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I'm not an Indiana Jones fan, but I have a fair bit of nostalgia for the original trilogy, particularly Temple of Doom (I think because I thought the aesthetic was super cool when I was a kid). Having heard nothing much about it other than a couple people in my Twitter feed saying that DoD was going to be terrible, I decided to go to DoD at the suggestion of some friends that I was visiting over the weekend. We had a good time! I don't know if I just had my expectations super low, had the experience enhanced by a bit of a buzz (apparently some theaters bring you a beer in your seat, which is pretty nice), or just wanted to watch a corny movie with some friends, but I enjoyed it decently well.
For the people that hate it, what's the perspective? I'm not trying to be sardonic, I genuinely don't know what pissed them off about it so much. I thought watching octogenarian Indy might suck, but I thought they handled that reasonably well. The whole thing seemed pretty fun to me.
I think for casual viewers it'll be a "yeah, that was okay" experience, but I don't think they'll go out of their way to go see it rather than another movie. And for the fans, there's been enough talk already that they probably have their minds made up about it.
I tried to dissuade my mom from watching it because she's a Ford fangirl, and I heard the movie primarily dunked on him.
Imagine my surprise when she said she liked it, but she has exceedingly poor taste in movie, liking most Marvel slop well past when it was at least a fresh kind of slop.
If I believe the rumour sites, there was a lot of re-writing and re-shooting because the dunking on Indy played so badly with preview audiences, so they toned it down a heap for the theatrical release version. Critical reviews seem to say there's a lot of action scenes, with opinion divided so far as I can tell between "new director handles these well" and "new director doesn't get the hang of it".
I'm open to watching it now, tickets are cheap enough, and my girlfriend wants to do something other than lie in bed (but I'm perfectly happy doing so!).
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