INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY Is Absolutely Terrible! 

Indiana Jones' father in The Last Crusade was an elderly man whose wife had died and he was still portrayed with respect, wisdom, optimism, and humor. They didn't make him a sad old man who'd given up on life and just wanted to die. There was no reason to do Indiana dirty like this just because Ford is old, but current year Disney just can't pass up an opportunity to destroy an iconic white male.

Remember how in "Crystal Skull" Mutt was constantly making fun of Indy for his age, calling him "Old Man" and "Gramps", only for the graveyard scene to happen and he is floored by Indy's ability to kick ass and take names despite being old? Yeah, I miss those days too.

PWB has negative charisma. If this movie puts an end to her acting/ writing career, maybe it was worth it.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is everything wrong with Hollywood right now - bloated budgets, spiteful identity politics, and unnecessary sequels. Movies like this will bankrupt studios.

Kingdom of the crystal skull was no masterpiece but it at least gave the character of Indiana Jones a proper sendoff/ending. He was finally married to the woman he loved,got to go on one last adventure before retiring and it even teased his son taking up the mantle. He was happy and fulfilled with his life.The writers understood and cared about the character Indiana Jones and treated him with some respect.

You couldn't tell me Kathleen Kennedy had a vendetta against her former peers and their properties. Y'know, never mistake for incompetence that which is done out of malice? If she were in charge of a birthday party, she would fill it with things you hate, invite people that hate you, get someone else's favorite cake that she knows you won't like, arrange a humiliating roast, and oh yeah...collect all your favorite memorabilia, put it in a pile, douse it with fuel and light it in front of your eyes, making sure you watch. At the end of it all, she still smiles and leaves you with a broom and the bill for the whole event.

I love viewing Thorias's slow decent into madness!

You can always tell when writers have no world experience handles a classic. Indy was born in 1899 and went through The Great Depression and fought in both world wars...a man like him wouldn't be broken by divorce or even the death of a loved one. Yet he had to be broken because of the agenda by hook or by crook.

It's basciallly the South Park scene where Indiana Jones is being "graped" by a Spielberg while Lucas watches on and laughs. However, it's now Phoebe forcing herself on old man Indy with a "strap on" while Kathleen Kennedy watches on and giggles evilly. Phoebe: "Get them britches down! Yes sir!"

They might as well have called it, "Indiana Jones and The Dial of Dysentery" for all the painful crap it goes through. 😂😂

Thank you for your service Thorias! You seved me from a couple of hours of rage. I will add this film to the list of those that I consider "to be forbidden and forgotten" (together with the last trilogy of Star Wars, the last season of Game of Trones, Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, the Witcher: Blood Origin, Welma, Captain Marvel, The Marvels, Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk, etc.)

It doesn't even make sense for Indie to BE this way in the movie. In the last film, Indie was very well off, world renowned in his field of expertise, has a resume that can't be matched, a loving family, great job, and a can do attitude like no one else. Even if his son had died and his wife decided to leave him, I don't believe for a second that it would have had this kind of effect on the Indie we saw in the first four films. Now add to that he has half of a TIME TRAVEL device and the means to find the missing piece? Indie just wallowing in his grief instead of, oh I don't know, using the stupid McGuffin to save his only child just doesn't track. This just doesn't read like the real Indie but some twisted fanfic version of him. Like the Gotham Knights version of Batman that dies in the first episode to a random goon.

Thorias spends 3 weeks off for dental surgery, endures horrible pain, comes home to "Indy 5". We are so sorry bro, but it looks like your going to need a bigger dumpster.

"She did it again!" I almost fucking lost it. LOL!

Worst of all is that Fleabag is going to run Tomb Raider into the dirt

This is genuinely a sad end to an iconic character. However one positive is..... it proves the paying audience has had enough.

I bet in the original draft, Kathleen Kennedy wanted to kill off Indy so she can replace him with her self-insert character. But at least someone knew that would piss off everyone and rewrote the script, but still bad. 😑

I’ve been watching The Making of Indiana Jones and it still amazes me how much time and effort went into everything, from the casting to the sets to the writing. Not to mention it was all done practically. From the sounds of it here, they just went “eh, we’ll CGI everything and throw in a bunch of call-backs.”

