When you first saw the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark...

[Rowan Sjet]

...what did you think?

 

[auntiehill]

I thought it was option 2. It would be buried among the countless tons of useless bureaucratic junk, files, paperwork, and assorted crap.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

I thought it was the prequel to Warehouse 13.

 

[Kolrad]

I had heard about the ending a bunch of times before I saw it, so it wasn't a surprise to me. But if you're asking what I take the meaning of the scene to be, it's more like "The Ark is disappearing into the endless bureaucracy of the U.S. government, never to be seen again." An ironic, unexpected ending-- it's just as "lost" as it was at the start of the movie.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

I thought this was gonna be about reactions to the melting nazis, which creeped me out as a kid...heck, I didn't watch most of it. (NOT FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT).

But yeah, it was number two...lost again. Never got the thought the warehouse was in Area 51, though.

 

[Kolrad]

Thankfully, my Mom told me when to look away, so I was spared the nightmares.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

I thought it was just going to be lost in a massive warehouse of identical boxes of crap, possibly never to be seen again. I thought it was a fantastic ironic ending, that KOTCS kinda cheapens.

 

[Kirkman1987]

I never thought it was Area 51 specifically, but I always figured it was a secret government facility, likely underground from all the support beams.

I also thought this thread would be about the melting nazis. When I first saw Raiders as a kid it scared me, but I would more accurately describe my feeling as a sort of awe at the carnage of it all.

 

[Nowhere Man]

I also thought this was about the Nazis, but I picked number one. I thought it was some wherehouse in the Pentagon where they kept secret stuff. I think are 51 came later and maybe the Ark was moved there, which would explain KOTCS.

 

[propita]

No problem with this flick, but I literally walked into the theater lobby during the "Temple of Doom" bug scene. My Dad came out to find out what was wrong. Evidently I move very fast (without actually running) when there's bugs.

Dad kept an eye out for when the scene was over, but then walked me back with his hand over my eyes to make sure.

And I was 21yo! Daddy's little girl no matter what, I guess.

 

[Yoda]

I picked the second option. The implication was a little off though, I didn't think it was being hidden, I thought the incompetent government filed it away to be forgotten out of sheer incompetence.... Top men indeed.

 

[Spiderpope]

For some reason i assumed that every box in the warehouse was actually another Ark of the Covenant, which was why it was no big deal that Indy had found it- the Government already had access to thousands of them.

 

[Shazam!]

I went with the first option, though I don't necessarily agreei with the idea that the warehouse was full of other supernatural artefacts. I think it was filled with more generic 'Top Secret' papers and items.

 

[Pingfah]

Both, it was a warehouse full of other mysterious objects, but the US government had just been rounding them up and stashing them away with no intention of doing anything about them besides keep them away from bad guys, rendering it effectively a useless piece of junk.

 

[Roshi]

I thought it was the prequel to Warehouse 13.

Um, I'm sorry, what?

 

[Klaus]

The thought that it was a storeroom of other supernatural artifacts never even occurred to me until this poll lol... though the Bush twins are in there too, if you're a Robot Chicken fan!

 

[JustKate]

I picked #1, but my first thought - and the explanation I still favor - is that it's a mix. It's the "where to put stuff we don't know what to do with" facility, and so there's a mix of neat stuff, boring stuff and who-knows-what stuff.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

For some reason i assumed that every box in the warehouse was actually another Ark of the Covenant, which was why it was no big deal that Indy had found it- the Government already had access to thousands of them.

That's a hilarious notion. The US government just files them away because for all the awe of the ARK's power...all it does it kill anyone who opens it. It's not useful for anything else. "ANOTHER DEATH BOX FOR THE WAREHOUSE!"

 

[Mistral]

Re: What I thought of the ending-I was pissed. I was having such a good time and then the movie just decides to finish. I wanted more.

 

[John Picard]

I picked #2 although I don't believe the Gov't was *hiding* the ark. It was a typical bureaucratic process wherein the Ark would get "lost".