Raiders can almost be interpreted as a revenge fantasy. Indy punches his way through legions of Nazis and a bunch of them are gruesomely killed by divine intervention when the Ark is opened, positioning Raiders as a staunchly anti-fascist mo
Like many movies of its era, there are some aspects of Steven Spielberg’s action-adventure classic Raiders of the Lost Ark that haven’t aged particularly gracefully. For starters, it’s revealed that the hero first began his relationship with the love interest when she was still underage, which would absolutely not fly with today's audien
Whichever producer thought the Dudley Do-Right segments from The Rocky And Bullwinkle Show would make for a great live-action feature film was totally off-base. The comedy starring Brendan Fraser as the titular Canadian Mountie is a mess, plain and sim
He’s forced to surrender when Belloq calls his bluff. As much as he hates the Nazis, Indy could never destroy such a historically significant artifact. But it was still great for the audience to see him facing down an army alone with an RPG slung over his shoul
Indy faces all kinds of booby traps on his way out of the golden idol’s temple home in the opening scene of Raiders , making it one of the best adventure movies of all time . Just in case the walls falling down, the bottomless pit, and the arrows shooting out from every direction didn’t kill the intruder, the temple’s designers also installed a giant boulder to chase them
According to The Hollywood Reporter , this scene was originally supposed to have a lengthy fight between the swordsman and Indy’s whip, but Harrison Ford wasn’t feeling well, so it was switched to the now-legendary anti-cli
A couple of moments in Raiders push the boundaries of its PG-13 rating – particularly the climactic sequence in which a couple of the bad guys’ faces melt off their skulls due to the awesome power of the Ark. The face-melting effect is still terrifying after all these ye
In his short scene, Molina's character scolds Donnie for being repeatedly late and not making his sale goals, ultimately firing Donnie for his insubordination. Donnie later steals money from Solomon Solomon's s
It’s a shame that Steven Spielberg never made more straightforward action movies, because his masterfully crafted action sequences in Raiders instantly solidified him as one of the greatest action directors of all t
Keanu Reeves doing the majority of his own stunts meant that the editor wasn’t beholden to cutting on stunt doubles and could linger on takes for longer than the average Hollywood action movie. As a result, John Wick ’s action scenes are much more immediate and visceral. The fights have the kind of clarity that gets Lost Ark Crafting guide when editors have to cut between stars and their stunt doub
Jock fires up his biplane, while Indy makes his way through a dense nest of trees, before emerging on the other side. This would have made it impossible for Jock to have any sort of visual contact with Indy as he was running towards the plane in the previous shot. In comparison with the film's other goofs, it's an easily spotted mist
Every fight scene in Kill Bill , especially the House of Blue Leaves massacre in Volume 1 , was meticulously crafted. Tarantino choreographed the fight scenes and all the mid-action cuts on the page before shoot
Molina's best films are often edgy, darkly comedic, and deadly serious. His worst suffer from being oversaturated with bad genre tropes, terrible scripts, and cringeworthy attempts to generate laughs. What's so amazing about Molina is that no matter how much a film underperforms, he still manages to give his characters some level of depth and complexity - most of the time, at le
When Indy and Marion escape with the Ark, they manage to get it onto a cargo ship headed for London. However, the ship is intercepted by a German sub and the Nazis take the Ark back. But Indy being Indy means that he refuses to give up that eas
Then, a wider shot reveals the thing that was ripping through the trees: a large truck, carrying a heavy-duty cage. It slowly becomes apparent that there’s a dinosaur in the cage, and these guys aren’t equipped to handle
There are a bunch of different ways to choreograph a fight scene – like Bruce Lee’s real-life martial arts prowess or Quentin Tarantino’s in-camera editing – and these action movies exemplify the very best of on-screen fisticu
Harrison Ford’s stunt double actually had to be dragged through the jungle on the back of a truck. Practical filmmaking techniques always make for more visceral, hard-hitting action than featherlight CG spectac
No moment sums up the Indiana Jones character better than this one. In the middle of the Cairo melee, a crowd clears the way between Indy and a master swordsman who wants to challenge him to a duel. The swordsman does a bunch of impressive acrobatics with his sword to show Indy the kind of opponent he’s up against. And instead of indulging the swordsman, Indy just takes out his revolver and shoots