How do you create a multi-million dollar Hollywood franchise? Give Kathleen Kennedy a multi-billion dollar Hollywood franchise.

Steven Spielberg absolutely shitting on K.K. made my day

There was already a tough female character who fought evil alongside Indiana Jones in his stories. Her name is Marion Ravenwood and all the fans love her!

i went to this movie with my son. Halfway the movie my son asked to go home, he hated it that much. He actually didn't relate to any caracter. We were maybe 10 spectators in the theatre.

There’s NO WAY Kathleen DOESN’T have blackmail against some people in Hollywood, it’s the ONLY explanation for her being around.

Kathleen Kennedy did this on purpose! Imagine the hatred needed to spend 10 years destroying two of the most beloved franchises of all time. She is insane.

If these feminists' goal was to stop people from seeing any movie directed by women, mission accomplished.

The scene with Phoebe riding a motorcycle into a hurricane to jump onto a moving airplane, with her sidekick 10 year old who has never been inside of a plane, piloting in a hurricane category 5 storm to fly has to be one of the worst things I've ever seen.

Holy s*** that recording of Spielberg complaining about Kathleen Kennedy is absolutely brutal. I had never heard that before. It's damning proof of how much of a egotistical fembot she was even back then, sitting in a room with arguably two of the most successful filmmakers of all time.

you'd think after Top Gun Maverick came out, filmmakers would get the idea of what the audience wants

This movie wasn't poorly written. It was deliberately written like this.

Kathleen needs to fill that marketing vacancy at Budweiser.

KK: “Men have been holding me back for decades” everyone: “from embarrassing yourself”

I hope she never leaves now. She keeps losing Disney so much money and its amazing.

A huge THANK you on behalf of all of us who won't have to watch this abomination!

Should have stopped at Indy 3. It was a classic franchise. Disney kept milking the cash cow and turned it into a horror movie franchise.

She ACTUALLY believed those words were for her. She ACTUALLY believed Spielberg was going to kiss her ass. What a glorious moment.

As much as it hurts to see my beloved childhood heroes desecrated by this wretched harpy, hearing Speilberg say out loud that Kennedy was an incompetent twit brings a slight smile to my face.

To see Kathleen Kennedy snubbed on stage (rightfully so) warms my heart and gives me just the barest glimmer of hope. Also, at 1:58, with KK sitting there like that, am I the only one that thought of Jabba the Hutt? Why does Harrison Ford keep returning to allow his beloved characters to end like this? Does he hate them that much? He doesn't need the money. I wish more actors would pull a Henry Cavill and tell them to eff off and walk away. That sends a pretty clear message. Unless, of course, the actors are drinking from the same Kool-Aid. Is Harrison Ford drinking from the same Kool-Aid?

How many times have we heard "Kathleen Kennedy is on the way out"? And, yet, she's still here... still ruining everything she lays her hands on.

I love the face KK makes on the John Williams celebration clip. You can FEEL her seething over how, even after making Lucasfilm hers, she still doesn't have any worth in culture, she knows she's just a parasite and doesn't belong there, and she hates it. Feels good man EDIT: Holy shit this post blew up, glad to see others enjoyed her seething as much as I did XD

The moment I heard Stephen said that Kathleen was good at interrupting mid sentences, it all makes sense to me now.

I didn't know it at the time but the 90s was the last golden age of cinema - Goodfellas, Misery, Schindler's List, Heat, Seven, Groundhog Day, The Usual Suspects, Boogie Nights, Carlito's Way, Shawshank Redemption, Fargo, Pulp Fiction...an almost endless list of brilliant films. So glad I experienced it - so sad that quality of film-making has disappeared. No wonder cinemas are struggling today.

