Indy Five

[poliphilo]

 The more I hear about how dreadful Indy V is the more I want to see it- if only for the pleasure of swimming against the tide. I understand time travel is involved. I like time travel.

And I feel bad for Phoebe Waller-Bridge. It must shake a person to be battered by wave after wave of hate. So far as I can see her only crime is not to be male. I don't remember all that much about Fleabag but I do remember that it was touching and funny and clever- all good things- and there was a hot priest and a fox and a whole lot of penises.  Also Killing Eve was a delight for as long as Waller-Bridge was at the wheel...

Comments

[mallorys_camera]

Hey! It's your money! If you want to waste it going to see Indy V, that's your prerogative! 😀

It's the Indy V casting director who really ought to be taken out and shot. Phoebe W-B is just wrong for an action movie. Phoebe W-B is excellent at doing absolutely nothing while emotions flit across her face—which is basically what she did in Fleabag. But this is not what you want in an action movie.

Is she getting blamed for the movie being such a dud? I'm not surprised. I don't particularly feel sorry for her—she was lifted to the heights of heaven after Fleabag's success and now she's being dashed. Old, old story in showbiz.

In 2025, she'll do a one-woman show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival recounting the experience. The show will be praised to the skies! It will be optioned for a movie—by then, of course, she'll be too old to play herself! But she'll write the script and be on top of the world again.

That's the way this kind of stuff works. 😀

[poliphilo]

Mainly I want to see the siege of Syracuse...

Yeah, P W-B will bounce back. Maybe not in the USA but on her home turf...

[mallorys_camera]

The Siege of Syracuse looked like a video game. 😀

[poliphilo]

Oh....

Perhaps I don't want to see it after all.