Temple Of Doom Fans

JediDelight said:
I just google 'Grail Knight Last Cruade' and found this. https://indianajones.fandom.com/wiki/Grail_Knight

That info is also in the movie through dialogue. We see the tomb of one of the brothers in Italy.
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Yeah, I saw that and I know the movie dialog. Last Crusade is not only my favorite Indy movie, but my favorite movie of all time. I was looking more for references from actual history, if there are any.

I don’t mean that all to condescending, btw. I appreciate the link.
 
xfamousnicknaro said:
Yeah, I saw that and I know the movie dialog. Last Crusade is not only my favorite Indy movie, but my favorite movie of all time. I was looking more for references from actual history, if there are any.

I don’t mean that all to condescending, btw. I appreciate the link.
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You're looking for info on the actual 1st Crusade. That makes a lot more sense! It's not condescending at all.

There is lots of info on the Crusades out there. He's a simple start on wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Crusade


And to keep this about temple of doom here is info on the historic Thuggee cult.

en.wikipedia.org

Thuggee - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
 
JediDelight said:
You're looking for info on the actual 1st Crusade. That makes a lot more sense! It's not condescending at all.

There is lots of info on the Crusades out there. He's a simple start on wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Crusade


And to keep this about temple of doom here is info on the historic Thuggee cult.

en.wikipedia.org

Thuggee - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Yes, BUT specifically about Sir Richard and his brothers, which was more to answer the question posted by someone else haha.
 
So re-watched Raiders last night...I've seen it probably 100 times, but admittedly it's been a few years. I wanted to bring up some favorite moments that don't often get talked about. Things that really make the film stand out as a masterpiece, little quirky things that stuck with me.

1. For some odd reason, there's a line that always makes me laugh. It's a real throw-away line, but it's more so the delivery Harrison gives. It's when he and Marion are entering the streets of Cairo and the monkey runs off, to which Indy offers her a date. As they walk off, she asks "What's this?" and Indy replies "It's a date. YAH EAT 'UM!" with this almost silly child-line tone. Makes me chuckle every time.

2. I love the whole atmosphere of the headpiece reading. The suspense of will he or won't he eat the poisoned date. Then once it's revealed, the shot from above he ceiling fan of the dead monkey...so ominous. "Bad dates..."

3. I absolutely adore everything about Toht, but maybe my favorite of all is when he seemingly pulls out this bizarre torture device...and it's just a coat hanger. "Now...what shall we talk about?"

4. The entire map room sequence doesn't get enough attention. I always get chills.

5. I adore the silhouette sunset shot of Indy and the crew digging for the Well of Souls.

6. When Indy is pushing the giant stone out to escape the well of souls, I always notice that when it lands you can see the shadow of it bouncing, revealing it's clearly rubber or foam or something. While technically a mistake, I find it kind of charming.

7. During the fight with the German Mechanic, right when the fight starts, I always liked how...when you watch the fight, Indy clearly knows he can't beat this guy in a one on one. So what does he do? He tries to cheap him a number of times. At first he tries to trick the guy into thinking there's something on the ground and then kicks him. He bites him. He throws sand in his eyes. I mean, when you really look at the fight...Indy gets pummeled. He's a punching bag. It really is so much more interesting and suspenseful than most action film fights because it feels like there's real stakes. Indy isn't close to winning this.

8. There's this small moment in the truck chase where, when in the truck with the Nazi driver, an Arab falls on the windshield...and both Indy and the German stop fighting for one second, look at each other, and laugh. I LOVE LITTLE MOMENTS LIKE THAT and the Indy films are filled with them.

9. A LOT complain about this, but I actually really like that he...somehow...gets to the island via the submarine. It's never explained and is seemingly impossible and yet...it feels SO serial adventure or radio drama to me.

10. Another small moment I love is once Marion is being lead off the submarine by Belloq there's an armed guard there too...and he's ALL bandaged up. Big time! Must have been one of Indy's truck chase victims. You wouldn't even really notice unless you knew to look for it.

11. So often do you see heroes in films disguising themselves as the villains troops, but I loved the idea of Indy taking the first German out...and the suit doesn't fit at all. HA! I could so see that happening more often than it fitting!

12. I'm sure others know about this, but I can never UNSEE Belloq swallowing the fly.

Re-watching Doom tonight and will add my favorite not often talked about moments tomorrow. Then Crusade tomorrow.

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Okay, screw it, I just watched Doom now because, well, pretty much everything around me has been or is being quarantined/shut down and I'm bored out of my mind. So here's some stuff I haven't mentioned about Doom.

