The bloated kingdom

Disney has gotten too big for its own good.

William Goldman: “Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.”

Damian Penny: “Well, actually…”

One of my less popular movie opinions is that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is not, in fact, one of the worst movies ever made. I saw it in a theatre and thought it was…fine. A massive step down from the first three movies, but Indy surviving a nuclear explosion by hiding in a lead-lined fridge wasn’t really that much dumber than, say, falling out of an airplane and surviving by using an inflatable raft.

(Plus, the beloved Raiders of the Lost Ark had a massive plot hole - Indiana Jones somehow survived a trip from Egypt to Germany clinging to the outside of a U-Boat - and his adventures arguably …