Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Pitch Meeting

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What if an older Indiana Jones came back for one last big adventure? Wouldn’t that be crazy? Well wonder no more, because that movie came out 15 years ago and it was called Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. But wait, what if an older Indiana Jones came back for one last big adventure AGAIN? Ahhh well if that sounds like a good time, you’re in luck!
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny definitely raises some questions. Like did they copy/paste this premise from The Force Awakens? Why do all older Harrison Ford characters now have terrible lives? How did Zoller survive without a scratch the exact thing that took out Dennis Hopper in Speed? How do these bad guys keep knowing where to pop out? How hard to Helena punch Indy to drag him from Ancient Greece all the way to New York City?
To answer all these questions, check out the pitch meeting that led to Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny!
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[@FreshlyBakedLePain]

Helena dragging Indy back out of the past where he feels he belongs is an excellent allegory for modern Hollywood.

[@totallynameless8861]

Lol.

[@kekort2]

He belongs in a museum!

[@Bustermachine]

@@kekort2 I mean, I could have a seen a movie where Indiana Jones is a cameo Museum Curator.

[@nathanwailes]

😂😂😂

[@lacolem1]

@@Bustermachinethen he regenerates into Tom Baker

[@Hard-R-Energy]

It's been said a millions times already, but Indy riding off into the sunset with his Father, Marcus, and Sala really was a perfect ending. For me Indiana Jones will always be a trilogy.

[@aucarter]

👍👍👍

[@Dadofer1970]

Yes, everything since was just frillogy.

[@DrakeBarrow]

I agree, though when I stop to think about it I really do like the ending of Crystal Skull. It's a very happy ending. Indy gets his job back, his name cleared, marries the love of his life, and will have time to connect further with the son he didn't know he had. He has a family and can spend his twilight years in well-earned peace. Crusade's ending was better, but damn all if Skull's ending doesn't work as well.

[@beowulfsrevenge4369]

It's the best ending to one of the best, if not the best, trilogies ever made.

[@jacobcrsn]

@@DrakeBarrowbut then his son dies rip lol

[@MachoMan_Vert]

"It's not plagiarism if you're stealing from yourself" should be a disney motto.

[@mattphillips3537]

Well they better not rip off Steamboat Willie then.

[@biostar4]

As an academic: it is

[@joefelice5062]

Copy paste, baby!!

[@fridayman99]

"Copy/paste, baby!" Love the joyful way Ryan shreds this movie 😂

[@renderinginprogress]

i want this quote on a t-shirt with his face on it

[@SIZModig]

New one-liner found, I hope this becomes a new thing!

[@TheFourthWinchester]

I repeated that thing 3 times cuz it was so weird and hilarious.

[@MrsMacLover]

joyfully shredding movies is tight!

[@cepillo310]

“This is a star wars” was the most unexpected but greatest line 😂

[@N13J]

It’s Top Gun Maverick all over again!

[@tje210tje]

I was really hoping he'd call it a star war

[@benitolynch]

How about when they need to go to water to get the thing that will tell us where the other thing is?

[@anabee8310]

This is slowly becoming a new catch phrase

[@andreashort310]

Not that unexpected, I was hoping he'd point out the similarities.

[@falcie7743]

"But wait, isn't he still wanted for murder?" "Hey, shut up." God I love these videos

[@mikeontheisland]

Yuuup

[@Standalone000]

Woops.....

[@aleksanderzaremba9695]

"that was a really good punch"

[@javierfebronio8907]

Should've said it at 1:29

[@daynarisbarathion8602]

Nah, nah. 'Do I???' Has to be the best line in here.

[@jomahawk7488]

“When you bring back a beloved character they have to be sad and miserable.” Fortunately, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell never took kindly to rules like that. To the tune of over a billion.

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

True but see; Luke Skywalker, James Bond 🍸, John J Rambo, Lt John McClane. 😔

[@jomahawk7488]

@@DavidLLambertmobile I try not to think about that...but you are absolutely correct. And it breaks my heart. Not to mention we now, unfortunately, have to add Dr. Indiana Jones to that list.

[@Serpillard]

​​@@DavidLLambertmobileTo be fair, Rambo started out as a sad, broken character (before getting turned into an action hero in the sequels).

[@thepubknight6144]

​@@Serpillard Both him and Rocky especially Rocky made perfect sense that he was lost and depressed

[@matthewmosier8439]

​@@jomahawk7488Just ignore the new movies. They weren't made from a respectful place. There are plenty of films that have been ignored over the years. I honestly think people will just forget that a lot of these terrible movies even were filmed.

[@kurojngyuki]

When I watched Teddy handcuff the goon to that grate underwater my immediate thought was "OH-mygod he just murdered that guy...that's gonna be in the pitch meeting". Was not disappointed lol

[@TokyoBlue587]

Yeah I thought he was just going to escape by swimming through the opening in the grate that the big guy couldn’t fit through anyway…instead he leaves the guy to drown…seems kinda dark for a 12 year old kid.

[@TheFourthWinchester]

@@TokyoBlue587 normal for an Arab kid.

[@Agiantpansy]

You can basically torture or execute a character in a Disney film at this point, just so long as you identify them as a Nazi beforehand.

[@republicoftexas3261]

Pitch meetings are better entertainment than 99% of what Hollywood produces

[@illogicmath]

I approve

[@TheLastSaint17]

The writing is definitely better.

[@RogueWolfArtist]

You know is historically most movies released are not great, right? We’re not exactly on a down curve; there’s still about the same ratio of exceptional, mediocre, and terrible movies released. It’s all relative, of course, but it seem people get make emphatic statements like this a bit to hastily without actually considering the reality of the statement.

[@jochenkraus7016]

Not needing to actually watch the movie because they tell the whole plot is TIGHT!

[@tbk2010]

Low bar

[@adrianflipflop9054]

"This is a star wars" is the new pitch meeting phrase I didn't know I needed

[@deepblue812]

He used it on Top Gun also for the trench run to hit a small target without his targeting computer.... lol

[@GarthPuckerin]

He has actually used this phrase a couple of times in other Pitch Meetings but this was the first that actually had the same iconic actor playing his iconic character being upstaged and replaced in his iconic franchise in the exact same manner. They just stopped short of killing him and you know they filmed that version but backed off because they realized they were making a “Star Wars” again. Fans were predicting Indy was going to die since the movie was announced and Harrison has said Indy dies with him, no recasting, no reboots (sorry Chris Pratt) so you know eventually the scene/version where he stays in the past gets leaked. Unless they already destroyed it. Release the “Indy stays in the past” cut

[@brobro34343]

COPY PASTE BABY!

