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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
You can’t go wrong with Raiders, can you? The opening to the movie always freaked me out as a kid. The mysteriousness, the somber score, even the odd font for the opening credits always stuck out for me. Indy was a dangerous guy, someone you do not fuck with, established right out of the gate.
And right away we also get spiders and absolutely creepy corpses. First Forrestal’s dusty, dry corpse and then Satipo’s fresh one and while that corpse never looked a thing like Alfred Molina it was still effective.
Below you’ll see Steven Spielberg, the idol and Satipo’s corpse. Enjoy and click to enlargen!
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Want an expanded frame where we see WHY the stone block indy pushes out of the temple to escape with Marion 'bounced' It's cause it lands on a sleeping nazi and squishes him :)
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I liked how John Buscema drew it in the comic book version.
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had to be done
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I never realized that was supposed to be him as a kid.
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Jan. 5, 2012, 7:13 p.m. CST
Best adventure movie ever made. Are there honestly any other serious contenders?
by P
Original Robin Hood or King Kong, maybe.
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but I do love me some Indy.
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My buddy built a 35mm screening room in his garage (true story!), and he does weekly screenings from his 35mm print collection. Got to show my 9 year old son RAIDERS for the first time last weekend. He's been asking to watch it for a year, but I've intentionally held him off until we could arrange a "theatrical" screening so he could see it the way it should be experienced. He loved it, of course. Interestingly, I too was struck by how much the corpse of Sapito looked nothing like Molina...had never really noticed the disparity before.
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Jan. 5, 2012, 7:19 p.m. CST
Yes Gravy, Fellowship is indeed a fine adventure. Still my favorites of the Rings.
by P
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Jan. 5, 2012, 7:20 p.m. CST
vegi, that is fantastic. Kind of takes home theater to another level, huh?
by P
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Jan. 5, 2012, 7:22 p.m. CST
That scene always scared me as a kid, the beginning of Raiders was classic...
by brocknroll
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I still remember seeing it for the first time with my Dad. What a great movie and a great pic too. "Trow me da idol and trow you da whip!....Adios senor." I'm still waiting for a Die Hard picture!!!
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Jan. 5, 2012, 7:29 p.m. CST
Tintin had the ingredients of a great adventure but something was missing
by P
Pepper? I don't know. Something. My nephew liked it though. A win for 9 year olds, I guess.
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Jan. 5, 2012, 7:29 p.m. CST
all those spiders crawling all over indy outside the cave is what freaked me out first viewing as a kid.
by vulturess
still freaks me out to this day too. ford better have gotten paid extra extra for that.
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I gotta say it's been a while since I've truly loved one of his films. Not seen War Horse yet, but would love another classic Spielberg.
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Not counting Crystal Skull (which is already available on blu, and I happened to enjoy) Also I want on Blu-Ray... THE ABYSS TRUE LIES GOLDENEYE EMPIRE OF THE SUN ALWAYS TITANIC MUNICH I understand that we will be getting JAWS and ET:The Extra Terrestrial (30th anniversary) this year.
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Jan. 5, 2012, 7:45 p.m. CST
Quint, you summed up the opening to "Raiders" perfectly.
by ChaunceyGardiner
As a child, I saw this pretty early on. And, as with childhood, your memory is always on the move, always in transition. So while major parts of the rest of the film were lost to me, it was always the beginning that held a special power for me. Actually, looking back at my memory now, I realize that as a child I had so internalized that opening that I approached it more as a dream than as part of a movie (which is the power of films; our great collective dream of life). There is such powerful iconography in the opening, in the reveal of Indiana Jones. You felt like you were entering a new world - and it wasn't until about age 10 that I was able to integrate the opening into the rest of the picture, as part of the narrative. And that image of the whip pulling away the gun and the gun slipping into the shore of the river, it almost has a Jungian quality for me. The whip sound with the movement of the gun into the water for the longest time made me think of snakes, that there were somehow some serpintine theme buried there. The opening informed me of the entirety of the film. A great introduction. Truly, a brilliant film. (And I am so happy to have "Tin Tin" with us. It is a tremendous adventure and so full of Spielberg's wonderfully complex system of movement that the joy I had while watching it, and my sense of vicariously felt peril, was, frankly, a little transcendant. It felt like I was watching something from my childhood's imagination.) Thank you Mr. Spielberg.
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Do we get to see Peter Weller goofing around with his shot-off hand? It might help to ease my trauma from the death of Murphy scene from when I was a wee kid of 14.
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I still remember walking out of the theater the first time I saw it at 8 years old. I was amazed. Went to film school because of it. Named my daughter Indiana. Still my favorite movie to this day.
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Jan. 5, 2012, 8:04 p.m. CST
Still no AICN report about Plinkett's review of the Crystal Skull fiasco.
by KilliK
i wonder why...
