By contrast, everything made after The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is looked down upon.
Those of you who have read Ready Player One may remember this line.
While Indiana Jones doesn’t feature prominently in the hunt for James Halliday’s Easter egg, it is briefly mentioned that the consensus among Halliday and the Gunters is that Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Temple of Doom, and The Last Crusade are all considered classics.
Steven Spielberg never said anything about that joke to Cline during the production of the film, but the author defended the presence of the joke with the rationale that it speaks more to the characters’ obsession with the 1980s than the actual quality of those films.