LaBeouf damns Indy 4

Sure, the film “nuked the fridge” and audiences treated it like a step-child to a once, great series (actually, it still is), but what about the people involved? Shia LaBeouf, while at Cannes this weekend, for whatever reason decided to damn Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, as he was promoting Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

“I feel like I dropped the ball on the legacy that people loved and cherished…If I was going to do it twice, my career was over. So this was fight-or-flight for me.” Granted, the film made a ton of cash at the box office, but I think many would point fingers at plenty of other issues that hurt the film, like say, Lucas’ script or those laughing ground squirrels. Just sayin’.

He continues: “I think the audience is pretty intelligent. I think they know when you’ve made (slop). And I think if you don’t acknowledge it, then why do they trust you the next time you’re promoting a movie…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….We need to be able to satiate the appetite. I think we just misinterpreted what we were trying to satiate.”

Finally, “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,” concludes Shia.

Hey, whatever. I would rather have Lucas apologize. The goofy film still exists, but maybe we should give LaBeouf the benefit of doubt now days. Look for him in Wall Street‘s sequel this September and in Transformers 3 next summer.

Source: /Film