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Would be a massively missed opportunity if they don’t. As an aside I kinda love how Ford has just been sooo done with a lot of nerd questions, from his IDGAF response about force ghosts, to being utterly baffled at what the heck a universe 616 even is.
Isn't that just the perfect metaphor for modern Hollywood? Old films want to stay in the past and die peacefully, but then get dragged back into the present?
I'd argue that great Films never die; they just want to be remembered fondly. Modern Hollywood drags them into the limelight again to try to milk some more profit out of them, more often than not sullying their legacy in the process.
It will forever be hilarious to me that Spielberg was so pissed about what Shia said about Crystal Skull, his character in the follow up gets killed off screen, which funnily also happened in transformers the last knight, a film he produced, so what are the odds.
Honestly Spielberg was slumming it direction wise on KOTCS I don't blame Shia for feeling like he did a disservice to the series but one also has to remember that Spielberg only did this movie because George wouldn't leave him alone about it Steven made it clear he was done with the series and it shows
This is a perfect example of corporate greed refusing to let something die so long as they can milk it for more. The only reason they would have done the ending the way they did is if they were thinking "but what if we want to make another sequel".
There's a bit more to it. Indiana Jones is a strange case in that it is a neglected series, but also one that gets pulled back out at random times. Had they wanted it to continue after Crusade, they could have done what the James Bond series did and recast Indiana Jones and do a new set of movies, but this is where the neglect comes in. Spielberg has never cared for Indiana Jones and it shows. He never wanted to make Crystal Skull and had to be pressured into it by George Lucas. Also, unlike with Raiders, where Spielberg needed to make a hit after his last movie bombed, his reputation was more or less set in stone so he treated it more like a favor to George and a chance to see old friends. This movie is the end result of this strange situation. People like Indiana Jones enough to want to see him again, but he's not an IP that is given much care by those who run it. As a result, we get a bland finale which satisfies nobody. It's sad because had the series ended with Last Crusade, we would have had a solid trilogy of great movies and if they had recast the lead and continued, the series would have been free to expand past a director who doesn't care and an actor who has aged out of the role.
@@ahatt96that all makes sense for the most part. However, they would never recast another actor as Indiana Jones because Harrison Ford has said before that when he dies, so does Indiana Jones. This indicates that he does not want the character to be played by someone else.
Corporate greed refusing to let go go off their cash cows does not need to be a bad thing. Look at Deadpool & Wolverine. The character Wolverine got a really good send off in Logan, funnily enough directed by the same person who directed this movie. Hugh was pulled back on board and it ended up being a very fun ride. If Disney wants to keep making these Indie movies, perhaps they could atleast try to scout for talented folks who genuinely care for the characters and the lore and then give them the creative freedom to create something magical.
There was one reason why I had no interest in watching this movie: Ford is in his 80s now and he just looks exhausted. It's like forcing your grandpa to run a marathon
It's because the actors in Barbie and Oppenheimer agreed to reduced salaries and there weren't any big action sequences in either films. With Indy, Disney agreed to pay huge salaries to the actors and did lots of big effects things those movies didn't have
I personally do not like that either because while he wasn't the greatest character his offscreen death is just a reason for Indy to become miserable and that is just not fun to watch, the enjoyment of an Indiana Jones movie is that he does what he does because he loves the sense of adventure no matter how dangerous the mission is. If they want to write him out then they could just say he's off doing his own things in life instead of killing him off just to be used as a plot divice and a really bad one at that.
Why do movies like this (Star Wars sequels) have to have beloved characters in abject misery when we see them again after all these years? It would be just fine for Indy to be pulled back into adventure from a life that wasn't complete horseshit.
Hot take? Killing Shia LaBeouf was actually the most boring decision this movie made. The goddaughter could have easily have just been Indy's son who, during his own Indiana Jones adventures, went down the wrong path. Then we have Indy reconnecting with his son and re-establishing what it actually means to be an archaeologist. Hell, we could still do your idea for the ending and have *him* be the one to put his mom and dad in the museum.
To be honest with Sallah, it was always clear that even if he was Egyptian, he had quite strong ties to Britain (singing British songs, being quite anglicised in his mannerisms, having to leave Egypt in the post-colonial era (possibly due to the Suez Crisis, I'm not sure if it's ever actually established?). Being played by a Welsh actor, I always found it easy to assume he was probably of mixed heritage.
Oh yeah. People like Sallah were seen as British Occupation Collaborators at best; and as real Foreign-Allegiance threats to Egypt’s sovereignty, even before ‘56. Those people in real life who didn’t have great personal wealth & connections, or the British refused to give refugee or dual-citizenship status. They normally ended up imprisoned (in horrid ex-occupation prisons) until they somehow “proved their innocence;” usually by denouncing their personal enemies to the same fate.
Temple of Doom gets way too much hate and Crystal Skull. Temple of Doom is way better but Crystal Skull was a fun film but had a lot of rough edges. Temple of Doom still has the best soundtrack and love its dark tone to this day.
@@DanGamingFan2406 Same with The Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar. Both times some of his complaints were a direct result of him not understanding the movie. Doug does this often, he’s not too bright.
According to James Mangold, he was given a script after Spielberg declined to direct a month before pre-production was scheduled to start, but that script had, "no reason to be made." During a meeting with Lucas, Kennedy, and Speilberg, he pitched a movie about aging, sorrounding a time mcguffin and was given a year to write it, so this movie was almost much worse.
disney going "capitalism is baaaaaaad" is so cringy, and the way they wrote it is like if a 15 years old with a marx or cheguevara t shirt wrote it, like "capitalism is stealing man!!!, I totally figured out how the world, society and economics work!".
They really dropped the ball here. AT LEAST Crystal Skull had a happy ending! What they should have done is have Indy Dean of the University now where he has written several books about his previous adventures which would later be adapted into the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, making him somewhat famous and wealthy. Him and Marion are thriving. Short Round who saw Indy as a father figure, followed in his footsteps to become an archaeologist as well. He discovers something mysterious and reaches out to Indy, they go on an adventure together and have a tender moment towards the end. Indy tells Short Round that he’s thinking of retiring. Him and Mutt are on good terms now and he’s much more matured. Mutt announces he’s going to be a dad. The movie ends with Indy passing his fedora to an adult Short Round to carry on his legacy, similar to the beginning of The Last Crusade. Now THAT would have been amazing!
Dude they didn't just drop the ball, they dunked it in sewage, played 8 rounds of soccer with it and then tossed it in the trash for good measure. This movie shits on Indiana Jones's character and legacy every chance it gets to prop up a selfish, arrogant, bitch who is ironically more akin to Beloque then Indiana.
Another Fun Fact: The artifact Indy is seeking in the opening flashback is the Lance of Longinus, the blade that drew Christ's blood. This artifact was previously featured in a 1995 comic book, "Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny," in which the Nazis are after the blade and Indy and his father must stop them.
This is why Back to the Future remains one of my favourite 80's franchises as it never got rebooted or gotten a sequel. Robert Zemekis made sure of that.
Fun Fact: Anthony Ingruber, a voice actor and Harrison Ford lookalike, makes a cameo as a Dutch prince at an auction in Morocco. Ingruber also played a young version of Ford's character in The Age of Adaline (2015). Sean Connery also makes a cameo, with photos of Henry Jones Sr. appearing in Indiana Jones' New York apartment.
Another Fun Fact: John Rhys-Davies had expressed interest in reprising his role as Sallah from Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. He was offered a cameo in the wedding scene in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but he "thought the character of Sallah is worth more to the audience than that."
Honestly speaking I think it's more likely he was given a low-ball offer to do a cameo and he said nah I'm good thank you but with Disney they probably gave him a dumpster full of money and also probably literally begged him to be in this movie since they knew it was gonna suck and they needed all the nostalgia bait they could get
@@indianaCurtis From everything I've heard, what actually happened was that both he and Karen Allen signed on under the impression they'd both have major roles in the film, only to find out when shooting began that they were both cameos.
The biggest sin this movie commits is that Indy takes a back seat in his own movie. They had this formula down from Last Crusade, only this time Indy would be the wise mentor like his father was, and Helena would have essentially taken over Indy's role from Crusade. But in the end, Helena knows everything that Indy knows, is just as capable if not more, and basically makes his role in all of this moot. I felt Mads was wasted as a villain too.
@@JoakimOtamaa The truth is, they were never going to make Helena be a useless shrieking damsel. And Indy was still very much the lead here. If it had been Marion doing all this you wouldn't complain
@@ShadowSonic2 Helena is terrible, just like Phoebe WB in everything. Can't be a coincidence. Maybe would've helped with a likable actress, don't care. The series ended perfectly with The Last Crusade, same with Star Wars back 1983. No need for more. Disney can sod off.
Whole movie woulda been better without her. Slightly better. It was just bad overall... except for the beginning which surprisingly hit the vibe pretty well.
@@thiagoteixeira6537 no One cared about Key Hu Quan until after he won an Oscar then suddenly it became "where's short round why isn't short round on this adventure?"
