The Great Movie Review: Raiders of the Lost Ark

I love Indiana Jones. Nowhere else do you find a more intelligent, suave, manly and awesome specimen of what every guy wants to be: A gun slinging, whip cracking, bar brawling, adventure dominating, woman wooing machine. In the word of David Schmitke: "He's legit." The only other person who might come close is the Man from Snowy River. Even still he is to Indian Jones, what Josh Porter is to Michael Scott.

This movie contains a great many familiar scenes to movie and tv-dom. For example: Taking the Idol, The Rolling Boulder, Shooting the Swordsman in the Market and Melting Faces. There is so much here, that as you watch the movie you realize just how much there is that you've already "seen."

Valerie made an excellent point that there isn't much to the plot. Get the ark before the Nazi's. And like Stevox always says, "Who doesn't like to hate a good Nazi." Well my friends you are in luck. Because there's a great Nazi to hate in this film as well as a Frenchman.

But what it lacks in plot it makes up for in non-stop manliness. This movie is the gateway to awesomeness. This movie begins our next theme: Indian Jones. So get ready for more posts about a great series.