Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) | Reaction and Commentary | First Time Watching

[@VerowakReacts]

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[@TheFacrecords]

“Last Crusade…” wins out for me. If you remember this request when you get around to watching it, please note the marriage of dialogue & narrative; it’s one of the finest scripts ever composed.

[@jimhowe2624]

@@VerowakReacts The Last Crusade.. as much as I love the first film, third is on a another level of fun!

[@darrellyounyvski591]

this one is my favorite

[@Davaldod]

'Last Crusade' is a great film. I totally get people preferring that one as their favorite. I more than respect that. For me, it's 'Radiers.' I saw it when I was 14 years old and it's hard to describe how fresh and exciting it was. It was almost joyous. Pet Peeve -- there's no such movie called "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark." It's just "Raiders of the Lost Ark." When the movie came out it was just "Raiders of the Lost Ark." That's the title. Only with 'Temple of Doom' did the series start prefixing with 'Indiana Jones and...' But yeah. "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Just "Raiders of the Lost Ark"!

[@DrewAnti1960]

@@VerowakReacts I like all of them.

[@chaddubois8164]

I swear half of the magic of this movie is the score. We were so lucky to live during the time of John Williams.

[@mattp6089]

We're lucky John Williams was there for such a golden age in Hollywood! Although he is clearly part of the reason that it was a golden age.

[@Chumppi]

Were??

[@benvsreality]

@@Chumppi Right? John Williams is still scoring films now at 92.

[@dupersuper1938]

Superman, Star Wars, Jaws, Close Encounters...

[@embriggs1]

100%

[@domingocurbelomorales8635]

I´m historian (I also teach) and, believe me Verowak, ​​a great influence on studying what I studied was from watching this saga as a child. He inspired many generations and continues to do so.

[@VerowakReacts]

Oh, I bet! I love how much of an impact movies have on us and what we become interested/passionate about!

[@jeffmansfield914]

@@VerowakReacts Now we just need a movie about a lovable and attractive civil engineer. 😉

[@arandomnamegoeshere]

Along those lines - met many an engineer at NASA who was inspired by Star Wars and Star Trek.

[@donsample1002]

“Oh, his name’s actually Indiana. That’s a weird name.” You need to watch the third movie to find out how he got it.

[@Tinman452]

Already excited for this payoff 😂

[@bartdegryse9345]

the dog!?

[@davidfrost901]

He had a lot of fond memories of that dog. 😢

[@BigMac7629]

You guys had to put it down you spoiled it for her

[@edwardchristensen414]

Moron

[@darthdarthification]

“Oh his name is actually Indiana? That’s a weird name.” I burst out laughing. If you know, you know.

[@VerowakReacts]

I'll eventually know! I hope

[@Bleckman666]

@@VerowakReacts Hint: The origins of Chewbacca ;)

[@rogeriopenna9014]

@@VerowakReacts you will get your answer in the third movie.

[@DevlinDomini]

The audience burst into applause a lot during this film. Never saw that before in a theater and rarely since. After a lot of watches I can see why some ppl call this a “perfect” movie.

[@fayesouthall6604]

It’s a great rewatch too.

[@dtavs_exe]

it is really an entertaining movie despite the glaring story problems.

[@laurakali6522]

Karen Allen was in a great movie with Jeff Bridges called Starman.

[@joek468]

Went from having a bunch of spider legs on his back to years later having mechanical arms on his back as Doc Oc

[@shaunswieringa171]

Oh my goodness I thought that character looked familiar, had no idea Molina was in this!

[@richtea615]

U-boats rarely submerged, and they only did it for brief periods to evade detection.

[@samuraiwarriorsunite]

Even four extra arms wouldn't have helped Alfred in that opening scene.

[@thatpatrickguy3446]

HA! Perfect line. 😀

[@Rob_Infinity3]

I met Paul Freeman aka Belloq at a comic con and asked him about the scene where a fly goes in his mouth. He said that the editing of that scene made it look like the fly went in his mouth and never came out. But it did.

[@benvsreality]

Another actor you've seen before is William Hootkins, aka Porkins/Red 6 in Star Wars playing the government agent "Top... Men." guy here.

