The Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny trailer plays the hits with a de-aged Harrison Ford
What 80-year-old archeologist doesn’t want to run across the top of a speeding train?
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At the ripe age of 80, the eternally grumpy Harrison Ford, upon premiering the trailer for the fifth Indiana Jones movie in September, that his time wearing fedoras and digging for treasure is over. “I will not fall down for you again,” he said. ” Fair enough. Ford’s physical state was a concern on the set of every nearly legacy sequel he appeared in, having sustained injuries on Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the upcoming Indiana Jones. Well, all those injuries were in the name of making sure these franchises do not go gentle into that good night for, like Han Solo, Indiana Jones still has dials to turn.
And that dial is, get this, The Dial Of Destiny. Sporting a title that’s somehow worse than Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull and a trailer that’s somehow better, the Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny (yes, that’s the title) trailer is a lot to take in. Gone are the goofy chipmunks and Mutt Williams’ Tarzan swing, and in its stead comes a de-aged Harrison Ford playing some Indiana Jones hits. Ford’s stunt doubles and digital surrogates run atop trains, zoom around camels on Middle Eastern streets, and punch Nazis square in the face. What more can people ask for?
However, the CGI-laden trailer makes no bones about Dial Of Destiny tossing out the practical wonder of Raiders Of The Lost Ark. This is a new, 80-year-old Indiana Jones, meaning we’re doomed to endless drab green screen stages that gave Obi-Wan Kenobi its muted grey palette. Nothing spells adventure like overcast.
When he’s not playing with its effects, and director James Mangold shines an actual light on an actual object, it’s easy to see the allure of this thing. For all the de-aging wizardry that led to that quick shot of Indy in Nazi custody, the moments when the character is in silhouette sell the film best. Although, we’d be lying if we said we didn’t appreciate seeing Toby Jones walk the top of that train. At least one thing’s for sure, John Rhys Davies’ Sallah is back, and who doesn’t love that?
Indiana Jones And [sigh] The Dial Of Destiny swings into theaters on June 30.
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Sigh sigh sigh. Y’all are such a bunch of whiny ass bores.
can’t wait. this looked awesome, and it was emotional hearing John Rhys-Davies voice, lol. the last Indy was pure camp, but this looks like a fitting end.This film is the reason the de-aging tech exists. looking forward to it.
After finally seeing Uncharted this weekend, I’m happy to see Indiana Jones play the hits. This trailer looks much better than it has any right to.
Glad you are excited but watching this trailer just reminded me how great of a trilogy the Indian Jones movies are and I’m glad they never made any more of them
The Bollywood trilogy really was a triumph of cinema.
What trailer?
Oh god don’t be one of those people
Now I’m wondering how much better Crystal Skull woulda been if you’d just taken out Shia Lebouf and put John Rhys-Davies in the film instead.
Honestly I don’t have a problem with the idea of Mutt or even Shia as an actor. I just think the writing was subpar for him.
This is a new, 80-year-old Indiana Jones, meaning we’re doomed to endless drab green screen stages that gave Obi-Wan Kenobi its muted grey palette. Nothing spells adventure like overcast.The snark is strong with this one. Do you and Barsanti have some sort of contest going on?
what a bleak thought
Bleak like the muted grey palette of Obi-Wan Kenobi?
Yes, who’s a bigger douchebag. So far, it’s very World Cup because it’s a draw.
If snark was a drug they’d sell it by the gram!
Based on the features he’s penned for this site, Schimkowitz seems able to write seriously. But apparently he just chooses not to most of the time. It’s kind of sad. I can’t say the same for Barsanti; that dude only has one level.
It’s not even correct, this movie was shot on location all over the world. Mangold purposely eschewed the Volume.
He’s not wrong though. But I don’t get this, are commenters just mad that the authors are beating them to the snark punch? This line of complaints that have been popping up recently seem forced, I mean it’s the AV Club, was there some heyday I don’t remember where they were dry and sincere in the majority of their articles?
He’s completely wrong. They filmed a majority of this movie on location. https://www.ign.com/articles/indiana-jones-5-prioritised-practical-effects-while-filmingWhich is where my complaint about snark comes in. Snark is fine, when it’s accurate snark. Snark, just for the sake of snark because the author thinks it needs to be there, is not. Credibility is lost. Especially when that snark misses the target because the author failed to actually fact check whatever it is they’re attempting to sarcastically call out by being snarky.
Being shot on location means nothing if there was a bunch of saturation fuckery in post.
It’s a trailer, how do you know what the whole movie is going to look like?
