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Jurassic Park isn't far behind though.

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[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 52 points 4 weeks ago

For the love of God please stop making poor old Harrison Ford pretend to be a 40 year old treasure hunter.

Nobody wants to watch "Indiana Jones and the Non ADA Compliant Ramp Outside the Post Office"

[-] TechnoUnionTypeBeat@hexbear.net 26 points 4 weeks ago

I still don't understand why Indiana Jones wasn't made into a sort of James Bond legacy character

Like the movies are my problematic favs - yes, I know they're steeped in racism but also it's fun to see Nazis get decked and all - but there's something depressing about the latest movie being mostly about Jones being old, decrepit, and cranky. It loses a lot of its charm that way

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 23 points 4 weeks ago

Like the movies are my problematic favs - yes, I know they're steeped in racism

They have other problems, too, especially if you look into the Marian character and the fact that Spielberg and Lucas almost made her even younger. libertarian-alert

[-] autismdragon@hexbear.net 13 points 4 weeks ago

Its so much harder to ignore the problems with the treats with you back smh. (<3 missed you)

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[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 13 points 4 weeks ago

Especially considering he literally has a young protege in a bunch of the movies, the passing of the torch writes itself.

Unless they're just really committing to the bit and soon they're gonna have a movie where Ford is the ancient mcguffin a new younger adventurer has to find a "rescue"/steal.

[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 11 points 4 weeks ago

Lmao, Shia LeBeouf got purge-1 purge-2'd so hard

Just looked it up and he has a recent lawsuit for SA shit from FKA Twigs, so fuck him and I'm retroactively glad he's washed up

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 8 points 4 weeks ago

i'm 90% certain that was the idea with Crystal Skull & Shia leboufe but i think it disappointed money-wise and Shia became less of a rising star and more of a liability for the studios

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 11 points 4 weeks ago

There are books upon books of Young Indiana Jones and also some solid Indiana Jones games that could get the screen treatment. They're RIGHT FUCKING THERE USE THOSE

[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 11 points 4 weeks ago

Indiana Jones and the Home of Retirementkelly

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 8 points 4 weeks ago

Somehow the idea that Indiana Jones is a character and not Punch People Action Guy and he must be played by Harrison Ford is so absurd. He is a hat, a jacket, a whip, exciting danger and punching. Harrison Ford wasn't even the first guy to play Indiana Jones from a thematic standpoint. They were ripping off old adventure serials which starred that exact archetype.

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[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 11 points 4 weeks ago

Nobody wants to watch "Indiana Jones and the Non ADA Compliant Ramp Outside the Post Office"

I-was-saying i think people should be generally more aware and passionate about ADA compliance

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[-] Crowtee_Robot@hexbear.net 36 points 4 weeks ago

Hollywood is doing the creative equivalent of mountaintop blasting. Nothing will be left of anyone's childhood except a blasted heath of slow piano covers of beloved theme songs.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 22 points 4 weeks ago

Nothing will be left of anyone's childhood except a blasted heath of slow piano covers of beloved theme songs.

I'm amazed at how well that summarizes "Ready Player One" style treatbrained hauntology. order-of-lenin

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[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 32 points 4 weeks ago

If there's one franchise that needs a reboot, it's USSR

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[-] StalinStan@hexbear.net 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I remember watching the ghost blownob scene as a child and my father struggling to not explain the joke to me.

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 25 points 4 weeks ago

I'd put jurassic park first. At least Ghostbusters are solving an external conflict. At this point any jurassic park movie should just be 40 minutes of somebody trying to convince an investor a park where you have live dinosaurs won't have the exact same incredibly predictable problems they've immediatly encountered the last 6 times they did this exact thing.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 11 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Only 2 of the movies have had a park

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 23 points 4 weeks ago

Aliens. Time to take they keys away from Ridley Scott.

Still salty they played favorites and gave him back the franchise over Neill Blomkamp and he went on to make one of the worst Aliens movies ever.

[-] StalinStan@hexbear.net 10 points 4 weeks ago

It is so wild to me that the movie about how bugs and sexual violence are bad was changed to how "God didn't give you enough treats" and " technology is bad"

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 9 points 4 weeks ago

Ridley Scott's output in the last couple of decades hasn't been great in general. I'm glad they at least took the keys to Blade Runner from him.

he went on to make one of the worst Aliens movies ever.

