Disney+ Raiders of the Lost Ark does not hold up

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Last Crusade is the best one by far.

 

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Well the first one is the best, c'mon, it sets the whole style for the rest of them.

I like the last one too.

 

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I think Dial opens on 6/30. I plan to see it in the theater.

 

[Sprayin]

Go watch it and report back. Remember, if you don't like it, you might as well not come back.

 

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Go watch it and report back. Remember, if you don't like it, you might as well not come back.

After that POS Raiders, I’m in no hurry to rewatch Last Crusade anytime soon.

 

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After that POS Raiders, I’m in no hurry to rewatch Last Crusade anytime soon.

 

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Raiders

(Note: This posting is for educational purposes only.)I’m assuming the phrase “staging” came out of the theatre world, but it’s equally at home (and useful) in the movie world, since the term (roughly defined) refers to how all the various elements of a given scene or piece are aligned...

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[Fish]

It’s been 10 days and your opinion still doesn’t hold up. In fact it’s weaker. ?

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Fuck the OP

 

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It’s been 10 days and your opinion still doesn’t hold up. In fact it’s weaker. ?

 

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Fuck the OP

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

I know a good movie when I see it.

 

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Thrilling - there was NOTHING thrilling about this.
Suspenseful? Are you fucking kidding me?
Humorous? What made you laugh about this? Please tell me what was funny about any line or schene in this movie.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Add another one to the list

 

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Add another one to the list

Another what to what list?

 

[CMNTMXR57]

When he got to Harrison/Indy having no charisma, I stopped. Harrison/Indy has more charisma in his pinky fingernail than a graduate from a crazy dutch college (Rutgers)...

 

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[CMNTMXR57]

He's just trying to grasp at straws to support his silly premise.

 

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I couldn’t give it a 0 on IMDB, gave it the lowest rating I could.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

We should all go counter with 10's.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Roger Ebert's take;

The movie is just plain fun. The Kasdan screenplay is a construction of one damn thing on top of another. As the movie opens, Indy brushes aside a web taller than a man, is assaulted by giant spiders, narrowly eludes a booby trap and then another, leaps across a bottomless pit, is nearly crushed by a lowering slab, is betrayed by his companion, leaps the pit again, is pursued by a gigantic boulder that rolls behind him, is surrounded by natives with spears and dart guns, leaps into a river, crawls into an airplane and finds a giant snake in the cockpit. "I hate snakes," he says.

The movie hurtles from one crisis to another. After the struggle for control of the flying wing, for example (after, that is, a fist fight, gunshots, gasoline explosions and a villain who is made mincemeat by a propeller), Indy is abruptly told, "The Ark! They're taking it on a truck to Cairo!" Indy replies, "Where is it?" And that's all the exposition necessary to get us from the flying wing scene to the famous truck chase.

Harrison Ford is the embodiment of Indiana Jones -- dry, fearless, and as indestructible as a cartoon coyote. The correct casting was not as obvious in 1980, when the film was being prepared, as it is now. He had starred in "Star Wars" and "The Empire Strikes Back" as Han Solo, a laconic man of action, but his other credits were a mixed bag. What he proved in the "Star Wars" movies, and went on to prove again and again, is that he can supply the strong, sturdy center for action nonsense. In a scene where everything is happening at once, he knows that nothing unnecessary need be happening on his face, in his voice, or to his character. He is the fulcrum, not the lever.

Karen Allen plays Marian, his sidekick, a gutsy broad who has the duty of following the hero from one side of the globe to the other, while in constant danger. (She is nearly burned alive twice, shot at, faces down a King Cobra and is left tied to a stake by Indy because "If I take you out of here they'll start combing the place for us.") The female lead in an Indiana Jones movie is sort of an honorary boy, no more sexual than the girls in boys' adventure magazines, although Marian can more than take care of herself and is not helpless in the face of danger.

The special effects, astonishing at the time, now look a little cheesy; accustomed to digital perfection, we can see when model planes are being used, when dark clouds are being put in the sky by an optical printer, when the deadly rays of the ark are being superimposed on the action. Lucas of course went back and tidied up the effects in "Star Wars," but I hope Spielberg never touches "Raiders" because the effects, just as they are, help set the tone of the movie. A serial should look a little hasty. It's a Boy's Own Adventure, a whiz-bang slamarama, a Bruised Forearm movie (you squeeze the arm of your date every time something startles you). It's done with a kind of heedless joy. Spielberg was old enough (34) to have the clout to make the film, and young enough to remember why he wanted to. All of the reasons why he wanted to.