Seeing Helena Shaw, I felt so sorry for Harrison. Watching her is as interesting as watching my cat working get rid of a hairball

Looking at this story I can't help but recall an old joke from the cold war era: The americans spent 20 years training a perfect spy to infiltrate the soviet Russia. They taught him every aspect of the local culture and he was speaking grammar perfect russian. Then as a final part of the operation they air lifted him to deep Siberia where he begun his mission. Much to his surprise, the first villager he came in contact with asked him if he was a foreigner. The spy was dumbfounded, how could his cover be blown so fast. So he asked the villager: What makes you think I'm a foreigner? The villager responded: We don't see too many black people here in Siberia 🤣

I wish I had the level of job security that Kathleen Kennedy has. She is like a super hero and her power is never getting fired no matter how much money she loses.

...which is slightly less believable than Phoebe Waller spaghetti arms knocking out Indiana Jones with one punch, dragging him to the plane, and somhow getting an unconscious man that outweighs her by at least 60 pounds into the plane.

I didn’t realize just how awful this was. Thanks!! You saved me 2+ hours of teeth-grinding misery. These clowns are so out of touch that they actually believed the audience would accept (maybe even support or root for) a main character who’s completely insufferable, unlikeable and condescending, all without the benefit of being even remotely easy on the eyes. From what I’ve seen of her and read about her, I’d surmise that her outward appearance is a strong indication of what she’s like on the inside. BTW: setting aside for a moment what ultimately transpired, wouldn’t the mere act of sending planes through a Time Fissure back to 212 BC change the course of history in itself? Engineers from that time could’ve created quite a bit of havoc after getting their hands on the 60’s technology found in the wreckage of those planes. They could’ve created devices that would’ve caused mankind to take a huge technological leap that would’ve completely altered History.

When you realise that destroying two of the most masculine characters in history was the goal.

That little behind-the-scenes recording of Spielberg laying into Kennedy as being a talentless hack who didn't do the job she was hired for, writing down notes on ideas during brainstorming sessions, but instead butting in mid-sentence with her own garbage takes, is quite the epiphany-inducing revelation of why she should have never been allowed anywhere near the creative process.

I thought I was watching Polar Express for the first 20mins. Harrison Ford's CGI attached head was terrible.

Drove an hour to see sound of Freedom in the nearest theater to my home. It was SO worth our time and effort to be there. Indiana Jones music was playing from the adjacent theatre when we left & I felt pity for the folks who’s spent their money on trash like that- when real heroes’ stories were being told next door. Seeing this film with my husband and son has made a huge impact on us: meaningful discussions, personal resolutions, private donations- we are moved to do our part. That’s what those who appose this film are afraid of. Be brave- go see it. It’s deep, it’s important, & it reminds us all- how Precious a gift it is to be freed. It will move you.

I find it interesting that Hollywood treats old characters exactly the opposite of what Japan does with its manga and anime. In Hollywood almost all old characters are fragile, demented, old farts that need to go away for the new more smart and awesome generation, while in Japan old characters usually are the most badasses of all.

As someone who grew up in the 70s and 80s I absolutely loved these franchises in a way that most younger people may not fully comprehend. You have to understand that back then we didn’t have internet or cellphones, and only had four or five TV channels. This isn’t a dig on today’s generation, but we generally had to rely on our imaginations. On cold, snowy days, I would pretend I was Han Solo on Hoth. In the Summer, my bicycle became a ROTJ speeder-bike. Cardboard Christmas paper rolls became lightsabers. An old cord became a bullwhip. Etc etc. It’s hard to overstate the emotional bond some of us had with these characters. Pajamas, curtains, lunchboxes…. We ate, lived, and breathed Star Wars and Indiana Jones. I say all of this to emphasize just how personally some of us are taking her treatment of our childhood heroes. It’s like a personal insult. I understand that Harrison is aging and needs to retire from these roles, but the INDIGNITY that she is putting them through, all apparently for the sake of her woke ideology, is infuriating. I also grew up watching great Disney shows like The Cat from Outer Space, Escape from Witch Mountain, Dragonslayer, etc. as well as many hand-me-down comics and books from the golden classic era, featuring Mickey, Donald, and the rest. Disney didn’t suck. They produced outstanding, family-friendly classics, and they set the gold-standard for high production-values and entertaining movies. Now they have sunk so low and milked their franchises so utterly that many hardcore comic/super hero and Star Wars fans aren’t even watching half of the crap that they are putting out. (I’ll probably never finish Andor or some of the last Marvel series shows). It’s disgusting and sad.