So first on my Doom agenda is, I have a sincere question: I've encountered two interpretations of the scene when the Thuggee is killed by the rock crusher. I always took it as even Indy thought that's too cruel and was trying to help him...but I've also seen it interpreted as he simply was using him to pull himself up to the catwalk via the rope the Thuggee was holding being also caught in the roller. I really can see how it can be taken either way. What's your take?

I always remember this throw-away line where Short Round is riding and talking to the baby elephant, saying how he's going to take him back to America and they'll join the circus and how the elephant is his best friend. As a huge fan of elephants (and Short Round for that matter) I just think it's super cute. You really have to listen close for it.

This brings me to Short Round. Has it EVER been explained in extended cannon whatever happened to him? Not only is he not in Raiders, Crusade, and Skull, but he's never even mentioned. Now I must admit, he's written very stereotypical. "Sounds like fortune cookie," really? REALLY? He knows karate. But I can't deny, he's so freaking charming in my book. Some really heartwarming scenes with him like when he burns Indy, "Indy, I love you," and when he's being whipped or when Indiana hits him...it's heartbreaking.

Mola Ram is such a unique villain not just among this series but just in general. He's almost got a tinge of horror villain in his character. I remember reading an old Robert E. Howard Conan story called People of the Black Circle and I think that was a heavy influence on Mola Ram. In it, there's some dark sorcerer that rules a sort of cult and at one point, to a victim, he simply states "Your heart...is mine" and his foes heart rips out of his chest and flies into his hand. It's also interesting to note that he appears VERY late into the film and really doesn't have much screen time at all.

Did anyone else notice that the British Captain is the same actor who plays Grady in The Shining?
 
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MysterioMaximus said:
1. For some odd reason, there's a line that always makes me laugh. It's a real throw-away line, but it's more so the delivery Harrison gives. It's when he and Marion are entering the streets of Cairo and the monkey runs off, to which Indy offers her a date. As they walk off, she asks "What's this?" and Indy replies "It's a date. YAH EAT 'UM!" with this almost silly child-line tone. Makes me chuckle every time.
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A lot to respond to here, but simply had to comment on this. I chuckle every time, too, and have seen Raiders numerous times. I often find myself saying it along with him while viewing and is one of the things I say periodically from my bag of random quotes.
 
Something I noticed only recently in Raider of the Lost Ark. When Indy is talking to Marcus about the Ark and what happens to it after he brings it back, it's pretty clear Marcus is lying about it being in a museum. He either knows or largely suspects exactly how things will go if Indy recovers the Ark for the US government.
 
I've been setting up a retro game system using a Raspberry pi, and I loaded up the old Temple of Doom arcade game. I used to love playing that as a kid in the arcade. Still need to set up the control scheme. Hopefully, I can get it all working 100% tonight. 🙂
 
I also love “Ya eat ‘EM!”

Indy definitely lets the Thugee get crushed for the same reason he lets the Mechanic get chopped up by the airplane: he can’t beat him.
 
MysterioMaximus said:
So re-watched Raiders last night...I've seen it probably 100 times, but admittedly it's been a few years. I wanted to bring up some favorite moments that don't often get talked about. Things that really make the film stand out as a masterpiece, little quirky things that stuck with me.

4. The entire map room sequence doesn't get enough attention. I always get chills.

5. I adore the silhouette sunset shot of Indy and the crew digging for the Well of Souls.

9. A LOT complain about this, but I actually really like that he...somehow...gets to the island via the submarine. It's never explained and is seemingly impossible and yet...it feels SO serial adventure or radio drama to me.

12. I'm sure others know about this, but I can never UNSEE Belloq swallowing the fly.
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Totally agree with you on 4 and 5.

For 9, in the Marvel comic adaptation, he ties himself to the periscope with his whip. The sub never submerges and stays at periscope depth given the Nazis have command of the water at this time. Seems plausible to me.

#12 - never noticed that before until I watched it two weeks ago. I was like - wth, did he just eat a fly? too funny! But you know, we've probably all swallowed a bug at one point in our lives.
 
MysterioMaximus said:
So re-watched Raiders last night...I've seen it probably 100 times, but admittedly it's been a few years. I wanted to bring up some favorite moments that don't often get talked about. Things that really make the film stand out as a masterpiece, little quirky things that stuck with me.