@@neilbeaton9498 I guess I shouldn't say no one cares but I never really saw the major outpour for short round until after his big win either way regardless major mistake on Disney's part but whatever 🙄 movies already done and over 😞
Y'know, a interesting death for Mikkelsen's character would've been him aging back and forth over and over again. Looking like a baby with dozens of wrinkles, a skeleton, over and over again until he just turns into dust or something.
Certainly would fit the deaths we’ve had in this franchise: getting smitten by God’s wrath, eaten alive by crocodiles, burnt to death in a lava pit, crushed by a rock crusher, decapitated by cave blades, aging hundreds of years, falling into a deep chasm, eaten alive by ants, overloaded with so much information that you burst into flames… In this one? Plane crash, which we’ve seen a lot. Do something more creative!
As soon as he put the watch on, and there was an obvious focus on it, I thought he was going to get marooned in the past and turn out to be Archimedes.
I wish they did more with him too. I like Banderas as an actor and he should be a great addition to an Indy movie, but they underused him. I also felt the same for Mads Mikkelsen too.
To address that ending, the film actually was going to end with Indy staying behind, but it involved Helena taking up the mantle and retroactively replacing him in the previous four movies. This got so much backlash from test audiences that it was reworked into the ending we ultimately got.
Honestly I don't believe in the "six different endings" BS that people like doomcock spouted on about but I do believe that the original version was more like rise of Skywalker in that Indy dies from that gunshot and Helena taking up the mantle as Indiana Shaw or something ala Rey Skywalker
They should’ve had Short Round grown up with Indy on one last adventure. Imagine if they actually did that, and then Ke Huy Quan wins his Oscar. People would’ve gone NUTS for Dial of Destiny knowing Academy Award winner Ke Huy Quan was returning in it as Short Round! Disney Screwed the pooch on that one
@@JoshuaDHSW that's just it though Ke Huy Quan wasn't on anyone's radar until after his big win and then people came out of the woodwork wanting short round in this movie personally speaking it was a huge missed opportunity not having him in the movie
Both Karen Allen and Jim Broadbent expressed interest in reprising their respective roles from the previous films, but only Allen appears in this film.
18:05 We already know Elena is the main character, we can’t have these other nobodies who are actually interesting and fun to watch steal her spotlight.
2:38 I used to think Temple of Doom wasn’t good, then I saw it again and loved it. Set pieces, the direction, the bridge scene is one of the best set pieces ever, and I also enjoyed Willie more!
The bad guys in temple of doom are African American so I think some are offended by it but a lot of other films have white bad guys so tbh it's not a big deal
TOD is good but not great and certainly not a classic people only say it's a classic because they were children when it came out and thought because of the darker tone and occasionally gruesome stuff that they were bing naughty and getting away with watching something they probably shouldn't have
I honestly think kingdom of the crystal skull was better and I don't think its as bad as most people think it is its honestly better than dial of destiny
@@louisduarte8763 agreed, I wish this film had had the balls to have Jones selfishly use the device to go back in time to save his son consequences be damned.
Another Fun Fact: This film made Harrison Ford the second actor, after Sylvester Stallone, to star in a film that opened at #1 at the box office in six consecutive decades.
I know I’m gonna get hated by saying this but…I actually liked Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. I think it’s watchable at times, has interesting points here and there and it had a great ending to Indies story.
I'll come out and say it: Crystal Skull is better. It had an older indy like in this film, but actually gave him closure, which this movie undoes just because Disney has a hard-on for broken old men. It had a stronger villain with a better death scene. The nuke scene, for how nonsensical as it was, is memorable, unlike anything in this movie. Aliens are more believable than time travel in this franchise. And Shia Labeouf was a better companion than Phoebe Waller-Bridge, since Mutt was Indy's direct child, instead of the daughter of some random character we barely get to know. I really don't think there should have been an Indy 5, but if they did, it should have been an adventure with Indy, Mutt, and an adult Short Round. The latter two would clash over their different personalities, but ultimately grow closer, and Indy would tell them he's proud of his two sons. The movie could end with Indy dying, and his stuff ending up in a beautiful museum exhibit, while Mutt and Short Round would both pick up the mantle.
It’s weird to see people still clinging to the idea that Temple of Doom was a failure. It’s like did you not get the memo that we’re way past that. It’s easily my favorite at this point. Also the chase sequence through the college town in Crystal Skull has more cinematic value than anything in the new film. Without Spielberg the franchise feels lifeless.
I’ve noticed Return of the Jedi also gets some of this treatment. I don’t get it. I’m happy to concede both are the 3rd best of their trilogies but they are still really good.
Its not really that its a failure but more of being thier least favorite of the series(In this case in the original trilogy), personally while I do like the film I didn't enjoy it as much as Raiders or Last Crusade but is better than Crystal Skull which I found mostly just ok and most definitely Dail of Destiny, but if its your favorite that is great.
Completely agree about Temple of Doom, it stands just as tall as the others in the trilogy to me. And yeah, watching just how safe, bland and boring this movie is made me realize that I was too harsh on Crystal Skull the first time I watched it. Like I watched it again and honestly the action is really up to snuff, and most importantly feels unique. Nearly every action scene here feels like it's generic as hell and trying to emulate something standard that they'd think would go in a random Indy film. It just feels so boring. Tons of people have complained endlessly about the Crystal Skull monkeys and like the ants, but holy hell I completely prefer that to anything here.
@@UnkownSoldier100 I agree on Return of the Jedi (at least the pre-Special Edition version). But I also think Empire is overrated: it lacks a proper conclusion (obviously) and the Dagobah sections really drag.
20:50 "He wants to kill the head of TH-cam." Wow, this...review came out at an awkward time to make that joke, if you have been paying attention to the news...
Oh wow, Indiana and Marian ending up in a museum would be a PERFECT cap off to the series, its the ONLY way to escalate it from where they ended it with them happily settling down to live their lives together, its one last adventure that ends with them actually living in the history that has been so central to their lives for so long!
Again, the reason why this film didn’t do well was because James Mangal didn’t have both hands on the project because Disney was changing the story so many times
It’s strange how they killed off Mutt from crystal skull, if they wanted to continue the series in a way that made sense, him taking up the hat would make the most sense. Well I guess that’s what happens when an IP is owned by Disney
@@Churrowhisperer I guess I should’ve said it would have made more sense than what they did. Sorry for the poor phrasing. Imo the series should’ve ended with the last crusade
It made sense, but only back in the day. The ending of Crystal Skull hints to this happening. But they realized how everyone hated the movie and the character Mutt, and they scrapped the plans they definitely had to continue the franchise with him.
@@Omar-wq9dz Steven Spielberg basically left this movie because he was done plain and simple I think he personally didn't want to do this because he was made a laughing stock by the Media over KOTCS
Dial of Destiny should have gone something like this Indiana became like his father ignored his family and preferred ancient dead people over his family. Mutt is not dead he's still enlisted after the war he opened up his shop reparing bikes something he liked doing (as established in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) got married started a family. Indiana tried to call him but couldn't too ashamed of himself repeating same mistake his father did. Indiana wants to go back in time to get all those years he wasted of not being there for his son, his wife Marion, and not meeting Matt's son. Jurgen is revealed to be brother of Belloq who wants to finish what brother failed to do look for the Dial of Destiny and use to change time the way he sees fit. Helena is not Indiana Jones goddaugther she's actually his daughter her full name is Helena Sophie Jones and her mother is Willie Scott. Before you say Indiana never had a daughter and I'm making it up nope it was established in the Young Indiana Jones series he has daughter named Sophie and she has two kids also Old Indy mentions he has multiple children. Sophie mother is never mentioned and Mutt was a thing yet till Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Helena is similar to her father going on adventures but she actually takes her kids with her on her adventures and spends time with them. Jurgen is revealed to have killed Oxley after he refused to help him find the Dial of Destiny and his death drove wedge between Indiana and Marion with Indiana being accused of not caring for him which is not the case and Marion wanted to avenge Oxley for being there for her and Mutt. Everything in film remains the same but only difference It's not just Indiana and Helena they are joined by Marion, Spike, Lucy, Sallah, and Short Round for one last adventure. Jurgen dies same way like his brother and Donovan the Dial of Destiny taking away his years leaving his glasses and watch melted. Indiana wants to use the Dial of Destiny to go back get all those lost years he wasted not being there for Marion and Mutt but is told by Marion he can't change the past no matter how many times he tries but before he use it the Dial of Destiny destroys itself unable to remain intact. Film ends with Indiana with Marion going to visit their son Mutt before they knock at the door he turns to Marion says "Sweetheart you were right I can't go back no matter how times I can try I can't change the past. If there is one very important thing i learned you have to live life moving forwards not back this time" then Marion gives Indiana a gentle punch in the face. Instead of Mutt answering the door its little boy named Henry Oxley Jones the fourth after Indiana introduces himself and makes amends with his son. Sallah, Short Round, Helena with her children Spike and Lucy, and Stanforth arrive all invited for cook out and just in time to watch NASA launch Armstrong to the moon being covered on the news by none other than Willie Scott which of course Short Round mentions her history with Indiana and Marion gives him that look of really any more surprises. Indiana puts his hat on his grandson passing of the torch finally and Indiana retires. Idk something like this would have been much better
Congratulations, you just wrote a story that is INFINITELY better than what we actually got. Indy becoming a little too much like his father is a great reason for him to have real relationship issues with his wife and son. As long as Helena was recast, her being Indy and Willie Scott's daughter with kids of her own is perfect! Mutt lives, Sallah and Short Round get important parts in the story, Jurgen is much more of a threat who murders someone close to both Indy and Marion, and we get a story where Indy has a genuine motivation to travel back in time without it being necessary for the plot to kill off Mutt, completely destroy his happiness and leave him a broken old man who just wants to die in the past.
