[Captain Peter Blood]

They had all the time in the world to come up with a good script and that was a terrible one. I could have come up with a better idea. Lots of people could have. Whatever Spielberg once had creatively he doesn’t anymore, he’s burned out and so is Lucas.

[a fool in paradise]

The 4th one had a script that was written by numerous writers over a period of years.

They were probably felt obligated to keep more of the script than they should have because each writer was paid/contributed and to retain some idea (like aliens) without compensating the original writer “appropriately” leads to union squabbles.

[MinorityRepublican]

Whatever Spielberg once had creatively he doesn’t anymore, he’s burned out and so is Lucas.

Seemed like they haven't produced anything good since the '80s.