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[Dr Rick Daris]

I watched raiders of the lost ark for the first time the other night. not that great.

[star seed 7]

I watched raiders of the lost ark for the first time the other night. not that great.

I watched 1 and 2 a few weeks ago. Still alright, but really not as good as I remember from childhood.

[Cartierfor3]

Raiders of the Lost Ark has some of the best bad guys in movie history.

[Gooch]

I watched raiders of the lost ark for the first time the other night. not that great.

I watched 1 and 2 a few weeks ago. Still alright, but really not as good as I remember from childhood.

I hate and want to fight both of you.

[Tobias]

haven't seen that trash

[star seed 7]

Just doesn't hold up like the masterpiece that is the back to the future franchise

[Cartierfor3]

I also watched American Pastoral this weekend. The book doesn't really lend itself to a movie IMO. 3/7

[mocat]

the last crusade is the best IJ

[Gooch]

the last crusade is the best IJ

[_33]

Which is the one where that guy drinks from that cup and turns all old and dies?  Goblet of Fire?

[mocat]

i have a soft spot for sean connery gooch 

[Cartierfor3]

Which is the one where that guy drinks from that cup and turns all old and dies?  Goblet of Fire?

He chose........poorly......

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

Indy 1 and 3 were both great. Indy 2 seems to get a bad rap but I like it. Anyone who disagrees is a mouth breathing dumbass (who probably also enjoyed Arrival).

Now Indy 4, what an awful piece of trash. Did George Lucas have his fingerprints on that, like the SW prequels?

I'm hearing they're now making a 5th one. Hopefully without George Lucas.

[Cartierfor3]

Arrival is K-S-U's version of Dax's 2020 crap

[_33]

Showed Selma in class last week.  It was good.  One thing I didn't like:  every chaotic scene with police or KKK dudes beating up/intimidating/killing black people was in super slow motion.  I think the most terrorizing thing about all of those incidents would have been the frenzied confusion.  The fact that they all happened within the blink of an eye.  I don't think the slow motion captured the essence of those incidents.  JMHO.   

['taterblast]

Jackie was way better than i expected. also i didn't realize that's how the real Jackie Kennedy talked. i thought Natalie Portman was just butchering the accent but nope that's exactly how she sounded.

check this out (spoiler kind of?):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=espe9jaGBv0

[Gooch]

Watched Burnt last night. Very good. Might be the best Bradley Cooper movie.

[ChiComCat]

La La Land was ok.

[Pete]

I get not liking Raiders if the Lost Ark, but I don't share the same opinion.  I loved those movies as a kid.  Really, I loved all the characters that Harrison Ford played. Harrison Ford almost always plays a character that I wish I could be in real life.  His characters are usually an average dude who is a rascal and does really fun stuff. 

[puniraptor]

I do not get not liking Raiders of the Lost Ark. anyone who does not like RotLA has a genetically deformed and probably necrotized opinion generating cortex in their brain

[michigancat]

I made the mistake of watching ROTLA with young children because it was PG but man that is not a PG movie.

[mocat]

I made the mistake of watching ROTLA with young children because it was PG but man that is not a PG movie.

PG-13 had not yet been invented.

In fact it was invented partially due to complaints after Temple of Doom was rated PG

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

I made the mistake of watching ROTLA with young children because it was PG but man that is not a PG movie.

PG-13 had not yet been invented.

In fact it was invented partially due to complaints after Temple of Doom was rated PG

Found this interesting.

As for the X rating, it wasn't synonymous with pornography until the 1970s. At first, it simply meant that no one under 17 would be admitted to the movie, but the MPAA never trademarked the X rating (unlike the other ratings) and it was hijacked by the pornography industry as a means to hype up their material, often adding several Xs to imply that their film was much more risque and obscene than others. In fact, several mainstream and well-regarded movies were given X ratings when first released before it became strongly associated with pornography, including A Clockwork Orange, The Evil Dead, and Midnight Cowboy. In 1990, this "pornography" association ultimately gave rise to the MPAA abandoning the X rating in favor of a new NC-17 rating for films where those under 17 were not to be admitted. Six years later, this was changed to anyone 17 and under, making 18 the new age requirement for these films.

As for PG-13, it was Steven Spielberg who helped usher in that rating. When Jaws was released in 1977, it was rated PG, despite the violence being too much for young kids, but of course deemed not enough that it needed an R rating. In 1984, he directed Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and was the executive producer on Gremlins, and both received a PG rating. He felt the PG rating was too broad and suggested a PG-14 rating. The next year, the MPAA, taking Spielberg's suggestion, instituted the PG-13 rating and Red Dawn was the first film with that rating. And the rest, as they say, is history.

Seems like Jaws is worthy of an R rating.

[mocat]

ksuw, that last sentence makes it feel like the whole thing is a made up story / email chain forwarded from your grandparent

[Dr Rick Daris]

don't think twice. I really enjoyed it but not as much as I thought I was going to. 6/7.