[@stabinghobo57]

@@GarthPuckerin Him staying in the past would have been an awesome ending, but no they had to F*** it up.

[@okboomahfromblackrod2939]

@@stabinghobo57 He would be 'Back in the future" Hold my Delorian.

[@kstepko]

“He got Dennis Hoppered.”💀 I‘m totally using that.

[@jtoons99]

The only and best part of our unceasing parade of horrid films is the concurrent, growing treasury of Ryan George's Pitch Meetings. I often enjoy these more than the actual films he's critiquing! And I do think Ryan has introduced a new catchphrase in this video: "Copy and paste, baby!"

[@joannpelas5101]

Ryan has saved my hundreds of dollars in movie tickets and popcorn.

[@lukehunnable]

That thing of Sallah (also being 80) begging for just one final adventure and Indy like: "not this time" has go to be the most Studio-spits-in-the-face-of-the-fans-moment ever

[@eclipsehorse8693]

Disney really effed this up, Helena could have had TWO men to drag a round and belittle! *sigh* course of it were up to KK, she wouldn't have men in her movies at ALL!

[@fantochedollmaker7030]

Completely baffling too. Why include THAT? A beloved character begging and being denied? Why not have Sallah at the start in that WW2 adventure? Here, make Phoebe Sallah's niece or daughter?

[@lukehunnable]

@@fantochedollmaker7030 Would be much more interesting

[@TheSmokingMustache]

@@fantochedollmaker7030 plus diversity points, they can't even play by their own rules right.

[@SuBeKuTah]

@@TheSmokingMustache That might actually have been the problem because JRD is an Englishman (Welsh background, I think, and only 78, btw 😉), not an actual Arab. This is really baaad nowadays because actors are only allowed to play exactly what they are in real life (meaning Sallah needs to be played by some dude who has a Mediterranean background which they think is close enough to being an Arab) and that is not the case with JRD. But he is a beloved iconic character, so he still had to be in the final movie (which, honestly, is the only reason I'm considering to watch it at some point when I don't have to pay extra for it). Now, what to do? Simple: Just put him in for a short moment.

[@codyerickson3550]

You can always tell when Ryan legitimately hates a movie or a show based on how extra snarky his jokes are 😂

[@bryanf6638]

And how quickly the Pitch Meeting get released 😂

[@will420high4]

That's why I trust him over Honest Trailers any day now, they went soft with time/success

[@jeremymullen7097]

If the movie is comedically bad, the jokes write themselves.

[@michaelsong5555]

I dont' think Ryan needs to put his input to see that people (including himself) hate this movie.

[@Mizdl]

This one was him not hating the movie?

[@robertrowley4929]

After listening to all this, I would’ve preferred a movie featuring a grown-up Short Round, Mutt, and Sallah going on one last adventure together. Then near the end, Mutt gives Short-Round his father’s hat as a way of passing the torch onto him. Sallah smiles and tells them, “Indy would be proud.” Then all three of them could ride off into the sunset just like Indy did in Last Crusade

[@EpicJoshua314]

I’m actually glad they didn’t shoehorn Willie Scott and Short Round into this movie just for fan-service.

[@moviefan8533]

That sounds equally awful.

[@DulinquentTv]

The “that was a really good punch” got me 😂🤦🏻‍♂️

[@gamebawesome]

0:26 “He’s the character from the things that made us money before” Just found Disney’s motto

[@jamesknapp64]

Well it may lose so much he no longer has made them money :)

[@relaxationstation7634]

Nostalgia! Now give us money! -Every Disney movie and pretty much every big movie studio as well

[@cmdraftbrn]

thats been their motto for a while now. it case you havent payed attention to all the live action re-makes of all their popular movies that went splat

[@englishatheart]

Problem is, they completely destroy said characters in their sequels and live action adaptations. They think they're "updating it for a modern audience," but that isn't what the fans who made the original successful want to see (unless they're idiots who weren't genuine fans of the original). Make original stories and characters to push "the message." Leave original characters alone.

[@kayjacoby290]

Not just Disney. Any studio that made a bad sequel.

[@RubyDoobieScoo]

I used to hate bad, lazy movies but now I love them because they make for great pitch meetings.

[@korganrocks3995]

That, and the fact that I stopped watching the movies themselves. Amazing how much that improves the experience! 😄

[@johnmainwaring6556]

It gets to something when these pitch meetings scripts and plot lines are more creative, and entertaining than the Hollywood movies themselves. We're in a bad place at the moment.

[@fratertzadkiel2863]

Given what movies cost to produce nowadays it is not a very efficient method to produce material for pitch meetings, but it is not my money being set alight, so what do I care?

[@AtlasJotun]

Agreed, I've watched a couple dozen pitch meetings for films I'll likely never see! Also, I like it when the red water comes out.

[@vincelupo8419]

Copy paste baby!

[@jackwimmer2249]

“Murder’s illegal. That’s not good!” Wonderful line! 😅

[@robertmcginty4146]

He should go in a room, I've decided.

[@brendanhenry8544]

"Hey shut up" gets me every time. 😂

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

Indy just commit manslaughter! ⚖️. Hey shut up!

[@donoimdono2702]

same

[@SomeeGuyy]

"Copy, Paste, baby!" Yes, this is the extent of creativity that has come out of most Hollywood films for several years now.

[@Bustermachine]

Well that's what happens when you keep trying to carry on 40 year old franchises that didn't need to be carried on. You couldn't recreate the magic even if you brought back the entire original cast, because they're all in entirely different place in their lives (when they aren't, y'know, dead.) And it also means any new cast members have to try and fill those shoes. Which in a movie that's built on nostalgia, is going to be basically impossible.

[@LlamaDuck2211]

*Disney

[@thedarkjw6219]

But, you just did the same comment as everyone else!

[@drphot6050]

Love that new line because it's so damn true lol

[@russellharrell2747]

Can’t wait to see ‘Copy Paste Baby’ copied and pasted over and over and over again due to how much copy-paste Hollywood is doing.

