{"id":2572,"date":"2002-06-03T13:42:34","date_gmt":"2002-06-03T18:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2002-06-03T13:42:34","modified_gmt":"2002-06-03T18:42:34","slug":"temple_of_gloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/03\/temple_of_gloom.html","title":{"rendered":"Temple of Gloom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coincident today to finding the site of the guy who designed all the Indiana Jones <\/i>posters, James Lileks articulates why Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was a bad movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I remember how I felt after I saw this the first time. I felt almost soiled. It wasn\u2019t the quantity of violence, but the nature of it – at some point you stop fearing for Indy and start fearing for Spielberg, because something must have gone wrong in his head when he put this one together.<\/p>\n

Amen. The first one was great, the third one was almost-as, but the second one is only on my self because wanted the full set, and need to remind myself now and again how bad (opening scene aside) it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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