After the 1981 Indiana Jones movie, the pressure was on for Steven Spielberg to be just as successful with its sequels. The film was given just a $20 million budget but made more than $389 million at the box office. But after its sequel, Temple of Doom, was released, Spielberg revealed he wasn’t happy with his follow-up movie.
Spielberg said of Temple of Doom: “I wasn’t happy with the second film at all. It was too dark, too subterranean, and much too horrific. I thought it out-poltered Poltergeist.”
Although Temple of Doom has gone on to be extremely popular, the legendary ET director does have a point.
On top of the brain-eating dinner scenes and the brutal knife fights, no viewer will ever forget one legendary scene.
It shows off a sacrifice being attacked by the Kali priest Mola Ram, while screaming: “Kali-Ma!” ripping his heart out in the process.
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Spielberg went on to add: “There’s not an ounce of my own personal feeling in Temple of Doom.” The Ready Player One director mused that making a sequel is dangerous because you can “never satisfy everyone”. He said: “If you give people the same movie with different scenes, they say: ‘Why weren’t you more original? But if you give them the same character in another fantastic adventure, but with a different tone, you risk disappointing the other half of the audience who just wanted a carbon copy of the first film with a different girl and a different bad guy.”
Kasdan said: “I just thought it was horrible. It’s so mean. There’s nothing pleasant about it.
“I think Temple of Doom represents a chaotic period in both their [Lucas’s and Spielberg’s] lives, and the movie is very ugly and mean-spirited.”
Despite the fact Spielberg was not a massive fan of Temple of Doom it was very successful.
On a budget of $28 million, the film made an impressive $333 million at the box office.
It also spurred on another sequel, The Last Crusade, which was released in 1989.
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Published at Fri, 31 Dec 2021 15:01:00 +0000
‘Wasn’t happy at all’ Indiana Jones sequel condemned by Steven Spielberg
