Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny - Using time travel to literally retcon the series

[ZMOT]

Reportedly, every line of Top Gun: Maverick had to be run by him. Dude is autistically invested in his big Top Gun sequel.

cruise is notorious for going balls deep into his projects, for good or bad (like the mummy), that's why he often gets/wants producer's credit.

Did you actually WATCH Hail, Ceaser? The entire film took a shit on Alden Ehrenreich being a hack actor via his character, plus a lot of shocking jabs at the Hollywood Ten (complete with Dalton Trumbo being explicitly shown to be a fifth columnist traitor) and even Clooney himself, portraying him as a dullard who can be tricked into believing just about anything.

holy shit, now you made me remember I actually watched it (confused it with lalaland).

I don't really remember ehrenreich as that bad, or the critics shitting on him. but then everyone was creaming themselves over "a love letter to golden age hollywood" with some insider nods, so they might be willing ignore it for the sake of PR.

tbh even in solo he was fine, the biggest issue of that movie was trying to make it a han solo origin story. if disney had been smart and tried to establish a new character and more freedom to the plot (with a better script) there was a good chance reception would've been completely different.

 

[Manly_Brony]

the biggest issue of that movie was trying to make it a han solo origin story. if disney had been smart and tried to establish a new character and more freedom to the plot (with a better script) there was a good chance reception would've been completely different.

They're obsessed with origin stories. Fuck knows why... BTW I had a debate about Solo the other day while helping a friend with some yard work. One of the reasons Solo sucked is because fans fondly remember the novels Ann C. Crispin wrote. He liked the film but hasn't heard about the trilogy, I've read them, summarized the three plots and he agreed that they're all superior. It's really easy to change the average person's mind about Disney Star Wars.

 

[Adamska]

They're obsessed with origin stories. Fuck knows why... BTW I had a debate about Solo the other day while helping a friend with some yard work. One of the reasons Solo sucked is because fans fondly remember the novels Ann C. Crispin wrote. He liked the film but hasn't heard about the trilogy, I've read them, summarized the three plots and he agreed that they're all superior. It's really easy to change the average person's mind about Disney Star Wars.

Control over the character and being lazy and safe. Hack retard directors and the creatures they work with can shove whatever stupid awful elements they want since they only care about themselves, and the studios and hack directors can just sigh with relief since they just have to half-assedly try to mimic the original work with no brain at all, which is good because said creatures and the director likely never heard of nor give a shit for product.

Originally it also had a full fanbase that was sort of easy to at least 'trick' into watching it, and while that still works to a degree because mongos with addictions need to justify shoving rusty nails into their eyes and ears for 2.5 hours or for 440 minutes, it's not a guarantee any more. Mainly because the system is faltering due to the sheer lack of effort and lack of actual talent and care in their work.

 

[Chilson]

Mainly because the system is faltering due to the sheer lack of effort and lack of actual talent and care in their work.

Its also due to a collapsing economy as people simply have far fewer funds to piss about on garbage. People are a lot more choosy with their time and money when they have no choice but to make a choice. That and the free infinite money tap from the FED is being cut off as interest rates rise ever higher.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

New trailer.

 

[TVB]

New trailer.

Still looks cringe

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

New trailer.

Phoebe Waller Bridge is already insufferable here. She is already making Willie from the second Indiana Jones movie to be much more tolerable in comparison.

 

[Quarterback Rex Grossman]

You can tell women made this because it has the dumb alliteration they love so much. Dial of Destiny, like Stride of Pride and She Shed.

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

New trailer.

I'm holding out hope, but my expectations are incredibly low. If it turns out to be genuinely terrible, quite frankly my heart will be broken. At the very least, it could shed some light on Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and get some deserved recognition like the prequel trilogy.

 

[The Nothingness]

>Trailer starts with Indy asleep in his recliner like an old man who has nothing
Subtle
>"It's called capitalism"
Remind me to say that if this flops

Phoebe Waller Bridge is already insufferable here. She is already making Willie from the second Indiana Jones movie to be a much more tolerable in comparison.

>Leaves Indy behind with a not-genuine-sounding "sorry"
She's even making Elsa look like a better character.