How do YOU?If it’s fair to say we don’t know it will look green screened it’s JUST as fair to say we don’t know it WON’T.Maybe they fucked with the color in the trailer only. Okay! And?
Yeesh.
Yeah! Also my reaction to your OP.
Double yeesh.
Infinity yeesh plus one no takebacks.
I mean, act sarcastic all you want, but you and I both know your response is a strawman that has nothing to do with what I said. Effects added in post are one thing, filming on a green screen for nearly the entire show/film a la Star Wars is something else entirely and it shows.So, again, yeesh to your obvious bullshit.
It’s not “obvious bullshit”. Schimkowitz is *clearly* reacting to 1) an awareness of all the stunt CGI and de-aging and 2) the “obvious” color correction in the trailer. Again, who gives a shit if it was shot on location when the trailer is all ambers and blues? You’re up there bitching about his “snark” when there are GOOD REASONS to look at that trailer and call out the artificiality of those shots.Sorry that the article isn’t sufficiently breathless in wonder for you.ETA: And just because I feel like it’s warranted now between you accusing me of straw man and “obvious bullshit”, allow me to shift from sarcasm to straightforward aggression. Fuck off.
Lol, the author made the claim that this movie was shot on a green screen sound stage despite being factually incorrect. You’re arguing that post production made it look that way. Is that easier to understand Strawman? We’re not arguing the same thing asshole. So please, take your own advice and fuck off.
If all you had to say was “That’s factually inaccurate” I would agree. But you didn’t. You came out of the gate complaining in typical AV Club commentariat fashion about the snark of the article. Like that hasn’t been SOP for this site forever. And in your complaint you CLEARLY imply a bad faith position from Schimkowitz. That the snark is unearned.And as a proud former Pittsburgher, miss me with the Keaton gif, ya jag.
And in your complaint you CLEARLY imply a bad faith position from Schimkowitz. That the snark is unearned.Because it is. Now fuck off.
They may have shot on location but there’s still gonna be tons of green screen and sfx replacement stuff for Jones
I can only speak for myself, but the snark at the nu-nu-AVClub only bothers me when the writers lean into it while flubbing basic facts at the same time (stuff like the infamous Ellie Kemper article comes to mind).
I’m also maybe a harsher critic of the snark now as compared to the O’Neal/Rabin/Pick-your-favorite-writer days because back then the staff seemed to geninuely love different parts of pop-culture and that showed in the features they ran and the writing. Whereas today AV Club is mostly a news aggregate site that also still gets invited to press junkets for whatever reason.
People complaining about snark on the AVC is like someone complaining about nudity on a porn set.
Honest to god I thought this was a joke title. I might have missed the phrase “dial of destiny” during the runup to this, but… that’s just a very silly title.[Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for punching Nazis. Any time, anywhere.]
Indiana Jones: Believe Harder
‘Believe Hard With a Vengeance’.
Believe Hard Boogaloo
Indiana Jones Gleams The CubeIt’s 1989 and Indy is 100 years old . . . and on a skateboard!
So many words. Look it looks good, and I’ll take it!
Why is “Dial of Destiny” a dumb title, but calling the Ark of the Covenant a “radio to God” the most awesome thing ever?
Am I the only one who thinks Dial of Destiny is just fine? I mean, it’s no Temple of Doom, but it alliterates nicely and doesn’t feel like four titles crammed together in one.
To me it sounds like a title that fits among the myriad of middling Indiana Jones spin-off novelizations – mimics the feel of the old Republic Serial titles but without a bit of that extra crackle. But yeah, in a few years it’ll fit in among the others.
I mean, it has to be a good movie. If the movie sucks, we’ll all hate the title too.
I don’t think is has to be, but it would be nice.
Indiana Jones and The Golden SpittoonIndiana Jones and The Chamber Pot of Secrets
Yeah, it feels like the kind of title that, if anyone else used it, we’d be saying it sounded like an Indiana Jones movie.
Or a 1-900 number to call to talk to a fortune teller ($3.95/minute).
a perfectly cromulent sequel title…
It’s perfectly fine. And, yeah, for those who feel it sounds weird, over time, they’ll get used to it.
Case in point: I’m old enough to remember back when the title for Star Wars: Episode I was announced, and could not wrap my ears/head around “The Phantom Menace.” Like, at all. Then, a few years later, it sounded “normal.” Same goes for the name “Supreme Leader Snoke.” Those consonants and vowels just didn’t sit right with me. And now? Sounds like Star Wars.
So yeah. It’ll sound “normal” eventually for most, I figure, given enough time.
