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Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (2023, D: Mangold) -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
07-09-23, 07:12 PM
#126
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Re: Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (2023, D: Mangold) -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weeken...?ref_=bo_hm_rw
In case you don't follow the box office thread, this took a 56% drop in week 2. If this movie didn't cost $300M+, that wouldn't be horrible. As it stands, this will almost certainly be a money loser.
In case you don't follow the box office thread, this took a 56% drop in week 2. If this movie didn't cost $300M+, that wouldn't be horrible. As it stands, this will almost certainly be a money loser.
07-09-23, 07:31 PM
#127
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Re: Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (2023, D: Mangold) -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
Also I didn’t find Indy to be as much of a curmudgeon as I was led to believe. The opening maybe but he was annoyed with his neighbors rightfully for being loud and obnoxious right away in the morning.
Otherwise the students in his class seemed like they mostly didn’t give a shit. Helena was being kind of bitchy to him half the movie after she got what she wanted until close to the end.
He seemed reasonably annoyed by the people and circumstances he was surrounded with given his age.
Otherwise the students in his class seemed like they mostly didn’t give a shit. Helena was being kind of bitchy to him half the movie after she got what she wanted until close to the end.
He seemed reasonably annoyed by the people and circumstances he was surrounded with given his age.
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07-09-23, 08:26 PM
#128
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Re: Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (2023, D: Mangold) -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
You guys are crazy. Short Round is the best. "No time for love, Dr. Jones!" is my favorite line to quote in the entire series. And if you don't feel something when Indy reconciles with Shorty after coming out of his trance, then you're probably dead inside. Forget Marion. Short Round is the great love of Indy's life.
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07-09-23, 09:15 PM
#129
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Re: Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (2023, D: Mangold) -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
I am in the camp that I do hate child actors, but NOT Short Round. I never found him irritating like most of them who tend to overact and simp for the camera.
07-09-23, 09:19 PM
#130
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Re: Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (2023, D: Mangold) -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
Short Round has never bothered me in the slightest. I think he and Indy work well together. Part of me wishes we had seen him again just to know what happened to the character.
07-09-23, 10:29 PM
#131
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Re: Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (2023, D: Mangold) -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
But could you imagine what a reunion between Indy and Short Round would have been like in 2023? Especially with Ke Huy Quan's recent success? I mean I was tearing up at their recent reunion IRL. I mean look at that picture. How many times do we see Ford genuinely happy about something? I mean replace mutton chop, or whatever her name was, with Short Round and THAT would have been something to see.
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07-09-23, 10:35 PM
#132
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Re: Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (2023, D: Mangold) -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
I feel like there's been a recent trend in using fatal looking wounds as plot devices. I feel like for awhile modern sensibilities weren't allowing the whole trope of monologuing as someone was dying. But now main characters are being shot in the chest or outright impaled and surviving for a LONG period of time afterwards. Just takes me completely out of the movie. Why not show a flesh wound? Or something that's not obviously 100% instantly fatal? There are numerous ways to get the hero out of the fight without lazily resorting to a wound like this. And this one in particular looks like it went right through his heart and he just sits down to take a breather and is like that throughout the rest of the movie. Contrast that to his dad who also suffers a chest wound but is almost immediately revived by the grail.
07-09-23, 11:44 PM
#133
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Re: Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (2023, D: Mangold) -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
Oh, stop it. Just because there are some who are critical of Short Round you are labeling them as people who hate all child actors? Ridiculous! I recognize and love so many great performances by children in film. Including Tatum O'Neal in "Paper Moon", Freddie Highmore in "Finding Neverland", Abigail Breslin in "Little Miss Sunshine", Haley Joel Osment in "The Sixth Sense", Jamie Bell in "Billy Elliot", Henry Thomas in "E.T.". To name a countless few.
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07-10-23, 12:17 AM
#134
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Re: Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (2023, D: Mangold) -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
I feel like they missed a huge opportunity with this one. I did love the Marion reunion scene and feel like that at least justifies the rest of the movie. Like if only we had gotten once scene, or even a single frame, of Luke, Han and Leia together it would have made the ST worth it. So yeah I did like them getting back together. Don't really like how depressing their life seems now.
But could you imagine what a reunion between Indy and Short Round would have been like in 2023? Especially with Ke Huy Quan's recent success? I mean I was tearing up at their recent reunion IRL. I mean look at that picture. How many times do we see Ford genuinely happy about something? I mean replace mutton chop, or whatever her name was, with Short Round and THAT would have been something to see.
