Forbidden Eye
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Phlip said:
Loved it. Having already ridden Temple of The Forbidden Eye at Disneyland, the beginning itself won me over as I was like "So that's where that part of the ride came from" and "This is why the ride ends with a giant boulder!" They played too many commercials, but I still really enjoyed warching the movie from beginning to end. I was still relatively young so Dad asked me if the ending of the movie scared me, but I said no(after Temple of Doom, everything about Raiders was tame lol). I can't say which I preferred at the time: Raiders or Doom, to be honest, I liked them about the same.
I will say though that a little later in life I jumped on the "Temple Of Doom is the worst Indiana Jones movie" bandwagon, mostly because my Dad didn't like it, and when I saw the Making Of documentary on the DVD, and they addressed audience complaints at the time and Spielberg himself admitting it was his least favorite in the trilogy, I just joined the crowd and said it was my least favorite too(I never disliked the movie, I just never watched it as much as Raiders and Crusade). To be honest, it was not until rewatching the entire trilogy in preperation for Indy 4 that I really discovered a newfound appreciation for Temple of Doom that I lost since I first saw it. Since I didn't see it as much as the other two it was easily the most fresh, but I also really appreciated the risks it took. Seeing how most "family films" these days are bland, formulaic, safe and rely largely on pop-culture references for entertainment, it amazing to look back on Temple of Doom and see a "family film" that tries to be disturbing and terrifying and essentially takes its main character through hell. Few films these takes put so much faith on their audience(like showcasing a religion not from the Judeo-Christian cloth) which is too bad. And as Lance pointed out, its a really unique sequel that broadens the horizon from the original film and takes the franchise into exciting new directions. Aside the fact Indiana Jones is the main character in both Raiders and Doom, both films share nothing in common in terms of storyline and plot structure, which is really cool and, again, rare despite sequels being ubiquitous in Hollywood today as ever.
