Temple of Doom is the only Indiana Jones film where Indy's actions actually matter

[blaseblase]

Temple of Doom: Indy ends up in India and goes on a mission to recover a village's sacred stone. He accomplishes this, as well as rescuing all the enslaved children and destroying the local Thuggee cult. This is the one and only instance of Indy saving the day.

In Raiders of the Lost Ark, the storyline is resolved by a magical device killing the evil Nazis.

In The Last Crusade, the storyline is resolved by a magical device killing the evil Nazis.

In The Crystal Skull, the storyline is resolved by a magical device killing the evil Russians.

In Dial of Destiny, the storyline is resolved by Nazis getting their plane shot down after traveling back in time to the wrong era via a magical device.

Indy didn't actually accomplish anything in these movies.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

 

[Boomb]

Ok.

 

[Fedorgasm]

I've never been into the Indiana Jones series but I could never explain why.

From now on, this will be my reason. Thanks.

 

[Rhood]

All I remember from The Crystal Skull was CGI ants involved in a car chase

 

[moreorless87]

Even in Temple of Doom the climax is ultimately the villain being killed by the Sankara stones, thats basically a feature of the series that the bad guys are "judged" by the supernatural force they are trying to control.

 

[ColemanwastheGOAT]

I rewatched Cystal Skull a couple of weeks ago and compared to movies from the last couple of years, it was great.

 

[Gandzooka]

Indy's actions get the magical device. He finds the ark. He figures out how to get to the Grail.

 

[BisexualMMA]

I rewatched Cystal Skull a couple of weeks ago and compared to movies from the last couple of years, it was great.

Yeah given what has followed in various franchises in the years since...Crystal Skull might end up with a Star Wars prequels kind of reappraisal as not that bad or at least...could have been worse.

 

[moreorless87]

Yeah given what has followed in various franchises in the years since...Crystal Skull might end up with a Star Wars prequels kind of reappraisal as not that bad or at least...could have been worse.

With the cultural war crowd perhaps but honestly I think its a pretty terrible film thats gotten worse with age, first 45 mins isnt bad but it absolutely goes off a cliff in the second half into dumb CGI Mummy sequel(but minus any lingering charm those films had) overload.

The recent film whilst not up to the originals I think is clearly better and really I'd argue it follows a lot of the tone of the better opening sections of Crystal Skull across the whole thing.

 

[TheTickG]

Temple of Doom: Indy ends up in India and goes on a mission to recover a village's sacred stone. He accomplishes this, as well as rescuing all the enslaved children and destroying the local Thuggee cult. This is the one and only instance of Indy saving the day.

In Raiders of the Lost Ark, the storyline is resolved by a magical device killing the evil Nazis.

In The Last Crusade, the storyline is resolved by a magical device killing the evil Nazis.

In The Crystal Skull, the storyline is resolved by a magical device killing the evil Russians.

In Dial of Destiny, the storyline is resolved by Nazis getting their plane shot down after traveling back in time to the wrong era via a magical device.

Indy didn't actually accomplish anything in these movies.

Temple was the only movie I enjoyed and watched in it's entirety. Made the right choice.

 

[The Good The Bad The HBK]

The raft is the real hero of the story

 

[Long Dark Blues]

Agreed.

It's also the most fun of all the movies.

 

[Lucas1980]

Agreed.

It's also the most fun of all the movies.

Yeah..Temple of Doom was a fun movie and glad I got the pleasure to watch it when I was just a kid at the theaters...It was one of the first PG-13 movies at the time I believe.

 

[blaseblase]

Even in Temple of Doom the climax is ultimately the villain being killed by the Sankara stones, thats basically a feature of the series that the bad guys are "judged" by the supernatural force they are trying to control.

Yeah but at least Indy needed to be involved to save the day. In the other movies he could have stayed home and nothing would have changed.

 

[blaseblase]

Indy's actions get the magical device. He finds the ark. He figures out how to get to the Grail.

And immediately loses the magical device to the Nazis. He may as well have stayed home.

 

[Wilmer Digreux]

nah he did things and stuff.

 

[syct23]

Taking the franchise as a whole, how many people did Indy kill..?

I would still burn any books necessary to get a chance to with that nazi woman…

 

[Batjester]

Sounds like somebody has whip envy.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

ok thanks for the input amy farah fowler