“Every day, I come by your house and I pick you up.

[chronovore]

Temple of Doom sucks

I thought that for many years as well, but eventually the intent clicked with me: While Raiders is aping old serials about fighting ratzis, but Temple of Doom is a reconstitution of the serials which saw all foreign elements as exotic and distrustful or worthy of suspicion. It's essentially trying to take a safe route towards old-school orientalism, with Indy as the white savior for which that era of media (or at least serialized media) is known. 

With all that in mind, I like it for what it is now, though it is even more problematic now than in the time of its original release.