But could you imagine what a reunion between Indy and Short Round would have been like in 2023? Especially with Ke Huy Quan's recent success? I mean I was tearing up at their recent reunion IRL. I mean look at that picture. How many times do we see Ford genuinely happy about something? I mean replace mutton chop, or whatever her name was, with Short Round and THAT would have been something to see.
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07-10-23, 12:44 AM
#135
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Re: Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (2023, D: Mangold) -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
You guys are crazy. Short Round is the best. "No time for love, Dr. Jones!" is my favorite line to quote in the entire series. And if you don't feel something when Indy reconciles with Shorty after coming out of his trance, then you're probably dead inside. Forget Marion. Short Round is the great love of Indy's life.
Is Short Round in any of the novels..? Or was he off-limits like the Ravenwoods?
07-10-23, 12:47 AM
#136
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Re: Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (2023, D: Mangold) -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
No more Indy, but a Sallah/Short Round/Marion spin-off..?! Looking forward to it already.
07-10-23, 12:21 PM
#137
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Re: Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (2023, D: Mangold) -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
Didn't he grow up, get married to a girl out of his league, move to America, and buy a laundromat?
07-10-23, 12:38 PM
#138
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Re: Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (2023, D: Mangold) -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
The proper one (Crusade's sunset) did that. But then after years of prevaricating, they decided to update the formula and add a whole bunch of not-Indy elements into the mix.
Trying to just ignore Crystal Skull and making a straight sequel to Crusade in the mould of.. Superman Returns would have been weird and worse and probably required recasting. But making a sequel to Skull required acknowledging that Time Has Past and Things Have Changed. They did what they could to roll back the changes. Viz:
But the passage of time was such that there could be no real standing ovation and big heroic send-off - for that he'd have needed to die saving someone the audience cares about as much as him, and there isn't anyone at that level. So the next best option was the ending they went with - rehabilitating one individual and reuniting with another. He's as happy as he can be, and proven he's still got it.
Trying to just ignore Crystal Skull and making a straight sequel to Crusade in the mould of.. Superman Returns would have been weird and worse and probably required recasting. But making a sequel to Skull required acknowledging that Time Has Past and Things Have Changed. They did what they could to roll back the changes. Viz:
Spoiler:
But the passage of time was such that there could be no real standing ovation and big heroic send-off - for that he'd have needed to die saving someone the audience cares about as much as him, and there isn't anyone at that level. So the next best option was the ending they went with - rehabilitating one individual and reuniting with another. He's as happy as he can be, and proven he's still got it.
07-10-23, 12:50 PM
#139
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Re: Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (2023, D: Mangold) -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
“I have an old friend who’s a boat captain.” **Cut to Short Round welcoming Indy and Helena onto his boat.**
“I have an old friend who can help get me out of this mess.” **Cut to Short Round as a rich and successful adventurer/fortune hunter providing Indy with a getaway plane.**
“I have an old friend who might have information about this dial” **Cut to Short Round teaching history at a prestigious university who has background information about the dial.**
Or remove Helena altogether and have Short Round be the one who tracks down Indy after not seeing him for years to help him with his adventure with the Dial.
They could have literally inserted him anywhere and it would have worked.
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07-10-23, 12:57 PM
#140
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Re: Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (2023, D: Mangold) -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
It would have been fan servicey as hell but they could have had Short Round be any of the people Indy knew around the world to help him.
“I have an old friend who’s a boat captain.” **Cut to Short Round welcoming Indy and Helena onto his boat.**
“I have an old friend who can help get me out of this mess.” **Cut to Short Round as a rich and successful adventurer/fortune hunter providing Indy with a getaway plane.**
“I have an old friend who might have information about this dial” **Cut to Short Round teaching history at a prestigious university who has background information about the dial.**
Or remove Helena altogether and have Short Round be the one who tracks down Indy after not seeing him for years to help him with his adventure with the Dial.
They could have literally inserted him anywhere and it would have worked.
“I have an old friend who’s a boat captain.” **Cut to Short Round welcoming Indy and Helena onto his boat.**
“I have an old friend who can help get me out of this mess.” **Cut to Short Round as a rich and successful adventurer/fortune hunter providing Indy with a getaway plane.**
“I have an old friend who might have information about this dial” **Cut to Short Round teaching history at a prestigious university who has background information about the dial.**
Or remove Helena altogether and have Short Round be the one who tracks down Indy after not seeing him for years to help him with his adventure with the Dial.
