Raiders of the Lost Ark and its trilogy


 "I dunno, I'm making this up as I go," is one of my favorite lines from one of my all time favorite movies. Man, when I was about ten years old I wanted to BE Indiana Jones. I'm pretty sure most kids my age did. That was such a cool movie!

You can't beat Harrison Ford as iconic lead. And it had a very early role from Alfred Molina, who went on to play Doc Oc in Spiderman, and John Ryes-Davies, who went on to play Gimli in LOTR. Karen Allen was adorable as Miriam, Indy's love interest. 

And I mean, the bad guys were LITERALLY NAZIS. How can you go wrong with that set up? You can't.

And of course, John Williams provided the soundtrack which really made the whole movie the timeless classic that it is.

They tried really hard to make a good sequel, and to be fair, Temple of Doom has some good moments. I loved it at the time. But looking back it was kinda weird and a little too dark.

Then they totally redeemed the franchise with The Last Crusade. Sean Connery was perfect as Indy's dad. And once again, those evil Nazis provided the perfect foils. My only complaint is that Last Crusade is a little TOO funny. I preferred the mix in the first movie, where there were definitely some funny moments, but the movie was more action/adventure with a little comedy thrown in. Last Crusade is funny so often that it's almost a comedy with action/adventure elements.

But altogether, they are one of my all time fav movie franchises. 

We're not going to talk about Kingdom of the Skulls.

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