Reviews

When I read these reviews, of Indiana Jones, and Star wars as well, I'm always amazed.

Where does this opinion come from? That Empire, or Temple are the best?

Raiders of the Lost Ark is clearly the best, and Star Wars Is clearly the best.

Maybe this is the opinion of the younger folks, who don't have the experience of seeing these films when they came out, how mind blowing Star Wars was, a total game changer, or how surprising and funny Ark was...maybe you just don't know how these films excited us, changed all we thought about film...how they became part of our cultural reference, or currency.

In both cases the sequels went steadily downhill, becoming more self referential, jokey, formulaic. predictable.

A beautiful film, every scene perfect, and Topol is unbelievably amazing. How can something so perfect be created...I try, in my own craft, but to see something so faultless, so perfectly manifested...I am in awe of such talent and ability. The art direction, stunning, But really, Topol carries it. A man of faith with intelligence enough to accept change, compassion enough to love through difficult revelations/revolutions.

Was a very significant film from my childhood, for some reason, for a nice Irish-catholic boy, but I remember it well, finding again in my fifties, with a better sense of history, aesthetics, morality, sentiment, religion, tradition, it touches me in a deeply emotional way

Not such good training for tactical decision making in the field.

No scouts, apparently. March down a road, with high banks on either side. Miss the Picts waiting to drop the trees. Then, freeze in the kill zone. Don't just go around the trees. Don't even move up the slope. Just wait for the flaming balls.

Again with the flaming balls. Find me an historical account of flaming balls, or logs, etc. Also, explain the logistics of making/transporting? the balls, lighting them instantly so entirely in flame, without alerting the intended targets.

Ever shot a bow at a moving target? More miss than hit. Ever shot a live creature with an arrow? they don't just drop. Read some historical accounts of knights stuck full of arrows, still fighting. Or speak to anyone who has ever taken a deer. Ever thrown an axe? Very dependent on distance, if it is going to stick.

Why the elaborate ambush, anyway. No evidence of the usual nightly fortifications, just pitch your tents, take of the armor and have a cookout. Just sayin.