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inulroLast night I stayed in and watched my shiny new DVD of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
The female lead is as thoroughly annoying as I remembered and the opening sequence is entirely annoying and a bad James Bond ripoff to boot. It's definitely pants until the point where they arrive in India and the proper plot starts. The score is intrusive all the way through.
Other than that, it has a lot more redeeming features than I remembered. The kid is a lot less irritating. The actual adventure is a lot darker than Raiders, with Evil Indy and the child slaves. The Thuggee ceremony is really creepy and visually impressive.
And it's got hefalumps, so I can't make a coaster out of it.
I can certainly work out why I hated it when it came out, as I was so emotionally invested in the first one, and this one is very different. I would have been a lot more affronted by the crappy female lead at the time. I had no interest in India or Indian mythology when I was 14 either - I suspect that's a big part of why I quite liked it this time round.
So - not as good as either of the other films in the series, but really Not Bad At All either. Aside from the introductory sequence, that is.
The female lead is as thoroughly annoying as I remembered and the opening sequence is entirely annoying and a bad James Bond ripoff to boot. It's definitely pants until the point where they arrive in India and the proper plot starts. The score is intrusive all the way through.
Other than that, it has a lot more redeeming features than I remembered. The kid is a lot less irritating. The actual adventure is a lot darker than Raiders, with Evil Indy and the child slaves. The Thuggee ceremony is really creepy and visually impressive.
And it's got hefalumps, so I can't make a coaster out of it.
I can certainly work out why I hated it when it came out, as I was so emotionally invested in the first one, and this one is very different. I would have been a lot more affronted by the crappy female lead at the time. I had no interest in India or Indian mythology when I was 14 either - I suspect that's a big part of why I quite liked it this time round.
So - not as good as either of the other films in the series, but really Not Bad At All either. Aside from the introductory sequence, that is.
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Date: 2003-12-20 04:09 pm (UTC)Also, I really hatted the female lead. After having the tough, very cool character that Karen Allen played in the first movie the annoying blonde in this movie was just really a disappointment.
The thing that bugged me the most though, I think, was that the entire movie pretty much took place in *one* location, and one that I just didn't find that interesting.
On re-watching later, it wasn't so bad, but when I run across it on cable I'm likely to flip on past it relatively quickly, whereas if it's one or three I'm likely to get sucked into watching the whole thing even though I've probably seen then both a million times before.