Raiders of the Lost Ark (2012)

one of my absolute favorites!

Awesome Movie

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

I was so amazed to see a movie like this from those days of 1981. Spielberg magic...!!

I thought it would be a fascinating action thriller, yet it turns out to be a nasty horror film that turns to supernatural power. There is simply no logic or reason behind the screenplay. The overall music score and the action sequences in the third act are good, which prevents me from giving this film a one star.

What a movie. It is unbelievable to me that this was done in 1981. It is just excellent. Very advanced effects for the time too.

Movie Review: "Raiders Of The Lost Arc" (1981)This Hollywood Movie, just shot in 35 days under Steven Spielberg iron-focused directions at the age 34, released in the wake of two "Star Wars" movies already put on the market through George Lucas' company Lucasfilm Ltd. and 20th Century Fox to fulminate successes in attendance, especially on the U.S. domestic market of summer 1977 and 1980 respectively, comes an about-to-become legendary character of Indiana Jones aka Henry Jones Jr., portrayed undeniable by humor-as-action-beats alike joy-sharing actor Harrison Ford, at age 38, owning the show from the very first minute in classic Hitchcockian-suspense-indulging intension of visual delay; presenting the leading character's close-up after a string of over-the-shoulder primal shots, accompanied with the instant-ear-triggering score of composer John Williams, when Indiana Jones must chase down an alley of traps to escape certain death after stealing an ancient relic from a Peruvian indian temple scenario, before nemesis character-building actor Paul Freeman as Belloq intervenes the leading character's triumph.Director Steven Spielberg takes the shooting draft by Lawrance Kasdan based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman, known for strong dramatic features as "The Unbearable Lightness Of Being" (1988); Spielberg at the point of life-or-death proportions as young filmmaker, who recovers from giving-in to some creative risks in selecting his predecessor project "1941" of shooting season 1978/1979 under a astronomic 35 Million Dollar production budget for that particular time period of Hollywood filmmaking to an over-populated War-comic-action-movie; "Raiders of the Lost Arc" has luckily the contrary result of being stunningly paced in an 110-Minute-editorial by long-time Spielberg-collaborator Michael Kahn with precisely interweaved shot angles and camera motions created by cinematographer Douglas Slocombe (1913-2016), letting Steven Spielberg's directorial signature of connecting two-to-three single shots into one favorably been witnessed, when a burning Sibirian pub sound-stage-scene goes havok in reflecting white snow ambience lead Indiana Jones to meet his one-and-only archeaologic-side-kicking female support the character of Marion, performed by eternal-feminine-convictions-sharing actress Karen Allen, over to further military truck chases on North African desert roads to snake-pit high-suspense sequences of adventurous Nazi-fist-fighting and pistol-shoot-outs without forgetting constant infusions of audience-pleasing moments of thrills, romance and humor.Producer Frank Marshall provides a reduced-to-tight production budget of estimated 18 Million U.S. Dollars for second-chancing Director-"Wunderkind" Steven Spielberg, who accumulates all his powers for this motion picture in favor for a television-paced shooting schedule in an exceptional fast-turn-around to a major release for Hollywood Studio Paramount Pictures on June 12th 1981, when further international expansions took another four and a half months to reach West Germany on October 29th 1981, striking reminiscence in connection with Bavarian Co-production "Das Boot" directed by Wolfgang Petersen of sharing the same real-life-sized submarine property of "U96", repainted "U26" for "Raiders" in order tp provide both pictures with long-term cinema-historical fame, honored with six Academy-Award-Nominations for "Das Boot", including Best Director and Best Cinematography in 1983, and eight Academy-Award-Nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director in 1982, when four trophies get won for this technical as entertainingly flawless Action-Adventure-Movie, prevailing the test of time.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)