Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Dial of Destiny, the latest disaster in the Indiana Jones 'franchise' came out in 2023 amidst rumours of a $300m+ budget, poor reviews from peers and audience apathy. It bombed harder than the RAF. It's predecessor, the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, arguably sowed the seeds for the cinematic failure being more memorable for the memes it launched than the film itself. Crystal Skull ruined the series' good reputation with existing fans and failed to capture a new, younger audience. To follow that up with a $300m budgeted movie is the sort of corporate genius that rivals the Sinclair C5 and New Coke. However, with such a vast budget and fifteen years between movies to get things right, there was no reason why Dial of Destiny couldn't be a new watershed for the series.
My books, the British sci-fi comedy Professor Lovecraft, are available on Amazon here: cutt.ly/W9GeO37
Dial of Destiny, the latest disaster in the Indiana Jones 'franchise' came out in 2023 amidst rumours of a $300m+ budget, poor reviews from peers and audience apathy. It bombed harder than the RAF. It's predecessor, the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, arguably sowed the seeds for the cinematic failure being more memorable for the memes it launched than the film itself. Crystal Skull ruined the series' good reputation with existing fans and failed to capture a new, younger audience. To follow that up with a $300m budgeted movie is the sort of corporate genius that rivals the Sinclair C5 and New Coke. However, with such a vast budget and fifteen years between movies to get things right, there was no reason why Dial of Destiny couldn't be a new watershed for the series.
My books, the British sci-fi comedy Professor Lovecraft, are available on Amazon here: cutt.ly/W9GeO37
