Indiana Jones 5 Announced For 2019

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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I'm interested to see how it will do. If it fails, unfortunately I think the wrong lessons will be immediately learned from it.

And Harrison Ford has been doing his press tour so staunchly and so proudly of the movie, but I can't wrap my head around how even he seems to be disregarding the complete lack of narrative journey of the character here.

He starts the movie literally as a depressed old man who can't identify with the era he is in. And he ends the movie in utter defeat of his place in life where even the epilogue itself resolves nothing. It's a nice enough sunset to be with his wife; but against a backdrop of depressing city living for a tenured college professor, amidst depressing circumstances, and basically just two people deciding to be depressed together.

It's not a golden send off - it's a narrative disaster. And the utter failure in how the events are resolved that bring Indy to the epilog are like... "what?!?"