Why Indiana Jones 5 is Complete GARBAGE | Video Essay 

Making Indiana Jones the dopey sidekick to a unknown shallow character was the greatest injustice.

They should've made the original Short Round his companion this time. That actor is still around. He's fun, upbeat, charming, and can do a good action scene. So he was probably too good for this movie.

I like how in Top Gun Maverick the young characters tried to take Tom Cruise down at the beginning but he put them in their place and said "respect me" through attitude and actions to reinforce their legend. These other movies don't have the legacy defend themselves from the check-box diversity characters.

I’ve said it before in other comments and I’ll say it again, Atleast Crystal skull gave the man a wife and son, it ended with the hat on HIS head and secured his legacy as a world renowned treasure Hunter, this is pathetic and shameful what they have done to this character.

I wasn’t a huge fan of the Crystal Skull but at least that movie tied up all the lose ends, gave Indy a happy ending and left the franchise in a position for more movies with a younger lead who had his own decent character development. This movie throws it all away to do the same thing... just much worse.

"A waste of potential." Excellent way to describe pretty much everything produced by Kennedy's Lucasfilm.

Indy was my favorite movie franchise as a kid. Unfortunately, Disney had to ruin it. I liked the idea of Indy having a goddaughter, but I don't understand why they had to make her so unlikeable. Did they actually think fans would resonate with her constantly making fun of and stealing the show from Indy? It blows my mind

The irony is that studios think reboots and sequels are less risky. But they change the characters or destroy them, offer up Mary Sue’s, write by committee, have ridiculous budgets, insult the audience and gas light people. So they are making more risky movies, than original one.

You know I find it both funny and baffling that for all their wealth and their "supposed" talents, Hollywood are unable to give Mads Mikkelsen a better script or a better role than what a Japanese game studio gives him.

The problem is that the people making these movies don't love the characters like the audience does. They don't care about telling a good story either it seems. A good example of the opposite is the first season of Cobra Kai. It was made with passion and love for RU-vid Red or whatever it was called. It wasn't a cash grab but a passion project and it worked.

The best Indiana jones film since 1998 was the Mummy. Brendan Fraser embodied all of the best of those films.

Crystal Skull wasn't great but it did one thing that gave Indy a nice ending. It gave him a family. Killing his son and making him divorced is unforgivable for a sequel.

top gun is a master class at sequelling years later. basically, his character was given more depth, more fleshed out and shone in it's own way. the biggest thing though, is that the new characters who are the newer generation did not sh*t and overshadow him at all. the new pilots were really good in its own right, but they weren't pitted against each other in measuring contest to see whos better. Maverick was older naturally, but stil lkicked ass. Nowadays all the new people taking over are pretty much unstopabble and without flaw.

Why does the dismantling of legacy characters keep happening? It’s KK; she’s the one destroying the biggest franchises. She’s the pretty much the only person to blame.

Wasn’t a huge fan of this movie. I absolutely could not stand Helena. I might even go as far to say that Crystal Skull was better because it felt like a genuine Indiana Jones movie rather than being “disneyfied” like the Dial of Destiny

Movies like this made me come to appreciate things like Jurassic World: Dominion. Don't get me wrong, Dominion was unfocused and messy in terms of the plot, but at least, at the very least, it didn't have contempt for the legacy characters. Sure, there were one or two old jokes here and there, but for the most part, Grant, Ellie, and Malcolm were the exact same lively group of people they were back in 1993. Not some depressed alcoholics on the verge of suicide because their lives were going nowhere. If anything, their lives improved since the original trilogy since they were all still successful in their respective fields and were still seen as big names in those fields.

Who would have thought that the emasculating and utter destruction by humilliation and physical abuse of an action hero worshipped by many millions, all that done by one of the most despicable, unlikable and amoral hasg in movie History, would not be well received by the fans. Inscrutable fans.

It's not so much that the writing is lazy, it's just another thing that happens when the industry is so scared of actually creating new films. The studio gets involved and (although they are not really qualified to) interfere at every level of the writing and all the other creative aspects, trying to second guess every tiny market place reaction and current trend. It rolls along in a cultish hierarchical "better do what we say or you are out" way. I worked in the industry for over 20 years. It is full of very talented and extremely hard working people, but the department heads are all powerless to actually do what they are good at now. Their skills and abilities are all undermined and hobbled by accountant/execs who have just held a rigged focus group containing their kids and their kids friends(yes that is normal) The end result is this incoherent and eyewateringly expensive garbage. Moral is - stop making franchise extensions.