@@RRRandomRecordings thanks i just wish Dial of Destiny need to be more adventurous and fun just like the og trilogy not depressing and boring lifeless movie we got and I felt like dial of destiny had so much potential Indy deserved one last adventure with fan favorite characters from past films and show to wrap up the story while passing the torch to next generation sort of what Cobra Kai and Creed franchise did
10:17 As for Sallah being Egyptian as a character and played by a Welsh actor, I have a head canon that he's part Welsh and part Egyptian. One parent or grandparent was a Welsh Egyptologist who fell inlove with a local Egyptian.
@@Derke73Yeah, and as we all know, animated films can never live up to live action films. Now, if you excuse me, I am gonna watch the best Spider-Man movie, Into the Spider-Verse.
2:38 Are you still dissing the Temple of Doom? You better not be dissing The Temple of Doom while I am here. The friendship between Indy and Short Round alone elevates the movie. Phoebe Waller Bridge made people owe Willie Scott an apology.
I really hate it when some people like NC keep on hating some movies, TV shows and/or games that weren't even all that bad to begin with. They're just letting their own fear, anger, hatred, and suffering consumed them completely till they ended up hating thenselves for overhating these movies, TV shows, and games for way too long (that it just feels unneeded and undeserving nowadays), destroying themselves on the inside, killing their own joy and happiness entirely, and ended up feeling nothing more but complete regret, and guilt. Creating their own worst pain, suffering and mistake on purpose.
@@jeuryrabassa4724 Or you know they just genuinely don't like the movie. For example my younger brother hates Princess Bride, my sister doesn't like any of the Godfather movies and me personally I don't like the Paddington movies.
@christiansouthworth9294 Everyone always have something to either like or dislike. Weather is either good or bad.(Sometimes both) But in the end, It is what it is.
@@johnenigma8506 honestly LoL 😆 gun to my head scenario if I have to put up with one or the other Willie or Helena......I'd take Willie because while she was annoying it made sense especially since she was used to the pampered and privileged life in Shanghai and wasn't used to the outdoors in anyway Helena however was just a massive pain in the butt being a know it all and a condescending person talking down to Indy treating him like he was Grandpa Simpson or something!
I didn't like Mutt in Crystal Skull, but at least that movie gave Indy a happy ending. The trilogy already had an ending, Crystal Skull wasn't needed, but if they were going to do it, at least they did one thing right: the happy ending. This movie destroys that.
17:45 Didn’t this guy also write good films such as the first 2 Jurassic Park movies, and the first Mission Impossible film. He did some other films that were ok like Zathura, War of the Worlds, and Snake Eyes starring Nicolas Cage.
Not even earning the eyepatch, or giving the end of the credits a triumphant Raiders March reprise. I can forgive leaving out the Paramount match cut, to a degree. Crystal Skull tried to end the franchise with a bang. This one went out with a whimper.
Meh, people hated on Crystal Skull because of a couple of cringe scenes, while they loved Temple of Doom because they were kids and it is full of funny grossout humor; really they're both mediocre. I'd say Raiders and Crusade are top tier, Temple and Skull are mid tier, and Dial is garbage tier.
@@chasehedges6775 - You literally said below that you didn't see it. Ooooh. You're one of those people who hates on things because TH-camrs said so. Got it.
Weirdly enough, the movie completely lost me when they traveled back in time. My main reason for this has to do with the Dial itself. The other artifacts in the other movies were all something supernatural and otherworldly: the Ark of the Covenant holds the power of God, the Sankara Stones are mystical artifacts somehow related to Shiva, and the Holy Grail is the cup that Jesus Christ drank from at the Last Supper and also caught Christ’s blood during the Crucifixion. The Crystal Skull, while not an artifact related to religion or anything mystical like the previous artifacts still came from a source far beyond and far more powerful than humanity. The Dial of Destiny doesn’t have any of these things. It’s literally a device built by a man who was good at engineering and math. There is nothing supernatural hinted at (at least nothing I picked up on while watching the movie). There is nothing mysterious about it at all and I cannot suspend my disbelief long enough to get on board with it. Except for the supernatural elements (and jumping out of a plane with an inflatable raft, although MythBusters had something to say about that), the movies were all grounded in reality. All of the characters were regular people in over their heads with power they did not comprehend. And this is part of what allowed Indiana Jones to escape every time: he knew he was in over his head. When he realized what was happening with the Ark, he closed his eyes to avoid the wrath of God; when he realized the connection of the Sankara Stones to Shiva, he used that to defeat Mola Ram; and when he realized that the Holy Grail would be the cup of a lowly carpenter rather than a powerful king, he was able to save his father. The Nazis lose in this one because they were bad at geology. Other than that, both they and Indy knew exactly how the Dial worked because it’s just math. Not really a mysterious and powerful artifact when you look at it that way. So yeah, Archimedes invented time travel by doing math and the Nazis were bad at geology. Maybe other people see it differently, but I just couldn’t get behind it.
We didn’t like the son, but did you have to kill him off? At least with the last movie there was a happy ending. The boy could have got hit by a laser, grew a beard and learned to take less risks. THIS IS A REFERENCE TO A VIDEO GAME
You could just tell how much Harrison Ford didn't want to do to this one, from crashing his plane in real life to the near death experiences Indy has in the movie. I watched this movie at home, and added my own dialogue for Indy every time he was nearly *dispatched* by something. When the car hits the breaks at the airport, I shouted "WHY DID YOU STOP!?!?"
Im betting Disney is kicking themslves in the ass for not bringing back Ke Huy from Temple of Doom. Imagine Indys companion from the first film in-universe coming back for his last adventure?
It so werid this movie mentions Mutt and didn't do anything with that. I know internet hated the character. but I generally thought they could flesh out the character to be something better.
@@Maximus2007 it was more that the internet hated that it was Shia Lebouf circa 2007 who most people saw as either the Disney kid or the whiny dipnut from transformers so the idea that he was Indiana Jones son was just too much for people to comprehend at the time
I actually enjoyed most of Dial of Destiny. I always took his voice sounding off in the opening to be down to being terrified and scared. His voice sounds mostly fine on the train. Granted the best sequence of the film is the opening 20 minutes sent in 1944. The rest of the film is not bad, it's a mostly fun adventure film, but the element of the God Daughter is the worst part of the film.
Helena must be one of the most unintentionally infuriating character ever created. At this point, I even prefer Jar Jar and Scrappy. At least they won't rob their teammates blind and expect to be praised for it and contribute more to the overall plot.
you can even put tintin in it. In fact Spielberg said in an enterview that one critic that saw raiders compare it too much with Tintin and Spielberg was like "what the hell is tintin?"
23:38 Love how an internet critic wrote something that completely fixed the movie that a multi-million dollar company couldn’t do right. It’s astounding how bad Disney can be
Right for me its all about rewatchability I saw crystal skull in theaters and a ton since then. This one I'll probably never watch again because it's just so bland I'm not even curious for a rewatch.
0:40 And this is the last we’ll see of Tamara Chambers on Channel Awesome. Good luck to her on her future endeavors. It’s totally different without her, but I’m getting used to it.
@ From what I read on a Reddit post… Although there is no drama between her and CA, she wanted to branch out into other projects. I had no idea until I came across her reply confirming that.
It's really sad to see how Steven Spielberg ended his relationship with Shia LaBeouf. I always thought that if they had continued working together, Shia could have helped Steven snag six more Oscars, just like Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro did. I mean, getting fired for giving some honest feedback about Indiana Jones seems totally unfair. The main thing holding Steven back from more success is his struggle to take advice from those around him. Recently, he lost 7 Oscars to Everything Everywhere All At Once, which is tough. Honestly, I'm relieved that I won't have to rely on my Bachelor's Degree in Film to pursue a career as a movie director.
No even back around mid 2000s when I first got into trilogy you'd see online forums of people saying Temple is bad. So to me at least it's been common in the fanbase but I've never understood it I mean I get it because the lady is like a early jar jar she's kinda unbearable but after a while she doesn't bother me and rest of film is great.
How did this movie cost so much money to make and still be this bad??!??!?
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PRETTY PLEASE, IT IS THE DAY 318 WAITING FOR THE ,,G-force " MOVIE REVIEW BY THE ,,Nostalgia Critic" HIMSELF! PLEASE SEE THIS Doug!
