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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) in Movies

May 6, 2020

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

1981 | Action, Adventure

8.9

(95 Ratings)

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Snakes! Why Did It Have To Be Snakes?

Raiders of the Lost Ark- started the Indiana Jones franchise, off with a bang. Lots of action, adventure, wips and gun fights. Classic sences like.. The Boulder chase, sword vs gun, face melting, taking the lost ark and top secert.

The plot: Epic tale in which an intrepid archaeologist tries to beat a band of Nazis to a unique religious relic which is central to their plans for world domination. Battling against a snake phobia and a vengeful ex-girlfriend, Indiana Jones is in constant peril, making hair's-breadth escapes at every turn in this celebration of the innocent adventure movies of an earlier era.

The film was subsequently nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, in 1982 and won four (Best Sound, Best Film Editing, Best Visual Effects, and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, and Michael D. Ford)).

American Film Institute
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies—No. 60

AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills—No. 10

AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains:
Indiana Jones—No. 2 Hero

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes:
"Snakes! Why did it have to be snakes?"—Nominated

AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores—Nominated

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)—No. 66

Its a classic action-adventure film.

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Sarah (7800 KP) rated Arlington Road (1999) in Movies

May 9, 2020

Arlington Road (1999)

1999 | Drama, Mystery

7.6

(5 Ratings)

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Tense and thrilling

I remember watching this film many years ago and thinking it was rather good, so I was very interested in watching it again to see how it has fared, and overall it's still a very good film.

The plot of this film is a very serious one, and at the time this film was released in 1999, domestic terrorism was a big concern. It's strange to watch now as domestic terrorism has, probably rightly so, been succeeded by international terrorism and extremism, but for me this is what made the film even more interesting and tense. There are some great performances in this from Jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins - a film is automatically good whenever these two are in it. The ending was what I remember shocking me the most when I was younger, and whilst it's not quite as shocking as I'd thought, I do think how this film ended was rather great (if not very bleak and unhappy).

This film does look a little dated now, and some of the special effects probably didn't look their best even back in 1999. This is a very bleak and serious film, it probably isn't quite as relevant now as it was back then which may lessen the impact a little, but it's still a very interesting film to watch.