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But for forty-plus years I've been wondering how Indy got into the U-boat (at around 1:38:07, or was it 1:37.08? - not sure right now), after everyone asking "Where is Indy?" you see Harrison Ford in a German navy uniform, obviously inside the U-boat. And only after that, you see him climbing up the sub on the outside toward the deck with everyone on the "pirate ship" cheering him on. But there is no way he could have got inside of the U-boat either way, nor got outside of it before it docked in the underground bunker.
My main gripe with ROTLA for over forty years. Still possibly the greatest movie of its kind for all time.
That's what I did and had a good time.
No, he never goes inside the U Boat. I think I have heard some folks say there's someone who looks a bit like him, but it's not Indy. Indy just rides on the top of the boat; famously he was supposed to use his whip to lash himself to the periscope, which they did film and you can catch a quick glimpse of him there during the montage as we see it sailing, but I think maybe they just edited it so that it didn't submerge. U Boats at that time spent most of their time on the surface I think.
My main gripe with it, and to my mind its only flaw, is that we're never prepared for Indy having the knowledge not to look in the Ark. I just feel like that needed a mention somewhere earlier. It is actually in the Bible, but I think it needed repeating in the film.
You didn't get any photo's while you were there?
Raiders 115 minutes
Doom 118 minutes
Crusade 127 minutes
Skull 122 minutes
Destiny 142 minutes according to some!
The Flash was longer than it needed to be, in my opinion. Craig's movies were a similar tale with CR starting at 144 minutes, then 106 minutes QOS, SF 143 minutes, SP 148 minutes and then NTTD at a whopping 163 minutes. I miss the 2 hour movie it seems to be a relic, will we ever get back to shorter run times?
Likewise, will we ever get back to a box office top 10, that isn't just sequels and remakes?
So, here's hoping that there will be more films filled with epic adventures and great characters, even if they're not named Indiana Jones.
https://deadline.com/2023/06/indiana-jones-and-the-dial-of-destiny-box-office-projection-2-1235425453/
I'm still thinking about posting that screencap of ROTLA and someone telling me that it isn't Ford inside the U-boat, but I must pass for tonight.
You mean the guy at 2.58 in this clip? He looks a bit like Ford, but I paused it and checked without any lights in the room to have a good contrast...and I'm sure that it isn't Ford. This guy looks younger and different.
You keep hearing stuff like "lower your expectations" but I actually prefer this over the moody and dark TOD. It's fun and fastpaced, like TLC. A great swan song.
Good to read this, along with @ColonelSun's impression. I'm really looking forward to seeing it on Friday afternoon.
Yes, must say I'm also feeling more positive about it now. @Zekidk and @ColonelSun are reputable and trustworthy people ;), so I'll take their word for it.
I found the last five minutes quite awkwardly managed (I wasn't sure whether re shoots were involved or not) which left me in a less good mood than I may have had been if it had stuck the landing, but the preceding hour and fifty minutes were decent, bordering on pretty good.
Would give a solid but not crazed recommendation to general audiences.
Anyway, I still find it fantastic how they transferred the Indiana Jones story from the late 1930s to 1957. I love even the scenes with Shia LaBeouf (although he has an obviously misspelled name) pretending to be Marlon Brando. It's really a worthy part of the IJ franchise, whatever people may say about it.
I'm really looking forward to see DOD on Friday afternoon, and I'm very confident that I won't be disappointed.
The weak points are Helena's motivations, which basically change every time the action requires them to do, the dialog, which is a little on the nose and doesn't have many memorable lines outside of the callbacks, and the climax which should be majestic but rings a little hollow. And of course, in a tribute to modern-day filmmaking, it's overstuffed, with a couple of sequences that could have been cut short or too many henchmen (Billy Magnussen may have a blast with the script, but his character is basically the same as in No Time to Die).
But Ford is engaging, especially every time he accepts to show his age or talks about the past, PWB does the best of what she was given, the teen sidekick is good (even if he's partly a rehash of Half Moon), the big action set pieces are varied, and 1969 New York is enough of a thing of the past to fit within the whole nostalgic charm of the franchise. And of course, it has John Williams' final score, and it's always a blast to hear these big themes gain life on the screen.
And, naturally, none of the big claims by the YouTubers has any validity. Nothing suggests that Helena Shaw could be Indy's spiritual heiress in more films, and the "multiverse" thing was an obvious fabrication. It's just one more Indy adventure, with an aging Harrison Ford, which plays it a little too safe for the most part but still delivers.