Posted on 07/03/2023 11:11:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
We told you it was looking bad for Indy's new feminist romp...
...and boy oh boy were we right. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny did a belly flop from 10,000 feet this weekend as the Mouse House's LucasFilm killed the last piece of intellectual property that it hadn't yet destroyed.
The movie only made $130 million total on opening weekend (a holiday weekend, no less!). That's $60 million domestically and $70 million internationally against a budget of more than $300 million (not including marketing).
That is less than half of the $272 million that the subpar Kingdom of the Crystal Skull pulled in back in 2008!!
How is it that all of us knew this movie was gonna flame out faster than the human sacrifices in the Temple of Doom but Kathleen Kennedy and the "Force is Female" Disney crew thought it was gonna be a record ending to a beloved franchise? Did they really think that bringing back the woke fembot from Disney's Han Solo movie was going to sell tickets??
And after watching Harrison Ford's Han Solo be turned into a sad failure of a man, did they think we'd run to the theater to watch Ford's Indiana Jones be turned into a sad failure of a man??
I'll leave you with this hilarious analysis of this box-office flop that's 1,000% more entertaining than anything Kathleen Kennedy's train-wreck-of-a-studio could make!
They could have just used AI, to make him look younger.
Why hasn’t someone made a new movie with John Wayne?..........................With CGI it could be done very easily...............
What a cool story…Thxs for sharing!
Kathleen Kennedy: The depleted uranium wrecking ball of popular culture.
I stole that line.
The one thing I didn't like was how the matter of Indy and Marion's son Mutt was handles. I don't care how much I have issues about Shia LaBeouf, his character deserved better.
DRGMF
Disney Ruins Great Movie Franchises
Not going
Has to be. I was wondering how he was going to outrun that giant rolling ball of stone with his walker!
I think the last time I saw a movie in a movie theater was Dinesh D’Souza’s movie about Obama, which came out in 2012, I believe. But I don’t watch movies on TV much either.
Indiana Jones and the Long Term Assisted Care Facility of Doom.
My prediction is that Indiana Jones 5 will be on streaming very quickly.
Fast & Furious 10 was on Streaming within 2 weeks of it’s debut, it’s numbers were not very good either and it was for rent for $19.99 or buy it for $24.99
So I will bet that indy 5 is there within the next 3 weeks, which is fine with me.
Sadly this film was not going to make Top Gun 2 or Avatar 2 numbers. So for Disney a huge flop adding to their already streak of loss ridden films. The write-off of this film alone will be hundreds of millions.
You must have liked The Last Jedi.
The good thing is that Lucasfilm has no more heroes to destroy.
We’ll see when MI comes out in 2 weeks...like Top Gun: Maverick, I expect it to be big at the box office...Super Mario did 1+ billion as well, Avatar 2 broke a billion too.
Phoebe Waller Bridge is not attractive and she looks like she never has been outdoors. One reviewer said she runs like a gangling giraffe.
Get woke. Go broke..............Still works................
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