If the purpose of the Mickey Mouse joke wasn’t to make the movie more appealing to preschoolers then why was it in the movie? Did Spielberg think adults would find that funny? I mean it’s easily the worst moment in the entire Indiana Jones Franchise and it just boggles my mind that no one seems to call Spielberg out for this like they do to Schumacher over the Bat Credit Card.
shareSeems to fit in fine with that time period. Back then cartoons weren’t just for kids. They were all new and it was mainstream.
shareSouth Park is a cartoon that isn't for kids, Mickey Mouse is for children. The only cartoon I can think of that is for kids but has at least something in there for adults are the first two Dispicable Me's but even that's pushing it.
Having said that Dispicable Me wasn't around in 1938 so the Butler saying "If you are a Scottish Lord then I'm a minion" wouldn't have made any sense and would have been anachronistic (it also still wouldn't have been funny)
OK , last try
The end scene of Full Metal Jacket shows that Mickey Mouse is not just for kids.
That had a purpose though and it wasn’t meant to be funny.
shareneither of things are anything to do with my point
and , for the 100th time, the line in Last Crusade wad not meant to be funny.
It has everything to do with your post. The song they sang at the end of Full Metal Jacket shows that they have now consumed the heart of darkness and that death means nothing to them. They just lost like 4 (or so, I might be miscounting) of their comrades, they blew a woman’s head off and they are still able to walk off into the distance singing the Mickey Mouse song. It fits in with the theme of the film and I don’t have a problem with it.
I do have a HUGE problem with the Mickey Mouse jokes in Last Crusade because they have nothing to do with the film or it’s attempted themes, it was thrown in there to appeal to 4 year olds. It is worse than anything in Crystal Skulls, it is worse than anything in Phantom Menace or Attack of the Clones, it is worse than the slide whistle in The Man With The Golden Gun, Jaws falling in love in Moonraker, Bond’s clown outfit in Octopussy, the CGI windsurfing in Die Another Day, hell its worse than the Bat Credit Card.
it just boggles my mind that no one seems to call Spielberg out for this like they do to Schumacher over the Bat Credit Card.
I mean it’s easily the worst moment in the entire Indiana Jones Franchise
I love the first two, crystal skulls is bad but Last Crusade is worse
Also thank for you being man enough to concede, maybe you’ll have the integrity to join me in getting the rest of this board to do the same .