Scott James Reeves I’ll try to keep this short (although that might be difficult for me because I love this franchise so much). Raiders is probably my favorite film. It’s a damn near perfect movie. What I really admire is how the film drops you into its universe without overexplaining anything. The history between characters is clearly there, and you can feel it in every exchange, but the audience is trusted to piece things together on their own. That restraint makes the world feel richer and more believable, while also adding a layer of mystery. None of the other Indiana Jones films quite captured that same sense of lived-in depth. It’s that classic storytelling approach of beginning in the middle, where everything feels like it was already in motion long before we arrived. It reminds me of how George built Star Wars, a universe that feels worn, inhabited, and shaped by events we don’t fully see. The characters don’t feel newly invented for the plot, they feel like they’ve had whole l...