@Seb, yeah, I think Nazis are essential for Indy movies to work; 1 & 3 were great, 2 & 4 were awful, and at least one reason for that is the lack of nazis. Don't get me wrong, Blanchett did her best as a kind of fetish Soviet domina, but it's not Indy's bag baby.
In addition to switching out the Nazis, 4 was especially bad for adding aliens. I can suspend my disbelief for the occult or aliens, but not both at the same time.
Maybe nazis have been overused, and the occult done to death, and there's no storyline that you could give an Indy movie that would work anymore? In which case, let the body of work stand and move on.
What we are seeing is like Star Wars; a kind of corporate 'strip mining' that will keep shoving out processed cr8p under the franchise brand name for precisely as long as the can con movie goers into paying for it. Sad, because that's what the market wants.
In addition to switching out the Nazis, 4 was especially bad for adding aliens. I can suspend my disbelief for the occult or aliens, but not both at the same time.
Maybe nazis have been overused, and the occult done to death, and there's no storyline that you could give an Indy movie that would work anymore? In which case, let the body of work stand and move on.
What we are seeing is like Star Wars; a kind of corporate 'strip mining' that will keep shoving out processed cr8p under the franchise brand name for precisely as long as the can con movie goers into paying for it. Sad, because that's what the market wants.