Making a classic and beloved character into a broken man is a LAZY way to inject drama into a story. AI could do a better job.

My biggest problem, regarding if you liked Skull or not. That ending was perfect. Happy ending and leaving potential sequels for Mutt to continue with spin offs. But no, they fuck the marriage and killed Mutt. Wow. Just wow.

The insane part is that this is one of the most expensive movies in history, yet it looks cheap AF.

Kathleen Kennedy cannot comprehend a plot that isn’t portraying a classic hero as a depressed old failure who is replaced and upstaged by a amazingly talented British Brunette.

Another L for Lucasfilm. I'm sure they'll take full accountability and admit the film was shit rather than blame the fans for not liking strong female characters 🙄

I watched a COUPLE of good reviews (amidst a dozen negative ones) so I went to see it opening weekend (only 4 other people were at the Saturday 10pm showing) hoping for a good time. I ALSO thought of the phrase, "My disappointment is immesurable and my day is ruined." My whole WEEKEND was ruined by just how depressing and awful this was.

They just need to let sleeping dogs lie. A lot of these older game changing franchises had solid, satisfying conclusions. For the vast majority of them, there is no need for resurrections and reboots. To me, there are only 3 Indiana Jones movies lol.

The aim of the film wasn't to bring Indy back. It was to replace him. The original idea for the movie was to kill him off. That's why you have Indy being shot and then it's forgotten about in the film. The original cut of the movie had him dying on the island they went to at the end (back in time). But it would erase Indy from time so Phoebe would have to do the events Indy did so time wouldn't get totally messed up. Setting up Lucas Film remaking the older Indy films but with Phoebe. But all the testers utterly hated the original cut. Forcing them to remake most of the film.

They are desperate to replace our beloved characters with there new and so called improved "Politically Correct Characters". Hoping the younger generation will latch onto the new version and they can continue to make sequels until the end of time. Like you stated it does not work. Thank goodness this bomb only cost $300 Million....omg literally unbelievable.

Disney pulled another Rise of Skywalker but slapped Indiana Jones on it and they shat on Harrison Ford’s legacy once again.

you're the ONLY channel that's mentioned the lack of practical effects/sets. those made the original 3 and hell even the 4th feel authentic, as if you were back in time with the characters . the cgi looked terrible in this

I don't even think deconstruction of a beloved character is the problem its just how openly spiteful these writers are to these characters. They might say they loved those characters growing up etc etc but its clearly a pr lie they not only they turn them into shells of what those characters used to be but they made sure to make their accomplishments meaningless or pointless

How the hell could Disney even begin to think this treatment of Indy was a great decision???

Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a fun movie compared with this…

Star Wars, Willow and Indiana Jones all began with likable leading men.. They all ended with insufferable “strong female characters”.. Coincidence?? 🧐

When your movie is worse than kingdom of the Crystal Skull, you know you screwed up somewhere

I watched Crystal Skull the other day, it's actually a decent film. Yeah aliens blah blah, but you don't really see them all that much. The crystal skulls and skeletons and area 51 are much more believable than time travel. The film works well and ends on a really positive note, only gripe I have is some of the CGI is shit.

The best part of the movie is a CGI train, background, and characters running on it. Its no train from Last Crusade, that's for sure.

Great video; you cite all the reasons why this particular film should never have been made.

Helena is one of the most despicable villains in history. That’d be great if not for the fact the movie expects us to like her.

Both Indy and Star Wars should've stayed in the '80's.

Can Disney just quietly go away. Vanish. 99% of the world would not mind. They have become their own worst enemy, making endless sequels, live action remakes of cartoons, and not taking any risks with brilliant new material. Bean counters are ruling their mindset, but making very poor decisions about what earns beans.

Indy 5 and the Dail of Disaster somehow managed to make Crystal Skull look like a really great feature film.

This movie is the epitome of being force fed modern identity politics

I agree this series ended when they rode off into the sun set. I mean how can you watch that and think we need to tell more stories.

At worse the movie should have been a disgruntled Indy gaining a new zeal of passion at the thought of gaining the Dial of Destiny for he knows that he can use it to bring back his son. So for once Indy getting the Mcguffin isn't for fun, this time its personal and the movie should of course end with Indy successful in saving his son. Sigghhh missed opportunity.

