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I even saw the South Park episode where they made fun of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull and figured, it couldn’t have been that bad. Boy, couldn’t have been any more wrong.

The entire premise, plot, and ending was horrible. The movie was so focused on extra terrestrials, you could easily replace Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull with E.T. 2 for a title and it would still make sense. The acting by everyone was also quite bad and I normally like Harrison Ford.

You know a movie is bad when you a quarter way in, you think to yourself: “The movie’s still not over?!” This movie, by far, was the worse movie we’ve seen in a long, long time. Here is another review that also agrees.

So Andrea and I rented Rocky Balboa, the latest and perhaps last installment of the Rocky franchise, and we watched it. At about 102 minutes, the movie can’t possibly be boring.

The basic premise of the movie is that Rocky Balboa has long retired from boxing. His wife, Adrian, passed away from cancer a few years back and Rocky and his son (Robert Jr., played by Heroes star Milo Ventimiglia) have a rocky (no pun intended) relationship. Rocky has a little fine Italian restaurant (Adrian’s) that isn’t doing all that great, but is making it by. Life seems relatively comfortable for Rocky; he visits Adrian’s grave regularly and still wears his wedding ring. The latest craze in the boxing world is Mason “The Line” Dixon (Antonio Tarver); although winning, he is not a crowd favorite at all because of his quick knockouts. A computer simulation by ESPN to hypothetically determine whether Rocky could defeat Dixon showed Rocky knocking out Dixon.

I won’t go much further in detail, but the movie is definitely worth watching. The buildup is gradual at first, but once things are start getting going, it’s difficult to wait for the upcoming boxing match between Rocky and Dixon. I definitely like how they do the boxing match.

Go rent it and watch it.