Your gonna run out of classic bad disney movies until you will review my requested movie!
Can you please review Escape from Cluster Prime, Escape from Tomorrow, Rugrats Go Wild, iGo to Japan, iParty with Victorious, and Meet the Robinsons.
Indiana Jones should appear in Disney Speeedstorm.
Review
The Big Lebowski
The Incredible Hulk
Dark City
Stargate
Prince Of Thieves
The Rock
Gremlins
The Dragonslayer
Ghost
Clue
The Mummy 3
Predator Month
Still waiting for you to review:
* Norbit (long awaited request)
* The Benchwarmers
* The Spy Next Door (for Nostalgia-ween thats around the corner)
* The New Guy
* Without a Paddle
* A Night at the Roxbury
* Planet 51
* Big Momma’s House trilogy (as a all 3 in 1 full review)
* Date Night
* Megamind
* Rush Hour trilogy (as a all 3 in 1 full review & the 4th movie is greenlit)
* Bad Boys trilogy (as a all 3 in 1 full review & the celebration of 4th movie’s release)
* Gay Purr-ee
* Hey Arnold the movie
* The Wild Thornberrys Movie
* Looney Tunes Back in Action
* Death at a Funeral (2010)
* Wild Hogs
* Dude Wheres My Car
* Babe (1995)
* Charlotte’s Web (1973)(since you reviewed the remake)
a *SEQUEL MONTH 3.0* featuring:
* Balto 3: Wings of Change (you reviewed 1 & 2 but not the 3rd one to complete the trilogy)
* Rugrats in Paris
* Rugrats Go Wild
(after doing Rugrats in Paris and The Wild Thornberrys Movie, and since you reviewed the 1st Rugrats movie, you gotta do the sequels)
* Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 & 3 (you reviewed the 1st one and now you gotta do the sequels)
* Babe Pig in the City
* Charlotte’s Web 2: Wilbur’s Great Adventure
and a *Re-visit review month* featuring:
* Space Jam 1
* Rock a Doodle
* Bebe’s Kids
* Tom & Jerry (1993)
* Neverending Story
* other 2000s episode reviews
no more on these teases from posts on _can you guess what (insert actor/acress) movie_
If Harrison Ford as Red Hulk doesn’t take Caps Shied and say “This belongs in a museum!” I’m walking out of the theaters
Id pay to see that😂
"Believe me I tried!"
Would be a massively missed opportunity if they don’t.
As an aside I kinda love how Ford has just been sooo done with a lot of nerd questions, from his IDGAF response about force ghosts, to being utterly baffled at what the heck a universe 616 even is.
I hope so but it doesn’t seem as red hulk will talk besides grunts and roars
No. He should be on Air Force One and say, "Get off my plane!"
Isn't that just the perfect metaphor for modern Hollywood? Old films want to stay in the past and die peacefully, but then get dragged back into the present?
Sooooo true💯
Absolutely perfect
Get dragged back into the present, just to have our heroes sh*t all over. Indy is an utter loser here.
I'd argue that great Films never die; they just want to be remembered fondly. Modern Hollywood drags them into the limelight again to try to milk some more profit out of them, more often than not sullying their legacy in the process.
@@kuribayashi84 Soooo true. To quote Babe Ruth from The Sandlot: “Heroes get remembered but legends never die.”
It will forever be hilarious to me that Spielberg was so pissed about what Shia said about Crystal Skull, his character in the follow up gets killed off screen, which funnily also happened in transformers the last knight, a film he produced, so what are the odds.
Sam Witwicky
Honestly Spielberg was slumming it direction wise on KOTCS I don't blame Shia for feeling like he did a disservice to the series but one also has to remember that Spielberg only did this movie because George wouldn't leave him alone about it Steven made it clear he was done with the series and it shows
@@indianaCurtis yup
It's even funnier that he died in Vietnam, even though they SHOWED HIM IN THE SAME EXACT SAME SCENARIO IN CRYSTAL SKULL
@@indianaCurtisahh come on crystal skull wasent that bad
This is a perfect example of corporate greed refusing to let something die so long as they can milk it for more. The only reason they would have done the ending the way they did is if they were thinking "but what if we want to make another sequel".
There's a bit more to it. Indiana Jones is a strange case in that it is a neglected series, but also one that gets pulled back out at random times. Had they wanted it to continue after Crusade, they could have done what the James Bond series did and recast Indiana Jones and do a new set of movies, but this is where the neglect comes in.
Spielberg has never cared for Indiana Jones and it shows. He never wanted to make Crystal Skull and had to be pressured into it by George Lucas. Also, unlike with Raiders, where Spielberg needed to make a hit after his last movie bombed, his reputation was more or less set in stone so he treated it more like a favor to George and a chance to see old friends.
This movie is the end result of this strange situation. People like Indiana Jones enough to want to see him again, but he's not an IP that is given much care by those who run it. As a result, we get a bland finale which satisfies nobody. It's sad because had the series ended with Last Crusade, we would have had a solid trilogy of great movies and if they had recast the lead and continued, the series would have been free to expand past a director who doesn't care and an actor who has aged out of the role.
@@ahatt96that all makes sense for the most part. However, they would never recast another actor as Indiana Jones because Harrison Ford has said before that when he dies, so does Indiana Jones. This indicates that he does not want the character to be played by someone else.
@@sagev.5818 💯 Harrison Ford is irreplaceable in the role
@@ahatt96 THIS💯💯. Last Crusade was THE END for a reason. The ending to Crystal Skull with Indy and Marion getting marred was was nice tho.
Corporate greed refusing to let go go off their cash cows does not need to be a bad thing. Look at Deadpool & Wolverine. The character Wolverine got a really good send off in Logan, funnily enough directed by the same person who directed this movie. Hugh was pulled back on board and it ended up being a very fun ride. If Disney wants to keep making these Indie movies, perhaps they could atleast try to scout for talented folks who genuinely care for the characters and the lore and then give them the creative freedom to create something magical.
There was one reason why I had no interest in watching this movie: Ford is in his 80s now and he just looks exhausted. It's like forcing your grandpa to run a marathon
I only saw it for completionist reasons, and it was way duller than I expected, so you're not missing out whatsoever.
Isn’t this the movie that cost more to make then Barbie and Oppenheimer PUT TOGETHER?!?!?!?!?!?!
yes
That’s just depressing, as Oppenheimer and Barbie look a million times better
Also, Godzilla Minus One.
Say WHAAAAT!?
It's because the actors in Barbie and Oppenheimer agreed to reduced salaries and there weren't any big action sequences in either films. With Indy, Disney agreed to pay huge salaries to the actors and did lots of big effects things those movies didn't have
I forgot Antonio Banderas was in this
Same
For like 2 minutes.
@@TurbidTG1😂😂😂.
Puss In Boots 2 was the real Indiana Jones film
Everyone will forget this movie existed soon.
I actually hate that they killed off Mutt like that. Sure, he wasn't great, but just giving him the ax like that is so unceremonious
I personally do not like that either because while he wasn't the greatest character his offscreen death is just a reason for Indy to become miserable and that is just not fun to watch, the enjoyment of an Indiana Jones movie is that he does what he does because he loves the sense of adventure no matter how dangerous the mission is. If they want to write him out then they could just say he's off doing his own things in life instead of killing him off just to be used as a plot divice and a really bad one at that.
When they did it in KOTCS with his dad and Brody, at least it was because their actors had died since the last movie.
I agree, Indiana Jones 6 would be good, he rescues Mutt from a Vietnam prison camp.
It's still weird they didnt have his daughter from Young Indiana Jones Adventures
Why do movies like this (Star Wars sequels) have to have beloved characters in abject misery when we see them again after all these years? It would be just fine for Indy to be pulled back into adventure from a life that wasn't complete horseshit.
Hot take? Killing Shia LaBeouf was actually the most boring decision this movie made. The goddaughter could have easily have just been Indy's son who, during his own Indiana Jones adventures, went down the wrong path. Then we have Indy reconnecting with his son and re-establishing what it actually means to be an archaeologist. Hell, we could still do your idea for the ending and have *him* be the one to put his mom and dad in the museum.
The audience hated Mutt, that's why.
@@ShadowSonic2We hate her too though...
@@ShadowSonic2 and killing him off was the cowards way out lol
I like this idea!
@@whateverwhatever4026IE, you'd hate any co lead who wasn't a useless sidekick
To be honest with Sallah, it was always clear that even if he was Egyptian, he had quite strong ties to Britain (singing British songs, being quite anglicised in his mannerisms, having to leave Egypt in the post-colonial era (possibly due to the Suez Crisis, I'm not sure if it's ever actually established?). Being played by a Welsh actor, I always found it easy to assume he was probably of mixed heritage.
Oh yeah. People like Sallah were seen as British Occupation Collaborators at best; and as real Foreign-Allegiance threats to Egypt’s sovereignty, even before ‘56.
