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What other films have similar scenes to the Tuk Tuk chase that would make this statement remotely reasonable?
You could literally say the same thing about the Bond character-
Oh, wait. Never mind, haha
Case in point: the battle scenes in Man Of Steel are way more amazing than the fight in Metropolis in Superman II, but I love Superman II & Man Of Steel is just okay. So yeah, I'm more invested in Indy than Hunt, and there we are.
Just compare that to the epic Rome chases in Fast X and MI7,and the Tuk,Tuk chase looks like something out of a cheap tv show.Fords age really held this film back in terms of action.There was only so much he could do,he even spends the last 20 mins mostly sitting down while Helena does all the heroics.
Yes, I agree there, you've put it well.
And I did find the ending quite bittersweet, but in a good way. I was quite surprised by how low-key it was - there wasn't much fanfare towards the end.
While I’m sure cgi and green screen was used,Fast X and MI7 filmed their respective chases in Rome.They even had their premieres there!
I was also in Rome once.
Bruce Lee filmed Way Of The Dragon partially in Rome.
I loved all those things in the film. I felt a great deal of thought had gone into them. Society thinking about the future and the skies, rather than the past and the ground (with underground tombs being a signature of the Indiana Jones films). Americans having former Nazis working for them. A changing world. It's like The Wild Bunch, but with Indiana Jones.
And there were lots of little narrative touches that I enjoyed. The anti-war protest that ties into the death of Mutt, and which in different circumstances, Indy could have supported out of legitimate interest rather than mere self-preservation. The fact we learn nothing about Klaber but are left to imagine how he allied himself with Voller. The parallel remembrances by Indy and Helena when flying to Morocco. The fact the map sequence is saved for later, when Indy is fully immersed in finding the second half of the dial, and not merely interested in recovering the first half of the dial and clearing his name. Hauk's head being hidden by the hanging lamp when we first see him in Morocco, which emphasizes his height. Teddy and Indy looking at the US Military chopper flying above them, without knowing Voller is on it. The puppeteer dramatizing the Siege of Syracuse. The fact when Voller holds Helena at gunpoint in Archimedes' tomb, he tells Indy he's already lost his wife and son, emphasizing the point that he took the time to read Jones' dossier. The Italian pilot who ends up being pulled into the adventure, adding humor, an element of surprise and making more plausible the idea that Teddy's plane continues to fly without incident (speaking of that, Teddy's skill with all sorts of vehicles has a fairytale-ish quality to it that feels like Spielberg, and which balances the generally serious tone of the film). The fact Indy says "the great Archimedes", which makes one wonder how Archimedes felt when finding out his name is still remembered 2,000 years later. Helena's analogy between the forced card deck and the dial.
I believe Dan Bradley was on Second unit duties, which, if he worked on that sequence, explains why it is so good! I still rate him for his work on QOS, as having the best action of Craigs 5 Bond films! He also did 'M:I Ghost Protocol', and I rate the action in that as being my favourite in that series!
Pretty much all of the stuff with the cars and motorbikes in the opening 1944 section is real too I think, but I think they've added so much in the way of backgrounds and probably night-time grading that it's come out looking faker than it is.
Hahahahaha! yeah, me too. LOL
I went to see it; I did my part, and it's done. I loved it. All the haters can rejoice, but I got another movie I love.
Same. I loved it and this is the final one. So who care if it didn't make much money?
Who cares if it doesn't make money? Disney stockholders, Ford if he had any points in his contract, Bob Iger, Kathleen Kennedy, Disney employees who have just faced massive layoffs and are likely to get chopped down some more, Manigold might care as he has a Star Wars project. I believe the last person to face a declining Box Office, see Rian Johnson, was unceremoniously dumped from his trilogy.
I must say I don't think the YouTubers you watch says much about your character. This constant need to take shots are people is really un-needed.
I think fjdinardo’s point was that we are none of those people, and Disney shareholders probably have a few pennies in the bank already: I think they’re going to be okay.
‘Taking shots’ is all that these bottom-feeding YouTubers do; it doesn’t really work to defend incredibly rude, unpleasant people who make these videos on the basis that it’s not nice to be a bit rude. If they can’t take it they shouldn’t really give it.