I remember hearing (from Doomcock, I think?) that the OG ending was; They go back in time. Old Indy meets young Indy. Bad guys kills young Indy. (erasing Old Indy) To "maintain the timeline" Waller-Bridge stays in the past and has to LITERALLY replace Indy on all his adventures! (Temple of Doom, Raiders, etc.) So yeah, the fact that they made MULTIPLE endings, makes you wonder just HOW BAD they must have been! SCARY! (Of course, I suspect they were not allowed to deviate from the "Girl Boss" ending much, so they were probably just multiple versions of the same ending!)

What really pisses me off about that kid Teddy is he says he can't swim, then after a life or death struggle underwater with the bad guy, he swims away triumphant!! No fuss no muss!!

"...Dial of 10,000 punches in the dick..." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 That's gonna stick with me for months.

Glad your mouth is getting better. Dark Herald over at Arkhaven had similar views but he added a fanfic ending that would have been so much better. Realizing the butterfly effect of killing all those Romans back in the past... Indiana wakes up with Marion yelling at him, “How can you be napping at a time like this? You almost missed it!” She hustles him out of the study of the HOUSE he had in Connecticut in the first movie and into the TV room crowded with people. An excited and attractive woman he has never met yells, “Come on Dad, it’s almost time.” Marion drags him over to a couch and shoos some children off the couch. One of the kids says, “It’s time Grandpa, it’s time.” Marion sits him down and holds hands tightly with Indy and the kid’s mother, while a Walter Cronkite impersonator is talking about how in moments Commander Henry “Mutt” Jones III will be the first man to set foot on the Moon. Mutt is starting to make his way down the ladder stops and says, “Is that moving?” And gives a clearly fake, “ARRRRGGHH!!” Indiana and Marion laugh. Mutt’s wife smiling shakes her head, “he’ll catch hell for that.” Mutt jumps off the ladder and gives a version of Neil Armstrong’s speech and tacks on “Hi Mom. Hi Dad.” Indiana is hugged by one of his grandchildren as tears pour down his face, overcome by one of life’s perfect moments. “Hi son.” We see a picture of a space-suited Mutt standing by an American flag, the torch having been passed to a new generation of Jones family explorers as the Raiders of the Lost Ark theme plays.

Honestly I’m gonna pretend it ends at Crystal Skull, this movie doesn’t make that one better when it’s compared to the original trilogy but the only saving grace of that film was that it gave Indiana Jones the happy ending he deserved and I’ll be fine with that at this point considering how they could’ve given him the Dark Fate: John Conner treatment.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Diarrhea.

Mission 7 already has my money. Dial of Disaster will never grace my eyes.

I'm beginning to wonder if she doesn't do this strictly on purpose because it ruins movies for the people she doesn't like

You think this was bad? This was the best version of the 10 endings they filmed. Remember, fleabag was supposed to take over for Indiana Jones and Indiana Jones dies in the past. Somewhere she picks up, the hat goes back in time and undo Everything he did for the last 40 years. She would have gotten away with it, too. If it wasn't for Bob Iger telling Kathlene Kennedy That She's gonna have to fix this. And made her do the whole thing, Over

At this point, you almost have to respect Darth Kennedy's ability to destroy beloved IP. No one does it better.

Last Jedi: I know how to divide a fan base and possibly destroy a legacy Dial of Destiny: hold my beer

Harrison Ford is just as guilty - arguably even more so - as Kennedy and Waller-Bridges. He agreed to do the movie for a huge salary knowing full well how the Jones character was going to be portrayed. Yet no one is taking him to task for INDY 5. This movie wouldn’t have been made without him. He’s just as complicit as the women, so why isn’t anyone bashing him?

We are seeing how Kathleen Kennedy sees the world.

I'm not ashamed to admit that I was looking forward to this review than the movie.