 

[pururun]

I watched the new trailer, and why are movies like this now? Everything about it feels so artificial and factory made, it makes you feel gross trying to watch it. You go back to franchise movies that were lambasted like the Star Wars prequels or Superman Returns and they look downright excellent compared to the dreck that comes out these days.

 

[Adamska]

It's because they only hire friends who often suck more than fanfic writers, make films only for themselves and not for a wider audience, deny realities like budget and money to the point that shithole companies like Disney are sending out films with unfinished effects due to making FX artists wanting to die, and worship computers that belch out what should happen as gospel, such as when fights should happen and who should be cast, among a bevy of other massive issues.

 

[The Doom Slayer]

I watched the new trailer, and why are movies like this now? Everything about it feels so artificial and factory made, it makes you feel gross trying to watch it. You go back to franchise movies that were lambasted like the Star Wars prequels or Superman Returns and they look downright excellent compared to the dreck that comes out these days.

Because it's bland consoomer slop made for retards. There is no passion, creativity or originality whatsoever in these movies. Just vapid products being mindlessly churned out.

 

[mlanguishi]

Not liking the chick at all, but I have to say at least there isn't the 'everything is squeaky weird CGI-looking' that a lot of FX and scenery have lately. Indy 4 really looked like everything was CGI, even though a lot wasn't. Low hopes as usual.

And Ford looks and sounds amazingly good. He's aged really well compared to even Mark Hamill. And at least he cut his hair unlike SW.

 

[ShiftyBoi]

New trailer.

I hope this movie is good, if only because the Indiana Jones movies are a favorite with my dad and brother, both of whom were very familiar with history and theology.

The old trailers showed strictly action and set pieces you'd never seen before so the movies looked exciting as fuck. This one is trying too hard for memberberries, it's an Indiana Jones movie, we don't need them, let it stand on its own.

The new god daughter character is questionable, female characters in Indiana Jones movies don't have a good track record to begin with, Marion being an obvious exception. I think to make one like this work you need to make her respect Indy, and have some element of his younger self in her. There's room in Indiana Jones for a spunky female character that takes the reigns, but this double cross bullshit makes me dislike her. You do not betray Indiana Jones and be likable, it is a scientific impossibility.
I anticipate a 6/10 movie with a 4/10 script.

 

[Screamer_2]

"Indy you've failed at life, but now I can help you achieve."
Is how that came across.

I'm too dumb to articulate it, but there's something about that anti-capitalist line equating it to just stealing that really sums up the attitude of these hacks. They can't build or create anything. So they just equate everything to something that was stolen. They could never come up with Indiana Jones. They don't even see that as being possible. Yet they take it and do their shit to it. They can't build. They can only take and destroy. Yet that is not what captialism is.

They will say Lucas and the guy who directed AI just based it of serials. Not understanding they took something from before and built something new. Yet their view is not that things are created. Just taken. Which is why they can never do anything good with the franchises they have not gotten control of. They also can't see the value because it means nothing to them, it'll be passed off to someone else after them. Not theirs.

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

It's going to be bad, and I don't want Indiana Jones movies to be bad. They are supposed to be fun adventures.

 

[Ser Prize]

Phoebe Waller Bridge is already insufferable here. She is already making Willie from the second Indiana Jones movie to be much more tolerable in comparison.

At least Willie was hot.

 

[Chilson]

"Indy you've failed at life, but now I can help you achieve."
Is how that came across.

Which is infuriating because Indy lived THE FUCKING DREAM!!!! He was a globe spanning adventurer who slammed more poon than a rock star, killed Nazi's by the dozens before the US was even in the war, reconciled with his estranged father, discovered and solved the greatest ancient mysteries on the planet, and held down a stable job as a professor at a prestigious university.

Even if he somehow did not father hundreds of children, he should be pretty satisfied with all he has done in his old age and the legacy he left behind. Fuck Disney and the hacks they hired to butcher Indy.

 

[TVB]

It's going to be bad, and I don't want Indiana Jones movies to be bad. They are supposed to be fun adventures.

And I thought the same with Tomb Raider after the 2000s, but look what happened by the early-2010s and Squeenix had took a huge steaming shit all over it. Ironic, considering even Phoebe Waller Bridge, whose in this travesty, is also penning another Tomb Raider show for Amazon. Why has god abandoned us?