Crystal Skull was so bad that I decided I'm done with the franchise way back then. I see no reason in this new movie to revise that decision. The Last Crusade was the last Indy movie worth watching.
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I guess I just don't understand the obsession with how things look. The melting faces at the end of Raiders certainly weren't very realistic. That kind of superficial criticism just doesn't matter to me much. I KNOW it's fake already.
It’s not really an obsession for me - I’m totally fine with stuff like Babylon 5 and older cult movies that have questionable realism. Going with your example, the melting faces in Raiders actually looked cool and interesting and is a memorable cinematic moment. An uncanny valley version of Indiana Jones’ face stands out as a baffling choice to me and isn’t gonna be something people talk about for decades to come. Just use a different actor and reinvest the money you paid 100 vfx artists into something that actually makes the movie better. It was disappointing that the focus of the movie felt more on recreating the feelings we had watching the old movies than telling a story that was fresh and innovative. I applaud them trying something different in the 3rd act but I think it was a situation of being too little too late.
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