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LIVE film review! I’m going to watch ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of destiny‘ and review it as I go along.
Disclaimer: I am in love with Dr. Jones, madly.
The trailer:
Yay nazis!
Okay, wait, no, that sounded wrong. I hate nazis, like all decent people do.
But I mean yay because they’re Indy’s best enemies.
That Indiana Jones film set after the war didn’t quite work out did it…
Oh look, it’s Lance!!
IT’S INDY!!
And thank the gods for the modern technology that made him look young. It doesn’t always work but it’s pretty believable here.
I’m trying not to be shallow but well, oh golly, gosh, crikey, ding dong ducky and all that:
Ooooooooooooh aaaaaaaaaaaaah now that is a nice artefact. The Lance of Longinus! I want it.
IT’S HANNIBAL!
I love him too.
Ouch, castle on fire is painful to watch.
Also, none of those vehicles have blackout covers on their headlights!
Did I mention I was going to make annoying comments about details and that there would be spoilers?
No? Oh well, just did. Also, no, not that beautiful ceiling!
That rope on the left is supposedly what Indy is hanging from but I think it’s not tight enough to be actually holding a weight.
I told you I’d be annoying. I’ve been trained at image analysis by shady top secret people in a mysterious underground base, I see everything:
This whole hanging and falling scene is brilliant, such a great start to the film, just like the early ones in the series. Love it:
Also funny and worthy of an early Indy film. Our hero steals a car but then high ranking baddies get in the back. oops!
Ja aber nein.
Come on. There’s a war on.
Especially trains are a popular target for enemy planes.
They didn’t just forget to close ALL the curtains, they also don’t have any blackout up and there appears to be a jolly bright headlight at the front:
Street lights, even traffic signs have a nice light attached to them. Nein!
Thanks to that random road-sign we at least now know where we are, just outside Poligny in Eastern France.
Does that mean the castle was Chillon? That’s such a gorgeous castle:
Jumping from a car onto a motorbike to punch Nazis.
YES that’s our Indy!
Always hurts to see such nice old cars get damaged.
Indy is running on a train, THE Indiana Jones music sounds, I’m 9 years old again. Fantastic:
Ok found an error.
In the beginning Indy says that Berlin is in rubble and Hitler is hiding. Which suggests we’re talking early 1945.
But I think Poligny was liberated in September 1944.
Anyway, proper bad guy, incl the scar.
Good actor, seen in Das Boot tv series:
That’s the spirit, you tell ’em Lance!
He’s got his jacket, the hat, the whip. I cheered.
Be still my beating heart!
See, I told you, drive around with lights everywhere and enemy planes will find you.
But did anyone listen to auntie Jo? Noooooo.
Well here you go, bombs and bullets in your face:
So, the first 20 minutes are great, proper old Indy stuff, adrenaline rushing, punching nazis, crazy action, I loved it.
But… now we go to the… late 1960s… I’ve got a feeling things are going to get a lot worse from here on:
Oh look, a photo of Indy’s dad, that was a fun film. And there’s Marion! Ah I love spotting reminders of earlier films:
Oh Indy, what has time done to you:
Oh no. Hippies.
I remember hippies, I found them annoying even though I was just a child.
And now we have them playing very loud music at 8 in the morning. This is depressing. Poor Indy:
The old Indy films were all set in eras I like, the music, fashion, design, etc.
But now… ugly cars, ugly clothes, long hair, people saying groovy.
Oh no:
See, we’ve gone from 1930s girls madly in love with Indy (like all of us) to 1960s beatniks who aren’t even interested. Sad.
This is a bar. It is 1969.
Why is it not smokey? Why is nobody smoking?
I remember going to bars as a child in the 70s, they were always smokey, even in the afternoons.
Those bars were great:
The dial is a beauty. I want it:
No way Indy would push over all these shelves with priceless artefacts to save his life. Well he probably would, but I’m not sure I would:
Yay sailors!
All the nice girls love a sailor:
This was a fun chase:
Oh and this guy?
That massive giant?
