Indiana Jones and the Macguffin of Destiny - honestly it was fine. If you like Indy movies you’ll like it, if you don’t you won’t. Personally they’re all overrated after Raiders but this was an entertaining way to spend 2.5 hours not being boiled by the sun.
3/5
Don’t know why it cost 300M to make. They gotta get that under control.
Insane amount of money. I assume it’s because there’s so much CGI and the de-aging on Ford? Plus the general inflation for travel, set building, etc. Insane costs. Adjusted for inflation, Raiders cost about $70 million.
Yeah, the CGI work had to be really expensive. I appreciated it, but I'm pretty sure I don't like the overall concept. I'm being a luddite, I realize, but this is going to really contort not just our entertainment, but probably lots of other areas of our lives in ways I don't think we're equipped to handle just yet.
As for the movie, it was good. I hate time travel as a plot premise / devise, so I might have liked it better had they gone a different direction with the fantastic nature of the artifact in question. But you're not really there for the plot in these anyway, the action and the acting were really good throughout. The didn't go too overboard with the callbacks and nostalgia either, kudos for the writers for striking a good balance there.