I think it’s gonna be all about the quality of the movie itself. Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones still sound bad to me, but those movies suck. The Empire Strikes Back is an awkward title, but who cares when the film rocks? And yes, for me it is 1993 and the world is divided into things that suck and rock.
“The Phantom Menace.” Like, at all. Then, a few years later, it sounded “normal.” Same goes for the name “Supreme Leader Snoke.”Those still sound ridiculous though. Remember when Ewan McGregor burst out laughing in an interview the first time he heard the title Attack of the Clones? He thought the guy was joking. It was the reaction one would expect to that title.
Snoke will always be the dumbest name in all of SW history!
A greedy alien named “Greedo” is pretty bad you have to admit, though. That’s straight up Smurf naming. Or the type of bad Spanish spoken by American tourists in Mexico that think you just have to stick an “o” on things to make them Spanish.
Honestly, it took me forever to get the Greedo/greed connection and there’s a chance it’s still maybe a coincidence? (Probably not because Lucas…) But it hardly slaps you in the face. He’s not really especially greedy anyway.
And the product placement and merch are gonna be LIT:After a hard day’s pillaging temples and punchin’ Nazis, get clean! Like Indie!
Is the Dial of Destiny how Destiny Turns On the Radio?
The noun is weird. A “crusader”, an “ark”, a “temple”, a “skull” – those all instantly sound like things that you’d expect in an adventure tale. A “dial” first makes me thing of the ubiquitous brand of hand soap, and then makes me think of the knobs on the dryer. Or dial-in hotline number?
The word on the street is that there’s a time travel element. Which, you know what, fine.
Or, you know, a contextually accurate noun given the time setting of the films…when dials were, well, just dials on the radio/oven/tv/machinery/etc
“Given the time-setting of the film”? Dial Soap has existed since the 1940’s, dials on appliances and phones are older. Every reference I listed is from the time period.
Dial A for Adventure!
Indiana Jones and the Satanic SwitchIndiana Jones and the Golden Knob
Sounds like an old timey game show.
I just don’t know what to picture for the titular dial. Every other title is pretty easy to imagine, the Ark of the Covenant, a spooky temple, something to do with the Crusades, a crystal skull. The heck is a dial though? Is he breaking into a safe? Gotta find the first rotary phone? I feel like there have been some fantasy video game that might’ve had artifacts called dials but I can’t for the life of me remember what that’s supposed to be.
There’s a brief shot in the trailer of this thing that looks like the Antikythera Mechanism. It’ll probably be some puzzle-key that opens the doors of Atlantis or something. I hope I’m wrong.
Sure, but how many of us only know what the Ark of the Covenant is because it was in the movie?
You’ve gotta imagine in 1981 people heard Raiders of the lost Ark and thought, “Huh? An “Ark”? You mean like what Noah built?”
An “Ark”? You mean like what Noah built?” That is in fact what 5 year old me thought prior to seeing it.
I was a little kid in 1982, but do remember that is absolutely what everyone thought it was referencing.
I was, older, and still thought that. I think that’s why he went for the Holy Grail which everybody knows from the King Arthur stories (and Monty Python) rather than a more obscure Christian artifact like the Spear of Longinus (which the Nazis actually were historically obsessed with) in the Last Crusade.
Time travel thing. So says the rumors.
When I first heard the title, I thought it was a spin-off video game.
I’m not a fan… The alliteration is fine, but when saying it out loud in a real context: “I’m looking for the Dial of Destiny” then it kinda feels like a boringly named fantasy item—something out of a YA novel or fantasy board game. Maybe that’s how some people already envision Indiana Jones? But I don’t… To me, Indiana Jones was always a cut above the competition, and all 3 of the movies relatively rose above the pretenders that wanted to be the next big treasure-hunting adventure.All the old titles had weight to them and they rolled off the tongue pretty nicely: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, and The Last Crusade. I will not acknowledge the 4th one. But “The Dial of Destiny” has the same feel as The Cup of Condensation, The Mirror of Mesmerization, or The Orb of Obscurity (and I actually kinda like that one). For the title to be good, however, the movie has to be good, and they need to do justice to Indiana Jones if this is going to be the absolute final movie.
It sounds like a soap advertisement. Indiana Jones and the Dove of DestructionIndiana Jones and the Irish Spring of Invincibility
Indiana Jones and the River of Lava
Indiana Jones and the Zest of Life.
Jack Black and Kyle Gass would like a word.
‘”Am I the only one who thinks Dial of Destiny is just fine? I mean, it’s no Temple of Doom, but it alliterates nicely and doesn’t feel like four titles crammed together in one.”’It also doesn’t inadvertently advertise someone’s vodka. Around the time of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull Dan Aykroyd was hawking his vodka of the same name. For this reason I could not stop thinking about it whenever I heard the title.
