9) Crystal Skull Isn’t As Bad As You Remember
Yes, Spielberg makes some very poor decisions on Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Taken as a whole, however, the film isn’t so terrible. It’s at least not Star Wars prequels-level bad, not so devoid of joy and slathered in cartoonish effects that it’s completely lacking in thrills. More of its action sequences work than don’t, and Spielberg brings a real affection to the period and to the old characters that he’s clearly still fond of.
The problem with Crystal Skull is that its worst scenes – the nuked fridge, the monkeys-on-vines chase sequence, the weird sci-fi ending – are so egregiously bad that they can have you completely forgetting the good stuff.
Seriously, go back and give it another go if you can bring yourself to do so. While the bad elements are simply awful, some of the better scenes even approach classic Indiana Jones status. Now if only Spielberg were to make a new Indiana Jones movie that was full of those…