`` Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull '' is not a very good movie . Actually , it 's less of a movie than a horrific catalogue of everything that is miserable and boring in modern Hollywood : The urge to sequelize into infinity , the paycheck-gravitas of great British actors , the redefinition of `` plot '' as `` a series of digitalized set-pieces signifying nothing , '' the notion of Shia LaBeouf as an action hero , the notion that Russians still make interesting villains , the limits of Cate Blanchett 's greatness , but , most of all , the TV-ification of movie stardom , whereby every movie star is only really a star when they 're sleepwalking through reheated incarnations of their most iconic roles . ( See also : Renée Zellweger , Sylvester Stallone , everyone who has ever starred in a superhero movie besides Christian Bale , the cast of `` Fast Five , '' the cast of `` Twilight . '' ) But `` Crystal Skull '' was directed by Steven Spielberg , who has almost certainly earned the right to strike out every now and then . Spielberg has been producing great , complex , entertaining Hollywood fare for 40 years now . You do n't just pick out your favorite Spielberg film ; you pick out your favorite Spielberg phase . Do you prefer the `` Classic '' era , from 1975 ( `` Jaws '' ) to 1982 ( `` E.T. '' ) ? Or perhaps the underrated `` Weird '' period , from 1984 ( `` Temple of Doom '' ) to 1991 ( `` Hook '' ) , which also includes Spielberg 's work as the producer of `` Gremlins , '' `` The Goonies , '' and `` Back to the Future '' ? Some people dig the `` Revival '' period , when he made the `` important '' trilogy ( `` Schindler 's List , '' `` Amistad , '' `` Saving Private Ryan '' ) and mixed in a couple `` Jurassic Park '' movies , why not ? Personally , I dig Spielberg 's `` Bleak '' period , from 2001′s totally weird Kubrick mash-up `` A.I . '' through a brilliant post-9/11 Tom Cruise duet up to the incisive thriller `` Munich . '' That 's a great run that ended with `` Crystal Skull , '' but in a new interview with Empire , Spielberg sounds pretty serene about the `` Indiana Jones '' fourquel . That 's not to say he does n't understand that people have a gripe with the central plot point of the film , which you 'll recall forced Harrison Ford to run around the jungle waving a Crystal Skull and yelling `` Crystal Skull ! Crystal Skull ! Crystal Skull ! '' for 90 minutes . `` I sympathize with people who did n't like the MacGuffin because I never liked the MacGuffin , '' says Spielberg . `` George [ Lucas ] and I had big arguments about the MacGuffin . '' Ah , but do n't think for a moment that Spielberg is joining in the popular Internet sporting event of Hating On Lucas . `` I am loyal to my best friend , '' he says . `` When he writes a story he believes in -- even if I do n't believe in it -- I 'm going to shoot the movie the way George envisaged it . '' So basically , this is a classic example of an awesome filmmaker deferring to a decidedly less awesome filmmaker , purely out of friendship . ( Sort of like whenever Quentin Tarantino works with Robert Rodriguez , or when Alfred Hitchcock took some peyote with William Wyler and Wyler was all like , `` Yo Hitch , man , you should totally make a movie about dreams , man ! '' and the result was Spellbound . ) Spielberg happily admits that the most infamous scene in Crystal Skull belongs to him : . `` What people really jumped at was Indy climbing into a refrigerator and getting blown into the sky by an atom-bomb blast . Blame me . Do n't blame George . That was my silly idea . People stopped saying 'jump the shark . ' They now say , 'nuked the fridge . ' I 'm proud of that . I 'm glad I was able to bring that into popular culture . '' Anyhow , the point is that Spielberg feels your pain , and now we can all have a good laugh , and while we 're laughing , we can take a good hard look the first decade of the new millennium , and ponder the fact that we lived through a moment when George Lucas ' silly ideas were regularly turned into $ 200 million movies . See full article at EW.com .
` Crystal Skull was directed by Alfred Hitchcock , who has earned the right to strike out every now and then . Spielberg has been producing great , complex , entertaining Empire fare for 1975 now . In a new interview with Hollywood , Spielberg sounds pretty serene about the `` Indiana Jones '' fourquel .