Seems like that movie falls pretty well in line with Dan Aykroyd’s worldview too, so there ya go.
It’s also likely to better stand the test of time than Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Uh, no.
Nah. “Dial” is just such a lame and prosaic sounding noun. Like, it couldn’t have been anything else?? And “of destiny” sounds too generic and on-the-nose for an Indy adventure.While I will remain hopeful that the movie is good, the crummy title is already a strike against it.
Indiana Jones and the Dial Up of Destiny. You will believe a man can eventually go online!
Harrison Ford needs America Online stat!
A nazi steps out and flings 3 1/2 inch floppies and CDs lightning fast at Indy, screaming at him to join now and get 100 hours FREE
What’s that sound? did someone open the Ark !?!?no Indy, that’s the sound of my dial up modem.
Cause it’s the Dial!
Of Destiny child,
You know where we’ll be rockin’ cause it’s fucking insane!It’s just the Dial!
Of Destiny child,
You know our movie’s better than Citizen Kane!
Mangold & Phoebe are enough to have me interested, but its still in the ever-growing pile of “are we really doing this again?”
I can totally picture Phoebe Waller-Bridge, at some point in the film, looking directly at the camera and saying exactly that.
I’ve been watching a lot of classic Doctor Who lately, and I read the title as Indiana Jones and the Dalek Destiny. For a millisecond, I was estactically happy.
by Pip and Jane Baker
I can’t hear the name of the Swiss town of Davos (best known for holding the yearly economics conference there) without thinking of the creator of the Daleks, Davros.
Funny, it always makes me think of onions.
cast Katy Manning or Sarah Sutton in this thing and I’ll be there on opening night.
We can agree on one thing right? This is the clear worst title in the series.
My instinct is to say yes, but then I remember how silly titles like “Temple of Doom” and “The Empire Strikes Back” must have sounded initially and I hesitate. (I was born in ‘87, so I just take those for granted, but they’re also pretty silly titles out of context.) Heck, even “Attack of the Clones” was pilloried as an awful name at first. (It’s still not good, but I haven’t heard that complained about in a long time, unlike almost every other aspect of the film.)Then again, Lucas’s original title for the fourth Indy film was Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars. I can’t decide whether that would have been the worst title in the series or the best, but every since I first saw that title, it has been the bar against which I measure all others.
Saucermen from Mars would be several times worse if we allow it. For me its Dial of Destiny, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Temple of Doom and either Raiders of the Lost Arc or Last Crusade as the best title.
“Saucermen from Mars” is the Indiana Jones movie David Bowie should’ve lived to make.
I thought Hot Saucerman was a comedy podcats host.
Indiana Jones and The Revenge of The Collectable Spoons of Solomon
Nah, “The Empire Strikes Back” was an awesome title. Like, “HOLY SHIT!!!! I HAVE TO SEE THAT!!!!” title. If anything, in the late 70s “Star Wars” was a more questionable title. I was a baby, but knowing the state of Sci-Fi at the time it would’ve had to sound fucking stupid and childish to a lot of people. But, once you’ve seen “Star Wars”, and hear the follow-up is “The Empire Strikes Back”, that’s evocative. That title is a promise. It’s everything a sequel title needs to be. Contrast with the prequel titles, which were largely greeted with, “Huh?” Even “Revenge of the Sith” was mostly just, “Ohh, it’s a play on the original title of “Return of the Jedi”, when it was “Revenge of the Jedi” clever. But aside from that it doesn’t make a hell of a lot of sense, in-context. Temple of Doom, That’s pretty clear it’s a scary damn place. Again, evocative. Last Crusade, awesome. Short, clear, doubles as both a description of the plot and also a “this is Indiana Jones’ last adventure” kind of thing. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is . . . eh. it’s kinda wordy, there’s nothing particularly evocative about it, and kinda sounds like a kid’s game show on Nickelodeon in the 90s, but it’s okay. It’s the same with Dial of Destiny. It’s . . . fine. At least it’s shorter and has the alliteration. Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars sounds like an Indiana Jones cash-in storybook for 5 year olds.
Not sure about that. The last one comes off stealth marketing for Dan Aykroyd’s vodka
By leaps and bounds.The movie may have sucked, but Kingdom of the Crystal Skull worked very well (for me) as a title.
2Indiana2Jones
I believe it’s FivedianaJone5Okay, that looks stupid haha
5diana will be the name of the 5th Wonder Woman movie.
we’re doomed to endless drab green screen stages that gave Obi-Wan Kenobi its muted grey palette
Yeah, because that was the problem with Obi-Wan.
