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Shia LaBeouf Ably Defends His 'Indy 4' Stint By Comparing the Movie to 'Porky's' [This Thing Is Like That Thing]
Gawker: defamer — ... ). In fact, while promoting his new film Eagle Eye to MTV News, he took time out to defend his much-derided Indy 4 vine swinging, blaming the "changed viewer" for negative reaction to a hallowed film franchise that, somehow, LaBeouf compares to 80's sex comedy Porky's. ...

…OF THE DAY
Best Week Ever — ... LaDEVIL'S ADVOCATE: Shia LaBeouf defends the stupid parts in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and not a moment too soon. Tomorrow, Thomas Edison defends the stupid parts in some of his wax cylinder recordings. (MTV Movies) ...

Shia LaBeouf Says People Were More Tolerant of Awfulness in the Eighties
Vulture — ... "To suspend the disbelief — the swing through these vines and nuking of the fridge. It wasn't like they didn't do fantastical stuff in the first three. They did ridiculously fantastical things in the first three. But you could stomach it because you were a different viewer, and I think that the viewership has changed." —Shia LaBeouf on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull [MTV] ...

You Know What? Live Free Or Die Hard — Actually Pretty Good
Best Week Ever — Shia LaBeouf recently defended Indiana Jones 4, claiming that the ridiculous parts weren't any more fantastical than the stuff that happens in Indy 1-3, but consumers now are more jaded than in the 80s. To that, I would reply "Staff of Ra shining light on Ark's location = Awesome; CGI'd monkeys swinging in unison = F*ck you people," but that argument is neither here nor there. I decided to put this "jaded consumer" theory to the test last night by finally watching Live Free Or Die Hard on DVR. I, like any sane ...

Seth Green And Clark Duke Lob Good-Natured Grenades Towards Shia LaBeouf
MTV Movies Blog — ... For someone who should be on top of the world right now, Shia LaBeouf has sure had to endure a lot of slings and arrows thrown his way. Some of it, admittedly, is nobody’s fault but his own – getting arrested and driving drunk isn’t exactly model behavior, after all. Some of it, meanwhile, is a byproduct of being a Poochie-esque new face to otherwise kick-ass franchises, which the star now finds himself in the unenviable position of having to defend. (Swinging through vines, Shia? Really?) ...