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.