4. The entire map room sequence doesn't get enough attention. I always get chills.

5. I adore the silhouette sunset shot of Indy and the crew digging for the Well of Souls.

9. A LOT complain about this, but I actually really like that he...somehow...gets to the island via the submarine. It's never explained and is seemingly impossible and yet...it feels SO serial adventure or radio drama to me.

12. I'm sure others know about this, but I can never UNSEE Belloq swallowing the fly.
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Totally agree with you on 4 and 5.

For 9, in the Marvel comic adaptation, he ties himself to the periscope with his whip. The sub never submerges and stays at periscope depth given the Nazis have command of the water at this time. Seems plausible to me.

#12 - never noticed that before until I watched it two weeks ago. I was like - wth, did he just eat a fly? too funny! But you know, we've probably all swallowed a bug at one point in our lives.
 
Interesting tidbit: Belloq did not actually eat the fly (well, actually Belloq in the Indy Universe did. Paul Freeman, however, did not). It flew away, but Spielberg thought it was humorous, so he removed a few frames to make it look like he swallowed it!
 
Kooshmeister said:
Despite that, he still goes to bat for Indy at the end and insists it go to the museum and be studied.
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I think Marcus does that because he supports Indy and knows it's the right thing to do. But Marcus knows the outcome. There is an element of theater when he goes to bat for Indy. I think he and Indy were still compensated for the adventure. They didn't get credit it. Which is for the best.
 
Marcus is an odd character for me. He's so minor and appears VERY competent in Raiders, but you cut to Crusade and he's very bumbling....lovably so....but it almost feels like a different character. Maybe he just never gets enough screentime in Raiders to realize he's somewhat absent-minded at times,
 
He's the same in LC as he was in Raiders up until he has to go out into the world. He only starts acting dopey once he's in İskenderun. In the college scenes, at Henry's house and even in Venice he definitely seems like the same old Marcus. He strikes me as one of those guys who is very competent in his element, i.e., the world of academia, but who is uncertain and nervous when thrust out of it.

Or, crack theory here; since İskenderun scene is after the Venice one(s), maybe that blow to the head from Kazim messed him up. XD

Anyway, he does still have a few nice moments late in the film, such as his warning to Donovan. I like their conversation. Marcus is sassy in it.

Donovan: Care to wet your whistle, Marcus?
Marcus: I'd rather spit it in your face. But as I haven't got any spit--
Vogel: Must be within three or four miles. Otherwise we're off the map.
Donovan: We're on the brink of the greatest archaeological discovery in the history of mankind.
Marcus: You're meddling in powers you cannot possibly comprehend.
 
gijigsaw said:
For 9, in the Marvel comic adaptation, he ties himself to the periscope with his whip. The sub never submerges and stays at periscope depth given the Nazis have command of the water at this time. Seems plausible to me.
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That was actually filmed, but inexplicably cut. Subs go faster on the surface, so it's plausible that they never submerged. However, keeping the periscope up for the entire journey, well, that we'll just have to accept. :)
 
Question about Raiders of the Lost Ark.
At several points in the story Indy is helped by the Egyptians,
They hide his truck,
cheer him on as he leaves the dig site to chase Nazis.
act as if they are praising him after knocking down a bunch of people carrying baskets that angrly chased him.
& a few other moments that are more movie magic than plausable.

Is this just for plot or are they the same group that wanted to protect the Grail?

One story point that many seem to overlook, is that Indy is somehow blessed, which is what enables him to find the Ark & move it to its new hiding location. Did this group somehow know this?
 
Been so long since I was last here. Hope everyone is well, especially during these scary and uncertain times with this pandemic going on. I've had a lot going on in my life as of late, thankfully mostly not bad. I hope the same for everyone else.

TOD is still not just my favorite Indy film but one of my all-around favorite films ever. The backlash it still sometimes gets saddens me but it's awesome to see it has it's share of fans and defenders. It's totally it's own animal among the rest of the series and IMO in the best way possible. I can never imagine the series without it.

I'd love for the next film to be more akin to it with a darker, creepier tone and storyline. Seeing as Spielberg is stepping down as director, I wonder if this could mean a more TOD-like installment? Spielberg has always been vocal about his disliking for it (which no doubt has played a big role in the hate) and he seems to be reluctant to even acknowledge it exists. No idea if James Mangold is a TOD fan, but I think the fifth and final film is in good hands under him. He directed the two best X-Men films with Logan and The Wolverine, and I trust he'll give Indy an excellent swansong. If he happens to be a TOD fan and might want Indy 5 to be akin to it that'd make it all the more awesome to me. We could still get a darker in tone Indy film under Disney, after how Rogue One for Star Wars was. Indy's final adventure IMO should be something dark, bold and intense, not something run of the mill that plays it safe and tries too hard to be nostalgic.
 
