Yeah, I think the Crystal Skull was such a let down that this one ended up being a very fun surprise.
I missed Spielberg’s direction way too much. I watched Crystal Skull for the first time the day before seeing Dial of Destiny and while I admit the MacGuffin kind of sucks, it *feels* like Indiana Jones to me. There are only a couple of moments in Dial where I got that same buzz.
The things I associate with Indiana Jones movies were all there; globetrotting (DOD goes from Germany, to NYC, To Tangier, to Greece and Sicily. The only locations we get in Crystal Skull are Roswell and Puru), mythical ruins, evil Nazis, exciting chases, etc… I enjoyed PWB more than Shia LeBeouf, and baddies of Madds Mikkelsen and Boyd Holbrook were great as well. Also, as distracting as some of the de-aging CGI was in DOD it was way less cringy than the CGI monkeys in chase sequence in Crystal Skull.
I do admire how wild the last half hour of DoD gets.
This movie is a cheesefest but I loved it as a kid and still have a real soft spot for it now
The original, Love Affair, is much the same. AFTR is a bit funnier (Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr are great) but there were a few scenes i thought were better in Love Affair.
Grant and Kerr really carry the film through its rough patches. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen Love Affair. I should remedy that.
Criterion released it, i watched it a couple weeks ago. Maybe their channel has it?
I have seen the teaser but nothing else. Trying to go in as fresh as possible.
That drives me nuts too. But on the plus side that's a great documentary. I went and saw it in theaters.
It's due to copyright holders. Disney could own the rights for a film in the US but Universal have the rights in the EU for example. It's been like that from VHS to blu-ray, although it's kinda funny that all 4K discs are region free. That does create a bit of an issue when the accompanying blu-ray disc is region locked.