[@positivelynegative9149]

7:27 🤣🤣🤣 I can't wait for The Last Crusade. 😁

[@VerowakReacts]

I'm excited for it! lol

[@JohnDoe-bz4yl]

Best movie of the Indiana Jones Trilogy

[@saaamember97]

A lot of reactors seem to misunderstand how a submarine operates. Especially, when they inquire as to what Indy did when the submarine submerged. A submarine of that time had two forms of power. One form was a diesel engine. The other form was electrical motors, operating via batteries. When using each form of power, there were trade-offs. Diesel could propel the sub faster, but it required oxygen, so the diesels could only run while the sub was on the surface. The battery power allowed the sub to submerge, but it made the sub way slower. In wartime, subs would operate on the surface, so that they could get to their destination faster, and the diesels helped keep the batteries charged. The batteries were used, only when a sub encountered enemy ships or airplanes. They could dive using battery power, to hide (Going to the bottom and stopping). So, in this movie it should be assumed that the sub ran on the surface for the entire trip, encountering no enemy ships or airplanes. Of course, this doesn't solve that same dilemma, when it comes to the problem of how Indy could survive outside the sub, with no food or water. Since humans can only live without fresh water for no more than 3 days, I guess we have to assume that the trip the sub made wasn't more than that amount of time?

[@elzar760]

Yeah, I guess it stayed on the surface the whole time. People see modern day sub movies where the nuclear subs run submerged most if not all of the time, so it throws people off. Even I, as a kid, was a little like, did he sneak inside somehow lol.

[@levenkay4468]

"HELPED" keep the batteries charged?? The diesel engines were the SOLE means of charging the batteries.

[@mdu2112]

3. Snorkel

[@dernwine]

That would be a very clever commentary except that if you watch 10 seconds onwards and speak German the U-Boat commander orders his submarine to submerge, the map is displayed, and then the crew tells the Captain (apparently a Colonel because he's called "Oberst" instead of "Kapitaen") that they're raising the periscope, at which point he uses the periscope the visually ID the Island and orders the Submarine to surface.

[@sumelar]

The problem is, it would not have stayed on the surface the entire trip back. Not even in that era. Particularly when the sub is shown submerging in the movie for fucks sake.

[@michaelschroeck2254]

6:57 there is an actual fantastic Star Wars reserve in the movie itself! When they are lifting the Ark out of its crypt, Beth d Indiana to the left of the screen there is a heiroglyohic of R2 D2 and C-3PO.

[@jase0910]

When I hear the reactor say “Indiana Jones and…” when we all just know it as “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, and then to have you call “Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi” episodes 5 and 6….. Glad to see a new generation discover these films!

[@dabe1971]

The 'Love You' eyelid girl wasn't an actual actress - Julie Brown worked in the script department and isn't credited. On the day of filming the classroom scene, the AD David Tomblin approached Spielberg with an idea he'd had whilst trying to sleep the night before the shoot. Steven loved it and so they picked Julie as the most photogenic face on set who was available for the close up and cracked out the Sharpie !

[@davechandler4704]

“I think he has a high passive perception, so he should be good.” Verowak is awesome.

[@VerowakReacts]

A great way to find fellow D&D players/fans!!

[@dernwine]

1:30 Verowak: Is this what we're looking for Mr Jones? Me: HEY LADY YOU CALL HIM DOCTOR JONES! (It'll make sense in the next movie)

[@gravedigger8414]

With that Uldaman reference you stole my heart finally forever. 🤣 I love all 3 Indi movies but the third is my favorite!

[@Jargolf86]

The Uldaman- pickup had me directly Subscribing.

[@VerowakReacts]

WoW fans unite!!! 😁

[@arandomnamegoeshere]

Hah. Me too. One of the fun things about watching reactors who hadn't seen these foundational stories is the realization they inspired other stories and experiences.

[@SysAdmin77]

@@VerowakReacts The questline "In a Thousand Years Even You Might be Worth Something." was a great reference.

[@Stogie2112]

It is impossible to ignore the fly on Belloq's lip. That scene is legendary because of that fly. 😄😄

[@TheCkent100]

About that fly, in an interview, Paul Freeman (Belloq) says that there was a cut in the scene, right after the fly is seen on his lip. He swears that the fly flew away and didn't go into his mouth. If you watch the scene again, you can see the cut in the scene.

[@holyloktarw186]

Grew up watching this and STILL love watching it at least once a year.

[@VerowakReacts]

It's a fantastic movie, and timeless!

[@zedwpd]

"There's like a gazillion holes." - my prom night quote

[@3DJapan]

The guy who betrayed him in the very beginning later played Doctor Octopus.

[@VerowakReacts]

Always a villain it seems!

[@tranya327]

@@VerowakReacts Alfred Molina - the actor who played Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus - played him WONDERFULLY! - First as a 'standalone' villain in "Spider-Man 2" (2004), and then, unexpectedly, brought 'back to life' (via multiverse / parallel dimension stuff) to play the character AGAIN, about eighteen years later, in 'Spider-Man: No Way Home. Both are truly wonderful films, well worth viewing. The interesting thing, is the 'crossover' between the two franchises: Not only is "Alfred Molina" the focal point, but so too, is the name of the character, AND the two (respective) people behind the respective universes: Stan Lee and George Lucas are in a class by themselves, when it comes to creating DURABLE, ICONIC characters, and in naming them. Stan Lee is the co-creator of Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, Doc Ock, and about a zillion other iconic characters. Likewise, the man who created Luke Skywalker, Jabba The Hutt, Obi-Wan, Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader (and Indiana Jones, of course!) - George Lucas is the only person I can think of to 'match' Stan Lee, in that respect. It's wonderful to see the worlds created by Stan and George 'collide' (or at least touch, in a sense) in this film.

