Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

enki · 2022-12-01T22:21:08.420Z

Jezcoe:

enki:

Regardless of what anyone says about the last film, I’m still excited for this.

What do you mean? Last Crusade was quite good.

indiana-jones-smiling

Jezcoe · 2022-12-01T22:26:29.499Z

TheDoctorIsIn:

enki:

Spielberg and Lucas aren’t really involved in this one. It’s written by “Edge of Tomorrow” and “Logan” screen writers. Directed by James Mangold, who’s got a lot of great movies under his belt. If it makes you feel any better…

I have to say, this makes me a lot more optomistic than I was before I read this post.

Logan was exceptionally good.

Logan was one of the best superhero movies made.

In the top five.

SixFoot · 2022-12-01T22:33:15.075Z

I’ve yet to see an Indiana Jones movie that I didn’t like from start to finish. God bless that man.

GWH · 2022-12-02T02:13:49.256Z

enki:

Regardless of what anyone says about the last film,

Swear it would have been better with one change, Shai LaBeouf. It wasn’t the aliens.

enki · 2022-12-02T02:16:13.171Z

GWH:

enki:

Regardless of what anyone says about the last film,

Swear it would have been better with one change, Shai LaBeouf. It wasn’t the aliens.

I agree! I dug the aliens angle. I would have also made Marion a little more rugged. She pretty much just sat around smiling at Indy. But… the story was pretty cool I thought.

tzu · 2022-12-02T02:23:21.761Z

Mangold survived MeToo, I guess.

Supreme_War_Pig · 2022-12-02T02:30:11.750Z

Oh, hell yeah!

I love this franchise.

JayJay · 2022-12-02T02:49:06.893Z

GWH:

enki:

Regardless of what anyone says about the last film,

Swear it would have been better with one change, Shai LaBeouf. It wasn’t the aliens.

I didn’t mind Shia in the movie.

I did mind surviving the nuclear blast by being in a lead lined fridge.

Supreme_War_Pig · 2022-12-02T03:59:15.244Z

I have actually liked Shia in everything I have seen him in.

fallenturtle · 2022-12-02T07:00:12.273Z

JayJay:

GWH:

enki:

Regardless of what anyone says about the last film,

Swear it would have been better with one change, Shai LaBeouf. It wasn’t the aliens.

I didn’t mind Shia in the movie.

I did mind surviving the nuclear blast by being in a lead lined fridge.

Yea, that was the part that annoyed me too.

GWH · 2022-12-02T19:27:04.761Z

JayJay:

I didn’t mind Shia in the movie.

I did mind surviving the nuclear blast by being in a lead lined fridge.

I had an easier time believing that than his portrayal of Fonzie.

SixFoot · 2022-12-02T19:27:46.158Z

JayJay:

I did mind surviving the nuclear blast by being in a lead lined fridge.

That was my favorite part of the whole movie. lol

GWH · 2022-12-02T19:29:55.096Z

We are talking about a series where an arc was opened and turned everyone to dust except the two who didn’t look at it.

SixFoot · 2022-12-02T19:30:13.723Z

GWH:

JayJay:

I didn’t mind Shia in the movie.

I did mind surviving the nuclear blast by being in a lead lined fridge.

I had an easier time believing that than his portrayal of Fonzie.

Remember in The Temple of Doom when that dude was just reaching into people’s chests and taking their heart out?

GWH · 2022-12-02T19:31:24.054Z

The hearts virtually lept out towards his hand.

GWH · 2022-12-02T19:32:33.856Z

There was a 1500 year old dude in one.

enki · 2022-12-02T19:34:18.143Z

GWH:

We are talking about a series where an arc was opened and turned everyone to dust except the two who didn’t look at it.

If Indy, a 10 year old kid, and a lounge performer can survive a fall off a cliff with only a life raft to break their fall into a river 100s of feet below then Indy can survive the fridge. That’s how I see it.

GWH · 2022-12-02T19:41:07.194Z

The alien head could have encased him in a big orbi at that point, and I would have been cool with it.

TheRedComet · 2022-12-03T16:43:04.136Z

Even Revenge of the Fallen?

TheRedComet · 2022-12-03T16:46:32.134Z

I think the main issue with Crystal Skull was just that the Soviets aren’t as interesting as archeology/occult villains as the Nazis were in earlier films.

Soviets make good bad guys in spy or military drama films. If something is dealing with the occult or ancient archeology they just don’t carry the story as well as Nazi Germany who were actually serious about stuff like that.

It grounded Raiders of the Lost Ark in some key ways because it was somewhat believable that a bunch of Nazis were running around looking for something like that.

It’s the reason they are commonly used or referenced in stories about ancient occult objects. Even Uncharted 2 on PS3 had a whole scene dealing with NAZIs in Tibet looking for Shambala. Which made perfect sense in the story considering the history of Himmler and the SS and some of their programs they actually spent money on.