Guess I can add this to the "it never happened" movie collection. Right there with Blues Brothers 2000 and Halloween 4

Apparently one ending them going back in time to raiders era and something happens and young indie dies, old indie vanishes from existence and phobe waller bridge has to go through all the old movies as Indiana Jones in his place. Not sure if it's true but if it is....

I hear Indy got punched several times by a giant guy, so getting punched once and knocked out by Fleabag?

I've seen some people commenting on reddit and elsewhere, that they think people are "wanting" IJ5 to fail and that people that hate it "can't be IJ fans". Seriously don't know why it's so hard to understand that we don't want IJ to fail, we want the massacre of IJ to fail. We want Disney to fail for what they've purposefully done to respected and loved characters. It's because people are IJ fans that we hate this movie. And finally, if someone likes this movie in which IJ is a torn down old man that get's punched out and has to be be saved, then THAT PERSON is not an IJ fan.

I have no idea how Phoebe could go and state that her character knocking out Indie was a 'funny' moment as if that was a pleasant or charming thing to say. Not even 'heroic' for 'saving Indie's life', but a teehee so funny LOL moment. I've never heard of this woman before Indie 5, but I never want to see a movie with her in it again.

At this point, I honestly think this movie was an act of spite against Lucasfilm fans for rejecting Mary Ray Kathleen Sue and their ultimate rejection of her with repeated calls for her firing. Indy symbolizes the fans and Phoebe Waller Sue is Kathleen's self insert. Hell I even bet her husband just stays with her because the complete nuclear dumpster shitshow she would kick up over the course of a divorce isn't worth it.

You can tell Phoebe Waller-Bridge wrote her own dialogue. Especially with that line where she refers to herself as "beautiful". There's a very thin line between confidence and arrogance, and I've never heard anyone refer to her as anything but "horse face".

Phoebe Wall of Bricks wants to destroy Indiana Jones and make herself the new Indy. The fans won't buy it. Back to England with you.

So great to have you back. Hope you are 💯 percent very soon! And thanks for suffering through this dreck for us!

Someone please tell me what was so bad about Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, I felt it had a good story, a ok villain, I really liked Mutt, except for maybe one or two scenes I didn't feel like Indy was being pushed to the side by Mutt, Indy definitely was not being pushed around by Marion and overall it gave the hint at the end of Mutt following his fathers footsteps(Before being killed for this shit movie to happen), overall I liked Kingdom of the Crystal skull.

Indiana Jones and the Death of his Dignity.

Should have called this film Indiana Jones And The Destruction of His Legacy

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It always makes me happy that Back To The Future has remained a trilogy and that Hollywood hasn't touched this Franchise since the year 1990. I can't even begin to imagine how terrible a 4th and 5th Sequel of it would have looked like. Too bad the same thing didn't happen to Indiana Jones and Pirates of the Carribbean :(

The original ending has Indy staying back in time and erasing himself from history..so that PWB can literally co-opt HIS ENTIRE LEGACY.

I have no idea why they included Phoebe Wahler. She's absolutely horrible.

They literally 💩, pissed and spat on the Indiana Jones franchise. You thought Kindom of the Crystal Skull was bad, You thought wrong watch 🤨😮‍💨

THANK YOU Finally someone's mentioned de aged Indies voice. I thought it was just me who had a problem with it not working

Seriously, just how much does Kathy hate Spielberg and Lucas? To inflict these self-insert man-hating fanfictions on their legacies. Hey, fans of Jaws. Watch out. You might be next.

Hey there is at least a silver lining. Lucasfilms has no more IPs to destroy.

Like Rey is mysteriously a star ship pilot / repair guru. Fly a plane? No prob!

Thank God I never watched crystal skull and will never watch dial of destiny. I will not let them ruin my childhood

I said to my girlfriend years ago "they won't be able to pull all this shit with films as it's all about money". Turns out they're just plain stupid. Who would have thought that a film that's mainly for dad's and lads would go down poorly when a middle aged women took over as the hero. Instead of realising their mistake they'll probably conclude that people don't like cinema anymore.