Those people in real life who didn’t have great personal wealth & connections, or the British refused to give refugee or dual-citizenship status. They normally ended up imprisoned (in horrid ex-occupation prisons) until they somehow “proved their innocence;” usually by denouncing their personal enemies to the same fate.
"Our heroes captured by TH-cam..." 😂😂😂😂😂
hahaha
No MrBeast joke as the leader
Spit my drink with that one.
That works surprisingly well... HEIL TH-cam.
the best part
I love how everyone completely ignore the fact that Indy's still a wanted man by the end of the movie
@@oliversherman2414 he was probably cleared off screen
He was probably cleared off screen
@@jessecervantes7382He was probably cleared off screen
Or how when Indy is walking towards the airport, as a wanted man, Sallah shouts his name.
@@Right_Said_Brett yeah lol 😆
Temple of Doom gets way too much hate and Crystal Skull. Temple of Doom is way better but Crystal Skull was a fun film but had a lot of rough edges. Temple of Doom still has the best soundtrack and love its dark tone to this day.
Plus a pretty good one liner: " Prepare to meet Kali, in Hell!"
Yeah, the Temple of Doom review is one of those where Doug just had know idea what he was talking about.
@@DanGamingFan2406 Same with The Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar. Both times some of his complaints were a direct result of him not understanding the movie. Doug does this often, he’s not too bright.
I AGREE TEMPLE OF DOOM IS AWESOME BUT I FUCKING HATE WILLIE CAPSHAW
@@thing1thing2themediamaniac43 Eh she wasn’t a great character but way better than Alison Doody and Phoebe Waller-Bridge
According to James Mangold, he was given a script after Spielberg declined to direct a month before pre-production was scheduled to start, but that script had, "no reason to be made." During a meeting with Lucas, Kennedy, and Speilberg, he pitched a movie about aging, sorrounding a time mcguffin and was given a year to write it, so this movie was almost much worse.
disney going "capitalism is baaaaaaad" is so cringy, and the way they wrote it is like if a 15 years old with a marx or cheguevara t shirt wrote it, like "capitalism is stealing man!!!, I totally figured out how the world, society and economics work!".
I think it's to Panda, uh PANDER to Communist China.
ANYONE going “capitalism is bad” doesn’t have a real understanding of economic history.
@@m3tamorphosissystem250 I mean, it is heartless and cruel, but it's clear that there is no better alternative.
@@valentinkambushev4968the better alternative is to not have large societies
@@valentinkambushev4968 It's is only as cruel as the people working within the system.
4:04 This is literally the best joke you've ever made.
I don't know if he got the idea from alternate history hub, but it is a good joke.
@@AlexMathiesenIt wouldn’t surprise me.
you can't name them despite usa is giving away billions in cash and weapons to those who is worshiping them now. strange.
I came here to say this and someone beat me to it lol
why is no one taking youtube to court over this infringement of free speech?
They really dropped the ball here. AT LEAST Crystal Skull had a happy ending! What they should have done is have Indy Dean of the University now where he has written several books about his previous adventures which would later be adapted into the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, making him somewhat famous and wealthy. Him and Marion are thriving. Short Round who saw Indy as a father figure, followed in his footsteps to become an archaeologist as well. He discovers something mysterious and reaches out to Indy, they go on an adventure together and have a tender moment towards the end. Indy tells Short Round that he’s thinking of retiring. Him and Mutt are on good terms now and he’s much more matured. Mutt announces he’s going to be a dad. The movie ends with Indy passing his fedora to an adult Short Round to carry on his legacy, similar to the beginning of The Last Crusade. Now THAT would have been amazing!
Dude they didn't just drop the ball, they dunked it in sewage, played 8 rounds of soccer with it and then tossed it in the trash for good measure. This movie shits on Indiana Jones's character and legacy every chance it gets to prop up a selfish, arrogant, bitch who is ironically more akin to Beloque then Indiana.
Short Round is having more success than Indiana Jones by this time. in real life and in the Indy universe.
Would have been really cool seeing a grown up Short Round. Especially since his actor is now a star in his own right.
I agree but for whatever reason, Disney and Kennedy have this hard on to destroy iconic male characters.
@@BishopWalters12 They were never going to bring Mutt back and it was Ford's idea to kill him and be estranged from Marion.
Another Fun Fact: The artifact Indy is seeking in the opening flashback is the Lance of Longinus, the blade that drew Christ's blood. This artifact was previously featured in a 1995 comic book, "Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny," in which the Nazis are after the blade and Indy and his father must stop them.
Um actually, I think you mean “TH-cam” was after the blade.
😂😂😂
@@koneheadcokehead4981 false. He actually wanted to prevent Asuka’s death
That comic was pretty cool. I remember reading it in the Library in like...2007. I need to get the book for my personal library
@koneheadcokehead4981 now that I think about it, there's a coming video game of the same title, wasn't there? 🤔
we all know that agent Blazkowic stole The Spear of Destiny from Nazis. Was Dr. Johns just a decoy?
This is why Back to the Future remains one of my favourite 80's franchises as it never got rebooted or gotten a sequel. Robert Zemekis made sure of that.
Just wait...
Back to the Future got two mediocre sequels.
It did get a musical though.
You forgot the Telltale Game BOTF the video game. It serves as a canonical sequel to the trilogy and it's done very respectful to the source material.
18:43 How did Sonic the Hedgehog 2 manage to do this better?
That’s hilarious to think about after watching that again recently 😂
Fun Fact: Anthony Ingruber, a voice actor and Harrison Ford lookalike, makes a cameo as a Dutch prince at an auction in Morocco. Ingruber also played a young version of Ford's character in The Age of Adaline (2015). Sean Connery also makes a cameo, with photos of Henry Jones Sr. appearing in Indiana Jones' New York apartment.
He was also the stand-in for Ford in the flashback opening
Wanted him to play Young Solo so bad.
I searched up, he's also the body double for young Indi scenes. Big fan of his rendition of Joker in the Batman Telltale game.
So Doug & Malcolm's future is to end up as Statler & Waldorf from The Muppets?
Another Fun Fact: John Rhys-Davies had expressed interest in reprising his role as Sallah from Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. He was offered a cameo in the wedding scene in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but he "thought the character of Sallah is worth more to the audience than that."
Yeah, apparently he's worth a two minute cameo in a shittier movie, saying one trailer line and fucking off to never bee seen again.
Honestly speaking I think it's more likely he was given a low-ball offer to do a cameo and he said nah I'm good thank you but with Disney they probably gave him a dumpster full of money and also probably literally begged him to be in this movie since they knew it was gonna suck and they needed all the nostalgia bait they could get
@@indianaCurtis From everything I've heard, what actually happened was that both he and Karen Allen signed on under the impression they'd both have major roles in the film, only to find out when shooting began that they were both cameos.
@@retrobrickreviews687
That legitimately sucks ass holy shit
@@retrobrickreviews687 that sucks even worse actually but hopefully they at least got a decent paycheck for their time
The biggest sin this movie commits is that Indy takes a back seat in his own movie. They had this formula down from Last Crusade, only this time Indy would be the wise mentor like his father was, and Helena would have essentially taken over Indy's role from Crusade. But in the end, Helena knows everything that Indy knows, is just as capable if not more, and basically makes his role in all of this moot. I felt Mads was wasted as a villain too.
I mean… does she? Indy’s still the main lead and the central focus of the film.
@@JRA6192Found the shill. Still can't handle the truth?
@@JoakimOtamaa The truth is, they were never going to make Helena be a useless shrieking damsel. And Indy was still very much the lead here.
If it had been Marion doing all this you wouldn't complain
@@ShadowSonic2 Helena is terrible, just like Phoebe WB in everything. Can't be a coincidence. Maybe would've helped with a likable actress, don't care. The series ended perfectly with The Last Crusade, same with Star Wars back 1983. No need for more. Disney can sod off.
Whole movie woulda been better without her. Slightly better. It was just bad overall... except for the beginning which surprisingly hit the vibe pretty well.
I think not having Short Round and Salah with him on the adventure was a huge mistake!
It was like a 300 million dollar mistake
@@neilbeaton9498 💯💯💯
@@thiagoteixeira6537 no One cared about Key Hu Quan until after he won an Oscar then suddenly it became "where's short round why isn't short round on this adventure?"
@indianaCurtis nah many of us were rooting for a short round return far before EEAAO came out
@@neilbeaton9498 I guess I shouldn't say no one cares but I never really saw the major outpour for short round until after his big win either way regardless major mistake on Disney's part but whatever 🙄 movies already done and over 😞
Y'know, a interesting death for Mikkelsen's character would've been him aging back and forth over and over again. Looking like a baby with dozens of wrinkles, a skeleton, over and over again until he just turns into dust or something.
Basically being reborn and dying over and over again. Be a rather horrific way to go
@@stephano1019 that sounds better than what I was describing
I feel a using a bronze bull or something very brutal would make sense. Hell coming back to a worse time period would be funny too.
