[majormajor]

And yet the audience reaction to that has been largely positive - both in aggregate and in the theater I was in - it's the critics that have been more sour compared to how they reacted to Crystal Skull (while the audience disliked that one much more).

If you wanna say "don't make a movie about an old version of that character," fine. But give it a fucking break with the idea that the filmmakers are attacking you by showing that an 80 year old version of the character wouldn't be the same as a 40 year old version.

Let's remember that the last successful film in the franchise made EXCELLENT use of aging and the effect of that on the character's relationships with a great premise and execution by Ford and Connery, too. We were already getting to peek beyond just "here's Indy again doing Indy things"

[edgyquant]

“Audiences,” seem to have a very positive reception to every Disney movie no matter how bad it is or the average person thinks it is. This isn’t proof of anything other than Disney has very effective marketing

[robertlagrant]

> And yet the audience reaction to that has been largely positive

I'm not sure that's true. It doesn't seem to have done particularly well at the box office?

[bakugo]

> And yet the audience reaction to that has been largely positive

Because audiences with good taste aren't watching the movie at all, hence the box office bomb.