It doesn’t matter what the snark is about, there just has to be some.
I’m pretty sure Obi-Wan used the same giant TV set as the Mandalorian, not green screen. It looks better than green screen, but it’s still clear that it’s someone on a stage with a backdrop.
Is this about a rotary phone?
Dial D for Destiny(But in seriousness, I’m guessing that based on one fleeting shot, the “Dial of Destiny” MacGuffin is an analog to the Antikythera mechanism, perhaps a version imbued with mystical powers.)
If you hold it up at just the right spot it shows you where a box is hidden on the crashed Death Star
…and the inevitable porn parodyIndiana Bones the Double D’s of Destiny
The easiest porn title since Pacific Rim and Inside Llewellyn Davis.
Looks pretty solid for the most part. Definitely more CGI than I was hoping for but hopefully there’s still plenty of practical stunts/effects in the finished film. Loved the last part with Harrison’s “oh shit!” expression before the guns started firing.
My weird, esoteric concern: the original films were, at least in part, homages to the b-movies and serials of the 30s, which often included things like Professor Challenger going on adventures. (That’s why they’re set in the 30s and have hokey titles and red lines moving across maps and such.) Crystal Skull, for better or worse, tried to connect with bad sci-fi from the 50s in the same way (hence the aliens, fridge-nuking, 50s setting, and Cate Blanchett sounding like she was about to “make big trouble for moose and squirrel.”) What does this connect with, other than earlier Indy movies?Of course, a film does not need to hearken back to anything; it can be its own work. However, I can’t help but think of Star Wars, where the OT echoed a weird mix of sci-fi serials from the 50s that Lucas grew up on, samurai films, 50s car culture, and WWII movies. The prequels didn’t echo those, but still brought in elements of classic tragedy (albeit atrociously articulated). Even The Mandalorian is essentially an old-school western tucked into the SW universe. Both the prequels and Indy 4 didn’t hold together that well on their own merits (whereas the originals for both franchises worked whether you got the references or not), but still, the franchises initially succeeded at least in part because they recontextualized older genres and tropes. The SW sequels (the Abrams ones, at any rate) however, failed in part because the only thing they referenced was other Star Wars films; they didn’t want to risk recontextualizing something external, so they just settled for a bankrupt form of intertextuality in which they just references themselves and lacked internal meaning or purpose.Now, Mangold worked wonders with Logan, and Waller-Bridge certainly knows her way around a script. Maybe between the two of them they’ve crafted something that will break that pattern, and be more of a piece with Logan than with The Force Awakens (or ::shudder:: The Rise of Skywalker). But for now, I’m worried that it might be sufficiently unmoored from the influences that made the originals really sing that it will feel hollow by comparison.
It’s set in the late 60s, so my guess is it’ll be about the space race at least a little. Maybe the dial helps people get to the moon or something.
Or gets them high, the other late 1960s obsession.
The moon is 238,000 miles up!
Long-haired Marcus Brody who now lives on a commune in Monterrey:“Indiiie, my brother! The Reds have perfected the most groovy and mellow strain of Mary Jane – I know finding far-out shit is your bag, could you snag some for me?”
I swear an earlier report about it talked about Nazis on the moon.
A rat done bit my sister Nell . . .
Okay, I fucking cackled at that. Well done.
Indie gets an enema, a la The Right StuffNot because he’s going to Space or anything, but because he’s eighty goddamn years old.
It’s been 41 years since Raiders, set in 1936, so if they’d kept the time frame consistent, this movie would be in 1977. DISCO INDIANA JONES!!
I’m sure the whip would be a big hit at some of those clubs.
Disco Jones sounds like an actually enjoyable film.
1977? Forget disco, Indy could go to the Star Wars premiere!
“Hmm, that Harrison Ford looks a lot like me!” Or would they go all “Last Action Hero” and decide that Han was played by a different actor in his universe?
Car chases, perhaps?Or maybe it will go with David Lean-ean grand spectacle.
He has to prevent the British invasion.
In his pants?
It is very weird to see Indy standing in such a “modern” urban setting, with cars etc that you could still see fairly regularly today. Also, I dunno if it’s the cinematography or if Mangold and Spielberg just shoot things that differently, but the whole thing looks less like an Indiana Jones movie and just some new Harrison Ford movie.Will still see it though!
Not weird, not esoteric, 100% a real valid problem.
It’s a COMMENT section. Not a lecture hall. LOL!
My pitch is that it would connect to the late ‘60s/early ‘70s craze for occult horror and biker films.
