re: #127 William Lewis

Eh, nope. Good clone, comes close in several places but in the end, it’s still an almost but not quite movie. Nothing will ever match Ford sick as a dog improving shooting the swordsman rather than dueling him with the whip.

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.