Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark | First Time Watching! | Movie REACTION!

[@kennethmacgregor-Gregorach]

As an Archaeologist, I can say that part of the course at university is how to avoid giant rolling boulders and how to punch Nazis without hurting yourself.

[@maplenutsreact]

I would take that course in a heartbeat!

[@kennethmacgregor-Gregorach]

@@maplenutsreact It's one of the best parts! of course as an undergrad you have to start by avoiding grit

[@Khay-77]

John Rhys-Davies who played Sallah was also Gimli in The Lord of the Rings. Great underrated actor.

[@jillfromatlanta427]

with the snakes..."Very dangerous. You go first."

[@marcfromparis333]

and professor Arturo in the TV serie Sliders

[@ComeOnIsSuchAJoy]

The original _Shogun_ miniseries as well... which was how he got cast in this.

[@eschiedler]

And also the voice actor for Treebeard.

[@marcclement6597]

Did you spot Dr Octopus? Alfred Molina in his first role.

[@primusstovis3704]

The guy who plays Jock the pilot appeared as an actor only in this film. He was actually a freelance pilot that they hired for the film. Some time later when filming Jurrasic Park on the island of Kauai, the filming crew found that that they were in the path of a serious hurricane. Catherine Kennedy ran to the local airport to see if there was any available aircraft to get them out of danger. Well, she bumps into a pilot who had a cargo plane and it was none other than Fred Sorenson, the guy who played Jock in Raiders. So once again it was Jock to the rescue.

[@sebastianjoseph2828]

One underrated thing about Indiana Jones as a character/person is that across his world-spanning adventures you can tell that he makes genuine friendships and has neat interactions with all sorts of people. Jock the pilot, Salah, the Captain. Also, the fact that Indy can fight but also fights dirty and has moments when he gets beat up. It works for comedy but also shows Indy isn't invincible, "he's just making it up as he goes".

[@vincentsaia6545]

The map showing where the plane was going was used extensively in movies in the 1930s of which this movie is an omage to.

[@AlexSwanson-rw7cv]

It carried on later than the 30s, too. I still really like it.

[@0okamino]

At least 1929, and possibly earlier.

[@spiveym]

Directly inspired by Casablanca, which Spielberg loved.

[@alundavies1016]

That was just a fancy skin on their GPS! They dubbed out the lady’s voice saying “please take the next left over Iraq”

[@adaddinsane]

This movie is a love letter to the 30s/40s, travelling by map was a thing they did then.

[@motodork]

We were traveling by maps in the early 90s

[@davechandler4704]

Fun fact: Spielberg and his crew had to remove 100 or so antenna towers and satellite dishes to get that one wide shot of Cairo so it looked 1930s accurate.

[@JsscRchlDrsy]

@@davechandler4704 Right! That’s a lot of work. Now you can CGI them out.

[@Shritistrang]

And in the Indiana Jones Lego game, there is a secret room where you can find all the detached satellite dishes.

[@rorysnow7937]

@@ShritistrangReally? That’s so cool if that’s true. It’s been ages since I’ve played that game

[@billthomas478]

The SS actually did have a division which went around the world looking for mythical artifacts. Hitler and Himmler were obsessed with the occult and ancient mythology.

[@longfootbuddy]

as were most everyone else on earth at the time

[@chimpinaneckbrace]

“That would make a great coffee table.” - best ever review of the Ark of the Covenant.

[@BobCrabtree-ev4rz]

In Toronto there used to be a big store(not mentioning the name)full of the tackiest big home decor items I have ever seen.I truly wouldn't have been surprised if there wasn't a few Ark like coffee tables in there.Tackiest thing I remember..a big laminated piece of wood..for hanging on the wall..with a full colour reproduction of the Last Supper,and a fully functional clock hanging over Jesus' shoulder.

[@timboxall8936]

"It belongs in a front room!"

[@fewwiggle]

But, where do you set your cup? :-)

[@Michael75579]

I can see that - an ark-shaped base with a sheet of glass on top for the table surface and a moving pattern of lights inside.

[@BobCrabtree-ev4rz]

@@Michael75579 Now that would be tacky.

[@larsickenroth7169]

The guy with him at the start is Alfred Molina: Dr. Otto Octavius. And Sallah (with the dark beard) is John-Rhys Davies: Gimli. Absolutely great cast!

[@JasonBenesh]

JRD is also the voice of Treebeard.

