Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

This looks like a video game to me.

[Matt H. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Matt H.]

I was wondering why Spielberg's name wasn't mentioned and it's because James Mangold directed it. Strange that he'd pass the torch for what is no doubt the final installment with Ford.

[killer must kill again Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close killer must kill again]

JUNIOR!!!!! ... you dropped your dentures.

[agent999 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close agent999]

I was wondering why Spielberg's name wasn't mentioned and it's because James Mangold directed it. Strange that he'd pass the torch for what is no doubt the final installment with Ford.

Plenty of fun rumours as to why! Lots of talk of how troubled the production has been and test screenings of multiple endings.

I can only image how bad the script was if he thought Crystal Skull was a worthy project and this wasn't. It's supposed to set up a new tv series as well, one rumour being that might be with the Fleabag actor (forgot her name) who has not gone down well in test endings. Probably just bullshit considering how fanboys wail on anything Lucasfilm does these days.

[Dom D Spoon! Find all posts View Profile Close Dom D]

They definitely shouldn't have made this and I will definitely see it. It looks sort of fun, no?

[Dom D Spoon! Find all posts View Profile Close Dom D]

It's supposed to set up a new tv series as well, one rumour being that might be with the Fleabag actor (forgot her name) who has not gone down well in test endings. Probably just bullshit considering how fanboys wail on anything Lucasfilm does these days.

Replacing Ford with Waller-Bridge would be a serious case of man-boy fanboi baiting. I'd almost like to see it just for the incel rage it would incite. Though, as above, they definitely shouldn't do it and I will definitely watch if they do.

[BW Haggar Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BW Haggar]

Witless, bombastic CGI nonsense.... did they learn nothing from '..Crystal Skull'?!

Well, I suppose it probably made money even though everyone on earth hated it - so here we go with more of the same.

Honestly, it saddens me that Indiana Jones (as embodied by Ford) is such a great character, there is so much potential for making great movies about him... and yet every film since 'Raiders..' has so totally ballsed it up. [Ok, I know '..Last Crusade' had its moments, but it's too jokey & silly to really hold up to repeated, grown up viewing.]

Also, I'll be interested to see how they manage to crowbar nazis, VJ day celebrations and '40s fashions into this one, given that, assuming the character has aged in real time along with Ford, it should be set in the 1980s..?

[agent999 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close agent999]

Witless, bombastic CGI nonsense.... did they learn nothing from '..Crystal Skull'?!

Well, I suppose it probably made money even though everyone on earth hated it - so here we go with more of the same.

Honestly, it saddens me that Indiana Jones (as embodied by Ford) is such a great character, there is so much potential for making great movies about him... and yet every film since 'Raiders..' has so totally ballsed it up. [Ok, I know '..Last Crusade' had its moments, but it's too jokey & silly to really hold up to repeated, grown up viewing.]

Also, I'll be interested to see how they manage to crowbar nazis, VJ day celebrations and '40s fashions into this one, given that, assuming the character has aged in real time along with Ford, it should be set in the 1980s..?

Time travel supposedly. Romans... I hate these guys.

[BW Haggar Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BW Haggar]

Time travel supposedly. Romans... I hate these guys.

Do we have an OH FOR FUCKS SAKE emoji?

I was going to add "please don't tell me he goes back in time" to my earlier post as a gag, but never thought they'd actually go there.

You know what? I would so much rather watch a vaguely real world-set movie with a septuagenerian Indiana Jones hanging around in the '80s. He could be smuggling some ancient artifact from under the noses of the Sandinistas and dodging the CIA in Nicaragua, or tangling with the commies in the Russian-Afghan war, or who knows what else... great stories for the guy just write themselves, but we're never going to get them through this kind of crap.

[Darcy Parker Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Darcy Parker]

Indiana Jones and the Stench of Failure

[Dom D Spoon! Find all posts View Profile Close Dom D]

He could be smuggling some ancient artifact from under the noses of the Sandinistas and dodging the CIA in Nicaragua, or tangling with the commies in the Russian-Afghan war, or who knows what else...

Then youd have the audience sitting there going 'arent these Mujahideen just Taliban? Where's the good guys?' Indy is a comic book character, he needs the clarity of storytelling that you only get with good, honest Nazis.

and yet every film since 'Raiders..' has so totally ballsed it up.

I think Last Crusade might be my favourite and Temple Of Doom has aged extremely well. I hated it when I was a kid. Seemed unnecessarily dark. It's a very enjoyable watch now though. I enjoy the ickiness of the bugs, the strangeness and it has some great set pieces. Even Crystal Skull had a lot of good stuff that unfortunately got swamped in crap cgi.

[Dom D Spoon! Find all posts View Profile Close Dom D]

BTW The Dial Of Destiny may be the worst title of all time.

[agent999 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close agent999]

So it's not a sequel to The Pick of Destiny? The Dial of Destiny goes one louder.

[Darcy Parker Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Darcy Parker]

So it's not a sequel to The Pick of Destiny? The Dial of Destiny goes one louder.

If only.

Then again, I think Harrison Ford is a bit old to manage to do a cock push-up anymore.

[f.ramses Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close f.ramses]

The title of this sounds like an episode of that show The Librarians.