The film only opened with $130 million worldwide, which is less than the $139 million that the box office bomb The Flash managed to earn. Furthermore, the Indiana Jones sequel is said to have cost more than $300 million to make with marketing costs, while The Flash was estimated at $250 million. Either way, both films appear to be box office bombs, with the fifth Indiana Jones film making even less at the box office so far.
What did they expect? The whole premise falls apart now that he's older than the artifacts
"Indy, are these objects worth anything?"
"Worth anything? They are priceless artifacts nearly as old as me."
Indiana Jones and the Rascal Scooter of Evil (2028)
honestly, they could do something cool with the concept of an old Indiana Jones that shouldn't be out looking for artifacts anymore but obviously they wouldn't do that bc that wouldn't lend itself to another sequel that sucks.
All they have to do is pick a Young Indy book and just do that. THey have a whole entire series right fucking there
well this one is about an ancient greek artifact so thankfully they managed to find another artifact that is older than Harrison Ford
Hollywood putting out back-to-back flops instead of caving to WGA
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i have not heard a single person talk about this movie. i wouldn't even know about it without all the ads on NBA playoff games.
I've only heard it talked about in a "it's weird that they made an old man pretend to be a younger man using computers" way.
Hollywood necromancy and chronomancy need to be stopped. I didn't think it'd get this bad when I first heard of the tech. All this de-aging and resurrecting actors is wild. We have all the tech in the world and they still can make something watchable these days.
I used to think all the neo-retro plot contrivances in Shadowrun were ridiculous. Why would anyone care about pop culture from decades ago, I asked myself.
Then I realized that Ready Player Oneism is a persistent ideology because the ruling class doesn't want to take risks and mining nostalgia so deeply that even generations that came after the nostalgia's source will eventually be nostalgic for older remakes became a thing.
Same thing here man. I was just re-reading the Cyberpunk RPG codex and came across the posergangs. That sort of end of history meets pop culture clashing in the most dire and grim way. Our existing future sucks so much dude.
Became? Almost all 90s Disney movies are remakes, including the live action ones. Flubber, Parent Trap etc are remakes while Zenon is pure retrofuturism.
There is still a difference between "dug up a no-copyright ancient story like Aladdin" and "digging up one's own dug up Aladdin cartoon and making it live action and worse."
You will live in the
podvan. You will watch the thirteenth unnecessary remake of a mid film. You will soyface to prestige tv.
Just goes to show that smaller budgets and and a damn good script goes a long way. Seems like bigger budgets only make the filmmakers lazier.
That would actually be a cool movie. Filmed straigth were indy a d his geriatric friends are suffering in an asylum. And thete seems to be some conspiracy so they try to investigate. But they are old and weak and have lots of restrictions. As the story advances it seems more and more likley that the retirment home is run by a wierd cult that worships some elder relic. Eventually at the climax it turns out the old men are justsenile and imagining things.
The other day I was reminded of a bit on Castle Super Beast where they proposed a sequel to the Tony Hawk's Underground series (commonly abbreviated THUG). The sequel is called Tony Hawk's Existential Nightmare, where an older Hawk is just going place to place being told occasionally that he looks like Tony Hawk, and eventually he needs to do the 900 again but he can't. He wipes out, gets up, retrieves his board, and goes to try again. The next time he wipes out, he gets up a little slower, giving the board the chance to roll a bit further, and he limps a little more. Then again, and again, as the edges of his vision fray and the sound of the increasingly-dispirited little audience gets more and more distant. They only realized at the end that their new title abbreviates to "THEN".
Bubba Hotep was pretty fun - Elvis and JFK are both alive in a retirement home, when a passing train delivering spooky relics to the museum crashes and a mummy is released.
dune 1 & 2 looking millions times better visually while still costing a fraction of these things is incredible
Everytime I see someone mad about how dull it looks, I just can't help but to think this (plus it should look like that, it is a desert planet).
Yeah the color contrast between the verdant world and the desert planet made for a cool contrast. Also Geidi Prime looked like such a shitty place to live if you're not named Harkonnen
It's cause what is described in the books is absolutely fucking wack. No one should ever say any adaptation of Dune is dull visually if it's doing the source material justice. I'm Sci Fi channel mini series from 2000 and it's 2003 sequel covering the next two books gang. It's a got a decent budget and the Sci fi channel could still bring it on occasion, the cgi sucks and they had clear limitations but it tells the story well and gets the vibe just right.
