What makes this film fun for me is that sense that the world was still undiscovered - there were places you could go that had been forgotten, that mystical arti

What makes this film fun for me is that sense that the world was still undiscovered - there were places you could go that had been forgotten, that mystical artifacts possibly existed, that secrets were encoded in plain sight and that the world was still big. That good and bad were easily identifiable helps a lot. Some of that is just nostalgia for being a kid when I first saw it, but the world is definitely smaller and less morally definable than it was in the 1980s and vastly smaller than it was in the 1930s. There is an enduring appeal in thinking there are still big secrets and undiscovered places, rather than a meticulously satellite mapped and annotated world with nowhere to hide. Even living on the most sparsely populated continent in the world, it's obvious you can never truly get too far away from other humans and that the age of discovery has been over for at least a hundred years. I refuse to use the renamed version of the title, it's always going to be "Raiders of the Lost Ark" plain and simple.