Firstly, Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of my all time fave films. Same for Last Crusade. But Tempe of Doom, well, here's what ruined ot for me....
...the rampant, if unintentional racism. Indian people eating MONKEY BRAINS FOR DESSERT????!??? Are you kidding me? Since when? SNAKE SURPRISE?? Eyeball soup? Giant beetles?? That was pretty low for some cheap shocks. Secondly, when Indy and co arrive at the village, which is supposed to be in India/Nepal, the people are speaking Sinhalese, the national language of...Sri Lanka! WTF? A language not even spoken in India! Look at a frickin map Spileberg! Why not frickin' Korean then? Parts of TOD were filmed in Sri Lanka, and Spielberg didn't even bother getting the goddamn languages right? It's like saying, 'yeah, *beep* it. as long as they're brown and they speak some kind of gibberish, no one will care'. What if at the start of the film in Shanghai, the Triads were speaking Japanese or French instead of Cantonese/Mandarin? Even if this doesn't smack of ignorance to you, it as at the very least a glaring plot hole.
...the rampant, if unintentional racism. Indian people eating MONKEY BRAINS FOR DESSERT????!??? Are you kidding me? Since when? SNAKE SURPRISE?? Eyeball soup? Giant beetles?? That was pretty low for some cheap shocks. Secondly, when Indy and co arrive at the village, which is supposed to be in India/Nepal, the people are speaking Sinhalese, the national language of...Sri Lanka! WTF? A language not even spoken in India! Look at a frickin map Spileberg! Why not frickin' Korean then? Parts of TOD were filmed in Sri Lanka, and Spielberg didn't even bother getting the goddamn languages right? It's like saying, 'yeah, *beep* it. as long as they're brown and they speak some kind of gibberish, no one will care'. What if at the start of the film in Shanghai, the Triads were speaking Japanese or French instead of Cantonese/Mandarin? Even if this doesn't smack of ignorance to you, it as at the very least a glaring plot hole.