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Friday, May 9, 2008

Film Win a Set of Indiana Jones DVDs!

Posted by Erik Henriksen on Fri, May 9 at 4:16 PM

So next Tuesday, a brand spankin’ new box set of Indiana Jones DVDs comes out—one that includes all three of the original films, new bonus features, and the most boring cover art humanly imaginable! (All the details are here.) We’ll have a review of the box set next week, but in the meantime, we’ve got an extra set to give away to one lucky Blogtown reader.

Only catch is, I want to make sure these discs go to someone who’ll really, really appreciate ‘em—a true blue, die hard, all-or-nothing Indiana Jones fan. Which, of course, is code for “Someone who loves Indiana Jones so much that they even like Temple of Doom.”

So here’s the challenge, Indy fans: In 100 words or less, whoever can offer the most convincing, heartfelt, or funniest defense of the much-derided Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom wins! Tell me why I shouldn’t want to jab icepicks into my eardrums whenever Kate Capshaw opens her goddamn mouth! Tell me why I shouldn’t be offended by the litany of ethnic stereotypes that Lucas and Spielberg cram into like every scene! Someone, for the love of god, explain to me why I still find Short Round so adorable, despite the fact his dialogue was clearly written by someone who thinks all Asians sound like Mickey Rooney! Or just tell me why—all those reasons be damned!—you still love Temple of Doom.

Contest ends Monday at noon, at which point I’ll pick a winner and inform them via email. (So when you comment, don’t forget to sign in with your email address.) Have at, Indy fans.

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The magical potato!

The magical hot potato!!!

That is all.

Posted by Kiala | May 9, 2008 4:20 PM

Shortie is cool because he was later in Goonies, thus making him forgivably cute in Temple of Doom. Plus my last name is Jones and always love to hear DOCTA JONES!

You’ve gotta hear Capshaw out because she tongues Indiana fucking Jones. Christ, the rest of us want to, we need pointers for what kind of shit flies.

Most importantly, Temple of Doom’s suckiness made The Last Crusade even more awesome. OMG, IT RULES. Doesn’t The Last Crusade just fucking SERVE YOU?

I declare myself the winner because now I’m totally going to watch Last Crusade when I’m hungover tomorrow.

Posted by JONES | May 9, 2008 6:21 PM

Does "Indiana Jones and The Temple Of Doom" only count as one word?

Posted by Stumptown Lawyer | May 9, 2008 6:26 PM

IJATTOD is the greatest serialized movie never broken into serial parts. Like some serial adventure of the 1930s, the movie needs to be seen in about ten separate parts with lots of cliffhangers. Watched in that manner with a generous helping of gin it turns out to be the most awesome serial ever made. Let's examine it's constituent parts:

*Shanghai gangsters.
*Himalayan plane plunge.
*Crazy colonial sub-continental monkey brain feasts.
*Secret passages with traps.
*The Thugee cult.
*Pulling a dude's heart right out barehanded.
*The invention of the PG-13 rating.

The result of the above? Pure awesomeness.

Posted by Chicks Write My Name On Their Eyelids | May 9, 2008 6:41 PM

My friends and I spent our recesses recreating scenes in kindergarten. One afternoon my platonic best friend joined in. I kissed her, inspiring another kid to spit Capri Sun on us like the elephant.

Sure, "very funny" but I never saw her again after school stopped for summer break. I assume her religious parents stuck her in a private school. Maybe not because of the kiss but I wonder.

Nonetheless, I love TOD, even though it tore my heart out of my prepubescent chest and tossed me into a pit of guilt. If I dig it, you should too.

Posted by Indiana Short Term Loans | May 9, 2008 8:00 PM

"Temple of Doom" is great because:

(1) How could you not like a teen-oriented action movie that opens--apropos of absolutely nothing--with a Busby Berkeley musical number, featuring tap-dancing girls in blond wigs? In these post-Tarantino days, that sort of post-modern genre mixing has become old hat, but when "Temple of Doom" came out it was a pleasant shock.

(2) The mining car chase sequence is awesome. "Temple of Doom" was the first movie since Buster Keaton's "The General" to figure out how to make a chase on rails suspenseful and visually interesting.

(3) Chilled monkey brains for dessert!

Posted by Matt | May 10, 2008 10:44 AM

Indiana Jones movies are so cool and so provocative, I actually cheated on my now ex-husband while watching the Temple of Doom!

Posted by AM | May 12, 2008 10:49 AM

Impressive all around, but Indiana Short Term Loans' heartbreaking story of lost love clinched it. Congrats!

Posted by Erik Henriksen | May 12, 2008 1:45 PM

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