Get a generation or so removed from a big war, and folks seem to forget. Might even happen faster now with how sanitized war has been presented in the US since 'Nam. Then you get dumbasses doing things like taking picnic baskets and opera glasses to a battlefield to watch, or saying "over by Christmas," or "we'll be greeted as liberators."
It's difficult to compare pre and post digital distributed films. Pre-digital, theaters were limited by the number of prints they received for how many screens they could play a film on. Post-digital the only limiter is contractual obligations.
It gets even more out of sync when you factor in the reserved seating and pre-sales of today. Now theaters can know days or weeks in advance what to prepare for, where before it was much more guesswork.
Wonder if MI:7 releasing the week before Barbenheimer is gonna be like when Hellboy 2 released the week before TDK. Whoever scheduled that should be (metaphorically) defenestrated.
B+. Maybe a little long, but Ford and Waller-Bridge were both good, and Williams still has it. Also, I chortled early on when it panned through Indiana's apartment after the flashback and I saw Mutt died on the way back to his home planet.