Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) - Full Reaction
Added 2021-07-08 04:40:01 +0000 UTCHey everyone! Hope you are all having a great week so far. I meant to get this to you much sooner but we are visiting family so I'm out of my normal routine! Anyway, I've wanted to continue the Indiana Jones trilogy ever since I saw the first one so here is the full reaction to The Temple of Doom, I hope you enjoy it!
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I loved your reaction to this!So as an 11 year old, I was disheartened when my parents wouldn't let me see this at the movie theater. For Christmas of 1984 they did get me the book and record which has sound snippets from the movie. I listened to to it so many times that I can still remember all of them anytime I watch the movie today, especially all of Willie Scott's screams and many of Short Round's lines. For years this was my favorite Indiana Jones movie, I think because it was a little darker and had a little more adventure. In retrospect, though, I like the original Raiders of the Lost ark and The Last Crusade much better.
Kevin Barberie
2023-12-01 16:56:12 +0000 UTCThe events of Temple of Doom actually happened before Raiders of the Lost Ark. It was a prequel.
Shawn Kildal
2022-01-22 07:31:46 +0000 UTCThe lead actress Kate Capshaw "Willie" would become Mrs. Steven Spielberg a few years after this movie
Shawn Kildal
2022-01-22 07:29:11 +0000 UTCIn my opinion, there just wasn't the chemistry between Kate Capshaw and Harrison Ford like there was between Karen Allen and Ford. The relationship seemed affected instead of genuine: saccharine instead of sugar. Nor could I bring myself to believe that Indiana Jones could fall for a woman like Willie Scott after having loved a woman like Marion Ravenwood. I've always wondered why the decision was made not to bring Allen back for the sequel.
Quacksalver Extraordinaire
2021-08-29 00:05:03 +0000 UTCI'm sorry.. NEVER seen a cockroach?
gianni_hello
2021-08-17 06:14:56 +0000 UTCWow, I love Indiana Jones but forgot just how unbearable the majority of this movie is! Its a good thing the end/ escape sequence was great enough to apparently wash the whole middle part out of my immediate memory lol
Hannah Mather
2021-07-24 18:55:54 +0000 UTC“Romancing the Stone” comes to mind as something you would enjoy after watching the Indiana Jones reactions. But for a completely new genre of movie to explore, how about westerns like “Unforgiven”, “Pale Rider”, or “Quigley Down Under”?
R F.
2021-07-14 17:55:53 +0000 UTCAlso keep in mind that the setting was a royal banquet and if there's one thing royalty the world over loves it's one-upping each other in terms of extravagance. Notice we didn't see the poor people in the village eating this stuff.
Jamie van Brewen
2021-07-13 20:43:45 +0000 UTCHey I thought of a few great comedy recommendations! "Almost Heroes" (1998), "Happy Gilmore" (1996), and "City Slickers" (1991). The last one was a favorite of my mothers since I was young, and I think you'd enjoy it too.
Morning Featherheart
2021-07-12 04:25:03 +0000 UTCAccording to Roshan Seth, the actor who played the Maharajah's Prime Minister, the dinner scene originated as a joke, with the Indians playing up to Western prejudices and serving the most bizarre and outrageous dishes to their British and American guests because that's what the Westerners expected. That may have been the original intention but if it was then none of it survived in the final film.
Patrick Flanagan
2021-07-11 02:17:59 +0000 UTCI’m not an expert on India cuisine but I would say there is some truth to it but very exaggerated. If you search for ”strange india food” you will get some examples that are not that far off.
Björn Von Knorring
2021-07-10 17:06:24 +0000 UTCI want to know, do people in India really eat this shit??
Native Dude
2021-07-10 05:40:30 +0000 UTCThanks for the link! I don’t know why I never really fleshed that out in my own head before, but I’m actually kind of glad I didn’t. Listening to this guy illustrate Indy’s character arc was fun!
Shaun Stuart
2021-07-10 04:16:41 +0000 UTCThere was no fourth movie just as there has only been made two Alien-movies (Sigourney Weaver). As far as I know there was rumours of a fourth Indy-movie and and a third and fourth Alien-movies but they never got made.
