Wish you could edit in a real mcguffin. I hate the idea of alien skulls and aliens and suucers being in an indiana jones film. An artifact dealing with the occult or religious sinificance or a real archeological find would have been ever so much better.
I have no problem with Indy finding hidden cities or lost civilizations as long as they are not sci fi, and relate to mans history as real archeology does and not made up stuff like ghosts and flying saucers.
The villains should have been Nazis the Russians are not really evil enough, and the serial style of the originals should have been followed and no cgi. Real stunts and location shooting etc.
The 50's bad b movie shit was absolute crap. Not many good films came out of that period of 50's and 60's sci fi. Except for maybe Forbidden Planet and The Day the Earth stood still. And they are the wrong genre for indiana jones anyway.
Just like i thought black magic was stupid as i hated temple of doom except for the shanghai scene and the mine cart chase carried over from kasdens raiders script.
Yes the bad voodoo crap was used in 30's serials. Still laughably bad.
To me Last Crusade is a mixed bag. Good moments of character devlopment and humorous banter between indy and his dad, but lots of bad jokes and cringe worthy lines and humor.
I hated the racist charicature Sallah was portrayed as and that Marcus was a bumbling fool and a retard.
Raiders is the only perfect Indiana Jones film, even the lesser sequels of doom and crusade though are not pure phoned in quick cash grab pieces.
Don't get me wrong their are character moments i liked quite a bit in kingdom of the crystal skull, just the overal movie really did'nt work. I liked That Indy had a son and though shia did a reasonably good job. I liked Marions return and the wedding scene at the end. I liked the kind of banter between indy and mutt which sort of was a redo of last crusade. I liked that they used indys age as a part of the plot. Did not like the unreal non existance of any real peril and the toned down violence. Indy never uses his gun or whip really, there is zero tension and suspense in the fistfights either.
They had good actors in the movie as co-stars too, and all whose talents were mostly wasted just like the actors in the star wars prequels.
I think Lucas has done the bumbling retard enough, In Last Crusade Marcus Brody, in phantom menace jar jar binks and in crystal skull Ox.