I mean, the filmmakers need to take lessons from both Spielberg and Lucas's good friend Francis Ford Coppola and his Apocalypse Now movie. You don't even see presidents Nixon and Ford talk like this. Even Harrison Ford never talked like that back in that decade.
Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny - Using time travel to literally retcon the series
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I seem to recall a documentary on Lego saying that as part of a psychological study commissioned they identified that boys tend to identify as a character when they play toys, so the assorted Marvel stuff for example works quite well for them. Girls though apparently don't play that way which is why they adjusted the sets they sold targeting female custom. Can't remember which documentary but it was interesting to hear it commented on.
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Hello? Kingdom of the crystal skull? We're sorry we want you back!
Cause mock nuking the fridge, the cgi monkeys, indy and Marion's greaser son, even the aliens (ALIENS DONT BELONG IN AN INDIANA JONES MOVIE!)
all you want but...yeahh a female character flat out telling indy he "stole from indigenous people." Makes all of that look less painful on comparison.
Cause mock nuking the fridge, the cgi monkeys, indy and Marion's greaser son, even the aliens (ALIENS DONT BELONG IN AN INDIANA JONES MOVIE!)
all you want but...yeahh a female character flat out telling indy he "stole from indigenous people." Makes all of that look less painful on comparison.
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I just find it hilarious how we're now treating Kingdom of the Crystal Skull like the Star Wars prequels.
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Haha holy shit even the critics can't defend it. It has to be some cheap and boring shit on top of being yet another bait and switch with an unlikeable cunt replacing and insulting the character Disney's lying to you about. I really hope they didn't change out Indy being erased from time too, since that level of Damnatio Memoriae is amazing.
Reminder that some of the reason we can't find some artifacts is because indigenous peoples also demolished their own archaeological sites. It's particularly noted in Eastern and Southern Africa btw.
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Kinda OT, but the whole "stolen from indigenous people" take is very white liberal talking with little to do with reality. Like when archeologists found some old tomb and everybody here was happy, and it was all black and white American woketards seething for absolute no reason besides repeating the mantra.
The artifacts that were sacked and stolen by thieves, yes, we'd want those back, please. Those aren't for museums, they are sold illegally and kept in private collections of other stolen goods. If a museum has something that belongs to another group, I have no problem with them keeping them, but it'd be better if it can return to the original place if they can take care of it properly. Many museums have collections that are always touring around so it's not like you're not gonna see them.
The artifacts that were sacked and stolen by thieves, yes, we'd want those back, please. Those aren't for museums, they are sold illegally and kept in private collections of other stolen goods. If a museum has something that belongs to another group, I have no problem with them keeping them, but it'd be better if it can return to the original place if they can take care of it properly. Many museums have collections that are always touring around so it's not like you're not gonna see them.
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Watch us see James Mangold fail upward like Taiki Watiti and the others since he now has his own Star Wars film to make. Supposedly, anyways.
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Is there any source for this or just more Doomcuck style chinese whispers ?
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While they will never stack up to the originals, outside of Phantom Menace and most of Attack of the Clones, they weren't bad movies. Crystal Skull was honestly a soulless, shitty cash grab and at least in my opinion it will still fucking suck no matter how much worse this one is. I'm not going to revise my opinion on a bad movie just because the one that came after it is shittier.
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No, lol.
Y'all would loose them in *another* coup leading to old artifacts getting sold on the black market (again) for weapons OR tribal groups getting them, hiding them, and retreating from the world because "the outside world is racist een sheet".
Better what artifacts we saved are in a place to preserve/study. MAYBE after study, we can give them back so y'all can ISIS-hammer them (as is your right)...
Funny, considering there was a time when Mangold actually directed good movies. How the mighty have fallen.
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You know, I'm actually starting to think KK might be a plant designed to make Lucas/Spielberg look good. Think about it, when Disney took over, the prequels and crystal Skull were pretty much universally hated by fans. The Sequels were so bad that many now think the prequels look good in comparison, and now even Crystal Skull is going to look better compared to DoD?
Could she be a mole who's sole purpose is to so devalue lucas arts IP's that Lucas can buy it back for a fraction of what he sold it for, and be greeted as a hero by fandom?
Could she be a mole who's sole purpose is to so devalue lucas arts IP's that Lucas can buy it back for a fraction of what he sold it for, and be greeted as a hero by fandom?
You cannot please any fandom no matter what. Jaded diehard Indy fans shat on Crystal Skull because of "muh aliens," when they needed to realize the absolute context of why aliens were added in the movie and the whole history behind the real-life Crystal Skull discovery. Yes, fuck Indy for hiding in the fridge and fuck aliens, because that's totally not what happened during the Cold War of the 50s, like except there was. Fear of nuclear annihilation and finding out the real enemy was very common between 1947 to 1991 (even though the latter was restarted through the remainder of the decade and especially today, such as Waco, Oklahoma City, Columbine, 9/11, Katrina, etc.). You cannot tell logic with fandoms. They are also hypocrites at the end of the day because they'll turn around and praise something because of the name in big bold shiny letters and shit on anyone for criticizing the product.
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Its a nice thought, but Lucas is too old to revitalize his franchises at this point. If I recall correctly, that's the reason he sold it in the first place. He didn't have the energy to manage it anymore and his kids didn't want it, so he handed it over to someone who (he thought) would treat it with respect.
Little did he realize KK is a bitter old cunt who hated him for decades.
It's still weird yet hilarious to me that Lucas would even imagine that Kathleen Kennedy would do a good job after selling his Lucasfilm company and his IPs to Disney and assume that she actually is still friends with him. Kathleen has been a bitch cunt whore and will always be a bitch cunt whore, and her husband Frank Marshall is a complete yes man puppet agreeing whatever stupid bullshit she says.
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You know I never did hate it. I was disappointed with how the aliens barely did anything but I thought it was a fun if completely average romp back into the well.
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"We didn't realize how good we had it with Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" - IGN's byline reviewing the Dial of Destiny
Given the political leanings of game journos, and this being IGN's reaction, I think this movie is going to do Solo numbers instead of there being a ton of op-eds from pop culture journalists about how stunning and brave it is.
Given the political leanings of game journos, and this being IGN's reaction, I think this movie is going to do Solo numbers instead of there being a ton of op-eds from pop culture journalists about how stunning and brave it is.
Unlike the first three, Crystal Skull has more of a Tomb Raider vibe (again, this was during a time Tomb Raider was good, especially the era when the LAU trilogy came out), which is very ironic given how Tomb Raider literally influenced Indiana Jones and other things the two also influenced, such as the Republic and Columbia adventure serials. I was okay with that at the end of the day as it feels like the closest we'll get to a third Jolie movie (and still way better than the bullshit 2018 Vikander nuboot), but it's completely uneven as an Indiana Jones movie. Still, I liked it and had a good time with it.