Indiana Jones: Time to let it die?
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That's an arguable point. Thought they did a decent job with the tv series, considering the budget. Of course, that was Indy in his youth.
In the MCU, the character is the star, not the person playing him. Is Indiana Jones a character that can't be separated from Ford?
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Maybe a black Indy?
Be kind of bad optics with the whip, donchya think?
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The commercial actually looks decent. The reviews from test audiences looks atrocious.
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@Mik said in Indiana Jones: Time to let it die?:
I’m reminded of S3 of Picard.
Still wondering if I should bother with season 2.
@LuFins-Dad said:
The reviews from test audiences looks atrocious.
Where did you see those? I'm curious.
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@Mik said in Indiana Jones: Time to let it die?:
I’m reminded of S3 of Picard.
Still wondering if I should bother with season 2.
@LuFins-Dad said:
The reviews from test audiences looks atrocious.
Where did you see those? I'm curious.
@George-K said in Indiana Jones: Time to let it die?:
@Mik said in Indiana Jones: Time to let it die?:
I’m reminded of S3 of Picard.
Still wondering if I should bother with season 2.
@LuFins-Dad said:
The reviews from test audiences looks atrocious.
Where did you see those? I'm curious.
Apparently Disney and the director dispute that there were test screenings…
But https://cosmicbook.news/indiana-jones-5-worse-thought-test-screenings
Supposedly John Williams said something to the effect that they filmed a new ending…
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@George-K said in Indiana Jones: Time to let it die?:
@Mik said in Indiana Jones: Time to let it die?:
I’m reminded of S3 of Picard.
Still wondering if I should bother with season 2.
@LuFins-Dad said:
The reviews from test audiences looks atrocious.
Where did you see those? I'm curious.
Apparently Disney and the director dispute that there were test screenings…
But https://cosmicbook.news/indiana-jones-5-worse-thought-test-screenings
Supposedly John Williams said something to the effect that they filmed a new ending…
@LuFins-Dad wow,
"Overall, 2/10. I’d rather watch Crystal Skull 50 times than sit through this atrocity again."
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Speaking of Indiana Jones reminds me of Young Indiana Jones which reminds me of Sean Patrick Flanagan which reminds me of the new movie Nefarious, which I went back and watched the full trailer, and I got to say it actually looks pretty good in a B movie kind of way. Channeling Ax's Movie Reviews, I'd recommend it.
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BBC: "Gloomy and depressing' final act"
Indiana Jones is back. It's been 34 years since the film that was supposed to be his farewell outing – it even had "Last" in the title – and 15 years since he returned in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but Harrison Ford has donned his brown fedora and leather jacket for a fifth and surely final time. On this occasion, though, he is 80 years old (two decades older than Sean Connery was when he played Indy's doddering dad in The Last Crusade), and the film isn't directed by the series' co-creator, Steven Spielberg, but by James Mangold, so Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny has the potential to be a disaster.
The good news is that it isn't a disaster. It's a respectable, competent addition to the series. The bad news is that a disaster might have been more worthwhile. The Dial of Destiny takes a sudden, bold and sure-to-be divisive swerve into wacky uncharted territory in its last half-hour, but otherwise it's like fan fiction, a tie-in video game, or a branded theme-park ride, in that it's content to tick off everything you've seen in other Indiana Jones films already, but with little of Spielberg's sparkle.
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It's the same with the scenes in which Indy is face to face with some snake-like eels, and when he finds his way into Archimedes' tomb. The jokes, the zest and the exuberance just aren't there, so instead of a joyous send-off for our beloved hero, we get a depressing reminder of how much livelier his past adventures were. Considering that the screenplay is credited to four writers – Mangold, David Koepp and Jez and John-Henry Butterworth – couldn't they at least have thought of something cool for Indy to do with his whip?★★☆☆☆
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“Gone down as well as Ezra Miller at a kid’s birthday party”
Okay, that had me spray beer over the tablecloth and laugh so hard that Karla and Luke were about to call an ambulance…