I'd be interested to see Kathleen Kennedy's take on Lucas' American Graffiti. Should we message and remind her that there are still a few Lucas works that need to modernized with the MessageTM?

Disney has destroyed Indiana Jones franchise.

So Kathy was terrible at her job and constantly interrupted with bad ideas, yet Spielberg kept hiring her as a producer? She must really know where Spielberg buried the bodies.

This makes Crystal Skull look like a really good movie.

The biggest flaw of many in this movie, is he returned to his timeline, where he was wanted for murder moments ago, and that was entirely forgotten about for the end of the movie. The entire movie is garbage.

I don't mind Phoebe, but she clearly wasn't meant to be in an adventure film. Her whole character is a geeky person, not a swashbuckling adventurer like Indiana Jones.

Man! Kathleen was hurt because her bad ideas were constantly rejected. That too by legends like Steven Speilberg, George Lucas and the likes. So she decides to lick their boots, keep getting promoted and eventually destroys the monumental franchises established by these men. Talk about 'a women scorned' and her ego. This is toxic feminism 101.

Holy shit, Spielberg did the best indirect roast I've ever seen in Hollywood. That was fucking amazing.

I saw the writing on the wall and it costed me big! I was invested in Disney with my whole retirement fund. After seeing what Kennedy and Iger was planning, I set out to get out! Yes I had to barrow two times my investment off my home and leverage down next to my original investment. I just had to wait and then my chance came two months ago and I sold everything. I even sold my time share back to Disney as per the contract. I made the right decision and now I’m free of complete Morons in Disney!!! What a shame such a great company gone to. And it was the complete incompetent CEO, Bob Iger & Exes like Kathleen Kennedy!!!

What these companies and directors are doing to these franchises, trying to change their DNA to meet some aggenda, reminds me of a prank I saw a long time ago. They gave these kids these vanilla ice cream cones who were excited to have them. However, they were served mashed potatoes that was made to look just like ice cream. Obviously, they immediately spit out the potatoes making all sort of faces of disgust. That's what all these re-engineered franchises are experiencing right now. What's surprising is that Disney couldn't foresee their bait and switch being rejected so resoundingly.

I find it crazy that the writers never realized how Helena Shaw is the antithesis of Indiana Jones. She is just like every other enemy he fought in the previous movies.

"I met her for the price of a drink." That was awesome...almost as good as Speilberg ignoring Kathleen lore Killer.

Everything about this review is spot on!! Especially the de-aged Indy that still walked and talked like an 80 year old. Plus, all the plot holes/dead ends: what happened to him being framed for murder and his bloody prints being on the phone? How did the arch villain guy survive that incident/injury on the speeding locomotive in the beginning? - no one could have. Thought they were going to explain it by having him had used the dial to go back in time to become a version of himself right before the incident, but nope, no explanation there. And most of all…when captured/wounded Indy was flying into the time fissure with the Nazi’s and he noticed bullets rolling through the cabin that made him think of “continental drift” and realized they would not be traveling to 1939 - the way he came to notice that and the immense emotion in his voice when urging them to abort mission confirms that this was intended to be the villain’s vital mistake, like choosing the wrong grail in The Last Crusade. However, when Indy and Helena land and speak to Archimedes, it’s revealed that the dial was designed as a “forced deck” by Archimedes as a cry for help and that it’s only capable of bringing them back to that one place in time, no matter how it’s used. And in the beginning of the movie, Indy explained how it could find time fissures in thunderstorms, but the scene in the ancient times was on a sunny, cloudless day - so how did they get back to the 70s so fast? And how much fuel did that little plane have? And who was the black chick? Was she an undercover agent? A villain with a moral compass? If so, why? This movie was clearly chopped up and re-written several times to improve the storyline, to no avail