[@Shenaldrac]

I'm really liking Producer guy showing more resistance to Writer guy's BS. Just no-selling him on the bad guy surviving something clearly fatal. Sure it got pushed through anyway but I really, REALLY like the idea of the producer slowly over time actually realizing how terrible the writing is for some things and not going along with it. It's like character development or something!

[@lisaroper421]

Better than half the character arcs in Hollywood!

[@juanss9383]

If only that could happen in real life too... But I guess the only character development they have is money

[@thebatman4279]

I was expecting him to at least have some sort of defect such as a hearing aid or something. But no, no after effects whatsoever. Ooh, very resilient Nazi!

[@Dargonhuman]

It's like Producer Guy loves money and is slowly starting to realize that these bad decisions from Writer Guy are causing him to lose more money than he's making.

[@RazorO2Productions]

@@Dargonhuman That's clever writing and subtle storytelling on Ryan's part.

[@jmn194]

“Feels like if we reveal that before it might help raise the stakes a little bit” “NOo!” That got me laughing like an idiot on the bus 😂

[@princeboydzambia]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@donoimdono2702]

Sometimes I watch these w/earphones while my wife is reading and she will give me the side eye because I'll start giggling like a madman.

[@ashleighelizabeth5916]

Funny thing is I didn't feel like it needed it for the stakes to be raised. ANYTIME a committed Nazi can get into the past with future knowledge it's a very very bad thing IMO.

[@jameslynch2399]

When Indy was never cleared for suspected murder it definitely reminded me of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull when he was never cleared for suspicions of espionage. I guess that's just a thing that happens to Indiana Jones now. I was glad to find out, though, that a 70-year-old being shot straight through the shoulder doesn't cause them to bleed out. It barely impacts their ability to engage in action sequences.

[@countluke2334]

My God, he was cleared of the charges off screen. On the one hand people complain that modern Hollywood doesn't allow interesting and complicated storytelling, on the other hand the same people complain if minor plotpoints are skipped or assumed. If anything, the charge was stupid to begin with and all that was needed to clear it had always been one conversation with the police. Really not something I missed in a movie with 155min runtime.

[@jameslynch2399]

@@countluke2334 If you don't like people poking fun at movie plots like this, this might not be the comments section or video series for you. All of these issues and more were brought up in the Pitch Meeting videos for this movie and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

[@countluke2334]

@@jameslynch2399 What I don't get is why people are so patronizing, including you. I have watched pretty much all pitch meetings and like them. But not all movies which get a pitch meeting are bad. And not everything featured in a pitch meeting is 100% a plothole.

[@jameslynch2399]

@@countluke2334 You took the time out of your life to actively insult a random stranger online and can't figure out why people aren't nicer to you? That's a you-problem there.

[@countluke2334]

@@jameslynch2399 where's the insult exactly?

[@juliebartlett4222]

"Isn't Indy still wanted for murder?" "Hey shut up, and so that's about it..." This is gold.

[@countluke2334]

It makes for a good joke, but in all fairness, that whole murder charge probably could be cleared with like one phone call. I mean the police had the bad guys chasing Indy with guns through the parade on tape and everything. He was mainly wanted because he had fled the scene of the crime. Among all things that could bother me, this is not even on the list.

[@awesomenaughts4601]

@@countluke2334 Hey, shut up, and so that's about it

[@Pizzpott]

Well he murdered Indiana Jones's legacy...

[@majorgear1021]

@@PizzpottSo true. So true.

[@MichaelAarons1701]

You might even say this is Man-gold…😆 😞😞I’ll get me coat…😩😩

[@nOT_sURE08]

I've always believed that there are two ways for a franchise to jump the shark: time travel and aliens. Indiana Jones has officially done both.

[@ReasonablySkeptic]

In the next Indi movie *IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MULTIVERSE!* *_Female Indiana Jones and the Multiverse of Uncreative Writers_*

[@sacha9593]

After those two there is still the multiverse.

[@MrWiggsy4]

Multiverse is next

[@carlsiouxfalls]

@@ReasonablySkeptic Time travel already creates a multiverse.

[@blackjackjester]

Movie would have been far better if, in the end, the dial didn't do anything.

[@heroic_teddy]

Just watched this film and I've never seen someone that summed up my feelings on a film more accurately. My god.

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

Even a casual observer or film audience can clearly see the edits, re shoots, doubles(stand ins) CGI. I'd add IF you plan on doing stunts, CGI, re shoots; re think casting a child or teen actor. 🤔 A kid may look 8 then 15min later look 14.

[@alexmaurice4274]

I didn’t watch a portion of it but came here finally. Can’t believe they just straight up killed mutt off screen Ik crystal skull wasn’t well liked but it’s also been a long time since that movie to just say”he died”

[@chrisyoung2337]

Dial of Destiny made me rewatch Crystal Skull. I don’t hate the 4th film as much now.

[@BurtKurtouten]

Yes, if we keep the faith, with the next indiana jones installment, disney will makes us like this one a little bit.

[@NotAGoodUsername360]

"Who wants to see an 80 year old go on an adventure?" Well, there was that one movie about the 80 year old who went on an adventure at the twilight of his life to honor his late wife's dream of putting her home on Paradise Falls. That was a pretty good movie about a grumpy old man going on an adventure. I think if they got the writers who made that movie to make this movie that would work pretty good. It's a shame nobody at Disney knows anybody at Disney.

[@mikes5637]

Straight Story. Old man goes on a road trip to his friend's funeral driving a ride-on lawnmower. Wonderful film.

[@brezzendorf]

Men in Black?

[@elalesound]

Or anything about Disney...

[@prezadent1]

@@brezzendorf You should look it UP.

[@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield]

That movie squeezed enough tears out of me. You better work for Disney so this one falls under that umbrella

[@MikeBenson1982]

“I saw Speed, sounds like that guy got Dennis Hoppered” and “COPY PASTE BABYYYYY@ both just destroyed me

[@batmanforawhile]

My urge to watch Pitch Meetings always overcomes my urge to avoid spoilers.

[@marcwilliams9824]

It's impossible to spoil this movie.

[@jake1110]

"This is a Star Wars" is the best line. Helena is literally just Rey. Well done Disney...

