Temple of Suck

[swan_tower]

To hell with completeness' sake; I should just institute a rule that I'm never watching Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ever again, for any reason. Every time I watch the thing, it gets worse -- and it's not like it was good to start with.

Comments

[scottakennedy.livejournal.com]

While there are numerous good reasons to hate that movie, the one that always stuck in my craw the most was replacing Karen Allen's Marion replaced with Kate Capshaw's Willie. Oh Indy, we hardly knew ye.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the thing that I noticed more and worse this time. Willie gets dragged along (she doesn't choose to go), she spends most of her time bitching and complaining (instead of contributing), she's utterly incapable of saving herself or help anyone else . . . as I said in my comment to Mris, the movie's message is that a male of any age will always be more competent and useful than a woman.

One step forward (Marion), seven steps back (Willie).

[ckd]

It's like Microsoft Bob; the main effect of the movie was that Spielberg met Kate Capshaw, just as the project manager for Bob was a woman named Melinda French.