So IJ5 has landed on Disney+ and I have decided to invest at least the 2 1/2 hours to watch it once. Halfway through it now.
1) Opening set-piece with the Nazis and the train is entertaining as others have said. Felt like the old days.
2) Phoebe Waller Bridge really does kill this movie, her character just sucks. She’s an annoying Mary Sue with a super-grating personality and just irritating to watch overall. No redeeming characteristics. She’s also not even moderately attractive to even just look at. She’s just weird looking and her character is just an unlikeable bitch. I find myself hoping that the bad guys would throw her out of a plane or something.
Anyway, I’ll probably finish this and never watch it again. I wonder if these stupid fucks at Disney (and Amazon, hello Galadriel) will ever get the message that these bitchy unlikeable Mary Sue “powerful women” are just grating and unwatchable. I hope Kathleen Kennedy finds something else to do with herself soon. [Reply]
Finally watched it to the end. It was fine. What’s her face was less annoying in the 2nd half of the movie, IMO. It could have been an ok movie if she wasn’t such a grating Mary Sue in the 1st half of the movie. But whatever. It’s like a 5/10. I won’t watch it again but it wasn’t terrible. [Reply]
would love to see more details on this shit show, and if the rumors about him meeting his younger self were true :-)
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“When I came on the movie, they had been playing with a bunch of different things which were basically just reduxes of what had happened in the first movie,” Mangold told io9 over video chat. “Just more apparitions and ghosts and I felt like I was just watching the first movie over again when I envisioned what was in the existing scripts. And I felt like what Steven [Spielberg] and George [Lucas] and Larry Kasdan and David Koepp as well had done successfully in the other films, was to keep kind of pulling up a rock on a different aspect of history and metaphysics and not going back to the same thing. In a way I didn’t want to do the kind of ‘Is it a Death Star again?’”
Mangold went back to the drawing board. He knew he had an older hero in an era that’s kind of passed him by, and “the movie is exploring the themes of time, past and present. That became my central idea.” Which is why the movie opens in the past and, in other iterations, went back there at the end. “When we did start writing, it was my theory that at first that we would end up back in Nazi Germany in 1938,” he said.
Yes: once Mangold and the team realized they wanted the dial to bring Indy back in time, the first idea was that Voller’s plan would work and Indy would just have to stop him in Germany.