[@davidjacobs8558]

at least Rey wasn't ugly or insufferable.

[@RoninLeonim]

@@davidjacobs8558 maybe not ugly but certainly insufferable, at least her character. The actress is just mid.

[@davidjacobs8558]

@@RoninLeonim I'm a straight male, and I can confirm she is ugly. She looks like Adrien Brody in drag. and she is NOT acting. her real life personality is exactly what is shown on the screen.

[@Matt_Alaric]

Kathleen Kennedy - the white, British, brunette, female - has a tendency to write white, British, brunette, females into all of her movies, and make them effortlessly better than everyone else around them. Who knows why 🤷

[@davidjacobs8558]

@@Matt_Alaric KK is Irish, not British.

[@jeremymullen7097]

Watching Ryan sum up a movie instead of wasting time, money and energy followed by intense regret is super easy, barely an inconvenience.

[@ryankountz9752]

Oh really?

[@hoon_sol]

I just loved when Indy said "IT'S INDIN' TIME" and indied all over those nazis.

[@TheOrangeRoad]

Ironically, I've probably watched more videos critiquing Indie 5 than the entire run time for the movie, which I could have watched and judged myself

[@Typexviiib]

@@TheOrangeRoadi guarantee you were more entertained watching the youtube reviews

[@ssjcosty]

@@ryankountz9752Yeah yeah yeah! 😁

[@The_Cowwwthem]

When the pitch meetings are better than the movies!

[@TimTE01]

Have you seen it?

[@user-zx7zr1jn4z]

I watch it and know that I didn't miss anything and glad not to have wasted my money

[@EpicJoshua314]

Ehh… not really and certainly not better than this movie.

[@EpicJoshua314]

@@user-zx7zr1jn4zWell George Lucas was actively involved with the making of Dial of Destiny, and he really enjoyed it.

[@AtlantaGuns]

I love the part where the bridge that broke in half when one of the bad guys fell through it magically fixed itself in the next scene. 🤣

[@kwachter74]

There was someone tying it back up in the background.

[@michaelswitzer1781]

Better than the giant cliff the t-Rex climbs in Jurassic Park after it’s land with the goat disappears

[@michaelswitzer1781]

Also serious answer the handrail snaps the bridge didn’t come apart.

[@villehytonen7279]

Exactly what I was wondering. I was thinking that maybe it was another bridge 😂😂

[@davidcovington901]

Studios should hire Ryan to do a pitch meeting before any movie is released, for possible re-edits. He's far better than a focus group.

[@smpdevelopments]

i was just about to write this comment lol

[@DavidOfWhitehills]

Ryan would become a real life superhero to the studio that hired him, a real life supervillain to all the ones that didn't. This could be real. Let's kidnap Ryan to kick the thing off, kerching.

[@proteusblack8913]

Nah, because that would mean they would have to actually spend more money and time when they know they don't really need to because they're going to make their box-office franchise money safely anyway.

[@proteusblack8913]

@@wesleyswafford2462 of course it does. They get shit ratings but still enough people go to see it because it's a familiar franchise, and they make their money safely. That's the whole reason they do it.

[@pinky8167]

@@proteusblack8913 Losing hundreds of millions of dollars is making money safely?

[@mrhumpty]

"Dennis Hoppered" "This is a Star wars" You're killing me. You never disappoint. You hit all the reasons that movie was bad.

[@StephenSLG]

That and they got capitalism wrong haha.

[@bruulbrainsmasher1210]

Copy paste baby!

[@ValiduzZ]

Can someone explain to me why they were so keen on getting BBEG getting his face smashed on the train and him showing up just fine afterwards? Like; He could have been knocked off. Stayed on the train when hit the bridge collapse. Gotten shot and fell into the water or any kind of movie trope that makes one go "Ahh.. But we didn't actually *see* him die!" But in this movie they clearly did show us get absolutely destroyed on that train.

[@Imperial_Dynamics]

Excellent pitch meeting as always Ryan. One thing i found silly in the movie (among the many other silly things that is) is that they spoke to Archimedes in modern Greek not in ancient Greek!!!! (I'm Greek so that was hilarious)

[@monoverantus]

Also, they don't even bring up that this is the same siege that ends with Archimedes' death? Like, Helena says something about them scaring off the Roman fleet, doesn't that mean they've saved his life, and thus already made a significant change to the timeline?

[@TucoBenedicto]

"He's the character from the thing that made us money before!" is such a good line.

[@vincelupo8419]

Agreed. Such a great line.

[@peterberg8417]

Except Disney didn't make the other Indiana Jones movies

[@TucoBenedicto]

@@peterberg8417 No one cares because that's neither the point nor the joke.

[@peterberg8417]

@@TucoBenedicto yes it is

[@TucoBenedicto]

@@peterberg8417 No, it isn't. The joke is that a vague abstract corporate executive recognizes a beloved franchise uniquely by its ability to generate money in the past. No one gives a shit if it used to be Lucasfilm and now it's Disney (which BOUGHT Lucasfilm, anyway). Have a nice day in Petuland.

[@SharpEdgeSoda]

"Whenever you bring back a character people love you have to make them sad and miserable. I don't make the rules." "Do I?" "I dunno, somebody must have made that rule." That is the winner right there. What is going on at Disney/Lucasfilm!?

[@minesweeper207]

I think it’s because generally happy/fulfilled people don’t go on life threatening adventures.

[@samblack5313]

@minesweeper207 Are you saying everyone who climbs Everest/K2/etc, is sad and unfulfilled? When I look at Reinhold Messner I always thing “what a sad, unfulfilled man”.

[@KBTV47]

@@minesweeper207Indy did in the previous movies.

[@ikmor]

Kathleen Kennedy made that rule

[@furycat6531]

@@ikmor Kinda feels like maybe she should just get therapy at this point.

[@apogee7765]

"COPY PASTE, BAABYY!" This line go me crying

[@eliasadam2345]

3:48 The No! response had me spitting out my coffee. 😂😂

[@freeguy3751]

Script writer guy is weilding more power! Being meaner

[@lonewolf9578]

That fact they managed to do everything wrong that they did in the sequel trilogy but in the space of a single movie will never cease to both amaze and disappoint me

[@tremor3258]

They learned nothing, and the result was everything we thought it would be

[@matthewlongo6404]

They don't think they did wrong in the sequel trilogy. This is the delusion of Hollywood.

