The first part answers the second part. There's no story left, so they need to force one.
And hence, the FORCE Awakens. It was staring us in the face, all along!
The first part answers the second part. There's no story left, so they need to force one.
Stop asking "And then what happened." Because here are your answers:
1. "They lived happily ever after."
2. "They grew old and died, as did most of the people they knew."
3. "Nothing. The story's over. Go to sleep."
I saw it over the weekend. It's better than Crystal Skull, but that's not saying much.
Still, I just didn't care about the characters all that much. I'm also baffled by several plot points.
ARRRGH, HERE THERE BE SPOILERS, SAYS I:
- So, the doctor has apparently US government agents with him who have no issues throwing Marines out of a helicopter, and the one guy is totally fine with the plan to allow the Germans to win WW2???
- Where the heck did they find that HE-111-looking bomber and how did nobody notice it taking up a hangar in 1960s Italy? And for that matter, what was that plane? No HE-111 had twin rudders
- How did the remains of that HE-111 (or the pistols and such, anything other than the one guy's wristwatch) not wind up somewhere to be found before WW2? It would have been worshipped and talked about for centuries after crashing where it wound up
- Jones winds up teaching at some 'diploma mill' at the tail end of his career? He would have had quite the reputation by then; how did his peers not know more about him?
Yeah, that struck me as strange as well. I would have thought at this point in his career he would have been highly revered and extremely respected landing him a position at Yale or Harvard, at the very least Brown.
Yep! The Colorado Jones group has been steadily growing, and we try to get out for some whip practice on occasion. I haven’t made it to a whip session in awhile, but some of the other guys, including those in the photo, were out not too long ago!“Small world, Dr. Jones…”
I believe that I recognize a couple of the Dr. Jones cosplayers in this pic as guys that I watched popping their whips in a park, literally right near my backyard, in Castle Rock.
Movies that cost nothing to make go entirely unnoticed at the box office. It's the ones with massive marketing budgets that fail and everyone notices that they fail.Horrible movies also cost next to nothing to make.
Saying something can have "story left" or "no story left" implies that there was a master story concept from which the installments were being drawn -- which, in the case of Indy, couldn't be further from the truth. Spielberg thought there was (because George told him there was) but when they sat down for Raiders 2, he realized George didn't actually have any story in mind and they had to start from scratch every single time. Like Indy, they were making it up as they go. Which is a perfectly valid way to approach a series. Each installment must earn its place, and narrative decisions are better made with a healthy distance anyway. Those story choices have to stand on their own regardless of when those decisions are made. Some folks will think Temple is the series' new zenith, others will think it completely undermines everything that made Raiders great. These are the perils of any series. The blank page facing Indy 5 is no different than any of the other installments.There's no story left, so they need to force one.
Only the lady was CIA, the guys in civilian clothing were his personal henchmen. I don't remember the details around getting rid of the marines.
As for the plane, the flying wing in raiders didn't exist either, so thats nothing new. Also there are surviving WWII aircraft in hangers around the globe today, so why would a random one in Italy be odd?
I expect Archimedes made sure the crash site was cleaned up. I'm sure he would find a use for all that aluminum.
As much as I dislike the idea, Indy being a disgraced academic makes a lot of sense. Most would regard him as a former grave robber. And he never came back with anything spectacular enough to justify his methods.
Well, as far as the argument that Indy was never successful because never got to hold on to the treasures... he DID eventually get the Cross of Coronado, and turned it over to the University.
Ah, yes…the magic of the 21st century version of the “theater experience”…People wanna write these long diatribes about Marvel movie fatigue...maybe it's people just having franchise fatigue more generally?
Or maybe, the draw of the theater is waning in general, as streaming becomes the preferred method of viewing? I know I far prefer to watch stuff in the comfort of my own home where the concessions are cheaper, nobody is distracting me with their phone, I can surf MY phone without anyone giving me grief, and I can pause to go to the bathroom if I want.
I still enjoy seeing the odd movie at a theater (or I did -- I haven't been back since COVID), but even before COVID I was pretty much only seeing tentpole films at the theater maybe like 1-3 times a year.
Maybe other folks are just reaching that same point.
That would be a real shame. The movie is far from bad. Maybe not the movie I'd wanted, but still a fun adventure, and in the end maybe that's all it needed to be.Ouch…
‘Indiana Jones’ May Lose More Money Than ‘The Flash’ as Summer Now Lags Behind 2022
With Indy's $60 million opening weekend, the summer box office needs Tom Cruise and "Mission: Impossible" more than ever.www.indiewire.com
For a lot of people like me, I think it's because we don't want all of the characters deconstructed. That's the thing these days. They want to deconstruct everything. I want you to leave them alone and just tell compelling stories about them. It's why I dislike most of the superhero movies these days. These are not the characters from the comics. These are heroes-in-name-only. Indy doesn't need to be a tired, old man and a sidekick in his own movie. That's no longer Indiana Jones. That's not anything I want to see.People wanna write these long diatribes about Marvel movie fatigue...maybe it's people just having franchise fatigue more generally?
Or maybe, the draw of the theater is waning in general, as streaming becomes the preferred method of viewing? I know I far prefer to watch stuff in the comfort of my own home where the concessions are cheaper, nobody is distracting me with their phone, I can surf MY phone without anyone giving me grief, and I can pause to go to the bathroom if I want.
I still enjoy seeing the odd movie at a theater (or I did -- I haven't been back since COVID), but even before COVID I was pretty much only seeing tentpole films at the theater maybe like 1-3 times a year.
Maybe other folks are just reaching that same point.
By 1969, there was a concentrated effort to preserve and in some cases fly WW2 German airplanes that weren't common after the war. A two-engine bomber restored to flying condition in apparent wartime configuration would have drawn a lot of interest by that timeframe. If nothing else, the producers of "Battle of Britain" would have heard about and tried to buy/rent the thing for their movie (as they did essentially everywhere in Europe at the time) and that's not even taking random airplane fans into account.As for the plane, the flying wing in raiders didn't exist either, so thats nothing new. Also there are surviving WWII aircraft in hangers around the globe today, so why would a random one in Italy be odd?
Ah, yes…the magic of the 21st century version of the “theater experience”…
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People wanna write these long diatribes about Marvel movie fatigue...maybe it's people just having franchise fatigue more generally?
Or maybe, the draw of the theater is waning in general, as streaming becomes the preferred method of viewing? I know I far prefer to watch stuff in the comfort of my own home where the concessions are cheaper, nobody is distracting me with their phone, I can surf MY phone without anyone giving me grief, and I can pause to go to the bathroom if I want.
I still enjoy seeing the odd movie at a theater (or I did -- I haven't been back since COVID), but even before COVID I was pretty much only seeing tentpole films at the theater maybe like 1-3 times a year.
Maybe other folks are just reaching that same point.