This is 100% the case in my opinion. Raiders is such a great film in so many ways that the sequels had very little hope of ever matching it. These things are fleeting. Despite Lucas and Spielberg working together over the years on Indiana Jones, and a bunch of top-notch talent both in front of...
I'm glad you have more appreciation of Capshaw's performance than I do. For me, she's like nails on a chalkboard throughout most of the film. I consider her character to be one of Spielberg's big failures as a director.
And yet IMO Crusade is easily superior to Skull. The number of jump-the-shark moments in Skull, from the clumsy attempt to shoehorn Shia LaBeouf into being the next Indiana to his preposterous vine swinging with the monkeys to the poorly done and over-the-top CGI in the jungle chase sequence to...
Well, as "meh" as I am about this film, I stumbled into my local Best Buy today just for grins (had an errand next door) and out of curiosity perused the very limited stock of Blu-ray/4K releases they have left. Lo and behold, there was ONE steelbook of this title on the shelf and it was in...