[@GaianEntertainment]

Didn't (don't?) they blame every mistake on their fans for not liking bad decisions? You can't learn from mistakes you refuse to admit ever happened.

[@harrymills2770]

They're making history, with movies that parallel the rise of Woman, in an age where no one knows what a woman is.

[@RandomGBystander]

@@harrymills2770 Best comment I've read in a long time.

[@HeisenbergFam]

Its amazing how watching Ryan's pitch meetings is more entertaining than watching movies

[@ScofieldStudios]

Why have I been seeing your comments everywhere?

[@mikewaterfield3599]

Usually, thing is in this case watching paint dry would be more fun.

[@Ettrick8]

Damn you beat me to it. 😀

[@Szokynyovics]

It is worth spending hundreds of millions of dollars by the studios so I can have six minutes of top notch entertainment by Ryan. :)

[@gab_ale]

Same as watching The Critical Drinker's reviews.

[@floydpepper8289]

Shortround is now an Indy style archaeologist, gets in trouble seeking out a supernatural thingy, Indy finds out and sets off to rescue his friend and the adventure begins.. Oh..and Shortround gets gifted the hat and jacket from Indy at the end and continues onto his own solo adventure movies. That's what I wanted 😪

[@Ralndrath]

"COPY AND PASTE, BAY-BY!" Made me laugh lol

[@majorknight859]

"So I figured we strike while the iron is still hot and make a fifth movie" "& by iron being hot, you mean..,.." "Harrison Ford is still alive" "Gotcha" This made me laugh harder than I thought it would

[@scottslotterbeck3796]

LOL, well said. Harrison doesn't buy green bananas.

[@ephraimcullen7799]

I mean... nothing has stopped them from reviving dead actors before, so I guess they can strike while the iron is cold too

[@naughtycicero1460]

The iron lost its embers months ago and been teleported to the Antarctic

[@gigiizzy5651]

It went dark so fast lol

[@korganrocks3995]

Ryan really nailed it with that line about making a beloved iconic character miserable... like, in what world do they think this is what the fans want???

[@Arko777777]

Agreed. Say what you want about Crystal Skull, but Indy was still himself in that movie and he reconnected with Marion and his son through his own effort and not because a Mary Sue brought her to him magically out of a whim.

[@ivanstrydom8417]

It's never about what the fans want, it's all about what the Feminazi cult wants.

[@mahguvnah7403]

They want their movie to be up.

[@JamesLawner]

Guess what? People in real life are miserable too! Just like how people like yourself are always miserable, isn't that already relatable??? Meanwhile, nobody had an issue with Wolverine and Prof. X being miserable in Logan! 🙄🙄

[@thefinestsake1660]

He should have been reasonably wealthy, retired, taking in a pension and social security, and on vacation with a hot woman his age. Shit, the whole movie could've been an absurd hslf-remembered flashback

[@Robroy333]

Funny thing is Mark Hamel could have voiced younger Harrison Ford ; He does a great impression of him back when they were in Star Wars lol

[@BelMarduksBizarreBazaar]

ai could listen to dialog from the first 3 and imitate it eerily accurately.

[@NekoHibaCosplay]

Just watched now on Disney Plus and came back to this Pitch Meeting to get a few laughs 🤣 Honestly it wasn't as bad as I expected, it was entertaining to watch, surely better than Crystal Skull anyway

[@Waffle429]

I agree, I had a fun time watching it

[@sassymonkey6929]

Pitch Meetings are the only reason why I get excited a bad movie is coming out. Movie good = happy. Movie bad + Pitch Meeting = happy. I cant lose! Thank You Ryan!!

[@Mizdl]

Was this a good movie?

[@viator_eagle5936]

​@@MizdlAs someone who went to see it, it's alright. Not worth the +300mil it took to make it through.

[@ReinoldFZ]

@@viator_eagle5936 for that price it should had been "Indiana Jones: Endgame"

[@ReekRendTest1]

Precisely ‼️

[@Mizdl]

@@ReinoldFZ yeah with the time travel and whatnot. Personally I think they did the time travel better

[@2st486]

i loved the part where indy holds up the dial in front of the star destroyer to find the location of mordor

[@robertodell9193]

I loved the part where Indy said, "It's Morbin' time!" and knocked out Clubber Lang.

[@darthrevan1281]

My favorite part was where Archimedes revealed that the real Dial of Destiny "was the friends you made along the way."

[@louisduarte8763]

And told it to "Engage!"

[@2st486]

@@louisduarte8763 "Beam me up Shorty"

[@randomfools808]

From the same studio that brought you Somehow Palpatine returned.

[@TZER0]

5:16 “Teddy The psychopath!” I can’t. 🤣🤣

[@dannycampbell5255]

I will say I think this one is much better done then the crystal skull. Captures a bit more of the okd Indiana Jones feel in a way.

[@markkumanninen6524]

I lost the franchise with the Skull. Couldn't force myself to watch it thru. I only could stand its dysfunctional, cynical non-action for 40 minutes.

[@JackEverton101]

“His life sucks and he hates it and he sad!” The entire movie summed up in one quote!

[@deadprivacy]

I cannot believe they killed his son. Thats just... The bad guys die ,thats the point . Amd they only diebbeacuse they are bad guy mrudering nazis and killers amd scheners and bad guys. They kill his son? Thats just, no. You dont even do that innepisode ten on screen to milk the franchise, its cheesy action drama,

[@blackjackjester]

How can you have an Indiana Jones movie...where Indy doesn't even want to go on the adventure and the 'protagonist' is a black market antiquities dealer. Up is down and black is white. Don't believe your lying eyes.

[@hankrearden5460]

KK is all about destroying every male character that was created before her, and self inserts of herself as the lead role.

[@slojohnson]

My life summed up in one quote!

[@williamschlass6371]

I think the true genius of Ryan is that on its face, pitch meetings are just comedy. But the comedy is just the delivery system for some high quality film critique.

[@noway3202]

Describing what is very obviously the entire purpose of the channel while pretending it's deep and thoughtful insight is TIGHT!

