Counting Down

Only ten more days until we get to see Indiana Jones IV.  The Raiders of the Lost Ark is my favorite out of the trilogy so far.  I think the first film of any trilogy or series is hard to beat, simply because it's fresh and new.  In my opinion, the first movies of the Back to the Future, Karate Kid, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Spider-Man were all the best ones.  There are some exceptions, like Superman II and Terminator II, which I liked better than the first in the series.  The Lord of the Rings is unique in that all three movies are equally awesome. 

I can't believe that Harrison Ford did some of his own stunts again for the latest movie.  Isn't he like 65 years old?  Remember in Raiders of the Lost Ark, when he gets thrown out of the front of the truck, crawls underneath the truck, and gets dragged by his whip behind the truck?  Well, that was really Harrison Ford being dragged down the road!

I'll never forget the first time I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark.  I must have been in 5th or 6th grade when it came out.  My friends and I used to play with the automatic garage door opener and pretended it was the rock wall that Indy has to crawl through in the beginning.  We used to jump over imaginary pits and run away from imaginary round boulders.  We tried to buy a whip but our parents' didn't let us...in hindsight I think it might have been for the best, hahaha.