[@EagleFang74]

I like Jordan laughing as their faces started melting off. The innocent looks are deceiving! 😂

[@Stogie2112]

21:12 Jordan: "He's a totally different person as soon as he puts his glasses on." Superman: "Well, yeah....of course." 😉😉

[@paulpolpiboon9535]

😆

[@Sarah_Gravydog316]

i was leaving a store one day, this girl wearing glasses is walking in & is like "HIIIII!" & I just stare at her it was my cousin i didn't recognize her because she was wearing glasses!

[@timboxall8936]

@@Stogie2112 "Don't start that again - Lance Hunt wears glasses, Captain Amazing doesn't wear glasses".

[@Stogie2112]

@@timboxall8936 ... It was a JOKE, tim.

[@timboxall8936]

@@Stogie2112 I know, chief, I know. Watch Mystery Men & you'll get what I mean...

[@garylogan3640]

the warehouse scene at the end was the direct inspiration for a sci fi/paranormal tv series called Warehouse 13, I think you would enjoy reacting to it.

[@RealBLAlley]

One of the best Prius commercials ever made.

[@toodlescae]

Loved that show.

[@Warlocke000]

Part of me has always kind of felt like Raiders of The Lost Ark inspired Warehouse 23 (a G.U.R.P.S. RPG book), which in turn inspired Warehouse 13, but it's entirely possible the people who made the show had never heard of it.

[@3DJapan]

Great show.

[@franker69]

What makes this film so perfect, besides the great score and story telling, is the camera work. This is outstanding. The angles, the perspectives and the cuts are just perfect.

[@danielbullock1019]

The famous "Wilhelm scream" sound effect is used in every Indiana Jones movie.

[@marky1919]

And every Star Wars movie!

[@tru3sk1ll]

It's a trope used in hundreds of movies since 1950s

[@MitchClement-il6iq]

Also quentin tarantinos reservoir dogs lol.

[@hendrikscheepers4144]

And I wish they would stop. It's not cute anymore.

[@mrb2349]

@@hendrikscheepers4144 no it is. And fits the vision of both Indiana Jones and the Star Wars movies as these are love letters to 50s swashbuckling genre.

[@mrtveye6682]

To show "travelling on a map" was actually a pretty common style of exposition in old movies. Spielberg was heavily influence by old adventure movies for Indiana Jones, to revive that style was one of a lot of his references and nodes to those old movies.

[@rodentnolastname6612]

Not exposition, transition. Exposition is a type of dialogue explaining things.

[@mrtveye6682]

@@rodentnolastname6612 Oh, thanks. I'm not a native speaker, I thought "exposition" would apply to all kind of ways to give extra information/ explanation to the audience.

[@KyleBaran90]

@@rodentnolastname6612 Ironically, this comment was exposition

[@arthurbertram4398]

It was quite common in cartoons as well. Namely Loony Toons.

[@mikejankowski6321]

@@arthurbertram4398 The Emperor's New Groove did a great take on this technique.

[@chrisbanks6659]

I haven't commented for some time, so heartfelt congratulations on your baby news. That is awesome. The blonde German who punches Indy's arm in the cab of the truck is none other than Rocky Taylor. Sometime British actor & more importantly one of the most revered stuntmen throughout the movie community. This falls into the 'Oh - I didn't know that' category, maybe. 😁

[@Sarah_Gravydog316]

he looks like Paul Hogan haha

[@maplenutsreact]

Aww thank you so much!! Haha I love that category!

[@paulcollinsyoga]

The 80's was the pinnacle of special effects and action movies. Raiders kicked it all off and the rest of the decade was all the great directors trying to outdo Spielberg. A golden age for the genre. As a 12 year old in '81 you can imagine how much this film means to me. I must have watched it 30 -40 times as a kid, mostly with friends all loving every stunt and explosion, pumped along by that epic score. But this film is really all about the characters. They are all so well developed and we know exactly who to cheer for and who to boo. Wonderful film.

[@tru3sk1ll]

I can literally hear the cat purring through the entire thing, I kept looking around to see if my cat was inside LOL

[@maplenutsreact]

Haha oh wow, I didn't realize his purring was that loud!

[@erickirchberger9195]

It was scripted that Indy was supposed to use his whip to fight the man with the huge saber. However, Ford and many on the set had gastrointestinal problems that day and Ford said let’s end this now and have me just shoot him. Ended up being one of the great comic relief moments of the movie 😂

[@tomre2769]

And in movie history 😁

[@billthomas478]

The sad thing about that is that the guy with the sword had worked really hard on the fight choreography and then he just gets shot

[@packersamurai]

Everyone on the set was F'd up from diarrhea, except Spielberg. He was eating canned food.

