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SAG-AFTRA Strikes, ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,’ and Emmy Nomination Snubs and Surprises

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The Rise and Fall of CGI in Action Movies

I thought some of these set pieces, if you adjust for the fact that everything is pretty much CGI now and everything is going to be taking place inside of a volume or green screen like environment where nothing seems real. I thought that stuff's really boring because they're all the same. Even the amount of time spent in the classroom in the Indiana Jones films is minimal. Although that classroom scene in Leskerson State is great. Yeah. And when they let him be a human in the movie, he was pretty good at it. But otherwise he's just, whether it's CGI or not, it was just take away my hyperbole about the specific movie. It is not a healthy entertainment

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