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psmith2.0
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
 
2021-06-11, 09:19

I don't know if I can think of anything sillier, or more unasked-for. But hey, I guess I could say that about dozens, if not hundreds, of movies over the years.

If it's going to be anything like the last one, why even bother? But, hey...no Shia Labeouf, so it automatically has that going for it.

I found this part interesting:

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Swastikas on set have been covered to avoid offence.

A source said: "They're desperate not to cause offence, so filming will mainly take place at night, under the cover of darkness.
Two other Indy movies - and quite a few others since the 1940's - have directly centered around that bunch, and their imagery/trappings. Were those steps taken then, I wonder? Or is this a result of more modern-era tiptoeing/sensitivity and the almighty rush to not offend anyone, at any time, about anything (good luck with that). It's a movie set. I bet most folks can tell the difference, and make allowances for such things?

But, in 2021, maybe not. Best to just play it safe all around, I suppose.

Timeline-wise, I'm not even sure how Nazis/swastikas would factor in to an Indy movie set, I presume, even later than the 1950's atomic/Soviet-era of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Perhaps a flashback, or some sort of storage or archive setting? Or some sort of secret, they-never-really-went-away (a la the Galactic Empire > The First Order) type of plot?

I do see that Steven Spielberg, while an executive producer, actually isn't directing this one. James Mangold (Cop Land, Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma, Logan, Ford v Ferrari, etc.) is heading this one up. Somehow that just seems...wrong. John Williams is listed in the IMDb credits, but that may be for his past involvement (that main theme), but he's the only musical composer listed, so...

And George Lucas, other than "character" writing credit (from the original story), doesn't appear anywhere either. So an Indiana Jones movie with no direct Lucas involvement and Spielberg not behind the camera? Again, who's really asking for this? You'll forgive me if my Don't Really Give a Shitâ„¢ meter is kinda pegging the red this morning.

Dork that I am, of course I'll see it. But I also know, due to 2015-2019 and a certain other franchise, not to get my hopes up much at all. Ford is 78. As much as I didn't really buy him as Han Solo in 2015 (or Indy in 2008), it's really a lot to ask at this point. I know the jokes are all trite and played-out, but...they also make sense, and exist for a reason. It's just this side of silly, frankly.

I do see where Mads Mikkelsen and that Fleabag lady, Phoebe Waller (please don't tell me Indy's gonna put it to her...that, too, is a bit much to ask for/expect), are in the cast. No growed-up Short Round?!

Speaking of Mads Mikkelsen, he's becoming a genre go-to guy, isn't he? He's doing the Lecter thing on TV (or is that over?), he was involved in a Star Wars movie, he played a Bond villain in Casino Royale (with Daniel Craig). Craig was also in Cowboys & Aliens with, you guessed it, Harrison Ford. He was also in 2010's Clash of the Titans, Marvel's Dr. Strange and in the upcoming Fantastic Beats and Where to Find Them installment, which, I understand, is a Harry Potter-related/spin-off type of thing? Mads Mikkelsen is the uniting glue that's holding the movie universe together...Star Wars, Marvel, Bond/007, Hannibal Lecter, Harry Potter...good grief!
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