Half in the Bag: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny



Indiana…let it go.

We had a lot of dumb technical issues when filming this episode. One of our stupid mics stopped working 2 minutes into our discussion but we didn’t discover that until after talking about the stupid Indiana Jones movie for 45 minutes so then we had to start the stupid discussion all over again. And for some reason on the second time we shot it, Rich Evans’ microphone made him sound extra echo-y because Rich Evans is a sound anomaly. But you can still understand everything we say as we painstakingly go through this boring movie. So just relax and have fun, everybody. Relax and have fun!!! And Happy Birthday, Grimace!

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38 thoughts on “Half in the Bag: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”

  1. This is a movie that like has a bunch of the right ideas but flubs the execution like almost every single time.

    It’s a real book of boba fett type ordeal. Where if you just sort of pitched it to me with an outline I’m totally on board. But it’s execution dissapointed me pretty much across the board.

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  2. Ahhh… awesome breakdown and how to fix that ‘put your guns down’ bit… your idea ISthe correct way to shoot that scene… I felt the same way when seeing the film – but couldn’t exactly put my finger on how to fix it – you guys did! Thx!

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  3. Mike hit the nail on the head when he compared the film’s opening action scene to a 40 minute Pink Floyd song that goes on way too long vs the classic Beatles formula of the original trilogy. 😂

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  4. I still agree with Rich saying that Lucasfilm is creatively bankrupt, especially since they essentially stole my story idea for an original Indiana Jones radio drama that I released a few years ago.LOOK IT UP and tell me if you see any parallels to what they released in Dial of Destiny: “Indiana Jones and the Bridge to Yesterday”. Would love to hear what you guys think.

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  5. If they were going to go full time travel cheese, might as well just go all the way. Have Indy go back into the past at the very beginning of the film. And then he's reliving some archeological event, but in the actual time period. The time of Emperor Quin. The Romans conquering Carthage. The height of the Khmer empire and some fantastical story about Angkor Wat. Whatever. But of course, there's lots of better ideas. Like you know, just do an adaptation of Fate of Atlantis.

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  6. When they were talking about the scene where Indy joins the Vietnam protestors and how in the movie it seemed meaningless for Indy to try to rile up an already riled up crowd and Mike explains how he would have done the scene with the hippies rising up I was really hoping there was going to be a cut the line from The Breakfast Club, "If he gets up, we'll all get up, it'll be Anarchy!"

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  7. You know, how the prequels and Indy 4 were very similar in their comparison to their predecessors, the sequel trilogy and Indy 5 were similar in that they suck ass.

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  8. You guys doing my man Mads Mikkelsen dirty, only bringing up his roles in Star Wars and James Bond films. What about Hannibal, The Hunt, Another Round, Arctic? Mads is a fucking powerhouse of acting.

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  9. Please Disney just make a (traditionally) animated Indiana Jones film. You don't have to worry about Harrison Ford breaking a hip. You don't need to fly to Afghanistan to film. Get Genndy Tartakovsky or Brad Bird.

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  10. Movie would've actually been pretty cool if the villain had used the dial and teleported himself into deep, deep space
    Because continental drift is a laughably minor factor when you consider the motion of the Earth around the sun and the rate at which Sol moves through the galaxy.

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