Those 300M dollars could have fed the hungry. Could have stopped many violent attacks. Could have helped out nations. Instead, it went into creating this cancer for the eyes which nobody will watch. Yes, the original films were also costly, but they provide a smile and inspire millions not only in the US but in all countries. I'm from India and I practically grew up with Indiana Jones. Even though the temple of doom was banned in India due to hilarious misrepresentations(I mean did they confuse India with Wuhan?Most of India has vegetarian cuisine. It also had unnecessary colonial undertones especially coming from Spielberg who was a huge fan of Satyajit Ray and Indian cinema), I watched it many times. Was it entertaining? Hell yeah. Loved the legendary Amrish Puri as the villain.

Kathleen Kennedy, while trying to destroy Lucas (she can't because the original movies exist) just proves to the world she was incompetent at everything but fetching coffee.

Spielberg's public snub of Kathleen was SO satisfying! It just proves he's the best.

Unexpectedly, I would have preferred to see Mutt again at the end. However, I think he wanted nothing to do with the film. So, it's better to write him out than recast. As a parent, I believe the loss of Indy and Marion's son would cause debilitation between them to the point of great emotional wreckage.

lmao as of today, 10/10/2023, the film only made 83 millions. An Indiana Jones movie which didn't even make 100 millions. This is beyond failure.

The fact that I lost my job for accidentally double-scanning a $3.84 item in a Target checkout lane, but Kennedy is still employed after losing Disney over $900mil combined at the box office is how I know we are in the matrix. Also, Harrison already did a proper movie where he plays an old, tired, sad man. Blade Runner 2049. So I don't buy for a second that Indy 5 "appealed to him."

Hearing Spielberg talk about Kathleen Kennedy supposed to be taking notes, from better story tellers like Spielberg and Lucas, but offering her ideas instead suddenly makes all this clear. Kathleen Kennedy was never supposed to be in a position of power of ideas in franchises. She was a glorified secretary who somehow rose to a position of creative power, and everything she touches fails. Imagine thinking you have better ideas than Spielberg or Lucas? I’ve never heard this sound byte before. But it’s so telling.

It is Steven Spielberg's fault KK is still in the industry. If he recognized she was that disruptive back then, why didn't he fire her?

I don't understand why they spend so much money making bad movies, when you could find a fan that would write a better script and not even spend as much money.

Boy, that video of Spielberg not calling out Kennedy is the best Plot twis he wrote in his life, Priceless.

Spielberg's take on Kennedy is amazing. I actually never thought about the idea she isn't evil, she's just not smart or creative but is desperate to prove herself so keeps showing up.

I'm glad I watched this segment. I feel like I've seen the whole movie in just 23:40 minutes, thank you for saving my life.!

Can we just have a moment of silence for Disney destroying George Lucas’s characters

Considering the only reason literally anyone on the face of the earth knows who KK is is because Spielberg and Lucas let her hang around while they created masterpieces, she sure has a high opinion of herself!

They missed a trick killing Indy's son. They could have transitioned him instead. That would have got them even more ESG points.

- I really enjoyed the WW2 ally assualt beginning. It was fun, actionpacked, and even though the deageing was a bit like watching a rubber mask, it was really on point for Harrison Ford - I hate that the knife had no fucking perpose other then being motivation for the first 20 minuts. - I hate the way they treated indy, like he is basically worthless - I hate that Phoebe could outsmart and outthink Indy several times. The movie is about Indy god damnit - I dont get why Phoebe is such a not kind person in the beginning, and suddenly cares about Indy - I wished they could have used Phoebe as motivation for indy, like she gets killed by someone, promting him to seek answers - I wished that they would have traveled back to 1939, and we could get younger versions of Indy and the nazis Someone pls get Kathleen Kennedy the hell out of Disney before she ruins every single franchise the company owns

The problem is that even if KK is fired, she earned tons of money, and for what exactly?

