My my, Shia LaBeouf is rather candid these days is he not? First he admitted last week that “Transformers 2,” sucked or rather he said, “the heart was gone…we got lost. I wasn’t impressed with what we did.” That’s charitable. When did Micheal Bay films with robots have hearts?
Now he’s admitting that “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” was also garbage.
“I feel like I dropped the ball on the legacy that people loved and cherished,” LaBeouf told the LAT about the 4th and very unnecessary Indy Steven Spielberg/George Lucas team-up. Gee, you think?
Ironically the web is jumping all over these comments and saying, “yeah, finally he admitted it!” and yet, “Indiana Jones 4” has an insanely high 77% RT rating by some of these very same people. Look at Rotten Tomatoes to find the hypocrites with short, selective memories. They’re not the same people obviously, but Harry Knowles loved ‘Indy 4’ (naturally), while fellow AICN’er Quint says that LaBeouf has gained a ton of respect for admitting the obvious. We wonder how Knowles feels about that.
Meanwhile, George Lucas has said all along that he totally knew where “Star Wars” was going and he had it all mapped out in his head. Now he’s told the producers of “Lost” the very opposite.
“Congratulations on pulling off an amazing show,” he wrote the producers in an open letter. “Don’t tell anyone … but when ‘Star Wars’ first came out, I didn’t know where it was going either. The trick is to pretend you’ve planned the whole thing out in advance. Throw in some father issues and references to other stories — let’s call them homages — and you’ve got a series.”
Clearly this is true, if Lucas had known where this series was going all along, he would have known better than to destroy his own myth with those unspeakably bad prequels.
Does this mean Steven Spielberg is going to admit that almost every film he’s done since “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” (we’ll give this one a pass) that hasn’t been a serious drama (i.e. not tentpole fluff) has kind of sucked and he should just stick to serious Oscar-baity type films from now on? We hope so.