Jurassic Park isn’t far behind though.

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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

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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.

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        Lmao, Shia LeBeouf got purge-1 purge-2’d so hard

        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

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        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

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      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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      The racism and misogyny are fucking hard to sit through as an adult, i rewatched the first one recently ang omg. The love subplot is Indi slept with a 16 year old and she falls in love with him.