How hard is it for them to realize, we want to see our heroes depicted with dignity?

"Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made" JRR Tolkien

The new Mission Impossible is going to destroy this movie.

Just seen it. Not as bad as I was expecting, but it should’ve been called Phoebe Waller Bridge and the Destruction Of The Patriarchy. She was irritating every time she was on screen. Did everything. Was better at everything. Knew everything. Indy reduced to a tired old fart. This deconstruction of our hero’s is a blueprint these days. Yeah, they’re old and maybe can’t do what they used to, but does it have to be this way? It didn’t fill me with joy when I left. It was quite literally miserable. And the stunt with the bike and the plane, seriously? Let the brave and wonderful independent strong woman save THE MAIN CHARACTER OF THE MOVIE! Man I need mission impossible to entertain me.

Disney / Lucasfilm have actually achieved something - they’ve made us immune to feeling any excitement for a new film based on classic IP - Star Wars, Indy, Willow, Pixar animation, Marvel, … You have to be really commercially ignorant to do that. Thank goodness for Tom Cruise and Super Mario!

You know a character is great when they take time out of a car chase to verbally explain to you how resourceful, beautiful, daring and self-sufficent they are. All the best characters ever written have definitely done that.

Kennedy needs to be fired. I’m so sick of this woke BS destroying beloved characters!!

My shocked face when Archimedes wasn’t made to be black.

I like how they portray their savior girl boss in the same way that Belloc was in the first film. He wasn’t saving history for everyone to enjoy in a museum, he was selling artifacts to the highest bidder. And they un-ironically think this character is supposed to be one we look at as if with morals.

Did yall catch it when Kathleen Kennedy was embarrassed on stage? When she didn't applaud for John Williams. Her Husband had to walk to her, touch her elbow, And, And probably said " do something damnit"! Pretend to smile , clap, something! Man your opening to this video was kinda brutal and cruel Mr.Nerdrodic. Loved it, keep it up. Thanks.

*Worse than Crystal Skull? Nah. Stupid plot, aliens, atomic bomb refrigerator hiding, AND Shia LeBouf? That one's worse...but it's close.*

The biggest absurd in the movie: the Nazis had a base with World War II plane in Syracuse. But they even didn't they the artifact was supposed to be there! So how they could prepare all these stuff? This movie had more plot armors than last seasons of Game of Thrones...

Rest in peace, Dr. Jones. You deserved much better.

Going to the movies in the 80s/90s was an amazing escape from reality. Now I avoid movie theaters like the plague.

Whenever Disney puts in a message about capitalism into a multi-million dollar film, and said film fails, an angel gets it's wings.

“She is as much of an action star as she is beautiful.” 😂😂😂 So true.

No way these movies cost half a billion. Disney is laundering money or something

Just watched the movie and was positively surprised in the beginning, during the castle and train scene. Then the story dropped of a cliff. One of the truly worst parts was when the German plane travelled back in time and the Nazis opened the door midflight to shoot with their handguns(!) at several hundred ships and thousands of soldiers below them in the sea. For what? That was absolutely insane. And the plane gets perfetcly hit by arrows. So instead of gaining altitude they get in range of everything only to see that shortly before Indi jumps out with his parachute that it is magically 10 times higher as before. This movie is a crime against the Indiana Jones franchise.

I'll sum up Indiana Jones 5: good guys find the object, the bad guys show up and there's a chase. Good guys go to another locale, accomplish another objective, bad guys show up and there's a chase. Rinse, repeat. Then Indy, after having been bragged on for still being able to take a punch, is laid out by a woman.

