Bingowings said:

I watched TOD about 17 times in the same theater that year but that was because the hormones had kicked in and Harrison got his shirt off.

It's an audacious piece of cinema in many ways (the whole gunfight/carchase/plane crash/sled ride/ white water ride thang is astonishingly ballsy) but it's also more ethnically and culturally insulting the TPM.

You could get away with the British and the Americans saving the silly brown people from their filthy pagan religion in the 30s and 40s but by 1984 (2yrs after Gandhi, even if it does star Bendhi Kingslhi in brown face) you'd think the progressive USC grads would know better.

Was there any outcry as there was in some corners with TPM? Or was it lost in the noise of all the outraged parents who were bent out of shape over the violence in TOD and Gremlins?

One aspect of the OT I find slightly bothersome, is that the "good" aliens tend to be cute, and the "bad" run the gamut of repulsive, poor personal hygiene, and drooling.