[@kirk1968]

The lighting in this movie is THE best in any Spielberg film. The entire sequence in Marion's bar is incredible.

[@MaBer-67391]

George Lucas and Steven Spielberg created Raiders Of The Lost Ark to capture the spirit of those adventure movies of the 1930s. The 1954 movie Secret Of The Incas had a lot lifted out of it to create Raiders. The outfit Charlton Heston wore in Incas is almost identical to what Indiana Jones wore many years later. That opening scene where they were trying to get that gold statue, there was a prop in the background of a large gold disk. That was the gold disk being sought in Secret Of The Incas.

[@philcaponi77]

The guy helping Indy in the beginning is the guy that plays doctor octopus in Spider-Man!

[@glenrich-uu9zr]

The debut of Harrison as Indiana, it is an adventure perception. But he is going strong onwards with brilliant rays.

[@notjustforhackers4252]

The three Raiders movies are just top tier Hollywood entertainment. Everyone a classic. The final film, Crusade, is utter perfection.

[@mikealvarez2322]

Back in the 1950s, we used to go to the Saturday matinees for kids at our local theater. The price of admission was 6 RC Cola bottle caps, which neighbors and a couple of gas stations saved for the dozens of kids in the neighborhood. With each feature film there was also an adventure series that came in installments, one episode each week. Every episode, except the last one left you hanging as too how the hero was going to get out of a life and death predicament. There were of course different heroes and different themes. My favorite was Jungle Jim, starring Johnny Weismueller. Another favorite was Flash Gordon starring Buster Crab. Watching INDIANA JONES reminds me of those Saturday matinee series. In my mind I break the movie up into different episodes. It's great fun and brings back fond memories of days gone by.😊❤

[@TodPreece-xo9qj]

I'm so happy to see you react to one of my favorite movies of all time! When I was a kid, my older brother (RIP) took me to see this in the theater and I instantly loved it! We lived in the country & would go on Indiana Jones adventures! I finally dressed as Indy for Halloween a few years ago in honor of my brother. I look forward to seeing you react to the other films. The story, acting & score are all on point. See ya next time! 😊

[@VerowakReacts]

That's so sweet that you would go on adventures, and even more so that you dressed as Indy in honour of your brother 🥰😊

[@doubting_zweifel]

I never knew the connection to Hot Fuzz. That’s awesome! Thanks Verowak!

[@VerowakReacts]

No problem! I guess it's time to watch Hot Fuzz again 😁

[@mikiex]

@@VerowakReacts Hot Fuzz is packed with famous actors/actresses from the past and some cameos that are hard to spot.

[@3DJapan]

John Rhys Davies was in the awesome sci-fi show Sliders with Jerry O'Connell.

[@timboxall8936]

Absolutely cracking series - I had the most massive crush on Sabrina Lloyd

[@ThistleAndSea]

That's a fun one, isn't it? The 3rd one is my personal fav. Thanks for sharing this with us!

[@VerowakReacts]

Super fun, yes! It was my pleasure :)

[@zatornagirroc7175]

Half of the charm of this film is the score. The other half is the camp. Often imitated, no movie has been able to match this level of awesome camp - they always either not take it far enough, or take it too far. Just magic.

[@cshubs]

It's fun seeing you kids make connections to my childhood favorites through video games. 🙂

[@darkjedi447]

The very, very 1st record I ever bought with my own money as a kid, in 1980, was the Soundtrack to The Empire Strikes Back by John Williams. I was too young when STAR WARS 1977 came out to buy an album, but when TESB came out in theaters I grabbed all my 'piggy bank' money to buy that double album ( I still have it❤). I've been a major John Williams fan ever since. I just watched the new documentary on him on Disney+ and it's amazing to think we are all lucky enough to grow up the same time as him making music. Hard not to love a movie with his music. The love theme to RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (Marian's there) is probably one of the most beautiful pieces of music he ever wrote. Sorry I'm rambling but I love talking about his music lol. BTW, RAIDERS was the 1st movie, after STAR WARS, that I saw in the cinema at least 3 times! I lost count with STAR WARS lol. Thanks for the great reaction, and for reading my 'ramblings' here hehe. Keep smiling👍🙂

[@VerowakReacts]

I love that you bought the soundtrack to ESB!!!! Great choice 😁 No worries about your ramblings, I enjoy reading it all!!! I hope you have a fantastic week, I'll have to check out the documentary on John Williams :)

[@darkjedi447]

@VerowakReacts Thanks! You Rock! You're one of the few people who actually message people back here and I appreciate it!! Keep smiling👍🙂🇨🇦

[@VerowakReacts]

@@darkjedi447 I do try, but sometimes it gets to be a lot 😅

[@TheTriumphbsa]

If not mentioned below somewhere, Karen Allen was also in Animal House, fsaturing John Belushi., among others of course.

