Heresy Friday
Ross Douthat discusses the best summer movies -- or rather, movies with a "summer sensibility" -- of the last five years. But what is your favorite summer movie of all time? I'm going to say something that may count as heresy among the partisans of Star Wars on this blog, but I'd have to go with Raiders of the Lost Ark here.
So go ahead and let me have it.
So go ahead and let me have it.
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Dear Kate Marie,
I think "Star Wars" would have to top my list, given the sheer visceral reaction that that Imperial Cruiser evoked as it passed over my head at age 9 in surround-sound. "Raiders" would be in my top five, though. They would be-
1)Star Wars
2)The Blues Brothers
3)Raiders of the Lost Ark
4)Gladiator
5)The Three Musketeers (the 70's version with Michael York, Faye Dunaway et. al.)
Dear Madman,
I will admit it was hard to choose between them, and I had the same reaction to the Imperial Cruiser, but in the end I think I enjoyed Raiders slightly more because I was older and understood a bit better how much fun it was. That whole opening sequence, for instance, was just so great . . .
Gladiator is right up there for me, too.
I've only seen The Blues Brothers on video, and only after I was too old to appreciate it in the proper spirit, I think.
I love The Three Musketeers. Did you see it in a theater? (Isn't Oliver Reed in that one?)
Dear Kate Marie,
I did see "Three Musketeers" in a theater. Oliver Reed is in it, as is Christopher Lee, Richard Chamberlain, Charlton Heston, and Raquel Welch. The "sequel" (really the second half of the novel, filmed at the same time as the original) "The Four Musketeers" is even better.
Too old to appreciate "The Blues Brothers" in the proper spirit. Hmmm. Interesting abstract concept.
How about "Jaws"?
I still see myself glued to the screen, in horror as a child, with untouched Kit Kat bar in hand.
It may have been a traumatic experience but damn it was summer!
LOL! I'll always remember seeing that with you and non-blogging sis. I really think you were in a mild state of shock.
Jaws is a *great* movie, isn't it?
I don't think it needs to be a blockbuster, necessarily, but I don't know whether Ladyhawke would fit, either -- since it could be considered more "artistically ambitious" than typical summer movies.
That's a romantic movie. Whatever happened to Rutger Hauer anyway?
So I made you see Independence Day. So sue me. What other embarrassing stories are you going to tell about me?
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