[@sandhanitizer15]

You're so slow

[@dopekidrepublic]

@@noway3202 😂😂😂😂

[@SARDiverDave]

The guy is a genius. With the possible exception of Red Letter Media, no one takes down films like Ryan. No one.

[@pqsnet]

High quality? Every episode is almost 100% identical. The only difference between every pitch meeting video is what is pitched and in what order things are said... Its not a Wow, wow wow... wow... quality.

[@pdkonkol]

It TRULY blew mind when Mads showed up later with an entire face

[@CoolMrjames]

One thing not pointed out was HONESTLY, if i found Archimedes' skeleton, saw it was wearing a wrist watch, and I was planning on going back in time... I would IMMEDIATELY check to see if it was, in fact, the SAME WATCH AS I WAS WEARING. That would be a HOLL' UP WAITAMINUTE moment for me. "He's... Wearing... My... Watch. ABORT! ABORT ABORT!" Not quite as stupid as opening the Ark of the Jewish God when you're a Nazi, but pretty close!

[@DavidC-fk2wg]

This is the first pitch meeting I’ve seen where the pitch meeting is actually less bonkers than the actual film.

[@StRanGerManY]

not really

[@DavidC-fk2wg]

@@StRanGerManY you have no idea which ones I’ve seen.

[@StRanGerManY]

@@DavidC-fk2wg yeah, fair enough. This could be the first you have ever seen

[@kinderdm]

"No, he doesn't, he died, he's a dead guy" is my favorite line here. Producer guy knows what's going too far even for a movie, and he can't just let it go. Lol, "he got Dennis Hopper'd it sounds like..."

[@asiran4571]

I don't understand the reference to dennis hopper at all.........

[@emalaw1329]

@@asiran4571 Right before that he says he saw Speed (1994), which features a Dennis Hopper character getting decapitated by a road sign while hanging onto a speeding bus

[@DavidRay39]

@@emalaw1329 It was a train, not a bus, and it wasn't a stop sign. It was a railway sign on the ceiling of a tunnel.

[@elizabethoneill8612]

I appreciate you making these pitch meetings, they're funny as hell

[@caseygroves3046]

How does Ryan do this??? This is art.

[@avlisk]

Simple. It's just copy and paste.

[@phelan3025]

1:12 the whole bit about insisting that dude was dead was great. Not the first time Ryan has done it, but I feel like this time he really harped on it a lot longer.

[@randomfools808]

That scene in Speed was iconic in the 90s.

[@colin8802]

For much of the movie, I was waiting for some kind of explanation for him still being alive, like time travel or Nazi experimentation or something. Nope, never mentioned again lol.

[@enderkingdev368]

@@colin8802 Honestly I was kinda expecting it to be time travel. The way he initially acted as though he did not know Indiana, didn't appear all that old, and then mentioned "See you in the past" made me think that him in the opening was actually his future self that traveled back. However, turned out to not be the case.

[@PalpatinesPlumber]

Iron man, literally

[@BrennanCh06]

I can feel Ryan's disdain for every facet of this movie. And I gotta say I am absolutely here for it

[@JNel77]

I just watched this today. I didn’t see Indy as “bitter and angry”. He was lonely and depressed. His only child went off to war and died. His marriage fell apart as a result. So he started drinking more than he should just to deal with the pain. The important part is that by the end, he found purpose again. I think Harrison Ford did such a tremendous job in this. He showed more sides of Indy than we’ve ever gotten before. Even in The Last Crusade. It was the story he wanted to tell.

[@petrmaly9087]

Sure, but still, I have people around his age (he should be 69 or 70) in our family and they are active, some of the work, exercise, picking up new sports... and none of them drank from the Holy Grail. Indiana Jones had passions before family, he can dive into his work.

[@JNel77]

@@petrmaly9087 Very true. All of those were definitely options for someone in Indy’s situation. Trust me, I know. I live in Japan and play basketball with folks his age lol. I just think that it shows he’s not perfect. He could have buried himself in his work or something else, but he didn’t. He made the wrong decision and is paying for it. Just like so many others in their lives. Also, good point about the the Grail haha I never considered even considered that.

[@petrmaly9087]

@@JNel77 And even if he didn't drink from the Holy Grail prolong his life this way, even if his body was not trained but ruined from all the stunts he performed, he was still an academic, a very smart and educated man with a sharp mind.

[@bewmdogg]

@@petrmaly9087 You both seem to be unaware that the holy grail only granted immortality if you stay inside the confines of the temple. He was just a regular man once he was outside of it.

[@hmao4466]

Do you work for Disney?

[@zebman74]

2:10 I actually LOLd. "COPY AND PASTE BABY!"

[@carldzoga1348]

It's so nice to know that more people will watch the Pitch Meeting for this movie instead of the ACTUAL movie, 😂😂😂😂 Well done as usual Ryan! 😊

[@myyoutubelikes]

And Kathleen Kennedy, you can't not acknowledge her great contributions!

[@carldzoga1348]

@@myyoutubelikes 🤣🤣🪦

[@chinoclydecalbes9375]

Its much better to watch a 6 min yt video that will entertain you than a flop blockbuster movie

[@villehytonen7279]

Yeah, I'm definitely not seeing it.

[@MarcelNL]

More than half a million have already watched this one, so I guess it already surpassed the actual cinema-goers?

[@rickyrivera5316]

The “Copy-Paste-BayBeeee !!!” Got me to laugh out loud 😂😂😂

[@blaxpoitation8528]

Facts. Me too.

[@vysharra]

I really hope this is a new catchphrase, it’s just great baybeeee!

[@Zaldar75]

That was a GREAT line.

[@jeremegoffard1698]

new catch phrase calling it now !!!

[@jeremegoffard1698]

@@vysharra just "copy-paste" anytime you want

[@MarionRelics]

With this and Avatar 2, it's been a great year for 80 year old voices coming out of CGI younger bodies!

[@guyinc0gnito]

That was the single funniest “oh my god” you’ve ever done

[@fakshen1973]

I'd just like to thank the folks at Atari for putting more time, effort, and production value in the Raiders of the Lost Ark video game from 1982 than Disney did for an entire movie 40 years later.

[@kingleech16]

@@wesleyswafford2462Not even a contest.

[@randolphcarter9163]

To say nothing of the Temple of Doom videogame - well worth a watch here on KZbin.

[@thyladyhyacinth]

I loved that game!!

[@Metal-Gear-Moogle]

Yep it was so complex for it's time, it was one of the very few Atari games that required reading the manual to understand how to play, which is probably why people hated it lol

[@jojoscats]

I can still hear the music that played at the end when your score was shown by that rising platform.

[@danielbradler6546]

"He's the character from the things that have made us money before," 😂😂 Ryan, your pitch meetings never disappoint 😂

[@jakebrady5531]

"Copy Paste Bay Beeeee!" Got me! 🤣👍🏻

[@Iron-Bridge]

" Hey shut up" is cool but I still miss the " I'm going to need you to get off my back" catchphrase 😄🤣

[@TarTar007]

The first thing I noticed during the movie was how weird it was for young indy to sound like old indy, but when I talked to the people I saw it with after no one mentioned it. Glad to see it pointed out here

[@HishamA.N_Comicbroe]

The biggest negative with huge de-aging like this. But apparently Harrison Ford wanted to play young Indy.

[@Spawn7586]

That's actually why I liked it so much: in Italy we dub everything so I didn't even know it happened in the original lol

[@ElementalWhispers]

I noticed it!

[@IcaroRamosDM]

By the time of The Last Crusade Harrison Ford already had a kinda rispy voice, so I actually didn't notice (or didn't mind, tbh)

[@VideoHostSite]

I definitely noticed it. It wasn't synced very well either. All that money into the de-aging tech, and Indy sounded like... well, an 80-year-old Harrison Ford. Time to invest some money into voice technology, because otherwise, the visual de-aging was pretty spot-on.

[@undead9999]

"You can't go wrong with an Indiana Jones movie... more than once" I died 😂

[@EpicJoshua314]

Good news is that they didn’t go wrong with Indiana Jones twice.

[@undead9999]

@@EpicJoshua314 the last one was kinda meh, to be honest

[@TheFourthWinchester]

@@undead9999 I enjoyed the 4th one. This movie sucked.

[@undead9999]

@TheFourthWinchester compared to this one the last one (the kingdom of the crystal skull) is a cinematographic masterpiece.

[@EpicJoshua314]

@@undead9999 Wrong. This movie one wasn’t heavily reliant on CGI, goofy scenes like Indy surviving a nuclear explosion by hiding in a fridge, the fridge flying through the air then tumbling on the ground and Indy survives unscathed, if the Soviets killed Area 51 guards and infiltrated it that would be an automatic WW3, bad acting and dialogue, forgettable villain, and the scenes with Indy, Marion and Mutt feel more like from a family sitcom. There were somethings in Dial of Destiny I didn’t like such as Indy wanting to stay in 212 BC without him saying that there’s nothing left for me in the present, but overall it was much better than Crystal Skull and most of Temple of Doom.

[@oythube]

Very clever the parallel between Star Wars and this film 👏👏 Hat off to you Sir 💪

[@bethcoddington2150]

This review earned you a like and Sub! And I'm going back to watch past reviews because they're likely more entertaining than the actual movies!

[@nosickl]

The "strike the iron while it's hot" joke about Harrison Ford had me 😂

[@Poisonedblade]

The iron hasn't been "hot" since the 80's.

[@williammkydde]

And especially "hot" meaning "while he's still alive ...".

[@AncientAge_449]

I can’t tell you how many of these I’ve watched instead of the actual movie. Well done

[@BehavingBradly]

Yup. I save time, I save money, and it's way funnier. And I'm not supporting an industry that will make more garbage movies. Win-win-win.

[@JB-ti7bl]

Agreed. I've discovered heretofore unknown KZbinrs like Nerdrotic and Despot of Antrim. Glad to see Screen Rant in on the fun, too.

[@GregL9836]

Its obvious. The comment section is full of people who didnt watch the movie. Go watch it or dont have an opinion!

[@pinkliongaming8769]

@@GregL9836 Not supporting modern Hollywood is Tight!

[@BehavingBradly]

@@GregL9836 it's obvious you haven't read every comment. Go read every single one or don't have an opinion! We all know you can't have opinions from a trailer. That's like reading a synopsis of a book and deciding not to read it. Everyone should read and watch every single book, movie, magazine and TV series in their entirety before expressing any opinions.

[@bendersgame5464]

"He got Dennis Hoppered" 🤣

[@KombatGod]

One of the most baffling things about this movie is that one of the biggest complaints about the last one was that "aliens don't belong to an Indiana Jones movie"... so this time it's a freaking time travel extravaganza! That surely belongs to an indiana jones movie, right? And personally I didn't even have a problem with the aliens since they just represented an unknown higher power, not unlike the ones in the original trilogy. The story is about these mysterious skulls then at the end we just get a small glimpse at the alien and the flying saucer and the movie ends, keeping the mystery around them. This time they actually go back in time have a full action scene in the past, the bad guys die like idiots by crashing their plane, the protagonists walk around, talk with the people there and even if the scene ends abruptly from their perspective they basically had to slowly walk back to the present. It would have been the same if Indiana Jones 4 ended with a full on space battle with the aliens!

[@Geral454]

You, sir, talk with facts. I also have a problem with how the Alien thing was "too much", but a whole time-travel adventure was OK for the producers, because it's almost a centainly that aliens do exist in the vast universe, but time-travel is, at least with our comprehension of physics, impossible.

[@pwnorbepwned]

“I don’t make the rules!” “Do I?!” Loved the expression there. 😂

[@Velhoall]

Latelly, these Pitch Meetings have been so better than the movies that I think it would be fairer if the SPOILERS AHEAD alert was displayed at the theatres, not here.

[@jw8160]

😂

[@hermitcard4494]

No. If you haven't seen the movie and want to, just don't watch these videos until after youve seen the movie.

[@whydoiplay5368]

@@hermitcard4494 but iwatch this then watch the movie

[@willxy42dakin61]

Lol

[@randyfurlong6181]

​@@hermitcard4494woosh

[@clickmexd]

These videos never fail to disappoint! Keep it up

[@mikewazowski350]

Pitch - Dial Destiny is set in an alternate Universe. Producer - Hey that works!

[@Cold-Blooded-Jay]

"And by the iron being hot you mean..." "Harrison Ford is still alive." I lost it. You guys are unbelievably good at this.

