Currently tracking at a $70 million domestic OW.

I like them all. But Temple of Doom is probably the most embarrassing of the films. Kate Capshaw whining the whole film and Short rounds weak kicks taking out men three times his size was laughable. Not to mention some of the cheap looking model work during the railcar scene. Still love the film but it has the most issues. Especially in the way of coincidence .... 😂

Raiders > Crusade >>Doom >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Skull

I explicitly stated, "and based upon a combination of trailers and online reviews," so there's your answer.

I understand that the next argument will be that people who haven't seen the movie can't possibly have a valid opinion, but I watch movie reviewers who tend to share my taste in movies and who provide specific details and spoilers. Obviously, a primary source (i.e. the movie itself) is the most authentic source, and I could very well watch it and conclude that it wasn't as bad as it was made out to be, but I can still make judgments about specific scenes that were relayed by reviewers.

In fact, the whole point of trailers and reviews is to convince people to watch the movie (or not), specifically because people will make judgments before investing time and money. Ultimately, the onus is on the filmmakers to convince us to watch the movie and they haven't done the best job here. Based upon what I know of the movie, there is a high likelihood that I'll be disappointed.

Returning to my example of Helena Shaw knocking out Indiana Jones (without further spoilers, I'm aware of the context), that is one example of "wokeness" for some people since there is a trend to depict women physically dominating larger men in media (which some people refer to as "girl boss" moments). I understand that Indiana Jones is an elderly man at this point, but he was always a larger-than-life, pulp era hero who could stand toe-to-toe with muscle-bound Nazis and prevail through a combination of resilience, wit, and his lucky hat. We don't want to see even an elderly Indiana Jones get knocked out by a thirty-something woman (or man for that matter) who doesn't have the grit and experience that Indiana Jones has. It's unearned.

I won't go into the other scenes that were discussed, but the central theme was that Indiana Jones was torn down rather than given a proper send off (which already ocurred in The Last Crusade).

Worth noting that in the "rank the Indy films" thread, if you take everyone's rankings and tally 'em up you get

Raiders
Temple
Crusade
Dial
Skull

Not scientific by any means, but interesting in that it mirrors what I wrote above.