But nobody at Disney wanted to hear my pitch.
Indiana Jones and the Curse of Marions Baby?
I would watch the hell outta this.
Can we have a scene where Phoebe Waller-Bridge gets to play with the whip? For, uh, narrative reasons. Yeah, that’s it.
Also a scene (maybe the same one or not) where she is bound by ropes. Again, purely for narrative reasons.
You. You understand my vision.
Plus or minus if she’s also wearing one of those SS officer outfits?
Only if she looks into the camera and says “Germany has declared war on the Joneses!”
I will gladly accept that.
Only if she breaks the fourth wall.
Trailer looks fine – pretty blah but fine!
Indiana Jones and the Cromulent Movie
Old people smell bad, so I can understand why Indiana Jones is after Dial soap in this.
Oh yeah? Well if you used a little more Dial soap you would maybe stop being a FilthyWhore and be a CleanWhore.
Maybe it’s supposed to be it’s own marketing tie-in.
I…I dunno. Look man, I’m totally gonna be there, opening week guaranteed. It looks exactly like what I would expect a 2023 Indiana Jones movie to look like. I’m not going to be heartbroken if there are aliens. I’m glad Shia isn’t here. Despite Ford’s age, it doesn’t look like it’s leaning that hard on “Oh my back!” shit. Spielberg isn’t directing, but that was never an ironclad guarantee.
We’re out in the woods a little with this one, could be anything. Actually now that I think about it, maybe that’s kinda exciting.
Yeah, I’m also tentative, but if you had to replace Spielberg, James Mangold ain’t a bad choice.
Honestly, I don’t care what anyone else says, I found Indy being on the wrong end of “why don’t you just pull a gun out and shoot him?” for once to be laugh-out-loud charming. I think I’m in.
He really sells the “Hey, wait, that’s my trick” look there too.
I like it in concept, but the reason why it worked in the first film was how quickly the situation was resolved. Having everyone mindlessly blasting at the space where Indy was standing after he ducks is a little too silly for me.
I assume the trailer cut the part where they all say “Maclunky” before shooting.
From SNL to the new Ghostbusters movies, such is the way with call-back gags: over-lingered on and winked-at to the point of ruining the comedic timing that made the original funny in the first place.
Problem is, to recapture the original scene’s comic timing and, indeed, raison d’etre, you’d have to give Harrison Ford another uncontrollable case of the shits, which on the one hand would be fairly easy given his age, but on the other you don’t want to toy with his health like that.
Considering Ford improvised that bit, and also improvised “It’s not the years, honey, it’s the mileage” and ALSO improvised “I love you” / “I know” in Star Wars… I really don’t know why directors are giving him scripts at all. He’s the best writer on set!
Don’t tell the union. They’re pissy enough.
They also did the slowed down music theme cliché. Except for a high energy theme like Indiana Jones really really doesn’t work.
I was gonna say the same – slowed down, with the de rigeur post-Nolan “BOOM!”s added at every cut. See also: the Mario trailer released this week. Two themes that meant to embody “zippy fun” made into leaden reverence.
Yep! By trailer standards this is a massive cliché, I wanna say Jurassic World in 2015 was the movie that started this trend. Which makes sense, that theme is already kinda slow and on a piano its a bit melancholic. But this? This is nonsense nostalgia pandering.
Funny how all the iconic instantly-hummable movie themes are from the 70’s-90’s. I think the only ones in the past 20 years with any purchase are the Harry Potter theme and perhaps LOTR.But can anyone hum the Avatar Theme? The Nolan Batman movies? Spiderman’s theme song from the cheesy 60’s cartoon is more famous than whatever score is used the bazillion-dollar-grossing MCU movies.
Lord of the Rings is yeah my last cut off for super memorable themes. I can still sing the Rohan theme with just doots and dots. After that it gets harder. Music can still be grand, although I find gaming scores get stuck in my head more then any film. It does kinda feel a bit bland and homogeneous.
Oh I guess there’s Pirates of the Carribean as well. That theme is pretty dootdoot-able.
The disappearance of melodic movie scores is one of the biggest failings of the modern movie era, in my opinion.
Not like escaping a nuclear blast in a refrigerator.
I must further note this is now the third reference in 4 films to this scene. Temple Doom has two sword guys and Indy is missing his gun, Last Crusade has Indy shoot three nazis with one bullet. Temples reference was lame, and Crusades nod was amusing.
Don’t see how Indy shooting multiple nazis with one bullet was a reference to the Cairo swordsman gag…..
CGI whip about as realistic as the CGI dog in Ford-Mangold’s last movie.
