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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny | Big Game Spot (New Scenes)
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
Looks fantastic!
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
JC 1080P CRT
Member
As one of my Gen Z cousins said about the topic a few months ago: "Please just let Harrison Ford rest already!"
Hero of Spielberg
Member
I'll probably see it at the movies, hate it, then watch it again in 10 years' time and think it's not so bad. Much like I did with Crystal Skull
0neAnd0nly
Member
The problem is you can see modern movie plots from a mile away. I will be happy to be wrong... but I am imagining...
PWB will end up being the real savior, and take the thrown.
Indiana Jones will be an archaic sidekick by the second half of the film.
There will be some form of humor / comments relayed towards him about him being a "thing of the past" similar to Bond in No Time to Die.
I will be happy to be wrong. But it's going to be the same with the new Mario. Peach is going to be the real hero, Luigi and Mario will be idiots. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Writing has gotten lazy. Easy to see well before it happens.
The biggest travesty of it all will be that PWB doesn't strike me as someone who would wear Alden Indy boots, and that legacy absolutely must be protected.
PWB will end up being the real savior, and take the thrown.
Indiana Jones will be an archaic sidekick by the second half of the film.
There will be some form of humor / comments relayed towards him about him being a "thing of the past" similar to Bond in No Time to Die.
I will be happy to be wrong. But it's going to be the same with the new Mario. Peach is going to be the real hero, Luigi and Mario will be idiots. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Writing has gotten lazy. Easy to see well before it happens.
The biggest travesty of it all will be that PWB doesn't strike me as someone who would wear Alden Indy boots, and that legacy absolutely must be protected.
digital_ghost
Member
The ninja farmer
Member
I would love this to be the send off that we know Indiana jones deserves
I just don’t know. And weirdly the de aging tech and his team up with his god daughter, aren’t what’s making me doubt this movie …..
I just don’t know. And weirdly the de aging tech and his team up with his god daughter, aren’t what’s making me doubt this movie …..
Badlucktroll
Member
Is mads trying to use the macguffin to bring back the 3rd reich?
ManaByte
Gold Member
After the opening scene in the Nazi castle in 1944, the first scene in 1969 is Indy’s final day of teaching.
Doom85
Member
Completely different director. James Mangold has a really good track record.
Also, I just checked the video, and you can downvote it. If you mean the downvotes aren’t shown, well yeah, that’s true for all YouTube videos now unless I missed an update where they brought it back for some videos.
DetectiveBananas
Member
Definitely not seeing this opening weekend. Will wait for trusted sources to declare if it’s dogshit or not. Why should we reward bad storytelling anymore…
0neAnd0nly
Member
I too will wait for the Wired review prior to seeing it!
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Stop trying to make PWB happen.
SJRB
Gold Member
Let’s not start this, okay? Crystal Skull is overwhelmingly bad.
Toons
Member
Its not as bad as some claim it is. But its not very good either.
Id prefer this movie have actual interesting plotting and scroot than being predictable and a 80s movie in simplicity. But the heart is what matters.
Top gun Maverick was predictable as all hell and a ton of people still loved it. Including me. So.
ManaByte
Gold Member
Mangold's last movie was based on something that really happened and was still great.
0neAnd0nly
Member
Predictably isn’t always a bad thing.
I never said that.
The take on male action movies recently, especially with PWB attached, however is ridiculously easy to telegraph and that can be a problem.
ManaByte
Gold Member
Mangold hasn't telegraphed anything in his last movies.
0neAnd0nly
Member
I hope I am wrong! Would love for you to be correct, ManaByte! The formula in recent memory has become sour to me though (much of Hollywood films). Bond really hit me hard. Ugh.
ManaByte
Gold Member
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
I might give Crystal Skull a second viewing now.
0neAnd0nly
Member
I saw this tweet originally - but I will also say, similar was said about Bond.
“No one is taking over as “James Bond””.