MysterioMaximus said:
The way I always put it, I don't think the best film in a franchise and your favorite film in a franchise have to be the same thing. I think Raiders is the best of the films, but I just can't deny...Doom is my favorite. The film is just pure, unabashed fun. It's really a strangely bizarre film too.

It's both the darkest Indy film and the goofiest at the very same time. You have hearts being ripped out of sacrificial victims with black magic who are then dipped in lava, slave children and child violence, Indiana getting mind controlled and easily the most beaten up out of any film, people falling hundreds of feet to get eaten by crocodiles, Indy impaling someone on a kabob in the middle of a nightclub, a guy hung from a ceiling fan and crushed by a giant rock crusher, it goes on and on. I mean if you look close at the details, the Kali statue in the sacrificial chamber is covered in severed limbs, as is the warning statue in the jungle covered in severed fingers. Jeez! Yet you also have in essence everything with Willie Scott, Short-Round, the dinner scene, slapstick comedy, the jungle scene, on and on. But for me, the sheer wit of Harrison really made the comedy work. I think he's the master of banter and can heighten any co-stars performance just by proximity.

This film, I always argued, is a perfect "edgy" kids movie. I saw it when I was probably six years old and did not stop playing out the bridge and mine cart scene for weeks. I think a lot of people originally didn't like it for a number of reasons. For starters, it's just so extremely different from Raiders. I admire that they went a gutsy original route, but it's still an incredible serialized style adventure.

I think another aspect people didn't appreciate was...well...it's not a Christian relic or mythology, so a lot probably didn't know the mythologies. Now granted it is a sort of hodgepodge of cultures, but it does draw on real-life things. The Thuggee cult was real, they did plague the British colonials. It's actually where the term "thug" originates. However, they were more just street peddling thieves and crooks rather than some evil death cult. Usually they'd find a traveler, act as a sort of guide or friend, then murder them in their sleep. The Thuggee were a huge organization though and were branded menaces. One interesting punishment was sometimes, if caught, they'd be executed totally terrifyingly by having their head crushed by an elephant. Legit! The film seems to have incorporated a lot of Meso-American culture into the Thuggee, the sacrifices appear to be inspired by that of the Aztecs, the Prince uses a Haitian voodoo doll, Mola Ram even has a small shrunken head on his headpiece.

Then lastly, the artifact is fictional...but like a lot of the other aspects of the film, it has a basis in reality. The Sankara Stones are magical fictionalized versions of Shiva Lingam stones, appearing much like how Indy describes them in the film. They're river stones, very smooth and oval in shape. The local cultures believe they had abilities.

And can we talk Mola Ram? For a main villain that oddly doesn't get much screen time, my dude is awesome. My favorite Indy villains, by far, and def. the most intimidating IMO. I absolutely love his design. I always get chills when he says "You will, Dr. Jones. You will become...a true believer," with all that steam coming off his frighteningly grinning face.

The let's talk Willie Scott. I think she gets WAY too much guff. I don't think she's that bad at all, but I know she's been sort of deemed the Jar Jar of the franchise. I think that's so unfair. Sure she's annoying at times, but I enjoy her character for what it is. Plus I'm sorry, but Capshaw was a baaaabe in that.

Some of my other favorite moments?

"The Antidote..." "For what?!" "The poison you just drank, Dr. Jones!" Just the sheer suspense of that whole scene. The corks popping...the negotiation...the poison. It's so well-made. It feels so classic cinema.

"Nice try, Lao Che!" Classic Indy humor, out of the frying pan and into the fire. Indy is fascinating to me in that it's one of the only action adventure film series that really utilizes humor a lot, but I always found Indy humor to be my sense of humor.

"Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory," with the shooting star. Still one of my favorite shots in all of the films.

The whole trek through the jungle montage is gorgeous. Yet another underrated aspect of the film is the score, I love the Short Round theme and Slave Children's Crusade. Outside of the main Indy theme, they're my favorite sub-themes in the franchise. Now I always wondered something. Indy tells Willie, "Giant vampire bats," but are they in the continuity of the film? Because in reality, they're clearly fruit bats. How I like to interpret the scene? He knows they're fruit bats, he simply said that to toy with her.

"You cheat, Dr. Jones, you cheat!" Short Round will forever be awesome and hysterical. I really wish they had just a throw-away line explaining whatever happened to him.

