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In the interim, audiences can reintroduce themselves (and their children) to the awesome spectacle of the first film. Even 40 years later, it's one of the best adventure films ever made , but it also contains a ton of hilarious goofs and mistakes that managed to make their way into the final product. Some are blatantly obvious, while others need to be pointed out, but all of them are worth attent The movie has its undeniable flaws, as all of the movies in the series realistically do, but the hatred leveled against it and its more 50s sci-fi spin on the core structure was disproportionately intense more amongst older fans than it was amongst critics or general audien The latest Indiana Jones movie still remains one of the most controversial entries with fans despite being quite highly-rated by critics. There was an almost-20-year gap in between Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Last Crusade and, in that time, fan expectations had morphed into something similar to those seen amongst Star Wars f The script for Raiders of the Lost Ark went through various different drafts, in which a number of scenes and concepts came and went. A lot of those ideas would later be reused in the second movie (which was technically a prequel ), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom . These include Indy traveling the Shanghai and avoiding machine gun fire by hiding behind a gong and a high-speed chase on mine carts. Originally, in Raiders , the trip to Shanghai was to recover a piece of the Staff of Ra and the mine cart pursuit followed the opening of the Similarly remaking a number of the core elements of the original Jurassic Park 's first sequel as Jurassic World remade Jurassic Park , the movie slipped further into algorithmic screenwriting in the eyes of many critics and fans al You know, I go back to it. I mean, I very rarely to say to myself, "Gee, I think I'll watch Raiders of the Lost Ark." But there are often screenings of it that I get invited to, and I get asked to introduce it or to do a Q&A afterwards. There's one I'm going to do this August. So, usually when those happen, I will sit with the audience and watch it again. Because often, I haven't seen it for a while, and I just want to have the same experience that they're having with them. I would say I usually will end up seeing it once a year, or maybe sometimes twice a year. It's a film that follows through my life. There's a lot of films I've made that I saw when they came out and haven't seen them since. But this is this is not one of those; this is one that has stayed very much a part of my life experie Looking at every movie and its score on review aggregate site Metacritic, this list will hopefully give a newcomer to either franchise a better understanding of the movies and their sometimes complicated hist Steven Spielberg and George Lucas auditioned a ton of different actors for the roles of Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood. For Indy, they considered David Hasselhoff, Tom Selleck, Michael Biehn (who would go on to play Kyle Reese in The Terminator ), Mark Harmon, Christopher Guest (who starred in This is Spinal Tap ), and A Star is Born ’s Sam Elli Steven Spielberg 's original masterpiece may not be rated by Metacritic's calculations to be one of the director's top efforts in the eyes of critics but Jurassic Park is undeniably sacred amongst movie fans in gene 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 "Snakes...why did it have to be snakes?" Indiana Jones’ fear of snakes is one of his defining characteristics, and it’s put to excellent use in the narrative of Raiders of the Lost Ark Walkthrough Ark when Indy enters the Well of Souls and finds that it’s filled with hundreds of hissing cobras and pythons. However, as it turns out, neither Harrison Ford not Steven Spielberg are afraid of snakes, so it’s unclear where exactly this character quirk came from. It was a good thing for Ford and Spielberg, because it meant that they could focus on their work during the snake-infested sce I got to know it in little bits and pieces, because I met Steven first in New York. He came to New York, and we just talked for 15 or 20 minutes. He didn't tell me much about the film, it was just considered Steven Spielberg's next project. And then about a week later, he sent me the scene in the Ravenwood bar. I read that scene, and he wanted me to fly to Los Angeles and audition - they actually wanted to do full-on screen tests - with two men who were possible Indiana Joneses. One was Tim Matheson, who I had worked with in the first film I'd ever done called Animal House. And another was a New York actor named John Shea, who I knew a little bit just from New York - which at the time felt like a very small actor community. My first connection to it was really just that one scene. And in that one scene, working on that one scene over and over again, I fell in love with the character. It's such a wonderful introduction to the character in the film, And then when they asked me to do the film, they sent me for the first time the whole script, so I got to read the script after they had made an offer to