Indiana Jones: Time to let it die?
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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…
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The Critical Drinker does the review...
Link to video"Indiana Jones and the Dialup Internet of Depravity..."
"It shames not only the franchise, not only the genre, but the entire concept of film making."
"Made by a studio which is the equivalent of a junkie rifling through the trash."
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I do not even want to watch any reviews of the movie until I find out if the reported ending from the supposed test screenings was true.
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If they did the whole thing where past Indy died, thereby erasing his history and replaced him with the girl then I am done. I don’t even want to watch reviews.
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@Mik said in Indiana Jones: Time to let it die?:
I'd say that guy didn't like it. A bit of overkill on his part, I think.
He seems to hate almost everything he reviews. Maybe he's in the wrong job.
I was only joking
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@Mik said in Indiana Jones: Time to let it die?:
I'd say that guy didn't like it. A bit of overkill on his part, I think.
He seems to hate almost everything he reviews. Maybe he's in the wrong job.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Indiana Jones: Time to let it die?:
He seems to hate almost everything he reviews.
He seemed to like The Whale...but that's about it.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Indiana Jones: Time to let it die?:
He seems to hate almost everything he reviews.
He seemed to like The Whale...but that's about it.
@George-K said in Indiana Jones: Time to let it die?:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Indiana Jones: Time to let it die?:
He seems to hate almost everything he reviews.
He seemed to like The Whale...but that's about it.
The phrase 'miserable scouse git' springs to mind.
I wonder if he's a failed film-school graduate.
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He’s an entertainer, or trying to be one. His wheelhouse happens to be making fun of movies he hates. So he makes videos about that.
@Horace said in Indiana Jones: Time to let it die?:
He’s an entertainer, or trying to be one. His wheelhouse happens to be making fun of movies he hates. So he makes videos about that.
Thanks for pointing that out.
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@Horace said in Indiana Jones: Time to let it die?:
He’s an entertainer, or trying to be one. His wheelhouse happens to be making fun of movies he hates. So he makes videos about that.
Thanks for pointing that out.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Indiana Jones: Time to let it die?:
@Horace said in Indiana Jones: Time to let it die?:
He’s an entertainer, or trying to be one. His wheelhouse happens to be making fun of movies he hates. So he makes videos about that.
Thanks for pointing that out.
“He hates almost all movies” appears to miss that fact, so as an educator, I was compelled to educate.
