Posted on 07/03/2023 9:33:05 AM PDT by Rummyfan
It’s all but official. “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” will put Disney in the red.
Again.
The fifth and presumably final film in the iconic saga opened to a weak $60 million at the U.S. box office. Those numbers would be withering for most would-be blockbusters, witness fiscal failures like “The Flash” ($55 million) and “Black Adam” ($67 million).
“Dial of Destiny” arrives with a bloated $295 million budget (or worse) plus millions in P&A. That means it’ll take a cinematic miracle for “Dial of Destiny” to break even.
Let the professional second-guessing begin. Except elite Hollywood news outlets leave out critical reasons for the film’s failure.
Again.
The far-Left Deadline, which is inexplicably rooting for the film’s success, claims the sequel’s poor Cannes reception played a role in its belly flop-debut.
Correct. That dampened the excitement many originally had for the film.
The site then heaps lavish praise on Team Disney for its fastidious marketing and creative process. Really? The company has unleashed dud after dud (“Indy,” “Strange World,” “Lightyear,” “Elemental”) over the last few years, suggesting just the opposite.
It took the most successful film saga in a generation, “Star Wars,” and put it in dry dock while one proposed project after another got shelved.
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodintoto.com ...
“creative process”
I hear that entailed relying HEAVILY on CGI for Harrison Ford......at the tender age of 80 I guess they had to. 😏
Did he survive another nuclear bomb test?
Gosh
It’s almost like they have this oblivious woman who keeps putting out films she likes instead of films the public likes,
This franchise burned out early. Maybe before it even started.
“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”
Any aliens 👽👽👽 UFOs 🛸🛸🛸 or Shia LaBeouf?
Similar use of CGI got DeNiro through "The Irishman."
Only if he FrigiDAREs.....
🥶🥶🥶
I hope I’m still alive when CGI is so good it can completely replace live actors.....seeing deniro and the rest of those Hollywood lib POSs out of a job would be delicious.
Why would anyone title a film that is supposed to be a big hit with a word like “dial” in it? This only provoked images of an old radio, stove, or washing machine. Just a simple title change could have brought in millions of more dollars no regardless of how stupid this movie may be.
Unfortunately, my wife wants to see it, so I’ll have to go along and try to be objective in my review of it when we see it. I am not hopeful.
Instead of “dial”, wouldn’t “ring”, or “eye” or “oculus”, or “torus”, etc., or something a little more profound have been better? I’m just guessing here because I have no idea what the movie is about, but “dial” is just a total buzzkill for a movie title. Ami overthinking my initial impression based solely on the title?
CGI means they’ll get the money without having to work and their heirs will get the money after they’re dead, so long as the copyrights haven’t expired.
CGI isn’t going to create new stars right off. It’s going to give us movies with the same old stars, who own their image and likeness.
But maybe Hollywood will have imploded and gone under before that.
Why would I want to watch a rehashed crap from 50 years ago? I could watch the original.
The thing that really pisses me off about hollywood is the dearth of original stories. I imagine no one would spend $100 mm on an untested story because they don’t want to lose money. And..,the circle that produces film are so self tortured, they will find too much social justice fault in anything completely new.
So..we get Star Wars 14, Fast and Furious 12, and even Passion of the Christ II.
But they all require Kung fu sequences to entertain the Chinese market.
The streaming services are the new “Indy” producers.
Good observation! But remember that the American version of "Harry Potty and the Philosopher's Stone" is "... and the Sorcerer's Stone" because American audiences "are stupid" etc.
Maaay-be they'd accept an unintelligible word like "oculus" - just because it's "mysterious."
"Dial" is indeed too prosaic - maybe even "old school."
"IJ and the Keypad of Destiny?!"
Regards,
“maybe Hollywood will have imploded and gone under before that”
Yeah, it’s called The Second Coming.......and a lot of people are in for the biggest surprise of their lives....especially hollywood.
Forget about "story": Name-recognition is the ONLY consideration Hollywood understands today.
Regards,
-PJ
I didn’t think of “dial” in those terms — or think about soap either. Many of my appliances still do have dials on them, but it’s not something I think about much. The gadget is like one of those ancient astrological instruments (astrolabes?), but it’s supposed to let you travel through time.
Supposedly, the beginning is alright. The first few minutes are the old Indy with a Harrison Ford made to look young. But the movie goes downhill from there. The chases and fights are too long and become boring. Indy’s god daughter is introduced. She’s annoying. She does everything better than decrepit old Indy. We’re supposed to like her, but she’s not very likeable.
I got most of this from “the critical drinker.” His reviews are on YouTube.
The word "surprise" implies that they didn't know that it was the inevitable consequence of their action.
Somehow, I can't imagine a merciful God punishing people for something that they couldn't have seen coming.
(That's why I believe that the "Lake of Fire" is simply a metaphor for "extinction/oblivion.")
Regards,
Well, I can tell you why I had no interest in this movie from the get-go.
An 80-something year old Indiana Jones traipsing around the world performing feats of daring-do? Gimme a break. At some point there’s only so much belief you can suspend for a movie. I’ll stick with the first two.
Nah. That’s the kind of reason that killed John Carter. Mars Needs Moms tanked and they decided “people don’t like Mars”, so they dropped Mars from the title and made it so only nerds who knew who John Carter was went to see it. Lots and lots of stuff has dials.
Really the problem is it’s the 5th movie in a 40 year old series that’s only been 50% good. I’m going to see it tomorrow, but only cause I have completionist addiction. I already know it’s not going to be good. But I gotta scratch the itch.
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