Half in the Bag: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2023
- Indiana...let it go.
We had a lot of dumb technical issues when filming this episode. One of our stupid mics stopped working 2 minutes into our discussion but we didn't discover that until after talking about the stupid Indiana Jones movie for 45 minutes so then we had to start the stupid discussion all over again. And for some reason on the second time we shot it, Rich Evans' microphone made him sound extra echo-y because Rich Evans is a sound anomaly. But you can still understand everything we say as we painstakingly go through this boring movie. So just relax and have fun, everybody. Relax and have fun!!! And Happy Birthday, Grimace! - Розваги
It's funny how back in 1989 Indiana Jones and Micheal Keaton Batman were competing for the top spot at the box office and now in 2023 Indiana Jones and Micheal Keaton Batman are fighting to see who can lose less money.
forgot about 08
Good observation.
We have come full circle.. this is a sign that world's about to end
Lose less?
I do not think that you quite understand the rules of the competition here.
@@d3nza482you missed the joke...😂
Harrison Ford is 20 years older than Sean Connery was during the Last Crusade
Bro oh my fucking god😳
What can I say, Kathleen Kennedy is a modern genius
I mean, a testimonial to the life extending effects of daily pot and wine, I guess
A ray of light in a world smoldering in utter daily despair
Connery was the exact same age in The Rock as Ford was in Crystal Skull (66), but Connery still looked like a guy that could kick your ass. They never should have gone beyond 3 movies.
It's like the old Simpsons gag about the Charles Bronson Death Wish movies. "Death Wish 9", and it's just Charles Bronson lying in a hospital bed saying "I Wish I Was Dead".
and star trek xii - so very tired
@@pepepoopsonthefarright7531 lol that's a classic too. "Again with the Klingons.'
😂😂🎉🎉
@@jimreily7538 isss a nooo gooood capn! i cannae reeach d control panull!!!
Oyy
"He wants to kill Hitler and take hiss place because he knows where Hitler went wrong, which is nice." - Jay
I love how he automatically assumes the other officers and generals would instantly fall in line with the man who killed their nation's leader simply because he says he knows better than him instead of, you know, executing him for regicide. Then again, the doc made a lot of assumptions that inevitably got him killed so his plan was bound to bite him in the ass whether he went to the right time or not.
I mean, wouldn't you do that too?
@@seamusthatsthedog4819 Nope. In fact, the whole obsession with killing Hitler is mostly an American/Western European thing and really rather creepy. Killing Hitler doesn't even necessarily stop the Nazis rising to power - I mean, killing Hitler doesn't make Magnus Hirschfeld and the Berlin Institute of Sexology or whatever cease to exist lol.
I think I'd prefer to kill and replace FDR or Stalin tbh fam.
No Stalin, no Holodomor, probably no Holocaust. Hitler might never even rise to power.
No FDR, means no entrapping the Japanese, means the US never enters WW2 and Hiroshima/Nagasaki never get bombed.
Besides, whatever you might think, Hitler seems to have been a pretty sweet guy - vegetarian, loved animals, artistic, even maintained friendly correspondence with a little Jewish girl! If you want me to believe dude was on-board with a genocidal campaign, you're gonna need some more proof than post-war Soviet architecture, documents "found" a decade after the war by Allied assets, or outlandish claims by Eastern European ghetto Jews talking to US State Department propagandists about electrified floors, masturbation machines and venomous German Shepherds lmfao
@@seamusthatsthedog4819I would simply have taught the Germans to be nice
@@seamusthatsthedog4819 Anyone who would rather kill Hitler instead of saving Archduke Franz Ferdinand has lost the plot.
Mike had a prediction about Rise of Skywalker having a time travel plot but he did not factor in the continental drift which is why it actually happened in Dial of Destiny.
Bro! I forgot!
Thank you for the laugh
Archimedes forgot to add kurt angle into the mix
Nicely done!
@@Azmodaiithe chances drastic go down
So excited for this movie. I remember watching the original films as a kid thinking how much better they'd be if he were 80.
Before Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, I always thought they should have just recast Indiana Jones. Like James Bond, these films (at least the first 3) were largely separate adventures.
😂
I know. I am disappointed he didn't have a walker and some depends.
@@andyholstein237Exactly. I mean, get someone like...i dont know. Joaquin Phoenix.
His brother was Indiana Jones !
😂
Jay telling Mike about tik-tok trends is like showing your mom a meme on your phone and she squints to see it and say "that's not very nice" or some shit like that.
that's not very nice
did you take the picture? whos this???
"That's a terrible way to do business"
My mom would say "Don't be bringing people into our house through the phone!"
"Is that your friend?"
I love how Mike had to stop mid sentence to rejuvenate himself with alcohol.
You just know Mike spent the entire movie laughing at senile Indiana Jones. His contempt for the elderly is unyielding.
Yeah every time he complained about any of his elderly problems mike died laughing
He must laugh when he looks in the mirror.
@@cheers2023like you do?
@@cheers2023well I think that is the end game for Mike’s story arc at least
@ZeR0goth yep everyday!
"cut out an hour" has been the most pertinent movie making advice for almost a decade.
Honestly, I don't understand this trend of all movies being over two hours... The only really long movies I've watched in a movie theatre are the LotR trilogy, and my ass was numb afterward. I ended up walking out of the first Hobbit movie half an hour from the end because the 3D and/or double framerate was making my eyes and head hurt, and I realised that I didn't give a shit about seeing anymore of that cartooney nonsense, so why suffer physical pain for no reward?
