The Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Failure Thread
POSTED BY: 6IXSTRINGJACK
UPDATED: Friday, September 22, 2023 01:23
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Bruce's walk of shame...
https://www.the-numbers.com/news/254500830-Weekend-projections-Dial-of
-Destiny-first-with-a-disappointing-60-million
With more excuses!
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$60,368,101
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Boy. That's the closest underestimate for opening weekend I've ever seen by a longshot. They almost embarrassed themselves there. No extra 2 to 3 Million for Indy 5's first weekend after the real numbers came in.
Can we make sure that Kathleen Kennedy never works in Hollywood again now, or would you like to lose more money first, Disney?
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Nazis mess up their calculations and accidentally carry Archimedes' Dial of Destiny, along with Indy, thousands of years back to Archimedes, who has this Eureka! moment and realizes how to finish the design of his machine to predict "fissures in time". I have seen these time loop paradoxes done much better on many different flavors of Star Trek.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Even with the "5 day weekend" it looks like it only made $82 Million domestic.
Media for the most part is in full spin mode wherever it can be on this one, but some of the more reputable outlets aren't going to ruin whatever is left of their credibility trying to make this look like a win for Disney.
It's hilarious seeing headlines stating that it's number one in the US and many individual box offices when it was the only big budget release this weekend and it was up against a top 10 of older movies that were either all bombs themselves, or have been in the theater so long they're not making much money anymore.
I don't expect Insidious: The Red Door or Joy Ride to do much action this weekend, but the next Mission Impossible comes out the following weekend (2 days early, on a Wednesday, actually...), and Barbie & Oppenheimer are coming out on the 21st. Indy has very little time left to make any real amount of money to chip away at the financial disaster it's created for Disney/Lucasfilm this year.
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Quote:Disney missed the opportunity to make the Nazis really scary. Instead, they come across as small-time criminals. The Nazis look foolish in the Dial of Destiny. Here is how to make the Nazis look competent and scarier: Germany has a 15-year head start over the US in making A-bombs because the time-traveling Nazis bring the technology from 1969 back to 1939. Then the Nazis nuke their way to victory in WWII. Since this is the final Indiana Jones, Disney should have got serious for a few minutes in reality, rather than another stale popcorn/bubblegum-chewing movie for dimwits.
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Even with the "5 day weekend" it looks like it only made $82 Million domestic.
Media for the most part is in full spin mode wherever it can be on this one, but some of the more reputable outlets aren't going to ruin whatever is left of their credibility trying to make this look like a win for Disney.
Quote:https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2023/07/oppenheimer-vii-scorpion
But Truman saw it differently; as far he was concerned, America should now use its monopoly on this new weapon as much to its advantage as it could. At the meeting, he told Oppenheimer that the country should first deal with the national situation – figure out authority and the rules of secrecy over the new weapons, that is – and then they should bother with what the international implications would be. But Oppenheimer saw it differently, telling the president that they must first define the problem internationally. Truman then asked how long it would take the Soviets to build the bomb. When Oppenheimer waffled the president leaned closer and said, “Never”. Oppenheimer did not quite know what to make of Truman’s response. Searching for words he said, in some anguish and with the drama he sometimes displayed, “Mr. President, I think I have blood on my hands.” Truman was startled, and one account has him offering Oppenheimer his handkerchief and saying, “Here, would you like to wipe it off?”. Another account has him saying, “Never mind, it’ll all come out in the wash.” An awkward silence followed, after which the two men shook hands and Truman told Oppenheimer he was hoping the physicist would help them all make sense of the new world they were in.
In reality Truman was infuriated. He later told Dean Acheson, the new Undersecretary of State, “I don’t want to see that son-of-a-bitch in this office ever again…blood on his hands dammit, he hasn’t half as much blood on his hands as I have. You just don’t go bellyaching about it.” Six months later he was still smarting from the exchange, calling Oppenheimer that “cry-baby scientist”. Truman, the autodidact country farmer from Missouri, had fundamentally misunderstood what the scientists had, especially when he mentioned his belief that the Soviets would never get the bomb: building the bomb was a question of resources, manpower and basic science. Any country with smart scientists and the will – and the Soviet Union certainly qualified – could figure it out within a few years. There was no big “secret” to keep. Citizens of the open republic of science, Oppenheimer, Bohr and their fellow scientists had understood this fundamental fact; the politicians had not. The Oppenheimer-Truman exchange, similar to the Bohr-Churchill exchange two years before, was symbolic of a continued misunderstanding between science and politics which would heat up the arms race between the two countries and, among other things, ultimately cause Oppenheimer’s downfall.
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Yup. They had the chance to make Nazis look really scary, but all the woke writers and producers didn't want to make anything that they found offensive, so what they ended up making was an entire generation of young people wonder what the big deal about Nazis was anyway. (Or, at least that's what they would have done, had anybody seen Indy 5).
These people running entertainment are fucking stupid.
