I’m trying to knock out some the movies I haven’t seen that most of the rest of the population has. Chel and I picked up Raiders of the Lost Ark from the library. We both gave it a B. It has a fun story and the action is above average.
I felt there were a few glaring holes. 1) Indiana seemed to warp from one place to another in the space-time continuum. More than once I thought, “How’d he get there?” 2) The heroine was more irritating than desirable. 3) The special effects at the end were straight out of Ghostbusters. I know it’s the same time period, and maybe those effects were good for that time, but I felt the movie would have been better off not showing melting crayons in the last few frames and leave more up to the reader’s imagination.
Last, I had no idea Indiana Jones was a mass murderer. The body count in that movie was much higher than I would predicted. This didn’t have an effect on my movie grade – I just had no idea.