[@toomanyaccounts]

@@billthomas478 he was an expert on sword fighting. he was paid for the role so I doubt he really complained

[@paulmurgatroyd6372]

This movie is as tight as they come, no wasted time or dialogue. I rate it similar to Predator for efficiency. Yes, I saw this in the cinema in the early 80's, and I still love it.

[@AdamConus]

He didn't eat the fly. It flew away, but Spielberg cut a few frames out so it looks like he ate it. I just learned this myself.

[@Gort-Marvin0Martian]

The film Casablanca (1942) shows travelling on a map. Greatest film about love that you will ever see. My number one film actually. This is my favorite Indiana film with a close second being "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". Great reaction to this one y'all. As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.

[@markgettemeyer1145]

I was remembering (perhaps poorly) that those old classic Bob Hope and Bing Crosby “Road” movies also used traveling on maps (?). Like Road to Bali, etc.

[@torontomame]

Casablanca is just about perfect. I highly recommend any reaction channel to watch it.

[@jerryward3311]

Chandra 'oh no she's dead.' Has already seen Crystal Skull. 🙃

[@maplenutsreact]

Hahaha today I re-learned that Marion is in the Crystal Skull! If I'm being completely honest... the only thing I think I remember from that movie is someone swinging from vines with monkeys?

[@karvald]

@@maplenutsreact and we all try to forget

[@blakewalker84120]

23:30 "That's such a cool telescope." Well, because I like to share information... That's a "transit" which is a kind of "theodolite" that surveyors use for measuring distance and elevation while surveying land. It does everything a telescope can do AND it can measure distances to things like hills, mountains, rivers, etc., and tell you how tall they are above your eye level. But you might have to do the trigonometry yourself, at least with that 1936 version. Today, it's all done for you.

[@timboxall8936]

And Indys using it upside down 😂 I think it's an old K&E Railroad Transit, I've got one in my Indy prop collection (cosplay geek ahoy, lol! 😂)

[@scottb3034]

@@timboxall8936 Well to be fair, he isn't a professional Surveyor!

[@cbobwhite5768]

In the movie, Indy was supposed to have a big Boss Battle type fight, with the big guy who had the giant sword. But, on the day they were to film it, Ford was fighting a case of dysentery. It was a mild case, just enough to give him the "green apple two-step", diarrhea. So they did a quick rewrite and had him shot the guy.

[@CrazyLife2112]

When I was a little kid and saw this in theater, I thought the monkey being a German agent was just about the funniest joke ever.

[@Dirkus17]

Although not that one, this movie does indeed contain one of the funniest jokes ever. And it's the closing shot.

[@johannesvalterdivizzini1523]

Karen Allen, the very appealing actress who played Marion was also Katy in Animal House and Claire in Scrooged.

[@gmunden1]

The heavy set man at the table discussing the Arc of the Covenant is also in "Star Wars: A New Hope" as pilot Porkins.

[@o0pinkdino0o]

Also in Keaton's Batman as Ekhart. Briefly !

[@scottb3034]

And the pilot in the flying wing is played by producer Frank Marshall. He is also the namesake for Indy's teaching university at various points in the series.

[@plastique45]

* Star Wars

[@MLJ7956]

He was also the scientist Munson (working for Doctor Zarkoff) in Flash Gordon (1980)....

[@scottb3034]

@@plastique45 Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. *

[@TheDutchGun]

Yep, no CGI at all, as it was too early for that. These were all practical effects and physical stunts. For example, the ghost streamers were shot as underwater models, if I remember correctly. The face melting were wax figures that were slowly melted and shot frame by frame. When the flame shot through the solders, they all had practical light on their bodies, plus hand-animated fire. It's amazing how creative the effects teams were back then.

[@PrivatePAuLa29a]

aye. pretty sure the lads from corridor crew had a "visual artists react" video earlier this year, if memory serves, where they talked about most of the great effects used in this movie

[@scottb3034]

It wasn't too early for CGI it just wasn't used much since it WAS the early days and generally more cost prohibitive at the time.

[@peterlenham3180]

​​​@@scottb3034It was too early, because CGI back then was not detailed, and certainly not photoreal, not even close. At the time in 1981, CGI looked like Tron.

[@scottb3034]

@@peterlenham3180 It was too early for specific uses but CGI did exist at the time meaning it was not too early for CGI to be used period. Wrath of Khan used a fairly detailed bit of CGI a year later in 1982. There was just no need of it in this movie.