@@korganrocks3995The Hobbit just got worse and worse. It's unredeemable.
@@jon4715 Yeah, it was genuinely terrible. It's such a simple, fun little adventure story and they managed to make basically the worst creative choices possible. Not to mention the financial choice to stretch it to three movies...
I think the LOTR movies started the 2:30hr trend, but they did it well and it's not meant for every story. Honestly, one of the reasons I like Renfield is that it's a quick 90-minute movie. That's a solid time frame.
@@haleymist09 90 minutes should be the aim, and you should only exceed it if you absolutely have to. If you're getting close to 3 hours you should probably have made a tv show instead. If LotR was made a decade or so later they'd probably have gone the tv route, and instead of 3 great movies we could have had multiple seasons of fantastic tv, kinda like a Game of Thrones that didn't fall apart in later seasons.
In an alternate universe, the movie starts with Indiana recounting the train scene, rather than showing it, and Mike is complaining that they should have shown it.
This sums up the review to a T.
The best alternate universe is one where this movie wasn't made
I think he would’ve praised the movie for NOT having a cartoon train flashback with an AI generated actor.
I think he would’ve praised the movie for NOT having a cartoon train flashback with an AI generated actor.
I think he would’ve praised the movie for NOT having a cartoon train flashback with an AI generated actor.
Wow, if I had a nickel for every time Shia LaBeouf's character died offscreen before the fifth film in a franchise, I'd have two nickels... which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
What other movie did he die offscreen?
@@PNS311 The Michael Bay Transformer movies. He's the main human character in the first three, never mentioned in the fourth, and revealed to be dead in the fifth.
Paramount franchises, no less
All the chase sequences make sense, like any 80 year old, Indiana Jones is most dangerous behind the wheel of a car.
He's probably even more dangerous in a wheelchair.
You mean a plane
@@VODZ get off my plane
@@VODZthose planes have tried to kill Harrison numerous times in the past to prevent him from making more Indiana Jones movies
that elderly driving video from wheel of the worst was right, they just didn't realise it
"I remember Kathy coming in the room with her pen and pad, and she was *horrible* at taking notes. But she was good at interrupting people"
- Stephen Spielberg
" I still remember Mama with her apron and her pad
Feeding all the boys at Ed's Cafe"
- Frank Zappa
@@fprefect "We need to get a woman in here to understand the female audience. So they hire a woman and they have her bring the coffee a few times so they know she's reliable. Few decades later she's the boss and has her feet on the desk and says "I know what women want..."."
Just like Rich Evans
Someone on Back To The Future suggested that it should be called "Spaceman From Pluto". I bet it was Kathleen Kennedy.
She made a good cuppa joe.
I just love the idea of Jay browsing Tiktok laughing at Grimace shake memes.
The biggest problem
Is that Indiana jones used to have such grounded action scenes. They were slow, methodical, and weighty. These were just fast cgi sequences.
The entire movie was just way too fast, there was barely a second without action.
Kinda like another series disney bought that starred harrison ford
They aren't action sequences so much as video games sequences. There's nothing more torturous than watching a video game.
@@Arkandos42
Same with Star Trek Discovery, and loads of movies/series. They have to shoot and edit them like a fanboy on acid, because if you slowed down at all you'd realize there's almost zero story. Just move fast and nobody will notice we're saying nothing at all!
@@derkeheath5172
"There's nothing more torturous than watching a video game."
This is what you get when you make Indiana Jones for the Twitch generation.
This is the worst thing to happen to Indiana Jones since the last thing to happen to Indiana Jones.
This is worse than that.
South park really did nail Holly woods relationship with franchises (starwars and Indiana jones) and I mean literally nailed it.
@@TheOwneroftheIC It's really not, though. I think Jay had it right. If the second half of "Crystal Skull" never happened, then it would easily be the superior movie, but the second half was SO bad that it wrecked the whole movie. This new one is just OK the whole time. It's not bad, it just doesn't do anything amazing and it's too long. The last movie I have no desire to ever see again, but this one might get a replay every now and again if I ever get bored.
Releasing this movie is the worst thing that happened since making it.
That's my sentiment too. This movie isn't great, but the last one had an alien looking into the camera and burning the villain to dust with mind powers
Rich Evans is so powerful he destroyed the microphones
Next time, keep your eyes shut, soulknife20. Don't look at it, no matter what happens.
OH MY GAAAAAAAAAD! ^_^
And my speakers!
I'm so over it at this point, I can barely watch videos with him in.
I wonder if there's an anechoic chamber powerful enough to contain Rich's voice ◡̈
True story: I was setting up for an academic conference meeting today and wanted to test the speaker. I played the first video that came up on UA-cam and it was this. Assumed there was a speaker issue. Spent 20 minutes trying to figure out the problem and finally just switched computers. Only realized the janky opening sound was actually part of the video hours later. Thanks a lot you hacks.
Hack frauds
That is hilarious
😂
So trying another video wasn't an option, huh?
True story: the broken audio lasted less than 5 seconds.
Every time Rich is in a HITB episode, it gets over a million views. Take it as a sign, boys.
AT-ST’s ! AT-ST’s ! AT-ST’s !
You can't expect them to be able to afford Hollywood movie star Rich Evans for every HITB episode
His screaming laughter is annoying to head phone users.
