CGI -
I agree it's annoying. But I can't say it's out of spirit with the originals. If CGI was around in the 1980s they would have used the hell out of it. And I guarantee you there were people complaining about all the obvious blue-screen shots in those.
It's one of those nuked fridge things. The new stunt is not really any goofier than the originals, it's just that our expectations have changed.
De-aging -
This movie may work as a case study in SFX priorties.
The Harrison Ford de-aging shots will look amazing. Meanwhile that first shot of (old) Harrison on the horse in the parade, it looked like a really clumsy pasted-on face. A lof of this movie was filmed with doubles and you can bet there will be some cringey work there. Because of course there will be.
Cheesy title -
Same principle.
Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Temple of Doom. The Last Crusade. A New Hope. The Empire Strikes Back. The Phantom Menance. Lucasfilm's retro serial movie titles were always like this. The only ones that aren't utterly cheesy are generic.
Marion -
My guess is that Marion is dead. I assume that in the early stages of this movie, they intended to make Indy a poor lonely old man so they could kill him off (or some other BS retconning with time travel) at the end. Cooler heads may prevail when it comes to the ending but the movie was already too far along that track. So "little things" like Marion being dead will remain.
Just a typical problem caused by filming movies without a script and wrecking legacy characters for short-term gains.
I'm guessing Harrison went along with this stuff because he's an actor, not a fan. These aren't his favorite movies to sit at home & watch. Giving the Indy character a few more curveballs in life, it gives the actor a meatier role to work with this time. It's shades of Han & Luke in the SW sequels. You can bet Harrison liked his acting role in 'Force Awakens' a lot more than ANH or ROTJ.
I agree it's annoying. But I can't say it's out of spirit with the originals. If CGI was around in the 1980s they would have used the hell out of it. And I guarantee you there were people complaining about all the obvious blue-screen shots in those.
It's one of those nuked fridge things. The new stunt is not really any goofier than the originals, it's just that our expectations have changed.
De-aging -
This movie may work as a case study in SFX priorties.
The Harrison Ford de-aging shots will look amazing. Meanwhile that first shot of (old) Harrison on the horse in the parade, it looked like a really clumsy pasted-on face. A lof of this movie was filmed with doubles and you can bet there will be some cringey work there. Because of course there will be.
Cheesy title -
Same principle.
Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Temple of Doom. The Last Crusade. A New Hope. The Empire Strikes Back. The Phantom Menance. Lucasfilm's retro serial movie titles were always like this. The only ones that aren't utterly cheesy are generic.
Marion -
My guess is that Marion is dead. I assume that in the early stages of this movie, they intended to make Indy a poor lonely old man so they could kill him off (or some other BS retconning with time travel) at the end. Cooler heads may prevail when it comes to the ending but the movie was already too far along that track. So "little things" like Marion being dead will remain.
Just a typical problem caused by filming movies without a script and wrecking legacy characters for short-term gains.
I'm guessing Harrison went along with this stuff because he's an actor, not a fan. These aren't his favorite movies to sit at home & watch. Giving the Indy character a few more curveballs in life, it gives the actor a meatier role to work with this time. It's shades of Han & Luke in the SW sequels. You can bet Harrison liked his acting role in 'Force Awakens' a lot more than ANH or ROTJ.
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