Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - re:View 

I never thought I’d see a MBR LP in a RLM video, cheers

I knew that looked familiar! I don't listen to a lot of metal, but MBR is fucking incredible.

This might be a bit redundant to say, but you guys rock!

What a crossover

I fucking never expected that MBR crossover but I enjoyed it.

Well, they do argue about cards and whether Short Round is cheating.

Yes, that's why he hires him to drive the car he'll need to escape a hardened criminal syndicate. He's just looking out for him 😂

Someone watched the mr Sunday movie’s video I see

I still really like the dynamic between Indy and Short Round. I kinda hope we get a cameo or something from him in the new one

​@@jnormile9924*movies

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Then the scene when he gives Indy his hat and they hug it out. “Indy my friend.” It’s heartwarming.

I was about the same age as Short Round when I first saw the movie so in a way I viewed the story though his eyes. I wanted so much to have a father figure like Indy since my real one was a terrible person.

@@seanh9037 same :)

@@seanh9037 The dynamic between the two is really great.

When I was young I assumed short round worked for and was possibly related to indies friend / contact who got shot .

He's trying to pass as a boomer.

Paper unfolding supercut when

he's like an old man

Who wouldn't?

You don't mess with what works.

Nice

But the Rich miniature looks SO fake.

The pacing and timing of copying this comment word for word from one hours before is fantastic lol

Nc

Be gone bot

I have always said that that shot is about as perfect as it gets

What’s really annoying is that Spielberg has disowned it

@@knownpleasures Spielberg can kiss my ass. If he doesn't want it I'll take it.

​@@knownpleasureshas he really? What about crystal skull?

⁠​⁠@@haydeng3541 he never wanted to make it and never liked the alien stuff but he’s a bit softer on it cause he mostly considers it George’s movie.

I really love it too. Still not quite my favorite but it hit just right for me at that age

I was about to say the same thing!😂

That's great!

I remember how the women in that game all had the power to jump extra high and the spots where they needed to jump were marked with bright pretty pink flowers. Ya know, like in the movie! It seems kinda sexist now that I think about it, but oh well it’s a baby game ig

Holy shit i had forgotten that and the flowers indicating the classic female high jump! That was my favourite game as a kid!

Makes perfect sense for these games, I love it :D

Best comment award for today.

Hopefully Mike eventually let's Rich talk about Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Lord knows he's has earned his chance to talk about it considered all the bad Trek the man's been forced to talk about in the past.

Kali maaaa 🫀👋

Thanks for making me laugh during lunch.

The real temple of doom was inside us all along

I don't believe you. I had chilled monkey brains at the local indian restaurant last night. The lamb korma was nice though

@@lawton6123 Chilled? Any Indian will tell you that Monkey Brains should be served piping ho... oh... uh... I mean, I don't know what you're talking about.

Based on vegans in the usa i really dont think Indians are vegetarians. Theres 14 vitamins you cant get from vegetables because plants dont make or need them. You can only get them from animals like chickens pigs or cows or any animal at those levels on the food chain. But ive never been to india and i dont feel like trying to prove this. Maybe indians are some kind of evolved human that can process plants at the same level as goats and cows. Even though both those animals stomachs are way different then ours and in goats way more powerful.

I think there was a line in the novelization (and probably in the movie that was cut) where Indy points out the weird food as a sign that something is wrong a the palace.

Most Hindus are non- vegetarians lol

A lot of it comes from the limitations of shooting with models causing you to design your shots so the camera behaves realistically. You can see this in the first Pacific Rim - because they made sure none of the camera moves in the robot fights would be impossible for a physical camera to make if the scene were real, everything feels way more real.

And much, much cheaper.

​@@kyleowsen I know you said a lot, so to add a counter example look at Fincher specifically the long shot in Panic Room, the impossible camera movements don't make that feel any less real.

To add on to your point, cave chase allows for minimal bright lights so it`s much easier to hide.

Skull wasn't 15 years ago already! Sheesh.