@@thecappeningchannel515 Speak for yourself. His joyous sound blasts gently caress my eardrums.
@@leavemynameoutofthis it sounds like angels farting
Rich Evans needs the Dialysis of Destiny after a grimace milkshake
Gold
And all those Tums.
Dialysis of Dysentery.
That’s not funny! This is elderly abuse
Diaper 🧷 change
Its gone from 'is it a good movie or not' to 'hey this 20 second scene wasn't miserable'
I’ve gone from ‘I’m never going to see this movie’ to ‘Clearly I didn’t miss out on anything.’
This episode was also miserable
@@slow17motionor shot
@@slow17motion I was never going to see this movie and, after three attempts, can’t seem to finish this episode, either. I think RLM is really going downhill with what you’re calling their contrarian opinion and attempts to justify it. It feels to me like credibility is on the wane.
@@SumDumGyit's actually quite good tbf
Spielberg grew up watching serials and movies from the 30’s and 40’s. He was trying to copy and innovate on that style and those creatives. Kinda feels like these franchises, whether it’s this or Star Wars or anything that’s been around, are being given to fans of the franchise and not fans of what inspired the franchise. This cinematography lacked the charm of a Spielberg film- sometimes they’d have it but the blocking and editing was so by the numbers for me, Raiders and Temple are like…pause it every shot or reframe and you’ve got a really cool looking pulpy book cover. Plus the camera moved with a flow and purpose, this was like constantly cutting and a lot of boring basic medium shots. Just felt unimaginative visually and somehow exhausting at the same time
I took Indy chanting “Hell No We Won’t Go” as him trying to get the attention of the other protestors to help him as he’s being carried away by The Man, and they would jump in and help “one of their own”. I agree that it was poorly done but this was my interpretation.
That was my thought but then absolutely nothing happened and it went nowhere so there was no point in even including it. Which was most of the scenes in the film.
Thought the very same
My interpretation is that Indy just wanted to protest for a second because of mutt dying in Vietnam. Whatever they were going for it was weirdly executed.
I thought that was really clear. If someone was confused watching it then they weren’t engaging their brain and must’ve been half in the bag.
The chase scenes are more entertaining when you imagine the people chasing him are nurses and Indiana is just having an episode
That’s genius 😂
ok that made me chuckle
LMAO
This is a great idea.
Makes me remember a Matrix redub, that the Russians did around 20 years ago about a bunch of mental patients who escaped a mental asylum and are riding around the subway imagining that they are fighting Nazis in Berlin and popping red & blue pills all the time.
That is insanity. Thanks for the thought, friend.
I can't wait for their Barbie/Oppenheimer double-feature.
"Barbie was depressing & boring and Oppenheimer was fun & subversive!"
I MAY see Oppenheimer.
No spoilers!
I’m gonna see Oppenheimer first then see Barbie afterwards in order to get the kino experience
They're not gonna watch either.
They'll watch some indie slop no one cares about instead
They need to review Asteroid City
Barbie looks way better than Oppenheimer idgaf
Rich Evans is clearly letting his mortal guise slip here. You can hear his voice become ethereal and omnipresent every once in a while.
The mysterious Greek clock thing that Mike is talking about is called the Antikythera Mechanism, and funny enough, it was the main inspiration for the 1990s video game Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine! A game that had a better story than Crystal Skull and Dial of Destiny combined...
Wasn't that actually historically some kind of calculator
@@orangeants more or less, yeah. I think the scientific consensus is that it was a computer for calculating star movements throughout the seasons. Or something to that effect.
Reminds me of the Emperor's Tomb video game. That shit was awesome.
How would combining two terrible stories together make it stronger? But I get your point.
"These zoomers stole our bit" was the most unexpected thing to come out of the grimace shake memes
40:09
WOOOOOOAAAAAAAOW
Being in the same theatre as Rich watching The Meg 2 trailer must have been a life altering experience
As much as I'd love it, I doubt they review either movie. Maybe in 30 years for a Review.
'Jason State Man' is my favorite Richevansism in a while, we are lucky to have him
The idea of an opening sequence with Indy making breakfast etc. is kind of what happens in Fate Of Atlantis, which has Indy recovering an artifact at the college, with "traps" like the bookcase falling down.
Never expected the plot twist of Harrison Ford not breaking his hip.
I heard it will be on the DVD extras.
He was clutching his kitchen counter for dear life the entire film and they edited out the kitchen counter in post.
that was only cut for time actually
Are you aure he didn't? Wasn't filming delayed because he was injured?
Or his face being swollen and bruised from being punched 3 or 4 times.
Very subversive for 80yr old Mike to reprise his role as a dementia-ridden movie watcher
thought u talking about the 🇺🇸 'President' age 🤭🤣
He subverted our expectations!
Part time?
@@ChalkiePerfect Indy is now old, depressed, divorced, and suicidal after Mutt dies in Vietnam. Fleabag comes in and says lets get a dial. She tries to get Indy murdered twice, by locking him in with Nazis who also want the dial to go back and kill Hitler. They find the dial, but the Nazi's steal it, so Indy and Fleabag go after the Nazis to save Hitler. They all go back to 212 BCE in WW2 Bombers because the dial only goes back to that specific point in time, from this specific time, for reasons. One bomber gets shot down by arrows and doesn't change the past. Indy also gets shot, says let me die in peace, I have nothing to live for. Fleabag says no, you'll change the past if you die here. Fleabag then performs some elder abuse, and Indy wakes up in NY back in 1969, depressed, suicidal, and alone. Then in walks Marion, and he's then depressed, suicidal, but no longer alone.