"Snake surprise!" "What's the surprise?" The dinner scene seems to be one people either love or hate, but as a fan of over-the-top and gross out horror, I found it hysterical.

The whole stubborn flirtation scene is so well-acted and I crack up ever time when Indy pushes the statues breasts and Willie goes "Hey, I'm RIGHT HERE!" with her hands over her chest. LMFAO!

"WE! ARE GOING! TO DIE!" and it's all expressed through hand gestures. Plus come on, the bug pit and spike trap are awesome.

The intro of Mola Ram still gives me goosebumps. "He's still alive..."

Short Round burning Indy to shake him out of the mind control is genuinely heartbreaking. "Indy...I love you."

The shot of the guard sliding through the gravel after being punched out and the pan up to the hero shot of Indiana in the doorway is just...wow. Then the score "Slave Children's Crusade" begins during the rescue and the fight with the giant Thuggee begins and 6 year old me was just like, "This is the best movie ever!" One thing that always fascinated me was that even Indy tries to save the guy, even he's like "No one deserves to go out like this!"

...and then the mine cart sequence happens and I'm even more on cloud 9.

...and the the bridge scene happens, it's now my favorite boyhood movie ever. "It's time to meet Kali...IN HELL!"

I love every frame of this film.
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I know I'm quite late to reply to this, but this is a beautifully worded post and very spot on to how I feel. I think Raiders is the best of the series in many ways (and certainly deserving of all of it's praises and accolades), but I find TOD to be the most entertaining and for largely similar reasons. It's an absolute rocket of a movie from start to finish and really has that perfect balance of adventure and Horror. Amdist the non-stop action and creepiness, it still has it's moments of heart like the father and son-like bond Indy share (which sets the stage for the similar father and son aspects in the subsequent two films). Indy is such a mythic, larger than life hero in this but he still has tender moments which remind us he's still a real person and cares about others.

I remember being so shocked at the sheer venom so many have for it when I first started using the internet. But I'll always be happy to count myself as a fan and defender of it. Indy to me just doesn't feel complete without TOD in the mix.
 
Doomtrooper said:
I know I'm quite late to reply to this, but this is a beautifully worded post and very spot on to how I feel. I think Raiders is the best of the series in many ways (and certainly deserving of all of it's praises and accolades), but I find TOD to be the most entertaining and for largely similar reasons. It's an absolute rocket of a movie from start to finish and really has that perfect balance of adventure and Horror. Amdist the non-stop action and creepiness, it still has it's moments of heart like the father and son-like bond Indy share (which sets the stage for the similar father and son aspects in the subsequent two films). Indy is such a mythic, larger than life hero in this but he still has tender moments which remind us he's still a real person and cares about others.

I remember being so shocked at the sheer venom so many have for it when I first started using the internet. But I'll always be happy to count myself as a fan and defender of it. Indy to me just doesn't feel complete without TOD in the mix.
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It does seem like time has been kinder to it. As a kid, I recall it being VERY criticized...and those issues themselves were all over the place too. Some people thought it was TOO dark. Its depictions of violence and horror went TOO far. Others felt the exact OPPOSITE. It's too cartoonish. It's TOO silly at times. Of course there were complaints of racial insensitivities or just cultural disrespect and...admittedly...I'm not sure if a film exactly like this would be made today.

But over the years, though I don't think it's ever really been the crowd favorite, it seems people stomach it more these days. It's just like I said, it's so different that it's almost off-putting at first. The whole sequence in the nightclub feels more like Bond than Indy, but I think that's WHY it worked. Indy was intended to BE Steven's, in essence, 007 type role. The minecart sequence is like a theme park ride and while I may get that an adult might not like that...to a kid? That's a dream! So I think it largely just depends on how old you were when you saw it. My dad didn't care for it when he first saw it, but I was like prime age and I think largely the film grew on him just by vicariously watching my enjoyment of it.
 
I find it strange TOD got criticized for being too dark when Raiders also had plenty of dark moments and is actually arguably more violent and gruesome. Sure TOD has the heart-ripping, but Raiders has melting faces, bloody gunshots to the head, being ripped apart by an airplane propellor (offscreen but still) and a large snake writhing out of a rotted corpse's mouth, which as a kid is pure nightmare fuel.

