Problem with Raiders of the Lost Ark, is that the ending would have happened even if Indiana Jones wasn’t even in the picture. The NAZIs would have found the Ark (since Jones didn’t interfere with them getting the amulet), would have still opened it, and would have still melted as a result. The only thing Jones did was give the Ark to the government, who promptly tucked it away in some government warehouse.
He’s referring to Pauline Kael’s review at the time which said, in part, Despite its daring surface, Raiders is timid moviemaking: the film seems terrified of not giving audiences enough thrills to keep them happy. It’s an amalgam of Lucas’s follies—plot for its own sake, dissociated from character or drama; the affectless heroine, who’s a tougher version of Carrie Fisher’s spunky Princess Leia in Star Wars—and effects that Spielberg the youthful magician has already dazzled us with.
Erramontxu 17 days ago
Ejem, terrible really. Poor Wilco and all of that. But… does anyone know of such an link?
Formedras 17 days ago
Hmm. Smartest thing Satchel’s ever said.
Jayalexander 17 days ago
First mistake, giving a rat’s behind what somebody else thinks.
JLChi 17 days ago
Well, I don’t know about “timid,” but it was a very, very dumb movie.
iggyman 17 days ago
The reviewer must have been paid to blast the movie so you would be tempted to go see it for yourself!
jcwrocks69 17 days ago
Problem with Raiders of the Lost Ark, is that the ending would have happened even if Indiana Jones wasn’t even in the picture. The NAZIs would have found the Ark (since Jones didn’t interfere with them getting the amulet), would have still opened it, and would have still melted as a result. The only thing Jones did was give the Ark to the government, who promptly tucked it away in some government warehouse.
bigdawgjohn 17 days ago
Timid? Let’s GO!
wolfgang73 16 days ago
Opinions are like.. well you all know the rest
Guybrush Threepwood 16 days ago
He had internet in ’81?
jsimpso1 16 days ago
He’s referring to Pauline Kael’s review at the time which said, in part, Despite its daring surface, Raiders is timid moviemaking: the film seems terrified of not giving audiences enough thrills to keep them happy. It’s an amalgam of Lucas’s follies—plot for its own sake, dissociated from character or drama; the affectless heroine, who’s a tougher version of Carrie Fisher’s spunky Princess Leia in Star Wars—and effects that Spielberg the youthful magician has already dazzled us with.