The End.
I CLAPPED!
should've had Alden Ehrenreich as indy for the opening train sequence
Yeah they had River Phoenix as Young Indy in the last crusade
That is so funny
I thought he was great in Solo, he would’ve been way better than the cgi abomination in this movie
The 'who made that movie?' running gag gets me every time.
Crystal Skull being 15 years old is wild to me. Fuck I'm getting old.
no shut up, you're lying. I refuse- I REFUSE
I never thought we’d get an even more unnecessary cash-grab ego-aggrandizing sequel to Indian Jones but here we are…
It’ll be a very rapid slide into the grave from here. Prepare your will. Prepare your soul.
My friend and I got blazed out of our minds thinking it would make a dumb movie fun, and we came out disappointed in just about every way you could imagine. The audience collectively and audibly cringed when he rolled out of the fridge.
When you're really old like me or Mike 15 years ago is like yesterday. Or maybe it's just that the horrific memories of Crystal Skull are just still too vivid. The gophers. The nuke-proof fridge.The monkeys. Shia LeBoef. Shia LeBoef and the monkeys. Part time. Magnetic crystal skull that attracts gold. Using a snake as a rope. Why Aliens?....oh god the brain melting horror of it all
Its unfortunate that these movies have missed the opportunity of character development with Indy finally using a snake as a whip.
They did use a snake as a rope, that was good enough for me :)
@@daniel.s.stefanov As someone who used to have a pet snake, the idea of getting a snake into anything but a tangle is laughable. The only reliable way I could get my snake to do something was to pull him in the opposite direction of where I wanted him to go. 😄
The first three movies were based on myths and mythical artefacts whereas the last two were based on known debunked pseudoarchaeology. The adventures fall a bit flat when you feel that you're watching an _Ancient Aliens_ rip-off.
"Just have her be a scumbag" Jay missed an opportunity for a pretty solid Phoebe Waller-Bridge pun here
I just watched her in Indy last night and stumbled on Fleabag today. Fleabag is excellent, and she is incredibly good in it.
Idk if they even know that fleabag exists
Good. Puns are awful.
Deepfake Harrison Ford is like seeing a guy in his 40s wearing his high school letterman jacket
*Al Bundy
Yep
@@bloodeagle6458 I doubt that's more expensive
@@mikeycrackson No argument here.
I speak for most RLM fans, I was looking forward to this more than I was the movie.
Honestly, yeah 😂
I’ll never forget my hype for the episode 9 review
1,000%!
I love hearing these knuckleheads talk about movies that I have no intention of ever seeing...They're that good!
Absolutely.
I speak for most Indiana Jones fans and we agree.
Great to see how Mike can easily improve a 300 million dollar movie with a few quick ideas.
is this the first RLM Video youve ever seen?
You have no proof though that his ideas would improve the movie. If you think that youre a God that can easily improve everything that just means you have a HUGE EGO
@@leob4403 i am and i do, what of it?
@@leob4403lol why do you spam trash talk on this channel? 250 comments bro? If you dont like them..... maybe dont watch? Lemme guess, youre a braindead star wars fan? DC?
@@leob4403Which is why through Rich. Anything is possible.
I love how Rich sounds like he’s in a tunnel when he gets loud
In 1989, Batman and Indiana Jones appeared in theaters.
In 2008, Batman and Indiana Jones appeared in theaters.
In 2023, Batman and Indiana Jones appeared in theaters.
yea but batman at least mixed things up by having a different guy in the middle there
It’s like poetry.
@@Mantis42 Also those Nolan Batman's were pretty boss too!
And from 1992 to 1995 Batman and Indiana Jones were both on TV
1981/1982: First Indiana Jones and First Rambo movie (neither have the main character’s name in the title)
1984/1985: Second Indiana Jones and Second Rambo movie
1988/1989: Third Indiana Jones and Third Rambo movie
2008: Fourth Indiana Jones and Fourth Rambo movie
2019/2023 (would have been sooner had it not been for the pandemic): Fifth Indiana Jones and Fifth Rambo movie
To the guys issues with the John Williams soundtrack: one of the things that made Williams so successful back in the day is that he actually had access to the script and accompanying footage when composing his scores. So, he could actually see what was supposed to be happening in the scene and he would compose the score from there. What's been happening in the last decade though is that Williams hasn't had access to said scripts or footage - either because Lucasfilm was keeping it under lock and key because of "lol, spoilers!" or as has been far more frequent in their projects, the scenes were needing to be completely re-written and reshot all the way down to the last minute. So it's a situation where either Williams has no idea what's supposed to be going on in a given scene or what the mood of the scene is supposed to be, or the original scene which he used for the basis of his score got completely rewritten or junked entirely.
I thought the soundtrack was as expected. He couldn't really do much more than do Indiana Jones music again, and with a movie this messy there was no way his music could possibly be better than previously because it takes music to make a great movie, and a great movie to make a great soundtrack memorable.
There's also the fact that these movies have given him precious little to work with.
this was a fascinating read, thank ya
Let’s just pretend John Williams died after episode III
Yeah I thought this after seeing Rise of Skywalker, you can REALLY feel it in that. The music was just "Star Wars Ambience" with no real standout tracks.
