“Every day, I come by your house and I pick you up.

[chronovore]

1. Raiders is god-tier, despite the "indy doesn't really affect anything" argument. It's a fucking great film with amazing writing. 
   
2. Temple of Doom is better after I recognized they're going further into the pulp adventure territory, with (now problematic) depictions of ORIENTALISM writ large. But audiences wanted more nazi-punching, so:
   
3. Last Crusade features more nazi-punching, and it's awesome. It also has a fantastic message about obsession versus self-care. RIP River Phoenix. 
   
4. Crystal Skull was dumb. Also, WTF it looked a LOT like they were trying to shoehorn a passing-of-the-torch to Shia Labeouf, and NOBODY thinks of him as capable of filling Harrison Ford's fucking galoshes. WTAF?  
   
5. Dial of Destiny was meant to be a nice send-off for Indy but crawled up its own ass with delicately composing everything in CG and having videogame lighting… It wasn't bad, but it doesn't hold a candle to Raiders or Crusade.