[@peterlenham3180]

@@scottb3034Im aware how long CGI technology has been around. It's actually been around since the late 50s, if you want to get specific, first used in the film Vertigo. If theyed have used CGI instead of practical effects for this film, the CGI wouldn't have been detailed, or photoreal enough to be fully convincing. That was my point. The technology only started to look fully photoreal, by the end of the 80s and start of the 90s. The Abyss and T2 were the first examples.

[@Carpartz]

Most people I know miss that the nasty burn on the hand is what gave the baddies only 1 side of the medallion, and why they were digging in the wrong place. It's all a nice little puzzle that comes together in the smallest details without modern hollywood "hand-holding".

[@longfootbuddy]

just hand branding

[@Ernwaldo]

Fantastic, guys. Chandra’s great, first-time reaction and Jordan as a guide / companion, without giving anything away & enjoying. Thanks for sharing with us!

[@c1ph3rpunk]

Used to work for the University of Chicago, I’d always make sure to ask where Abner Ravenwood’s office was at when I’d go to the Oriental Institute. And come to think of it, where did Indiana stay at while he was here? I don’t think there was any student housing back then. I’d get hilarious looks of “ok you smart ass”.

[@joeymac3777]

Interesting fact...the Well of The Souls set was re-used, re-dressed, and re-painted....and filled with snakes. It was used the year before in the Horror classic "The Shining". The well of Souls set was the set in the Shining that was the big room where Jack was doing his typing.

[@asterix7842]

As a big Spielberg and Harrison Ford (and archeology) fan, this is one of my favorite movies. To me, it will always be called just Raiders of the Lost Ark. The "Indiana Jones and the" was added after the sequels were released. 2:16 Snake venom isn't the same as poison. Venom is harmful when injected into the bloodstream. You can ingest small amounts without being harmed. The call letters on the seaplane at the beginning of the film were OB-CPO. Images of C-3PO and R2-D2 can be seen among the hieroglyphs on a wall inside the Well of Souls. The scene with the swordsman was originally written to be a long, choreographed fight scene but Ford, as well as most of the rest of the cast and crew, had developed dysentery and was unable to stand for more than 15 minutes at a time. They tried several times to film it as written, but were unable to make it work. They decided to change it, and an iconic scene was born. Spielberg originally included the coat hanger gag in his movie 1941, but it was cut after it received no laughs during early screenings. He vowed to include it in every movie until it worked, and this was it. When Indy was facing off with the cobra, there are a couple frames when you can see the snake's reflection in the glass panel positioned between the two. During the fight scene under the plane, Ford sprained his ankle when the plane ran over his leg. The plane's tires had expanded due to the desert heat, so the injury wasn't as bad as it could have been, and they finished the day's filming. Harrison Ford ad-libbed the line "It's not the years, honey, it's the milage." Spielberg is known for giving his actors room to improvise. 33:47 Wilhelm scream. the first sequel (prequel, really), Temple of Doom, is, in my opinion, the worst film in the franchise (though I haven't seen the last movie). The Last Crusade is at least as good as this one, plus it costars Sean Connery. The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull isn't nearly as bad as the haters say it is, even if it does costar Shia LaBeouf.

[@scottb3034]

they removed the glass panel in some of the later releases of the movie but in everything from the DVD and earlier it was still there. And actually the injury under the flying wing WAS bad. He tore ligaments when it rolled over him. It was the first in a long series of series injuries in Lucasfilm productions he suffered. He messed up his back in Doom and had the Falcon door smash his leg up bad in Force Awakens. Wholeheartedly agree with your assessment of the franchise even down to not having seen the newest one.

[@asterix7842]

@@scottb3034 You could be right about the injury- I was remembering something I read years ago. I do remember that they were able to finish the day's filming.

[@erikbjelke4411]

Shooting the swordsman was Harrison Ford's idea. Way too sick to really try filming the fight, he noted "Indy has a gun, why don't I just shoot him?" Thankfully, the guy hired for his skill with a sword was good at pratfalls, too, making one of the funniest and most iconic scenes in cinema history.

[@JsscRchlDrsy]

Yeah. It’s Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Adding that was just ridiculous.

[@floorticket]

Summer blockbuster of 1981. Pure popcorn and a total one-eighty from the Star Wars, Close Encounters, Alien, Shining, side of things. Man, we saw all the movies back then. Multiple times. There was no other way. After school, weekdays half-price matinees before five pm, switching theaters, sitting through twice, etc. Video rental was in its infancy in the early 80s. I think our family got its first VCR in '83, maybe Christmas '82.

[@mikefetterman6782]

The sword fight/gun fight scene was supposed to be a full on fight scene, however, the day before, catering had given most of the cast and crew food poisoning, even Harrison was feverish was exploding throughout the day. He improvised the gun scene to get done with shooting faster, and everyone called it a day so everyone could go back to the hotels and rest.

[@mikefetterman6782]

Looking closely in the snake scene. There is glass between the cobra and them. Also, the first shot, looking down at the floor crawling, Lucas used hundreds of Sheltopusic or legless lizards. Not one snake. There is a smattering of pythons and boa constrictors (found in completely different parts of the world) that were commonly kept as pets. Having worked with reptiles as a zoo keeper manager for decades, and surviving a cobra bite, these scenes are, like, my thing.

[@jasonbeatty831]

“Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation” is also well worth a look. A trio of teenage boys doing a shot for shot remake of this total classic. It’s a real labor of love, you root for the characters even more!

[@spikeinmadness5005]

This is one of my top favorite movies ever and it was so fun watching it all over again through Chandra's eyes, lol. Adorable.

[@Fred-vy1hm]

"The first shot is his butt? Im in." 😂😂

[@emwa3600]

Adventure films of the '30s and into the pre-WWII '40s used "maps with animated arrows" frequently. This film is a - er, THE major homage to those films

[@emwa3600]

The Warehouse makes a reappearance in CRYSTAL SKULL.

[@vincentsaia6545]

To get the exterior shots of Cairo the locals were paid to take down all their television antennas from their roofs.

[@thisisscorpio6024]

We almost had Tom Selleck and Maureen McCormick (Marcia/Brady Bunch) in the lead roles.

[@russellward4624]

Can you imagine that? Lol

[@thisisscorpio6024]

Here's an Infamous film by Steven Spielberg, 1941. And it's nothing like 1917

[@happyapple4269]

selleck would have pulled it off.

[@Stogie2112]

Look quick to see the Star Wars hieroglyphics! When Indiana and Sallah are first taking the stone cover off the Ark, there are hieroglyphics on a pillar behind Indiana. When Indiana is about to lift the stone cover, to his right are hieroglyphics of R2D2 and C3PO. 😳

[@janekotoole8751]

42:22 is why John Williams is the greatest film composer of all time. There are definitely more virtuosic composers as far as technical mastery, and maybe some who rival him as far as iconic imprint, but no one so consistently controls the emotional experience of the viewer as he does.

[@xtldc]

23:44 I love that I can hear your kitty purring in the audio

[@maplenutsreact]

That makes me so happy to hear! It's his favorite time of day, because he gets aaaaall the cuddles haha

[@JsscRchlDrsy]

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND is a must Spielberg film.

[@mikemorse17]

Indy shooting the master swordsman says " I ain't got time for this bullshit."

[@bmw128racer]

"That would make a great coffee table." LOL. 🤣🤣🤣

[@bentighe4811]

Oh no it wouldnt

[@shainewhite2781]

One of the best Action Adventure Films ever made!

[@neilaslayer]

I recommend Spielberg's FIRST movie starring Dennis Weaver. An intimate film that is quite tense. The IMDB description is as follows: "A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer." It is a GREAT film. It's titled DUEL.

[@76JStucki]

For the record, the Bible does NOT speak of the Ark leveling mountains or laying waste to anything, and there is a passage in the book of 1st Samuel which cautions explicitly against trying to use it as a weapon. But this makes a more exciting movie 🙂

[@darthken815]

Ah Dr. Jones. Fiction's most popular archeologist.

[@blakewalker84120]

19:20 "There's no way she's dead!" Chandra, You said you saw Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Marion is in that movie and it takes place a few decades after this one, so you know she didn't die.

[@neb2504]

To be fair I wouldn’t be surprised if she forgot that’s who the character was

[@txlyons2937]

In her defense, Crystal Skull was a _very_ forgettable movie.

[@gregsteele806]

@@txlyons2937 Ouch. True, but ouch.

[@CTag81]

Chandra: "He knew him?" Yes, twas poor Yorick, a man of infinite jest and most excellent fancy🤣

[@RealBLAlley]

@@CTag81 He hath borne me on his back a thousand times, and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is my gorge rims at it!

[@GatorScribe726]

For future reactions, I want to see you two seated at an Ark of the Covenant coffee table! You gotta make it happen! Great reaction as always!

