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So, I have been watching the Indiana Jones series and it's been a long time. My question, this trilogy is honestly great and reminds of when movies were fresh and suspended disbelief without having to have blow up a thousand things from one screen to the next. Will movies like this ever be made again? Will the creativity and dialogue be matched again? I am 31, so this isn't me being an old timer. But, the older I get the more I appreciate movies from this era. Movies now a days just seem like recycled garbage and, honestly, i like cheese of the old school graphics.


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As long as people can be fooled by CGI, the answer is no.
 

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As long as people can be fooled by CGI, the answer is no.

I should create an 80's retro restaurant. I would have a good 5 year run until I have to turn into a 90's retro restaurant


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Also, I don't think Hollywood will ever have another Harrison Ford. His movies have grossed something close to 6 billion dollars. Amazing


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I should create an 80's retro restaurant. I would have a good 5 year run until I have to turn into a 90's retro restaurant


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You can call it the Cafe 80s.
 

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I thought the 80s mainstream comeback is pretty much done.

Anyways, along with being wowed with bad CGI in every blockbuster remake, the other problem with modern movies is the fact that the generations making movies now have attention disorders. It takes a massive team of writers to check over everything and make new films clever. Not as easy to hide behind writers when you make action adventures.
 

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Also, I don't think Hollywood will ever have another Harrison Ford. His movies have grossed something close to 6 billion dollars. Amazing


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They will just remake everything anyways. Destroy good potential franchises, like PKD's DADOES, by giving key roles to connected actors, not as much giving the roles to talented actors. Ryan Gosling, give me a break. I guess it's better than a shemake/sheboot. But somehow Harrison Ford was a good sport and signed on for the cameos.
 

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As long as people can be fooled by CGI, the answer is no.

Every new tech ruins movies. It's been all down hill since talkies.

I don't think Hollywood will ever have another Harrison Ford.

Or Cary Grant.

the other problem with modern movies is the fact that the generations making movies now have attention disorders.

Fucking Millennials, is there anything they don't ruin?

They will just remake everything anyways.

So businessmen want to make money?

giving key roles to connected actors

Wait, movie studios like making movies with big movie stars? When did this happen?

I guess it's better than a shemake

So it's women that are ruining Hollywood?




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Temple of Doom was not good. The first and third were the best.


If you don't mind something that's a bit of a love story family-type movie and much younger than IJ, try The Prince of Persia with Jake Gyllenhall and Gemma Arterton. I watched it with my daughter when she was about 6. Good story and action. Alfred Molina plays a fun role.
 

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I don't think so, because Indiana Jones doesn't really have a 'genre' in today's world. At the time, they seemed like 'family fun adventure movies', but there is no way those movies would get made today because they are too violent. Lots of graphic fight scenes and killings. The first and third movies involved Nazi Germany and the first move was very dark. The second movie (Temple of Doom) was the most violent of them all, and brought about the PG-13 rating because it was going to be an R movie but Spielberg used his influence so he could still market the movie to families.

I read that. Seems Spielberg regrets Temple of Doom, but there are a lot of people who consider it the best. They are making I am guessing a final one. The 4th one was just awful to me because of the whole alien premise. I guess my thing is everything is wash and repeat now a days. I wish Micheal Bay would dig a hole and live in it.
 

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