Honestly, it looks like hot garbage if you just run through the action sequences but I can also see how it can still be enjoyable. Suspending disbelief appears to be the understatement of the century.
Dont “conservatives” love Clint Eastwood? Literally every movie he’s made the past 30 years has been this archetype.
and holy hell @Commodore i think maybe 2-3% of what i have seen from babaylon bee is funny and/or clever. yikes
Watched it Thursday night, its entertaining for the most part but it does feel like a band on their farewell tour playing all the greatest hits. If you threw thee first three into a blender Dial of Destiny would pour out. The god-daughter character is pretty much a redo of the offspring angle from Crystal Skull. They pretty waste Mads Mikkelsen as the villain with a one dimensional character which is a shame. It predictable but if you've been a fan of the character, you'll probably enjoy it, for me it was a solid C+
The gross wasn't bad from today's standards. 130m overall (70 overseas, 60 domestic) The problem is the budget being too big. 329+100 (advertising); so 429m to get out of the red. Box office napkin math real quick. First weekend slice to Disney is 65m profit since (50% of the 130m overall goes the threatre chains). 364m left (429 - 65m). So this means the movie will still have to gross an additional 728 mil (364*2) to break even. 130m (first weekend). Most movies drop between 60% (good movie with legs) to 75% from its first weekend. Subsequent weekends generally earn much less. Then can factor how crowded remaining July months will be, plus screens started showing the next hot movie(s). Next week is good for the taking, the week after is Mission Impossible. The week after that is Barbie and Opprenheimer. As far as international release, I don't see China, South Korea, and Latin America listed counted in the first weekend 70m overseas gross, so if they get more places to show it, it could make a dent. At this point, optimistic goal is maybe to get 75% of that budget back.
the second week numbers are the true telling story if this movie does well cause it’s another girl is the real hero Kathleen Kennedy production Rey pops up at the end stops the nazis @Jontro
Not watching anything Kathleen Kennedy destroys. In general, i'm pretty much done with all of Disney. Even if it was Spielberg and Paramount, I would rather have seen a young Indy adventures reboot series with a big budget and avoid all the cgi and old feeble man doing action. Use old Harrison to narrate and flashbacks to a young actor and not a cgi uncanny valley face or deep fake.
