While this film is a car crash, it's interesting to see what happens when film-makers are so in thrall to their political ideology, that they're unable to even make entertainment without trying to shoehorn it in.
Indiana Jones was the hero of escapist fantasy. Brilliantly-done and made to appeal to all ages. So obviously they made him a sad, broken old man, and set up his god-daughter to take over the franchise.
Two problems here - the first is that audiences don't want to see beloved screen heroes as sad, broken old men. The second is that the god-daughter hadn't been written as a character, just a series of deeply-unlikable character traits - thieving, untrustworthy, smug, boring, lacking in basic human empathy etc etc Perhaps the film-makers have never met a happy old man or a likeable young woman but they do exist - largely outside of the film industry but that's the problem as many in Hollywood have no conception of how normal people actually live, so they end up writing characters as a series of thematic functions, which (understandably) most people couldn't give a monkey's about.
That apart, they might at least have looked at the first three Indiana Jones movies and had a guess at what made them work before throwing @$600 million dollars at this debacle, but there we go.
A dull, nonsensical film, but interesting as a study in what happens when you throw hundreds of millions of dollars at something you have no love for, but just want to repeat a hackneyed old sociopolitical statement .
Indiana Jones was the hero of escapist fantasy. Brilliantly-done and made to appeal to all ages. So obviously they made him a sad, broken old man, and set up his god-daughter to take over the franchise.
Two problems here - the first is that audiences don't want to see beloved screen heroes as sad, broken old men. The second is that the god-daughter hadn't been written as a character, just a series of deeply-unlikable character traits - thieving, untrustworthy, smug, boring, lacking in basic human empathy etc etc Perhaps the film-makers have never met a happy old man or a likeable young woman but they do exist - largely outside of the film industry but that's the problem as many in Hollywood have no conception of how normal people actually live, so they end up writing characters as a series of thematic functions, which (understandably) most people couldn't give a monkey's about.
That apart, they might at least have looked at the first three Indiana Jones movies and had a guess at what made them work before throwing @$600 million dollars at this debacle, but there we go.
A dull, nonsensical film, but interesting as a study in what happens when you throw hundreds of millions of dollars at something you have no love for, but just want to repeat a hackneyed old sociopolitical statement .
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