As we rapidly approach May 22nd and the release of the long awaited Indiana Jones movie, our good friends and Canadian brethren over at MoviesOnline.Ca have put up a little post outlining their 5 favorite Indiana Jones moments. They read like this:
1) Indy shooting the expert swordsman in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”: As a practitioner of martial arts my entire life I had a problem with the blocky and cheesy combat in the indie films but have to say this moment was pure genius.
2) Indy and the boulder in the opening scene of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” : This is one of many great sequences where indie ‘escapes’. This one was fun because it was a giant boulder which makes it stand out but as a whole there is a multitude of great scenes in this movie.
3) Indy reaches under a closing door to grab his hat in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”: Another great scene. Almost as good if not equal to the giant boulder chase scene.
4) The mine cart escape from the “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”. This was a fun and intense chase and a really creative and new spin on the ‘car chase’ angle instead making it be mine carts on tracks.
5) The snake pit in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”: Humanizing Indie and showing what really scares him was funny and effective in really bringing the human element to Indiana Jones.
I love their list… personally I would have found a place in there for that moment in “The Last Crusade” when Indy tells his captors that they’ll never find Marcus Brody because Marcus is a master of 10 languages, knows how to blend into cultures and disappear… yadda yadda yadda… and then the camera cuts to Marcus totally lost and confused in a busy marketplace asking people if they speak English. I HOWLED at that… still do after seeing it 30 times.
So what about you? What are some of YOUR favorite Indiana Jones moments?
