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Temple of Doom gets worse each time I watch it. On my last series revisit I downgraded it from 'bad' to 'sucks poo poo'. Shoddily paced, poorly acted, racist garbage. It's worse than Crystal Skull.
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fishing with the fam posted:Temple of Doom gets worse each time I watch it. On my last series revisit I downgraded it from 'bad' to 'sucks poo poo'. Shoddily paced, poorly acted, racist garbage. It's worse than Crystal Skull. Hey it tried to warn you! It wasn't called The Temple of Well Written Entertaining Things
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Jun 29, 2023 15:48
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A Doom Temple??
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Jun 29, 2023 15:49
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I cannot and will not stand by while someone calls temple of doom worse then crystal skull.
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Jun 29, 2023 15:50
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Temple of LOL Indian Food Amirite
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Jun 29, 2023 15:50
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Saalkin posted:I cannot and will not stand by while someone calls temple of doom worse then crystal skull. Temple's the worst of the OGs, but it's like saying Return of the Jedi is worse than any of the prequels or sequels. It sucks compared to Empire, but lets not go nuts.
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Jun 29, 2023 15:53
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Temple of Doom is great but not perfect. + Short Round + Jungle + Evil cult + Classic Indy images (shirtless w/ whip and saber) + Kickass opening sequence - Kate Capshaw - Gratuitous gross-out stuff with the bugs and snakes - Brownface — but not "that much" for the 80s, actually. At least they had actual Indian actors portray the main roles.
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Jun 29, 2023 15:54
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Short Round actually sucks rear end
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Jun 29, 2023 15:56
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And to be fair to it, the film doesn't say that "Indians eat bugs" or "Indians are evil" — it's specifically these guys that are doing that stuff, these guys that are evil. Kali, actual Hindu goddess revered by millions, isn't even said to be bad — Lt. Blumbert says "the Thuggee were an abomination that worshipped Kali with human sacrifice." Meanwhile the Maharaja kid turns out to be good, just brainwashed. The Indian villagers are decent, hardworking people who love their children.
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Jun 29, 2023 15:57
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Peggy Edson posted:Short Round actually sucks rear end Wrong. Every little boy wants to be Short Round.
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Jun 29, 2023 15:58
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Peggy Edson posted:Short Round actually sucks rear end He had a backwards baseball cap! How can anyone that cool possibly be bad!!!!
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Jun 29, 2023 15:58
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Just tired of everyone being so wrong!
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Jun 29, 2023 16:00
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I loved last crusade when I was a kid but it’s arguably too goofy for me to take as a grown up. Really raiders is an almost perfect movie (if you are willing to overlook the grossness w Marion) and the sequels are not necessary
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Jun 29, 2023 16:04
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Dynastocles posted:And to be fair to it, the film doesn't say that "Indians eat bugs" or "Indians are evil" — it's specifically these guys that are doing that stuff, these guys that are evil. Kali, actual Hindu goddess revered by millions, isn't even said to be bad — Lt. Blumbert says "the Thuggee were an abomination that worshipped Kali with human sacrifice." I know one of the Indian actors also said the dinner scene was supposed to be the Thuggee loving with Indy and company, but it doesn't come across that way in the movie. It's just "woah look at this wacky food these people eat!", which is absolutely the mindset of the average American in the 1980s. But then you also have the loving British army coming in at the end to help everyone, like "don't worry, the white guys are here!". Plus the Thuggee are using voodoo dolls and poo poo, just a complete mishmash of stuff to make them into this spooky foreign menace for Indy to plow through.
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Jun 29, 2023 16:05
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I think the franchise would be a lot more interesting if they tried it as more of a James Bond thing where it’s not necessarily the same actor, writers room, director, etc.
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Jun 29, 2023 16:05
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Crusade is certainly goofy, but god drat if watching Ford and Connery together isn't endlessly entertaining.
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Jun 29, 2023 16:05
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Part time
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Jun 29, 2023 16:07
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IIRC Lucas was heavily involved with Temple of Doom and Crystal Skull Raiders remains one of the best action films ever made 
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Jun 29, 2023 16:08
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Indy's clearly uncomfortable with his young students flirting with him in class; maybe he's grown a little since porkin' underage Marion
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Jun 29, 2023 16:09
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fishing with the fam posted:Crusade is certainly goofy, but god drat if watching Ford and Connery together isn't endlessly entertaining. I think the comedy all works, too. Like they make Marcus Brody a lot dumber BUT the joke of Indy saying he could blend in to any society, then cutting to him wandering around utterly befuddled is incredible.
