re: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny | 49% on Rotten Tomatoes with 35 reviews in

I did watch some critic reviews on YouTube that popped up on my home page, and always like Indiana Jones films, but wow, did the critic hate this movie. I mean there’s some NSFW commentary on this film, they really hated this one, and they are so lol, they were quite entertaining

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I saw it today and it actually doesn’t suck.

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Agreed. I knew there was some CGI de-aging at the beginning so I paid special attention to it. It ranged from flawless to 2010-era video games. That there was such a wide range was curious, but the bad parts never lasted long enough to be more than mildly distracting. The shitty CGI for the Cavill's moustache in Justice League seemed more noticeable and out of place to me.

The story was fun and the action paced very well. While a lot of the Indiana Jones action sequences in the past require some suspension of disbelief, the action in this one was not outside the normal bounds and lacked that feel of gratuitousness I felt in Crystal Skull. While not nearly Temple nor Crusade, it's a worthy addition to the franchise and a solid conclusion for Harrison Ford's portrayal (if Disney decides to replace him with another actor).

It was worth seeing in the theater and apparently many others thought so as well as it was a nearly full theater (4pm on the 4th of July). I haven't been in a theater that full nor seen as many cars in the Movie Tavern parking lot since pre-COVID.

Saw it today as well. I enjoyed it. I didn’t notice any woke stuff. It was just a solid action movie. It had the feel of the earlier Indy movies before Crystal Skull.

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And what keeps those bullets from going through the table ? Or at least one bad guy moving slightly to the left or right and just shooting him anyways?

Massive oof, and that's not even the worst part of this mess.

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You're arguing with yourself, nobody is trying to say that was a realistic scene

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But don't ask questions, just consume content...

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Like always, bitching about something you haven't even seen.

“Most popular bomb of all time… trust me bro”

I just went and saw it today. It’s the first movie I’ve ever walked out of, after an hour or so.
I was hoping for some nostalgia from when I saw the original at the theater in 1981. It’s obvious Disney got their fingers into it. There’s no woke shite, just complete bs scenarios. How many chase scenes can there be in the first hour, at least three. I left after the chase scene of them riding in the little three wheel moped cycles, being chased by a Jaguar (car).
It just got old for me.
There was very little or pretty much no comic relief. There are no adventures within the first hour, just chase scene after chase scene.
I’ll watch it again when it comes out on streaming, but I just could not take it anymore.

It’s just that it got old quick. Even though Crystal Skull was pretty bad, it had some fun scenes, like at Area 51 (Easter egg of the Ark), him diving into the fridge during the atomic bomb test, etc.

This movie had nothing but chase scenes within the first hour or so, the Nazi train, him through the museum, him through the streets of NYC, the girl across the roof tops of NYC, and the chase of them while on the three wheel mopeds.

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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny | 49% on Rotten Tomatoes with 35 reviews in by theantiquetiger
It’s just that it got old quick. Even though Crystal Skull was pretty bad, it had some fun scenes, like at Area 51 (Easter egg of the Ark), him diving into the fridge during the atomic bomb test, etc.

This movie had nothing but chase scenes within the first hour or so, the Nazi train, him through the museum, him through the streets of NYC, the girl across the roof tops of NYC, and the chase of them while on the three wheel mopeds.

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Interesting

Most people I've talked to enjoyed the first 15 minutes, were plus/minus on the middle and really disliked the last third of the movie

I’ve become a little turned off by so much shite existing in the same universe. We have Judeo-Christian stuff in one corner, Hindu stones in another, aliens in another, and time traveling in another.

I would rather have seen Indy go after the Holy Lance or some famous historical artifact (the scenes with the Idol in Raiders and the Cross in Crusade are among the best in the saga) than everything under the Sun having some kind of supernatural power.

That’s it Sammy, those artifacts had a sense of mystery and possibility to them. There are thousands of years of religion/mythology surrounding them so it’s as if the actual objects could have this great adventure surrounding them yet most of the world never know it happened. With a giant alien ship or altering the events of history and television coverage of Indy as a fugitive it’s too far from what these movies are about. I like your uncharted comment as well, it’s much more in the purview of what Indiana Jones movies are.