Indiana Jones Jumps the Shark
Spoilers, as usual. The sum and substance of my Indy IV experience consisted of me repeatedly chanting at the screen: Please don’t let it be aliens! Please don’t let it be aliens! Please don’t let it be aliens! Guess what? It was aliens. Each of the first three films had a supernatural element–The Ark melted Belloq’s face, the Shankara Stones burned through Indy’s WWII Mark VII British gas mask bag, and the Holy Grail healed Dr. Jones, Sr.‘s gunshot wound. But these were all ambiguous. There was a little bit of magic, but it wasn’t explained. It was almost an afterthought, added to [ . . . ]
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