Certainly would fit the deaths we’ve had in this franchise: getting smitten by God’s wrath, eaten alive by crocodiles, burnt to death in a lava pit, crushed by a rock crusher, decapitated by cave blades, aging hundreds of years, falling into a deep chasm, eaten alive by ants, overloaded with so much information that you burst into flames…
In this one? Plane crash, which we’ve seen a lot. Do something more creative!
As soon as he put the watch on, and there was an obvious focus on it, I thought he was going to get marooned in the past and turn out to be Archimedes.
Antonio Banderas’ character is literally the only character I remembered from the movie aside from Indiana Jones.
But, how?!
I wish they did more with him too. I like Banderas as an actor and he should be a great addition to an Indy movie, but they underused him. I also felt the same for Mads Mikkelsen too.
Agree @@TheMrHavish
What is the character's name?
Edit: His name is Renaldo
To address that ending, the film actually was going to end with Indy staying behind, but it involved Helena taking up the mantle and retroactively replacing him in the previous four movies. This got so much backlash from test audiences that it was reworked into the ending we ultimately got.
Apparently, Disney thought that was TOO woke?
@@AlexHarrison-zv4jj No, they made it. They just got so much hate they caved.
Honestly I don't believe in the "six different endings" BS that people like doomcock spouted on about but I do believe that the original version was more like rise of Skywalker in that Indy dies from that gunshot and Helena taking up the mantle as Indiana Shaw or something ala Rey Skywalker
@@indianaCurtis very dumb either way
That's false. Harrison even said "I don't remember an ending where he died or stayed in the past"
They should’ve had Short Round grown up with Indy on one last adventure. Imagine if they actually did that, and then Ke Huy Quan wins his Oscar. People would’ve gone NUTS for Dial of Destiny knowing Academy Award winner Ke Huy Quan was returning in it as Short Round! Disney Screwed the pooch on that one
@@JoshuaDHSW that's just it though Ke Huy Quan wasn't on anyone's radar until after his big win and then people came out of the woodwork wanting short round in this movie personally speaking it was a huge missed opportunity not having him in the movie
3:23 I still have trouble believing that this movie cost more to make than Infinity War. I mean…what?!
Both Karen Allen and Jim Broadbent expressed interest in reprising their respective roles from the previous films, but only Allen appears in this film.
18:05 We already know Elena is the main character, we can’t have these other nobodies who are actually interesting and fun to watch steal her spotlight.
2:38 I used to think Temple of Doom wasn’t good, then I saw it again and loved it. Set pieces, the direction, the bridge scene is one of the best set pieces ever, and I also enjoyed Willie more!
Doom gets too much hate
Completely agree. It gets far too much hate
The bad guys in temple of doom are African American so I think some are offended by it but a lot of other films have white bad guys so tbh it's not a big deal
TOD is good but not great and certainly not a classic people only say it's a classic because they were children when it came out and thought because of the darker tone and occasionally gruesome stuff that they were bing naughty and getting away with watching something they probably shouldn't have
@@Siegfried5846 No they're Indian.
20:11 Even for a Big Bad guy the kid killing him off the way he does is just Cruel and inhumane.
Yeah, left a really sour taste in my mouth watching a 13 year old drown a man to death.
I honestly think kingdom of the crystal skull was better and I don't think its as bad as most people think it is its honestly better than dial of destiny
@@mrjacob1000 I agree 100%
killing off Jones son off-screen was a big mistake, I don't care how Shia Labouf turned out there were far better options then to go down that road.
Yeah, it felt like caving in to the worst criticism of KotCS.
@@louisduarte8763 agreed, I wish this film had had the balls to have Jones selfishly use the device to go back in time to save his son consequences be damned.
Yeah there were many better options they could have recast the actor or just not had him appear in the movie
Recast would have been much better. But that doesn't fit with "the force is female"
@@nathank2289 quiet troll
Another Fun Fact: This film made Harrison Ford the second actor, after Sylvester Stallone, to star in a film that opened at #1 at the box office in six consecutive decades.
what's sly's recent #1? those crappy untouchables movies?
I know I’m gonna get hated by saying this but…I actually liked Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. I think it’s watchable at times, has interesting points here and there and it had a great ending to Indies story.
oh believe me crystal skull is a masterpiece compared to this pile of dog crap
Thank you finally somebody says it
Why would you get hate? You’re allowed to like whatever you want, even if it’s bad. I like a bunch of bad movies myself, including Crystal skull.
@@waynemetheny5279 No it isn't you gigantic loser.
I didn't love it but it was fine as an Indy Show. I just disliked the alien aspect instead of historical/religious facts.
I'll come out and say it: Crystal Skull is better. It had an older indy like in this film, but actually gave him closure, which this movie undoes just because Disney has a hard-on for broken old men. It had a stronger villain with a better death scene. The nuke scene, for how nonsensical as it was, is memorable, unlike anything in this movie. Aliens are more believable than time travel in this franchise. And Shia Labeouf was a better companion than Phoebe Waller-Bridge, since Mutt was Indy's direct child, instead of the daughter of some random character we barely get to know.
I really don't think there should have been an Indy 5, but if they did, it should have been an adventure with Indy, Mutt, and an adult Short Round. The latter two would clash over their different personalities, but ultimately grow closer, and Indy would tell them he's proud of his two sons. The movie could end with Indy dying, and his stuff ending up in a beautiful museum exhibit, while Mutt and Short Round would both pick up the mantle.
I would prefer to leave Mutt out of it. Short Round would make a much better successor.
22:18 Dammit, Doug, Assassin's Creed Odyssey was RIGHT THERE!!!
That "Indiana Jones: Dull of Destiny" line from Nostalgic Critic cracked me up 😂😂
Pretty accurate, really
Dude. You wrote that you didn't see the film. Sit this out.
@@braytonwright6011 Oh yeah, I did seen it with my grandpa at a movie theater in Maine when it was first released.
@@braytonwright6011 So be quiet
It’s weird to see people still clinging to the idea that Temple of Doom was a failure. It’s like did you not get the memo that we’re way past that. It’s easily my favorite at this point. Also the chase sequence through the college town in Crystal Skull has more cinematic value than anything in the new film. Without Spielberg the franchise feels lifeless.
I’ve noticed Return of the Jedi also gets some of this treatment. I don’t get it. I’m happy to concede both are the 3rd best of their trilogies but they are still really good.
Its not really that its a failure but more of being thier least favorite of the series(In this case in the original trilogy), personally while I do like the film I didn't enjoy it as much as Raiders or Last Crusade but is better than Crystal Skull which I found mostly just ok and most definitely Dail of Destiny, but if its your favorite that is great.
Completely agree about Temple of Doom, it stands just as tall as the others in the trilogy to me. And yeah, watching just how safe, bland and boring this movie is made me realize that I was too harsh on Crystal Skull the first time I watched it. Like I watched it again and honestly the action is really up to snuff, and most importantly feels unique. Nearly every action scene here feels like it's generic as hell and trying to emulate something standard that they'd think would go in a random Indy film. It just feels so boring. Tons of people have complained endlessly about the Crystal Skull monkeys and like the ants, but holy hell I completely prefer that to anything here.
@@UnkownSoldier100 I agree on Return of the Jedi (at least the pre-Special Edition version). But I also think Empire is overrated: it lacks a proper conclusion (obviously) and the Dagobah sections really drag.
Just cause it’s your favorite doesn’t mean it’s good.
20:50 "He wants to kill the head of TH-cam."
Wow, this...review came out at an awkward time to make that joke, if you have been paying attention to the news...
These reviews are worked on two weeks ahead of time
@@RandomCartoonFan2639 Oh I know, just saying it's awkward timing.
What happened? Did someone try to assassinate the CEO for failing to do anything about bot accounts and continuing to ruin the platform?
@@jlev1028
Susan Wojiki, the former CEO, passed away from cancer
@@jlev1028 No, she literally died of cancer.
19:49-Indiana Jones also inspired the Uncharted series
17:55 one of my favorite nostalgia critic moments in a very long time.
Don’t know why he took a dig at that one line in Crystal Skull. It’s the one moment that feels like classic Indy in that movie
Oh wow, Indiana and Marian ending up in a museum would be a PERFECT cap off to the series, its the ONLY way to escalate it from where they ended it with them happily settling down to live their lives together, its one last adventure that ends with them actually living in the history that has been so central to their lives for so long!
I hope James Mangold can redeem himself with DCU's SWAMP THING
This movie made him piss away the good will he built up with THE WOLVERINE and LOGAN.
James Mangold is making the new Swamp Thing?
I feel like that'll change down the line. Seems too early when we don't even have Superman to jump to Swamp Thing.
Again, the reason why this film didn’t do well was because James Mangal didn’t have both hands on the project because Disney was changing the story so many times
let's hope
It’s strange how they killed off Mutt from crystal skull, if they wanted to continue the series in a way that made sense, him taking up the hat would make the most sense. Well I guess that’s what happens when an IP is owned by Disney
For that they would have to recast Shia though
It wouldn’t make sense to continue the series with Mutt, there’s only ever gonna be one Indiana jones.
@@whatsthehistory4752wasn't he an hated character?
