For the love of God please stop making poor old Harrison Ford pretend to be a 40 year old treasure hunter.
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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
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. 
Its so much harder to ignore the problems with the treats with you back smh. (<3 missed you)
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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.
Lmao, Shia LeBeouf got 
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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
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
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
Indiana Jones and the Home of Retirement
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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Nobody wants to watch "Indiana Jones and the Non ADA Compliant Ramp Outside the Post Office"
i think people should be generally more aware and passionate about ADA compliance
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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.
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. 
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Bustin' feels good though
I remember watching the ghost blownob scene as a child and my father struggling to not explain the joke to me.
If there's one franchise that needs a reboot, it's USSR
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.
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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.
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"
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The jurassic world trilogy is hilarious and are an accidental meta commentary on themselves.
The best time to stop for each of them was the moment they became franchises. The second-best time to stop is now.
They should make a ghostbusters where the dead actors are the villains
What about the MCU, or James Bond?
Oh yeah, Bond is definitely a good call, Cold War slop that's worn out its welcome decades 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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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.
I have no real opinion on it outside of a bunch of neckbeard goobergaters lost their shit over it.
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It was the true Ghostbusters ethos of a bunch of SNL talent fucking around in a weird but kinda clever movie idea.
The 2016 movie was painfully unfunny to me 
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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I do give it credit for trying to do something new and to try to do it with the SNL basis of the original.
But the treat hogs didn't like it for... reasons. 
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Was Ghostbusters ever actually good though
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.
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
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.
It was weird and funny. I think that is enough for a movie.
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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.
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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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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I'd rather have new movies rather than sequels even though some sequels can be good, the bad outweigh the good
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? 
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.
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