re: #130 silverdolphin

I understand andI loved Raiders when it came out, but Raiders is a great movie mainly, IMHO, because of two people - Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg. The scene you mention is an example. The fistfight with the huge Nazi with the plane rotating around is another. But the serial aspect of the movie, it seems to me, makes it appear like one episodic, set piece followed by another (ie how did he manage to survive on the hull of that sub?) rather than a cohesive movie. Spielberg moving chess pieces around to get the characters where he wants them. I see the hands of the genius a little too much.

YMMV. The Mummy still makes me giddy while watching (that leftover emotion is why I am still up at 4 am having these sorts of conversations. Raiders no longer does that. I appreciate it rather than love it.

Never got that giddy over Mummy. It was a fun popcorn flick but forgotten 10 minutes after it was over and I have to look up who was even in it. I loved, say, the Wachowskis’ Speed Racer far more. Like you say, YMMV.