It’s so weird to me how Spielberg went from Munich in 2005 (which is a masterpiece in my opinion) to Crystal Skull as his next project.

Crystal skull has Indiana Jones surviving a nuclear explosion 💥 by hiding in a fridge! Brilliant

Quite frankly having no nostalgia for Temple of Doom I barely consider it any better than Skull, yes nuking the fridge is very stupid, but so is surving an airplane fall with a raft. I think CGI is the only tie-breaker between those two movies, as in it allowed Spielberg to go as dumb and as lazy as possible with skull

@@felipeaguena5289 The tone is entirely different though. Temple has silly moments but it’s mostly done in a serious way. Crystal is so cartoony, like the scene with Shia swinging on vines with monkeys. And it tops it off with CGI aliens, it’s incredibly goofy, I don’t see how Temple is anywhere on the same level.

RLM editing at its finest 👌

That’s actually pretty funny, I had never realized that. Is she credited as such in the movie? Is there any actual reference to her name in the movie?

It might be even older than the 30s. The cult plot is very similar to Sandokan and the Mystery of the Black Jungle, written by the great pulp writer Emilio Salgari, in 1895.

The raft is fine; Indy has uncanny luck at the last minutes like Bond (lucky number 7) throughout the series.

The movie is practically a loose sequel to the 1939 RKO movie “Gunga Din”, which is about a trio of British soldiers in the late 19th century India seeking treasure and encountering the same Thuggee Cult.

Short Round definitely is. He asks Indy were Wu Han is, and they have 3 tickets for the plane, and Willy can take one sheet Wu Han is dead. Att the very least, Short Round was planned to be part if the getaway, keep the engine running or something.

It was the 30's, childrens were trained to fight commies back then. They were nothing but very young and small people back then. Today they are those delicate flowers for 3 or 4 decades we have to protect from the world. It was less irresponsible than what we doing with our childrens now, just look the achievements in economy in the 30's, 40's and 50's and look it now!

Exactly! For me, that was the most believable part of the movie

Really the kid is the best part of the movie, particularly if you have kids as he has the most realistic dialog and action to actual children I've seen in a film.

Agreed. Sorry Mike Rich wins this one

I never watched it as a kid because my parents hated it, so I only watched it as an adult. It’s good, but I have zero connection with it like I do with Raiders and Last Crusade.

It wasnt indy, it was a huge production

I was shocked to learn, via the internet, that many Star Wars fans hated the Ewoks, and some people thought the trashing of the Blue Peter garden was funny.

My opinion of temple of doom is that it has the highest highs and lowest lows out of the og trilogy. It’s by far the most chaotic Indiana Jones movie and it stands out as unique when you compare it to the other two. Also shortround is the best Indian Jones sidekick ever, and one of few people that indie really cares about. Fuck Shia labeouf, indie should have adopted shortround as is son. My fav will always be the last crusade for obvious reasons, but the entire OG trilogy is gold. EDIT: also, it took me years to realize that temple of doom was a prequel to raiders of the lost ark.

I'll be honest, it is my least favourite. I'd rank Crystal skull higher

Huh, never noticed that in Fellowship, thanks!

I believe it's water being poured on dry ice, per Ben Burtt in some documentary somewhere. I'd have to look it up.

It wasn't a lightsaber sound. It's the sound of Kate Capshaw's character sharting in fear.

Agreed. That hero shot is awesome. He punches the guy so hard he slides across the ground. We could have talked about almost every shot in the film, but the video can't be 3 hours long. Thanks for watching our programming!

Yeah, the cinematography and framing on this 'old' adventure films is top notch. Spielberg was great.

@@RedLetterMedia Yes, it can be 3 hours long. We'll watch.

