Original cast member Sam Neill, nevertheless, does a great job of carrying the movie on his lonesome shoulders as fellow original main cast member Laura Dern sits shamefully wasted in the background as not much more than a ca
Steven Spielberg has birthed a number of movie history's most well-liked accomplishments and, in terms of long-running franchises, is perhaps best known for the Jurassic Park franchise and the Indiana Jones franchise. Both modernized nostalgic adventure movie tropes and iconography to great success with audiences and produced some of the most memorable sequences in the history of cinema. But which of the movie series have fared better with crit
From the minds of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg and brought to life on the big screen by Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones is undoubtedly one of the best cinematic heroes of all time. Though he is a professor of archaeology in his day job, Jones spends his spare time traveling the globe and facing danger while recovering long Lost Ark Mounts artifa
The latest Indiana Jones movie still remains one of the most controversial entries with fans despite being quite highly-rated by critics. There was an almost-20-year gap in between Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Last Crusade and, in that time, fan expectations had morphed into something similar to those seen amongst Star Wars f
Karen Allen brings so much humor, heart, and fun to the character. From her first scene where we find her in the midst of a drinking contest, she makes for an unforgettable character who is a welcome addition to this advent
Raiders of the Lost Ark was the first cinematic Indiana Jones adventure and did a fantastic job presenting a hero that would go down in cinema history. As soon as Ford steps out of the shadows in that first scene, we were hooked to this guy. The movie showed him to be a smart, charming rogue who could kick butt but was never taken overly seriou
Though the love interest angle of The Last Crusade is not great, it does feature the best of Indy's sidekicks in the franchise. Sean Connery joined this third film as Indy's father, Dr. Henry Jones Sr. A famed archaeologist in his own right, the elder Dr. Jones was a tough, sophisticated and hilarious partner to his
Looking at every movie and its score on review aggregate site Metacritic, this list will hopefully give a newcomer to either franchise a better understanding of the movies and their sometimes complicated hist
Comparing the before and after shots reveals the well-hidden mistake. In the before shot, the dead driver accelerates the truck towards an obvious dead-end full of buildings on a cramped street. In the next shot, it has somehow turned a corner and emptied into a large open area, where the explosion is triggered. It's a bizarre mistake that somehow got left in, with no pickup shot between takes that would explain the discrepa
Pretty much every Bruce Lee movie has great fight scenes . Fans of fight choreography won’t be disappointed by Enter the Dragon or Way of the Dragon or even the incomplete Game of Death . But arguably the greatest movie in the Lee canon is 1972’s Fist of Fu
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
One of the most prized gems in the Amblin crown, Richard Donner’s The Goonies follows a group of down-on-their-luck suburban kids who decide to spend their last weekend together following a treasure map to a pirate’s lost fort
From establishing Indy’s characterization and his rivalry with Belloq in the gripping opening set piece to wrapping up the quest for the Ark of the Covenant in a neat bow with the grisly climax, Lawrence Kasdan’s screenplay for Raiders is airtig
However, adventure movies have been playing on screens since the advent of filmmaking, with contributions from some of cinema’s finest directors, so there’s plenty of tough competition for the genre’s top s
What ultimately made Raiders of the Lost Ark – and George Lucas’ other franchise, Star Wars , for that matter – such a success is its sense of pure escapism. The Indiana Jones movies (and the Star Wars movies) offer audiences a much-needed break from the real wo
There are some cinematic goofs and mistakes that people never notice until they're pointed out. One of the most hilarious of these occurs during the scene when a group of thugs force Marion onto the back of a truck and inside a large wicker basket. In an attempt to stop them from driving away, Indy shoots the driver, which causes the truck to overturn and expl
John Williams, again, delivered one of his most recognizable scores and cinematographer Douglas Slocombe highlighted Spielberg's practicality while making the composition of the movie's shots timelessly beauti