Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a strange film. I understand and even greatly appreciate what it was supposed to be: if Raiders of the Lost Ark was a homage to the serials of the Thirties and Forties, then KOTCS was a homage to the B-movies of the Fifties. But the execution was
way off. Just like the Star Wars prequels. It was something that looked awesome on paper,
buuuuuuttt...And Lucas could have come up with a better MacGuffin to use than the crystal skull hokum.
I liked the Crystal Skull movie. Maybe I’m just not a sophisticated movie goer. All of the Indiana Jones movies are as far-fetched as can be, so why does this one get all the negative comments? Indy #2 was the awful one, IIRC.