I'm not saying the higher violence levels made the first two so good, but it definitely helped give them a certain edge. It added to the feelings of danger, and that feeling of danger is something TOD absolutely ratcheted up all the way. The moment Indy and co. go deep underground Pankot and see the Thuggee ceremony, you know they're in deep and there's the feeling they may not make it out. It makes the action that much more intense and thrilling, and when Indy finally prevails against the villains it makes it that much more rewarding.
 
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Apparently someone is trying to get new Indy Lego sets made, these look great. Even in Lego form, the Kali statue and the sacrificial chamber/altar are recognizable.
 
I read the article from not too long ago where Spielberg disowns TOD and called it horrific. Sad to see even Spielberg has disowned TOD :( No doubt his vocal disdain for it has only added to the hate. I wonder if he's ever had a chance to re-visit the film? He was firing on all cylinders when he made that film and you'd never be able to tell it's director hated the film with how energetic it is.
 
bob_solo said:
I have to put TOD as my favorite as well. It was also the first Indy movie I ever saw, having been too young to see Raiders when it came out (I actually didn't watch that one until I was in my teens) - and mind you, I was 8 when Temple came out, so you can imagine how the sacrifice scene freaked me out at the time (although I have to admit, as an adult, the heart scene is so painfully fake-looking when compared to the rest of the effects in the movie). Still, I thought the dinner scene was hilarious, the entire end sequence from where they free the kids and take out the villains - beginning with Indy's epic staredown with the Thuggee slaver right before punching him out - was awesome, and the bridge scene was definitely something different. I still enjoy all three of the other Indy movies, but TOD definitely holds a special place with me.

...and on a side note, I knew very little about Indiana Jones, so when I saw the trailer on TV, and they said "Harrison Ford," what a shocker it was to run in and tell my mother that I wanted to see it because Han Solo was in it, only to be told that he WAS Indy! Pure awesomeness!!!
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I know this is a nearly 3 year old message, but I wanted to point out this was my first experience with Indiana Jones too! When the series saw a VHS release, I saw a trailer for it and ran to tell my parents about a different film series Harrison Ford was in that George Lucas directed. I was a very excitable child in the late 90s early 00s :)
 
I'm pretty sure TOD was the first movie of Harrison's I ever saw. For TOD to be my first Indy movie and first Harrison Ford movie, it really cemented Indy as his signature role at the young and impressionable age I saw it at.

TOD probably has the most mythic, larger-than-life yet still human version of Indy. He goes through the ringer in this film, and despite his larger-than-life qualities he still feels very real and human. I think his relationship with Short Round, him deciding to return the lone Sankara Stone to the village instead of keeping it for himself out of respect for Indian/Hindu culture; these things do everything to make the TOD incarnation of Indy as likeable as he is heroic.
 
Temple of Doom is was and always will be my favorite. As a matter of fact, as soon as my figures arrive, my wife and I are going to build the Khali statue and cage playset.
 
ToD is a fun movie & as I read through the comments I realized this is probably the last movie where you had to get there an hour beforehand because the theater might sell out.

Shortly after that the theaters started to convert to the mega theaters & they started to play the same movie in 3 theaters.
 
I'd love for Indy 5 to be more like TOD (if it ever even gets made at this rate). Indy's final adventure should be something dark and intense and foreboding like TOD, but still having that sense of escapist fun and thrills. And given Indy's pulp roots, it's only fitting for the final film to embrace the pulpy origins of the character, bring it all full circle.
 
Speaking of Tales From The Crypt, Short Round himself was actually in a TFTC episode, Undertaking Palor from Season 3. One of my favorite episodes of that show. Useless but cool trivia :D

I do wonder if Spielberg and/or Lucas grew up being fans of the EC Horror comics of the 50s. Definitely seems like TOD had that EC Comics thing going for it, between it's more Horror-oriented tone and also the use of colors and lighting in certain shots. You'd swear a lot of the old EC comics were used as storyboards for some shots.
 
Doomtrooper said:
I'd love for Indy 5 to be more like TOD (if it ever even gets made at this rate). Indy's final adventure should be something dark and intense and foreboding like TOD, but still having that sense of escapist fun and thrills. And given Indy's pulp roots, it's only fitting for the final film to embrace the pulpy origins of the character, bring it all full circle.
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And he should finally lose an eye. Watching Young Indy Chronicles always made me wonder how that happened.
 
Lobotscomb said:
And he should finally lose an eye. Watching Young Indy Chronicles always made me wonder how that happened.
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Who knows if we may see that in Indy 5. It'd be cool if it happened at the beginning and for the remainder of the movie he has an eyepatch. It'd sell the older Indy as older but still tough as nails and having it in him for another adventure.
 
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