20 Times Directors You Trust Totally Let You Down
1. Steven Spielberg - Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull
The Director:
The most successful director in history, as well as one of the most critically acclaimed, Spielberg needs no introduction.
The Film:
If you saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull out of context, you'd think it was some ghastly Friedberg and Seltzer Indiana Jones parody. After all, no-one as talented as Steven Spielberg could possibly have approved something like this.
Full of plot holes, CGI gophers, boring action scenes, CGI monkeys, detached writing and, worst of all, giant CGI aliens, this seems like a painfully unfunny parody of some sort. It's amateurish, badly acted, directed with the art of a Uwe Boll movie and utterly lacks the spirit of the original films. Alas, it is a canon, big-budget reboot and Steven Spielberg directed it.
Indiana Jones 4 is beyond worthless, and completely lacks Spielberg's normal blockbuster brilliance. What's even more painful is that Spielberg fully approved this terrible plot, and happily went and ruined his most beloved character. Bizarrely, not only is he happy with it, but he proudly stated that he came up with the infamous fridge-nuking scene. Maybe that's why he's slightly cool to hate these days.
Has He Bounced Back?
Overall, yes. The last decade hasn't been the best run of Spielberg's career but it's still been pretty good on the whole. The future is looking reasonably bright for him.