What Summer movies are made for.

Rating: 10/10 (26 August 2011)

Steven Spielberg got a lot of Oscar buzz at a young age. In three films that he had done by 1981(Close encounters and Jaws to say the least), they had gotten nominated for best picture. And deserved it. I'd of thought it would be hard to top films like those, but he did it with 1981's Raiders of the Lost ark, one of his best films. Actually, its probably his second best film.
It's hard to find a film thats more entertaining, fun, funny, brainy, and adventurous as Raiders of the lost Ark. This is the one that started it all. The first time America was introduced to the world of Indiana Jones. And i'm really glad that it was.
It makes me sad to hear that Harrison Ford has never won an Oscar. He should've at least won for The Fugitive, or, in my opinion, Raiders of the lost ark. His performance as Indiana Jones is funny and, in an un-gay way, rather charming.
The plot is pretty basic. Henry Jones Jr., a.k.a. Indiana Jones(Ford) is a professor, and, well, a badass archaeologist. He is sent to retrieve The Ark of the Covenant, which, as you know, was a biblical item. Not only does he have to save it, but he has to save it, but he has to save it from Nazis. So its a race against the clock as Indy, Marion(Karen Allen), Indy's old fling, and Sallah(John Rhys-Davies) try to retrieve it.
There comes a Summer movie that is just a lot of fun, filled with nice locations and thrilling action sequences. A good example of that is Romancing the stone or, most recently Knight and day(i'm not comparing it to Raiders of the lost ark but I did think it was a blast). You look at a movie like Knight and day and you remember what blockbusters used to be like.
Raiders of the lost ark is really what films are made of. It's hard to find a film more adventurous than anything Indiana Jones appears in. Raiders of the lost ark is somewhere on my top ten favorite films. It's a fantastic film, and its almost Spielberg's masterpiece. I hope Spielberg's next film, The Adventures of Tintin, does the same thing that Raiders of the lost ark does.
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