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Post by rick on Nov 22, 2022 2:09:20 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Nov 22, 2022 9:34:12 GMT -5
It'll be interesting to see how they pull this one off, especially now that fifteen years have elapsed since Crystal Skull--and since it isn't Spielberg in the director's chair.
The one thing that I have been asked about Spielberg having given over the director's reign on Indy 5 to James Manigold is why he did it, because people are under the impression that this is somehow his "baby". It isn't, really; it is his good friend George Lucas', and it was that way from the beginning. As good as these films have been, Spielberg always approached them as what the legendary John Ford would have called a "job of work". Indeed, the whole reason Spielberg even took on Raiders Of The Lost Ark in the first place back in 1980 was to prove that he could make a film within schedule and budget, after Jaws and Close Encounters had gone well over both their respective budgets and schedules, and 1941 was so thoroughly trashed by critics and even some audiences for its excesses (Spielberg even called 1941 "the first comedy ever made without laughs."
In the interim, Spielberg had a lot of his own fish to fry, with West Side Story, and The Fabelmans. And as fun as the Indiana Jones series has been, I think his enthusiasm for re-creating the serials of the 1940's, which is what the series was inspired by, has kind of dried up
It is what it is; and whatever the pundits say about box office and all that, Spielberg really doesn't have anything to prove to anybody anymore.
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Post by rick on Dec 1, 2022 17:43:44 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Dec 1, 2022 18:44:44 GMT -5
Hmmmmmmm......
Well I've heard worse titles. Will people "get" what the sub-title "The Dial Of Destiny" means? Maybe, maybe not. I guess we've got to see the film, which comes out at the mid-point of 2023.
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Post by rick on Feb 13, 2023 2:51:31 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Feb 13, 2023 9:18:17 GMT -5
Yes, that was one of the very few ads I watched and heard during the breaks in the game. It points towards this film being big this summer.
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Post by rick on Feb 14, 2023 18:55:32 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Feb 14, 2023 19:27:06 GMT -5
All good points being raised there. Neither Indiana Jones nor Harrison Ford are going to get any younger, so the trick is how to make his brand of heroism relevant in the world of 1969.
But even though it is not Spielberg in the director's chair this time around, from what I saw in the trailer, it looks like James Manigold was more than a little up to the task (IMHO).
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Post by rick on Apr 9, 2023 14:38:10 GMT -5
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