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Same here.
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Not to keep rubbing in the fact that I get to watch 35mm films in my friend's garage movie theater, but next week's 35mm double feature is all kinds of awesome: pristine 35mm prints of ROBOCOP and BUCKAROO BANZAI, back to back! Tuesday can't get here fast enough.
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Jan. 5, 2012, 8:15 p.m. CST
From the opening in Raiders where Indy is shown only hidden in the shadows and
by KilliK
then whips the hand of the bad guy when he tries to shoot him,to the Crystal Skull opening where Indy is an old man dressed in rags and closed in the trunk of a car. Now that's how you modernize an iconic movie series for the young generation.aha.
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Nope,it is a pile of shit.Better than Crystal Suck but still a very average film with all the usual Spielbergian flaws.
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Precursor to Indy and its DNA is all over Raiders. Excellent flick that still holds up.
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I too was underwhelmed by Tintin (as stated above) but that doesn't invalidate chaunceygardiner's informed and well-articulated observations. Chauncey is a good writer and chooses his words carefully. Something you might consider.
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In Raiders is that he was a dangerous individual there is humor in it but that movie if you watch it almost plays like a snuff film compared to allow the action movies that's spielberg has directed since.
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One of my first visits to New York. July 1981. Previous day at Jones Beach, now the girlfriend has a wicked sunburn and can't get out of bed. I go for a wander in the heat on the Upper East Side and into a near-empty matinee on 86th St. Sit there in the cool dark and regress to about 11 years old from the moment the Paramount logo mixes through to the mountain, to the last shot of the crate with the Ark. Dragged her out to see it again next night. A wonderful movie.
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It's like man stole it from Mount Olympus. and it has one of the greatest closing shots too.
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i just gave a sincere opinion about the movie.i never addressed chaunceygardin's opinion or him in a personal level. Besides Chaunceygardin might have his own well-written arguments to support his opinion but so do i,even though i am not in the mood to write about a film which i have almost forgotten.
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I wonder if he knew he was creating history... the way he's holding that iconic idle... it just blows my mind wondering what would be going through his mind at the time this photo was taken... it's like, if you took a photo of Da Vinci with the brush in his hand as he was painting the Mona Lisa...
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Jan. 5, 2012, 9:42 p.m. CST
Yeah but dont forget: It was Lucas who started it all while Spielberg finished it.
by KilliK
We can trash old businessman Lucas,and rightfully so,as much as we want but we must always remember that it was the young visionary Lucas who gave us SW and IJ. And for that i thank him with all my heart despite the fact that he ended up raping both SW and IJ.fucking idiot.
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You can see the pupils in the fertility idol's eyes. This is one of the rare photos with the version of the idol that had the moving eyes. Spielberg eventually decided it was too cheesy and opted for one without.
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http://www.downinfront.net/audio/commentary-12-18-SKULL.mp3
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It's the last of the great top-shelf series to be released. After that it'd be the rest of the Bond films.
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He just had to step in the light.
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I don't get the joke. Care to explain?
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Raiders, Spielberg at his best. Crystal Skull, Spielberg at his laziest.
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and the reason I went to film school. Ironically I do CG shit now and if Raiders was made today they wouldn't have to corral a thousand snakes or make ghosts out of silk to float around in a water tank or any of the other creative shit they had to come up with as opposed to computer graphics.
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Jan. 5, 2012, 10:21 p.m. CST
@slone13 good catch.Unfortunately 30 years later we got a crystal
by KilliK
skull which reads minds and turns into a space alien.
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My issue was that I watched Temple of Doom FIRST. I fell in love with that take on the character so to me that's how an Indy movie was supposed to be. So when I came across an "older" Indy movie in the video store my child brain was like "WtF?" We rented it and I recall not liking it as a kid unfortunately. It creeped me out because it was darker though in a more realistic manner and it felt slower overall. The fun and simplicity of TOD just seemed more like what I dug at that time. Of course later on I came to appreciate all 3 of the movies. (I still hate the 4th)
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Jan. 5, 2012, 10:57 p.m. CST
So hypothetically, you are a 10yr old now in 2012. What movie made today is going shape who you are?
by Feral Colon
Green Lantern? Thor? X-Men? PofC 4? (insert shit here). If I look back at every year during the 80's, their is at least 3, count them, 3 movies that I will watch over and over again at the drop of the hat. Easy riders and Raging bulls had it wrong. The 80's wasn't the end of cinema, 2011 was.
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Jan. 5, 2012, 11:02 p.m. CST
FYI: fat_rancor_keeper - The exact same thing happened to me. 1981 born?
by Feral Colon
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'Temple' and 'Last Crusade' were so awful and derivative that my feelings for Raiders are kind of gone. Sort of how the prequels ruined the original trilogy for me. I didn't even bother seeing 'Skull'. What's the point? How much crap can one person watch in a lifetime?
