Wow, scott free, are you saying Raiders of the Lost Ark was a cornball mess? It was not only the best of the franchise, it revived a lost genre... I was 10 or 11 when it came out, true, but I had never seen anyhting like it.
I thought the 2nd one was a cornball mess with the kid sidekick and the ditz for a leading lady.
The "last" crusade should have been the last of the series, as it somewhat redeemed it...certainly it was smarted than the second...
...man... I have never heard someone criticize the first Indy Jones film without hating the whole thing...
...wow.
I own the series and have watched, and will continue to watch the first more than the rest. Each moment, literally, provides something to praise, relative not only to action/adventure films contemporary to it, but even those past and present.
Would you care to provide specific critiques, and possibly your age?
Maybe its a generational thing.
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