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David McK (3425 KP) rated Indiana jones and the dial of destiny (2023) in Movies

Jul 9, 2023 (Updated Aug 2, 2024)

Eels look like snakes? No they don't ...

Harrison Ford is over 80 now.

So fair play to him for returning to one of his most iconic roles, as Doctor Henry Jones Jr aka Indiana Jones, in what must surely by his swansong for that role.

And even more fair play for the film not making light of his age, but working it 'properly' into the plot (which has an absolute bonkers ending), with Jones - at one point - wondering aloud what he is even doing scaling a rock face at his age (and with mention made of the events of Temple of Doom in particular, at this point).

The whole prologue of the film - here, helmed by James Mangold instead of Spielberg - is set during the closing stages of World War II, and sees a CGI de-aged Ford battling Nazis in pursuit of a stolen relic, that leads him to the real McGuffin of the movie, the Dial of the title.

Jump forward to the late 60s, and Jones is retiring from academia when he is visited by the daughter of an old friend who wants his help in recovering said relic.

Initially hesitant - and following the breakup of his marriage to Marion, and, as we later discover, the fate of Mutt - Jones soon finds himself drawn back into the way of his old life.

For my money, this is better than Crystal Skull, with the the Dial as a McGuffin, 'suiting' Indiana Jones better than the sci-fi trappings of that earlier film, and with Phoebe Waller-Bridge a better foil than Shia LaBeouf.

Still not up there with the original trilogy, though.

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Maddie (37 KP) rated Oxenfree in Video Games

Nov 16, 2017

Oxenfree

2016 | Action/Adventure, Horror

8.1

(11 Ratings)

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Actions have consequences (2 more)

Great characters

Art was beautiful

Sometimes bugged, resulting in closing the game (0 more)

Short to play, but incredibly fun

Oxenfree was a beautifully styled coming-of-age story that pulled the player into the relationships between characters as much as into the drama of the ghost story. At times intense and a little scary (I'm a baby about stuff like that though), but also sweet and compelling. I really wanted everyone to be okay, although I fudged a bunch and not everyone made it out alive.

The actions have consequences aspect is great. The choices felt like realistic situations for the teenagers and each bad/good decision was believable.

Plan on playing this again in the near future to try and better improve my favorite character's chances!

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Flash Boys

Michael Lewis

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Michael Lewis's epic bestseller tells the outrageous story of the multi-millionaires and whizz kids...

Table Tennis Tactics: Be a Successful Player

Klaus-M Geske and Jens Mueller

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The book contains an age-appropriate collection of all aspects of table tennis tactics for young...

Mr Foote's Other Leg

Ian Kelly

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In Georgian London no one is more famous than Samuel Foote. Satirist, impressionist and dangerous...

The Secret Ministry of Frost

Nick Lake

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Ahalf-Inuit albino and heir to a huge Northern Irish manor, Light has never exactly blended in....

Andy Bell recommended Seventeen Seconds by The Cure in Music (curated)

"Seventeen Seconds is my favorite Cure album. It wasn’t the first one I heard; I bought Japanese Whispers and then The Head on the Door, both on cassette tape, and used to listen to them while I did my newspaper delivery round at the age of about 15 in Oxford. But then I went back and started getting into the earlier Cure records. With the people I knew, Pornography and Faith were both really big, but I gravitated toward Seventeen Seconds because it was less heavy, more minimal. Like most of their albums, it has its own unique sound. My favorite track off the album is ‘Play for Today,’ and I was absolutely buzzing when we played with them in Greece last week and they played this and ‘A Forest’ together in the setlist."

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