If you remember, in Star Trek TNG. They always described tv and movies as an old form of entertainment that was no longer popular. They were absolutely right and now we know why!!

Agree with the de-aging. Even if the face looks good and isn't distracting, there are other things that age too. In Captain Marvel they did a decent job de-aging Sam Jackson, but he still moved like an old man.

So having watched the review, I got the impression Thorias wasn't much taken with the film? That he had a few...misgivings perhaps?

"Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made." JRR Tolkien I am looking at you, KK!

Wait what?? "The Force Awakens was good"? Are you guy serious? The super Mary Sue, the rip off of A New Hope, the killing of Solo(also broken character), not putting him and Lea and Luke in the same scene. The horrible acting by Daisy Ridley. I think cause we all wanted it to work is why we have conditioned ourselves to see it as good as it was the first of the 3. A copy and paste but this time with a woman, it's garbage. The motivations don't make much sense, the side characters are useless etc....

I'm an awful person: I know everything Thorias shared, but it wasn't enough. I needed to hear *him* say it in his unique style. I wanted to see him burn this s***show to the ground.

So far only thing that stands out of this movie is that it promotes and supports elderly abuse Also -“imagine going to a funeral and forgetting the dead persons name” “George Kirby” - n pelsoi

Imagine what they could of done for his last adventure. We could had seen him old and still wanting a last time of adventure and go get a last hiding treasure somewhere. Old but still kicking ass. Tobad I will never see this last Indiana Jones with Harrison ford🫤

What a disaster, have not seen the movie but all the marks are there even from the trailer. I did see Crystal Skull knowing what to expect and it was that. As someone who has taught film and understands production, it's evident this lacked any heart, imagination, and certainly respect. Voice de-aging is not impossible, seriously! Great analysis. Spot on.

Ford did his part too I'm glad now I never wasted a second of my life or a penny of my money watching any of his movies 😊

glad to see your back and better.

The movie felt like another Mary Sue borderline self insert movie that makes the actual hero look stupid and weak...

So an 80 year old wounded man feels that his life has ran its course and he wants to be left to die but he is instead assaulted and forced to continue living and fleabag believes that's "funny"?

I've had that gum surgery. The pain is utterly incapacitating.

The only time I’ve seen the broken elderly version of a beloved hero done well was Logan.

I want you all to pay attention to something very important: Notice how it takes One guy, ONE, to create a story that is built on a foundation strong enough and satisfying enough to inspire you to become a better person. And notice how it takes A group, A GROUP, of WOMEN, to create something so destructive and depressing that it might as well be apart of a Villain's origin story. "You cannot make this shit up." Kevin Samuel

Comparing the way they treated the last days of Indy in this film with the way it was portraied the protagonist of "Gran Torino" (Clint Eastwood) is disheartening. In Gran Torino the main character was an old man, defeated by life, isolated by his own family, full of bitterness and resentment. But, despite the age, he faced his own jurney of the hero, always retaining his strong will and moral. His jurney changes him, opening his mind and overall shaking his point of view on the world surrounding him. At the end, he shows no hesitation in sacrificing his life to ensure the wellbeing of people that previously despised... with cold determination and incredible strenght. And here we have Indy, schooled and lectured on feminism all the day long... how sad.

Great video. Do you remember the time when you could switch on the tv and watch an enjoyable episode of your favourite drama or sitcom, or come away from the cinema with a smile on your face having just watched a fabulous block-buster of a movie. Whatever happened to those times? Thank you for suffering so that I don't have to.

Rumor is the "original" ending had a young Indy dying (possibly at Waller-Bridge's hands) and Waller-Bridge taking his place with a montage of her super-imposed over some of Indy's greatest moments.

Got to give it to Kathleen Kennedy, there are already not so many people who managed to tank a big franchise (mostly because few are given the opportunity), but I don't think I know a single other person who can say that they tanked an entire studio in terms of franchises...

Let's face it Harrison Ford was paid a lot of money to ruin his carrier.

