I clearly haven’t watched enough Indiana Jones since I found your rating surprising, lukcydube56. Raiders of the Lost Arc is rated higher than ESB on Rotten Tomatoes and rated only slightly lower on IMDB.
Last time I saw that movie, I was probably 7 or 8 years old and have little flashes of scenes in my head. Damn.
Raiders is a damn near perfect “fun” action flick. It is a very good and well made film in its own right. But it doesn’t have those extra things that take a movie from very good to 10/10 for me. It doesn’t have the emotional depth of Star Wars, let alone Empire Strikes Back, and nothing as suspenseful as the trench run. It also lacks the creative originality of the galaxy far, far away.
That said, it is still a very well made and entertaining movie.