Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (June 30th, 2023)

[The Buffinator]

At least that would have gotten a laugh.

In fact, it would have been hilarious if after each and every action sequence, after the stirring adventure music subsides, they cut to a bathroom stall and silence... and then, just a single flush.

Silence? Wow, you're assuming he'd have an even weaker stream than I was thinking lol...

 

[Wor-Gar]

Old man and 'stream' does not compute.

 

[The Buffinator]

Speaking of things going down the toilet, I should check on the Rebel Moon thread...

 

[Wor-Gar]

Funny that a Royal Flush is the highest hand you can have.

 

[ebor]

Funny that a Royal Flush is the highest hand you can have.

Zack S’s next movie title solved ‘Royal Flush!’

DC / Marvel crossover… ‘this summer… one movie to ruin them all!’ (Sorry P. Jackson)

 

[Wor-Gar]

That title will work for the Snyder fans because it can be interpreted two ways.

 

[Felinx]

Especially with a generation that has attention difficulties, I find it amazing that movies get even longer.

The two hour "movie format" will start to become extinct by the end of this decade anyway.

 

[Felinx]

Speaking of things going down the toilet, I should check on the Rebel Moon thread...

Finally made it through that. omigod.

 

[Wor-Gar]

The two hour "movie format" will start to become extinct by the end of this decade anyway.

All good things...

 

[Felinx]

All good things...

Commerce created it for the theatrical experience (longest people will sit in theater, shortest before they feel it wasn't worth effort to get there, # of repeat showings per day etc etc) and commerce is now destroying it for the stream/phone/binge experience. The two hour movie will be done by 2030.

 

[Wor-Gar]

The two hour movie will be done by 2030.

I wish the 3 hour movie would go first.

 

[Felinx]

I wish the 3 hour movie would go first.

 

[Raiders March]

It's due to Mangold including all the bathroom breaks Indy takes during the course of the movie. He's 40+ years older with an enlarged prostate so when has to go, he really has go!

So that's why he was kranky all the time! Riding that horse would have been a b$&%h

 

[e30ernest]

I just saw this with my wife last week. It was not bad, but it was not great either. It's just "OK". Hardly memorable at best.

Finally made it through that. omigod.

I have not watched Rebel Moon so I haven't visited that thread. Should I?

 

[Jgg1701]

Was finally getting around to watching this the other day, then saw the runtime was 2hr 37.
Why the hell does this movie have a runtime of 2hr 37?
The trilogy all have runtimes around the 2 hour mark.
Even Crystal Skulls runtime is 2h 5 (a few minutes less that Last Crusade) and that film feels like it goes on forever.
2hr 37 is unreasonable for an Indy film.
I love to put a few hours aside to watch the extended version of a LOTR movie but I'm not sitting here watching an Indy movie with a runtime 30 mins longer than any of the actually good ones aka the original 3.

Could've been worse.
It could have been a 2 parter.
-Jim

 

[Jgg1701]

My only hope is that the movie theater experience doesn't go extinct.
-Jim

 

[Felinx]

My only hope is that the movie theater experience doesn't go extinct.
-Jim

Well its certainly on the endangered list right now, and seems like "on life support" might be on the cards within the next decade.

It will stick around in its ever-diminishing form so long as the generations who grew up routinely talking about movie trailers and lining up outside a box office are around, but those people are all over 35 now, and every year brings more online/home-based/phone options and distractions.

Along with malls and offices, it seems movie theaters are yet another outdated physical world phenom that is slowly dying as the online world takes over.

 

[Jgg1701]

Well its certainly on the endangered list right now, and seems like "on life support" might be on the cards within the next decade.

It will stick around in its ever-diminishing form so long as the generations who grew up routinely talking about movie trailers and lining up outside a box office is around, but those people are all over 35 now, and every year brings more online/home-based/phone options and distractions.

Along with malls and offices, it seems movie theaters are yet another outdated physical world phenom that is slowly dying as the online world takes over.

-Jim

 

[Prime Clone]

Along with malls and offices, it seems movie theaters are yet another outdated physical world phenom that is slowly dying as the online world takes over.

Yup, and Apple Vision Pro is out next month, hastening the demise.

 

[Wor-Gar]

In a world where everyone can be a filmmaker... ironically no one is.