This is my favorite “franchise” (God I hate that term but sometimes it certainly applies) and Last Crusade was the movie that made me love movies. So I am extremely biased in this instance. I loved the movie, especially for how it tied in the themes of all the previous movies. Perhaps that’s to your point that it sorta sacrifices its own identity by providing a through line for the series as a whole. I didn’t really feel that way since I think Mangold designed the movie around the story they were telling with Indy, Helena and Voller, where Skull doesn’t really connect what’s going on in the plot with the characters.
I sorta saw this as anti-nostalgia. It plays on the irony of its existence and reason for being. But not TOO meta, just in a knowing way. At one point jotted in my brain-notes while watching it “Is Disney the Nazis?”
What business do the writers have going on strike with the shit they've produced over the last half decade? It blows my mind that they write shit movie after shit movie and then think they can withhold their next shit movie and everyone will come to them begging for more slop.
Honestly this is all I really need out of an Indian Jones film. None of the sequels really measure up to the first one. And I'm sure some of that is the nostalgia factor. Just as long as the gimmicky stuff isn't too gimmicky and I'm fine.
This is my favorite “franchise” (God I hate that term but sometimes it certainly applies) and Last Crusade was the movie that made me love movies. So I am extremely biased in this instance. I loved the movie, especially for how it tied in the themes of all the previous movies. Perhaps that’s to your point that it sorta sacrifices its own identity by providing a through line for the series as a whole. I didn’t really feel that way since I think Mangold designed the movie around the story they were telling with Indy, Helena and Voller, where Skull doesn’t really connect what’s going on in the plot with the characters.
I sorta saw this as anti-nostalgia. It plays on the irony of its existence and reason for being. But not TOO meta, just in a knowing way. At one point jotted in my brain-notes while watching it “Is Disney the Nazis?”
Man, this movie is set in 1969 and they studiously avoided getting anywhere close to Southeast Asia...
Yeah, you summed it up perfectly. I left thinking "this delivered everything an Indiana Jones movie should" but still left weirdly disappointed.
What business do the writers have going on strike with the shit they've produced over the last half decade? It blows my mind that they write shit movie after shit movie and then think they can withhold their next shit movie and everyone will come to them begging for more slop.
Honestly this is all I really need out of an Indian Jones film. None of the sequels really measure up to the first one. And I'm sure some of that is the nostalgia factor. Just as long as the gimmicky stuff isn't too gimmicky and I'm fine.