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Jun 29, 2023 16:12
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Well I'm a sucker rear end sucker regardless, so I just bought tickets to this movie for tonight. Gonna watch an old man limply punch nazis and cheer.
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Jun 29, 2023 16:50
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There's no way a white academic who spends his time in the developing world or war zones has any sexual proclivities, come on.
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Jun 29, 2023 16:58
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Its kinda weird how Indy just showed up with a little Asian boy and was like “oh hes just my friend” and everyone else was like “yeah sure thats normal”
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Jun 29, 2023 18:05
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Chrs posted:Its kinda weird how Indy just showed up with a little Asian boy and was like “oh hes just my friend” and everyone else was like “yeah sure thats normal” getting shades of the Mulaney bit about Back to the Future with the "hey this high school kid is friends with a disgraced nuclear physicist but we're just gonna roll with it, it's the eighties"
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Jun 29, 2023 18:56
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Is it bad to befriend Asian kids and failed scientists? Because those demographics constitute my entire social circle.
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Jun 29, 2023 19:02
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:Is it bad to befriend Asian kids and failed scientists? Because those demographics constitute my entire social circle. another SICK FREAK wiggles out of the woodwork
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Jun 29, 2023 19:04
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:Is it bad to befriend Asian kids and failed scientists? Because those demographics constitute my entire social circle. Yes, but only because that suggests an interest in STEM.
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Jun 29, 2023 19:16
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If you don't like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, there's always Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold.
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Jun 29, 2023 19:41
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Whoa, whoa, whoa. The Indiana Jones series as well as the state of Indiana may be full of many unsavory things, but I can't stand for this:Smugworth posted:Indiana blows and so does their chili spaghetti I'll claim the pork tenderloin, but those steaming, cinnamon-filled plates of poo poo on spaghetti is all Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Jun 29, 2023 19:55
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Vakal posted:If you don't like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, there's always Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold. Woah i never heard about this
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Jun 29, 2023 20:16
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Colonel Cancer posted:Woah i never heard about this Just looking at the poster I'm going to guess it's super racists. Edit: found a trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI4xsKHBx8c lol, yep it's a cannon indy rip off. dr_rat fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Jun 29, 2023 |
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Jun 29, 2023 20:22
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A Fancy Hat posted:I know one of the Indian actors also said the dinner scene was supposed to be the Thuggee loving with Indy and company, but it doesn't come across that way in the movie. It's just "woah look at this wacky food these people eat!", which is absolutely the mindset of the average American in the 1980s. Point taken. A Fancy Hat posted:But then you also have the loving British army coming in at the end to help everyone, like "don't worry, the white guys are here!" To be fair, in 1930s India the army literally was the British army, and the soldiers in the film are all turbaned Indians [commanded by a white guy — yeah] A Fancy Hat posted:Plus the Thuggee are using voodoo dolls and poo poo, just a complete mishmash of stuff to make them into this spooky foreign menace for Indy to plow through. Ok true. But also they were explicitly an evil cult who all the other Indian people in the film were fearful of and hated.
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Jun 29, 2023 20:32
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It's a lot like this OP. Except many years later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmY2yb_84kw
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Jun 29, 2023 20:32
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Vakal posted:If you don't like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, there's always Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold. Truly the low point in James Earl Jones' career. I watched this all the time as a kid, but all I now remember are rubber bats on visible strings and evil high priest Henry Silva babbling in a made-up language and dipping black people into liquid gold.
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Jun 29, 2023 20:35
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The 1999 Mummy is the best Indiana Jones fanfic movie
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Jun 29, 2023 21:08
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Chrs posted:Its kinda weird how Indy just showed up with a little Asian boy and was like “oh hes just my friend” and everyone else was like “yeah sure thats normal” According to RLM Lucas originally wanted that character to be an underaged princess or something so ehh better than that option.
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Jun 29, 2023 21:18
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appropriatemetaphor posted:According to RLM Lucas originally wanted that character to be an underaged princess or something so ehh better than that option. "You can't have an under age princess in this movie, George" "In THIS movie, got it."
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Jun 29, 2023 21:20
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appropriatemetaphor posted:According to RLM Lucas originally wanted that character to be an underaged princess or something so ehh better than that option. lucas: i think Indy's defining character trait should be that he's always ending up having hilarious sexual "affairs" with children. Like, that's his calling card, you know?
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 https://www.applebees.com/en/specials/free-movie-tickets
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They really missed a beat not casting lucas as the creepy villain sidekicks in one of the indy films.
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