"Fanstastic Film"
Added 2/1/2010
Making over $330,000,000 at the boxoffice, "Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom" was met with moderate critical response. Even many of those who worked on the film, including director Steven Speilberg, commented that the movie was too dark and that it's the one film he has made that doesn't have an ounce of his personality in it. He also stated the best part of the film was meeting Kate Capshaw (who would become his wife), who co-starred with Harrison Ford. Even Capshaw stated that the film was mediocore and that she played the typical "dumb blond" role to the hilt. This movie was actually a prequel to the more entertaining "Raiders of the Lost Ark". In this outing Indy must try to resure children who are in a child slavery ring in India. The movie, I believe, is fast-paced, engrossing, nail-biting, scary, and a thrill-ride, everything an Indiana Jones flick should be, despite the movie makers comments. The film has been digitally restored from its original print and comes with 5.1 digital surround sound for impeccable hearing quality. This was followed by two more sequels in the Iniana Jones franchise that were huge hits at the boxoffice. This DVD is also available in a deluxe four DVD set that features the first three Indy movies along with a bonus DVD.
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Special Edition)
Added 1/22/2010
Set in 1935, a professor, archaeologist, and legendary hero by the name of Indiana Jones is back in action in his newest adventure. But this time he teams up with a night club singer named Wilhelmina "Willie" Scott and a twelve-year-old boy named Short Round. They end up in an Indian small distressed village, where the people believe that evil spirits have taken all their children away after a sacred precious stone was stolen! They also discovered the great mysterious terror surrounding a booby-trapped temple known as the Temple of Doom! Thuggee is beginning to attempt to rise once more, believing that with the power of all five Sankara stones they can rule the world! Now, it's all up to Indiana to put an end to the Thuggee campaign, rescue the lost children, win the girl and conquer the Temple of Doom. The movie itself is a non-stop action, adventure ride. Harrison Ford is once again amazing as the dashing professor/archaeologist thrill seeker. A spectacular movie.
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Way scarier than I remember!
Added 1/8/2010
My 7 year old son wanted all 3 of the "old" Indiana Jones movies for Christmas. I didn't remember them being so scary! He got through them, but I sure wouldn't have bought this if I would have remembered all of the gory details. At least it was MY kid, I would not buy this one for a niece, nephew or friend. This one is on a shelf for now, until he is a few years older.
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A good action fiction, but the other movies are better.
Added 10/10/2009
First, this is a good action flick for when you are bored. It has all the basics any would find in the adventure genre.
Unfortunately, some of the first "1" score reviews reflected some of my concerns. I would suggest approaching this movie as a fiction and based on an individual group of villains, as opposed to the entirety of the worship populace of their goddess. Not only is the depiction of Shiva being a God of Light figure and Kali being a demonic goddess inaccurate to the views of their religion, people still have this tendency to believe these stories reflect the culture. Consequently, I warn against this. When I watched the movie, the Thugee controversy was the least of concern when I saw what people were having for dinner in the film. In some ways I actually cannot blame people for thinking it negatively portrayed South Asians.
That aside, I had other critiques. The female lead, while played well, was not my ideal character. I also thought Lucas could have written a better movie if he actually made it like he did with Star Wars (which redeemed him in the end, as far as I am concerned). The story would have been better if it was deliberately portrayed as being based off a myth made by him and inspired by Hinduism, as opposed to have been based off what was already established (albeit with the addendum of negative colonial propaganda and orientalism). Not only would this remove some cultural representation (or misrepresentation) concerns, but it would emphasize his strengths.
If one can take this as what it is - a fiction - and try not to judge South Asians based on this film, I say this is a good film to watch for what it is. I personally preferred the other Indiana Jones movies for what they had to offer as far as content goes. I just would not would not call every German a racist Nazi (who even they had their heroes who opposed the inhumane ones).
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If things were that simple!!!
