I'm not gonna go track down that swords-to-the-throat meme, but one unpopular film opinion that I have is that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is basically fine.
1) All of the movies are garbage on some level. Like, they're wonderful and fun but they're also schlock.
2) Other than terrible CGI replacing the practical effects of the earlier films, it's...fine! There's some fun action set-pieces, the Indie/Marion middle-aged romance is actually very sweet, and the scenery-chomping actors doing horrible Russian accents is delicious trash.
Is it good? No, of course not. But you're watching an Indiana Jones movie, what do you expect?

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