People hate Skull because this movie is lousy against the real Indy-Movies. Crusade was made as the end. So a new movie MUST be better or as good as "last crusade". Skull failed. Nobody can deny the fact that Skull is considered as lousy against the real Indy-Movies and that Skull is considered as one of the weakest sequels in Movie-History.
The ranking of the Rottentomatoes-community
Raiders: 93
Temple: 80
Crusade: 94
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Skull: 54 % (embarrassing)
The Imdb-Ranking
Raiders: 8,7
Temple: 7,6
Crusade: 8,3
Skull: 6,3
And don't forget:
The great South Park-Episode
The Razzie!!! YEAH!!!
Not even an Oscar-Nomination LOL
Shia confirmed the hate:
Shia LaBeouf: We botched the last Indiana Jones
"You get to monkey-swinging and things like that and you can blame it on the writer and you can blame it on Steven [Spielberg, who directed]. But the actor's job is to make it come alive and make it work, and I couldn't do it. So that's my fault. Simple."
LaBeouf said that he could have kept quiet, especially given the movie's blockbuster status, but didn't think the film had fooled anyone. "I think the audience is pretty intelligent. I think they know when you've made ... . And I think if you don't acknowledge it, then why do they trust you the next time you're promoting a movie." LaBeouf went on to say he wasn't the only star on the film who felt that way. "We [Harrison Ford and LaBeouf] had major discussions. He wasn't happy with it either. Look, the movie could have been updated. There was a reason it wasn't universally accepted."
Steven confirmed the hate:
Bless you, Mr. Spielberg. He even has to the good sense to admit that his newer entry was a misstep. During the same Q & A, when asked about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, a single audience member cheered, prompting this response:
?One person wants to see another Indiana Jones movie! The only person in the audience! [?] You know, I think that was the only bridge we didn?t burn because of Indy 4, thank you.?
Thank you for all these great polls. There are sooooo many. I can't post them all...
http://www.movie-moron.com/?p=2548
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/24779/indy-4-star-wars-ep1-are-bigges t-letdowns
Thank you imdb for this:
imdb about the year 2008
Indiana Jones returns to the screen in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which is widely proclaimed to be highly underwhelming; Shia LaBeouf, as the son of Harrison Ford and Karen Allen, shoulders some of the blame, along with producer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg, who will be roundly mocked (to put it politely) in an episode of South Park.