Indiana Jones Dial of Destiny is Garbage and makes Kingdom of the Crystal Skull look like a Masterpiece in comparison. Disney and Kathleen Kennedy have Butchered every George Lucas creation now and im glad this Trash is Bombing Hard at the Box office.

😂😂Awesome review. I couldn't have said it better myself...

The true ending this series was when Indy rode off into the sunset with his father and friends.

Why would anyone think this was a good idea? Last Jedi was only successful because people weren’t expecting it to by terrible. But once people realized that could happen, they started paying attention to the movies coming out. Particularly from Lucasfilm of course. Studio execs are basically Emperors- there’s no checks or balances to stop them burning Rome.

If there's one nice thing I'll say about Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is that I did legitmatley like the ending when Indy and Marion got married. Granted I don't think it's enough to justify that movie's existence but it's a nice feeling seeing Indy get a happy ending. Well fuck that shit I guess, cause like the Force Awakens before it, Harrison Ford is once again a dead-beat divorced husband, oh and his son died off screen in Vietnam. So it's also just like the Rise of the Retcons too as well, cause that movie ends with the entire Skywalker bloodline as well as Solo wiped clean from the galaxy, and while this film doesn't have Indy dying, with Mutt dead there's no one left to carry on the line so basically the Jones bloodline dies with him. Wow, thanks Kathy. Thanks Disney. That's exactly what everyone wanted to see. Honestly I completely believe about that supposed original ending, where Indy was supposed to get wiped out of existence with Fleabag taking over. Given Kathleen Kennedy's hatred for these franchises and the characters that helped build them, and her desire to self-insert herself as the hero of every one of them it wouldn't shock me at all.

I’m convinced that the corpse with the watch at the end was actually Indy but the film went thru all those reshoots that they ended up changing things around

Phoebe burns another bridges and Kathleen Kennedy kills another franchise.

this guy is the most underrated movie critic on youtube.

I didnt see it yet. From the trailer i notice it has too much cgi compared to the original 3 movies. It gives such movies a complete different vibe...more realistic. Also he was more vital and there is nothing you can do about that. People who watched the movies (and saw Indy as a youth hero) in their teens understand that are now older themselves...which leads to disappointment. Maybe it should have been more a movie where he shares his wisdom in a filmstyle a la Joker...more deep.

Glad you're back. I hope you feel better! Thanks for watching this, so I don't have to! I'd love to know what pictures KK has of powerful people in Hollywood. That's the only explanation why she's not producing community college Christmas plays.

Get well soon man. Glad you are back.

Ive been dying waiting for you to upload this. It was worth the wait. Hope you feel better.

Good to see you back Thorias, enjoying your review, i wont even sale the seven seas for this festering dung heap 🍿 😎 👍.

Such wasted opportunity. Could you imagine a movie where Indy starts off broken, just stuck in life but runs into short round, and SR convinces him to go on one last adventure and in doin so Indy finds his mojo again? I’ve been waiting for that movie since doom.

It's bad enough that they won't let Indy rest, but to have a pointless Mary Sue treat him like a joke is the mustard on this turd sandwich.

I just realized something earlier today. It's not really possible for Kathleen Fade In Kennedy to be THIS stupid, surely. What if, hear me out, she had a mission in life, a personal vendetta against Lucas and Spielberg for embarassing her in her youth, not praising her enough for being a woman (you've heard those tapes about her not doing her note-taking job and instead interrupting writers during brainstorming sessions, and being laughed at, right?). Would that mean now that she ruined all legacies she could get her hands on... she completed her mission? Is she done? Could she just fade out now please?

Welcome back thorias

Kennedy should have left Indiana Jones in a Museum.

Welcome back. I've missed your astute reviews and righteous anger. Ha, I was laughing out loud. P.S. Hope your mouth heals soon.

I had 4 sections of gum grafts. As you know, there's nothing more horrific than gum surgery, especially when you describe it to people.

Welcome back 🍻🤘

Bro I just subscribed I love your commentary you should do one on the "TheSheHulk"!

Didn't know being a movie reviewer on RU-vid could break a man like this Couldn't doing a construction job be more relaxing

Welcome back, Thorias!