@@Churrowhisperer I guess I should’ve said it would have made more sense than what they did. Sorry for the poor phrasing. Imo the series should’ve ended with the last crusade
It made sense, but only back in the day. The ending of Crystal Skull hints to this happening. But they realized how everyone hated the movie and the character Mutt, and they scrapped the plans they definitely had to continue the franchise with him.
4:39 Now, the new game is out. I kinda think they should have got Troy Baker to voice indiana for the opening
14:13 IT'S CALLED BAD WRITING!
Just finished rewatching the Barbie movie and that’s how I feel.
@alfredoramirez127 Good thing I choose Oppenheimer instead.
Shame I can't say the same for my little sister (who choose Barbie).
@@alfredoramirez127 It's almost like you aren't the target audience genius.
@@vinnyc.1265As someone who is the target audience for Barbie... I enjoyed Oppenheimer, wish I felt the same about Barbie
@@dromalloma2651 Sure you are lol
I would have been interested in seeing how it would have turned out if Steven Spielberg made it
Bad, just like Crystal Skull.
@scottneil1187 well this was Bad so 😅
@@Kul9851CC Darned if u do, darned if you don’t
@@scottneil1187maybe it’d be more interesting at least.
@@Omar-wq9dz Steven Spielberg basically left this movie because he was done plain and simple I think he personally didn't want to do this because he was made a laughing stock by the Media over KOTCS
"The whip is literal perfection"
"It will be once it suits me"
"When it fits in a woman's hand."
"...What does that mean?"
"I don't know. Girl power?"
Dial of Destiny should have gone something like this
Indiana became like his father ignored his family and preferred ancient dead people over his family. Mutt is not dead he's still enlisted after the war he opened up his shop reparing bikes something he liked doing (as established in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) got married started a family. Indiana tried to call him but couldn't too ashamed of himself repeating same mistake his father did. Indiana wants to go back in time to get all those years he wasted of not being there for his son, his wife Marion, and not meeting Matt's son. Jurgen is revealed to be brother of Belloq who wants to finish what brother failed to do look for the Dial of Destiny and use to change time the way he sees fit. Helena is not Indiana Jones goddaugther she's actually his daughter her full name is Helena Sophie Jones and her mother is Willie Scott. Before you say Indiana never had a daughter and I'm making it up nope it was established in the Young Indiana Jones series he has daughter named Sophie and she has two kids also Old Indy mentions he has multiple children. Sophie mother is never mentioned and Mutt was a thing yet till Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Helena is similar to her father going on adventures but she actually takes her kids with her on her adventures and spends time with them. Jurgen is revealed to have killed Oxley after he refused to help him find the Dial of Destiny and his death drove wedge between Indiana and Marion with Indiana being accused of not caring for him which is not the case and Marion wanted to avenge Oxley for being there for her and Mutt. Everything in film remains the same but only difference It's not just Indiana and Helena they are joined by Marion, Spike, Lucy, Sallah, and Short Round for one last adventure. Jurgen dies same way like his brother and Donovan the Dial of Destiny taking away his years leaving his glasses and watch melted. Indiana wants to use the Dial of Destiny to go back get all those lost years he wasted not being there for Marion and Mutt but is told by Marion he can't change the past no matter how many times he tries but before he use it the Dial of Destiny destroys itself unable to remain intact. Film ends with Indiana with Marion going to visit their son Mutt before they knock at the door he turns to Marion says "Sweetheart you were right I can't go back no matter how times I can try I can't change the past. If there is one very important thing i learned you have to live life moving forwards not back this time" then Marion gives Indiana a gentle punch in the face. Instead of Mutt answering the door its little boy named Henry Oxley Jones the fourth after Indiana introduces himself and makes amends with his son. Sallah, Short Round, Helena with her children Spike and Lucy, and Stanforth arrive all invited for cook out and just in time to watch NASA launch Armstrong to the moon being covered on the news by none other than Willie Scott which of course Short Round mentions her history with Indiana and Marion gives him that look of really any more surprises. Indiana puts his hat on his grandson passing of the torch finally and Indiana retires. Idk something like this would have been much better
Congratulations, you just wrote a story that is INFINITELY better than what we actually got. Indy becoming a little too much like his father is a great reason for him to have real relationship issues with his wife and son. As long as Helena was recast, her being Indy and Willie Scott's daughter with kids of her own is perfect! Mutt lives, Sallah and Short Round get important parts in the story, Jurgen is much more of a threat who murders someone close to both Indy and Marion, and we get a story where Indy has a genuine motivation to travel back in time without it being necessary for the plot to kill off Mutt, completely destroy his happiness and leave him a broken old man who just wants to die in the past.
@@RRRandomRecordings thanks i just wish Dial of Destiny need to be more adventurous and fun just like the og trilogy not depressing and boring lifeless movie we got and I felt like dial of destiny had so much potential Indy deserved one last adventure with fan favorite characters from past films and show to wrap up the story while passing the torch to next generation sort of what Cobra Kai and Creed franchise did
@@Lopez03Eduardo. So you wanted Gutless Fanservice?
@@RRRandomRecordings So you wanted gutless fanservice
10:17 As for Sallah being Egyptian as a character and played by a Welsh actor, I have a head canon that he's part Welsh and part Egyptian. One parent or grandparent was a Welsh Egyptologist who fell inlove with a local Egyptian.
“ONWARD TO ADVENTU-oh right, shitty reality.” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Luke: Yep, it sucks.
*Drinks green milk.*
Goddamn It I was Hoping Mask of Zorro or Puss in Boots than this Train Wreck, to me Indiana Jones had the Perfect Ending with Crystal Skull.
Weird way to spell Last Crusade
@@aneasteregg8171 I actually think the final scene of Crystal Skull, (if not the rest of the movie), is even better.
He already did the mask of zorro, and the 2nd Puss In Boots
@@lShadowdark He did Legend of Zorro and Last Wish but he never Reviewed Mask of Zorro or Puss in Boots 1.
I think you mean the last crusade🤦♂️ you wrote down wrong name.
There is one more good Indiana Jones movie and it called Spilberg's "Adventures of Tintin"
Pretty good and underrated movie, btw.
Deserves more love and attention.
@@jeuryrabassa4724 Would love to hear NC take on it
Funnily enough, I have Blue Oranges stashed on my DVD pile.
Yeah, that's not the good one, but it's definitely something to watch out of curiosity.
Shame it's a f***ing cartoon.
@@Derke73Yeah, and as we all know, animated films can never live up to live action films.
Now, if you excuse me, I am gonna watch the best Spider-Man movie, Into the Spider-Verse.
16:24 Too right. Any Indie film that doesn't feature Marcus Brodie is sub-par at best. The franchise literally died with Denholm Elliot.
1:14 I mean have you seen Billy Joel's latest music video? 70 years old and he's still putting out hits!
Was it a hit though????
Indiana Jones brought Nostalgia Critic back! Now, he’s gonna review movies ‘til he’s 90!
‘TIL HE’S 90!
He’s the anchor being of Channel Awesome.
Thanks Deadpool.
he's channel jesus!
Fun fact: Indiana Jones was named after George Lucas's dog
We named the dog Indiana!
@@patbartholomew9066💯👍. Sean Connery delivered that line well
Fun fact I named my dog Indiana 😩🥰
Indiana was also the basis for Chewbacca.
Fun fact: You actually thought we didn't know that
2:38 Are you still dissing the Temple of Doom? You better not be dissing The Temple of Doom while I am here. The friendship between Indy and Short Round alone elevates the movie.
Phoebe Waller Bridge made people owe Willie Scott an apology.
I really hate it when some people like NC keep on hating some movies, TV shows and/or games that weren't even all that bad to begin with.
They're just letting their own fear, anger, hatred, and suffering consumed them completely till they ended up hating thenselves for overhating these movies, TV shows, and games for way too long (that it just feels unneeded and undeserving nowadays), destroying themselves on the inside, killing their own joy and happiness entirely, and ended up feeling nothing more but complete regret, and guilt.
Creating their own worst pain, suffering and mistake on purpose.
@@jeuryrabassa4724 Or you know they just genuinely don't like the movie. For example my younger brother hates Princess Bride, my sister doesn't like any of the Godfather movies and me personally I don't like the Paddington movies.
@christiansouthworth9294 Everyone always have something to either like or dislike.
Weather is either good or bad.(Sometimes both)
But in the end,
It is what it is.
@johnenigma8506 Willie was way more annoying than Helena. At least Helena wasn’t screaming every other word at the top of her lungs.
@@johnenigma8506 honestly LoL 😆 gun to my head scenario if I have to put up with one or the other Willie or Helena......I'd take Willie because while she was annoying it made sense especially since she was used to the pampered and privileged life in Shanghai and wasn't used to the outdoors in anyway Helena however was just a massive pain in the butt being a know it all and a condescending person talking down to Indy treating him like he was Grandpa Simpson or something!
I didn't like Mutt in Crystal Skull, but at least that movie gave Indy a happy ending. The trilogy already had an ending, Crystal Skull wasn't needed, but if they were going to do it, at least they did one thing right: the happy ending. This movie destroys that.