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Jan. 5, 2012, 11:20 p.m. CST
I remember my brother thinking Indy says, "Goodbye, stupid-o" to the corpse in this scene
by Nasty In The Pasty
That still makes me laugh.
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He intentionally says "stupido" as a play on his name.
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I rank Raiders of the Lost Ark as the greatest ever with The Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn as a solid number two.
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Jan. 5, 2012, 11:42 p.m. CST
Why didn't they just use Alfred Molina for the corpse shots?
by detinue
I've been wondering this for 30 years. What, they couldn't have glued some sharp sticks to his head and body and poured a little fake blood on him?
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Jan. 5, 2012, 11:53 p.m. CST
Sad fact...I have the custom made Raiders jacket, per Ford's (and my) measurements from Wested leather
by wcolbert
Actually, nevermind, I'm quite happy with the jacket! I may be a geek, but I'm the only guy I know with an indy jacket that was actually made by the same people who made Ford's jacket for the movie! >:) I will never tire of any of the orginal Indy films...Indy 4 was a victim of both a jaded generation of moviegoers, and directors/producers simply forgetting the mindset they were in when they made the ones that worked...no way in hell would 1980s Lucas/Spielberg given us the fruity gophers, nuking the fridge, or cgi ants. Trying to be retro while still using CGI and writing it from a more modern mindset is always a mistake. Worst thing though was Shia Labeouff....the guy was simply not someone who belonged in the movie. Swinging with monkies? Are you kdding me? If nothing else had killed that movie...the monkey part would have. Still...I loved revisiting the character! Just dont give Indiana Jones a son. You dont give Superman a son. You don't give the hulk a son. You don't give James Bond a son. You dont give Indy a son. It just completely distracts from who the character is.
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Secret Of The Incas is available for viewing here.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X33ActK3gT8 And, yes, the similarities to the Indiana Jones film are more than coincidental.
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He misspoke pronouncing it "Sapito" instead of "Satipo" as it was in the script.
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Still one of my all time favourite movies. Saw it at the theatre during opening week in '81, and loved it ever since. Hope the Blu Ray will include the vintage docs Making of Raiders and Great Movie Stunts.
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Just looks like my terrible grammar has again vexed you. I meant it was such a bad dummy as a child I had no idea it was supposed to be the same character. I remember thinking it was someone else who'd died hours earlier pr something. It was only when I noticed Indy picking up the idol upon later viewings I realized who it was meant to be. Sorry it was late and I was inebriated, I'll try harder next time. ;)
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I find that these two movie openings did alot for me in terms of seeing how it should be DONE. In a matter of minutes we grow to love and instantly know each character. They are cool, yet suddenly completely in over their heads, and we love them for being as human as we are. The writing is just impeccable. I cant choose which opening is better. Im just glad I got to experience both as a kid and can smile and reflect on them now in 2012.
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The Indy-review you're talking about is freakin' awesome! Plinkett's kicks ass.
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its alot more basic than yall think. the guy had no name, and in the script Indy just calls him Stupido for being an idiot. But they didnt want to name him Stupido in the credits, but that was the only reference. Therefore, Satipo. Common sense is good bros.
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Jan. 6, 2012, 6:43 a.m. CST
HARRISON WATCHES INDY FOR THE FIRST TIME http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4aDFeFwxymA
by UGG
sorry for caps, you prob seen this already but thought this is a good enough thread to post it.
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Yes, because *that's* how movies were supposed to be experienced: sitting in some weird guy's garage.
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It was 80% exposition, gussies up with a few, too cartoony set pieces. Too bad there won't be a sequel.
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When's the next screening? I'll bring the popcorn.
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God, i love all his reviews and have seen them many times. Yes, I have no life...
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Jan. 6, 2012, 8:31 a.m. CST
This has to have one of the most famously mispronounced names in classic cinema history
by TheSeeker7
This has probably already been talked about, sorry, I'm not reading thru every TB entry. But how the character's name is Satipo, yet Harrison Ford clearly says "Adios, Sapito". He reverses the T and P.
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...it would be Raiders of the Lost Ark. Just so I could watch it again and feel the same thrill that I felt watching it on the big screen back in 1981 at the age of 10. Perhaps the most perfect film ever made and definitely the greatest action-adventure flick, ever.
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I bought one of those same jackets (though I had them make it black)-- amazing quality, and really reasonable price. I've seen more expensive leather jackets in stores. And they don't make you feel like you're ready to search for lost antiquities and fight Nazis.
