Movie Debate #58: Raiders of the Lost Ark

[Reed Rothchild | 9,549]

[Bearcat-Doug | 5,105]

One of the greatest movies of all time. Easy 10/10.

[Jicsan | 589]

10/10.  I love Indiana Jones, probably even more than Star Wars at this point.  I'd give them all a 10 except Crystal Skull... and it'd get a 7 on the VGS scale.

[Hammerfestus | 3,861]

9 bordering 10.  The Legend of Zelda of movies.

[Tabonga | 2,324]

Very solid 8 - what's not to like about this one?  Another great paean to the classic cliffhangers of old.

[Andy_Bogomil | 815]

Fun movie.

[mbd39 | 2,026]

I voted 9.

What do you guys think of the complaint that Indy has no real effect on the movie's outcome?

 

[Jeevan | 8,914]

I did it, easy 10.

[Reed Rothchild | 9,549]

10 minutes ago, mbd39 said:

I voted 9.

What do you guys think of the complaint that Indy has no real effect on the movie's outcome?

 

The same people complain about the laws of time travel when watching Back to the Future

[JamesRobot | 5,807]

10.  I think I have more than 10 10s by now but that's ok.  I watch a lot of movies.

Raiders is the best of the trilogy.  I think I'd go Raiders: 10, Temple: 8, and Crusade: 9.   Also, Raiders has possibly the best death scene of all cinema. 

[Dr. Morbis | 2,091]

I voted 10.  I don't see how anyone on earth could voted it less than an 8.  The cool thing about this movie for my generation is that it was basically the template from which all adventure movies that came after it in the 80's were made.  It also had a huge influence on the representation of heroes/protagonists in pop culture and in NES games as well...

[nrslam | 476]

Easy 10. So many great scenes.

[Sumez | 2,968]

I don't have to convince anyone that this is pretty much the defacto swashbuckling adventure movie. Despite being derivative in its own right, it's no coincidence that it ended up as probably the most commonly referenced movie of its kind immediately after it was made.

I do like Last Crusade even better though.

9/10

[Tabonga | 2,324]

3 hours ago, JamesRobot said:

10.  I think I have more than 10 10s by now but that's ok.  I watch a lot of movies.

Raiders is the best of the trilogy.  I think I'd go Raiders: 10, Temple: 8, and Crusade: 9.   Also, Raiders has possibly the best death scene of all cinema. 

And it has one of the funniest scenes in the whole series to boot:

 

[Gloves | 11,795]

1 minute ago, Tabonga said:

And it has one of the funniest scenes in the whole series to boot:

 

I love that scene. 

[Tanooki | 4,939]

Favorite here of mine definitely.  Hell my throw away email address on gmail I've had since beta is named after one in the series.   I wish I could add more, but Morbis there nailed it entirely.  That's how critically excellent and important this movie was to adventure films, story telling, and the rest.  People always talk about this and that setting a bar, this IS the bar.

[Jeevan | 8,914]

question is, is @Reed Rothchild gonna let all these 10's slide?

[Gloves | 11,795]

1 minute ago, Jeevan said:

question is, is @Reed Rothchild gonna let all these 10's slide?

I have like infinite 10's so he can stuff it.

[Reed Rothchild | 9,549]

4 hours ago, JamesRobot said:

10.  I think I have more than 10 10s by now but that's ok.  I watch a lot of movies.

Raiders is the best of the trilogy.  I think I'd go Raiders: 10, Temple: 8, and Crusade: 9.   Also, Raiders has possibly the best death scene of all cinema. 

 

 

13 minutes ago, Jeevan said:

question is, is @Reed Rothchild gonna let all these 10's slide?

 

12 minutes ago, Gloves said:

I have like infinite 10's so he can stuff it.

What's that? Spend the next 12 months doing Steven Seagal, Andrew Dice Clay and Joe Piscopo movies?

If you say so, I guess 

[Gloves | 11,795]

1 minute ago, Reed Rothchild said:

 

 

What's that? Spend the next 12 months doing Steven Seagal, Andrew Dice Clay and Joe Piscopo movies?

If you say so, I guess 

Joke's on you, those are the movies I watch! Muahahaaaa!

[JamesRobot | 5,807]

Just now, Reed Rothchild said:

 

What's that? Spend the next 12 months doing Steven Seagal, Andrew Dice Clay and Joe Piscopo movies?

If you say so, I guess 

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane  may very well be another 10.  Morris Day as Don Cleveland has one of the best lines ever delivered on screen, "You got to shave before you leave the house in a dress like that... and I don't mean your legs." :P

[Bearcat-Doug | 5,105]

32 minutes ago, Jeevan said:

question is, is @Reed Rothchild gonna let all these 10's slide?

I'm pretty sure this got my first one, so I'm good.

[Bearcat-Doug | 5,105]

17 minutes ago, Reed Rothchild said:

 

 

What's that? Spend the next 12 months doing Steven Seagal, Andrew Dice Clay and Joe Piscopo movies?

If you say so, I guess 

Andrew Dice Clay was in the 2018 remake of A Star is Born and I thought that was a great movie.

[DefaultGen | 5,414]

I have it in Letterboxd as a 9 but I haven’t seen it in around 10 years. One of those movies that’s everything other adventure movies want to be. It’s probably a 10.

Edited February 21, 2021 by DefaultGen

[Tanooki | 4,939]

I don't think I've done a 10 before, but you start throwing around those Steven Segal movies and I may just troll another for fun.  Or maybe some circa 1950-2000 era Godzilla, there will be some high praise.