As someone with a soft spot for the series, I personally enjoyed it well enough. It’s another Indiana Jones movie, it’s quite formulaic, but its fun and it works for its intended purpose. It was never going to be incredible, high-brow cinema and I do wonder why anyone who has seen any of the others expected it to be anything other than what it was.
These days people will shit on anything and everything
Good movies can be objectively fun or objectively good or both, but these days it’s all shit unless it’s both
Can’t say I agree with that take, I thought it was one of the better Indiana Jones movies, maybe even better than Temple Of Doom. It ticked all the boxes for me.
“Maybe even better than Temple of Doom”
They should put that on the posters.
Damned with faint praise, indeed.
I enjoyed Temple of Doom, more as a kid but for a general adventure story it work for me. I’ve also been watching Red Letter Media’s review of it recently so that may have skewed it higher. I always liked the idea of the old stories where someone could have an out of order adventure. For those that may not know we’d call it a prequel these days but it was modeled off of old stories that were just told for the same characters. Oddly whenever I try and create a cultist type story (Lovecraft and pulp) in my head it turns out very similar to Temple of Doom, so that probably impacts my opinion of it.
Same here, I enjoyed the film. It portrayed Jones well as an aging person who is past their prime giving it one last shot. The action was good, the plot was enjoyable, the Nazis got a kicking. What’s not to like?
Basically all the chase scenes were camera glued 10 cm from the protagonists and shaky cam for 15 minutes at a time.
Oh noooooo! I was just rewatching Raiders the other day and thinking about how good the camera work was, and how if they shot it today half of those fight scenes would be incomprehensible shaky cam. Sad to hear that Dial has fallen to the shaky side.
Same, I don’t understant all the hate. It had all the ingredients to make a good Indiana Jones movie
When I first heard about that movie, my reaction was “I hope the actors got the fattest check they could from the morons who had this idea”. I’m happy the movie is failing. I don’t plan on watching it.
To be fair, a dead pope trial is always a good time.
I will be FOREVER MAD that they never did Atlantis. It’s RIGHT THERE.
MacGyver already discovered it. (We literally had a TV ad for that movie with the a sentence that roughly translates as “MacGyver, the adventurer who shows Indiana Jones who’s boss”)
Goddammit don’t remind me of that atrocity.
