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It’s probably consensus that Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom is everyone’s least favorite Indy movie… until Kingdom of the Crystal Skull came out. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg admit that that they were in really bad moods when they made the movie… and it shows.

I mean, someone gets his heart ripped out. In a movie that was rated PG. Even if this movie was rated PG-13 — and this was one of the big reasons a PG-13 rating was instituted — when was the last time you saw a PG-13 movie with a scene that violent? Lucas and Spielberg felt bad. They wanted you to feel bad. They succeeded.

This era of the 80’s was all about pushing the tastes of the mainstream audience as far as possible. Sometimes, though, you tend to go too far.

The casual racism, for example.

And yet there is still a lot to like. This has the most striking color palette out of all the Indy films. The jungles are lush and green. The mines are lit up in stark reds.

Ke Huy Quan gives a winning performance as Short Round (who seems to be the only person in the series that Indy seems to like). Harrison Ford is probably sporting his most iconic and most swole look ever. And that mine chase is probably the single most iconic Indy action sequence of all time.

So a subpar Indy movie filled with some of its greatest moments. Such is the magic of Indiana Jones.

Temple of Doom turns 40 this year. So, you know… feel old.

Today’s prompt: what is your favorite moment in the Indiana Jones series?