Meanwhile Roger Ebert gave the film a perfect four stars whilePeoplemagazine warned that children may be traumatized by it.
The film also somewhat strangely focuses onHarrison Fords hero white savior-ing an Indian village.
As a result, the film ended up being Spielbergs least favorite installment in the initial Indiana Jones trilogy.
I wasnt happy withTemple of Doomat all,he saidwhile promoting its sequel,The Last Crusade.
It was too dark, too subterranean, and much too horrific.
I thought it out-polteredPoltergeist.
Theres not an ounce of my own personal feeling inTemple of Doom.
George was going through a dark period.
And I wasnt there.
But we were very close to seeing Indy battling dinosaurs a decade beforeJurassic Park.
The story was hashed out over two days in the summer of 1982.
Lucas and Spielberg met Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck, the writers of LucasAmerican Graffiti.
Kasdan declined, later calling it a horrible, ugly, and mean-spirited movie.
It ended up darker than we thought it would be.
But thats kind of what we wanted to do, for better or worse.
Some of Spielberg and Lucas feelings can perhaps be seen in the portraitTemple of Doompaints of women.
Kate Capshaws Willie Scott has been criticized as a one-dimensional character whos materialistic and is constantly screaming.
[Lucas and Spielberg] definitely wanted a ditzy kind of Jean Harlow character, writer Huyckexplained.
Yeah, he replied, though he insisted the glee with which it was ripped out was Spielbergs.
Is it fun to think back about that stuff emotionally for us?
No surprises thereyet for Spielberg, things are slightly different.
In 1991, he and Capshaw married.
Well go, Oh yeah, remember that?
It was so much fun.
It was a good learning exercise for me to really throw myself into a black hole.