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I was probably 6. Loved the movie including being scared shitless by all the gruesome deaths and snakes etc. It's one of my first "good" memories where I remember consciously noting just how fucking awesome something was.
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Jan. 6, 2012, 10 a.m. CST
Cgi retro-fit Alfred Molina in there. This stupid prosthetic ripped me out of raiders when I was a lad.
by UltraTron
Fake prosthetic bullshit. Gimme a flawless Molina head replacement for the blueray with blood still spurting.
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Jan. 6, 2012, 10:07 a.m. CST
Ultra, brilliant! Let's just remake the whole thing. Silly stunts and models and practical effects. Pffft.
by P
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The quality is superb - though I did have to specially order a zipper from someone else in order for it to be screen accurate (for some reason they don't use the right zipper even though they are the bloody folks who made the original). The lambskin is extremely soft, especially when new, and for $400, you get a lot of value...I expect to be wearing this thing for the next decade or more, if it holds up. When I have more cash to throw around I think I'll get a nice sturdy cowhide Last Crusade jacket from them...if only so I can be more confident it can withstand a beating the lambskin might not.
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... that Satipo looks like that because Crystal Skull is being projected on the opposite wall of the cave.
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Jan. 6, 2012, 11:01 a.m. CST
As perfect a movie as there's ever been. LOL at the un-Molina dummy.
by Mr Nicholas
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My brain always assumed that he looked "wrong" because he was fuckin' dead! Corpses never look the same as the living person, am I right? Hey, that's how my pre-adolescent brain interpreted it, at any rate.
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Funny...I speak Spanish and for the longest time I thought Ford was saying "Adios, Sapiro," pronouncing the single "r" like we do in Spanish, like the "t" in "butter" (surley Indy knows Spanish). Just thought the guy was named Sapiro. When I read the novelization, I realized his name was Satipo. You guys are right about the dark opening of the film. I love the way they held off on showing Indiana's face until after that guy tried to kill him, the somber tone of the music, the scream of the Indian guide as he finds that warning totem, the birds flying out of its mouth - Jesus, so many great images in the first FIVE MINUTES! But the part that really tightened my sphincter was when they first get to the part of the tunnel when they have to jump across the gap - We hear the whip crack and John Williams' music gets going - To me this was like being at the top of a roller coaster ride, before the first drop. All I could think was, "Here it comes!" That's why we go to the movies, kids.
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A young Cary Grant gives a great manic performance. If you only know the older sophisticate from North by Northwest, you're in for great time.
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Jan. 6, 2012, 1:21 p.m. CST
tomorrow's BTSPOTD gets thrown through a window while screaming WHAT IS THIS SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTT???!!!!!!!!
by Squinty CGI Flynn
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Jan. 6, 2012, 1:59 p.m. CST
@ugg that's a fake.in the real one he plays Uncharted3 for a Japanese ad.
by KilliK
here is the original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI3tsWus2KQ
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I can't wait for the Raiders blu-ray. It can't here fast enough! Same for the blu's for Gojira (Godzilla), E.T., JAWS and Sunset Blvd.
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more than the movie itself.
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Troll? Troll 2? Trollhunters?
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don't get me wrong. I like this movie but i wasn't so impressed like you clearly were during that time.you people are starting to sound like harry. "oh my childhood", "oh I was 9 years old when it came out and my daddy took me to...". The love you have for this movie is so absurd. Just like star wars. It 's all about the nostalgia.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark is still a better cinematic treat than 99% of the action movies released today. The closest anything has come in the past 30 years to even capturing anything resembling the feel of Raiders is probably the first two Mummy movies... and they're not even close in terms of sheer quality. (We do get Rachel Weisz though...)
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Also the last good movie ever to which George Lucas's name was attached.
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That really depends on where you're from. North Americans, the Irish and Australians would pronounce that T as a D ('budder'), the English and Scots would pronounce it either as a proper T or with a glottal stop.
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It's not absurd, it's because it's so bloody good, as with a slew of stuff from the late 70s and early 80s. But a lot of stuff from that era was not good, and therefore it receives little love. Nobody loves Megaforce just because it's thirty years old. And few people love Return of the Jedi because it's 29 years old. If you seriously think most modern movies are better than Raiders, or Alien, or Blade Runner, or Empire, then I would say you don't know very much about movies. Equally, if you said that most modern movies don't hold a candle to Superman 3 or Octopussy, I'd say you were a nutcase, because those movies simply aren't that good.
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Jan. 6, 2012, 7:26 p.m. CST
No matter how often you run a RAIDERS BTS pic, I'm always delighted
by CountryBoy
It never gets old. And as for recent great action movies -- APOCALYPTO
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Stone cold fuckin' CLASSIC. Love that fucking film. My kid loves it too, she's always asking me to put it on.
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