This movie should have bee. Some Young archeology students of indy finding the artifact. Indy rescued them and it's a team up to stop the bad guys and save the day as the kids do the leg work and indy fights now with guns, whip, chemicals and tricks. Showing his age. But cunning as well. As his skill and leadership guide his adventure seeking students.

Steven Spielberg, after being given an early-acres private screening of Indiana Jake 5/3 and the Dial of DEIversity: "Wow, I thought only I could make one of these..." The quiet part: _"... And i was right."_

They should've had Harrison Ford play Sean Connery's part and bring in a new son

My prediction is that the public perception of Harrison Ford will become increasingly unfavorable as time goes by, even while we appreciate the character he created on screen. He is culpable for the denigration of Hans solo, and Indiana Jones, that will not be forgotten until he is.

They should do at least one more so that we can have a positive and negative trilogy

These writers always write the diversity hire replacements as deeply unpleasant characters with twisted morals because they are themselves deeply unpleasant people with twisted morals. They’re always prattling on about how they want to see themselves in the characters, and characters like Helena are what that representation looks like.

“It’s gonna be extremely difficult to reach that 1 billion dollar goal Kathleen. ☹️” “Actually super easy, barely an inconvenience. 😁” “Oh really? 🤔” “Yeah, we’ll just give away free tickets and insult all the fans. 😎” “Oh, giving away free tickets and insulting all the fans is tight! 😃” “And we’ve already started making a spin-off tv show for Disney+ 😎” “Oh, wow wow wow…..wow! 😃”

Phoebe WB is another brand destroyer just like DM to Bud Light.

My opinion is Shia LaBeauf, Marion, short round, and some other old characters should of been in this as protagonists.!

Every time I see PWB driving that truck I see Margaret Hamilton riding her bicycle in the Wizard of Oz. If you showed them side by side you would be amazed. PWB looks like the witch and she moves like her too when she's behind the wheel.

Am I to understand that there could have been an Indiana Jones movie set in the Vietnam War and they chose not to? Ancient Eastern Mystic Temples, Short Round saying "...but Im not Vietnamese!", helicopters!!!, Shia Labeouf screaming 'Just do it!!" at main Bad Guy and the last minute save by Fire Base Bravo.

Hollywood and particularly this director have forgotten the first rule of marketing. The need to give the customer what he wants. Not push your own agenda. I have no problem with any one pushing their own agenda but I will not pay for the privilege. This is the last Lucas film I will pay for. The head of the studio is a woman who is hell bent of shoving her agenda down her 'used to be' customers throat.

the main issue is that Indiana Jones is not a character in a classic way, he is a suite, an avatar. He shouldn't be aging and retiring. It's like James Bond. They should have passed it to next generation of young actor or just recast.

It made my top 10! For most depressing things I've ever seen. I almost walked out half way through, I wish I had that ~hour back. I did have a laugh though... When the script tried to make her attractive.

I did my best through posting on the internet after Temple of Doom this idea to include 'The Sword of Amaterasu' which is an actual artifact that in Japanese mythology kind of holds a similar place to the Ark of the Covenant(and potentially findable). I thought it was the perfect setting for the CGI experts to have fun. Japan conquers half the world(historically) with this sword and then somehow Indy wrestles it from them and escapes to Midway island just in time for the battle. I still wish he would've looked at it.

I'm not joking when I say this, I deadass FELL ASLEEP during this movie and missed about 20 minutes and won't be bothered to try again

Phoebe is as beautiful a mannequin that has been set on fire, in personality and appearance

Disrespecting legacy legendary characters is Disney's thing, nothing from the mouse surprises me anymore

That moment when indy had a disneyland show where they had a setpiece showing the true mastery of real practical effects. Then this movie happened

"Sound of Freedom" made more money on the 4th than the Indy film and that was only in half of the theaters.

I actually watched all 5 in the last week and the first 3 was great, 4 okay, and the new one is just toxic with the female lead

I thought Crystal Skull was a fun movie so I don't know if I'll enjoy this or not 💀 EDIT: Comments here are abysmally toxic & some of the nonsense takes make my head hurt. Will definitely watch the film now

I dozed off in some parts and when I was unfortunately awake, I just felt extremely irritated by Helena Shaw and Teddy. They were not only wholly unecassary characters, but were also dicks. In between draggy and vexing, this film was a very unpleasant experience. At the end of it, I felt exhausted. Easily the worst film I've seen this year.

