is the best movie of the four he directed. It was due to extra terrestrial theme. Spielberg is very familiar with this theme.

George: "Hey Steve, I know you're the director n all, but this is still our movie and I'm paying for all this. So we're gonna joyride in that car I picked, and you're driving." Steven: 😒 George: "Faster and more intensity!"

The 5ft is good but 4ft is gold

Why they only show the beginning of the movie? Why not the rest of it.

Never understood all the hate this movie gets.

I really enjoyed this behind the scenes stuff and I have so much nostalgia for this movie and rewatched it recently and I still like the movie it gets way too much hate I personally think temple of doom is the weakest movie

The sad thing is , is I feel with not so much cgi , Harrison maybe being a bit more flexible ect , and mayyyyyyybe a better ending than the space ship taking off … I feel this could have been a great Indiana jones film , especially Indiana vs the Russians

The best thing that came from this film was the inspiration for nuketown on black ops 1

Lucas does not like attention.

Now with indy 5 coming this film aged better and deserved better than what it got. Shouldnt be praised more than original 3 tho

Whoever made it so clean looking compared to the others ruined the feel! Really Hope they fix that!

The way K.K grabbed onto George Lucas and his resection was very foreboding 😢 Rip Star Wars

We'll fix it in post.....uh, not so much....

Raiders of the lost ark#1

What they Thinking? 12:47 Nobody talks to Spielberg, that this Idea is not good?

Lucas talks like a total producer. A real money man.

Doom Town sure looks a lot like Nuke Town from Call of Duty, Black Ops. 😁

I'm sad to say but I think this one will be a Master peice compare to the new one coming up soon if the rumors are true 😬

I really wish Shia came back

It's not a piece of wood Steven. It's a snake!

they al say this one is bad but this one is great compared to nr 5

They play Red Hulk and Hela.

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It's just like when the Stars Wars prequels turned out to be not-so-bad.

As much as I love films, you look at all of the work that goes into small things. Like aging boxes, getting mannequins etc. And realize, wow, it seems like such a waste of effort for a 2 hour film. And then years later it's just forgotten, and all of that stuff thrown away. And who even watches this one, compared to the other films? Such a shame those people work TOO hard for nothing.

It's hard to fathom how Spielberg could mess this film up as badly as he did. I know he really didn't want to do George's alien plotline, but was this deliberate sabotage?

I can’t see George Lucas without thinking about his masterful performance on South Park

ooh brother . a baddy is part 4

The thing that doesn't work for me about this movie is that the original trilogy pays homage to serials from 40/50 years before, but by the time this film comes out in 2008, you can't reference those serials without referencing the orginal IJ trilogy. So things in Raiders that were cool references, by 2008, they're cliches, in part because of the original trilogy. Cate Blanchett's character for example, it's pure cliche: the clothes, the accent, the hair. She is basically Frau from Austin Powers, and instead of being scary, I find her laughable. Whilst Toht from Raiders is a villain in the same vain, his character works because in 1981 it was a cool homage to classic villains, by Kingdom, that type of villain doesn't work in the same way. The same applies for other references, dialogue and a lot of the action (especially the vine swinging). I don't hate the movie, I just don't think you can re-visit the same property decades later, tell the same sort of story in the same way, and have it work the same way as the original did. Hopefully the new movie tries something a bit different.

8:42 its one of very rare movie scenes where the lighting is such a distraction to me. it looks so bad and unnatural. you can kinda see it here but in the movie its bad.

People thing 4 is bad.......wait till 5!!!🥴

I loved that it inspired nuketown

ALMOST as bad as James Cameron killing John Connor, aka the Terminator franchise.

I hate Kathleen Kennedy she ruined everything after she got full control.

Well Crystal Skull is no longer the worst Indy movie now!

For all the - rightful - criticism, I really liked the first roughly 20 minutes with the 60´s rocknroller-kids, evil russians, the fight on the jet-sled and the atomic village. Basically when the bomb goes of is when the movie turns to shize, almost like a foreboding.

@00:51 that didn't age well. 🤣🤣🤣

I really don't like the whole made up stuff about crystal skulls, applying mysticism at 19th century fabrications set my teeth on edge. and that influenced my appriciation for this movie a lot.

This movie was full of bloopers. One big blooper.

If you take away the fridge being blasted a mile away, Marion jumping the amphibian vehicle onto the tree, Mutt getting hit repeatedly in the groin while doing the splits between to cars and the swinging like tarzan scene, I thought the movie was great!

Kathleen Kennedy jumpscare

Oh God, Its Kathleen Kennedy.

Spielberg full of self doubt and pessimism on Day 1

"Do your best work....." Whoops! 😳🎬

Was it as good as the originals? Nope. Was it better than no indy? Of course.

Shia was the weak link in this movie. If they casted someone better, this movie might not have been so panned. His off screen antics have ruined a lot of projects.

Not your best work Stephen

Care blanchett was wrong for that movie!! Its main weakness

the only indiana jones that was boring as fuck

They should not have bothered.

This movie really sucked.

The biggest blooper was starting production...

"Russians" (you know ...the guys who actually defeated the Nazis).