Added 9/15/2009
In this film, as compared to the previous one, we progress backward from 1936 to 1935. We move across the universe from Egypt to China and India. The team is reinforced with a nice little but strong Chinese boy. The film is absolutely packed with suspense and action, and yet the film is also packed with all kinds of interesting questions though it does not provide us with all the answers, far from it. At the beginning we have the Chinese mafia of this time but the film forgets to explain that this Chinese mafia is the result of the Opium war or wars, of the control of China by the English and other western countries, and that this mafia will be quite happy with the Japanese some years later. This quite one-sided vision seems to support the idea that in China the mafia controls everything, the police, the bars, drugs and opium, the government, you name it you have it. Then in India that poor Indiana discovers and dismantles a terroristic and fascist small potentate that imposes an extreme vision of Hinduism based on human sacrifice (God knows Spielberg makes us shiver in front of this horror), the legend of five miraculous stones that would give the Indians their power back against the English, the colonizing power, and these believers have to exploit children in mines in the worst possible way and with the most unimaginable violence (God knows Spielberg insists on the inhumanity of this crime against civilization). But this seems to imply that this Hinduism is producing that kind of sectarian and dictatorial vision and action. These people must be barbarians and that is purely racist somewhere (it is true Bush will come later with his war on terror that is implying the same thing about another religion), whereas the enlightened Americans are bringing freedom (God it is so true in Iraq and Afghanistan). These people eat insects, spiders and the fresh brain of monkeys, snakes and all kinds of nice juicy animals of that type. But the worst part is the role and function of the English in all that. Their representative is sharing these beautiful banquets with the local maharaja who is a child. Then they come nearly at the end to save the day that is mostly saved anyway, and they don't even use their guns because they use Indian soldiers to do the shooting. What's more these English-loving Indian soldiers have blue turbans, whereas the barbaric slave owners and exploiters have mainly red uniforms and turbans. These red and blue are not gratuitous. But no answer again and we cannot say that the worst violence and the worst massacres in India were done by turbaned Hindu extremists but rather by the very British colonizers. This film purports for the people who don't know history, which means the majority of the audience, that the evil of this world is not the colonizing western powers but extremist Hindus and Chinese Mafiosi. That is at least an extreme lie and an unacceptable disguise, not for truth that does not exist on such subjects, but for the slightest possible objectivity. Entertaining cannot mean conveying racist and western-centered prejudices. I am sure that Spielberg can do better and has done better than that.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID
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"Fanstastic Film"
Added 2/1/2010
Making over $330,000,000 at the boxoffice, "Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom" was met with moderate critical response. Even many of those who worked on the film, including director Steven Speilberg, commented that the movie was too dark and that it's the one film he has made that doesn't have an ounce of his personality in it. He also stated the best part of the film was meeting Kate Capshaw (who would become his wife), who co-starred with Harrison Ford. Even Capshaw stated that the film was mediocore and that she played the typical "dumb blond" role to the hilt. This movie was actually a prequel to the more entertaining "Raiders of the Lost Ark". In this outing Indy must try to resure children who are in a child slavery ring in India. The movie, I believe, is fast-paced, engrossing, nail-biting, scary, and a thrill-ride, everything an Indiana Jones flick should be, despite the movie makers comments. The film has been digitally restored from its original print and comes with 5.1 digital surround sound for impeccable hearing quality. This was followed by two more sequels in the Iniana Jones franchise that were huge hits at the boxoffice. This DVD is also available in a deluxe four DVD set that features the first three Indy movies along with a bonus DVD.
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Special Edition)
Added 1/22/2010
Set in 1935, a professor, archaeologist, and legendary hero by the name of Indiana Jones is back in action in his newest adventure. But this time he teams up with a night club singer named Wilhelmina "Willie" Scott and a twelve-year-old boy named Short Round. They end up in an Indian small distressed village, where the people believe that evil spirits have taken all their children away after a sacred precious stone was stolen! They also discovered the great mysterious terror surrounding a booby-trapped temple known as the Temple of Doom! Thuggee is beginning to attempt to rise once more, believing that with the power of all five Sankara stones they can rule the world! Now, it's all up to Indiana to put an end to the Thuggee campaign, rescue the lost children, win the girl and conquer the Temple of Doom. The movie itself is a non-stop action, adventure ride. Harrison Ford is once again amazing as the dashing professor/archaeologist thrill seeker. A spectacular movie.
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Way scarier than I remember!
Added 1/8/2010
My 7 year old son wanted all 3 of the "old" Indiana Jones movies for Christmas. I didn't remember them being so scary! He got through them, but I sure wouldn't have bought this if I would have remembered all of the gory details. At least it was MY kid, I would not buy this one for a niece, nephew or friend. This one is on a shelf for now, until he is a few years older.
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