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WHAT WENT WRONG

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

WHAT WENT WRONG

Sad Boom Media

Flop, Disaster, Hollywood, Blockbuster, Film, Tv & Film, Directing, Film History, History, Acting, Movie

4.84.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

It's time for the feel bad sequel of 1984! Join Chris and Lizzie as they explore how bad breakups and broken backs contributed to George Lucas and Steven Spielberg being branded villains by People magazine. Plus, why Ke Huy Quan's "Short Round" is the real hero, Kate Capshaw paying a steep price for not reading the entire script, and why we still love Harrison Ford even though he stole Short Round's lines.

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome back to what

0:18.1

Hello and welcome back to what went wrong, your favorite podcast full stop that just so happens

0:25.2

to be about movies and how it's nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one, let

0:29.7

alone a screaming sequel that left its impact on the ratings system and on Chris's heart, perhaps, as we learned in one of our

0:39.7

more recent episodes. I'm one of your host, Lizzie Bassett, here as always with Chris Winnerbauer.

0:44.4

And Chris, what movie do you have for us today? Well, the heart-ripping joke was right there for

0:49.2

the taking. I'm sorry. Didn't do it. We're going to move on. We're talking Indiana Jones in the

0:54.0

Temple of Doom, the feel bad movie of 1984.

0:57.2

I'll save my thoughts for a moment.

0:59.0

This is sequel month, if you guys didn't know.

1:01.6

We did a poll in the fall, and we offered a number of sequels to films that we've covered.

1:06.5

And the top two winners were the Empire Strikes Back and Temple of Doom.

1:10.5

The second darker entries

1:12.5

into the respective Lucas and Spielbergian trilogies, George Lucas obviously spanning both.

1:17.9

So Lizzie, I have to ask you, what are your thoughts on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom?

1:24.1

Thoughts as a child and thoughts as a grown adult person?

1:27.1

I believe I've seen this, although upon rewatching it for the podcast, I was less certain

1:32.3

that I have actually sat down and watched the whole thing prior to now. I grew up on Raiders

1:37.3

of the Lost Ark, for sure. That's the one that I remember. I love that movie. Sex Criminal

1:42.2

Boat, Indiana Jones, aside. This one, as I was watching it, I was like, okay, I remember that movie. Sex Criminal Boat, Indiana Jones aside. This one, as I was watching it,

1:46.0

I was like, okay, I remember this image. I remember this sequence. I'm sure I watched clips of it on TV,

1:51.1

all to say, I don't think I'd ever actually sat down and watched this whole thing. I have a lot of

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