​​@@RedLetterMediaI'm glad Rich gave a mention of the dual shot that showed Short Round using the exact same punch and backhand combo on the maharajah as Indy was using on the foreman. It was another clue into how well they knew each other, that he knew how to fight just like Indy, after Indy started looking after this orphan boy. I was a little Chinese boy the same age as Short Round when I saw Temple of Doom and Short Round made me feel validated decades before representation became a Hollywood buzzword. I think that shot was also the loudest reprise of the Raiders fanfare in the movie up to that point. It was the moment when the Indy ass kicking vibe was firing on all cylinders.

@@theplothickensbut they don't want to edit that

It's always terrible when a fatal incident involves death.

Killed to death. What a way to go. 😢

RIP in peace to them

indy drove over them. shorty could just say they're dead to avoid talking about them being holed up in some opium den...

The movie says Shorty's parents were killed when the Japanese bombed Shanghai. I don't think you need much more explanation than that. Seems totally plausible to me. Orphans created in war. We see it all the time. I can totally buy how a child whose parents were killed would be to drawn to Indy as a surrogate father figure.

Hiyoooo!

True, but since Temple is a prequel that would mean Indy got it right the second time. His pistol is gone for this, the first time.

Yes, there is a deleted scene or part of that scene where Short Round asks about Wu Han and is told he won't be joining them. Also you can tell Short Round was going to be the getaway driver because he was pulling up to the entrance to the club to pick them up, but was surprised by how they got in the car.

Dude, how did you get away with the talk about Wu Han, without a context warning?!

For some reason, I remember Short Round being Wu Han's little brother. Idk where I picked that up from though...

So, WuHan would escape??? Did Wu Han had a cold?? Sorry but my humor is wierd, and sometimes dark.

Mikes dementia must be really getting bad as the entire scene is incredibly obviously setup that Short Round was the getaway driver.

It helps that he had a kid sidekick who was pretty freaking cool.

@@psykomancer4420 Yeah somehow Short Round manages to avoid a lot of the "annoying kid" cliches while also kicking a seriously disproportionate amount of ass.

@@okankyoto he was the best actor and character in the movie.

Oh god, Temple of Doom is getting the prequel treatment of getting undue respect in the face of even shittier sequels. Short Round was annoying even as a kid.

@blank-vj1mc Temple of Doom is nowhere near the level of the prequels. It's just a fun movie that isn't as good as the other two.

The raft sequence is like a documentary compared to the nuke fridge

​@@bencarlson4300You should watch Film Theory. MatPat actually found Indy had a 50/50 chance of surviving the fridge, which is better than falling out of a plane.

Definitely

It's honestly jarring to hear that the people who actually made it didn't like it because it's such a favorite of mine

Nicely said.

I had no idea, this is great movie trivia! Thanks for sharing 👍

Amazing information!

What food did they eat on that leaf? I could never make out what it was that insulted them and embarrassed Indy food.

@@mem1701movies I watched the scene again and I cannot make it out clearly either. One dish looks like it's yellow rice. But I have no idea about the awkward looking grey dish (which also attracts flies? 😅). And the insulting comment is that the villagers are offering food and by not accepting, it could look like she is ungrateful. It's not related to any specific food.

@@V.H.Silva89 I still don’t know but someone elsewhere mentioned before that it was bat guano with undigested berries

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The 1970's did it better with Bad News Bears and Paper Moon lol.

Yup! Instead of it being hidden away now to keep the economy going!

As opposed to today when it's wholly ignored because it gives us iPhones.

Not having seen it myself, I'm guessing they still mixed the music under the sfx didn't they? That's another big problem with modern movies: not only are scores unmemorable, but they mix them low enough that you can't even make them out over everything else happening in the scene.

Last Crusade is just.... Kinda there. You have to give credit to ToD for really swinging for the fences.

It’s incomprehensible to me that the same person who made that incredibly insightful observation also thinks Indy randomly fell into a cab driven by his sidekick.

I've always thought that Raiders was technically darker in overall tone.

@@joelfinkelstein7476 Couldn't agree more.

It certainly is nice to watch film reviewers who aren't just hack frauds.

They are betting on the fact that most people won't notice because they don't know the difference. As a Florida boy I felt the same way.

