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I am not a fan of Grace though good points are made here.
Haven’t seen the film yet but, hear hear on PWB, and she would be good as M. Moneypenny at a push. Most of the bits even people not big on NTTD liked were most likely the bits she added as well.
It is a shame because there is a stuntman doing that stunt for real on moving jeeps, but I agree that the memory that lingers of it is of the greenscreen stuff.
But two people having a swordfight on the backs of moving jeeps is a good stunt, it's a shame that it gets disguised.
He is also quite heavily in the bike chase of course, and that's all real stuntwork.
Yeah. I don't mind the idea of a double-crosser, but again they just didn't quite seem to have a fully formed idea of what he's for. The Mummy did it better with the Beni character.
Normally I can’t make it past her voice and exaggerated presentation, but here she’s, no pun intended, dialed it back a bit and really does make some very good observations.
Plus people aged more around then anyway. Not sure you'd find many 80 year olds looking as good as Ford does here in 1969.
The budget + P&A set the film up as having an impossible task in making back a lot of money. Deadline reports a roughly $329 million budget when all is said and done, and that doesn't even take into account the $100 million they sunk into marketing the movie.
That too. I still don't think we're close to a "theaters are dead" stage but when the turnaround rate is so fast and you save so much money in the process, why not be patient? I really only go anymore if it's something I'm absolutely dying to see or if it's one I could probably wait on but I really don't want to get spoiled in doing so.
Exactly. I mean I could have watched Ant Man 3 in theaters and took my sons and pay $50 including tickets and snacks or just wait 2-3 months and watch it on Disney+.
Only Indy and MI:Dead Reckoning are the films that were on my must see in theaters. I still would have seen Indy at some point with or without a gift card. Because those are tentpole franchises such as Bond and Marvel prior to Endgame.
Dead Reckoning: Part One is one of the last "must see" films in theaters on my radar in 2023, and if I get the opportunity I'll probably see it twice. I don't remember the last time I did that.
I think Disney and the rest of Hollywood are testing the waters for making deepfaked Star Wars and Indy movies in the future using the likenesses of the original actors. It's pointless and dumb and even goes against the whole point of filmmaking, but nobody ever said these people were smart.
For action the young audience in general wants John Wick, Marvel/DC-movies, and Fast and Furious, the same way I preferred ROTLA, FYEO and First Blood as a teen in the early 80's as opposed to my dad's *Bullitt' and 'French Connection'. I know that I am generalizing here, but most teens today in the western world, have no idea who icons like Rambo, Rocky, Indiana Jones etc are, unless you show it to them. Darth Vader and James Bond will suffer the same fate in the coming generations.
Did you see DOD @slide_99 ?; and I ask this with all seriousness: how is using deep fakes “against the whole point of filmmaking”?
I don’t agree with it myself, but what’d you mean by this statement?
And calling “these people” dumb is kinda arrogant. They may be greedy. They may be self centered and egotistical, they may be lazy, but I have yet to meet a “dumb” producer (maybe dumb as a fox, but that’s about it).
But for the 1945 scenes of DOD we definitely do not need a "pre raiders Indy", but someone who looks ten years older than the "Temple Indy", nine years older than the "Raiders Indy" and seven years older than the "Last Crusade Indy". And who looks 12 years younger than the "Crystal Skull Indy". But most of all, who looks credibly like Harrison Ford. I think they found the perfect solution that leaves no doubt as to who the character is. Employing a different actor would have been much more problematic because everyone would have wondered why the hell Indy changed his appearance between 1938 and 1957, but then reverted to his previous looks.
I did find the opening sequence by far the most fun in the movie, which is strange because most I’ve heard say that’s the weakest part. It was quick paced, and had a lot more creative beats to bring both laughs and tension to the sequences. BUT I found the de-aging unconvincing and Ford’s voice distracted me the whole time, so even that part of the film I was not fully engaged with (not to mention including the Paramount logo only to dissolve out of the Lucasfilm one was honestly insulting and I wouldn’t be surprised if Disney insisted that Paramount couldn’t have the most prominent honors).
The problem is he's a terrible actor who is more dead-eyed than the CG Ford. Actually that's not fair; he's not bad, but Harrison Ford is Harrison Ford- unless you have the screen charisma of River Phoenix you can't do an impression of him and expect it to come anywhere near.
He is actually in the film, incidentally. I believe he did do some doubling for young Indy, plus you can see him in the Tangier auction scene.
I knew I recognized him ! Really happy he got a cool cameo in the film.
I thought it had one great scene after another, and I loved Mads as the villain. I can't really find much fault with this entry and I have no problem ranking DOD quite high...............
1. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
2. INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY
3. INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
4. INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM
5. INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OD THE CRYSTAL SKULL
It won’t even top Raiders’ $389M gross… and we are talking about 1981…