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re: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Posted on 5/28/18 at 2:12 pm to Rep520
Posted on 5/28/18 at 2:12 pm to Rep520
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My personal #1 movie
Me too. There are others that are better...but for me and the stage of my life that came out - it still tops the list. I must have watched it 10 times in the theatre and still love to watch it.
Within the last few years I actually went online looking to see how much one of those whips costs. I’m an adult now so I should be able I fulfill my dream of having one that I’ve had since I was 10.
Well...they’re about a thousand bucks...so oh well..:
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That sequence with the ark near the end was so fricking awesome.
I would argue there is not a bad sequence in the whole film. It goes along at a highly entertaining pace. The only stretch (aside from the whole concept) is Indy surviving on top of the sub - but WGAS? It was a great film.
I still use some of those lines today..
“Cmon...show a little backbone would ya?”
“I don’t know...I’m making this up as I go..”
“It’s not the age...it’s the mileage”
This post was edited on 5/28/18 at 2:20 pm
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Posted on 5/28/18 at 2:27 pm to udtiger
I always figured she meant child in terms of being young and innocent. She was 18-19 and thought it was true love. It was more of a fling for him.
I've always thought shooting the swordsman was the less legally defensible thing. That guy was nowhere near close enough for self defense and was just putting on an exhibition at that point.
I've always thought shooting the swordsman was the less legally defensible thing. That guy was nowhere near close enough for self defense and was just putting on an exhibition at that point.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 2:38 pm to KirkLazarus
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I'm sorry, a white male stealing artifacts from poor places of the world. Have you no shame.
Yeah he keeps saying it belongs in a museum.
Why? It's not his, it's not an American artifact. It's some holy relic of some tribe in SA.
Indy goes around the globe stealing shite from other people.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 3:02 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Indy goes around the globe stealing shite from other people.
And shooting people while getting shot at....hooking up with different women in each movie....fighting foreigners...drinking...
In other words a Real American !
Posted on 5/28/18 at 3:09 pm to SquatchDawg
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I would argue there is not a bad sequence in the whole film. It goes along at a highly entertaining pace.
There are so many iconic scenes, one after the other.
The opening with the rolling ball is an all-timer.
Meeting Marion and the bar fight.
Marion getting abducted and the city chase.
Digging for the ark and the snakes scene.
Fighting the bald Nazi with the spinning plane.
The car chase.
Trying to blow up the ark.
The ark melts faces.
Top men.
My favorite underrated scene is when Marion thinks the Nazis are coming to torture her and the guy unfurls the steel and chain contraption that is...a coathanger.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 3:23 pm to Rep520
And the classic...
Posted on 5/28/18 at 4:37 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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How come Raiders didn't have the toy franchise like Star Wars? Or not even close to Star Wars
I was 8 when Star Wars came out, my brothers were 11 and 12.
Star Wars:
4" action figures (all the different aliens and uniforms)
smaller die-cast vehicles (X-Wings, Y-Wings, Tie Fighters, Vader's Tie Fighter, the Millennium Falcon, the Star Destroyers, hell even the landspeeder).
Models of the vehicles.
Larger versions of the vehicles for the action figures
Death Star play set
Toy blasters (Han's pistol. the Imperial carbine)
Toy lightsabers
etc.
1980
Empire Strikes Back:
More action figures (Snow Trooper, Boba Fett, the other Bounty Hunters, rebel soldiers, Lando, the Bespin guards)
More vehicles (snow speeder, Super Star Destroyer, AT-ATs, Slave I-Boba's ship, Tie Bombers, even the Rebel transport)
Raiders of the Lost Ark:
bullwhip
hat
Everything else was already in the toybox. And you don't buy an Aztec pyramid, you make it in the backyard.
Not really much of a comparison. Now, if things had been in the videogame era, it might have been closer (Star Wars would still be in the lead there, but at least Indy inspired Tomb Raider and similar).
