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From: listowsk@aecom.UUCP (Irving Listowsky)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - a great movie
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Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 14:38:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 13 14:38:50 1984
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I saw IJatToD , read net.movies, and was compelled to see it again.
WoW !! .. boy, do you guys have an axe to grind !!!!!
Hollywood finally produces an exciting, entertaining and well made movie
without sex or excessive violence (even when the heart was ripped out, ther
e was no blood!) and everyone has to tear it apart! ok, you're entitled to
your opinion - but I feel that the hysteria lumped on IJatToD is far too much.
What's so terrible about a few bugs on someone's hand (did they use stuntmen?)
or a couple of slimy snakes - I've seen things much more gruesome and traumatizing on TV!
as far as the technicalities, - I watched very carfully the second time around:
1) I didn't see the camera plane someone mentioned.
2) The bad guy WAS on the bridge when it was cut - above willie and round.
   He then fell and caught himself below them - that's all there was to it.
3) The bad guy pilots had to bail out rather that simply killing them because,
   as someone pointed out, the plane had'nt the range to make it much further.
   The Bad guy wanted revenge on them by placing them in peril at a desolate
   location.
4) Violence: This movie was LESS violent than RotLA !! In rotla, we saw living
   faces melt - I dont see how inanimate eyeballs in soup is  nearly as terrible
   as that. Even the most gruesome scene - the open heart surgery - had no blood   in it.
I'll admit that some things in the movie such as the life raft parachute are a 
bit far fetched, but these did'nt affect the flow of the movie. It moved right
along at a heart stopping pace! Even the second time around, I was immersed in
the action. I don't see how IJatToD could harm children - it is nowhere nearly
as traumatic as things like GREMLINS.

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