Put in your finest white tux, smuggle a diamond, and throw on “Something Goes.” Might 23 is the birthday of Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom—the franchise’s weirdest entry, for an entire lot of causes. And because it was launched in 1984, that makes immediately its fortieth anniversary. Glad birthday Indy!
Final 12 months, earlier than the discharge of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future, we did a deep dive into why Temple of Doom continues to be so implausible but in addition so polarizing. It’s only a drastic tonal shift from the earlier movie, Raiders of the Misplaced Ark, however nonetheless has a ton of coronary heart and pleasure. So please, if you wish to learn extra in regards to the movie itself, head over to that hyperlink.
Right here although, we simply thought we’d share the superb trailer for the movie and let followers discuss it to rejoice its fortieth. Forty years of Sankara Stones. Forty years of Brief Spherical. Forty years of rope bridge motion. Forty years of Snake Shock and Chilled Monkey Brains. Oh, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, you’re a wild one.
What are your favourite moments within the movie? Additionally, the place do you rank it among the many different Indiana Jones adventures? Absolutely it’s at the least within the prime three, proper? Are you a free canon that thinks Kingdom of the Crystal Cranium (which celebrated its sixteenth birthday on Might 22) is best?
Tell us under and pleased birthday to one of many quintessential movies within the careers of Spielberg, Harrison Ford, George Lucas, and the remainder of the gang.
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