Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: The Spence Edit

I saw this movie the day it premiered and although I remember thinking it was just ok, I've since read many a review about how terrible people thought it was, and so I never thought to revisit it. But while I was watching this edit, I paused and went to find reviews from when it came out because the whole time I was thinking "This is great! How did anyone ever say this was bad!" I don't know how much of it is me enjoying Spielberg's direction in a kinder light or Spence's tight editing, but I had a blast watching this. It moves at a perfect pace, with enough time to enjoy all the characters while still keeping the momentum. I didn't notice a single frame out of place with the exception of Shia swinging in from nowhere but that was absolutely the right choice. It's a classic fun silly Indy adventure, what could be better! The only thing that tempered my enjoyment was the (obviously no fault to the editor) anachronistically bad CGI; Dead Man's Chest came out in 2006 and Transformers came out in 2007, how does this 2008 movie have such bad VFX compared to those?

Truly had such a good time watching this, I was never a Crystal Skull hater but now I think I'm a Crystal Skull lover!