The sequels are terrible overall but even TFA and TLJ were able to get some excellent motifs out of him, but now these movies are being held together with glue, some string and a prayer, tossed out the door with unfinished scenes and plots that go nowhere and/or make no sense.
How can he write music for films where the director has no idea what he's making?
I love when rich is like "how could he have possibly survived that" and then they edited in two other scenes in which people survive much more insane shit
These guys missed the moment when Archimedes looked at the completed dial and said "Eureka!" That is the causality loop. I don't blame them though. It is so undersold it might as well have been an Easter Egg.
I thought it would have been great if Indy had said it when he figured out the water trick in the tomb. Even if Archimedes used it again later.
"The elderly watch any movie"
Mike is 100% right here a friend and I went to go see an anime romcom in the cinema in the middle of ireland and there was a group of 8 elderly people there.
Anime has been around for a long time. There are plenty of old folks who grew up on classic anime like Astroboy. It's not like you're going to stop watching anime when you're elderly. My whole generation about to be 80 year olds yelling at each other in virtual reality call of duty lol.
@@astrospect Believe me, in Ireland elderly people aren’t clued in to things like anime. I work in a cinema in Dublin and every week local elderly people come to the early daytime showings for literally every movie. They get their pension money and the cinema is one of the only places when you’re out and about it town where you can sit in relative peace and quiet so I think a lot of them do this, especially if they’re lonely.
Knowing that this happens, there has been at least one elderly person who unexpectedly really enjoyed watching an anime movie for the first time at the theatre, and maybe looked for more anime stuff after that experience. That warms my little heart.
@@Ammoniumbicarbonat Yeah bro because you know every single elderly person alive. You know exactly what they like. Midwit. Elderly people today were in their 40s and 50s when Spirited Away came out. Get the f outta here.
Down with this sort of thing!
This is as close to watching the movie as I'll ever get.
Count your blessings, you don’t have family members who will watch it the second they can stream it 😮💨
Ditto!(is ditto still a thing?...If not, I'm bringin' it back)
I found it fine, had some really good ideas, the villain is well done
It's honestly good, miles clear of Crystal Skull
@@mjm5081ditto is a thing for as long as Patrick Swayze is sexy.
👻⚱️🍆🍑
Some more observations:
1) Originally I thought a younger Indy being depicted was pretty cool and clever given how it was apparent that time-travel was integral to the plot. It's also a pretty effective way of avoiding having to confront the fact that Harrison Ford is technically an octogenarian at this point in his life. Ironically though, we only see him younger in a flash-back not via time-travel. Wasted opportunity? I guess it goes with the theme still somewhat?
2) There was a mention when Indy was opening up emotionally about his regrets and how certain mistakes left him in a state of grief and it seems obvious that the time-travel element could have played a role here in his personal redemption. Seems like a missed opportunity and this little excursion in the plot ended up being of little importance, as for some reason, the conflict between he and his ex (Marion) just suddenly and inexplicably resolved itself at the end. It was shoehorned in more so as a warm and fuzzy sentimental nostalgic moment. Felt cheap. Like pretty lazy writing without any pay-off. If you are going to plant a seed, then reap something from it!
3) His goddaughter was pretty messily written. You can generously chalk it up to her eccentricity or enigmatic nature but it at first wasn't well established why she didn't hold the same reverence and awe in the mystique of these ancient artifacts that her father had. She obviously was greatly influenced by him and was a sort of apprentice - so it is strange that she would not inherit that same passion or admiration. She ended up having this self-serving attitude of vanity - treating these objects as a means for material gain. If the story had established some sort of rift or animosity between the father and daughter, then this would make sense of her motivation. It would perhaps be her way of acting out of spite or rebellion.
Also, her actual character arc is pretty baffling. I don't know why she goes from fairly callous regarding the fate of others (or the world itself for that matter) to becoming so attached and invested as to risk life and limb in ridiculous stunts. I don't understand what is driving her as a sympathetic heroine rather than as the loathsome opportunist she was established as. It just sort of happened without warning and was unrewarding.
Fun Fact: When Helena punched Indiana unconscious, she actually killed him. He was already weak from being shot and she just finished him off. The rest of the movie is the last of his brain firing up an hallucination. That's why he's suddenly home seeing his close friend, and also that rather unpleasant woman that he's been traveling with. He's suddenly back together with Marion, his one true love. As his brain blinks out and he succumbs to death, he reaches for his hat, a representation of his long and unfulfilled life. Once she knocks him out, the rest is just a brain death dream.
This would explain why Indy is apparently no longer wanted for a double murder at the end.
That would be too clever for these terrible writers though.
🤓
A Writer: pitches that same exact thing.
Disney: "Naw. Makes too much sense."
Phoebe,that you?
The use of forced perspective here is honestly masterful - Jay looks like a regular sized human 👏
Even more impressive he's actually 3 feet tall really learned for Peter Jackson for the forced perspective
Thank you for this, you made my day
I read this while inhaling a smoke, and I think I almost died of choking from laughter
Jay Baggins.
Deep faking out the apple box was superb.
In the original Indiana Jones films he did not look at random women like they were pieces of meat. He didn't even look at Willie with interest when he first met her. Marianne was an old flame (or young flame depending how you look at it), and Elsa was an irresistible femme fatale. Indy never eyed other women, and his disinterest in his adoring female students showed he wasn't some lecherous guy.