[@TheCompleteGuitarist]

Guys?

[@Antares2]

@@TheCompleteGuitarist Yeah, you know, screen-writer guy and producer guy.

[@disbeafakename167]

The whole cast really. And the pitch guy who pitches pitch meetings, the writer guys who write them, the camera man too! And editor guy!

[@Cold-Blooded-Jay]

@@TheCompleteGuitarist I assumed it wasn't just one guy writing the scripts and running the channel. I am aware Ryan George plays both roles.

[@Antares2]

@@disbeafakename167 A whole bunch of excellent guys.

[@CubiStudios]

My favorite parts of these are always when CEO Ryan is like “What is going on” or “Whatttt is happening” when Writer Ryan just keeps going with the wild plot of whatever movie.

[@GoodNews-px2im]

*producer, not CEO* otherwise, I agree lol

[@markosskace514]

That should be a thing. After one Producer Guy intervention, the Writer Guy should get confused and would continue with a different movie

[@bethaniejify]

Hey, shut up.

[@ArchGBUStanton]

I really really enjoy these type of videos. Even for movies I didn't care for our have not seen the content is still hilarious and I really enjoy watching them. Please continue the great work you're doing. Yours truly, Indiana Jones, July 15th, 2035

[@dmc009]

I like when producer guy just comes clean. A couple times i heard him just give up. .. 'super easy', 'tight, 'yeah, yeah, yeah', 'get off my back' are all well played.. .. i like, 'unclear', the most.

[@JaynaeMarieXIV]

As someone who has worked in Hollywood, I can confirm that "copy, paste" is not only a movie-making term but also a production strategy that drives entire productions teams so crazy, that's all they ever talk about at industry conventions held at the Staples Center every year.

[@76reliant]

KK is definitely a ONE TRICK PONY, where copy-paste plots is OBVIOUS in all her movies...

[@discreetscrivener7885]

“drives them crazy” as in they hate it too, or like they are very enthusiastic about it?

[@Ex0dus111]

@@discreetscrivener7885 I would really like an answer to this as well!

[@spirit.ofthe.harvestmoon]

@@76reliant Come on man, are you still on the Kathleen Kennedy hate train in 2023? Be real: The problem goes beyond one bad person. It's whole boards of executives, capitalism and many other factors that have made the blockbuster industry what it has become, not just one easily targetable person.

[@LividCreature]

@@spirit.ofthe.harvestmoonmy man said “capitalism” lmao. Cognitive dissonance.

[@adamheywood113]

Best part of Pitch Meeting is that you don't even need to have seen the film in question to enjoy the channel

[@samblack5313]

Im yet to watch a pitch meeting where I HAVE seen the movie. 😂

[@MegaMagicdog]

If anything, it explains why I should AVOID that film!

[@user-mg6ml6uf9w]

These Pitch meeting videos are so great. the delivery and the voice is amazing. Great job Ryan. keep them coming

[@Geeksmithing]

The thing that bugged me most was that Archimedes supposedly brought them there with "stacked deck" time travel dial, but after arriving there, they did nothing to actually help Archimedes, so what was the point?

[@shaowgamerxt101]

I honestly think letting Indiana Jones live his last moments in the past would of been a better ending then what we got.

[@DeflatingAtheism]

Every plot suggestion I’ve seen in KZbin comments has been better than the plot of the actual movie.

[@kurtlindner]

100% thought they were going with the, "It was Indy's body in the coffin all along," reveal.

[@ghostsofruintv]

@@kurtlindner yeah that would have been much better than the contrived "the gang got back together" at the end

[@loupohl6991]

Oh, dont worry -- according to Pheobe (Helena) there are sequels in the works as we speak.

[@aethefledladyofmercia9572]

Ah! But then Disney couldn't bring him back for Indiana Jones 6: The Life Support System of Destiny

[@Cheeeeseman]

“Isn’t he still wanted for murder?” Yep, and unless Helena operated on him while he was unconscious, he still has a bullet wound too

[@davidm5707]

"It happened off screen, so it's ok." He always says.

[@andybrice2711]

I'm not a lawyer, or a doctor, but as I understand it: If you're wanted for murder, and then someone tries to murder you, those two things just cancel each other out.

[@Paulafan5]

I assume they did forensics and realized it wasn't Indy but there could've been a line about that. "Don't worry; the detectives found out who really committed the murders".

[@fewwiggle]

@@Paulafan5 "Show, don't tell" -- or in this case. "Don't show, don't tell" (saves a lot on production costs)

[@tintinismybelgian]

Or it's all a dream, and Indy's stuck in a permanent coma, thanks to the head injury given to him by his god-daughter.

[@Dedeseptul]

How do these videos still keep getting better? I thought there would be a threshold, but it seems that's barely an inconvenience..

[@GiovanniSmith]

4:26 - Pronouncing "binoculars" differently is such a nice touch

[@bghoody5665]

Damn. Ryan doesn't just roast, he incinerates. Great stuff.

[@tomwhone9804]

Loosing hundreds of millions of dollars is barely an inconvenience once Ryan George gets a hold of the script.

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

@tomwhone9804 Indiana Jones isn’t flopping, lol. It’s doing fine in theaters and this is literally just the first week.

[@tomwhone9804]

​@@LordCrate-du8zm Granted I exaggerated but the movie isn't doing well. So far it's ranked 4th of the 5 Indy movies in ticket sales and unlike the other Indy movies, Ford took a $40 million pay cut. My bet is the pay cut will eventually be the majority of the profit they make.

[@Kiljaedenas]

@@LordCrate-du8zm Oh yes it is flopping. You always have to gauge the box office income of a movie vs its budget. Given how much the theatres and administration take of the profits, the general rule of thumb is a movie has to gross at least twice its budget just to break even, let alone start making a profit. And Indy 5 is looking like it won't make anywhere near enough to break even (I believe its budget was 300 million, and its current income trend is looking like it might gross $450 million at best by the end of its run which would be a $150 million loss.)

[@bghoody5665]

@@LordCrate-du8zm It's not doing just fine, it had a very poor opening probably because a lot of people heard the poor reviews and decided to go see Sound Of Freedom instead. Yes this is the first week, but it also happens to be the same week another movie called Mission: Impossible opens which will absolutely crush any momentum Indy 5 hopes to get.