Indiana Jones was interesting-SPOILERS AHEAD

So like the title says and I am sure that you can put two and two together, I saw the latest installment to the Indiana Jones franchise. And all that I can say about it was that I was conflicted by the end of the film. I wanted to really like it but there were a few things that I had a hard time looking past. Sure, like many of you I enjoyed the film. It was funny and Indy still had his wry sense of humor and witty remarks, Shia Lebouf, and Karen Allen were both charismatic and entertaining. The situations that Indy gets himself in and out of are funny if not a little preposterous but no more unbelievable than when he some how got into the Nazi sub in Raiders or jumped out of a plane with nothing but a self inflatable raft. Its just funny that he somehow survives an atomic blast by hiding in a lead lined fridge, yes, fridge.
Cate Blanchet did a descent job at playing the baddie Russian seeking world domination like all the others. So I was cool with this, However! and let me stress the "HOWEVER" there were some plot issues that I had a problem with and you can tell that George Lucas was standing over Spielberg's shoulder saying "ohh!, ohh! add this! Tell them them to do that! Because I am sure that it was Lucas' s idea (SPOILER) to add aliens to the movie, yeah that's right, I said fricken aliens. And you find out that this movie is going to revolve around aliens within the first fifteen minutes of the movie (and that is when I got the sinking feeling in my gut that all was not well with Indy). I mean, aliens with psychic abilities? This is the quest of the Russians? To gain psychic abilities from aliens they can control the minds of their enemies and thus control the world? Now how does this compare with the rest of the Indiana Jones movies you may ask? Didn't they deal with same kind of absurdities with the ark and the holy grail? Not really and I have to agree with what my sister-in-law said about the movie- this one was science fiction and the first three were mystical and there is a HUGE difference between mystical and science fiction and Indy is NOT science fiction. Indy was about faith, relationship, and the desire for power and having the strength to turn away from that power for something more important like those you care about, and for the writers to throw in the whole alien bit was kind of a cop out and something I could totally see Lucas crapping in his pants about and thinking to himself "pure gold".
The green screen and glossy look of the film was really distracting and annoying and it somehow took away that grittiness that comes when you watch Indiana Jones doing his thing. And in the end when they aliens come together and blast off in their big shiny ship after they finally get the crystal skull of their brother to teleport or fly off into that whole other dimension, that space between space was just full of crap. I think I could have been ok with the alien idea if they hadn't added that whole schpeil about the spaceship and the different dimensions. How does this sound like a good idea to put in an Indiana Jones movie!!! And having Cate Blanchett die with her eyes being burned out from sensory over load just didn't make sense it would have been better if her head had exploded; to much information, brain can't handle it and pop! I could see that. And with all the progress we have made in the special effects department surely they could have done a better job then have her evaporate into pixelated mist. I mean I still get a little freaked by watching Donovan dissolve into the nothing at the end of The Last Crusade and watching Belock and the bald nazi dude with glasses melt away or explode at the end of Raiders because it looked (surprisingly) real. At some point I half expected Jar Jar Binks to pop up out of the ground. I know I should shut up and you can tell me to do so but at the end of the movie you're going to say to yourself "really? that's the direction they decided to go in? really? And you can tell that George Lucas wanted it to end that way. And then you will want to find a bat and Lucas's head and connect them and then punch Spielberg in the face for listening to Lucas