Review of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) by Popdod — 17 Jan 2019

It's a fun movie but there was too much action once they're in the temple and it's in that dark setting for so long, "Willie" was so awful (completely helpless, constantly nagging and screaming, materialistic ("OMG diamonds!!!!"), even that odd choice of a name for her), and it veers too far from reality (the first film felt like it could all really happen, sort of, with some limited supernatural elements until the end).

The child slavery was unsettling. Sure, stuff like that has happened in human history, maybe not exactly like this, but was it necessary to see children getting abused and so much? I didn't like the cheap gross out scenes in the first film and for some reason they decided to do a lot more of them for this one, just really don't see the point.

The audio, at least the version on Netflix, is really imbalanced and too low so it is very hard to hear the dialogue and I tried tweaking the sound settings a lot and had the volume at almost double what I needed for the first film.

Lucas and Spielberg admitted they messed this one up due both of them going through divorces around the time it was being made. I'd give this film a 5 or possibly 6 but some people do not know how to give criticism and blindly rate stuff 5/5 or 10/10, which really gives a misleading average score.