"Willing suspension of disbelief"... its hard to do sometimes, lol

a quick google search shows that there are alligators and crocodiles almost everywhere on the planet, including india 🤔

@@nn-dj2nu not those alligators. Those are American alligators I think

@@nn-dj2nu Google search results are full of AI generated bullshit these days, don't trust some random page. The only alligators on the planet are the American one and the almost extinct Chinese one. I know it's probably confusing because apart from the head they look very similar but alligators aren't crocodiles.

LMAO

Completely bonkers that this movie is PG. Child slavery what a great wholesome thing for the whole family to enjoy!

Kali maa....KALI MAAAAAA

​@@TheYeti6000well, this movie, alongside Gremlins, was responsible for the creation of the PG-13 rating. It's difficult to imagine how movies were classified more than 40 years ago

​@@TheYeti6000and all the animal visera 💀

In the UK we never got to see the full uncut heart scene until the early 00's

"Skost" is still a classic.

Folding Chable

Timestamp?

@@SomeGuyTHPS 44:55

@@aaronsarchive82 These are all classics I just don't think anything has ever been as bizarrely just like, not even close to the word as this. It's like his brain put all the syllables in a blender and reproduced them in an instant.

I've never understood the lack of enthusiasm from Harrison Ford in recent years. If you're not enjoying it, just retire! I'm not sure if I have an excess of laziness or a lack of greed, but to me not having to work is the ultimate luxury, and unless Harrison Ford has a Nick Cage level of compulsion to buy ridiculously expensive stuff he's surely got more money than he could ever spend?

​@korganrocks3995 he always been like this! He hated playing in Star wars! Like, come on

@korganrocks3995 Harrison Ford I've noticed hates the stuff he's most known for. But if it's a good script, he will actually try. Everything else is just a paycheck for him.

@@parisulki729 He didn't like the Han Solo role, but it doesn't show at all imo, not even in TFA. He was more animated in that than anything I've seen in two decades before that.

@@DaBeezNeez He certainly doesn't hate the Indiana Jones role, per his own words.

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He’s a great director but Temple of Doom is really bad. It’s not his fault George Lucas gave him a bad script. I’m almost certain he only ever writes one draft for every movie he makes.

​@@cotati76there's a ton of scripts for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and all of Lucas initial treatments are very different The three Lucas story treatments for this film - There's the very first one, before they had a title, which has an opening where Indy rode a motorcycle down The Great Wall of China and had a plot concerning Indy discovering a "lost world" style valley where Dinosaurs survived. Theres then notes for a rejected idea of Lucas's involving the Monkey King of Chinese mythology which was never written up beyond that. The second one had no opening that we know of, but a detailed plot involving Indy in a haunted castle in Scotland or Ireland (depending on who you ask) that Speilberg loved but ultimately Lucas thought was too similar to Poltergeist And then there's the one they used, although Lucas story had a different opening that involved Indy in an African Village being attacked by the British and one of the soldiers kills a dog. Then there's about 40 different drafts of that idea by various script writers working from Lucas story treatment before we end up at what we got.

@@medes5597 thanks for all the info. I was being facetious. I’ve worked on some movies (one was the movie Superman Returns) and am aware of all the work that goes into it. I love Indy but Temple just isn’t one I like but that doesn’t mean it isn’t any good, it’s just not for me. I don’t know which one is my favorite. I’m glad they kind of wrapped up the character in the last movie. I personally enjoyed it. Luckily I’ve been able to see every movie in the theater during its original release but I was only five or six for the first one so I don’t have clear memories of it like I do the rest of them.

There also isn't any cameo of short round in the new movie, guess we will never know what happened to him.

Short round probably found his own shorty

Indy definitely got Shorty killed

“This is no time for love”

For real. Everything he does and line he delivers just feels so authentic. I think every single little boy who watched this movie imagined themselves being short round, I know I did.

