Quentin Tarantino's Favorite Indiana Jones Movie Is Now Streaming on Prime Video

Trust Quentin Tarantino to hold an unpopular opinion about something most of the world agrees on, but his favorite Indiana Jones movie happens to be the one even Steven Spielberg isn't too proud of. The movie was recently added to the Prime Video library, where younger audiences can experience some of its unexpectedly grim themes and borderline racist narrative. The film does, of course, have fans beyond Tarantino. For instance, its opening musical sequence is widely appreciated; it was revived when Spielberg made his first full-fledged musical, West Side Story, decades later. The movie also marks the memorable debut of Ke Huy Quan, who would go on to have a fairytale Hollywood comeback after spending nearly 20 years on the sidelines of the business.

We're talking, of course, about Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Such was the film's impact at the time of its release that it forced the Motion Picture Association to create a new rating category altogether, the now ubiquitous PG-13. Unlike Raiders of the Lost Ark and most other movies in the franchise, Temple of Doom featured an Indian religious cult as the primary antagonistic force. It courted controversy for its depiction of Indians as monkey brain eaters and for its portrayal of a Goddess as a demon. Describing it as his least-favorite installment of the original Indiana Jones trilogy, Spielberg said, "I wasn't happy with Temple of Doom at all. It was too dark, too subterranean, and much too horrific. I thought it out-poltered Poltergeist. There's not an ounce of my own personal feeling in Temple of Doom."