[@jasongoodacre]

"arghh, that's so big" - that's what she said! No, she literally did say that. 😅

[@Huntress59]

The traveling on a map scenes were not the first . It is actually an homage to movies of the 40s that did this like Casablanca

[@arctan2010]

BTW, did you recognize the voice of Indy’s Egyptian friend Sallah. It’s John Rhys-Davies who played the dwarf Gimli in LOTR.

[@MLJ7956]

And he played General Pushkin in the James Bond movie 'The Living Daylights' (1987)

[@october74]

The greatest adventure film ever made.

[@fraserbain6102]

I like The Mask of Zorro and The Mummy more but you're not completely wrong, it's still great Although I'd say Last Crusade is better too

[@mattirby9747]

Except, Indiana is completely useless in the movie, does nothing to advance the plot...remove him and the movie ends the same way.

[@rodentnolastname6612]

The ending was the inspiration for the Sci-fi Channel series "Warehouse 13" 🤟😎

[@timboxall8936]

A damn great series!

[@MacMov]

If you don't shy away from serious subjects when checking out Spielberg, I guess you can't ignore "Schindler's List".

[@quietreason8679]

That's a must, but I would also recommend Munich. It's such a powerful movie and Bana's performance is so compelling.

[@CR41489]

Indeed! “Munich” is a great film and underrated Spielberg drama. An important film.

[@rabbitandcrow]

And Empire of The Sun and The Color Purple.

[@lanolinlight]

I was tickled that she pondered whether Raiders was among the first movies to show an animated map montage to suggest travel... when the whole movie was an homage to such ancient movie tropes. It was nostalgia, not novelty. 40+ years later, through young eyes, the 1980's seems closer to the 1930's than to present day.

[@Zylthis]

You can't go wrong with Indiana Jones....unless it was filmed after Last Crusade.

[@DocMicrowave]

Indeed.

[@Warlocke000]

No lie detected.

[@sebastianjoseph2828]

Honestly every movie has its campy moments, some more than others. I think while certain ones are practically perfect, they're all enjoyable movies. I especially liked the last one for being a good (not perfect but good) take on an older Indy.

[@SJHFoto]

My least favourite is Temple of Doom

[@Warlocke000]

@@SJHFoto It's definitely my least favorite of the original trilogy.

[@karlschmitt6359]

Karen Allen, Marian, is in one of my favorite movies-Starman(1984). Indiana Jones is a classic and a lot of fun! John Rhys Davies (Gimli) is in this, too!

[@neilaslayer]

Starman is such an underrated and under-reacted-to film.

[@karlschmitt6359]

@neilaslayer I agree wholeheartedly! I'm glad I have it on blu ray.

[@Huntress59]

@@neilaslayer I love this movie and I haven’t seen any reactors react to it yet

[@i_love_rescue_animals]

You two are my favorite reactors! And yes, almost *all of Spielberg's movies are a-mazing! AND he has done many different genres - including the incredibly harrowing Schindler's List. Keep up the great reactions. 🙌🏽

[@timboxall8936]

23:44 It's not actually a telescope - it's a transit instrument, used in surveying to measure angles & distances (it's a simpler version of a full theodolite). Interestingly, Indy is using it upside down....oops.

[@ClaireRedfieldKennedy-ld2lx]

3:22 These spikes are the biggest archeological find in the whole movie as the Pre Columbians didn't have forged metals.

[@rafanowacki2260]

I saw it a long time ago and it was really something then, and I live in Poland and in the 80's there was still communism when I saw it, in 88 I bought my first computer and then a VHS video recorder but those were happy and crazy times 📼📼👍👍

[@Billinois78]

If you ever watch the hilarious comedy movie "UHF", starring Weird Al Yankovic, the opening scene parodies the opening scene in this movie. I always think of it when it gets to the part where Indie is measuring out the bag of sand. LOL

[@Yora21]

The big storm clouds are done with cloud tanks. It's a special effect that was used a lot in the 80s, but stopped being used in the 90s as it is somewhat random what clouds you get. I think there's a couple of videos that show how these are done very well. Super low-tech, but really challenging to use.

[@johndalessandro9157]

You two are such a fun couple to share these great movies with. Thanks!

[@LyraVega]

There's something hilariously diabolical about Jordan laughing at the melting faces 😂 I second the recommendation for Spielberg's "Empire of the Sun", an inexplicably forgotten adaptation of J. G. Ballard's moving autobiographical novel that no one seems to react to.

[@jamesdamiano8894]

The face melting effect was also used in The Return Of The Living Dead. You two really need to react to it. I promise you’ll have a blast with it. The funnest zombie movie.