[@jenssylvesterwesemann7980]

There is an old (1978) BBC TV series about the (fictionalized) life of William Shakespeare, starring Tim Curry, in which Paul Freeman has a major role. It's worth a watch.

[@keithjohnson8866]

A WW2 submarine ran on diesel which required air to run. That vintage submarine would travel on the surface until time to attack when it would switch to battery and submerge. But batteries would run down and you had to surface and recharge.

[@bloodymarvelous4790]

Steven Spielberg attended film school in UCLA together. After they had had significant success with Jaws, Close Encounters and Star Wars they met at a café. Steven expressed his desire to direct a James Bond movie, and George said he had something better: An homage to the old serials from the 40's about an archeologist called Indiana Smith. George Lucas had a dog called Indiana at the time, and named the main protagonist after it.

[@elzar760]

We’ll come back to that discussion after the final final Indiana Jones, The Last Crusade.

[@AtomicAgePictures]

Spielberg did not attend UCLA as his grades were not good enough to get in. Lucas also did not attend UCLA, he went to USC. Spielberg attended UC Long Beach, which at the time didn't actually have a film program.

[@LuckyBastardProd]

Spielberg went to CSLB and dropped out his freshman year. Lucas went to USC, they met at student film fests and Spielberg was already directing TV shows for Universal. They went on vacation together the weekend of Star Was’ premiere and thats where Lucas mentioned Raiders which had already been written as a treatment by Philip Kaufman who was to direct but dropped out to direct Outlaw Josie Wales.

[@TheCkent100]

George Lucas filmed THX-1138, which he adapted from an earlier work called "Electronic Labyrinth: THX-1138 4EB", which he created while he attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He has a building named after him at the film school on the USC campus. And a George Lucas museum is being built near the USC campus. So, no, not UCLA.

[@domingocurbelomorales8635]

Best adventures saga ever for me!! The guy in the beginning at the temple, the traitor, was a very young Alfred Molina (played Dr Octopus in Spiderman). Also Indy´s friend in Egypt, Sallah, it´s played by John Rhys Davies (the legendary dwarf Gimli in LOTR).

[@VerowakReacts]

Yeah, I picked up on Gimli!!!! 😊🥰

[@zeldyrrolorin9962]

I'm so sorry I missed the premiere. I'm glad you liked it. It is one of my top 3 movies, easy. A couple of things since you are always so detail oriented. -- The Germans were digging in the wrong place because their head piece only had markings on one side. I don't know if it just didn't make the cut for this video but that's because they were using the burned imprint in the palm from when Toht (the one in black) tried to pick it up out of the fire in Nepal. -- You asked about why the writing on the side of the crate caught fire. The idea is that the Ark cannot be claimed by evil so the stamp was removed. It's interesting to think if the US government stamp in the end scene would remain or not. I know you said you will watch them all but there are only 3. A hypothetical 4th movie would just not be good. A sacrilegious 5th movie would be a vile assault on your intelligence. But I can't wait until you react to Temple and Last Crusade!

[@andrewlustfield6079]

Diesel subs mostly traveled on the surface. They had to run on batteries underwater if memory serves. That is one of the huge advantages of nuclear powered subs--they can submerge and stay underwater.

[@ronfehr7899]

I love it when reactors leave in the scene of the simitar/gun duel scene (Indy shooting the guy with the big sword). Harrison Ford was actually under the weather that day, and so this was the solution instead of a long drawn out fight.

[@VerowakReacts]

I love that scene! I read in IMDB trivia that they all had food poisoning (the cast and crew), which is horrible

[@mestupkid211986]

Another known actor is in the intro, Alfred Molina. Or Doc Ock from Same Raimi's Spiderman 2

[@bandm-j1b]

Your reaction to the "Boss time" fight at 14:12 is exactly how I felt when I saw it as a kid. It's the one moment in the movie that stayed with me over the years.

[@Smokie_666]

Little did the swordsman know, Indiana leveled his pistol up to max so he had 5 times critical chance.

[@VerowakReacts]

Those damn crits!!

