With the internet already prepared to pour some Haterade on next year’s “Ready Player One,” it’s worth remembering that Steven Spielberg is not unfamiliar with delivering below expectations. There was the misfire “1941” and some would say even last year’s “The BFG” missed the mark, but for the filmmaker, there’s another movie that sticks in his craw.
Director Susan Lacy, who helmed the upcoming HBO documentary “Spielberg,” reveals that “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” is the director’s least favorite film in that franchise.
It’s not exactly a shock. The movie is tedious at best, casually kinda racist, and certainly the least interesting of those films (yes, and includes “Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull“) and tonally off base. While Spielberg’s dismissal of ‘Doom’ might be new to some, he’s spoken about his dislike of the movie before.
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“I wasn’t happy with the second film at all. It was too dark, too subterranean, and much too horrific. I thought it out-poltered ‘Poltergeist.’ There’s not an ounce of my own personal feeling in ‘Temple of Doom,’ ” he told the Sun-Sentinel back in 1989, just five years after it was released. Maybe it’s not such a surprise that the next film, “Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade,” would be firmly in Spielberg’s wheelhouse with a father/son story.
At any rate, it’s an interesting nugget from what’s sure to be a fascinating documentary when it airs on October 7th. [New York Daily News]
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Temple of Doom is the best one.
How is it racist?
Snake surprise!
Seriously? Short Round? The awful tribal “savages” with zero noble qualities. I cringe when I watch it now.
get over yourself.
how is short round racist? What tribal savages? The brain washed cult? Or the villagers in the beginning(of which the old man is very noble and the fathers love their children)?
maybe you’re the racist.
it shows a white blonde woman as a bumbling spoiled fool. Cuz you know, not all white blonde women are bimbos.
I don’t know… Implying that a largely vegetarian population is “savage” and eats monkey brains and snakes? Or the part where Kali(an abstract representation of death but still a revered goddess) is a demoness? Or the part where Indians need a bunch of white people to realize that the black magic shaman is a bad guy? Those parts maybe?
Awe, come on! Temple of Doom is an great action/adventure/Indy film.
I will defend Temple of Doom until the day I die. Adore that movie.
Me too.
Me three
Agree with critics and Speilberg that Temple of Doom is the weakest of the original films but still a mile above the Shia Leaf one. Regardless, it lacked something that made the Ark and Crusade films so good. They actually felt true to the swashbuckling serials while Temple of Doom was like some dark/horror movie with very surface level action. Not to mention the most forgettable love interest.
Yeah, I’m calling bullshit. Doom is not “tedious”.
I think Temple of Doom is super weird but it has some truly amazing set pieces and there’s no way it’s worse than Crystal Skull. It is notable, though, that it’s the only Indiana Jones movie in which he doesn’t activate the action, the action activates him. In other words, he’s not searching for something. He’s just caught up in this wild adventure and has to get out. He’s more reactive and I think sort of less interesting. That said, I love all the action and actually don’t find Kate as annoying as most do.
Kate is annoying,but she’s supposed to be right?
Maybe it’s his least favorite because it bothers Spielberg to see his ex wife in it?
Remember: most men’s motivations, whether negative or positive revolve around p*ssy.
Ex-wife? He’s still married to Kate.
I thought i read they were separated awhiles back my mistake.
Ok so lets flip it, seeing his wife on screen getting it on with harrison ford makes him cringe :p
1. Raiders
2. Temple of Doom
3. Last Crusade
4. Crystal Skull
WRONG. Temple of Doom is great. Last Crusade is basically a watered down version of the first. Skulls just straight blows. Doom has a rocket-powered second hour.
Temple of Doom is a straight up (not kinda) racist movie. The other two were silly fun, but this was black magic mumbo jumbo that dragged on and on without any sort of direction. 100% agreed with Spielberg.