Temple of Doom under appreciated.

Temple of Doom was godawful.

More like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Racist Stereotypes. It serves as the project where the director found his second wife.

I don't think there's any racist stereotypes in this film. The dinner scene, which I assume you're referring to, doesn't apply any of the common stereotypes associated with Indians, it does however make an assumption for comedy effect on the types of food the rich would eat in that part of the world, but that's not actually racism. I assume it was a comedic device used to show the difference between the wealthy part of the country over the poor villagers, who were left virtually starving.

I take it then that you are white. Of course you won't see stereotypes. I'm not, and the portrayal of the non-white characters was and is extremely offensive. And that isn't even getting into defamation of the religion portrayed in the film.

What about the fact that Indy's sidekick, Short Round is non-white and he proves resourceful in helping Indy save the day?

I never saw India as being portrayed negatively. There were both good characters (the villagers, sacrifice victim) and bad (the Thuggee cult). The story just concerned those characters and wasn't intended to show all of India like that.

Defamation of the religion? The Thuggee Cult (the villains of the film and who did exist in real life, BTW) were abusing Hinduism for their own twisted purposes and clearly didn't care for traditional Hindu beliefs; e.g. the main villain, Mola Ram even wears a cow's skull (cows are sacred in India) during the sacrifices.

You seem to forget that the other Indy films have their evil German Nazis, shifty Arabs, loin-clothed tribesmen and Communist Russians. These films were always intended to be throwbacks to 30's-40's adventure serials and not to be taken so seriously.

Excellent points, well made Ravi. I also remember that the Indian army saves Indy's ass in the end, when they turn up to kill the thugees firing arrows at him. The cavalry coming to save the say, if you will.

I quote: "I take it you are white. Of course you won't see stereotypes".. And there is a racist comment in a nutshell. Not only that, but you base your assumptions on the colour of my skin, from your own prejudice. You think Caucasians don't understand or have never dealt with stereotyping? How about the assumption that white men can't dance etc. You make accusations of racism, while using racial stereotyping yourself.

I apologise for being a simpleton white person, but Instead of basing the validity of your argument on that fact that you are, as you put it "non white", could you explain why you think the characters are portrayed in a racist light, Kaskait?

The Thuggees (long gone even when the film was released) was a small sect. The religion of Kali had NOTHING to do with human sacrifice and still doesn't. But this film defamed that goddess and her believers for many generations. I guess when you have dark skin, you and your religion just don't matter.

Short Round is the worst kind of stereotype. Just because you don't see it, doesn't make it ok.

The villains in the other films were just villains.

Unlike this film, where NON-Villains had their religion, skin color and eating habits were set up as figures of fun or oddity like freaks at a sideshow.

Oh poor white people. So in control of culture and crying like babies when someone points out the real racism.

The fact that I'm am non-white, without white privilege, allows me to see the racism day in and day out. I've been all over the United States and I tell you that I've been given looks of pure hatred due to my skin color. And I always notice the amount of white actors as opposed to non-white.

Noticing is not racism. Pointing out facts is not racism.