[@bartdegryse9345]

fun fact: there was supposed to be a sword fight etc with that guy. but harison ford was kinda ill due shooting. so he just came up with the idea to shoot him

[@rolandzamora4040]

It would be so fun watching classic films with someone like you

[@nataliefaust7959]

My dad just died so this is the first react of this film I've seen since. He really liked the Jones trilogy. I'll probably cry watching Last Crusade. Glad you're finally seeing Indy! You're right about there only being three movies. Even among those three, there's one that's pretty divisive and some fans can take or leave. I love how problematic and fucked up both Marion and Indy are. The latter far more so of course, but I appreciate there's nothing squeaky clean about pulp-era faithful characters. It's not the genre for that. The truck escape was actually planned, when he said to meet him at their friend's place, he'd go get the truck and bring it there. The unknown was how he was getting the truck. And I'm sure someone else has pointed out it wasn't burning the wood, but the uh... team logo. The no-looking is taken from Hebrew mythology and ancient religion that no one was allowed to enter or look upon the holy of holies inside the Temple on Mount Zion. Only the high priest was allowed to enter once a year and any deviation from strict rules and he'd be struck dead. He'd have to walk inside with a rope tied around his foot so his body could be dragged out if God smote him. The "over the top" fight choreography is again a pulp staple and a love letter to classic Hollywood. I love that you said Agri-cola! I was just making a joke a few weeks ago while saying his name like that. It's more often anglicized as Uh-grick-ola. Great react! ♥

[@VerowakReacts]

I'm so sorry for your loss 💗 I like Marion and Indy's bickering and understanding and caring for one another!! I seem to be pretty blind at missing obvious things, I just thought it was the wood and never noticed anything else on the crate 😅 It's details like that that I seem to miss. I'm fine with the over the top fighting, it really fits in with the style of the movie, but I'll still laugh at it since I'm not used to it. I really appreciate Indy's facial expressions throughout the fight though!!

[@nataliefaust7959]

@@VerowakReacts Yes! Ford is wonderful at being an everyman hero. He always brings comedy to his roles even in serious films. And no worries about the "logo"! I'm only not saying what it is because youtube has been kvetchy lately and I'm getting posts deleted even when talking about history. XD Also thank you. ♥

[@Armaldo468]

@@nataliefaust7959 In response to the bit about your posts getting deleted-yeah, same here. I’ve had to get into the habit of remembering to copy and paste what I’ve written into my notes, so I can attempt to edit and post again if and when something gets deleted. Sometimes that works out, sometimes it doesn’t-even if I don’t use any of the ridiculous litany of terms and even *tones* I know will agitate this infernal algorithm and the vampires behind it. (After years of feuding with KZbin and talking about things they don’t like me talking about, I strongly suspect KZbin hates me almost as much as I despise the entirety of KZbin and Google combined.) It’s completely out of control. Censorship doesn’t *protect* ANYONE, and I’m sick of the bogus “protecting our community” excuse every platform uses. I wasn’t born yesterday; that duplicitous tripe doesn’t work on me. I’m too well versed in how things work, too experienced at observing and analyzing things and people. I just wish I had the power to do something about this crap. Oh, and of *course* talking about historical stuff is a big no-no; we’re supposed to forget everything and just let history repeat indefinitely, remember? Bastards.😤 Sorry for the rant. Not only do I have a tendency to ramble and rant a lot anyway, this sort of thing REALLY gets me riled up. Sorry for your loss, by the way.

[@william_santiago]

33:44 I too, get upset when they don't go down. 😜 But seriously, submarines at this time are diesel and can only run for a limited time submerged. When not engaged in active hunting, or evasion, they run on the surface like any other ship. The problem is that the crew would also be on deck for this time. There was a scene where Indy snuck onboard, but it was cut.

[@seansteyer8851]

As a 13 year old, my parents took me to this movie..We waited hours in line for tickets. I asked "What is this about" and my dad said "It's about the ark of the covenant, a religous symbol..etc" as a kid I was like "I'm waiting in line for this" But after the opening scene I decided I wanted to go into movie making so that's what I did. Nine Emmy nominations later, I got to do what I loved.

[@VerowakReacts]

Congrats on doing what you love! Is it possible to know what you've worked on? I'm hoping to be able to do acting professionally one day, movie making is just so magical

[@MartinBeerbom]

Rumor has it that Spielberg took out a single frame to make it look Belloq ate the fly.

[@VerowakReacts]

I like to believe that's the case, and he didn't actually just eat the fly lol

[@michaelwardle7633]

One of the best action chase sequences ever filmed.

[@PowderedToastMan420]

Harrison was born to play Indiana Jones! ✌️

[@tehdipstick]

14:00 The shooting script originally had Indy get into an elaborate, drawn-out fight with the scimitar-wielding henchman, but Harrison was suffering from a bad case of traveler's stomach/dysentery at the time. A large portion of the cast and crew had gone out to dinner at a local restaurant the night before, and many of them contracted food poisoning. Ford begged Spielberg to change the scene, but Steven was adamant about wanting the fight scene until Harrison managed to convince him that having a wearied Indiana simply pull out his gun and shoot the swordsman would be a lot more humorous.

