Raiders of the Lost Ark Walkthrough Ark begins with a giant action scene of Indy trying to escape a temple that housed the Golden Idol. Indiana Jones almost gets crushed by rocks, trapped in the temple, has to outrun a giant boulder, and then runs for his life from the angry locals. Indy runs to a seaplane and they fly off, but things only got worse from there in real-l

Re-watching Raiders in 2021 feels like you're watching a movie that could've been released last year. This longevity can greatly be attributed to the fact that a majority of the film is made practically, using real sets, locations, and stunt

The script featured an elaborate scene involving the goon chasing Jones through the streets of Cairo, but since almost all of the crew members had gotten food poisoning, Ford suggested he just shoot the guy instead. The actor playing the swordsman had apparently practiced for months for the scene, but unfortunately for him, he was killed off in a matter of seco

From high-octane car chases to visceral shootouts, there are a bunch of different ways to thrill audiences in an action movie. One of the most fun aspects of the genre is fight choreography. If it’s staged, shot, and edited just right, brutal hand-to-hand combat can make for some intense action sequen

While Spielberg’s dazzling visuals and Ford’s charismatic performance go a long way towards creating the sense of escapism that Raiders of the Lost Ark has to offer, what really sweeps audiences off their feet and takes them along for the ride is John Williams’ mesmerizing sco

The aesthetic can make for fun period pieces, but World War II itself has become a cliché. Today, setting a story during the war is seen as a shortcut to gaining audience sympathy since the genre’s simplistic morals are basically prem

Generally, action movies that jump from one action beat to the next can feel hollow or, even worse, forgettable, but that's never the case with Raiders. Interestingly, the story was so jam-packed with action sequences that some were remo

In a roughly 40-second opening shot, Spielberg introduces the audience to everything they need to know visually about Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford). As the Paramount Pictures logo fades into a real mountaintop, our hero walks into the frame, allowing the audience to take in the iconic visage that'll define him for decades: a leather jacket, bullwhip, and fedora

However, adventure movies have been playing on screens since the advent of filmmaking, with contributions from some of cinema’s finest directors, so there’s plenty of tough competition for the genre’s top s

Finally, a lone man pushes the crate through an enormous warehouse, disappearing among the thousands of similar-looking crates, creating one of the greatest and most mysterious ending shots of all t

With the masterfully simplistic premise of an elite squad infiltrating a high-rise controlled by a drug kingpin, Gareth Evans kept the focus of The Raid solely on the action. There’s no exposition or unnecessary subplots, just an all-out war between cops and cro

This series has always known the importance of throwing some comedy in with all the action and adventure elements. Each movie has its share of genuinely funny moments, but The Last Crusade has the biggest lau

Both of these films seemed to recognize that Nazis make for fantastic villains in the Indiana Jones franchise. However, Raiders of the Lost Ark just succeeds a little more in making their villains truly despica

One of the most prized gems in the Amblin crown, Richard Donner’s The Goonies follows a group of down-on-their-luck suburban kids who decide to spend their last weekend together following a treasure map to a pirate’s lost fort

Adapted from William Goldman’s self-aware fantasy romance novel of the same name by Goldman himself, Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride is a brilliant satire of fairy tales, taking the stock characters that are usually confined to the background of these kinds of stories and putting them in the spotli

Set at the height of the Great Depression, Walter Hill’s gritty, stylish directorial debut Hard Times stars Charles Bronson as Chaney, a bare-knuckle boxer who rises through the underground fighting scene with the help of a hustler named Speed, played by James Cob

Actually, due to different filming angles and such, he had to outrun the boulder ten times! Spielberg later admitted, "He won ten times and beat the odds. He was lucky, and I was an idiot for letting him t

One of the most incredible things about re-watching Raiders is the relative lack of dialogue, especially towards the beginning. In the screenplay written by Lawrence Kasdan, the audience learns about the characters through actions rather than wo

Inspired by the classics of the martial arts genre – particularly the blood-drenched productions of the Shaw Brothers’ studio – Quentin Tarantino made his stamp as an action director in his fourth film, Kill Bill . Uma Thurman stars as the Bride, an ex-assassin who seeks vengeance against the former colleagues who left her for d