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I think you will like this one Miss Vicky.
4.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: 1984 (PG) NEW
USA / Paramount
84% (CF)
Kubrick was the man who helped me look at film differently, but it was Spielberg who made me fall in love with movies in the first place. And the film that started it all was the film that was my favorite movie when I was 4 years old. Indiana Jones: and the Temple of Doom!
Indiana Jones is my favorite cinematic character, and this is my favorite movie of the trilogy. How did Spielberg do it? The best way to memorize a kid at 4 years old is to throw unforgettable imagery at the kid, and this movie did that in spades! I can remember sitting in front of the TV we had in Seoul and watching every single scene! Spielberg puts together a film with so many fantastic and unforgettable scenes and sets! There is the opening shootout in a Shanghai Night Club, the plane over the mountain scene, the river raft, the campfire poker scene, the “dinner” scene, the bugs, nearly being crushed by the lowering ceiling, the Thuggie sacrifice, the blood of Kali, Short Round busting out of imprisonment, fighting cultists while trying to save Willy, escaping the mines on the mine carts, the bridge scene, and finally the return to the village. That is just a handful of the awesome scenes in this movie. You could probably make into two or three other movies. Spielberg rolls them into one damn movie! Hell the bridge scene is my favorite scene IN ALL OF CINEMA! Needless to say this movie blew my 4 year old mind away!
Now why the hell was this not on my last Top 50? Well I watched this film to death and got burned out from it. I had not seen it in a few years until I watched it again a few months ago. It was there where I was able to reconnect with the film like I did when I was a child. The magic was recaptured and it shoots its way all the way up into my top 5. An appropriate spot if you ask me. This was the film that started it all. If it had not been for Spielberg, I don’t know if I would have ever joined this site.
4.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: 1984 (PG) NEW
USA / Paramount
84% (CF)
Kubrick was the man who helped me look at film differently, but it was Spielberg who made me fall in love with movies in the first place. And the film that started it all was the film that was my favorite movie when I was 4 years old. Indiana Jones: and the Temple of Doom!
Indiana Jones is my favorite cinematic character, and this is my favorite movie of the trilogy. How did Spielberg do it? The best way to memorize a kid at 4 years old is to throw unforgettable imagery at the kid, and this movie did that in spades! I can remember sitting in front of the TV we had in Seoul and watching every single scene! Spielberg puts together a film with so many fantastic and unforgettable scenes and sets! There is the opening shootout in a Shanghai Night Club, the plane over the mountain scene, the river raft, the campfire poker scene, the “dinner” scene, the bugs, nearly being crushed by the lowering ceiling, the Thuggie sacrifice, the blood of Kali, Short Round busting out of imprisonment, fighting cultists while trying to save Willy, escaping the mines on the mine carts, the bridge scene, and finally the return to the village. That is just a handful of the awesome scenes in this movie. You could probably make into two or three other movies. Spielberg rolls them into one damn movie! Hell the bridge scene is my favorite scene IN ALL OF CINEMA! Needless to say this movie blew my 4 year old mind away!
Now why the hell was this not on my last Top 50? Well I watched this film to death and got burned out from it. I had not seen it in a few years until I watched it again a few months ago. It was there where I was able to reconnect with the film like I did when I was a child. The magic was recaptured and it shoots its way all the way up into my top 5. An appropriate spot if you ask me. This was the film that started it all. If it had not been for Spielberg, I don’t know if I would have ever joined this site.