My son, who is very conservative, took his two boys, 9 and 11 to see the movie. They sat spellbound for 21/2 hrs. He said the movie was great. He didn’t see anything in it that struck him as being “woke” OTOH, I’m not sure if muy son would know, but it tells me that whatever wokeness may be cloaked.
Has anyone seen the movie?
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Old school action hero is shown to be a tired old man who can’t do anything and is pathetic and cowardly. Indy is an alcoholic who drinks in the morning, and none of his students respect him. His son is dead in Vietnam and Marion is divorcing him. He literally pulls the “get off my lawn” bit by complaining to his apartment neighbors for playing loud rock n roll music.
Then of course, the screechy female know it all feminist shows up and makes him remember how to go on an adventure. Except Indy is the sidekick, THE WOMAN is the main hero.
Indy gets shot in the chest about 2/3rds of the way into the movie, and limps along dying until the end. They ultimately go back in time to meet Archimedes, and Indy wants to stay in the past because he has no future to go back to. His son is dead and his wife hates him. But of course, the strong WOMAN hero has to save the timeline and save Indy again, so she punches him in the face and knocks him out so she can drag him back to the future.
The lady who plays Helena is a super woke feminist who obviously affected the plot threads.
It’s a horrible, pathetic movie that would only appeal to someone who’s never seen the originals, and continues the tradition of woke-feminist Kathleen Kennedy destroying legacy male characters for the purposes of identity politics.
Here’s the best breakdown so you don’t have to take my word for it:
I saw the movie. We went with a group of my wife’s friends, more as a social event than my being interested in the movie.
I’d give the movie a “meh”. Not terrible, not great.
One point that stuck with me was that it occurred in the 1960s, and they HAD to have the bad guys be old WW2 Nazis.
It was the Cold War. They couldn’t have it be Communists. They HAD to bring back Nazis.