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Whistle Stopper - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Special Edition)
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Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Kate Capshaw, Roy Chiao, Stany de Silva, Lorraine Doyle, Harrison Ford
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
EAN: 0097361328348
Format: AC-3
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-05-13
Running Time: 118
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1984-05-23
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Summary: The Bad Sequel Everyone Went to See
Comment: One of my all-time favorite movies will always be RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. Great movie, great memories seeing it when it came out in the summer of 1981, still a good movie to watch.
Then in 1984, the sequel was released: INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM. The thrill was gone. All of the action scenes looked like models and bad special effects (where was the stunt work that made the first film so exciting?).
I didn't like the heroine (although the director certainly did since he married her). Someone actually counted the number of times she screamed to see if she set some kind of record (Kim Basinger beat her in 1989's BATMAN).
I hated that little kid. Even worse than I hated the little brat from the old Godzilla movies. Just annoying.
And the story was just gross and mean-spirited. Bugs, monkey brains, human sacrifice and incineration. Nice.
A big, induglent, ugly sequel. A few years ago, the defunct Premiere magazine did a retrospective of these films and nearly everyone interviewed made excuses for it. "Well, George (Lucas) was going through a divorce at the time...."
I wasn't a huge fan of THE LAST CRUSADE either but...at least it wasn't as bad as TEMPLE OF DOOM.
RAIDERS still rules though.
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Summary: just compare this to the recent release of Blade Runner
Comment: lets compare how George Lucas treats fans of his movies, as compared to Ridley Scott
Scott carefully remasters his films for DVD, but then also is not afraid to give fans polished versions of every release possible so that people can make up their own minds. the result? the film sells in droves
Scott gives us everything and substantial value for money
and then we get this effort from Lucas timed nicely *ahead* of the release of the next Indiana Jones film, after which we'll be fleeced for further scraps and rereleases. and this on the back of his crappy treatment of star wars.
oh boy.
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Summary: New Temple of Doom Special Collector's Edition due out May 13th, 2008!
Comment: The details of new DVD editions of the three classic classic Indiana Jones movies with all-new special features have been announced. They'll be available separately for the first time on DVD, or as a set. They were previously only available on DVD as a set.
The new releases will coincide with the new movie, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which comes out on May 22nd. They'll have new special features designed to introduce new Indy fans to the old movies, and to introduce old fans to the new movie.
The Indiana Jones movies are George Lucas's recreation/update of the serialized adventures of the 1930s and '40s. The original three movies were made in the '80s and set in the '30s. They feature Harrison Ford as a mild-mannered archeology professor who moonlights as an adventurous seeker of priceless antiquities. This takes him to exotic locations across the world, and gets him in some very tight spots of the kind that only a movie hero could get into, or out of. He invariably finds himself opposed by dangerous men with evil plans for the powerful objects only he has the skills to recover. There are elaborate set pieces with creepy critters, ancient traps, fights with weapons from bare hands to airplanes and tanks, and sometimes supernatural forces. Along the way Jones manages to have some romance too. Humor is a big part of the fun.
This is the second in the series but is set one year earlier than the first Indy movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, in 1935. After barely surviving an attempt to acquire an antiquity in China, Indy finds himself in India with a woman friend and male sidekick (a trio as in all three films). They're enlisted to recover a village's sacred Sankara stone and kidnapped children, both held by an evil man with designs to find and unite all five Sankara stones to rule the world. This project involves ritual human sacrifice and an underground mine, each of which provide close calls for the heroes.
This film, while incorporating light humor as before, is somewhat darker in overall tone than Raiders (reportedly by design, as Lucas and Speilberg were each in a dark mood after romance/marriage failures). Not especially violent by current standards (PG, though it played a part in leading to the creation of the PG-13 rating), I think most kids and parents will be fine with it. It's still all for fun.
The creepy crawlies featured in this installment are lots and lots of exotic insects.
If you don't want the whole set and don't want to wait until May, you could get a used copy of the old Temple of Doom DVD (people sell them out of the sets). The difference is in the extra features. The bonuses from the old set are on their own disc, so what you get when you buy just the old Temple of Doom DVD is pretty bare. The new release, on the other hand, has the following, all new:
-- "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: An Introduction" by director Steven Spielberg and creator/producer George Lucas
-- "Creepy Crawlies," in which Spielberg, Lucas and co-producer Frank Marshall reminisce about snakes, bugs and rats
-- "Locations," on where the films were set and where they were actually shot
-- storyboard sequence: "The Mine Cart Chase"
-- DVD galleries of illustrations, props, production stills and portraits, FX/Industrial Light and Magic stuff, and promotion/marketing materials
-- "Lego Indiana Jones," a demo and trailer for a game based on the trilogy
If you like a few extras, you'll probably prefer this new DVD, though maybe not enough to upgrade from the old one, or to wait until May. I like audio commentaries, myself, and since they're easy to produce and tend to bring out points not covered in other features, I subtract one star for a special edition without any, but I look forward to the rest. If you don't care about commentaries, this may be a five-star DVD for you.
There have been rumors of deleted scenes, but none are included.
Some will want to wait for a high-def release, which makes sense if you have the equipment or plan to get it. Many speculate that a Blu-ray release will come out for Christmas, but that's sheer guesswork.
There's also some speculation that an even better edition with all four movies will soon supersede this new DVD. The four movies may get bundled, but I doubt that there will be a better edition of this movie soon, if ever, on standard DVD. Keep in mind that the previous set came out over four years ago, and if not for the new movie, it would probably still be the only release in the over ten years of the DVD era. The next upgrade may be high-def only, and may not happen for a while.
If you do want the whole trilogy (highly recommended), the new release is here, the old set is here. If you want to pick up one of the others from the new set, the new edition of Raiders of the Lost Ark is here, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade here.
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Editorial Reviews:
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It's hard to imagine that a film with worldwide box office receipts topping $300 million worldwide could be labeled a disappointment, but some moviegoers considered Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the second installment in Steven Spielberg and George Lucas' 1980s adventure trilogy, to be just that. That doesn't mean it's a bad effort; any collaboration between these two cinema giants (Spielberg directed, while Lucas provided the story and was executive producer) is bound to have more than its share of terrific moments, and Temple of Doom is no exception. But in exchanging the very real threat of Nazi Germany for the cartoonish Thuggee cult, it loses some of the heft of its predecessor (Raiders of the Lost Ark); on the other hand, it's also the darkest and most disturbing of the three films, what with multiple scenes of children enslaved, a heart pulled out of a man's chest, and the immolation of a sacrificial victim, which makes it less fun than either Raiders or The Last Crusade, notwithstanding a couple of riotous chase scenes and impressively grand sets. Many fans were also less than thrilled with the new love interest, a spoiled, querulous nightclub singer portrayed by Kate Capshaw, but a cute kid sidekick ("Short Round," played by Ke Huy Quan) and, of course, the ever-reliable Harrison Ford as the cynical-but-swashbuckling hero more than make up for that character's shortcomings. A six-minute introduction by Lucas and Spielberg is the prime special feature, with both men candidly addressing the film's good and bad points (Lucas points out that the second Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back, was also the darkest of the original three; as for Spielberg, the fact that the leading lady would soon become his wife was the best part of the whole trip). Also good are "The Creepy Crawlies," a mini-doc about the thousands of snakes, bugs, rats and other scary critters that populate the trilogy, and "Travels with Indy," a look at some of the films' cool locations. Storyboards and a photo gallery are included as well. --Sam Graham
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