I love the original ‘Indiana Jones’ trilogy; pure escapist entertainment with no axe to grind or agenda to push. Sadly ‘the Crystal Skull’ jumped the shark, and it appeared that as the franchise ran out of steam and Harrison Ford got ever older, things would be left to rest in peace.
Sadly not. Disney purchased Lucasfilm, and inevitably, looked to squeeze Indy for every last conceivable buck it could. So now ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ is about to the hit the multiplexes.
Needless to say I won’t be shelling out my cash to buy a ticket. This is because I predict that it will be complete and utter gash. Why? Well it’s odds on that Disney will do what it did to ‘Star Wars’, namely trash the legacy and alienate a huge swathe of the fan base.
Producer Kathleen Kennedy has already pretty much stated this, and had a go at fans in the process. Responding to talk of a potential fan backlash and boycott, she claimed that fans who refuse to see the film or purchase a ticket ‘are not real fans’, and they’re angry at ‘the change we are bringing to the franchise with diversity and female empowerment’. Well Miz Go Woke Go Broke, here’s the thing; fans want entertainment from Indy, not a lecture on your agenda. Oh, and they can choose where and when they spend their hard-earned cash, thanks very much.
As for that ‘female empowerment’, well it appears in the form of the insufferable Phoebe Waller-Bridge, as Indy’s goddaughter Helena Shaw. Word has it that she’s a typical Kennedy ‘Mary Sue’; you know, that idealised female character who has no faults and is indomitable. And almost certainly utterly unlikeable. I’ll bet she can out-think, out-shoot and out-run poor Indy, leaving him as a grumpy old git shuffling about in her wake. Just what we need; another ‘girlboss’.
So there’s my assessment of how this will turn out. I think it will tank, and moreover, I fucking hope it tanks, and big time. Hollywood, and Disney in particular, seem hell bent on patronising audiences and talking down to them, while simultaneously abusing them for not appreciating the woke guff it wants to dish out. Then they have the gall to get annoyed when the fans say ‘fuck you’ and turn their backs as they see another film legacy being disrespected.
‘Go woke go broke’ Disney, and the fucking sooner the better, you cunts.
Nominated by Ron Knee.
Off topic, but I couldn’t help but see this:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/04/white-house-evacuated-after-cocaine-found/
I’m sure Hunter Biden knows naffink abaaaaaaht it.
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They’ll say Big Don left it there.
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you know that. lol
end of days for the bidens IMO. even the dems see him as a liability now. the evidence against him is overwhelming now. the press seem to have been given the green light to ask the questions they should have been asking all along.
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I watched Scarface again today.
Not seen it for years
The bit about the government trying to cut out the dealers is very apt.
Is it too early to bring up the lies and corruption about the plandemic
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Well said that man. Huzzah!
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When Ford snuffs it, the Disney cunts will ‘reimagine’ Indy as a ‘feisty’ black tart or a knows everything ’empowering’ dyke.
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I’m surprised they didn’t kill him in this film .
Waller Bridge did that to Bond.
Only after making him a cuck for the whole film first though
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Didn’t they actually do that, but preview audiences hated it, necessitating extensive re-shooting?
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VPN, Bitcomet , any torrent site you choose.
Some of the stuff I actually tested and eventually went on to buy.
But the 2tb of midget porn was lent to me by a friend your honour.
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Didn’t they learn anything from that woke Ghostbusters remake?
It was universally despised. And that is because ugly dykes, fat mingers, man haters, and gobby black tarts are not movie heroes.
I have no doubt that Phoebe Waller Skellington Shotgun On A Horse Cunt will rebuke Indy for being a sexist old dinosaur througout this film. Absolute crap.
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Apparently not Norman.
Then they call the customers misogynists, racists etc for not ponying up their hard-earned cash to see a pile of shite.
It’s all the customer’s fault for wanting to be entertained, not lectured to.
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Yankie film are always full of cliches and lacking in subtlety and always ends with mummy kissing you goodnight, with the light left on so you don’t have nightmares. But there’s something missing of late. Where’s the naughty black man. He daren’t be found guilty of anything anymore. He’s an upstanding citizen all of a sudden. Why ? I must’ve been in a coma and I didn’t realise it. No wait a minute. I grew up from the Saturday afternoon matinee. And found the true cinema that doesn’t always have to be kind, its called reality.
Let me know who the yanks are picking on at the moment, now the blackies are to be left alone.
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I want to carry on taking the piss out of hamshanks with guns. Do they also take them up in space with them for a double pisstake. I wouldn’t know due to growing up. Is Flash Gordon still alive ?
Did anyone spot my have-ago-Joe at tarantwato for making a noise in everything he does. He must’ve been one of those naughty little boys, forever being a nuisance and sent to bed without any supper. Now he’s taking it out on everyone, for his parents doing the right thing. They should’ve given him away to a quaint English family, who wouldn’t have put up with all that nonsense and taken him to the woods and tied him to a tree. Never to be seen again.
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It’s a cliché, but go woke go broke. I’m sure Disney don’t care, they’re just hell-bent on lecturing and patronising us with their unutterable shite and loathsome woke propaganda. Not surprising from the country that has also foisted a Marxist BLM and LGBT on the rest of the Western world. Obviously the messaging has to be shoehorned into their latest flop-movies as well.
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Indeed Alan.
Their egotism and hubris is staggering.
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I get where you’re coming from. But you haven’t actually watched it……
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The words Disney and Kathleen Kennedy are a guarantee that it’s going to be shit.
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Nope, and I think the nom explains why I won’t be.
I learned my lesson with the utterly shite job Disney did when it took over ‘Star Wars’.
In the case of Indy, it’s odds-on that Disney + Kennedy + 80yo Ford + Waller-Bridge = Disaster.
Everything that I’ve heard so far suggests that it makes ‘The Crystal Skull’ look like vintage Indy.
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i might be a rarity amongst the gen z /millennial fuckers but I never really got the appeal of Indy. I liked Raiders but the others were pretty forgettable.
That said this sounds like a typical Disney bait and switch job where the male character you pay to watch is made to look a feeble old cunt by the young woman who can do and knows everything(why are the Kennedy ‘surrogates all British?)
Every female character in modern entertainment now has to be the obnoxious cunt sister of Mary Poppins.
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I’m really sorry to say this….but I’d like to fuck Phoebe Waller Bridge.
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