They could have literally inserted him anywhere and it would have worked.
07-10-23, 05:19 PM
#141
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Re: Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (2023, D: Mangold) -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
He is mentioned in the "Journal of Indiana Jones" as having located the Peacock's Eye (the diamond from the opening of Temple and one of the Young Indy episodes) but otherwise he doesn't show up in in any of the novels nor even get a mention.
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07-10-23, 05:38 PM
#142
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07-10-23, 05:44 PM
#143
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07-10-23, 05:54 PM
#144
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Re: Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (2023, D: Mangold) -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
Disney is taking a bath on this movie. Bob Iger can't be happy. It's only a matter of time that he orders all his film studios to set hardline budgets for future projects. These $200M plus budgets are just not sustainable.
07-10-23, 06:04 PM
#145
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Re: Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (2023, D: Mangold) -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
It would have been fan servicey as hell but they could have had Short Round be any of the people Indy knew around the world to help him.
“I have an old friend who’s a boat captain.” **Cut to Short Round welcoming Indy and Helena onto his boat.**
“I have an old friend who can help get me out of this mess.” **Cut to Short Round as a rich and successful adventurer/fortune hunter providing Indy with a getaway plane.**
“I have an old friend who might have information about this dial” **Cut to Short Round teaching history at a prestigious university who has background information about the dial.**
Or remove Helena altogether and have Short Round be the one who tracks down Indy after not seeing him for years to help him with his adventure with the Dial.
They could have literally inserted him anywhere and it would have worked.
“I have an old friend who’s a boat captain.” **Cut to Short Round welcoming Indy and Helena onto his boat.**
“I have an old friend who can help get me out of this mess.” **Cut to Short Round as a rich and successful adventurer/fortune hunter providing Indy with a getaway plane.**
“I have an old friend who might have information about this dial” **Cut to Short Round teaching history at a prestigious university who has background information about the dial.**
Or remove Helena altogether and have Short Round be the one who tracks down Indy after not seeing him for years to help him with his adventure with the Dial.
They could have literally inserted him anywhere and it would have worked.
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07-10-23, 10:41 PM
#146
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Re: Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (2023, D: Mangold) -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
Indiana Jones needs a plane to get somewhere exotic, hires one, and finds out the pilot is Short Round. And he gets drawn into the adventure.
Then Sallah and Marion go off doing something, which, with Marion's impulsive and spunky nature combined with Sallah's reserved and conservative manners, could have provided a lot of natural humor.
With everyone (actors and characters) older, and not capable of pulling off the same physical feats, it would have been a good idea to lean into humor as long as it didn't degenerate into slapstick.
07-10-23, 10:44 PM
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07-17-23, 02:43 PM
#148
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Re: Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (2023, D: Mangold) -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
Just got to see this yesterday. Very underwhelmed. Doesn’t look or feel like an Indy film at all. Its biggest value to me at this point is to help me see Crystal Skull more favorably. 
Gave 3/5 but it would have been 2/5 if not for the last 10-15 minutes. But that’s not enough to save the film. What a bummer. It’s too bad Indy wasn’t left riding into the sunset with his father, Sallah and Marcus.
Gave 3/5 but it would have been 2/5 if not for the last 10-15 minutes. But that’s not enough to save the film. What a bummer. It’s too bad Indy wasn’t left riding into the sunset with his father, Sallah and Marcus.
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07-17-23, 03:16 PM
#149
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Re: Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (2023, D: Mangold) -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
You guys are crazy. Short Round is the best. "No time for love, Dr. Jones!" is my favorite line to quote in the entire series. And if you don't feel something when Indy reconciles with Shorty after coming out of his trance, then you're probably dead inside. Forget Marion. Short Round is the great love of Indy's life.
Edit: I see someone beat me to it. That'll teach me to respond to an older post without reading the rest of the thread first.
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07-17-23, 03:21 PM
#150
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Re: Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (2023, D: Mangold) -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
I know I'm not quoting it accurately. I admitted that in a later post. Not sure I'm quoting Clerks though. I mean maybe I am, but not consciously. It's just something my friends and I say at each other.
