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Temple of Dumb argh...

#31 Just your average movie goer

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Posted 23 June 2007 - 01:11 AM

That's not really Indy's fault. That's Lucas' fault for forgetting what Indy was like in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'. He also said in Raiders that he didn't believe in superstitituous hocus-pocus.

It's just like the Star Wars prequels. He didn't bother to remember what he himself put in the original film.

Actually, "The Temple of Doom" is one of the clearest examples of why so many sequels (and prequels) suck - the writers and the director had no idea why their original movie was successful.

I can just imagine Lucas and Spielberg trying to come to grips with the negative response to this film.

Lucas - "But I don't get it... we had Harrison Ford and he was wearing a fedora."

Spielberg - "Yeah... and he had a bull-whip too. In fact, it was even better this time because there were whips everywhere."

Lucas - "Yeah! What's wrong with everyone?"

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Posted 23 June 2007 - 01:39 AM

I have to ask why it matters at all that this was set before Raiders. Also, another thing that was missing was the Professor part of Jones' existence. The whole movie is wall to wall adventures and zany hijinks and there's nothing to even remotely ground it to reality.

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Posted 25 June 2007 - 10:50 AM

QUOTE (Lord Aquaman @ Jun 22 2007, 04:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Y'know, I never really understood why Temple of Doom was set a year before Raiders of the Lost Ark - or how in the span of that time Indy forgot the lesson he learned at the end of the Temple fiasco: don't mess with or underestimate objects of some religious importance.

There was one lesson in Raiders that would benefit us all regarding TOD: "Whatever you do, Don't Look!"

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Posted 25 June 2007 - 11:35 AM

The one good thing about TOD was that it didnt try to establish continuity with Raiders, which spared us that god awful scene in the beginning of the Last Crusade, until of course the Last Crusade.

This post has been edited by georgelucas4greedo: 25 June 2007 - 11:35 AM

It seems like everyone is over the nitpicking. Too bad.

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Posted 16 July 2007 - 12:53 AM

I rather liked ToD. It felt like a serial. Not light-hearted, but a serial nonetheless.

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Posted 09 August 2007 - 09:34 PM

Anyone here ever read Mark E. Rogers The Sword of Samurai Cat? It contains a hilarious short story called The Temple of Dog Doom that's basically a parody of TOD, with Indy parodied as a man named Wisconsin Platt. Not only does it take potshots at TOD, it even takes pot shots at Raiders of the Lost Ark and Willow among other things.

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Posted 09 August 2007 - 11:05 PM

Really? Never heard of it.

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Posted 09 August 2007 - 11:30 PM

Wow. I am enlightened to hear that you haven't heard of it. As for me, I had also not heard of it.

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