Raiders of the Lost Ark rerelease?

such a great movie, watched it for the first time when i was 9 or 10 after finding a VHS of it, had a sense it was something i shouldn't have been watching. i thought once indy brought the ark back in the truck the movie was over (surely there couldn't be an action scene better than the truck chase!) so i stopped the tape so i wouldn't get caught by my parents... then got to the final coda with face melting and all a year or so later which i was old enough to handle and thought was ridiculously cool

I told the kids there was no CGI in this movie, so the boy would challenge me any time a poison arrow would whiz by or vodka would get set on fire.

"IT'S SPECIAL EFFECTS. NOT THE SAME THING," I'd reply.

There's one scene where Indy and Sallah about have the Well of Souls dug up, and there's a really cheesy thunderstorm happening behind them. "IT'S A BLUE SCREEN," I had to say to his side-eye.

And then, when Indy fell into the WoS, I kept a close watch for the cobra's reflection on the glass between it and Ford. This time, I couldn't see it. I blamed our 13-year-old TV or my 46-year-old eyes.

But then later, I read online that for the 2008 DVD release, they used CGI to take that reflection out. Please don't tell my son.

because your dad wouldn't let you go see Raiders again and again, aiming to get value for money by enriching your young mind with different input, or he'd just buy a ticket for whatever was starting next?

Probably had something to do with how close the start time of our movie was to their movie.

Also, leaving our five-year-old sisters alone in a movie theater may have also had something to do with our sneaking around the Cinema XIII.

But then later, I read online that for the 2008 DVD release, they used CGI to take that reflection out. Please don't tell my son.

― pplains, Monday, September 14, 2020 5:20 PM (three minutes ago)

lol'd