Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Newspaper Ad

Oakland Tribune - June 10, 1981

Although I am incapable of NOT remembering the pop culture and box office juggernaut that was Raiders of the Lost Ark, since it was a massive hit. I have no memory of seeing the film on the Big Screen. Because... I did not see it until it was on home video.

Why? No idea. It baffles me that I was uninterested in seeing the film. While I was all kinds of excited and eager to partake the likes of Friday the 13th Part 2, An American Werewolf in London, Wolfen, and Escape from New York. Yet I still gave one of the most iconic fantasy-adventure films of all time a pass. Weird.

Come to think of it, I was more excited and determined to see Brian De Palma's Blow Out on the big screen than this film. Again... weird.