5 Reasons Raiders Of The Lost Ark Is Better Than The Last Crusade 5 Reasons The Last Crusade Is Better

The internet blew up over the news that British actor Alfred Molina is reprising his role as Doctor Octopus in the forthcoming Spider-Man 3 . When he isn't playing a mad scientist with tentacled, mechanical appendixes, Molina brings his offbeat approach to everything from indie neo-Westerns to animated Bible films to classic action-adventure fli


Indy faces all kinds of booby traps on his way out of the golden idol’s temple home in the opening scene of Raiders , making it one of the best adventure movies of all time . Just in case the walls falling down, the bottomless pit, and the arrows shooting out from every direction didn’t kill the intruder, the temple’s designers also installed a giant boulder to chase them


Selleck ended up turning down the role due to CBS picking up Magnum PI , but the show was delayed due to an actor's strike. Since Raiders of the Lost Ark filmed in different parts of the world, Selleck could have played Indiana Jones, but by that point, Ford was already cast in the role inst


It's possible this fellow was sleeping on the job, but the deleted scenes tell a different story. As Indy exits the small hole in the temple, he encounters and subsequently intimidates a guard waiting outside. The man backs down in fear and collapses to the ground. While this scene was cut from the film, the slumping man was not, resulting in another innocuous g


Another factual error related to the Ark occurs when Indiana Jones speaks about the Ten Commandments tablets that were brought down from Mount Sinai by Moses. He references the Biblical story where Moses throws the tablets down and shatters them before putting them in the


The story of a fighter who needs to get drunk to fight made for the perfect action comedy , because the joke engine of the comedy is driven by action. The fights are masterfully choreographed and performed by experts, but it has a slapstick approach. As usual, Chan’s stunt work is impecca


Indiana Jones might travel all around the world for ancient artifacts, but the character was created in Hawaii. George Lucas went on a vacation with his friend Steven Spielberg when Star Wars was released __ and Spielberg revealed that he had always wanted to make a 007 mo


According to The Hollywood Reporter , this scene was originally supposed to have a lengthy fight between the swordsman and Indy’s whip, but Harrison Ford wasn’t feeling well, so it was switched to the now-legendary anti-cli


Though both movies have action sequences that rank among the best of all-time, The Last Crusade edges out the original. From the opening train fight to the boat chase through Venice to the wild tank battle, these action scenes come one after another and are all extremely impress


First of all, Lucas needed a $20 million budget, wanted most of the control of the film, licensing, and sequel rights. Studios also didn’t want Spielberg to direct because of his flop 1941 starring John Belu


When Indy and Marion escape with the Ark, they manage to get it onto a cargo ship headed for London. However, the ship is intercepted by a German sub and the Nazis take the Ark back. But Indy being Indy means that he refuses to give up that eas


Both these movies share a biblical theme in their MacGuffins, but the Ark of the Covenant is just a more interesting item. There is a real mystery behind what it is and what it can do. It all pays off wonderfully in the epic gruesome finale when the Nazis finally open it and get more than they bargained


During the iconic truck chase, Indy is launched through the windshield and left hanging from the front grill of the speeding vehicle. The driver puts his foot down so he can squish Indy into the back of Belloq’s car, so Indy has to climb under the truck. The practical stunts in this sequence are breathtak


While Thomas Jane's character Todd Parker prepares to rob Jackson (with Mark Walberg's Dirk Diggler and John C. Reilly's Reed Rothchild along for the ride), Jackson goes on a speed-induced monologue about his new, awesome mixtape. Rick Springfield's "Jessie's Girl" drones on in the background as the scene reaches a violent cli

The two characters can be seen on a pillar when Indiana Jones and Sallah remove a stone from the top of the Ark. The two characters can again be seen on a wall as hieroglyphs, only this time Leia appears too and is handing them the plans to the Death S


While Harrison Ford got sick while filming in Tunisia, he also tore his ACL on set. In the scene where Ford was fighting a large, muscular foe around the plane, the landing gear of the plane rolled over his knee and tore his A


Raiders of the Lost Ark strategy 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