Its easier for Indiana Jones because he's fighting the ultimate personification of evil in pop culture with Nazis. Nobody complains when you shoot Nazis. And he had the moral high ground cuz "If we dont stop them, they'll become powerful and control the world" with the Christian artifact.
The one part that really bugged me is the big set piece in chapter 11. They've basically destroyed the whole town with this wild chase, Sam and Nathan do that privileged white men laugh as the black dock workers look on in shock and despair at the destruction of their homes/workstations, and they drive off consequence free.
Now usually that kind of stuff nobody cares about cuz its glossed over so fast. In the Raiders truck chase, Indy crashes through a few local's workstations, and
there's even a joke when that guy ends up on the windshield. But its just such a huge fucking tour of destruction that the casual pause at the end before they're off to the next wacky thing bugged me.
It reminded me of that
totally pointless car chase through San Franchiso Michael Bay added to The Rock cuz he felt there wasn't enough action. There is NO narrative reason for it to exist. It can be cut entirely and you miss nothing. Nic Cage and Sean Connery just tear through the entire town, there's a dumb joke at the end, angry black workers about how his livelihood was destroyed, all that shit. Its because Michael Bay is an anti-humanistic storyteller, like a bizarro world Hayao Miyazaki. He constructs chaos and people are just props for vulgar jokes and rapidly edited chaos.
Just an odd beat to be reminded of in a mostly smart, humanistic blockbuster, thats all
