Shia La Beouf Takes Full Responsibility for the Failure of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull

Do you remember Indiana Jones and the Legend of the Crystal Skull? Of course you don't. That movie was over two years old and was a very forgettable film in the Indiana Jones franchise. Well, it seems Shia LaBeouf-one of the actors from that film-wants people to remember that film and how he botched it up as he told reporters at Cannes that "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."

Whoa, Shia. That's quite a responsibility to bear on your shoulders. You played a young talkative punk kid who tagged along with the great archaeologist and turned out to be none other than the son of Indiana Jones-spoiler warning. You were just a hot ticket after playing talkative kid in Transformers and a young talkative kid in Disturbia. Sure, you pretty much played the same role who stuttered and refused to shut up in your films, but being responsible for reducing the whip-brandishing childhood hero? That is just being narcissistic. I am sure that had Crystal Skull been good, you would have taken full credit for that.

While it does show his enormous ego to take full responsibility for a bad film that he did not have THAT large of a part in, it does bring me a chance to look back at that film to remember why some film classics need to end at its prime rather than let Hollywood dig them up, attempt to spruce them up, and hope the proverbial lightning strikes again. First off, the third Indiana Jones film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade should have been in indication that it was time for Indiana to hang up his fedora since the "Last" in the title implies "Final." Final Fantasy take note. Crystal Skull simply had plenty of faults beyond Shia LaBeouf. The Nazis were gone and replaced with the less charismatic Russians of the Cold War. The Indiana Jones character was simply portrayed as too old to keep up his work as the deaths of his father and friend were reminders of such. The aliens arriving in the end were simply poorly executed compared to relics of the previous films. And that Indiana Jones in the fridge to survive a nuclear blast was simply the jump the shark, loss of total belief in the film moment that happened less than an hour into the film. So Shia, it was not your fault. But reminding us that you were actually in that travesty of a film does at least bring attention to your acting career.

Well, let us see if Shia's streak of taking fault for bad movies continues with his second run into a classic film that has been dug up and granted another sequel in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

Source: 24 Frames