But muh subversions!
I find it funny that the same behavior people complain about in men is seen as ideal for women.
@@andystegall7407 The people who make women characters all gross like this from some sort of perverse "feminist" a.k.a. misandrist perspective fundamentally misunderstand why those behaviors are wrong in the first place. Kathleen Kennedy isn't trying to get humans to treat each other better with compassion and respect because then she wouldn't play such a huge role in the gigantic, sketchy monster that is Disney... No, she and others like her just want to BE those creepy, powerful individuals. They don't want to change the system that incentivizes their antisocial behavior. Their philosophical beliefs suck complete ass and fail to address the real-world issues that they're supposedly tackling.
Yeah, Indy had exactly one love interest per film, and it took time to get there. His head was not on a swivel.
They actually cut that from Raiders, but it was written in that he did in fact sleep with his female students. One of them was supposed to be at his house when Marcus came to see him off before he went to Nepal.
This movie felt like going to a funeral.
The "cancelled streaming show" multiverse could actually be a really fun premise.
I genuinely love the idea of an "action chase scene" where 80 year old Indy is just trying to get to his lecture at the university on time.
That actually would have been cool. Just don't overdue the corniness of that scene. Keep it short and sweet. It would of gotten a good chuckle from people.
Absolutely, someone like Edgar Wright using editing to make the mundane more exciting and hilarious.
I feel like that would look like the intro scene for Office Space.
I'd have taken that. In the right hands.
The Simpsons already did it in the episode Bart's Friend Falls in Love
I know Rich is known for wacky noises but the noise that comes out of his mouth at 36:28 is unlike any noise I’ve heard another human make in my life
Sounded like a monkey haha
MYEH
imagine that as a clock alarm… MEH, MEH MEH
48:23 Right here, I swear he sounds like Ruby Rhod from The Fifth Element
Jay Leno made those noises all the time.
Of course, I forgive Rich Evans.
RLM single-handedly provided a third of this movie's box office.
Now we know who we can blame.
@@ShatteredPedestal7 Rich Evans is the mastermind behind Mike's torture. He will not rest until Hollywood will run each and every of his favorite franchises to the ground.
That's what he gets for putting his childhood photos on the Internet.
Next Bond movie is going to be 2 hours of how his family puts him on hospice and just watch him wither and die. Stunning
Yeah it's like the old Simpsons gag about the Charles Bronson Death Wish movies. "Death Wish 9", and it's just Charles Bronson lying in a hospital bed saying "I Wish I Was Dead".
So heartwarming to see Mike talk about a movie that is all about his true passion: Elder Abuse
*Snort* 😂
Mike stopping in the middle of his sentence and saying "Hold on, I need to drink beer" tells me everything I need to know about this movie.
In the future I hope to see an in depth documentary into how bad the fumbles behind the scenes at Disney have REALLY been. Had Star Wars and Indiana Jones and all there own iconic properties and managed to make every single thing just terrible. It's actually really damn impressive.
Because nobody who made them originally is still there and they've all already been run into the ground. They're just putting out big budget fan fic.
A majority of Star Wars content since the Disney purchase has been good. Rise of Skywalker and Rogue One are the worst things by far. Andor and the first season of the Mandalorian are incredible Star Wars media pieces.
@@viktorceder4985 - I'll agree on The Mandalorian until Season 3. That was really bad. I was also not fond of Luke's cameo at the end of Season 2, especially since the additional scenes with him and Grogu in TBoBF lead to absolutely nothing. It would have been slightly better if instead of Luke, it had been some other Jedi. Of course, this still wouldn't solve the issue of how Grogu leaving Din turns out to be a non-event because he returns SO quickly. For me, Mando was over once they blew up the Razor Crest. No more bounty hunting, no more new locations and new characters. It's become the next season of Clone Wars. If I'd seen Clone Wars, I suppose might be more excited, but the writing and direction are awful. Andor was terrific, I just wish Diego's Luna's performance wasn't so restrained. Hopefully, they can make him more expressive in the second season. I could watch Stellan Skarsgard stare mournfully into the distance all day long, but Diego just doesn't have that special something that works for me when he does it.
@@viktorceder4985😂
@@viktorceder4985 No, it hasn't. And if you think it has, you are the problem. Shit man, let's be real: Star Wars hasn't been good since Empire. Even Jedi was pretty trash and mostly functions on nostalgia, nevermind what a trainwreck the prequel trilogy or that absolute crime against humanity that was the sequel trilogy.
All the Star Wars content now just feels derivative, disconnected from its origin, its ethos tired and shown a thousand times over to be rhetorical drivel for (adult) kiddos, the content itself akin to lil bits of the rotted corpse of a horse that's been dead for almost 40 years and been being beaten for at least half, which was never even a horse to begin with and really more of a horse-shaped amalgam of stolen ideas and advertisements for cheap plastic children's toys.
I mean this with as little offense as I can muster, but if you like this garbage, you have bad taste, and are one of the wellsprings of this glut of trashpile media we've been getting.
If I had a nickle for every time a character played by Shia LaBeouf was killed offscreen for a sequel, I would have two nickles.
Which isn’t much, but it’s wierd that it happened twice
Also what’s the other franchise where this happened? Transformers?
@@tylerm6453yeah
What else?
@@Don11037 Transformers 5
@@fyrusgrey5153 Damm really that's dirty lol wtf obviously his character was lame but after 3 movies you can't do that
I love how Indy is wanted for murder, and by the end, he still is...
