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The Honest Trailer is here. I'm not sure if anybody would still be reading this thread without having seen the movie, but just in case, It contains spoilers. So don't click if you don't want to know.

Good question. Those of us who hang out here who are really passionate about movies and love going to the movie theater for the experience of being in the movie theater are always going to go. But we are not the average moviegoer. The average moviegoer who already only goes to a couple movies...

You are right. But this isn't a new thing on this title. That train left the station a couple years ago, and people are already conditioned to it. Disney isn't even the fastest turnaround. Universal turns things around in 17 days if they open below $50 million and usually about 30 days for...

Disney's theatrical-to-digital windows have been a little bit longer than 45 days this year. But it is never going to go back to the old 90-day system. That's just not the world we live in anymore. Dial of Destiny fell out of the top ten this weekend with a gross of $921,130. It is only...

That is interesting and excellent news. Thanks. I am very happy to be wrong that it was not cancelled. Did you order from Disney or some other site? That being said, it still seems like an odd move for Disney Music Emporium to remove the listing. They still have the listing up for a signed...

The listing for the Dial of Destiny soundtrack CD that Disney Music Emporium was taking pre-orders for has been removed. They were the only website I ever saw with a CD format listed, which had been stated to ship in August...

I think that was the point. In addition to the foreshadowing I mentioned earlier, its narrative function in the story is to wake Indy up and annoy him. It's supposed to sound different than the kind of music we normally associate with an Indiana Jones film I agree, but the arc being so...

Yes. It makes sense why the characters would choose the Beatles. But I think Mangold and/or his collaborators chose "Magical Mystery Tour" specifically because it also speaks to what happens to Indy. "The magical mystery tour is waiting to take you away." Considering what ultimately happens...

Of course the movie is made for an audience, but it is also made to service the characters in it. I care about what is meaningful to Indiana Jones because I care about him as a character. Seeing him have the experience that he has in the climax of this film was very much interesting to me...

I'm not sure I would call Marion a sidekick in the same way that Short Round, for example, is a sidekick.

Spielberg still sends Can Christmas cards. Quan said this in interviews during his awards run earlier this year. They could have gotten in touch with him to discuss it. I would have enjoyed seeing him back as Short Round, but I don't think the movie we got suffers in his absence.

I never saw it on a poster before today. My impression is that the marketing team was trying to hide the appearance as a surprise, until today. I didn't know it was happening when I went into the film.

Anyone who sees the film solely because of what is under that spoiler tag will likely be ticked off by the limited amount of screen time.

Just posted on the official Indiana Jones social media pages in full view. I'm going to spoiler-ize this. I'm not sure why Disney even bothered to hide this in the first place if they were just going to start promoting it on the fifth day the movie has been out. If they think this...

This is a good interview.

If everyone involved decided to change their minds and make another one, I would see it. But I don't need it. I might be in the minority here but I think there is inherent narrative value in reaching the end of the story and designing it as the sendoff the creators want and not continuing on...

Unfortunately, the $295 million budget Variety reported is going to make it very difficult for the movie to make a profit theatrically. This movie also got a B+ CinemaScore from opening night audiences who were polled. That is a better grade than Crystal Skull, which got a B. For comparison...

Why would Spielberg decide to decline this one and then change his mind and make another one? I don't mean this to be critical of your wish for another one, but it just doesn't make sense to me. If Spielberg wanted to make another one, he would have done this one. Are you proposing a reboot...

Variety has a spoiler postmortem with a cast member. Don't click in if you haven't seen the movie yet.

I understand the sentiment here because Spielberg is so associated with this series. But I'm going to disagree for a very simple reason and that is because Spielberg didn't want to direct it. Neither James Mangold nor any other new director would have been anywhere near Indiana Jones if...

Actually, according to a Variety article last week, James Mangold was hired because Harrison Ford suggested him after working with him on the set of The Call of the Wild. I understand why you would think about Logan, but I don't think the hire was necessarily to get him to replicate that. I...

No, and it should have. I pointed that out in my first post after the movie. The issue about Helena you quoted occurred to me later.

@Tino re: post #1,520 Tthat's a good point. I had forgotten about that.

We've already talked about the fact that the budget on this movie is particularly high. But -- respectfully -- the way you phrased this sounds like you are rooting for the film to fail. Why? I'm interested in the box office too so no judgment there. But the bigger question for me was if they...

@Joe Wong

I had a big problem with the ending. I don't think this movie touches the original trilogy, but I also think it is much better than Crystal Skull. It isn't perfect, but it is good and fun and I had a good time watching it. Except for the spoiler I mentioned above, I think it was a...

This is being released in 3D?