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What they learned from Crystal Skull is that Harrison Ford and the Indiana Jones brand put enough butts in the seat for the box office receipts alone to quadruple their production costs. Which is the entire point.
Ya gotta give Harrison Ford credit. Not many 80 year old actors in the history of Hollywood are as strong as he still is at the box office.
Ya gotta give Harrison Ford credit. Not many 80 year old actors in the history of Hollywood are as strong as he still is at the box office.
I didn't see the last one and I have zero interest in seeing the latest one. But it doesn't bother me that either exists.
As far as Harrison Ford goes, I think he's pretty darn impressive in Shrinking, especially in light of the fact that he plays an old man facing age-related health issues. He pulls off both drama and comedy in a character that is entirely cerebral; it's not an action show in any way. And he's apparently quite happy playing doing a show where he isn't the lead.
The dumbest character was Mutt. The name, his backstory, etc. If Lucas want to milk Indiana Jones more then they should have created a better son to take the mantle from Indy.
Not sure what the plan is with Helena as she is not a likeable character nor an actual Jones.
I saw a Youtube review that said, in running scenes, that woman "moved like a retarded giraffe". Picturing that scenario has me ROTFL, but not enough to buy a ticket...
So they did nazis for three movies, russians for one and Thuggees for another. Why didn't they do Japan's Imperial Army for this one?
Watching Kill Bill made me come away with a respect on how women can portray extremely dangerous sword wielders and assassins. They could have had female adversaries to be inclusive. Now that hag that has ruined Star Wars and now Indiana Jones( the actor, not the hag producer) never should have been in it. But the Japanese were in World War 2 as well. Wouldn't japanese want to prevent world war 2 or even win it? And that would have allowed for Short Round to make an appearance. And that would appeal to the CCP market. Give the fans some nostalgia and make some money doing it. Instead they went woke and went broke.
And why not have Jones actually happy and enjoying retirement? He's drawn back in reluctantly to save the world. Why destroy Indiana Jones the way they did?
I walked out of the presentation after 30 minutes. I sat towards the back, if I had been up front the special effects sounds would have been too loud. The film is 2 hrs 30 minutes and the first 20 minutes was an interminable fight/chase scene on a train in the dark that had been used in at least a dozen movies before. That was bad enough, but the theatre had obviously not changed out their lamphouse lamp in at least a couple years. Everything on the screen was "in the mud" and barely visible. I had more light on giant drive in screens than they did. My screen at home is about three times brighter.
I waited until the dark scene was over and it showed Ford in his professor role lecturing unbelievably dumb college students (to more expose the plot in the style of a bad narrative movie), where he introduced the antikathera (pretty much that Greek navigational and astronomy tool that was found a few decades back, but somehow imbued with super powers of math). The one "student" who knew what it was was obviously going to become his female foil, and all I could think during the scene was how it was a parody of the Monty Python scene where Sir Bedeveer gathers the village dolts and lectures them on how to determine whether a woman is a witch by using a duck.
In the absence of any real light from the projector or from the script, I bailed. I might watch at home at a future date, but the experience there was just too painful, even though the popcorn was decent and the coke good. It may be one of the last times I go to a movie theatre.
One flaw I did notice in the film: At one point Indiana Jones is being annoyed by his neighbor playing the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour. That came out in '67. The movie supposedly takes place in 1969, so that's OK. A short while later you hear somebody playing David Bowie's Space Oddity. There were 2 versions of Space Oddity: One did indeed come out in 1969 ... but that's not the version you hear in the movie! Bowie put out another version (the more famous one that became a big hit) in 1972. That's the version you hear in the movie! So, in a movie which supposedly took place in 1969, we're hearing a song that didn't come out until 1972! I noticed that right away.
Indiana Jones' thing about continental drift near the end of the movie was way overdone. While continents can drift in a couple thousand years, the "hundreds of feet" he said is way too much to be realistic. According to this continents typically move about 0.6 inches a year. In 2000 years that would be about 100 feet.
One flaw I did notice in the film: At one point Indiana Jones is being annoyed by his neighbor playing the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour. That came out in '67. The movie supposedly takes place in 1969, so that's OK. A short while later you hear somebody playing David Bowie's Space Oddity. There were 2 versions of Space Oddity: One did indeed come out in 1969 ... but that's not the version you hear in the movie! Bowie put out another version (the more famous one that became a big hit) in 1972. That's the version you hear in the movie! So, in a movie which supposedly took place in 1969, we're hearing a song that didn't come out until 1972! I noticed that right away.
Bowie's music traveling through time might be one of the least implausible things about this movie.
Bob Iger apologizes for the failure of Dial of Destiny, says the box office returns were overestimated by James Mangold (director, producer), Iger puts full blame on marketing, not the actors, James Mangold, or himself, according to Mike Zeroh-you-tube channel. Kathleen Kennedy is blaming phony bad reviews on media outlets from people against diversity and girl power in Disney movies for the D.O.D bad box office, and she's begging people to go see it.
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I noticed that right away.