17:45 Didn’t this guy also write good films such as the first 2 Jurassic Park movies, and the first Mission Impossible film. He did some other films that were ok like Zathura, War of the Worlds, and Snake Eyes starring Nicolas Cage.
0:39 Tamara is the best 😂😂
16:02 skip the break
Not even earning the eyepatch, or giving the end of the credits a triumphant Raiders March reprise. I can forgive leaving out the Paramount match cut, to a degree.
Crystal Skull tried to end the franchise with a bang. This one went out with a whimper.
20:42 - Thanks for reminding me the League of Lois Lanes from "My Adventures with Superman" is a thing now.
5:41 wow General Wilhelm went through puberty! Don’t remember his voice being that deep 🤣
1. Last Crusade
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (yes i know I'll get hate for that.)
4. Temple of Doom
5. Dial of Destiny
Meh, people hated on Crystal Skull because of a couple of cringe scenes, while they loved Temple of Doom because they were kids and it is full of funny grossout humor; really they're both mediocre.
I'd say Raiders and Crusade are top tier, Temple and Skull are mid tier, and Dial is garbage tier.
I totally agree
My exact ranking
Thats the same as my ranking!
Personally (from Favorite to Least Favorite);
The Last Crusade
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Temple of Doom
Dial of Destiny
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
My family, and I saw this in theaters for my grandma’s Birthday… she loves Harrison Ford
Tooo bad this movie was terrible
@@chasehedges6775 - You literally said below that you didn't see it. Ooooh. You're one of those people who hates on things because TH-camrs said so. Got it.
@@braytonwright6011 I didnt see in theaters tho. Just didn’t look good. The trailer was neat tho
@@braytonwright6011 People like Doug and others know what they’re talking about tho when it comes to bad films tho.
@@braytonwright6011 I’m allowed to like and dislike things. It’s my opinion and others are allowed their opinions as well.
"Stealing things is Capitalism!"
....and 'de jure private property rights' are, what, fascism?
Oh, wait, they actually think that, ok.
20:50 i know the review's are usually recorded ahead of time but jesus christ what horrible timing
what happen? im not really into youtube news
@@motor4X4kombat last ceo of TH-cam died of cancer
Weirdly enough, the movie completely lost me when they traveled back in time. My main reason for this has to do with the Dial itself.
The other artifacts in the other movies were all something supernatural and otherworldly: the Ark of the Covenant holds the power of God, the Sankara Stones are mystical artifacts somehow related to Shiva, and the Holy Grail is the cup that Jesus Christ drank from at the Last Supper and also caught Christ’s blood during the Crucifixion. The Crystal Skull, while not an artifact related to religion or anything mystical like the previous artifacts still came from a source far beyond and far more powerful than humanity.
The Dial of Destiny doesn’t have any of these things. It’s literally a device built by a man who was good at engineering and math. There is nothing supernatural hinted at (at least nothing I picked up on while watching the movie). There is nothing mysterious about it at all and I cannot suspend my disbelief long enough to get on board with it.
Except for the supernatural elements (and jumping out of a plane with an inflatable raft, although MythBusters had something to say about that), the movies were all grounded in reality. All of the characters were regular people in over their heads with power they did not comprehend. And this is part of what allowed Indiana Jones to escape every time: he knew he was in over his head. When he realized what was happening with the Ark, he closed his eyes to avoid the wrath of God; when he realized the connection of the Sankara Stones to Shiva, he used that to defeat Mola Ram; and when he realized that the Holy Grail would be the cup of a lowly carpenter rather than a powerful king, he was able to save his father.
The Nazis lose in this one because they were bad at geology. Other than that, both they and Indy knew exactly how the Dial worked because it’s just math. Not really a mysterious and powerful artifact when you look at it that way.
So yeah, Archimedes invented time travel by doing math and the Nazis were bad at geology. Maybe other people see it differently, but I just couldn’t get behind it.
Review Fist Fight (2017) that's an underrated that came and went with no one remembering it.
Does it have anything to do with nostalgia?..
@@RedTail1-1Ice Cube’s in it
One of the teachers does homemade meth and calls it a gateway drug
The movie where the kid somehow uses an app to mess with a CRT TV?
@@deshawnedwards6412 Haha that was the first movie I saw with Charlie Day
Captured by TH-cam?! Truly the most cruel of evil organizations.
I always find it funny how people in Hollywood could afford to bash a system they greatly benefit from.
We didn’t like the son, but did you have to kill him off? At least with the last movie there was a happy ending.
The boy could have got hit by a laser, grew a beard and learned to take less risks. THIS IS A REFERENCE TO A VIDEO GAME
Look, they needed to make Indy sad and miserable, okay?
I liked the son just fine though. Sure the monkey scene was silly--but that was a SCENE not the character.
Mutt with a beard. I'd be down for that. At least it's something new.
You could just tell how much Harrison Ford didn't want to do to this one, from crashing his plane in real life to the near death experiences Indy has in the movie. I watched this movie at home, and added my own dialogue for Indy every time he was nearly *dispatched* by something. When the car hits the breaks at the airport, I shouted "WHY DID YOU STOP!?!?"
The Malcolm Short Round joke was comedy gold🤣
6:03 Wow that aged pretty well ngl
Im betting Disney is kicking themslves in the ass for not bringing back Ke Huy from Temple of Doom.
Imagine Indys companion from the first film in-universe coming back for his last adventure?
Really wished they didnt make this one. Loved the happy ending of the last one
And the ending to Last Crusade.
This film has a happy ending too. In fact they all do
@23:38 This proposed alternate plot is so much better!!!!!
It so werid this movie mentions Mutt and didn't do anything with that. I know internet hated the character. but I generally thought they could flesh out the character to be something better.
@@Maximus2007 it was more that the internet hated that it was Shia Lebouf circa 2007 who most people saw as either the Disney kid or the whiny dipnut from transformers so the idea that he was Indiana Jones son was just too much for people to comprehend at the time
I actually enjoyed most of Dial of Destiny. I always took his voice sounding off in the opening to be down to being terrified and scared. His voice sounds mostly fine on the train. Granted the best sequence of the film is the opening 20 minutes sent in 1944. The rest of the film is not bad, it's a mostly fun adventure film, but the element of the God Daughter is the worst part of the film.
Helena must be one of the most unintentionally infuriating character ever created. At this point, I even prefer Jar Jar and Scrappy. At least they won't rob their teammates blind and expect to be praised for it and contribute more to the overall plot.
Scrooge McDuck was the original Indiana Jones, as his comics were sort of Indy styled that led to the Ducktales cartoon series.
you can even put tintin in it. In fact Spielberg said in an enterview that one critic that saw raiders compare it too much with Tintin and Spielberg was like "what the hell is tintin?"
23:38
Love how an internet critic wrote something that completely fixed the movie that a multi-million dollar company couldn’t do right. It’s astounding how bad Disney can be
I would much prefer watching Crystal Skull over this.
Right for me its all about rewatchability I saw crystal skull in theaters and a ton since then. This one I'll probably never watch again because it's just so bland I'm not even curious for a rewatch.
0:40 And this is the last we’ll see of Tamara Chambers on Channel Awesome. Good luck to her on her future endeavors. It’s totally different without her, but I’m getting used to it.
@ From what I read on a Reddit post… Although there is no drama between her and CA, she wanted to branch out into other projects. I had no idea until I came across her reply confirming that.
It's really sad to see how Steven Spielberg ended his relationship with Shia LaBeouf. I always thought that if they had continued working together, Shia could have helped Steven snag six more Oscars, just like Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro did. I mean, getting fired for giving some honest feedback about Indiana Jones seems totally unfair. The main thing holding Steven back from more success is his struggle to take advice from those around him. Recently, he lost 7 Oscars to Everything Everywhere All At Once, which is tough. Honestly, I'm relieved that I won't have to rely on my Bachelor's Degree in Film to pursue a career as a movie director.
4:12 I legit snorted out loud, was NOT expecting that punchline 😂 fantastic!
I thought people liked Temple of Doom.
@@pkmntrainermark8881 It's divisive. People who grew up with it tend to like it. Doug and myself personally don't.
It's got a 77% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes and 82% audience. It is liked by most people just not as much as Raiders and Crusade.
No even back around mid 2000s when I first got into trilogy you'd see online forums of people saying Temple is bad. So to me at least it's been common in the fanbase but I've never understood it I mean I get it because the lady is like a early jar jar she's kinda unbearable but after a while she doesn't bother me and rest of film is great.
"Evil cannot create anything new. It can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made."
- JRR Tolkien (I think)
Tolkien never said that, it was something made up when people saw that their precious White Supremacy stories had nonwhites in it now
CAN WE ALL AGREE THAT THE REAL SENDOFF IS THE LAST CRUSADE?!
“Do something!”
(Bang!)
“…Not THAT!”
I cracked up laughing at that bit. 😂
Same, that was freaking hilarious. The joke, not the scene.
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis was the game this film feels based on.
And other indiana jones games as well.