“Indy I love you!” 🥺

But wouldn’t you much rather have a character who is constantly insulting our hero Indy for being old, decrepit, bigoted, patriarchal, dumb, etc? Apparently Disney bet almost half a billion dollars that audiences want their hero’s torn down rather than idolized.

"Hold on to your potatoes!"

That's kind of funny. I think a lot of people forget that the Millennium Falcon is the Star Wars equivalent of a 16-wheeler.

That is a rare instance of a truly fun fact. Thank you.

@@FrozenGoblin that means the Han Solo film should really have been Smokey and the Bandit in space. I mean, I liked Solo, but Smokey and the Bandit in space would have been awesome.

I KNOW RIGHT!! How do you not see short round as the escape vehicle

Short Round wasn't Indy's get-away driver. Indy wasn't there to pull a heist. Short Round was simply Indy's driver.

Also Dan Aykroyd tells Indy that he, "spoke with your assistant and managed to secure 3 seats." So unless he had planned to kidnap Willy, the seats were arranged just prior to the club scene and were for Indy, Short Round, and the guy who died (who I suspect was the assistant).

@@williamferguson5404 It was always possible the business will turn into a heist.

Yeah that entire part seemed like dementia speaking.

From my experience, if you didn't see it as a kid, it's not very good (apart from some excellent set pieces).

It WAS my favorite as a kid (80's baby here)!!😆😆 I still love it, though as I got older I finally appreciated Raiders of the Lost Arc😉.

I didn’t like the gore and the big bad guy, but you’re right, to me this film _is_ Indiana Jones and the other ones barely register for me.

There are excellent reasons for despising this film. Its blatant xenophobia, for one.

@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Yes, a lot a xenophobia against an evil death cult and that's absolutely great.

@@johncenter4858 "an evil death cult" that just happens to be composed entirely of people with brown skin. Defeated by people who just happen to have white skin. Slight coincidence.

Personally, I think this one is the best of the three. Yes, three.

​@@christianbreitkreuz1710I swear my favorite changes each time I rewatch them. The first was my favorite the first time through, then temple of doom was my favorite. Then raiders again, then temple of doom again. Then it was last crusade. Now it's temple of doom again lol

She's the opposite of cowardly, though. Despite being terrified she still goes down into the tunnel past corpses and a horde of bugs to save Indy and Short Round from being crushed. She kills 3 men during the mine cart chase, and when Short Round nearly falls through the bridge, she overcomes how terrified she is of the bridge and how high up they are to rescue the kid.

​@@JohnSilverHawkinsShe's still annoying, though.

@@jlev1028nah - she’s a fun stand in for the audience seeing how bonkers it all is.

@@JohnSilverHawkins nice. There is no courage without the presence of fear first. Willie has an arc.

I hadn't twigged, but yeah, she's the everyman character. She's the only one who seems to realise just how batshit crazy the whole scenario is and reacts appropriately to it. And I'd agree that she does show courage; she's just completely out of her depth for nearly everything which happens.

Temple of Doom is the one we watched most as kids

Indy was long after my time (born in the late 90s) but temple of doom was the first one I ever watched (my mom forced me to watch it lol) and it's my guilty pleasure favorite. I like the 3rd one more, but If I could only save one it might be this one. The guy pulling the heart out of the guy's chest is still out of this world!

This was a PG-13 before it existed. So at the time it almost felt like watching a R-rated indiana jones. It was a thrilling movie to watch.

@@AndI0td763 I’ve heard people say this a lot and I agree. Indiana Jones has to be the first (or one of) examples of a movie that got a “family friendly” rating simply because of the goodwill they generated with the first. The dark Knight also comes to mind as an R flick that was kid friendly

@@AndI0td763 it really was! for example my parents were fine with me watching it because it was PG but years later when goldeneye n64 came out they didn't want me playing it because it was MA haha, (australian ratings) not familiar with us

Was that in reference to performative outrage? Everyone should be that kind of senile. I was surprised and grateful that this Re:View never bothered to reel off a list of 'problematic' stuff.

