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However, with a great story, a good cast (which is shaping up nicely) it could be a winner.
As for the year in which it's set...chalk me up for 1962. Maybe Indy has a hand in averting the Cuban Missile crisis.
But it's great to see Mads has been cast. I find it exciting to see this film is finally getting underway.
Yes I thought he was good in it too.
Let’s be honest, Jim Broadbent is always dependable. A very talented and likeable actor. Has he ever given a bad performance. I think you’d be hard pressed to find anything.
I thought Jim Broadbent was wonderful in Skull and I'd love to see him return. As strange as it sounds considering the sometimes-lacking quality of writing in that film, he actually delivers one of my all-time favorite movie lines in that film. When he and Indy are talking about Henry Sr. and Marcus Brody dying within a few years of each other, he says, "We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away." I find myself quoting that often, anytime I hear of a friend or loved one dying. It is (IMO) the one great line in the film, and Broadbent's delivery is pitch-perfect.
It's cool! :))
- Clearly visible reflection of snake on pane of glass in front of Ford
- Convoy chase makes no sense (Nazis simply stop the convoy; officer & a couple of troops dismount and riddle the helpless Indy with bullets)
- U-boat does not do what it absolutely WOULD do: submerging before approaching the SECRET base (thus Indy drowns)
And did you know, he was the original choice for Del Boy?
Great actor i everything he appears in!
No, definitely not perfection. (I love the random HUGE cliff that comes out of absolutely nowhere during the car chase, in between patches of jungle.) But it's perfect for me. It's an old friend whose flaws I can easily look past.
Good point! That is a great line, too.
He's already in the cab before they know he's there.
U-boats only submerged when they were attacking- there would be no reason to submerge approaching the base as no-one is around. The idea was Indy lashed himself to the periscope anyway (and this is shown briefly in the film) so would have survived.
The main problem with Raiders is that Indy's knowledge not to look in the Ark is never established beforehand and is a bit of a cheat.
But apart from that, it is perfection.
There was a cut scene of Indy clinging to the top of the extended periscope, waves washing over him, when the U-Boat submerges, but the feeling was it might stretch credibility, so the brief scene, I believe just one close shot, was deleted.
Raiders is perfection for me.
Also, the Mediterranean in the 1930s was perhaps the most heavily trafficked body of water on earth, ringed by RN/RAF bases (as well as French installations), not to mention all the merchant vessels, fishing boats, etc. No sub commander in his right mind would risk "giving away" a secret base like that... certainly not in daylight. (All of this could've been fixed with about 1 minute of additional footage.)
As for the truck convoy, it's been years since I've watched the film but I seem to remember that after dealing with the rearmost vehicles, the Nazis become aware of Indy's presence but just keep on going -- which is stupid.
I think you still get a glimpse of that (perhaps just a model) in the map montage in the finished film.
Me too. I love that line. Great chemistry between Indy and Marion.
I did know that he would have been a good Del, though they definately struck gold with David Jason in the role.
I think people generally consider the main problem with Raiders to be the fact that Indy doesn't need to be in it. If you took him out, the Nazis would still find the ark, open it, and die. But no film is completely perfect. It's still an absolutely amazing film, one of my all-time favorites.
Would they have found it? They were digging in the wrong spot.
Yes, the Nazis only found it because of Indy.