How is it no one seems bothered by the fact that Voller gets hit in the face with a steel pipe & flung off the side of a speeding train and survives without a single scar or physical impairment? Or that every Nazi in the beginning has a gun EXCEPT the two in the backseat of the vehicle Indy commandeers? Or that those same two Nazis don’t see the driver laying on the ground right next to the car literally seconds after Indy punched the driver and pulls him out of the car? Or that none of the Nazis on the train simply broke the big glass window on the train doors, reached between the bars, and unjammed the door, but had to wait for their Captain to release them? Or that Indy had enough time to change out of his Nazi uniform & into his regular clothes while this was going on? Is it because everyone is too busy going after the low hanging fruit of Helena Shaw? How anyone praises the 1st 20 minutes of Indy 5 without mentioning any of the aforementioned plot holes is beyond me.

And you didn't even mention how they ignored the story arc regarding him being the main suspect of the two murders at his work place!!!!!

Having counted the number of times Indie and Marion have split and got back together again I am sure any good marriage counselor would recommend they just agree to stay apart; it's only going to end badly (again). Hence the end was sadly depressing.

I haven’t seen it myself, but one thing I’ve noticed is that the people who didn’t like this movie can bring up many different things in the movie that were bad, while the people who liked it never say why they actually liked it.

The Freakin Dora movie was a better Indy movie than Dial of Destiny

Because when you HAVE to earn those ESG points, your company and product suffer for it.

Disney:all right guys we’ve already ruined Star Wars and marvel let’s now ruin another franchise.Which one,oh yes Indiana jones.Let’s make him a miserable old man who is absolutely pathetic. Fan of indy:even if he is old that doesn’t mean he has to be pathetic and miserable. Disney:That’s why we’re going to try replace him with an unlikeable character you just met this movie.It’s genius I tell you,replace a character who people have grown up with their entire lives with a character who is the exact opposite of what he was back in the day.

Hello Movie Overload! Apparently, Disney controls Rotten Tomatoes. I heard somewhere on Quora that Disney made Rotten Tomatoes lock the Audience Score percentages for The Rise of Skywalker, among a couple of other shady things aimed at discrediting fans. So that's why The Rise of Skywalker sits at 86%-it's unmovable, immutable, no matter how many bad audience reviews the movie gets. It's locked at 86%.

When will Disney ever learn people go to the movies to be entertained and not lectured . And certainly not too see a beloved character and franchise being destroyed before our eyes 😢

So many problems with this film, Indy loses a son, but gains a 'God'-daughter is one of them.

Awesome review. About Crystal Skull, at least still feels like Indiana Jones, not on the level of the Trilogy, but it's a fun Indy adventure. But Dial of Destiny, well, it's the story of Helena Shaw with an old broken man that in the end wants to end his life.

2:00 It isn't too long, but every insufferable moment the goddaughter Helena is on screen makes it FEEL too long.

I didn't mind the Aliens, because it was only at the end and wasn't at all involved in all the characters' motivation and wasn't even remotely an important part of the story. In Dial of Destiny, the time travel is completely unnecessary and the movie is awful because or it. If they didn't fly through the portal and the movie ended with a chase + fight scene the film would be at least okay and I would be like ''alright.. fair enough''. But the bad guy literally just disappears from the story, it is ridiculous.

The ending is of this movie stapled on because the original ending was vehemently REJECTED by test screenings. The Original movie had Indiana Jones take SEVERAL MORE MINS of insults from this woman, and travel back in time to indiana Jones 1st adventure. Then have young indie die saving Helena, thus erasing him from history. AT which point, Helena takes up his hat, introduces herself as indiana Jones, and REPLACES HIM IN ALL OF HIS MOVIES. This movie is the result of patchwork reshoots and last minutes of rewrites in the studio's realization that the previous ending would be FRNACHISE MURDER.

You all are never satisfied.. what a great film this was. Incredibly entertaining my jaw was on the floor during the ending sequence in Ancient Greece. Always inspiring , love any movie from Indiana jones series

This is just crazy... hardly anyone wants to see the movie that hardly anyone wanted to be made. It's almost like there's some kind of weird cause-and-effect thing going on here...