On their own right yes, I'll give it at. They utterly utterly fail as an adaptation though. Dune is a bit zany, theatrical and psychedelic. They're good if taken just as movies on their own but the vibe is soooooo wrong for Dune.
Why does an Indiana jones movie cost 300 million.
This is a money laundering scheme
Eric Andre labeled "Movie studios" shoots Hannibal labeled "Box office revenue" with a gun labeled "Movies nobody wants"
Eric then turns to the camera and asks incredulously "How could piracy do this??"
I have so little interest in this movie that I didn't even bother watching Red Letter Media's review on it. (Though I'm sure they did their usual funny-as-hell job on it.)
Edit: I keep thinking back to something one of them said in (I think) a Best of the Worst episode, where they implore Hollywood to not do remakes or sequels to famous films, but to instead look for interesting ideas in low-budget B-movies and remake those movies using a real budget.
look for interesting ideas in low-budget B-movies and remake those movies using a real budget.
I agree although even that can go wrong, that's how we ended up with Adam Sandler's Pixels
I think it was Cronenburg but it was maybe Carpenter who had the quote from an interview "why would you ever want to remake a good movie?" and it's totally real. There are so many shitty movies I've seen that had a great core to them that if the execution was elevated they would be fantastic. Now that I'm over 30 I can talk about young people and the difference between how I approach a movie and how a 21 year old does is night and day, I've never had that issue talking movies with people older than me by any range, there's some generational range in taste but there's just an entirely different approach to seeing a movie there.
I could believe that either one said that. Especially Carpenter. The Thing is a perfect example of how to do it right.
It was either about The Thing with Carpenter or The Fly with Cronenburg. I'd say The Fly is a stronger example because it had the worse original, I think Carpenter did enjoy the original The Thing From Another World but I feel thats more a case of a sticking closer to the original novella as well as just a quantitative update on how alien one could make an alien in the 80s vs the 50s.
We just need to make another Indy written by ChatGPT and edgy with cool shit like swear words and sex.
Indy, now with more "historical accuracy!"
(Raiders of the Lost Ark had an extremely sus thing between a child and "Dr. Jones" that was even worse in an earlier draft that Spielburg and Lucas were giggling about)
(Raiders of the Lost Ark had an extremely sus thing between a child and "Dr. Jones" that was even worse in an earlier draft that Spielburg and Lucas were giggling about)
Going to save my sanity and not look this one up.
Going to save my sanity and not look this one up.
Good idea. At least you know why its roots are deeply rotten and why it's hard for me to enjoy the slop now.
probably not their intention considering you said they were giggling about it, but before i knew about all that i always took it as like a critique in a way of that character archetype if that makes sense
The context specifically in the discussion of the child character's age was Lucas and Spielburg only having reservations because of what the suits around them would think. They spoke about the character in a way that sounded like they wanted to be in Indy's place, if only they could, with the only problem being externally perceived consequences.
Marion was supposed to be 11, and she
spoiler
seduced Dr. Jones.
Yes, this is real, yes, you can look it up, yes, it was Spielberg & Lucas' idea, and they were super excited about it. There is a transcript of their meeting if you care to search for it.
I'm very aware of that and that's exactly what I was talking about. CW to anyone looking up that one-handedly-conceived brainstorm from Lucas/Spielburg.
Maybe a CGI Sean Connery talking about how he beats his wife when she gets mouthy.
I heard they killed off Shia Labeouf's character off screen by making him a troop lmao
Shia labeouf dead on both transformers and indiana jones lol.
If they actually just killed Jonathan Majors characters offscreen i take back anything I say about marvel.
If they actually just killed Jonathan Majors characters offscreen i take back anything I say about marvel.
this was laughably dumb to me, “i told my son he was gonna die so he signed up to spite me” like that’s such an overkill way to write out a shitty actor 😭😭
He's a weird guy but as far as acting goes I've never seen problems.
i haven’t seen enough of his roles to know tbh, by shitty i more so meant him as a person given all the allegations surrounding him
Blockbuster movies funded by studios are dead! Long live original web series funded through Patreon!
Who could have predicted the latest installment of a franchise that utterly shit the bed in the last entry would do poorly?!Crystal skull haters when their skulls gets melted in the nuclear war (didnt hide in a fridge)
