Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

indiana jones and the dull of density morelike amirite

Yeah I totally agree about the Antikythera stuff

Was Indy meant to be an explicit villain in this? He pries the dial from a mentally disturbed friend promising to destroy it but catalogs it in the stacks instead and forgets about it and also about checking up on his supposed goddaughter. I guess the series as a whole has an implicit undercurrent of Indy being a graverobbing cad but there's a distinct lack of heroic tone in this movie.

It is very funny to me how they de-aged Harrison Ford’s face but not his voice or his body movements

I wanted to see this but Veg's comments have stopped me

(Literally - I thought "uh oh" and I've been put off ever since)

if i can give back in some small way

It looks absolutely sensational - the colours and the editing and the camerawork are all just ridiculously satisfying. The henchmen are extremely A+ henchmen. One laconic, drawling hothead, bursting out of his too-tight shirt, and one mountain of a man who I think never speaks, just hurls scenery around. Phoebe Waller-Bridge does her thing, and it’s great. A lot of the pieces are there. But none of it really adds up, and Ford is just a nullity. Would have been better as a Tin Tin movie imo

Oh and the script is super hacky. Stuff you’d cringe at even in an Uncharted cut scene. At one point Indy grabs the contested artifact and yells “to the victor go the spoils!”

That said the Tangier bit was very good I thought

One laconic, drawling hothead, bursting out of his too-tight shirt

That's Boyd Holbrook, who's great as Lackey #1 in Logan too.

Also very good as DEA Agent Steve Murphy in first couple of seasons of Narcos

Meantime, this is about due:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2aqnWFpRAY

zzzz

getting Tomb Raider vibes here ;)

subpar for an Indiana Jones movie is still way above average for a video game... probably won't be as good as Fate of Atlantis though!

very few things are as good as Fate of Atlantis, tbh. I must have played through that game a half dozen times

I never got that far with Atlantis, but I must've played the Last Crusade adventure game a similar amount.

https://preview.redd.it/this-game-doesnt-get-enough-love-i-guess-because-of-the-v0-9l5ohkzlbq3b1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7d4a1361786be30dcbdcbff32205d250e99ed171

first person seems strange for an indy game