Red Mosquito

bart wrote:I dunno if anyone has pointed out that these movies began as a purposeful nostalgia exercise on the part of Spielberg and Lucas. Like others have said you can play up nostalgia and still have a good movie (I don’t love any of these movies but raiders and temple are good).

Mecca wrote:

bart wrote:Save yourselves 20 bucks and just get a glass of whisky and look though old yearbooks

Shia Leboeuf didn’t die in my yearbook

McParadigm wrote:I don’t know. In the three actual Indiana Jones movies, the character of Indiana Jones is a complex blend of Harrison Ford’s charisma and nothing else, right?

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:

McParadigm wrote:I don’t know. In the three actual Indiana Jones movies, the character of Indiana Jones is a complex blend of Harrison Ford’s charisma and nothing else, right? That’s the whole thing: Come and see the most charismatic man on earth play a Nazi-punching jungle adventurer on a fetch quest for god. Don’t think about it.

I guess I just can’t imagine a way for the nostalgia those original movies created to be spoken to in the year 2023.

the nostalgia they created was originally based on stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and some old archeologist (can't remember his name). So it does a fine job of speaking to that bygone era of storytelling and celebrity by making the titular character old and out of date.

bart wrote: Like others have said you can play up nostalgia and still have a good movie

Jorge wrote:

bart wrote: Like others have said you can play up nostalgia and still have a good movie

Obviously. The question is is that all they've got? From various comments (and the trailers) that's the impression I've been getting

Jorge wrote:I apologize to everyone

Jorge wrote:

Jorge wrote:I apologize to everyone

Jorge wrote:

blueviper wrote:Is there any way to make a new IJ movie 40 years after the original that doesn’t use nostalgia?

I think it would be impossible.

It seems like the passing of time, longing for the past, the weight of regrets, etc. are big thematic components of this film so I get that it's gonna lean on that. I get it. I'm trying to untangle why I never felt even a little interested to see this at the theater, and it's probably because I have no emotional attachment to the series. The movie certainly isn't calling to me on its own strengths.

Jorge wrote:

bart wrote: Like others have said you can play up nostalgia and still have a good movie

Obviously. The question is is that all they've got? From various comments (and the trailers) that's the impression I've been getting

dimejinky99 wrote:Could all stop being hyper critical and just enjoy the thing for what it is.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:Could all stop being hyper critical and just enjoy the thing for what it is.

Maybe you should try that with Oppenheimer