Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Just got back, not a bad film but the bar was set very low after the Crystal Skull, thought it was a good way to 'retire' Indy hopefully the don't make more but with PWB as the main character
 
Even if I could, I still wouldn't waste the bandwidth and time to get it from "Dave down the pub".

Nothing I've seen or read since this was first announced, or the first trailers came out, or the film came out or in the past 2 months since has made me even a little interested in seeing this, not even "just to see how bad it was".
 
The opening 25 or so minute sequence is worth a watch, you can turn it off after that. I really think this movie would have been so much better had the Nazis succeeded with changing time and it was up to Indy and co to set things right. But obviously I can only really say that after seeing this one. The direction they went was very very 'meh'.
 
Last edited:
ianh said:
Even if I could, I still wouldn't waste the bandwidth and time to get it from "Dave down the pub".

Nothing I've seen or read since this was first announced, or the first trailers came out, or the film came out or in the past 2 months since has made me even a little interested in seeing this, not even "just to see how bad it was".
Click to expand...
I also prefer to remember Indy the way he was intended. Not a broken down old
man who Kk tried to replace with a fraud.
 
I saw this at the cinema, at my Sons suggestion. It wasn't terrible, it wasn't amazing. A 6/10 movie really. PWB wasn't annoying, at least to me. Sure the original trilogy was better and Crystal Skull is best forgotten completely, but I've seen many worse movies.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I don't understand the negativity of some of the professional reviews.
Click to expand...

FIlm reviewers are a funny bunch, and their socio-political beliefs and biases generally steer their reviewing style. Add to this that they've now clocked that panning films is good for their Adsense clicks, and quite often they're happy to tear a film to pieces for the extra clicks.

I've not seen this yet unfortunately, might watch it this evening, but from the sources I trust, it's not as bad as the usuals make it out to be.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Watched it a few days ago and it was a fun movie. I don't understand the negativity of some of the professional reviews.
Click to expand...

I actually thought it was pretty good, the CGI at the start on young Indy was questionable, but over all I enjoyed it.

The negativity probably comes from the fact the lead actor is a boomer generation white man, no other reason. Most of them probably weren't even alive when the original Indiana Jones films came out and probably never seen them, so no idea what it's about (ignoring crystal skull obviously).
 
Last edited:
MadMossy said:
I actually thought it was pretty good, the CGI at the start on young Indy was questionable, but over all I enjoyed it.

The negativity probably comes from the fact the lead actor is a boomer generation white man, no other reason. Most of them probably weren't even alive when the original Indiana Jones films came out and probably never seen them, so no idea what it's about (ignoring crystal skull obviously).
Click to expand...

Ha - a lot of this thread has been people being very negative towards the film for being ‘woke’ and ‘anti-man’ (before it was even released) so with this comment it feels like the thread has gone full circle :p (edit - or is that 180? Anywho!)

My perception is that there were some people who didn’t like it, as always, but most who watched it seemed to have had a good time although nobody claimed it was sensational (noting the large shadow of the first three films).
 
Last edited:
It was perfectly ok, not amazing, but much better than Crystal Skull.

Thought the opening de aged stuff was good, would have preferred a full film of de-aged Indy nazi punching given the choice.

Unfortunately some of the other Cgi, particularly the chase scenes just looked all Cgi and got lots pf uncanny valley , reminded me of that Kit Harrington volcano film wheere they are clearly just running up and down a green screen warehouse.

A lot of modern films seem to use Cgi where its not needed and they all end up looking the same, colourised the same, with the exactly the same hazy perfect magic hour lighting.

Still enjoyed it ,Mads Mikkelson was good, FWB was absolutely fine, dont get all the hate.
 
I just didn't see the purpose for it, Indy got his ride off into the sunset moment in Indy III which was a fitting end to a great trilogy; Crystal Skull came along to provide a what next happy ending with him marrying Marion, then this one comes along to cancel that ending but then reinstate it at the end.
 
i turned off after 90min or so, wasnt great imo, was just play boring and predictable and Wombat was just irritating, started ok but went down hill, maybe i try watch again fully as sometimes movies take more than one watch
 
Watched it this evening.

Deliberately steered clear of any spoilers and haven't even been in this thread until now so I have no idea what the OcUK massive says.

I enjoyed it. Thought it was a decent film, enjoyed the final act more than I did in the Crystal Skull (not difficult) and thought that it was a better film than that.

No real complaints from me.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom