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Indiana Jones remains one of my top all time favorite movies. Anyone that doesn’t agree with me should be thrown into a pit of snakes.

The key to this extremely successful series of movies is it’s star, Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones who breathed life and provided a realistic dimension to the character. Originally, Tom Selleck was cast as Indiana and truthfully I don’t think it would have conveyed itself as well. It’s hard to imagine Magnum P.I. as a whip cracking artifact slueth. However, it’s never hard to imagine an action role for Harrison Ford especially since this has been the bulk of his work in the past 20 years.

Ever since his beginnings in the 1960s in a few forgettable roles, he’s conveyed a sense of determination. It wasn’t until his role in 1977’s Star Wars that truly let this actor flex his ‘acting’ muscle and show the public he could do action and act! (Unlike some other actors who flex their muscles and spit out their lines worse than a 3rd grade play).

Indiana Jones had all the successful ingredients of modern movies mixed with the key elements of 40s and 50s serials. It kept the audience on the edge with Indiana getting himself into many interesting and dangerous predicaments. Like for instance his daring escape from a rolling boulder and collapsing booby trapped doors. The magic of these movies is essentially captured on screen through the excellent writing, acting and special effects. It was truly one of a kind.

A great site containing a wealth of information about the Indy movies is Indyfan.com. It’s at this site I learned that the DVD portion of the Indy series will be coming out soon. I’m thinking it might be timed with the Indiana Jones 4 movie coming out in 2005.

Can’t wait.