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Oh, right. I should have said it sounds like the set up for a porn movie. Or a bad joke. "The seven dwarfs and Megan Fox walk into a bar..."Since when did porn movies have plots ?
Oh, right. I should have said it sounds like the set up for a porn movie. Or a bad joke. "The seven dwarfs and Megan Fox walk into a bar..."Since when did porn movies have plots ?
Any new Indiana Jones film from Disney will follow their new Star Wars juggernaut template: replicate enough of the original feeling/plot points closely enough to please the vast majority of the audience and make a bundle... but disappoint more discerning fans with how uninspired and Xerox-like it is.
Part of the problem for us "discerning" fans is that these franchises are nearly as old as we are. Star Wars is a 39-year-old franchise, and Indiana Jones isn't far behind at 35. So, like Paramount's semi-recent reboot of it's 50-year-old Star Trek franchise, Disney isn't as interested in keeping we older fans happy as they are in creating the next generation(s) of fans that will keep these franchises going for another 35-40 years. And the mentality is, "Don't take a risk on something new, stick with what worked before; it should work again."Any new Indiana Jones film from Disney will follow their new Star Wars juggernaut template: replicate enough of the original feeling/plot points closely enough to please the vast majority of the audience and make a bundle... but disappoint more discerning fans with how uninspired and Xerox-like it is.
or better
Indiana Jones and the Sorcerer's Apprentice
That one could actually work. Indy encounter's an amateur magician that can't control his/her powers well and they have some sort of adventure where the apprentice "comes of age" and bedevils Indy, but in the end become allies.
"Mops...why did it have to be mops..."
That sound more like the plot to a porn movie than an Indiana Jones adventure.
That was a concern I had before Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens opened. I still think BB-8 is a little too "cutesy", but at least he doesn't look like any of the droids Disney created for their Star Tours ride. And I'm fairly certain the people involved are aware of this concern among the fans of both franchises, and are doing what they can to maintain/preserve the legacies of both. Besides, Disney has their own projects that they can Disneyfy to their heart's content.I don't so much mind a bit of a retread if they have to do it; it's introducing new, pointless, disneyfied stuff for the kiddies that worries me. I don't want to see Indiana Jones and the Phantom Menace.
"Hey, Dr. Jones, no time for love.""Indiana Jones and the Pizza Deliveryman."
Disney isn't as interested in keeping we older fans happy as they are in creating the next generation(s) of fans that will keep these franchises going for another 35-40 years.
If the latest Star Wars is any guide, he will die. That much is sure.Or, just have him die at the start of the picture and regenerate into a new young actor. After all, Indiana Jones *is* a Doctor.
If the latest Star Wars is any guide, he will die. That much is sure.
All good ideas. But I was thinking along the lines that, in the 1970s or 80s, old Indy discovers an evil nazi scientist in Brazil (Dr Mengele?) who has invented a time machine and wants to go back to 1939 to give Hitler the plans to the atom bomb at the beginning of the war and rewrite history. Needless to say, Indy jumps into the time machine at the very last minute. And since they are in Brazil, they are naturally near the fountain of youth... Where Mary Poppins is swimming in a skimpy bikini and is being played by Megan Fox... And then the Daleks show up...