"What if he didn't get the girl, and instead got the dog." Kathleen Kennedy had that magical instinct to subvert expectations even decades ago.

From how bad Disney box's office is doing, it look like a blessing in disguise for Johnny Depp not going back to pirates of the caribbean

I didn’t even realize this movie existed until like a week ago. I honestly thought this just came out. I guess it was that unimpactful.

"...there's no way in Hell you're gona convinced me that Phoebe Waller-Bridge is beautiful!" I'm so glad you said that.

Not only did she ruin Indy she also ruined one of my favorite historical artifacts, I swear she’s a plague on mankind.

As an Indie fan since I was a kid in the 80's, I refused to see Crystal Skull until about a yr ago when it happened to be on TV and I was too busy doing something to bother changing the channel. I didn't see all of it, but I caught the gist of it and was as disappointed as I knew I'd be and why I avoided the film to begin with. As for this abomination, I'll never give it more of my time than I did watching this video. Your commentary on it was the only reason I made it through the whole video because dear god, I just wanted it to end after the opening train scene... Even your condensed version seemed like hrs!! I can't imagine what sitting through the actual film would feel like... Hollywood has been dead for a very long time. I will always cherish my movie collection from the days when movies were actually good and actually meant something. I don't care about new Hollywood and it's crap movies anymore.

Beautiful? Elsa Schneider was flippin' hot!! Helena Shaw is not even borderline cute.

The "capitalism" line really got me. How many pairs of ears heard that and let it go through? These people are children. And they vote.

It's now being reported that there was as many as SIX different endings filmed and the good ones were axed by Kathleen Kennedy. One being that Indy would hop into a plane and fly off into the sunset and that as the plane was flying into the sunset Indy looks over and sees his father, recreated by way of Deep Fake or something like they did with Peter Cushing in Rogue One. Another ending apparently that was partially shot was where Helena and Indy walk up to a house, knock on the door and an older Short Round answers the door, hands Indy a map and says "Let's go.". Either of those would have been better than this colossal mess that is Indiana Jones and the Dildo of Disney.

I can tolerate a lot in these films, but what I will not stand for, is Indana Jones being afraid of any non-mythical creature other than snakes and (without bullwhip) Large predators. The brave character I think we all loved was the Fearless Indy who could brush the spiderwebs off of many a tomb, not the "Indiana $EFFIGY$" Who needs "L3-37" to brush off spiders while he whimpers like a beaten dog. 1/10

Dial of Destiny accomplished something we'd never ever have thought would be accomplished in a billion years. And that it actually made Kingdom of the Crystal Skull worth watching. That movie for as poor as it was, was still made in 2018 before Kathleen Kennedy took over Disney and flushed it all down the toilet so it was still Indy as we knew him just with a bit more campy and goofy stuff like Aliens and whatever. Good call on bringing back Marianne for Indy to marry and have a Happy Ending. I think I'm ready to admit that Crystal Skull was indeed the Final true Indy Film even if it's not on the level of Raiders, Temple of Doom, or Last Crusade. And it's all thanks to Dial of Destiny. Congrats, Kathleen Kennedy. Your sh*t movie made Crystal Skull more popular.

Why is everybody giving Harrison Ford a free pas? He is ultimately the one to blame, he read the script and still said yes.

23 minutes of nerdrotic made in his garage at home more entertaining than a $300m Disney flop ❤

You could have made an adventure film about a father searching for his lost sun who was on an adventure of his own trying to prove himself to his father. Utilize the characters you established in the previous instead of giving us more close friends you never heard of having to be established. Could have been about a father realizing his love for his son is more important than any artifact out there. Instead you get this garbage w unlikeable characters.

My kids almost cried when we watched it. They were like why did they ruin it dad? My kids are 11,12 and 14

Saying Phoebe Waller Bridge is an action star is like calling Dylan Mulvaney a real woman

RIP Lucasfilm. You were once great and gave us many beloved franchises and characters.