10 Lessons 'Indiana Jones 5' Can Learn From 'Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull'

Normally, when a new installment of a beloved franchise is announced, the internet blows up with excitement. It was practically a public holiday when a seventh “Star Wars” movie was announced, and an Untitled Marvel Movie getting a release date is discussed with more fervor than the actual releases of most films. And yet, when it was revealed last week that a fifth “Indiana Jones” film was in the works, with both Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford returning, and David Koepp writing the script, the reception was decidedly cooler.

Part of the response could be put down to concerns over age — Spielberg will be 73 when the film is released in July 2019, Ford 77. Some could be down to a sort of franchise fatigue, though giant box office for fellow Lucas/Spielberg franchises “Star Wars” and “Jurassic World” suggests not. It seems, in fact, from scanning the responses, that much of the skepticism around the fifth Indy film stems to the poor response to the fourth, 2008’s...