Isn't it obvious? No Shia LaBeouf.

This is weirdly the second franchise to unceremoniously kill Shia LaBeouf off screen.

"It's okay for a story to end sometimes." IT DID! TWICE!

Wouldn't be the first time Indiana Jones survived a giant bomb.

Dial of Destiny's underwhelming box office feels like a combination of four things:

-Premiering it at Cannes was a mistake as the mediocre word of mouth killed a lot of the marketing momentum and has made people less inclined to check it out.

-The Indiana Jones films' core audience skews older and there's been nothing in terms of the franchise's (small) recent presence or the concept of Dial of Destiny to get younger people in big numbers to come and see it.

-Its the kind of film that feels too late to make now. Indy 4 should have realistically been something that came out in the mid 90s while Ford was relatively younger, and then something like Dial of Destiny in 2008 to properly give the character a send off. His current age is something that turns off many potential audience members, and there's not been a lot of reports that the film effectively turns his older status into a dramatic strength like Stallone did with Rocky Balboa.

-Reshoots and other factors have ballooned the budget so much that its ensured that the film actually making a profit would be tricky even if the three previous elements weren't there.

Indy 5 as a movie in 2023 just has too much of an uphill climb to really do big numbers.

I read somewhere that the dial was originally going to be a mystical sapphire, leading to the studio calling the project "Blue Harvest"

Indy rode off into the sunset in Last Crusade. He had his happy ending in Crystal Skull. What is this movie for other than Disney wanting money?

The best part of this review was Mason mentioning Doctor Who audio dramas. I knew he was a man of culture.

Speaking of WWI and a specific spoiler: One thing I haven't seen anyone mention is that Indiana Jones was actually friends with Ho Chi Minh, the leader of the Viet Cong who started the Vietnam War. They met during the Paris peace talks after the war and Indy helped him petition the French government for Vietnam's sovereignty.

This along with joining Pancho Villa (which was mentioned in Crystal Skull) and living with the Bolsheviks (which Crystal Skull bizarrely didn't mention) means that Indiana Jones joined 3 communist movements on different continents over the course of about 2.5 years.

I'm pretty sure he also knew the guy who invented jet fuel and rockets, which also ties into all the NASA plot.
Indiana Jones did a lot of stuff.

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"Why is [Insert Mid-ass Movie] Bombing?" is becoming a weekly question at this point

I think the reason it’s bombing is simply that they didn’t have more aliens in it

The moon landing, represented the world looking towards the future, while Indy was stuck being passionate and obsessed with the past, and he himself was a relic of the past. I liked that element and wished they had a little bit more.

The uncontrollable laughter at 44:52 is so genuine and I love it.

I really wish it opened better.
Not for disney but for ford.
I've been loving his acting for my entire life.

The deeper we go into the internet era the better marketing has to be. I honestly didn’t hear about this movie until a couple of days before release. That’s the way with a lot of movies lately.

To add to the Top gun comment. The difference here is that Top Gun Maverick was following a movie that people look back on with fondness. Indy 5 is following Indy 4 which doesnt not have the same standing.

I think we're just entering the era where the studios have officially choked themselves out by offering all of their movies for free 30-45 days after release. You need a general audience to hit a billion, as you say, and how much if that general audience is still willing to pay $15 per ticket when for the same price they are getting that movie plus your entire back catalog at home, for infinite rewatches, in a month's time? Both their theatrical and DVD revenue streams are just gone.

Top Gun was huge, by comparison, but that's become an exception, not the rule. Indy already had his nostalgia comeback with Crystal Skull.

For a split second I thought they were being genuine that Indy killing JFK was a real plot point of this movie

Can’t believe they didn’t talk about Indy’s use of glasses in this movie