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No spoilers, for me it felt like it was cutting bits and pieces from the original films and remixing them.
"Oh, this is just like that bit from Raiders where Marian gets kidnapped... Oh, hey, that's like when the tank ground up against the wall..."
There's entirely too much of "Well if you liked that, you'll probably like this..." moments.
Which isn't always bad, but it doesn't generate new memories so much as throw back to the others.
Yeah. that's with many of these.
A hommage here and there is nice, but some movies just feel like a remized Frankenstein best-of and feels so artificial.
Yup, and at that point, you may as well just re-watch the originals.
On the positive side of things, Dial of Destiny at least kept the memberberries to a minimum and felt like a genuine new Indy adventure, not a remake of a previous movie. Even so individual aspects are sometimes pretty heavily inspired by what came before, it has enough new stuff to stand on its own (unlike say StarWars sequels that didn't have a single new memorable location or spaceship).