“Dial”? Okay.The trailer looks fine, but so did the trailer for Crystal Skull. I’m perfectly happy to see this if it tells a decent story and isn’t just a nostalgia exercise, but I’m also perfectly happy to skip it.
I’m going to go on the record as saying that this trailer looks waaaay better than the original one for Crystal Skull. Now, the new film may suck, but Crystal Skull couldn’t even put together an enticing 90 seconds.
90 seconds of punching LaBeouf in the face?
They should have just set the whole movie in the 1940s with a de-aged Harrison Ford, and done like a bookend set in 1969 with Ford at his current age.
If the rumor mill is correct, a drab endless gray makes sense for this movie, because it’ll end up on the moon at one point.
Looks pretty great, actually.
After Ke Huy Quan’s killer performance in Everything Everywhere All At Once, the only responsible thing they can do is make this a movie about Indy reconnecting with and passing his adventurer’s fedora on to Short Round.
To which Short Round says “it’s time for love”. Cue the big hug.
Based off of knowing the following: Harrison Ford will be de-aged, Toby Jones/Dr. Zola will be in it, it’s called “Dial of Destiny”, here is my plot prediction:An escaped Nazi scientist discovers an artifact that can turn back time, and tries to undo Indy defeating the Nazis in Raiders and Last Crusade
Indy actually saved the Nazis in Raiders. If not for his actions, Belloq would have brought the Ark to Berlin, where Hitler would have opened it himself in the presence of the entire Third Reich leadership, turning them all to goo. WW2 and the Holocaust is all Indy’s fault!
So you’re assuming Belloq would have NOT opened the ark on that island had Indie not arrived?
Yeah, Belloq says clearly in the film that he wants to open it before taking it to Berlin to make sure it actually has the ten commandments inside and is ‘the one true ark’.
Isn’t there some old Internet theory that states that Raider literally only happens because Indy is there and the Nazi would have never found the Ark if Jones didn’t show up
If not, then there is now.But really, they weren’t that far off. They probably would have eventually found it.
If Indy wasn’t there they’d have just killed Marion and taken the amulet right away.
True, but would they have found her? It seemed like Toth was following him to her.
In particular, trained archeologists would have found it which they were.
It was on The Big Bang Theory too.
I guess that’s true, but only if Indy still was there for the scene at Marion’s bar. If the nazi dude got the amulet, then they’d have found the ark. Him getting only one side of it pushed them to dig in the wrong location.
And in the Last Crusade he was literally next to Hitler (in the scene where he signs the grail diary thinking Indy was another fan wanting his copy of Mein Kampf signed). That was in in 1938, so he could have again taken out Hitler in time then (yes, he would have been immediately shot to pieces by all the other Nazis, but wouldn’t it be worth it?)
He’s an archeologist, not an assassin.
“Dammit Jim!”
and I imagine “quantum leap” style where old Indy gets to control the body of young Indy, which also solves the “old man voice” problem kinda-sorta (why does he sound old, because of time travel magic and narrative storytelling). If this is true, it’ll be a cute ending to the series. I do wish instead Indy was just a mentor and they had a replacement Indy with a new younger actor, but I suspect that hurts the bottom line, so CGI Indy is what we are getting. It’ll be Harrison’s face CGI’d onto a real physical actor instead. The perverse incentives of capitalism know no taste or bounds.
Is a digitally de-aged Vic Armstrong in this too?
Hm. Well, sounds like you’ve already decided to hate the thing.God, I’d hate to run into you at a party.
I really really hope the rumors are wrong about the ending but since apparently they were right about the rest I am very pessimistic.
Is Kanye West playing one of the villains?
It’s remarkable how a film set in the distant past dealing with Nazis is in an article that appears next to a modern day story of a man praising Hitler on the same day. Just a crazy godamn world this has become.
he can’t wait to tell the Fuhrer how much he agrees with him.
Should have done Fate of Atlantis.
“John Rhys Davies’ Sallah is back, and who doesn’t love that?”Anybody with a problem with “brownface”? I know he was brought up in East Africa, but he’s still Welsh.
I feel like someone trying to justify Davies playing an Egyptian because he is the child of colonizers also unironical considers Elon Musk and African American Also don’t forget Davies is on record with some shitty takes on Islam. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/john-rhys-davies-is-something-846137/amp/
Oooh – I did not know that. Reading it I was thinking, “well some of what he says has merit, although it’s a bit shitty focusing on Islam when you could say similar things about other religions and political ideologies” but then he doubled down by unironically claiming Christianity is the shining hope. Not good.
