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The Heart-Pulling Scene
Heartbreak HotelIf Temple of Doom is true, then Hindus believe in reincarnation, karma, enlightenment, and pulling out the hearts of their enemies while leaving them alive. Wait. What? What? That's...
The Sankara Stones
Hot RocksEvery Indiana Jones movie needs its own weird mysterious artifact. Raiders has the Ark of the Covenant. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has that refrigerator. And Temple of Doom has the Sanka...
The Mines
It's Mine! All Mine!It's a good thing Indy doesn't have achluophobia (fear of darkness) because this movie is dark. A big part of the movie is about confronting fears, like the fear of insects (ent...