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Each Indy film gets less dark than the previous

posted 6 months ago by spurtle467 (1520)
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I guess you could argue over Raiders and Temple in terms of how dark the subject matter is but I always felt Raiders was darker and more violent - people get shot in the head, faces melt and blow up, guys get chopped by plane propellors, creepy skeletons are shown up close. That's the Indiana Jones I remember. Since the original trilogy that darkness seems to have died off. This latest one was perfectly Disneyfied to remove as much horror and darkness as possible. Shame this is what we're reduced to now.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (16655) 6 months ago

ToD gets a lot of flack for being too gruesome, but ROTLA almost got an R rating for Belloq's head exploding.

[–] spurtle467 (1520) 6 months ago

If this film had that level of gruesomeness and got closer to an R rating it might have fared better at the cinema. Everyone now knows what to expect with Disney though. Woke themes and kid-friendly levels of action.

[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7511) 6 months ago

Yeah that is true but I still liked the new one. I don't like Temple of Doom though. The best Indiana Jones movies are Raiders and Last Crusade. And yes. I'd put this new one and Krystal Skull over Temple of Doom.

[–] spurtle467 (1520) 6 months ago

Agree with you they are the two best Indiana films, but Temple's best bits are still better than the best bits of the two newest films. If CGI faced Indy at the start of this film hadn't been so distracting then I'd probably rate it above Crystal. As it stands I'm not sure which film I rate above the other. It does miss the darker elements that the earlier films had though. Destiny was about as dark as the Tintin movie.