[@joeymac3777]

A good Spielberg film is Close Encounters of The Third Kind. Another of his, from the early 2000's is Catch Me If You Can, which stars Tom Hanks and Leonardo Dicaprio, Spielberg's first....or first major film was 1971's Duel.

[@artdrtr2]

I was a movie usher in High School when this came out -- I saw it HUNDREDS of times.. Check out the bouncing shadow of the stone block Indy pushes through to get out of the chamber, and the guy sleeping just behind the hole they crawl out of LOL Spielberg Movies: Schindler's List, Jaws, E.T., Close Encounters 3rd Kind, Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park

[@mkenric]

IMO, the most perfect movie ever made...:)

[@DJFalkoHannover]

First😂 Love from Germany you two

[@Timmayytoo]

To give you a little perspective on how big this film was at the time... this was released years before home video was a thing, and so if you wanted to see a film, the theater was your only option. I lived near a shopping mall so I could walk to their movie theater and I saw this film several times there because they showed it for over a year after it was released.

[@kimo_]

How I envy you, having someone to share all those things we love, that cinema for those of us of a certain age, with people who haven't seen those movies but know how to appreciate them when they see them for the first time. I guess that's why so many of us watch these reactions on KZbin; it's the closest we get to enjoying watching someone we like enjoy those movies we love for the first time. Seeing a journey's path on a world map is far from being the first time it has been seen in a movie. It's an old trick, and in fact, when Lucas and Spielberg created Indiana Jones, the idea was to bring back to modern cinema (of that era, late 70s/early 80s) the classic adventure cinema they had enjoyed as kids, which sometimes wasn't even proper cinema but serials broadcast in children's matinees on Saturday mornings. Specifically, the route on the world map can be seen in a great film that is still great today and which I strongly recommend you watch if you haven't already: Casablanca (1942). A personal fantasy of mine would be to see Indy arrive in Casablanca, at Rick's Café, and share scenes with Rick Blaine (Bogart's character), or even with the secondary characters Ugarte, Ferrari, or the police chief Renault (yes, it's funny, two of the characters have car brand names) in a comic, animated film, or something. The music of Raiders of the Lost Ark can only be the best: it's by John Williams. And something we miss and makes us dislike the last two movies (Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Dial of Destiny) is that they don't have the same cinematography at all as a movie like Raiders of the Lost Ark. Additionally, we even miss the color and grain of the film used, the texture of the film. Everything looks great in Raiders of the Lost Ark, whereas in the more recent ones, everything feels like it was shot in a studio, overused blue screens, with stunts done by CGI characters... and that unreality shows. By the way, I would like to recommend a classic movie produced by Spielberg and directed by Barry Levinson, with a wonderful soundtrack by Bruce Broughton: Young Sherlock Holmes (1985). If you can't find it under that title, you might find it under the title Pyramid of Fear.

[@ChrisReise]

43:10 Fun Fact: The streets of Kairouan, Tunisia were used to represent Cairo, Egypt. Filming also took place in Sidi Bouhlel and Tozeur. Hawaii. Kipu Ranch, a working cattle ranch, was used as a filming location. La Pallice, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France, was used to represent a World War II German submarine base. University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, was used to represent the exterior of Barnett College. The ONLY matte painting in the film was done by Artist Michael Pangrazio, who painted the interior of the warehouse (at the end of the film) on glass, which was then positioned in front of the camera. The camera filmed a man pushing the Ark through a blank spot in the painting. This is often considered one of the most beautiful and effective matte paintings in cinema history.

[@TheCdavy]

The greatest action adventure of all time..as they say…often imitated never duplicated…fantastic reaction as always you guys✌️

[@zelazbert]

Up for y'old algo. And I always enjoy you guys watching a movie I know ➕

[@manueldeabreu1980]

No one notice William Hootkins as one of the FBI, better known as Porkins in Star Wars.

[@ComeOnIsSuchAJoy]

And Eckhart in "Batman."

[@scottb3034]

Major Eaton.

[@whoarocket]

I love how this movie makes brilliant use of light and shadow for framing shots and faces. Arranging for a face to be in shadow or an eye to be the only lit part of a face give a feeling of subtle intensity or mystery.

[@ani_tas]

Spielberg movie that's also a war comedy. The title is "1941" and has several big named stars in the film. It came out after he did Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind and didn't do too well at the box office because of those previous blockbusters and this was simply comedy. However you will see a scene in it that he reproduced in Raiders of the Lost Ark with a hanger.

