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.

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[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I find this effect still worse if I've just watched "Raiders of the Lost Ark," wherein Marian is a pretty tough broad, within context and limitations of setting and so on. In the dinner scene where Willie is having conniptions about the bugs and monkey brains and so on, I said, "Yeah, because she's been living in Shanghai, where nothing they eat is foreign to the Western palate."

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

It isn't just Willie, either. I swear to God, Indy loses all of his "charming scoundrel" qualities and goes straight to "insensitive asshole." Which I could almost go along with, if his behavior was clearly a reaction to having to drag this screaming, self-centered woman along on one of his adventures, but then they expect me to believe he's attracted to her.

UmmmNO.