That part didn't scare me, but I clearly remember it upsetting me when I was a kid. Even though he went back to normal later, the thought that he effectively lost to the bad guys in that moment really bothered me.

@@Musing_Macabre exactly why is spooked me too

This one didn't bother me much. I was about eight when I first saw it, which is honestly way too young, and I mostly found it too intense. _Raiders_ however, when I did finally see it at a more appropriate age, scared the shit out of me due to the face melting scene. I do still think _Doom_ is my favourite of the three.

My daughter LOVED Temple of Doom when she was young. It was Raiders that bothered her - Indy was meaner in that movie (more of an anti-hero) and the violence was less cartoonish. (The fight in Marion's bar has some shockingly brutal, realistic violence!) Indy scared her in that film. She thought Temple was scarier over-all, "but it's a FUN scary."

I don’t even remember that

Yeah, in reality, the weird food is a reason they know something is wrong completely.

I think that might have been in the novelization. I don't think it was in the script. Also, remember when Willy Scott puts perfume all over the elephant because it stinks? Later in the Dinner scene there is a moment when she smells the large indian guy next to her and then she pours perfume on him.

@@umk986 and you might remember, Willie is *kind of a bitch*. She has the most unrealistic standards and expectations for everything in her life and even the smallest thing out of order is given an attempt to be corrected rather bluntly. Guy probably smelled fine, or more realistically, a *little* sweaty from living a life where he actually has to get up and do things.

It's fine. It totally feels like something from an adventure serial.

Let's be fair, it's not supposed to be seen as normal for their culture, it's supposed to be another way of showing that they're depraved Thugees.

Yeah but it is what is is.

Never thought of that, but good theory - makes me like this movie a slight bit more!

It's something I never paid attention to as a kid but as I've aged and looked back I appreciated it a lot more. Especially with the added context of Last Crusade where you see young idealistic Indy with the "it belongs in a museum!". Probably applying my own feelings and logic to explain something they didn't intend but for me it shows how youthful idealism can fall by the wayside as you lose sight of what really matters in the pursuit of your own goals.

​@@TalooFoH Take the whole original trilogy chronologically and Indiana has an arc in regards to the artifacts he searches for. In 1912 he feels strongly that the Cross should be displayed publicly in a museum, but is helpless against grave robbers for a private collector. By 1935 he he's sunken to grave robbing for a gangster's private collection. And he's thinking "screw this Indian village, I'm selling the Stones for Fortune and Glory" before he has his change of heart. 1936 - 1938 he's back on the straight and narrow, trying and failing twice to bring artifacts to the museum (the Idol and the Ark), then finally succeeding with the Cross.

Indiana Jones 7: The Search for Pizzagate

Indiana Jones 8: I have Fallen Down and I Can't Get Up.

Indiana jones and the temple of Jeffery Epstein

_Indiana Jones and the Gorge of Goatse_

If the studio thought they could make a billion dollars. I wouldn't put it past them to wheel out a hundred year old Harrison Ford, with saliva dribbling from his mouth and put a whip in his hand and his Stetson hat on while hes sat in his wheelchair surrounded by a supporting cast of woke, feminist actresses (sorry actors), with a script that is more concerned with pushing their politics than a good action, adventure story with a element of the supernatural and biblical legend.

Rich isn't elderly. He's got a spiderman shirt on.

@@davidm2031 My bad, he is so young and hip!

IT BROKE NEW GROUND!!

@@MrMr-ws3tv laugs in Rich Evans

You can't have people reminiscing about seeing a movie from 1984 as kids if they weren't kids in 1984.

He was the same actor who got shredded by the propeller in the first film.

Thugee? You mean thug?

@@Mindboggles That's actually where the term "thug" came from.

@@zombiTroutin good ole brown face

@@Mindboggles go look the thugee up, pretty cool story

Lucas kept pushing a haunted house idea and Spielberg hated it. He finally gave Lucas the castle in 'Crusade' to placate him.

​@@cowetascore8476I believe Lucas wanted the entire 3rd film to be in that castle. Just straight up Scooby-Doo shit 😂

He’s also the sherpa in raiders in the raven wood bar and he’s in last crusade for a brief moment. He had a much larger part in last crusade but they cut it out

James Bond, a pinch of Tintin, a dash of Allan Quatermain, it was a rich, exotic broth. Hence the immense Worldwide success of the original trilogy. And the fourth one.

It makes sense that Spielberg was the one to eventually make a Tintin movie

Dude I had the idol temple from the beginning of raiders and it had a release that would make the boulder roll down the hall after indy. It was glorious

lolll dont get me started i regret passing up the raiders truck set as a kid

I especially like the period vehicles sets because Lego didn't do many at the time. The Shanghai chase was my favorite!

shoutout to lego indiana jones for xbox 360, that shit slapped. I had the double game case that came with kungfu panda which i remember being pretty good for a kids movie game

KALIMA! everyone loved that bit.

Obviously.

Of course he was and I'm genuinely surprised anyone thought it was not a set up.

You mean Roat Shore.

Goongas?

Return of the Jedi throne room also references Gunga Jin, Lucas must love that movie

😂🤣

With Mike's dementia, I'm sure this was the second time he watched Temple of Doom for the first time!

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​@@Claymann71why Do you randomly Capitalize Words in your Comment?

@JunkCCCP Why do You give a sh&t? _The More You Know_

@@xunqianbaidu6917 Not immediately. Like he said, travelling back with all those kids probably took at least twice as long as getting there in the first place. Also, magic rock. Also, its a movie.

@@xunqianbaidu6917 if took then several days to get to the palace

I love the non-realism of that and many other parts of the movie. Makes it feel like a modern-day fairy tale.

@@jbard9892you can’t join into an autistic level discussion on the near-meaningless timescale of fictional flowers growing and then pull a “its just a movie” at the end. You’re either in, or you’re out.

The village turned green before Indy got the stone back there anyways

It did seem obvious to me when I was about 13. You see Chattar Lal eating normal food with a fork, and the way the guy is smiling at 'chilled monkey brains' made it totally seem like an intentional gross out for the white and English guests. If you really hated someone who was a vegan and they were coming over for dinner, would you make big tomahawk ribeyes? Absolutely.

that stayed in the novelization that exists for some reason

@@kaiserruhsam These movie novelizations were great, because quite often, they were written based on an earlier script draft than what was actually shot (or shot, but edited out of the movie), so they often include some of the scenes that only years later saw the light of day with some special edition, or not at all.

Of course, wouldn't wanna give away the surprise of the temple in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

They should have included that line. Would have saved millions of Hindu kids in the west from the bullying that scene motivated

Hey hey now that's something I can get behind.

Finally, a god that gets me.

Then he’s a privileged and probably fair skinned Indian. This movie *is* grossly offensive. Period.

@@theresaurus9820 it's offensive because of the cultural context and minoritized status of indians in the west, it's not part of any systems of oppression experienced by someone who grew up with india's domestic media.

@@kaiserruhsam Any Indian person who’s not white or lives in luxury would rightly condemn this movie.

Earth tones, people. Browns and beige, and mother of pearl.

Spielberg can stuff it about this movie. It was always my favorite as a kid, followed by Raiders. I also loved Last Crusade, but I appreciated the darker tone of Temple of Doom more. I think kid movies should be extremely dark in spots. We don't have to traumatize kids, the good guys should always win the end in kid movies, but I do think kids should be made aware of the cruelty that exists in the world via the media they consume. A few movies that did this extremely well that I remember from my own childhood were An American Tail, Pinocchio, The Secret of NIMH, and of course Temple of Doom. The Iron Giant also gets an honorable mention. I can't really think of a greater message to present to small children than that of a sentient weapon of mass destruction deciding it doesn't want to be a gun or hurt people, because violence is always the wrong choice.