Comments on: John Williams – Raider’s March https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/john-williams-raiders-march/ Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:21:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/john-williams-raiders-march/#comment-1000148 Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:21:01 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=46358#comment-1000148 eddie–
Yes– the follow up movies went in an entirely different direction, in my opinion. . They sorta degraded into a caricature of themselves, and not in a way I found appealing.

(I do however enjoy the “Back to the Future” franchise, possibly because they made II & III at the same time, and I’m a sucker for time-travel tales.)
(I am waiting for “them” to completely ruin Star Trek.)

]]> By: eddie willers https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/john-williams-raiders-march/#comment-1000143 Wed, 12 Jul 2017 18:39:03 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=46358#comment-1000143 I, too, was (am) enamored with Raiders. I couldn’t find fault with any aspect of the film.

That brings me to the most disappointment I ever had in a movie, and that was the followup. When I heard there would be a second Indiana Jones movie and that it was going to be a prequel I was ecstatic. That meant that Belloq and the nasty “I know you will” Nazi could return! We might get the story of Indy and Marion and Professor Ravenwood. The possibilities were endless.

Instead, we got a screaming mess of a Goonies movie that had absolutely no reason to even be placed “in the past”. Leaden and unfun.

I’m thinking the difference was Lawrence Kasdan.

]]> By: Frank https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/john-williams-raiders-march/#comment-1000121 Wed, 12 Jul 2017 16:35:34 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=46358#comment-1000121 The tone of the horns is splendid in this version.

]]> By: Steve Earle https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/john-williams-raiders-march/#comment-1000088 Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:39:11 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=46358#comment-1000088 If you love ROTLA, as I do, then don’t watch this episode of the Big Bang Theory:

“The Raiders Minimization”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfUUGrSMmxI

]]> By: Andrew https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/john-williams-raiders-march/#comment-1000050 Wed, 12 Jul 2017 02:53:51 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=46358#comment-1000050 I think our modern intellectualism is not that powerful. All of these films, Star Wars, Raiders, Even Pirates of The Caribbean, all of them play against that very backdrop! All of these films make millions of dollars! Why? Because right in our guts, we resonate to these underlying truths. We all know, at a very deep level, that there are good guys and bad guys and we all KNOW that the Good Guys ALWAYS face stiff odds. And we like it that way. Because we love our heros. No Evil? No Heros. Those films flop, because most people don’t resonate to that.

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/john-williams-raiders-march/#comment-1000047 Wed, 12 Jul 2017 01:36:49 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=46358#comment-1000047 Raiders, is an excellent movie. -First-date with my future wife, and at her preference.

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