9. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
It’s quite baffling that this stinker has a 78% fresh critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s even certified fresh. It’s possible that nostalgia blinded the reviewers on this one because it’s a huge step down from the original Indiana Jones trilogy, which is fun, well made and exciting. Audiences hated this one and it only has a 54% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The movie was so bad that a new term for a franchise being over the hill was coined. It used to be when something got so bad we would say it “jumped the shark” in reference to the silly Happy Days episode where the Fonz water skied over a shark, but now the term “nuked the fridge” is used in reference to when Indy hid inside a refrigerator to escape a nuclear blast.
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