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Originally posted by David R:
Apparently the new Jim Caviezel film Sound of Freedom actually made more on July 4 than Indiana Jones

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Originally posted by Raven:
I could be wrong, but this seems like a bad time for the unions to strike. The writers and actors are going to feel the short-term impact right away, many average members live paycheck to paycheck, while studios have plenty of content not released.

In addition, the cost of promoting films can add 20% or more to budget and expenses. A 300M film might cost $400M by the time the publicity tour is over and actors are generally paid in their contracts to do all required release promotions. Now the studios will be able to test how well films do without the cost of the tour. If they still make enough money because audiences don't stay away, they may find that less publicity is more profit in the end. They may also find that they don't need to win Emmy Awards or Oscars too.

On the other hand, union members who are losing pay daily may not be able to wait it out as long as the Studios and their fellow A-List members can afford to hold up a settlement.

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Originally posted by David R:
Accordingly to Variety the new Mission Impossible grossed 80 M plus this weekend, making it a hit. Also, Jim Caviezel's Sound of Freedom is up to about 83 M and is predicted to cross the 100 M mark on its budget of 14 M.

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Originally posted by Tommy C:
People are already making the rounds suggesting that Indiana Jones and The Flash (with Michael Keaton as Batman) failed because appealing to nostalgia, i.e. people who remember the original films back in the 1980s, is not enough.

If this is true, will Beetlejuice 2 share a similar fate in 2024 ?

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Originally posted by Raven:
Regarding "Dial of Destiny's" possible problems, these may be non-specific SPOILERS, so don't keep reading unless you have seen it or don't want to see it.

The beginning action sequence seems to be considered very good. This presents the problem that the movie hits its high point too early, and the rest of the action scenes don't measure up.

It is in that first action sequence that most of the Indy de-aging effects are used on his face. However, some viewers have noticed that his body moves and sounds like Harrison Ford in his 80's and they didn't buy it for a minute.

The screenplay goes to great lengths to keep acknowledging that Indy is too old for any of this stuff, as if that makes it reality. What it does is keep calling attention to what everyone already knows and is trying to ignor.

For some reason, I'm not sure why, Waller-Bridge seems to have a thankless part, and nobody likes her role. Maybe because Indy has no love interest for nearly all of this script, that part is just missing and lacks the humor it brought. Maybe Ford and Waller-Bridge just don't have screen chemistry together for any team pairing.

Finally everybody, including those who thought it was OK, think that it is too darn long. You can do an action movie with a bare bones plot in an hour and forty minutes. These films are all going over two and half hours and are not made any better because they add more set pieces, they just get boring and lose all their impact.

I really don't think this is a bad film. I think they spent too much money on it and fans would have been more satisfied with less.