That’s Oliver Richters, Dutch, of course 🙂
Sallah Mohammed Faisel el-Kahir!
This is quite touching. The old friends, the adventure. And Indy is still cute. I wish Sallah could come along, a Welshman, I mean Egyptian makes every story better 😉
Finally, I’ve spotted a smoker! There should be many more. I bet they didn’t even have a real smoker there, but added that smoke in with CGI:
Hahahaha!
This interaction made me laugh out loud:
Also very funny:
The tuk-tuk chase is exciting and fun, which is impressive because in many films I often get bored during chases and fight scenes:
I love this. The old watching a line on a map while our heroes travel. So very old Hollywood, so very Indy:
This one hurt a little. Never ask a history addict where they’d go if they could go back in time.
I used to be able to come up with a long list of times I’d travel to, but today all I would use the time machine for is to see my mum again:
Is this where all the old diving equipment experts go “they didn’t have those back in ’69!”?
Finding an 2000 year old shipwreck sticking out of the earth like this in that condition is unlikely…
Even though human remains have been found in shipwrecks this old, I don’t think you’d find many skeletons looking like this…
Eeek, eels! I think I prefer snakes:
A box that’s been in the water for 2000 years looking like that and having still working hinges is unlikely 😉
Yay secret tunnels, cave systems, ruins, lovely!
A tunnel full of icky bugs! Yay!
With most films I’d mumble “they’ve done this before” but here it’s just fun, makes you think of that other time they had bugs in that other Indiana Jones film, it’s nostalgia babe!
This is where the film would end if I was Indy, I’d just be too excited about finding this and forget all about the dial thingy and the nazis and just start documenting the location:
Always amazed by mechanical traps and devices still working after 2000 years 😉
Well that ain’t right on an 2000 year old skeleton!
Hannibal has a timemachine!! Who is he going to eat first?
Nice plane! But yes, the Nazi’s plan is a bit silly. He’s going to kill Hitler to make Germany win the war or something? Does he think he can take over?
So he got a whole bunch of neo-nazis in 1969 to believe he can take them back to 1939 and then to kill Hitler and take over?
Man our bad guy must have some hidden talents that involve convincing people of crazy stuff:
Hahahaha!
The film has quite a few very funny bits:
I like the twist of them discovering that their time travel calculations are wrong. Where, I mean when are they going?!
HAHAHAHHAA that doesn’t look like 1939!
I’m loving this. Yes it’s silly, yes it’s nonsense but all the Indiana Jones films have some supernatural nonsense! And seeing Nazis flying over some ancient siege made me laugh:
Archimedes!!
Okay this is the first thing that’s too dumb and silly even for me.
Why on earth are the nazis shooting a couple of bullets at these ancient war ships below them?
Hahaha, let’s get rid of a whole bunch of nazis by opening the hatch they were standing on:
Goosebumps. I’m jealous of Indy. Going back in time, seeing the battle, meeting Archimedes. I’d want to stay as well:
I’m annoyed for Indy. He’s kidnapped back to 1969.
But… wait… MARION!!!
All the old friends, the reunions, it’s truly lovely.
Maybe its because I’ve unexpectedly become emotional at my old age, but an Indiana Jones film never made me cry, but it managed to do so this time:
And then I go and ruin it all by saying something stupid like “that makes no sense’. This is the scene at the very start of the film and here is a scene at the very end at the film.
Did the magazines not change during what must have at least been a few weeks?
The end!
Well I was really pleasantly surprised. I expected the worst, the trailer made me have hope, and finally the film was actually pretty decent, better than the previous one anyway.
It was fun, it was silly, the action was exciting, Indy was lovely:
The weird nazi time travel plan let it down a bit because it just didn’t make sense, but Indy literally going back in time didn’t bother me.
So all in all, a pretty decent Indiana Jones film, although, of course, not as good as the first one, which I should review next!
If you enjoyed this review, check out this long list of other films, tv shows, books, games, etc. I’ve also reviewed:
https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2022/11/14/my-reviews/
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