But writing is haaaaaaaard
To quote a great man "WAT MUUUURRDDDAAAAAAHHHH!?"
@@petrifiedtoaster8572 "He was the best guy arouuuund"
and he's still a russian spy
The whole thing really just screams 'too many cooks in the kitchen'
Mikes idea to make the opening action scene about old Indiana getting up in the morning was true genius.
The best part of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was that it was a double feature: the first 20 minutes was the Polar Express and then you got a Geriatric Indiana Jones film! What more could anyone ask for!
Yes, a female Indiana Jones, a woman archeologist who seeks out ancient items, fighting off the bad guys while doing it. What would you call her?.....
Laura Croft. You'd call her Laura Croft.
Except Lara Croft is gorgeous and likeable
By "gorgeous" you mean she has huge... tracts of land?
Funny enough, that she is also ready to be ruined by the same person.
@nicholasvinen I read your comment, and now, I just wanna......SING!.......
Why do people keep calling her Laura? Is it a meme I’m out of the loop on?
20:30 My gf is also a film editor and points out that it's the same lightning burst, those same take between the two "part time" takes. Her theory is that the bad take is his ADR over the scene, crapped out in a studio sound booth, and that they probably didn't have a clean multichannel audio recording for the more natural take.
@37:37 Guys! They suggest that the dial was designed to only go back to only the siege on Syracuse to help Archimedes. So even if Indy wanted too, it’s unlikely he could travel back to save Mutt.
Exactly. That's why they have the whole "forced deck" scene where they talk about illusion of choice with the card trick. Archemedes did the same with the dial - hinting at the illusion of travel to other times - but was really hoping for help to protect Syracuse from the Romans as he knew the battle would be lost eventually.
I imagined that Archimedes was going to be some guy from modern times who invented time travel and became Archimedes once they discovered that his body had a watch
Love the concept of the opening sequence being Indy as a grumpy old guy getting up in the morning and facing minor inconveniences on his way to work. That would have been so brilliantly funny.
It'd probably work better as a short comedy sketch akin to the Shatner vs Gorn commercial where they re-stage their fight with sofa cushions.
Jay calling Hitler signing Indy's diary "cute" is everything
"Danke for the chuckles!" is what it said. Maybe.
the scene( as books that have been removed from various previously acceptable curriculum )
• largely noticed by much younger YT 'reactors' powering through the first 4 Films •
. . . commenting about the current climate & that this nation creeps eerily close to 30s post WW I Europe
@@noHOPEof why would you phrase this in such an unintelligible way
also that was mike
@@noHOPEofChatGPT is that you?
My issue with the Helena character was the lack of connection between her and Indy. She turns around to be deeply caring of Indy. But there wasn't anything they did to pay off that emotional note.
Indy had to know she was not genetically related to that little blonde guy.
The actress was all wrong for this; awkward in the action and always smirking.
@williamgarner6779 that's a good point as well.
I got the impression that Mike, Jay and Rich had more fun talking about the grimace shake than the movie
A sad end to an iconic character. I'm talking about Rich Evans.
Cannon stops after Picard Season 1. Who wants to see grizzled, old versions of our favorite heroes?
I had a bad feeling about this movie when I saw an ad for a free ticket at Applebee's
By spending *$35* at Applebee's. Even in this economy, a movie ticket is less than that.
For an Indiana Jones movie starring an 80 year old Harrison Ford, it was almost as good as it could've been.
43:35 - a great example of that joke working is in 'Willow' when Val Kilmer is flexing with his sword and that two-headed dragon appears behind him, making the guards retreat. In fact, they follow that up ANOTHER good gag when Val runs away from the dragon and ends up standing with all the bad guys
An Indiana Jones movie without Indiana Jones is simply a National Treasure prequel.
Is that where we're headed? The next Indiana Jones film stars a deaged Nicholas Cage and the loop is complete.
@@Reddsoldier Here's an idea, a movie series based around how all those booby traps were constructed. I'd quite enjoy seeing a Pygmy site manager wondering where the best place for the gigantic stone boulder would be.
@@MedievalFolkDanceBecause Pygmies live in the jungles of Peru...
@@MedievalFolkDance They did a skit like that on Robot Chicken.
@@MedievalFolkDancerobot chicken already did rhat
There's a good reason for the dim lighting. It's to hide the bad CGI.
Mike stopping his point mid-sentence to quietly announce he needs to drink his beer will live rent free in my head forever.
I love that Jay had an occasion to share his knowledge of the Grimace shake trend. You know Rich would have never heard of it otherwise (And honestly, good for him).
Why do I find the musings of three middle-aged Wisconsinites more entertaining than the actual films they’re discussing
Because these middle-age men actually have something to say.
Exactly!
I almost never see the movies they talk about. But they're just so damn entertaining!
Because they almost exclusively talk about movies that suck.
Para social relationship free
Because none of them report to Kathleen Kennedy.
Man the promos are hilarious. Harrison just fielding questions about age. The director fielding questions about Stephen speilberg and George Lucas. The entire promo circuit is damage control.
It always makes me feel better to hear you guys say, out loud, what I am thinking during or after the movies. Nice to know I'm not crazy.
Honestly the old man adventure waking up with indy music is a really great juxtaposition storytellingwise
Hot Damn kids! Was it Magical Mystery Tour? I think my brain was still recovering from the train scene.