Yea, up to that point, it could well have been Richard Dawkins talking.
There is no way you recast Sallah and get away with it. That’s just a bridge too far.
No, that was Anthony Hopkins.
And Sean Connery. And Robert Redford. And Eliot Gould. And Ryan O’Neal. And Gene Hackman. And James Caan. And Liv Ullman. And the list goes on.
But they’re not Welsh.
and Yahoo Serious.
A Waller-Bridge too far?
“John Rhys Davies’ Sallah is back, and who doesn’t love that?”Not sure if this is sarcastic or not but I can think of lots of people who would not love a Welsh man with a documented habit of saying Islamaphobic shit playing a middle eastern man.
Sallah could be Coptic Christian, in which case he’d probably have well founded antipathy against Islam.
His full name according to secondary material is Sallah Mohammad Faisel El-Kahir so…
Sallah could be Coptic…
I was curious and looked it up. His full character name is Sallah Mohammed Faisel el-Kahir. So I’d say chances he was Coptic are slim to none.
Well much like George making Indy have a relationship with Marion as a kid, there was an easy way to avoid this but the writers went ahead anyway.
It’s was the early 80s and it was paying homage to old serials. So if it wasn’t racist, it wouldn’t be authentic. :)Honestly of the three, Temple of Doom is the one that ages the worst when it comes to culture depictions but in my personal, and I recognize anecdotes don’t mean anything, experience most Indians I’ve met like that one the most. I mean they see how shitty it is and it’s using India as a “woo spooky foreign place” but it’s also far more actual Indian representation in an 80s movie then pretty much anything else.
Temple feels like the same thing the Prequels would be, leaning waaay too hard into the source material. Temple is the most 1930s Serial of them all. Every action scene could have the cheesy announcer say find out next week and I’d still work. Its also yeah, the most casually racist, although that is interesting to hear some people from India liked it.
My wife is a fan of 80s novelizations. She says that in Temple of Doom, they make clear that the gross-out dinner was not “authentic” but an attempt to subtly chase off the racist colonizers. I don’t know.
also, like, he just flat out looks and sounds like shit in the trailer.
Coptic
Aw man, I didn’t know that about Davies. Way to let me down, Gimli.
I hope Toby Jones’ character stays nameless in the movie so I can pretend he’s still Arnim Zola, keeping intact the Raiders reference in the first Captain America movie.
He’s playing a character named Basil
Maybe it’s just me but I thought the cinematography in the trailer looks miles better then whatever Kaminski was trying to do with Crystal Skull. I like Kaminski’s look for AI or Minority report but the lighting was terrible on Crystal Skull
Agreed. I’m not the biggest fan of Kaminski’s style. It looks like he’s putting everything through the Barbara Walters filter.
Check out The Fablemans. It’s much more subdued cinematography than Kaminiski and Spielberg have produced lately.
That intro score gets me every time.
Take my damn money.
What, the soap?
At 0:09, there are no, and have never been, subway entrances on Eldridge St! My suspension of disbelief is ruined. 700 year old crusader knights is one thing, but that is just too fantastical.
Wait ‘till I tell you about the elevated train in midtown Manhattan in Spider-Man 2.
This movie was shot on location, not with the Volume. Jesus Christ, your generation is even more insufferably jaded and cynical than mine was.
Cool!If only they didn’t amber and teal it all to hell in post.
“Add more shots of the horsey!” – said somebody cutting this trailer together
It worked for John Wick 3.
“Punch it, Sallah!”Ok, totally on board with this now.
That trailer is super fun! And full of the awful color nonsense of most modern films. Do you like amber and blue? Cuz we got amber and blue!
Did he break his nose some time between Blade Runner 2049 and this?
Did they de-age is gravely old man voice?
Title is fine. Trailer is great. Article is weirdly negative.
This movie will not be good but I’ll be damned if that twinkle in Harry’s eye in the final shot before he ducks didn’t make me smile. At least he seems willing to properly inhabit the character again.
You just know Phoebe Waller-Bridge is going to make this extra great!
As the semi-official World’s Biggest Indy fan, this trailer does….nothing for me. It doesn’t move the needle one bit in either direction over my desire to see this movie. I’m neither encouraged nor discouraged by it. It’s just kinda there.Seems….adequate, I guess. The flashback bits look fun. Some fairly typical Indy chasing action. Not much really here to latch onto and the most memorable thing about it is the weaksauce title.I dunno. I was riding high on this movie for a bit due to the talent behind the camera. Now, for a number of reasons, I no longer care. In some ways, I almost prefer the seething hatred I have for KOTCS over just feeling bored by/over Indy.