Edit to add: we had 3 boys in the house even when friends weren't over, and we had a lot of fun. Playing "war" was a fun thing to do. We probably had as much Star Wars military toys, as we had WW2 and modern military toys (tanks and army men, airplanes, lots of models etc).
Indiana Jones was great, but it didn't have anything you might not already have, for purposes of buying toys.
I suspect we had more Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers toys than anything Indy-related, as they tended to be on the same scale as Star Wars, and looked just as cool.
This post was edited on 5/28/18 at 4:53 pm
Posted on 5/28/18 at 8:00 pm to Rep520
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There are so many iconic scenes, one after the other. The opening with the rolling ball is an all-timer. Meeting Marion and the bar fight. Marion getting abducted and the city chase. Digging for the ark and the snakes scene. Fighting the bald Nazi with the spinning plane. The car chase. Trying to blow up the ark. The ark melts faces. Top men. My favorite underrated scene is when Marion thinks the Nazis are coming to torture her and the guy unfurls the steel and chain contraption that is...a coathanger.
As someone once said, you see a movie, and later talk about the 'good parts', but this movie is all 'good parts'.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 8:53 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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How come Raiders didn't have the toy franchise like Star Wars?
Well, my parents did let me have a bullwhip after watching Indiana Jones. My mom threw it away later that same day after I popped my sister with it.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 10:04 pm to Maytheporkbewithyou
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My mom threw it away later that same day after I popped my sister with it.
Thanks for the literal LOL...where did you hit her with it?face?
Posted on 5/28/18 at 10:17 pm to Scoob
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Indiana Jones was great, but it didn't have anything you might not already have, for purposes of buying toys.
That's a good point. There was nothing futuristic about it...it was retro.
Not a lot to sell.
But damn I wanted a Bull Whip (but that's not a toy) - I finally did get a whip from some Western store - you could wrap it around a tree limb in your backyard but it wouldn't support you worth a damn...no swinging from it. For that we used garden hoses nailed to the trees.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 10:54 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Always thought Indy was a better Chara ter and better performance than Han Solo.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 11:09 pm to bcoop199
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where did you hit her with it?face?
In her back. None of my plan to be Indiana Jones worked out. They bought for me at Silver Dollar City in the main gift shop. I was so pumped. We literally were home for less than an hour when I popped her with it and mom said, "Nope!"
Ridiculous part was I didn't even try to hit her with it. I was just trying to "pop it" and I hit her in the back. I made a lousy Indiana Jones.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 11:09 pm to Scoob
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Indiana Jones was great, but it didn't have anything you might not already have, for purposes of buying toys.
Speak for yourself. I'm in my 30's and got an Indy hat a few years ago.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 11:20 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
quote:This. Belloq was misunderstood, and Indy murdered Panama Hat while robbing him.
Yeah he keeps saying it belongs in a museum. Why? It's not his, it's not an American artifact. It's some holy relic of some tribe in SA. Indy goes around the globe stealing shite from other people.
Posted on 5/29/18 at 12:38 am to Maytheporkbewithyou
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They bought for me at Silver Dollar City in the main gift shop.
Went there a few times as a kid also. Would've begged for a whip there had I seen it but likely would've had it taken away too.
Posted on 5/29/18 at 1:31 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
I disagree there was nothing retro about it. As a very very very young lad, I had no clue whether Indian Jones was set in the future or not and I actually thought it was set in the future. That was because in The Last Crusade, he shoots through 3 men, and I had no clue there was anything possible in our current t time that acoukd shoot through 3 men. I must have been 6 or 7 when I thought this
Posted on 5/29/18 at 1:38 am to Jack Ruby
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Always thought Indy was a better Chara ter and better performance than Han Solo.
Fords acting in ESB was atrocious. Some of those scenes, esp when he’s bantering with Leia, are cringe.
Posted on 5/29/18 at 1:55 am to biglego
I would replace that with Return if the Nedi, it as you said Empire, I will tell you duck off.
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