Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Installment number two in our evaluation of the Indiana Jones franchise. (Ugh, it feels a little dirty saying "franchise.") We'll at least get the the third, but no promises about anything further. Very, very mild spoilers for The Sixth Sense (trailer level), and of course SPOILERS! for Temple of Doom. Enjoy!

00:10 Episode 50!
03:05 Thinking about Temple of Doom differently after watching it this time
05:00 The Sixth Sense (very mild) spoilers
05:35 End of The Sixth Sense spoilers
09:11 Deliberately low continuity between Raiders and Temple
09:42 The time gap between the films within the stories (which Bob gets wrong; it's Temple-1936, Raiders-1937, Last Crusade-1938)
11:48 Plot summary
14:23 Should Indy have been trading the emperor for the diamond?
17:29 Temple of Doom more action than adventure
18:46 The absence of Kasdan
21:20 What were the big differences between the first two films?
27:05 The difference between the objects sought
30:47 Rushed production?
32:37 Do sequels usually surpass or fall short of the original?
36:10 The "banquet"? First the raft!
43:06 The bugs!
44:01 Amrish Puri and other positives
46:33 Ke Huy Quan as Short Round
52:31 Child slavery as a plot element
53:45 Deus ex machina ending?
55:17 Who's that big guard?
57:26 Dan Akroyd and... Casablanca... and James Bond?
58:39 Wrapping up

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Music:
Intro and Outro music excerpted without alteration other than length and volume from AcidJazz by Kevin McLeod under a Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode