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Article: Breakup Boy; The Adventures of Indiana Jones-newly out on DVD-is actually about broken relationships.
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- Philadelphia Weekly
- Article date:
- January 20, 2004
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Sitting in a dark theater when I was only 9 years old, I knew right away something was amiss. Point blank: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is an ugly, mean-spirited movie.
Sure, it's poorly structured and possibly racist, but something even more sinister looms within those six forsaken reels that famously inspired the PG-13 rating.
Raiders of the Lost Ark will perhaps stand for all time as a sublime example of everything that's joyous and playful about modern blockbuster filmmaking. It's the one movie I've seen more than any other--the proverbial hit off the crack pipe that kick-started my cinephilia.
And yet the universally despised, seriously nasty follow-up Temple of Doom forever ...