Raiders of the Lost Ark is 40 years old today.

[Conager]

Back when it came out I was watching lots of old black-and-white movies. Raiders is now older than Treasure of the Sierra Madre was back then.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

^^^butt raider in a dark park

 

[thør]

And Harrison Ford is working on a sequel.

 

[suestevenson143]

Another one in the works

 

[RoryN]

Already filming. There's pictures of him in the hat circulating...

 

[PaxNurgle]

I loved all four Indiana Jones films, even the 2008 one. But isn't Harrison Ford getting kinda, well, too old to be Indiana Jones anymore?
I'll still probably go see it though, when or if it comes out.
I've seen "Raiders of the Lost Ark" probably two or three dozen times since I was a kid. Never get tired of it.

 

[Conager]

I was hunting around online for a link on IMDB and the now showing tab was there. Turns out it's showing right now in theaters here so I've got a 7:40 showing booked

And Harrison Ford is working on a sequel.

I'm not real fond of sequels but I would go see that.

 

[Saint_Ann]

I was hunting around online for a link on IMDB and the now showing tab was there. Turns out it's showing right now in theaters here so I've got a 7:40 showing booked



I'm not real fond of sequels but I would go see that.

Temple of Doom.


*nods*

 

[dolf]

The men making the movie had originally intended that the female lead be the daughter of his mentor who had charmed him, lolita style, when she was preteen. Lucas wanted her to have been 11, but Spielberg said they should play it safe and make her 15. Spielberg wanted her to have been the instigator.

In the end the movie sort of skims over this little plot idea. The most you get is, "I was a child! I was in love! It was wrong and you knew it!"

...Since finding that out, I've found it a lot harder to watch.

 

[Riles]

The men making the movie had originally intended that the female lead be the daughter of his mentor who had charmed him, lolita style, when she was preteen. Lucas wanted her to have been 11, but Spielberg said they should play it safe and make her 15. Spielberg wanted her to have been the instigator.

In the end the movie sort of skims over this little plot idea. The most you get is, "I was a child! I was in love! It was wrong and you knew it!"

...Since finding that out, I've found it a lot harder to watch.

Eeesh. I didn’t know any of this but now it’s kind of turned me off watching it.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

That's why queerbait (gav) likes it so much.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

The men making the movie had originally intended that the female lead be the daughter of his mentor who had charmed him, lolita style, when she was preteen. Lucas wanted her to have been 11, but Spielberg said they should play it safe and make her 15. Spielberg wanted her to have been the instigator.

In the end the movie sort of skims over this little plot idea. The most you get is, "I was a child! I was in love! It was wrong and you knew it!"

...Since finding that out, I've found it a lot harder to watch.

But "Short Round" didn't bother you.

Now we gotta cancel E.T.

 

[PaxNurgle]

ya know...
...it was a different time.

Hopefully we can get past the "They'd never get away with that stuff in 2020" aspect of classic films.

 

[dolf]

But "Short Round" didn't bother you.

Now we gotta cancel E.T.

yeah, different film.

Lots of things bother me now, but pedophilia is sort of top of the list... crazy, i know

 

[HisArpy]

ya know...
...it was a different time.

Hopefully we can get past the "They'd never get away with that stuff in 2020" aspect of classic films.

I'm hoping we get past the artificial prudish natures of the people trying to transform society into something it isn't and never will be.

 

[Sean]

Lots of things bother me now, but pedophilia is sort of top of the list... crazy, i know

Apart from playing Kieran Trippier at left back, obviously.

 

[dolf]

Apart from playing Kieran Trippier at left back, obviously.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

The men making the movie had originally intended that the female lead be the daughter of his mentor who had charmed him, lolita style, when she was preteen. Lucas wanted her to have been 11, but Spielberg said they should play it safe and make her 15. Spielberg wanted her to have been the instigator.

In the end the movie sort of skims over this little plot idea. The most you get is, "I was a child! I was in love! It was wrong and you knew it!"

...Since finding that out, I've found it a lot harder to watch.

She knew what she was doing.

 

[Conager]

Nice to see on what passes for the big screen these days. All of the best scenes have been included in so many movie montages that they lost their luster a bit from repetition. Storyline was weaker than I remembered.

 

[pecksniff]

He was looking in the wrong place.

 

[Chernosoth]

Mid-teen is a healthy age for parenthood where parenthood is a collective responsibility of communities and tribes. Our society does a poor job of support and preparation for adult life, frequently a refusal to do anything beyond complaining about kids these days.

 

[Wonderer67]

And Harrison Ford is working on a sequel.

Working title is “Indiana Jones and The Early Bird Special”

 

[Earthlyone]

Apart from playing Kieran Trippier at left back, obviously.

haha.

 

[pecksniff]

Back when it came out I was watching lots of old black-and-white movies. Raiders is now older than Treasure of the Sierra Madre was back then.

And Raiders was itself a callback to action-adventure movies of that period.