I've always wanted to see Indiana Jones team up with Lara Croft looking at this movie I don't want to now

"Budget Shortround" LOL!! I liked it, I think it was ok, not great but ok. As a matter of fact, I thought it was a couple of scenes and lines to make it great. Indiana Jones, to me, has always been about the emotional growth of Indi. The first one was about his relation with Marion, the second with Shortround and of course, the third with his dad. With this one, the ideas were there but they weren't connected well. It was badly executed.

A lot of things needed to change for this film to strike a very different tone. Didn’t like Crystal Skull but was somewhat happy with the ending. Even if they pushed ahead with not having Mutt, this being worked earlier and not creating a rift between Indy and Marion could have still worked better. Maybe this is all wishful thinking but so many things did not work for me on this film

I think I’ve come to the conclusion that the best way to handle any franchise Disney has bought is to mentally refuse to acknowledge anything created under the Disney banner as canon. Normally I like to mentally work in with the official canon, but as Disney are patently not of the same opinion I feel it’s justified.

Why does this happen? Are you serious? It's because a certain person wants to destroy the legacies of the men she feels ignored and sidelined her. Her revenge is to see their legacy usurped by "her" characters. To replace the old beloved hero's with these new age ones and thus "stick it" to the old masters. Thankfully the person is quite incompetent at making movies and now has used up the last of the legacy movie franchise. The question is what will Disney do now?

100%. I agree, the writing was lazy and the treatment of beloved characters is just stupid. Producers and studio execs should know better. What is also unbelievable is that Kathleen Kennedy was associate producer and producer on the original Indy films and other successes such as ET and Back to the Future, she even did a cameo as a dancer in the opening sequence for Temple of Doom.

I feel like the only time that the formula actually succeeds is rocky, but largely cuz we have a film of old rocky and then going into creed. You’re definitely right of the formula as well. I feel like there should’ve been films showing that progression instead of dropping in on it.

It's interesting, you cited the last jedi with Luke but the comparison to Han Solo is so damning. Han solo is separated from Leia. His son, instead of being dead, is a nazi. He's a shell of his former self with no one willing to deal with him. The only difference is his replacement likes him and he also gets to die.

"You need to respect these characters..." Man, the day Hollywood does that again will really be the day pigs fly!

Frankly being made by director of Logan I was expecting to be great to the point being one of the best movies and probably best Indiana Jones movie but sadly wasn’t the case

It is so sad since this movie is probably a final farewell to Harrison Ford before his finally retire...

The obnoxious Helena Shaw, played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, was the worse part of this film.

You're missing the reason why Hollywood wants to show older heroes as broken down shells of their former selves. It's an easy/lazy way to provide a character arc as he improves and gets his act together. Now TG-Maverick did it far better without the hero starting all crushed with depressing issues, but that's much harder to write.

I really liked Mads Mikkelsen in the movie. He carried it. And I loved his character in Clash of the Titans

Well hunh, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie! I loved the storyline. I thought it fit in nicely with all of the other Indiana Jones movies that had to do with what happens when the practical collides with the spiritual. What happens when science meets faith? “It’s not what you believe. It’s hard to believe it!” I thought Harrison Ford did a really good job playing the character so many of us grew up watching… Only as the old version of that character. Which was the point of the whole movie: TIME. And what we do with it. And I thought Phoebe Waller Bridge was really good even though the character fluctuated between being bad and good. Is it possible though, that she had a change of heart, and became less of a swindler as the movie went on, because she got reacquainted with her long estranged god-father with Indiana? Hmmmm I did not mind the de-aging effect. And although you could tell, I think this is the best I have seen on film to date… It will only get better. (Plus, I love having a mini old school Indiana Jones movie for the first 20 minutes!). I loved alot of the Easter eggs and callbacks… Especially “drinking the blood of Kali”! I had no idea how the movie was going to end. So when they ended up in that ancient battle scene, it blew my mind. I love it when moviemakers can’t surprise me and I was surprised. I guess we all have our own opinions. And I walked out having had a good time with one of my favorite characters of all time.

The same could be said of the Bond francise. Cubby Broccoli must be turning in his grave at what his daughter and son-in-law did by killing off Bond. And, how can you reboot the series with a fallen dead hero - to merely bringing him back, by re-booting the series, is an insult to audiences intelligence - they should never have killed him off!!

Strange. Never felt bored. Never was a die-hard Indiana Jones fan, felt that I had a great time in the cinema. So did my family. Didn't realize people didn't like this movie so much. The last bit of bringing back Marion was a stretch I admit. Forced. Unnecessary.