[@caras2004]

1941 is a horrible movie, but it's great movie soundtrack

[@BobCrabtree-ev4rz]

​@@caras2004I agree with the great soundtrack,but I also enjoy the movie..to each their own.

[@chasingbirds3073]

I saw this in theaters when it was released in 1981. I was 14 and thought it was the coolest movie ever back then.

[@scottb3034]

back then? It still is.

[@notjustforhackers4252]

You have embarked on one of the greatest trilogies ever put on film.

[@longfootbuddy]

thats what they say about all trilogies

[@ChrisReise]

15:17 Fun fact: Hundreds of TV antennae had to removed from these houses to make the city look like they were actually in 1936.

[@philrob1978]

Brilliant reaction! Thank you! I'm not a religious person, but even I know there are certain things you just don't mess with. Even if you look for, and then find them. The Ark is beyond humanity. It is not of this Earth. It is not for us to touch, or open. Ever. An absolutely fantastic film. Harrison Ford has never been better and Karen Allen was an awesome choice as Marion, she almost steals every scene she is in. What's more to be said. It's a perfect movie.

[@davechandler4704]

Glad y’all are watching this, and Band of Brothers too! How far along is Shoshanna, BTW?

[@adamheath3605]

awesome reaction. such a great "first watch" movie.

[@commanderkorra3316]

Marion is definitely a female character done right imo, strong but with flaws. Can be saved and can save, tough and beautiful.

[@playy1797]

Great reaction... There are some books about Industrial Light and Magic about the effects of this and many other movies and it contains foldoutpages of some of those matt paintings you like so much. I bought them years ago, I don't know if you could still find those books though.

[@toddjones1480]

They're cool, epecially for art prints, but there's more in-depth how-to detail in the Cinefex and American Cinematographer articles. There are also "Art Of" books, Lucasfilm archive books, museum exhibit catalogs... Craig Barron, one of the guys who worked in the matte department on this movie, wrote a book on the history of matte painting.

[@emsleywyatt3400]

If you've seen the first Captain America movie this was the inspiration for that line "And the Fuhrer searches for trinkets in the desert."

[@belekai2840]

A lot of people don't realize that most of the Indiana Jones themes are based on real life archeology, even the disliked Crystal Skull. Depending on who you ask (and this is speculation, nobody can ever know for sure) the ark of the covenant was thought to be constructed from radioactive material. Not necessarily a weapon, although there is some evidence to suggest it was used that way to prevent theft. It was more a case of anyone that found it and opened it would die of radiation poisoning. You can imagine the stories that came from this, suddenly getting sick and dying, it would look like an act of god to anyone who didn't know better. Which ultimately begs the question, how did a 2000 year old civilization have the knowledge and technology to construct a storage medium like that, or even know about radiation and how to handle it. Of all the Indiana jones movies, the temple of doom is probably the most far fetched, as it involves magic and mysticism that isnt really based on anything factual. The last crusade is heavily drenched in Christianity and there is a lot of material to work with. The Glass Skull, despite people not liking it due to the sci-fi themes, is actually based on real artifacts. There have been dozens of crystal skulls found in south america, mexico, peru and bolivia. All of which had been carved out of a single piece of glass or quartz, somthing that even the most skilled people today would have trouble replicating, even with our advanced tools. But that's the internet for you, no trouble believing in the mystical power of an invisible infinite god, but the idea of an alien artifact is apparently beyond rational comprehension. Go figure lol.

[@johnpittsii7524]

Hope you two are having an great and awesome day ❤

[@HSR107]

Showing people travelling on a map was pretty common in the 1940s, that's why it was done here. This movie, like Star Wars, is a love-letter to the matinee serials of the 30s and 40s. Spielberg Schindler's List ET: The Extra Terrestrial The Color Purple (1985 original) Hook A.I. Artificial Intelligence The Terminal Lincoln West Side Story (2021 remake) The Fablemans I think I remember you having done Saving Private Ryan and I can't imagine you've not don't Jurassic Park.

[@zulby09]

I have watched this movie 🎥 since I was 8 years old. To me, it is an ultimate action movie where all other movies are compared to especially for the action adventure genre. I recommend watching it from the start in the late afternoon when the sun is still up and finish it when it is already dark nighttime. I have watched ROTLA hundreds of times that I can quote 100% of the movie lines.

[@fightingidiocy7724]

We had 4 movies on Betamax: This, Scarface, Robin Hood and Willy Wonka...so got to watch every day!

[@timboxall8936]

I mourn the loss of my trusty Betamax...

[@fightingidiocy7724]

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