re: Disney Lost $134 Million on ‘Indiana Jones 5’

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that chick

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That’s ironically Mrs. Spielberg to you.

Did they try putting a chick in it and making her lame and gay?

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I can’t disagree with this, but I still liked it pretty well. But I can still hear the horribly-annoying screams of that chick to this day.

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Temple of Doom fricking rules and I will die on this hill.

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TOD gets a boost from a healthy amount of nastolgia

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Agreed, but it’s a fun unserious romp that’s campy in the right ways.

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Crystal Skull

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Is pretty entertaining up until that chase scene in the jungle where Shia swings from branches with the monkeys. Everything after that is complete crap.

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Dial of destiny

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Has several problems:
1. Pacing is really bad. Some of the action sequences and chase scenes go on for so long that you start to forget why they’re doing it.

2. Phoebe was a bad casting. She really lacked the charisma for the role, but the writing did her few favors. They tended to tell, not show, the audience who she was, which made it harder to believe it. Her characterization was literally just the surface level description of Indiana Jones but make her a woman. This could have worked if done well, but it wasn’t.

3. I dislike the trend of taking old characters and making them broken and defeated at the start of the movie like all of their progress and growth in previous films was undone off screen.

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TOD gets a boost from a healthy amount of nastolgia.

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I agree, that nostalgia is part of it, but really the second part of your post is more why i love it - it's fun and doesnt take itself too seriously. but somehow, while being silly at times, Harrison Ford plays Indy so straight that you almost HAVE to take it seriously. a perfect example is the infamous dinner scene with the monkey brains and the "snake surprise" - while that part of the scene is admittedly pretty stupid, the simultaneous dialogue between Indy, Capt Blumburtt, and the prime minister is great, even if it is just exposition.

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emple of Doom fricking rules and I will die on this hill.

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It alwasy kind perplexes me when people shite talk it to the degree they do. Is it as good as Raiders or Crusade? No it isn't (IMO). But jsut because it isn't mega elite like those two doesn't mean it's pond scum either. I mean TOD gave us:

-AWesome dance number intro
-Flaming skewer through a chest
-short round
-secret tunnels
-hidden spiky death chamber
-mola ram and hearts being ripped out of chests
-runaway mine carts
-face off on the rickety bridge

I mean that's a great damn action flick right there. People can say it's too hokey but I mean it's a mid-80s action caper of course it's going to have some hokeyness to it.

well I think expectations are so different these days

it would be an insane proposal to make a fun, silly, campy prequel to an action movie.

People online would destroy it.

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I dislike the trend of taking old characters and making them broken and defeated at the start of the movie like all of their progress and growth in previous films was undone off screen

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this is deliberate

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No shite. His son died. It's fricking called pathos.