Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Lotta crap looking CGI there

Lotta crap looking CGI there

― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, December 1, 2022 5:33 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is true.

Last four posts all otm

Weirdly looks and feels like a video-game trailer...

It's not uncommon to use unfinished effects in trailers

I don’t think polishing is going to improve the shot of Indy jumping in the car coming from the opposite direction.

St Vincent Street looks good though.

Ye olde trailer breakdown

https://gizmodo.com/indiana-jones-5-trailer-breakdown-dial-of-destiny-ford-1849843527

Dial of Destiny as in he's finally fucked off into retirement and we spend two hours watching him awkwardly decide what to watch on TV?

I'm sure the Falcon shot will be some pseudo-WWII-era plane that he's flying into a faith-based mystical vortex, as a dumb cheeky nod.

Ah, the key question:

LaBeouf and his character will not be in Dial of Destiny, and Mangold promises audiences will "find out what happened" to him, but of course, won't say more.

Hoping 'boiled in oil' is an option.

Indy set him up to get melted like the Temple of Doom Nazis.

Died on the way to his home planet

Beheaded by a low-hanging branch while motorcycling.

"He's a guy who's never happier wearing glasses and reading a book, but somehow finds himself in these kinds of incredible situations. He uses unorthodox weapons to defend himself. He usually figures his way out of trouble with his brain, which is a very different set of circumstances than most of the heroes of our contemporary culture, who are just empowered."

Feel like he's describing a much more clichéd character than Indy here. Indy goes for the blunt, direct approach just as often. The sneaky stuff mostly doesn't work.

Shia LeBouf was just another fragment of Indy's personality.

and in fact he is imagining these adventures

re-watching all the Indian Jones movies after having watched things like King SOlomon's Mines is making me see how Spielberg put movies from his childhood on steroids

I am just now realizing Shia Lebeouf was a timelord

xpost Funnily enough I've ended up doing the same thing recently, halfway through an IJ rewatch now. (The Quartermain trashfires are truly mockbusters of their day.)

Paul Robeson is in King SOlomon's Mines which was a synchronicity for me because I have been listening to him a lot lately. Maybe the new INdy movies needs some baritone musical numbers as well (Sisters of Mercy?)

Dun dah dun dun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQpwONzpcy4

Looks CGIed out its arse.

I hope it's as good as but not as depressing as Logan

The only Super Bowl movie trailer I gave even half a shit about

Dun dah dun dun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQfMbSe7F2g

So here's my real question -- between Denholm Elliott, Jim Broadbent, Ray Winstone and now Toby Jones, does...Indiana Jones have ANY American academic colleagues?

damn outsourcing

Looks CGIed out its arse.

― chap, Monday, February 13, 2023 6:13 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

More or less than the Call of the Wild trailer?

So here's my real question -- between Denholm Elliott, Jim Broadbent, Ray Winstone and now Toby Jones, does...Indiana Jones have ANY American academic colleagues?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, April 7, 2023 10:53 AM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The Nazi-era brain drain brought many academics to the U.S., but surely they would be more...Central European?

They were fleeing the evil Stanley Baldwin regime. (Maybe it was.)

if they ever do a modern day reboot Indy can chase down NFTs

I'm in. Dammit.

Per reports, 154 minutes long. Dun-dah-dun-dun, hold-your-piss.

first movie to ever run long because the actor on screen had to take a piss

Dun dah dun dun
Three more days

rewatched all the movies this week
kinda excited for this? idk idk

Excited to see it, just hope it's better than the last one, and that they don't do something dumb with Marion!

I've managed to watch and enjoy the first three films plenty of times since Crystal Skull came out, without Shia LeBouef-adjacent thoughts popping into my head. I tried rewatching Crystal Skull once and only got thirty minutes in, it really is awful.

same, yer get that 'really, how bad could it have been?' and then you watch it and then it's oh christ make it stop.

stop
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, March 15, 2016 1:07 PM (seven years ago)

I tried rewatching Crystal Skull once and only got thirty minutes in, it really is awful.

What's happening 30 mins in that was so bad?

Rewatched Temple Of Doom a few weeks back and still think it's the weakest of the first four.

It really isn't

cool

Well, at the very least "Temple" starts with the club sequence, which is better than "Crystal Skull" and iirc most of "Last Crusade." But haven't seen the latter in a long time. Have only seen Crystal Skull that one time. And honestly? Just based on the marketing, something seems off about this new one. Feels kinda desperate and cheap, don't know why.

What's happening 30 mins in that was so bad?

- Plot felt inert aimless. The pacing in the first three movies is amazing.
- Bad CGI
- Harrison dialing it in
- Feeble references to Denholm Elliott and Sean Connery
- Personal opinion but I don't think I've enjoyed a single Cate Blanchett performance (although I haven't seen Tar)
- Fridge thing wasn't as funny as it needed to be
- Just didn't grab me!

And IIRC that's still before we even see Shia

Sometimes the line “knowledge was their treasure” drifts unbidden into my mind and my brain just shuts down, so glad my dad paid for my ticket cos I’d be so angry if I’d spent my own money on that pile of shit.

I think 30 minutes in you've endured Cate Blanchett's accent and the nuclear bomb fridge, and you've settled into the jabbed nerve that is every second Shia is on screen. You've not yet hit John Hurt's casualty, who might be the best part.

(xp!)

This started well, and then it gets worse as it goes on, and in the end they fly a plane back in time to meet Archimedes (and not in a good way) and I kind of want to broadcast that 24 hours a day on all media, "Dumbledore killed Snape"-style.

That's not so out of line with things that happen in any of the other four installments

assume the viewer is stirringly instructed to FIND A PLACE TO STAND... AND MOVE YOUR WORLD

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