Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (June 30th, 2023)

[Johnny Utah]

It'll be on digital earlier, Guardians 3 is out this Friday.

 

[Wor-Gar]

As I recall when this was announced we had a field day in this thread suggesting titles in the vein of Indiana Jones And I've Fallen And Can't Get Up. It rivaled the BoBF thread for a while there lol.

Good times.

 

[The Buffinator]

Good times.

I think my favorite back then was Indiana Jones And The Search For….What Am I Looking For This Time Again?

 

[Mandible]

Dude it has an 88% audience rating on rottentomatoes. 88%! That means that...*checks box office*...there's about 88 of us that enjoyed it, lol.

As I said, (even if RT is real - we all saw what happened with TLJ), the simple fact is, not enough people are giving a **** about it, hence why it's going to be the greatest loss in Hollywood history.

So if you, and many others here like it, that's cool. But you're in a very small boat. The majority of the general public seem to be ambivalent about it's existence.

 

[Khev]

As I said, (even if RT is real - we all saw what happened with TLJ), the simple fact is, not enough people are giving a **** about it, hence why it's going to be the greatest loss in Hollywood history.

So if you, and many others here like it, that's cool. But you're in a very small boat. The majority of the general public seem to be ambivalent about it's existence.

Okay Mr. Serious thank you for pointing that out even though I was literally acknowledging those exact same details with my joke, lol.

 

[Wor-Gar]

The Flash bombed, The Little Mermaid bombed, now Indy bombs... what's done well? Because I don't hear anyone talk about movies anymore. It's really sad.

I hope Tom changes that in a week or so...








In the meantime, Mads Mikkelsen rocks!







Happy 4th!

 

[Khev]

The Flash bombed, The Little Mermaid bombed, now Indy bombs... what's done well?

Super Mario Bros!

In the meantime, Mads Mikkelsen rocks!

Yes he does!

Happy 4th!

You too!

 

[Felinx]

As I said, (even if RT is real - we all saw what happened with TLJ), the simple fact is, not enough people are giving a **** about it, hence why it's going to be the greatest loss in Hollywood history.

So if you, and many others here like it, that's cool. But you're in a very small boat. The majority of the general public seem to be ambivalent about it's existence.

It's a somewhat dated (and culturally fraught in the era of museums as demeaning culture prisons) franchise with, bizarrely, an 80 year old actor as an action-adventure lead. Who looks great, but also looks at least early 70s.

Indy is a bygone era's take on another bygone era. Raiders appeared in a period where even the hottest, edgiest music videos often had retro 30s/40s/50s imagery and fashion - romance and cool. Those decades today are, obviously with some justification, mostly viewed today by young people simply as dark periods of intolerance (toward women, black people, non-western cultures, etc.) best ridiculed or simply forgotten.

DoD was always going to be undetectable on the radar of Gen TikTok and even Gen MySpace, and even if it was detectable, it wouldn't appeal. They have no nostalgia for Indy's eras, and the 1960s has long been perhaps the most overused setting decade in all of film/TV (nearly always - often falsely - shown simply as a rose-colored glasses period of righteous rebellion and freedom), so it's a mile from fresh.

This film is part of the end of the several decades-long wave of nostalgia for the products of the "neo-golden" age of cinema, where film, pop culture and merchandising collided and deeply impacted a generation and a half, from the early 70s to the mid-late 80s.

Social media has introduced a kind of deep social fracture era that Indy - a symbol of American good/righteousness/tenaciousness in the world - could never appeal in, even if recast. This is the era that would sympathize with Mola Ram (asking that we not judge his opaque cultural practices with Western eyes) and the Hovitos tribesman defending their stolen sacred object, and that - most importantly - sees Nazis as uneducated Americans, not sneering Germans from 80 years ago.

So time to pack up Indy and his world into a crate and send it into that massive warehouse filled with powerful but misunderstood cultural objects. Its value perhaps only to be apparent again in centuries to come.

 

[Wor-Gar]

It's a somewhat dated (and culturally fraught in the era of museums as demeaning culture prisons) franchise with, bizarrely, an 80 year old actor as an action-adventure lead. Who looks great, but also looks at least early 70s.

Indy is a bygone era's take on another bygone era. Raiders appeared in a period where even the hottest, edgiest music videos often had retro 30s/40s/50s imagery and fashion - romance and cool. Those decades today are, obviously with some justification, mostly viewed today by young people simply as dark periods of intolerance (toward women, black people, non-western cultures, etc.) best ridiculed or simply forgotten.

DoD was always going to be undetectable on the radar of Gen TikTok and even Gen MySpace, and even if it was detectable, it wouldn't appeal. They have no nostalgia for Indy's eras, and the 1960s has long been perhaps the most overused setting decade in all of film/TV (nearly always - often falsely - shown simply as a rose-colored glasses period of righteous rebellion and freedom), so it's a mile from fresh.

This film is part of the end of the several decades-long wave of nostalgia for the products of the "neo-golden" age of cinema, where film, pop culture and merchandising collided and deeply impacted a generation and a half, from the early 70s to the mid-late 80s.

Social media has introduced a kind of deep social fracture era that Indy - a symbol of American good/righteousness/tenaciousness in the world - could never appeal in, even if recast. This is the era that would sympathize with Mola Ram (asking that we not judge his opaque cultural practices with Western eyes) and the Hovitos tribesman defending their stolen sacred object, and that - most importantly - sees Nazis as uneducated Americans, not sneering Germans from 80 years ago.