They had the same opportunity when they made Resident Evil on Netflix, but instead of having white supremacist Albert Wesker handed to them on a silver platter where they just had to make him embody exactly what they think of every time they see a white male to play against the woke diversity hire cast they injected everywhere else, they did a race swap and made Wesker black for no reason. Resident Evil was promptly cancelled.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I don't expect Insidious: The Red Door or Joy Ride to do much action this weekend, but the next Mission Impossible comes out the following weekend (2 days early, on a Wednesday, actually...), and Barbie & Oppenheimer are coming out on the 21st. Indy has very little time left to make any real amount of money to chip away at the financial disaster it's created for Disney/Lucasfilm this year.
I didn't even know about the movie Sound of Freedom until just now. It was released on the 4th and took 1st place for Tuesday with $14,242,063 vs Indy 5's $11,698,989, even though it was shown in just under 2,000 less theaters than Indy 5.
An Indiana Jones movie knocked out of 1st place on only its 5th day in theaters, by an indie flick from "Angel Studios" who's only other credit is some bible bouncing movie nobody ever heard of that got a 17 day run in the theaters earlier this year called "His Only Son" which only nabbed $12 Million in the box office before it was forgotten about forever.
To top it off, Sound of Freedom's budget was only a paltry $15 Million, stars Lefty shunned actor Jim Caviezel, and is about Democrat's favorite pastime when they're not cheating elections, which, of course, is grooming and trafficking children.
How embarrassing.
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The Blockbuster was when fans would queue up like StarWars fanatics and go around the block to try get tickets. There were recessions in the 70s and 80s but somehow they rode it out in the 90s and 2000s and Hollywood continued with highest-grossing films, when it looked like cinema would die in 2008 with job less and bailout in came James Cameron 3-d glasses and 'Avatar', 'Jurassic Park' was a giant in the 90s then Harry Potter books became movies and got kids into the seats, when DC looked dead and bruied along came Wonder Woman and Aquaman but then Jutsice League flops. It was a 10 + Year run of constant blockbusters mugs and film and t-shirt and dvds, I think the cniema movie block buster was dying for a while, some biog Marvel scifi comicbook products kept it all running 2008 - 2018/2019 the DVD market is truly dead no big sales in T-shirts anymore, if you have not made money at the cinema its over for the movie profits.
Summer flopbusters: why were Indiana Jones and The Flash box office bombs?
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/06/indiana-jones-and-the-dia
l-of-destiny-the-flash-bombed-box-office-harrison-ford
Does Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny mark the era of the 'flopbuster'?
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230705-does-indiana-jones-and-th
e-dial-of-destiny-mark-the-era-of-the-flopbuster
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Inexplicably, they're going to keep Indy 5 in 4,600 theaters for its second week.
Also, Bruce says that Insidious: The Red Door is going to take #1 this weekend.
His model has Sound of Freedom getting a 4th place showing, but he thinks it will take 3rd place behind Indy 5.
Though I'd love to see Sound of Freedom beat it this weekend, I will be happy seeing any movie take 1st place from Indy 5 this weekend, and hopefully into next week until Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One comes out early on the 12th. It would be hilarious watching an Indiana Jones movie with a $300 Million budget only have claim to 6 days at 1st place once the next Mission Impossible comes out.
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Also doing bad overseas
you also have markets in Canada, Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, Argentina, France, and India...the French market can add something like 1% to 4% of world wide sales and forget taking in 'France' for now as nobody will be going to the cinema while islamic criminals riot and start to Burn and Loot French cities...Russia was a market in the past but not anymore with War and Sanctions
Seems to be an official 'Flop'. If it was good it could claw back money overs seas but it is getting trashed overseas by older and new release like Fast X , Elemental, Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken, Sisu, John Wick 4 or more local Asian European India Chinese South Korean film. In the worldwide international sales 'Super Mario Bros' for example is beating it in some overseas theater.
Budget they admitted $250–$300+ million, Box office $150 million?
Why 99% Of Movies Today Are Garbage - Chris Gore
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Dial of DISASTER!!! Indiana Jones 5 is DOOMED!
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Like The Guardian article asked
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Summer flopbusters: why were Indiana Jones and The Flash box office bombs?
“The Outlaws” Becomes 1st Korean Film Series In History To Surpass 30 Million Moviegoers
https://www.soompi.com/article/1599211wpp/the-outlaws-becomes-1st-kore
an-film-series-in-history-to-surpass-30-million-moviegoers
Korea Box Office: ‘Elemental’ Expands in Third Weekend, Whips ‘Indiana Jones’
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/korea-box-office-elemental-indiana-
jones-1235660167/
a box office bomb
https://screenrant.com/indiana-jones-dial-destiny-box-office-bomb-reas
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https://deadline.com/2023/07/box-office-indiana-jones-and-the-dial-of-
destiny-superman-returns-july-4th-bombs-1235429932/
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