Things never noticed in Temple of Doom

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1. The nightclub where it all starts is called "Club Obi Wan".
2. The guy that escorts them onto the plane that Lau owns is Dan Akroyd.
 
Interesting. I watched the start of Temple of Doom on Sunday, and I didn't notice that. I did, however, notice that the movie still sucks.
 
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I did, however, notice that the movie still sucks.
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you watch your mouth!
 
3. “Temple of Doom” film takes place in 1935 a year before the events of “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” making it a prequel to that film, instead of sequel.

I believe I read or watched some interview with Ford saying that the Indiana Jones of this film was younger and more inexperienced than we had seen him before and explained this as the reason the character was stupid enough to drink that poison champagne at the start of the film.
 
As a stand-alone movie, I actually think it's pretty decent. It's nowhere near as good as Raiders or the Last Crusade. But it's enjoyable enough for me to watch it on a Saturday morning.
 
Setting all the enslaved kids free at the end was similar to all of the Ewoks being happy at the end of Return of the Jedi.

It was a warm fuzzy/ happily feely ending to a movie marketed to kids. It made me want to
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Was not that impressed with Capshaw's rack in Temple, but in the interim she has been aired up big time. In fact, her store-boughts are a little too big.
 
Like the plane flying east to west out of Shanghai, large amounts of the action moves right to left on screen. What I can't remember is if this goes so far that Indy returns to the village from the east, even though he left it heading west at the beginning.
 
Definitely the weakest of the three, but very entertaining nonetheless.

What still amazes me is how this movie got a PG-13 rating.
 
It not only got a PG-13 rating, it was partially responsible for creating it. At the time, I think it was viewed as possibly frightening for young children, with the whole human sacrifice, tear the guys heart out of his chest stuff.
 
Not to mention the monkey brains, the snake full of snakes (eels?), and the soup full of eyeballs. Those things freaked my **** out as a kid. They were way more "real" to me than the human sacrifice.
 
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