[@benschultz1784]

A Type VIIC U-Boat of the time could only operate underwater for around 8 hours before needing to surface and recharge its batteries. This means they would usually cruise with their diesel engines and only dive when making an attack or avoiding detection. In the movie, the sub commander does order to dive, and the 1982 Marvel graphic novel version shows Indy tying himself to the periscope with his whip.

[@thoso1973]

After rewatching Raiders through the years, I realized that this is one of few films where the hero doesn't personally influence the outcome of the third act, nor defeats the antagonists.

[@couch.patati-patata]

The Crystal Sith one has Cate Blanchett. She's deliciously evil.

[@threemarksat210]

"They weren't well received in General." I'm from General, and can confirm we all hate them.

[@sam93931]

they are all great movies.. the third one was the best so the expectations for the next ones were impossible to meet.. but they are all great to me!

[@dawns.427]

I agree completely, Except that the first is my favorite followed closely by the third. I enjoyed them all. We very much enjoyed number 5. I hate it when people prejudice prejudice someone against movies and books like this. I prefer to make my own decisions, especially when it's beloved characters like these.

[@BobCrabtree-ev4rz]

​@@dawns.427Totally agree as well...I don't listen to people in the comments telling me to avoid this movie or that tv series,and I never pay attention to the 'critics'.It's all just somebody else's opinion,and like you,I prefer to make my own.I enjoyed Ark and Crusade,but not Temple..just didn't feel right to me.Taking Indiana out of the 30s was,to me,what prevented me from following the rest of the series.Just my opinion,but he was created to emulate the old cliffhanger serials of the period and that's where he belongs.And NO ALIENS.

[@TylerD288]

What is it with people BSing and telling people this? The last two are anything but "great".

[@sam93931]

@@TylerD288 I disagree, but you're entitled to your opinion.

[@rogergarciaofficial]

Lucas was inspired by the Scrooge McDuck adventure comics and the boulder scene, altho made famous from this film, is a direct homage to Scrooge #7 from 1954. Later on, we'd see similarities between the adventures in Duck Tales episodes & Indiana Jones. Love your channel, the commentary too 🫶🏼

[@VerowakReacts]

I love knowing what inspires filmmakers to do certain scenes, thank you!! I'm glad you enjoy what I do 🤩

[@mostaley5049]

Cool Raiders is one of my favorite movies. World travel, adventure, love, biblical implications. 👏👏😊🥰

[@mostaley5049]

I love the newer ones also, they are still better than 95 percent of adventure action films.

[@VerowakReacts]

I'm glad to see some love for the newer ones! I'm curious to see what they're like

[@marcelopaolillo9848]

I understood your "excess of things happening" comment This movie was the first to show non-stop-even-for-breathing action. I remember very well that it was a novelty, since I watched it in theaters in 1981. Girl, what a ride ! Regards.

[@nickhewes6860]

Lol. Uldaman is a straight up homage to the map room scene. Complete with the miniature city and everything.

[@VerowakReacts]

It is! It's so nice to see where some references come from 😁

[@johnberg9497]

The man who betrayed Indiana in the Idol scene (near the beginning, around 4:00) is Alfred Molina (Doc Ock (Spider-Man 2) and many other roles); $3,000 offer to Marion 10:31 in 1936 would be estimated worth around $66,000 today; The actor who portrayed Belloq said the fly did NOT go into his mouth but the edit did not show it flying away. Raiders of the Lost Ark took place in 1936, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom takes place in 1935 (the year before), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was supposed to be in 1938 (a prologue scene takes place in 1912), etc.

[@michaelkonig530]

Spielberg told Lucas that he wanted to direct a Bond movie while they were vacationing together. Lucas said he had something better, and presented this premise, although the character‘s name was initially Indiana Smith. You‘ll learn more about the Indiana name in the third movie. Spielberg did not get food poisoning, because he only ate canned food. According to Spielberg this is the only movie of his, which he can watch just for fun, without trying to correct any errors. The shot against the sun during the digging scene was most likely directed by George Lucas, who did some uncredited second unit work. Either way, the cinematography by Douglas Slocombe is very good in this movie. One of my gripes against the two newer ones is that they simply don‘t look like the first three. The submarine was on loan from the German movie „Das Boot“, which is also recommended (but check out the director‘s cut, if you do).

[@jkhoover]

Dome people's ego can't help but reveal spoilers, even vague ones are still spiilers. "In the 3rd movie you'll see this!" Why tell them something they're going to see, except to prove you know something they don't know yet?

[@user-EricWatson55]

You're not supposed to touch the Ark. Hence, the poles for carrying it.

