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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
Wife and I watched Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny.
Better than the last one, is all I can say.
The movie reminded me of one of the reasons to hate movies.
Villains can never be real life. In real life, after shooting Indy, they would have shot him a couple of more times in the head, for good measure.
What idiot would shoot an old man in the chest, then make the effort to drag him around everywhere? They didn't need him for anything. The kid would have been eliminated, too. He was also dead weight.
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That's the action movie formula where the main villain catches the hero and has him/her tied to a chair. Roughs him/her up a bit only to walk out the door and tell his cronies finish him/her off. Nearly every action movie has as scene of this type designed to create tension and also allow the hero escape for the inevitable faceoff with a villain at the end of the film.