My granddad, who fought in ww2 against the Japs, would agree, if he were still alive. He always thought karate and judo and other martial arts were funny. "You try to karate chop me. I'll have a gun. Who do you think will win?"
The escape from the mayan temple? The fight with the Nazi under the flying wing? The heads exploding during the opening of the Ark of the Covenant? No. None of those scenes was what we gushed about after seeing this in the theater. "He just pulled out his gun and POW shot the guy with the sword!" THAT was what we couldn't shut up about for the rest of the summer.
This was totally improvised. They actually rehearsed a huge sword-whip fight, but Ford got sick of doing all the takes. The result is over a million times more awesome.
How many decades has it been since this came out? I can still watch this scene and laugh every single time.
I genuinely feel bad for anyone who has that Asperger's thing where you can't read emotions from facial expressions, because Indy's face is what makes this scene. Poor guy simply cannot deal with this.