bada wrote:If this was 1992 I'd be jumping out of my skin excited for a new Indiana Jones but they are 30 years too late. They should have done two more in the 90's. Just wonder how hard we'll get beat over the head that Fleabag is a better Indiana Jones than Indiana Jones.
i hope the feminism is not too on the nose, but see her involved in this doesnt bode well.
I mean I like her I think she's really funny I'm just thinking it will be really hard for them to resist. They won't go as far as they did with Marcus turning him from a serious character in Raiders to a bumbling idiot in Last Crusade but I'm assuming Indy will need a lot of help and a lot of saving. It just would have went down easier if it was Short Round than someone new.
I saw a particularly horrendous rumor about the story which I was going to dismiss out of hand, but the trailer verified a lot of it. But maybe they got their hands on the trailer a couple days early and made up the rest. We'll see.
BurtReynolds wrote:"it's not what you believe, but how much you believe it?"
What kind of inane pablum is that? What does that even mean?
It’s the Indiana Jones equivalent of “It’s true…all of it.” A line whose only purpose is to wink at the audience, and to assure them that if they buy tickets they will be made to feel like they did when they were 17 and watching this stuff.
This whole trailer looks like shit. Any time it goes big, the aesthetic goes 100% Crystal Skull. The cgi has the same cartoon phoniness. The framing of shots is rank with inorganic green screen decision-making. Not one moment of it looks fun.
Hard to imagine a story that could make me want to watch Harrison Ford at all these days, but especially not wrapped up in a sea of mediocrity like this.
Star Wars is a universe. It makes sense to expand on it, because it is overloaded with untold stories and opportunities. It’s a canvas that outsiders can paint on.
Indiana Jones is just a dude. Just a cool looking dude who punches Nazis. And that dude (unlike the actor) is long past dead, man. Deceased. Gone. Not coming back. Unrevivable.
His “universe” was a fantastical version of WW2 era recent history. Nothing expandable was baked in. There’s no untapped desire out there for new Indiana Jones characters, and there’s no means of continuing this story with anything resembling grace. Let it die. Fucking hell.
BurtReynolds wrote:"it's not what you believe, but how much you believe it?"
What kind of inane pablum is that? What does that even mean?
It’s the Indiana Jones equivalent of “It’s true…all of it.” A line whose only purpose is to wink at the audience, and to assure them that if they buy tickets they will be made to feel like they did when they were 17 and watching this stuff.
This whole trailer looks like shit. Any time it goes big, the aesthetic goes 100% Crystal Skull. The cgi has the same cartoon phoniness. The framing of shots is rank with inorganic green screen decision-making. Not one moment of it looks fun.
Hard to imagine a story that could make me want to watch Harrison Ford at all these days, but especially not wrapped up in a sea of mediocrity like this.
McParadigm wrote:
Indiana Jones is just a dude. Just a cool looking dude who punches Nazis. And that dude (unlike the actor) is long past dead, man. Deceased. Gone. Not coming back. Unrevivable.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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McParadigm wrote:
Indiana Jones is just a dude. Just a cool looking dude who punches Nazis. And that dude (unlike the actor) is long past dead, man. Deceased. Gone. Not coming back. Unrevivable.
Do you believe hard enough?
Everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?
bada wrote:If this was 1992 I'd be jumping out of my skin excited for a new Indiana Jones but they are 30 years too late. They should have done two more in the 90's. Just wonder how hard we'll get beat over the head that Fleabag is a better Indiana Jones than Indiana Jones.
i hope the feminism is not too on the nose, but see her involved in this doesnt bode well.
That trailer did nothing for me and the new spin/orchestration of the Indy theme sounded bad (I recognize that's likely just for the trailer). That said, I'll be in the IMAX theater opening night for this. In Mangold I trust.