You mean Prometheus or Alien: Covenant? Who am I kidding, it's both.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 9 points 4 weeks ago

You mean Prometheus or Alien: Covenant? Who am I kidding, it's both.

I actually tolerated Prometheus but Covenant I was like doug-point-cry

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[-] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 20 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

The best time to stop for each of them was the moment they became franchises. The second-best time to stop is now.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 19 points 4 weeks ago

The jurassic world trilogy is hilarious and are an accidental meta commentary on themselves.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 17 points 4 weeks ago

They should make a ghostbusters where the dead actors are the villains

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 15 points 4 weeks ago

What about the MCU, or James Bond?

[-] bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 18 points 4 weeks ago

Fucking "mission: impossible"

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[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 14 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Oh yeah, Bond is definitely a good call, Cold War slop that's worn out its welcome decades ago.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 14 points 4 weeks ago

Especially since the UK isn’t even a global player anymore lol. Surprised the US hasn’t been pushing Jack Ryan to replace Bond

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[-] btbt@hexbear.net 14 points 4 weeks ago

Was Ghostbusters ever actually good though

[-] cream_provider@hexbear.net 13 points 4 weeks ago

Movie Mindset was interviewing the director of Repo Man about how the Ghostbusters were struggling academics who turned into reactionaries after the success of their small business. And that the antagonist in the movie was the EPA?? I have to go back and rewatch it now.

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 10 points 4 weeks ago

This is accurate. And the guy sent bybthe state to shut it down was an idiot who basically wanted them to release hundreds of ghosts into new york immediately because it was against regs.

[-] fox@hexbear.net 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

The EPA or the mayor or whoever won't let them operate a nuclear reactor in their old ass firehouse, but the ultimate villain is definitely the demons or ghosts or whatever. They really should have been folded into an animal control department

[-] StalinStan@hexbear.net 12 points 4 weeks ago

It was weird and funny. I think that is enough for a movie.

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[-] CommCat@hexbear.net 14 points 4 weeks ago

Have they stopped making Terminator sequels/prequels yet? How many silly time travel branches can they churn out? Terminator 2 was basically a high budget remake of the original Terminator with some plot tweaks, both were excellent. I think I watched 2-3 more and they were all forgettable.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 9 points 4 weeks ago

Hopefully, I just looked at the NATOpedia page and there hasn't been a new movie since 2019 and all the planned sequels have been scrapped. A Terminator anime series is apparently premiering on Netflix in a couple of weeks, which at least sounds more interesting than ”here's John Connor again”.

The Sarah Connor Chronicles wasn't bad, at least.

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[-] lapis@hexbear.net 13 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

hot take: Ghostbusters (2016) was the best movie since the originals, possibly even on par with or slightly above Ghostbusters 2. it had good wacky energy and didn’t try to take itself seriously like the kids reboot, and it had queer rep that didn’t feel like queerbait, as opposed to the newest movie.

oh, and while I can’t explain why this is, the homages to the original movies and actors felt like proper homages, rather than nostalgia traps like in the reboot series.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 13 points 4 weeks ago

I have no real opinion on it outside of a bunch of neckbeard goobergaters lost their shit over it.

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[-] Crowtee_Robot@hexbear.net 12 points 4 weeks ago

It was the true Ghostbusters ethos of a bunch of SNL talent fucking around in a weird but kinda clever movie idea.

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 8 points 4 weeks ago

i think it would have benefitted from a script

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[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

The 2016 movie was painfully unfunny to me desolate

None of the movies past the original have a reason to exist, but I guess we're stuck with rehashing that shit endlessly since a bunch of Gen Xers ~~liked the 80s cartoon so much~~ made their parents buy merch from the 80s cartoon

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[-] magi@hexbear.net 10 points 4 weeks ago

I'd rather have new movies rather than sequels even though some sequels can be good, the bad outweigh the good

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 9 points 4 weeks ago

One franchise I'm surprised works so well revived is the Caped Crusader reboot of Batman TAS. Still got a lot of the old magic

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[-] bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 weeks ago

I'm torn on this because I want more good ghostbusters movies but it seems like the OG movies are just a combination of magic that's gone.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 8 points 4 weeks ago

But dae remember that candy bar and how spiritually important it was that it needed to be enshrined decades later in a place of honor? so-true

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