So time to pack up Indy and his world into a crate and send it into that massive warehouse filled with powerful but misunderstood cultural objects. Its value perhaps only to be apparent again in centuries to come.

 

[Prime Clone]

In the meantime, Mads Mikkelsen rocks!
Happy 4th!

As does Bill Pullman.

 

[Raiders March]

It's a somewhat dated (and culturally fraught in the era of museums as demeaning culture prisons) franchise with, bizarrely, an 80 year old actor as an action-adventure lead. Who looks great, but also looks at least early 70s.

Indy is a bygone era's take on another bygone era. Raiders appeared in a period where even the hottest, edgiest music videos often had retro 30s/40s/50s imagery and fashion - romance and cool. Those decades today are, obviously with some justification, mostly viewed today by young people simply as dark periods of intolerance (toward women, black people, non-western cultures, etc.) best ridiculed or simply forgotten.

DoD was always going to be undetectable on the radar of Gen TikTok and even Gen MySpace, and even if it was detectable, it wouldn't appeal. They have no nostalgia for Indy's eras, and the 1960s has long been perhaps the most overused setting decade in all of film/TV (nearly always - often falsely - shown simply as a rose-colored glasses period of righteous rebellion and freedom), so it's a mile from fresh.

This film is part of the end of the several decades-long wave of nostalgia for the products of the "neo-golden" age of cinema, where film, pop culture and merchandising collided and deeply impacted a generation and a half, from the early 70s to the mid-late 80s.

Social media has introduced a kind of deep social fracture era that Indy - a symbol of American good/righteousness/tenaciousness in the world - could never appeal in, even if recast. This is the era that would sympathize with Mola Ram (asking that we not judge his opaque cultural practices with Western eyes) and the Hovitos tribesman defending their stolen sacred object, and that - most importantly - sees Nazis as uneducated Americans, not sneering Germans from 80 years ago.

So time to pack up Indy and his world into a crate and send it into that massive warehouse filled with powerful but misunderstood cultural objects. Its value perhaps only to be apparent again in centuries to come.

What, like a thousand years..

 

[Raiders March]

I don't care what gen tiktok/ facebook think! I care what we think. They don't know s..

 

[jye4ever]

Man Alison Doody the Irish actress who played Elsa from TLC looks horrible in RRR with all of that nasty face work, yuck.

She’s only 56 and already had a ton of work done sheesh.

 

[Felinx]

Umm, hey Marty - in that same year you're strummin that guitar and showing the black folk how to rock n'roll, Rosa Parks is refusing to move to the back of the bus - the civil rights and voting rights acts still a decade away.

Yup, heavy all right.

 

[Mandible]

Okay Mr. Serious thank you for pointing that out even though I was literally acknowledging those exact same details with my joke, lol.

Sorry, didn't read the sarcasm/joke at first - reread it, and now the penny drops My bad...

 

[Felinx]

Man Alison Doody the Irish actress who played Elsa from TLC looks horrible in RRR with all of that nasty face work, yuck.

She’s only 56 and already had a ton of work done sheesh.

Working with the Nazis and those damn British colonizers will defo age you strangely.

 

[Mandible]

It's a somewhat dated (and culturally fraught in the era of museums as demeaning culture prisons) franchise with, bizarrely, an 80 year old actor as an action-adventure lead. Who looks great, but also looks at least early 70s.

Indy is a bygone era's take on another bygone era. Raiders appeared in a period where even the hottest, edgiest music videos often had retro 30s/40s/50s imagery and fashion - romance and cool. Those decades today are, obviously with some justification, mostly viewed today by young people simply as dark periods of intolerance (toward women, black people, non-western cultures, etc.) best ridiculed or simply forgotten.

DoD was always going to be undetectable on the radar of Gen TikTok and even Gen MySpace, and even if it was detectable, it wouldn't appeal. They have no nostalgia for Indy's eras, and the 1960s has long been perhaps the most overused setting decade in all of film/TV (nearly always - often falsely - shown simply as a rose-colored glasses period of righteous rebellion and freedom), so it's a mile from fresh.

This film is part of the end of the several decades-long wave of nostalgia for the products of the "neo-golden" age of cinema, where film, pop culture and merchandising collided and deeply impacted a generation and a half, from the early 70s to the mid-late 80s.

Social media has introduced a kind of deep social fracture era that Indy - a symbol of American good/righteousness/tenaciousness in the world - could never appeal in, even if recast. This is the era that would sympathize with Mola Ram (asking that we not judge his opaque cultural practices with Western eyes) and the Hovitos tribesman defending their stolen sacred object, and that - most importantly - sees Nazis as uneducated Americans, not sneering Germans from 80 years ago.

So time to pack up Indy and his world into a crate and send it into that massive warehouse filled with powerful but misunderstood cultural objects. Its value perhaps only to be apparent again in centuries to come.

You should go and run a studio... With thinking like this we might actually get some good movies (although, you'd probably be shown the door before you could implementing anything )

I'm at a point now where I'm going back and revisiting old films I haven't seen for years. It's a joy and insanely disheartening at the same time.

Watched "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" last night. Where are these sorts of films now? I saw that as a kid and loved it. Maybe kids are just thick as 2 planks these days and ADHD ridden mongrels???

 

[Wor-Gar]

Watched "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" last night.

One of my all time favorites. Also loved it as a kid.

Now go watch Network.

 

[Otomofan]

Network. Effing masterpiece. One of the best movies of all time.

 

[Khev]

Sorry, didn't read the sarcasm/joke at first - reread it, and now the penny drops My bad...

No worries.