INDIANA JONES 5 (How to Destroy Legacy) EXPLORED

The next Kathleen Kennedy self-insert picture they're calling "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" has arrived. Instead of Rey, we have Helena, and taking the spot of Luke Skywalker on the sacrifice altar is Indianna Jones.

A sequel to 2008's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, this fifth installment, directed by James Mangold and written by Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth, Jonathan Kasdan, and David Koepp is supposedly the final treasure hunt for Jones.

Starring Harrison Ford, John Rhys-Davies, Karen Allen, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, Toby Jones, Boyd Holbrook, Ethan Isidore, and Mads Mikkelsen, this time we're heading to 1969, with Indy and Helena Shaw – his distant goddaughter, who are trying to secure a device with world-altering potential, before the Nazi-turned-NASA scientist, Jürgen Voller, can rewrite the ending of World War II.

Dial of Destiny is the first in the series not directed by Spielberg or written by Lucas and you can tell. Costing over $295 million, and with a marketing budget to match, Indianna Jones 5 is not only the priciest venture in the Indiana Jones franchise, but one of the most expensive films ever. And unfortunately, projections don’t see Disney recuperating their costs.

Savaged one month before its worldwide release at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, the Dial of Destiny has had a lukewarm opening reception to say the least. The consensus was clear, most praised Harrison Ford's performance, Mangold's direction, Williams' score, and the action, which I wasn’t too surprised by.

But there was no love lost for the lengthy runtime, CGI overload, Pheobe Waller bridge, the depiction of Jones as a broken man, a lack of the spirituality and mysticism of the original trilogy, and the absence of the 30s and 40’s setting, which is where the character belongs.
So is it as bad as the French say? Or are there some hidden gems for us to dig up? Découvrons-le !

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[RoccoSFer]

Someone once said:
1. Respect the previous material
2. Show the heroes doing heroic things
3. Don't disrespect the fans

[JSPena]

You know, I wasn’t huge fan of Mutt in Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. But I hated learning how they killed him off in the leaks.

[Zed]

They left a WW2 era plane back in 200 BC on a beach for the Romans (who are notoriously good record keepers) to pillage, while missing an obvious payoff from earlier in the movie. During Indy’s classroom scene, he talks about Archimedes potentially developing a solar death ray, which they could have portrayed as annihilating the plane and giving the Yahtzee badguys a gruesome, Indiana Jones style death.

[marlz]

What's interesting is realizing the trend of narcissistic self-insert protagonists to supplant and outdo established characters as a form of "refreshing" these franchises, completely ignoring the elements that made the previous characters beloved.

It seems like Hollywood has their own internal rules and logic that only makes sense to them, because Disney and other companies seem to have developed a fetish of squandering money and goodwill.

[ShadowPredator]

as someone who grew up watching the original three back to back to back all the time, this is genuinely heartbreaking. whatever the term for this trend of of dragging our heroes back just to disrespect them and spit in our faces for having ever loved them is, it needs to stop

[Faust_YT]

Everyone right now looking at Kingdom of the Crystal Skull:
"Perhaps we treated you too harshly...."

[angelchang]

Like many, I wasn't a big fan of Shia Lebouf's character in Crystal Skull, but I never wanted him to die. That's Indiana's son, like wtf 🫤 like they killed him off just to make him more sad. Screw that.

[justhereforkicks]

There never needed to be two movies made after The Last Crusade. The Indiana Jones trilogy was perfect the way it was.

[samwow]

Her knocking him out and dragging him out of the Past is a metaphor for the franchise that couldn’t have written itself

[chucheeness]

You know, at least I can laugh at Crystal Skull's stupid scenes, bad acting, stupid premise and horrible CGI. There's still entertainment to be had for that movie, and at least Indy had a happy ending.

[ianbruno]

Disneys on such a “winning streak” they decided to kill the only good part of crystal skull which was we knew Indy had somewhat of something happy happen to him. 10/10 fix the thing that wasn’t broken and make it all worse for it

[KeytarArgonian]

There’s a leap that many don’t notice between the Trilogy and the last 2 films.

That’s from being a Religious Mysticism based fantasy series, to a Sci Fi series. With inter dimensional Aliens, UFO’s and Time Machines.

Oh and Indiana Jones apparently doesn’t believe any of these things can possibly exist considering all he’s seen.

[tombombadilofficial]

Im astonished how we have a multi-billion dollar company with a seemingly infinite supply of creative resources struggling to create a decent sequel to one of its beloved movie franchises.

[clearlywrong]

I haven't seen the film, but its existence is already pushing me towards being a Kingdom of the Crystal Skull apologist.

[mendelevium]

If Mutt hated Indy’s strict parenting so much, why would he go and join the army, where the drill sergeants will treat him the same if not worse?

[jtmplmbr]

Love your thoughtful, insightful and heartfelt breakdowns of this and many other films and tv shows

[BaoNguyen-bhrk]

This movie deserves the box office it's getting.

[matthewzumbo]

as sad as it is to see another franchise bite the dust due to Kathleen's sociopathic narcissism, i get giddy knowing Disney is hell bent on destroying themselves with failure after failure

[phantomjoad]

"Dial of Density" I got the Back to the Future reference lol.

[immunityvi]

Its not a love letter to a beloved franchise. It’s a punch to the face of our beloved Indiana Jones. They dont know subtly too because they punched him literally.