Then they do about an actual good movie. This movie is not good, at least not anymore. I saw this, and the subsequent sequels, in the movie theatre as a kid. I quite enjoyed it. Action, adventure, super-natural elements. It had it all...that is until I watched it again as an adult. It still has action, adventure, and super-natural elements, but what it doesn't have is a good script, good acting, good editing, and good flow. My God, the way this movie jumps around is insane. Characters like Sallah had no introduction. None of the characters had an "arc", which is fine by me as I don't think it's a necessity, but they had no depth, which is hard to get past. People complain about movies like John Wick being unbelievable because he gets beat-up, shot, etc., but the same thing happens to Indy. Over and over.
I know some people find the introduction of Marion and her line "I was a child" a little "rapey", but it was a movie made in 1981 set in 1939. Back then, it wasn't that rapey. That's not what bothered me. What was is that she makes a huge fuss about how it's her bar and she worked hard to make it, etc., and when it burns down she's just like, whatever. I'm your shadow now.
And then when Indy thinks she's dead when the truck just rolls over and explodes (uh, what?), it cuts to Indy drinking with the monkey. The evil monkey that turned her in. Again, what?
And then Indy and Sallah just walk all around the Nazi dig site and no one questions them? Even when they find the right place and a crew goes up there and digs, in plain sight, and no one questions them? And then the temple with the snakes. This is supposed to be a temple sealed for like 2000 years, yet somehow all these snakes are surviving? And coming out of a wall? What?
Ok, then they get on a boat and a Nazi submarine finds them. Indy hides in a pipe. Then cut to him climbing onto the sub. The sub submerges and travels by map to some Nazi island only to show Indy already out of the water up high? What? Did the sub not go under water? Seems unlikely. Just too convenient.
And then the ending is just awful. I thought it was cool as a kid, faces melting, yay, but it just kind of negates Indy's journey. He didn't do anything to win other than close his eyes. What a cop out. Also, how did he know "not to look"? Again, convince.
I am 47 and looking at this movie again through the lenses and mind of a 47 y/o there were parts that were still enjoyable, but the overall whole of the movie does not stand the test of time.
And the irony is I see peole complaining about current movies that suffer from the same issues this movie does, giving them a 1 star rating, yet still give this movie a 10.
Like I said, nostolgia holds more importance than an actual good film.
I know some people find the introduction of Marion and her line "I was a child" a little "rapey", but it was a movie made in 1981 set in 1939. Back then, it wasn't that rapey. That's not what bothered me. What was is that she makes a huge fuss about how it's her bar and she worked hard to make it, etc., and when it burns down she's just like, whatever. I'm your shadow now.
And then when Indy thinks she's dead when the truck just rolls over and explodes (uh, what?), it cuts to Indy drinking with the monkey. The evil monkey that turned her in. Again, what?
And then Indy and Sallah just walk all around the Nazi dig site and no one questions them? Even when they find the right place and a crew goes up there and digs, in plain sight, and no one questions them? And then the temple with the snakes. This is supposed to be a temple sealed for like 2000 years, yet somehow all these snakes are surviving? And coming out of a wall? What?
Ok, then they get on a boat and a Nazi submarine finds them. Indy hides in a pipe. Then cut to him climbing onto the sub. The sub submerges and travels by map to some Nazi island only to show Indy already out of the water up high? What? Did the sub not go under water? Seems unlikely. Just too convenient.
And then the ending is just awful. I thought it was cool as a kid, faces melting, yay, but it just kind of negates Indy's journey. He didn't do anything to win other than close his eyes. What a cop out. Also, how did he know "not to look"? Again, convince.
I am 47 and looking at this movie again through the lenses and mind of a 47 y/o there were parts that were still enjoyable, but the overall whole of the movie does not stand the test of time.
And the irony is I see peole complaining about current movies that suffer from the same issues this movie does, giving them a 1 star rating, yet still give this movie a 10.
Like I said, nostolgia holds more importance than an actual good film.