[@robmarconi6758]

I believe the actor playing Belloq was the French scientist in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, another Spielberg classic. Also, this movie inspired my childhood dream of being an archeologist

[@VerowakReacts]

It's fascinating how movies influence us!

[@hussmoosbally8929]

Great reaction luv. The corny parts were by design. The films are based on 1930's adventure/serial/matinees. It's always noticeable when a reactor has genuine fun when watching a film. Well done.

[@VerowakReacts]

Thank you! I love how different this movie is to the other Spielberg movies I've seen, really just a super fun movie

[@thunderstruck5484]

Saw at the theater with my wife! Packed, so much fun back then even without stadium seating huge screens and great surround sound, it was still a blast, thanks

[@chrism7395]

Fun fact: the U Boat and submarine pen (which is a real WW2 sub pen) is the same one used in Das Boot, which was being filmed at the same time. In fact, Indy delayed the production of Das Boot when they overran filming those scenes.

[@AngelAscanio]

Vero, ALFRED MOLINA (Spider Man´s "Dr Octopus") appears at the beginning. He's the guy who betrays Jones in Peru.

[@thatpatrickguy3446]

Great reaction! Also including the British bodybuilder, wrestler, actor, and all around nice guy Pat Roach, the only actor other than Harrison Ford who appeared in all three Indiana Jones movies, dying in each. He died twice in this movie, first as the large Sherpa in the fight in Marin's bar and second as the burly German boxer who met the propeller. 😲 Roach had a much larger part in the movie Willow.

[@3dbadboy1]

The reason why nobody notices them when they dig is that there are small digs all over the site and the site is 'enormous' according to Gimli, lol. Everybody is digging everywhere.

[@doctornick0]

The third, with Sean Connery, is still my favorite.

[@jimhowe2624]

Things you love to see: This.

[@munchausen8755]

I saw an interview with Spielberg when this movie came out, and it helps with the context. In the late '60s and '70s, movies had become brooding and full of antiheroes. Star Wars 77 was a nice exception, which partly explains its appeal at the time. Spielberg decided to make a hero movie in the style of adventure serials from the '20s and '30s, which explains some of the corny, cheesy, slapsticky bits. I saw it in theaters when it was first released, and it was a refreshingly fun, old-style adventure film with a hero you could cheer for.

[@tgriffin8179]

Great react!! I love how the ark goes into hiding again at the end. 😂

[@VerowakReacts]

Never to been seen again maybe? lol

[@MartinBeerbom]

The food poisoning was really, really bad. John Rhys-Davies calls this the most horrific experience of a movie shoot he ever had to endure since he was so sick that he felt he would die. Watch the "Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum" episode with him to learn more (it's here on KZbin.)

[@magicbrownie1357]

For me it was "Hey look it's Sallah playing Gimli!" Old people!

[@n.d.m.515]

For me it was Sallah playing Maxamillian Arturo playing Gimli!

[@teambanzai9491]

Indiana Jones was the inspiration for the Tomb Raider franchise, which led to the TV series, Relic Hunter, starring Tia Carrere as Dr. Sydney Fox (she also co-starred in the 1994 James Cameron film, True Lies with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis), as well as the video game, Uncharted. It’s worth mentioning that Tom Selleck (Magnum, P.I.) had to decline the role of Indiana Jones in Raiders due to scheduling conflicts with his TV show. He did however, star in the much underrated 1983 film, High Road to China, a 1920’s adventure romance. The music was scored by the Academy Award winner John Barry, famous for his work in the James Bond franchise as well as Born Free (1966), The Lion in Winter (1968), Out of Africa (1985) and Dances with Wolves (1990).

[@kennethmacgregor-Gregorach]

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

[@VerowakReacts]

How many giant rolling boulders have you encountered?

[@kennethmacgregor-Gregorach]

@@VerowakReacts Well.. In broadly speaking ball park terms, I'd say about... ohh... this many..yes, definitely.

[@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. 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 seen 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. You didn't include it, but 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. 33:44 A sub's engines operate more efficiently on the surface. If it was important to get back to the base quickly, they would have decided not to submerge. 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.

[@aklein7864]

2:35 - "This the lost ark? 😂 35:41 - "That not the real one?" seconds later... "Yeah, this is it. OK, this is it." 😂 I love intelligent commentary, and believe it or not, this is it. Many reactors are too dumb to understand what is happening, but if you don't happen know something, it's only briefly. Then you understand it immediately and connect all the dots as missing pieces of pop culture fall into place. I appreciate your channel, and great reaction as always!

[@mudshark5393]

Submarines in that era used electricity while submerged, batteries were charged using the diesel engines, and you could not use diesel while submerged. Since the electricity was pretty limited, a couple of hours a top speed, if they didn't HAVE to dive, they didn't... so Indy got lucky.

[@mudshark5393]

To be clear.... they still use diesel electric submarines, probably have better batteries now.

