I didn’t dislike the movie, but I caught on pretty early that if there was a character of color in Dial of Destiny, don’t get attached.

And people still bitch that she was fridged even though that word has no meaning.

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You said it yourself, people were burned on Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, so asking them to see another one where Indy is even older is a hard sell even if they stick a digital deaged Harrison Ford in the marketing. If they ever plan to do more Indy content in the future (which is questionable if this one doesn’t get…

It’s like Paramount totally sticking the landing with STVI and then deciding to crap on it with Generations. They should’ve just rolled into First Contact (or another TNG-only film) and been done with it.

I mean, who cares, though?

Brand loyalty is such a weird concept for me. I maybe did this when I was younger but life is to short to watch shitty sequels and spin offs for franchises I love.

Hot take: the problem with the last couple Indiana Jones sequels were that they got it sooooo right with Raiders, and then got the nostalgia sooooo right with Last Crusade, so anything after that was just going to be diminishing returns.

I was really surprised to read that they did that. It would have been so easy to have a throw-away line about him adventuring off-screen somewhere if they felt the need to explain his absence at all. (Adult children have their own lives sometimes!)

It’s absolutely bonkers that the latest Indy Jones movie cost 300 FRICKIN’ million dollars. How? Why?

I hear you guys will soon be publishing AI-created content. Starting to think that will be an improvement.

They can make a second live action take of 101 Dalmatians for all I care. Movies nowadays are like confort food, not so much to satisfy your cravings but to dull them.

Recognizable I.P. is what people crave? No. Brawndo™ is what people (and plants) crave. It's got electrolytes. 

Not only that; he squandered them so hard, that by the time Justin Lin came along and actually made good use of them, nobody cared anymore. Which is just typical.

It’s dead, Jim

And when it takes a whack at the movies, it’s not meant to be a $250-million budget things-go-boom (and-the-Enterprise-go-boom) action movie. It’s not Trek, foremost, but also, it’s super hard to make that money back -- NONE of the Kelvin-verse movies did well internationally.

This is a good thing. I’ve given the Kelvin timeline the benefit of doubt, even when other Trekkies reflexively hated it, but it was all downhill after the reboot. Into Darkness was the Wrath of Khan remake nobody asked for and Beyond was a waste of Idris Elba’s time and talent.

Really hard to care about a nonexistent movie when we have Strange New Worlds s2 premiering later this week.

As someone who has had to deal with executives and marketing announcing things that were in no way a done deal, I feel for the folks involved. But also, I have never once seen a project that was overpromised in this way come to a good end.