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[DISCUSSION] Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Spoilers) (lemmy.world)

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Premise:

Archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary artifact that can change the course of history.

Director:

James Mangold

Writers:

Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth, David Koepp

Cast:

Harrison Ford 	        ... 	Indiana Jones
Phoebe Waller-Bridge 	... 	Helena
Antonio Banderas 	... 	Renaldo
Karen Allen 	        ... 	Marion
John Rhys-Davies 	... 	Sallah

RELEASE DATE	RUNTIME	ROTTENTOMATOES	IMDB	METACRITIC
June 30th, 2023	2hr 34m	65%	TBA	56

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Saw it last night and not sure how I feel. There's great stuff in here, some good stuff and some mediocre stuff. Overall I think I enjoyed it, but I think my criticisms can be summed up by:

When de-aging actors, more care should be put into matching their voice to their age. The de-aged Indy sounded ancient!
Chase sequences were far too long. I know that's a weird complain in an Indiana Jones film, but the reason for that is...
Overreliance on CGI. There's a chase sequence with some tuk-tuks in Tangier which drags on for quite a while. Despite spectacular things happening, the clear CGI renders them mundane and makes the chase feel fake. They could've cut down the length and scale of the chase, filmed it practically with stunt doubles and sets and it would've been brilliant.
Never ever, under any circumstances, should you underuse Antonio Banderas.

I haven't rewatched Crystal Skull in about a decade, so I don't know where I rank it overall, but it's not as good as Raiders, Temple or Crusade.