Blissful Birthday to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Put in your greatest 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 a whole lot of reasons. And because it was launched in 1984, that makes right this moment its fortieth anniversary. Blissful 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 remains to be so improbable but additionally so polarizing. It’s only a drastic tonal shift from the earlier movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, however nonetheless has a ton of coronary heart and pleasure. So please, if you wish to learn extra concerning the movie itself, head over to that link.

Right here although, we simply thought we’d share the wonderful trailer for the movie and let followers discuss it to have fun 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 unfastened canon that thinks Kingdom of the Crystal Cranium (which celebrated its sixteenth birthday on Might 22) is healthier?

Tell us under and glad 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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