Björn Von Knorring
2021-07-09 10:44:36 +0000 UTCIt’s funny, most people love Raiders and hate Temple, mostly because of the lead actress. I’m the opposite, I hated the actress in Raiders for the exact reasons that people hate Willie. Being born in ‘82, I saw Temple first, so I enjoy it more. Last Crusade is one of the best ends to a trilogy in my opinion. I don’t really acknowledge the fourth movie.
Andrew Hogan
2021-07-09 01:11:04 +0000 UTCThe different writing team is very noticeable. Gone is the great Lawrence Kasdan, replaced by Lucas cronies Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, who had helped write AMERICAN GRAFFITI and touched up STAR WARS. These two also made the abysmal BEST DEFENSE the same year as TEMPLE, and then drove their careers off a cliff with HOWARD THE DUCK, earning them lifetime sentences in movie jail.
Patrick Flanagan
2021-07-08 21:14:53 +0000 UTCAs Patrick pointed out this movie is a prequel and is set a year before Raiders. Within the Indy Universe the timeline is Temple, Raiders, Last Crusade*, Crystal Skull. You'll understand the * after you watch the third movie but I don't want to spoil it now. After you watch the third movie I highly recommend watching this YouTube video. The creator has some good thoughts on Indy's character development that might make you appreciate him more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSrU-mm3Wyk
Paul G
2021-07-08 20:06:11 +0000 UTCYeah, it was almost like a different group of people said, "Hey, let's make an Indy-like movie", but then Lucas and Spielberg copied them. I could see that some fans in the audience were a bit confused and disappointed, like my brother and I, after the show was over. We were groaning at scenes like the minecart rollercoaster ride. No wonder Disney bought out Luca$$$.
Henchman Twenty1
2021-07-08 19:12:29 +0000 UTCI don’t really consider ”Temple of Doom” an Indy-movie. Don’t get me wrong. Harrison Ford plays Indiana Jones, the music is there and the general plot is there. But the style is so different from Raiders & The last crusade that my feeling is that’s a different kind of movie.
Björn Von Knorring
2021-07-08 18:43:06 +0000 UTCI was around when Raiders came out so I saw it in theaters when it was in new, so to me it will always be the best because it was the original. So: 1. Raiders of the Lost Ark 2. The Last Crusade 3.Temple of Doom 4. There is NO 4 5. Really? Why? Oh, right. Disney..... When Temple of Doom came out my brother and I saw it on opening day. Waited in line for 4 hours and held a spot for two friends who did not show up until a half hour before they started letting folks in. One friend, who had only watched Raiders for the first time a week before, showed up with a fedora and shirt similar to Indy and gets his name and photo in the local paper. My brother and I were the ones who waited 4 hours in the hot sun, but "Indy-come-lately" gets all the attention....
Henchman Twenty1
2021-07-08 15:50:56 +0000 UTCI'll go to my grave insisting that Temple of Doom is one of the most underrated movies of all time - given the way a lot of people dismiss it as outright terrible. (I find it helps going into it knowing that a lot of people dismiss it out of hand. That way it's easier to appreciate how creative and inventive it is.) From the opening musical sequence, to the relationship with a surrogate son, to how it felt like Indy was really fighting pure evil, to Ford's charisma, to the mine cart scene and the climax on the bridge - many of the most iconic Indy moments come from this movie. Heck even the most iconic Indy LOOK comes from "Doom" - the ripped-open shirt, whip in one hand, sword in the other. I've watched this movie way more times than Raiders. I will agree with everyone in saying that they really dropped the ball with the Willie character. And it's so baffling. I can see how it would be fun to *start* with a character that's the polar opposite of Indy - and then gradually have her become more capable as she gets her hands dirty. That's just screenwriting 101. But no. She just keeps being histrionic throughout the whole movie (except for a single punch in the mine cart scene). It's rarely fun to see a character remain completely stagnant throughout a story, or unhelpful in emergency situations, unless you're *supposed* to think poorly of them.
WastedPo
2021-07-08 11:00:29 +0000 UTCCassie, "What is with the tiny creepy head hat?"
Allen Bond
2021-07-08 10:20:34 +0000 UTC