Still was better than the monkeys from Crystal Skull
@@chrisallen9509 hey hey we're the Monkees
Mike, are you loosing your mind?
At least this wasn't an endless trashing of fleabag like all the other sites. We get it, yall hate her. Move on. It's just a crappy movie.😮😮😮
No joke here, thanks for doing what you do 🫡
Wernher von Braun, who Mads Mikkelsen is based on, actually lived in Alabama for 20 years.
I think (among the wealth of absurdity) the dumbest thing the Nazis did in ancient Greece was forget that planes don't have to fly 50 feet above the ground.
I don't know much about planes so correct me if i'm off the mark with this but didn't they say they only had enough fuel to make it to their original destination thus not enough to go back through the hole?
Syracuse lies in Sicily
The CGI to make Rich look like he’s 75 is impressive. Good work fellas.
Someone give Chat GPT a raise
I was gonna comment that rich actually looks really good. He's definitely benjamin buttoning
@@Valkyrie9000true, Rich looks healthier than ever
@@williamcobbett4943 by making that dick joke in best of the worst, Rich freed himself from Mike's grasp, who now can't siphon off his life force anymore. Rich is slowly regaining his health back and soon he will be able to defeat Mike for good
Rich has the Sean Connery Effect on him, the older he gets the prettier he becomes.
If Mike wasn't depressed already, you could almost tell the 1st take not working really annoyed him
The first take not working is one of the most frustrating things ever, especially when you had a good spontaneous conversation. Everybody looses
CGI is so incredible now. Why do they keep managing to use it in such lame ways. Video game physics, uncanny vally. Jurassic park still looks better than many of these scense.
Yeah, back in the day they would only use it if it looked good, but I think kids are so used to video games and stuff has to be cranked out so the art of film making becomes more about the business because people are getting dumber so they'd rather watch something that looks like a cartoon.
@@Freakazoid12345 also CGI is a save time and cost, and easy to manupilate. Building a grand set cost money, and production has to be shot accurately. CGI can be made in pre-production, and edited in post-production.
Constructing the T-rex in Jurassic park is basically building a massive crane with skin, electro-mechanic controls for its neck, mouth and teeth. And 1990s CGI, power by hundreds of CPU, were added to make it look real with a few shots. Spielberg and Lucas developed close relations with the ILM, chief artists, so that they can be at the same page. With today CGI, all they have to do, is hired a bunch of lowly paid computer artists, to make the CGI look decent. They don' t need much. If the artists complained, outsourced it to third-world sweatshops with CGI graduates.
@@Account.for.Comment right and the movie is basically timeless now except for open fields in daylight with CGI.
Otherwise, near perfect and flawless film.
@@Freakazoid12345Nah man, you cannot blame this on kids. This is studio greed preying on peoples acceptance on mediocrity
An Indy movie without the Paramount mountain morph is like a Star Wars movie with no opening crawl. i.e. it breaks new ground
Rich evans pronounces so many words correctly in this one. He’s doing great!
I liked the part where Indiana Jones made a conscious decision that his son should remain dead.
No he didn’t as The Dial never really did time travel to anywhere as it was only to Archimede’s time that was the whole point
@@kyloren1014no, they went back to Syracuse because the calculations didn’t take into account “continental drift”. The dial doesn’t *only* go back to that date. Where did you get that idea?
@@sampedder98 from the movie it is stated that is what happened Archimedes called for help and they showed up remember in the puppet play of the battle there were dragons
@@sampedder98 Indy was bullshitting them. At around 1 inch per year, Continental drift would've shifted the coordinates about a football field's distance over 2000k years, which is unnoticeable when you're flying an airplane, and negligible even when you're on foot.
“Yeah, fuck Shia LaBeouf, I never liked him.”
Well Chat GPT or John William's ghost writer won the Grammy for "Helena's Theme". Just re-watched Dial of Destiny 2 days ago and you couldn't pay me a billion dollars to even try to hum that tune.
You remember those moments in Red Letter Media history when it turns out the studio did exactly what the guys predicted years before…. I think that last minute of this episode is going to be one of those moments. I predict we’re 5 years tops away from random live action characters of unconnected shows showing up in a multiverse and having to work together to get back to their own worlds. They did it with cartoons and videos games in Wreck it Ralph. I guarantee that’s the kind of idea that studio execs will be like, what can we do with all this leftover IP now?
I think you are right. Darth Vader, Batman and Mickey Mouse team up to save the day.
Prof Jones telling Indy to let the grail go was telling him that he was valuing the well-being of his son more than his life’s work, and that he didn’t need to get the macguffin to prove himself to his father. So he‘d be able to stop putting himself in danger for things. And able to have a life.
Interesting.
And that's why the franchise ended with that movie.
@@wormfood83everything is corpsing lately.
Right. The 'Last' in the movie title has a double-meaning, it was intended to be the final Indy movie. I remember both Spielberg and producer Robert Watts expressing this view in interviews at the time of release (1989).
Not only that but you learn a lot about Henry Jones JUnIoR as well and the 4 ride off into the sunset as the credits roll that’s as final as it gets
Probably the worst ending to a movie I’ve ever seen. Indiana jones basically gives up on life and wants to stay in the past. Then gets knocked out by a girl who drags him back to New York in present time. He wakes up in his apartment and finds out the girl somehow saved his marriage forgetting that he’s still wanted for murder