Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

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The budget on this is said to be $300,000,000 so I can't think there was too much cost cutting. I didn't have an issue with any specific CGI in this, but there's just an unreality that comes with films at this budget point. They have to look like they cost $300 million or people are going to ask where the money went. As such they don't look anything like the real world and that makes them less interesting. I thought the CGI de-aging of Harrisson was very well done. It would prehaps have been more fun to do most of the movie with young Indy, maybe with old Indy narrating it or something. He could be doing a tour of a history museum and telling incredibly bored students wild tales of how he got the relics and they care not a jot. I'd watch that, but then I watched this so, you know?

$300 million is a lot to spend on a movie. I'm hoping with the incredible string of failures we saw this year at that budget point that we see a lowering of budgets in future. The Creator did a blockbuster movie at $80 million dollars and by all accounts looks a treat. Then again, that bombed too. I hear the new Godzilla cost $20 million, looks great and is cleaning up.

I hated the de-aging in The Irishman (it was like stopping to stare at a car wreck on the road lol) but the effect was much more convincing in Dial of Destiny except for the voice. Indy still sounded like an old man.

Budgets on Hollywood films have always been out of control and that's because there's a good chunk spent on catering alone. Then there's the marketing budgets. Godzilla Minus One was said to cost $15 million, not $20, BTW. And so far feedback has been through the roof. Hopefully that'll open some eyes in Hollywood.

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Godzilla Minus One was said to cost $15 million, not $20, BTW. And so far feedback has been through the roof. Hopefully that'll open some eyes in Hollywood.

I'm positive Hollywood executives are currently figuring out how to remove all of the elements that made it appealing to audiences in the first place and then proceed to amplify all of the worst elements. They're really good at doing that.