But a character did take over as 007, and Bond’s role was… criticized, throughout the film.
I’ll be interested to see what happens here.
Werewolf Jones
Member
Looks cartoony as fuck.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
It looks stupid but who am I kidding? I'm watching anything Dr Jones. Fortune and Glory.
digital_ghost
Member
Disneys only impressive lifelike CG is Avatar 2. But Disney didn’t own avatar until recently
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Something about it looks too clean and polished but I have faith it'll be a fun film. I like all the Indiana Jones movies including Crystal Skull so if this is a bad movie, it would be the first bad one for me.
ManaByte
Gold Member
digital_ghost
Member
I forgot about Pirates of the caribbean. They did cg pretty well.
JimmyRustler
Member
Don't bother. I watched it in cinema and hated it. Re-watched it years later. thinking it can't be as bad as I remember it.... but it was still as bad.
To this day I can't believe Spielberg agreed to make that trash.
MacReady13
Member
I just did a rewatch of Crystal Skull a few months ago. Really enjoyed it.
This film looks shit though. Doesn’t seem to have that feel of an Indy film. Admittedly it’s only a trailer but it felt to me completely hollow.
Hero of Spielberg
Member
I felt the same way tbh … I’ll see how I feel in 10 years!
MacReady13
Member
Without the 2 keys guys behind the scenes I have zero faith in this film whatsoever.
ManaByte
Gold Member
Both were involved. Spielberg was directing until he remembered his promise not to do "cartoon Nazis" after Schindlers List, so he dropped out and they selected Mangold to direct it and re-write it. George's involvement in all of the movies was just finding the MacGuffin and in this case it's the Antikythera mechanism.
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Fbh
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All the recent Marvel stuff looks visually horrible.
Thor Love and Thunder had a couple of cool scenes but 80% of it looked like one of those lower budget Robert Rodriguez movies
Look at shit like this
They aren't even trying anymore with the fake backgrounds
That's a $250 MILLION movie
Dev1lXYZ
Member
None of the post Raiders movies were nearly as good in my opinion.
Temple: Annoying screaming throughout almost ruins the film. The punchline isn’t funny.
Last Crusade: A retread of the first but toned down for the elderly.
Crystal Skull: The opposite of how I feel about Raiders.
Dial of Destiny: Time travel plots never work very well, so I have no expectations it will be any good.
Temple: Annoying screaming throughout almost ruins the film. The punchline isn’t funny.
Last Crusade: A retread of the first but toned down for the elderly.
Crystal Skull: The opposite of how I feel about Raiders.
Dial of Destiny: Time travel plots never work very well, so I have no expectations it will be any good.
ManaByte
Gold Member
It's not a time travel plot.
Badlucktroll
Member
Yes, i think they can just screw with what happened in the past with the Antikythera mechanism.
Raven117
Member
You are damn right about this
ManaByte
Gold Member
Those people spreading the BS that Helena takes over look like the rage baiting idiots they are:
From Reddit
“Indy is recovering from the adventure at his place in New York with Helena there. Marion comes in (they had previously separated due to Mutt's death.) Helena just leaves - no passing of torch, no "wink wink" - she just respectfully leaves to give Indy and Marion alone time.
Indy and Marion finally talk, and in a reversal of the "where does it hurt?" scene from Raiders, Indy asks Marion where she's hurting, and it's implied they reconcile - giving Indy his family back at the end of his adventures. It's quite literally the best ending Indy could hope for.”
“Indy is recovering from the adventure at his place in New York with Helena there. Marion comes in (they had previously separated due to Mutt's death.) Helena just leaves - no passing of torch, no "wink wink" - she just respectfully leaves to give Indy and Marion alone time.
Indy and Marion finally talk, and in a reversal of the "where does it hurt?" scene from Raiders, Indy asks Marion where she's hurting, and it's implied they reconcile - giving Indy his family back at the end of his adventures. It's quite literally the best ending Indy could hope for.”