[@bloodymarvelous4790]

On the other hand they clearly give the order of "tauchen das Uboot". Which means they did submerge the boat.

[@mudshark5393]

@@bloodymarvelous4790 Well, it's apparently a known plot hole... but since there was no war in 1936, and the sea was calm, it was unlikely that they would have submerged, so I'd say it was a bad script. 😁

[@levenkay4468]

I don't remember if it was only developed during the war, but German U-boats were equipped with a "snorkel" that allowed them to run their diesel engines while very shallowly submerged (and therefore much less visible). If there were large waves, though, the snorkel's intake could get intermittently submerged, at which point a check valve snapped shut and the engines temporarily sucked air from the boat's interior. The wild pressure fluctuations that this caused were extremely unpleasant for the crew..

[@peterkoester7358]

There is a deleted scene (confirmed by the fact Indy is soaked upon arrival to the U-Boat pen in the Med) where the U-boat submerged to periscope depth and Indy lashed himself to the scope with his whip for the entire voyage. The biggest problem with that is submarines and U-boats of the era generally ran at 1 to 2 knots in speed submerged - any faster and they would drain their batteries within a few short hours to literally minutes and would have to surface to run diesels and charge the batteries. Snorkels were not captured by the Germans until after the war started in 1939 and were not installed on U-boats (experimentally) until 1943 and put in production with the Type IX U-boats until 1944. It can also be assumed that since the Ark in it's crate was obviously too big to take belowdecks (the average submarine hatch is about 36 inches in diameter) that the crate was lashed to the main deck and the U-boat did not submerge - but that opens the plot hole of how Indy was aboard and never seen by the crew manning the bridge as would be required when operating on the surface.

[@troy34bronze]

On a personal note, William Hootkins (the “Top Men” guy at the end) was also in Batman and Star Wars. I knew him because he, my uncle, and Tommy Lee Jones were all good friends at St. Marks high school in Dallas.

[@drigerdranzer7514]

33:46 Back then submarines rarely submerged as they then relied only on battery power and had a very limited time to stay underwater. It were mostly when they should sneak up on convoys or sneak past enemy ships they submerged.

[@kimwelch4652]

The "under the truck" slide is an homage to stunt man Yakima Canut who did the same stunt under a stage coach in 1895. Yes, movie buff Spielberg was a very aware of this.

[@ianclark4643]

1895? 🤔

[@kimwelch4652]

@ The internet can be wrong, but the first movie was in 1888.

[@noahrobin1941]

@kimwelch4652 frequently, but in this case I think not. Canutt was /born/ in 1895, but the stunt in question (if I’m reading Wikipedia correctly) was in John Ford's film Stagecoach (1939).

[@VlReaderr]

Have you noticed the R2D2 and C3PO picture? Somewhere around the moment Indy and Sallah found the Ark.

[@VerowakReacts]

I definitely missed that! I'll need to check it out

[@erictaylor5462]

U-boats were not submarines in the way we thing of them today. While submerged they had a very low top speed and they sucked juice out of their batteries quickly. They did most of their hunting and traveling on the surface, only submerging to carry out an attack.

[@icetech6]

This movie is still one of the best experiences i ever had at a theater... i was 11 at the time.. was amazing :) P.S. this one and The last crusade are the only 2 in the franchise worth watching...

[@sodiumcrush]

I love this movie... It's really a gold standard. I was around three or four when I first saw it, and it hit all the right notes for me. The history/archeology, science and religion aspects, and the filmmaking/cinematography/music/sound design/storytelling... HBO used to play 'behind the scenes'/'making of' shows when this aired. This one and the 'Return of the Jedi' one really had an impact on me as far as understanding and loving the magic of filmmaking and storytelling. The Indiana Jones one was about how they shot the dragging under the truck scene and Jedi was about the speeders in the forest scene. Just such cool stuff.

[@Hooga89]

8:13 Why hello fellow WoW gamer! Fun! 😂

[@VerowakReacts]

Ooh yeah!!!! Such an amazing game :D

[@DrewAnti1960]

Awesome movie. Great reaction. I was in Cairo in 84. Saw the pyramids and all the other cool stuff. Had a blast. Good job 👍🏼

[@VerowakReacts]

Thank you! It must have been amazing to see the pyramids!! I hope to one day see them

[@2o4tom]

"Is no one seeing them there?" Earlier: "The excavation is enormous."

[@LibrarianMichael]

Such a great movie! Thanks!

[@VerowakReacts]

My pleasure, it was so fun to watch!

[@zmarko]

Indy's aide in the beginning sequence is the great Alfred Molina, who played Doc Ock in Spider-Man 2 with Tobey Maguire.

[@gallendugall8913]

Fun Fact! The idol in the introduction is not mooning the audience, just the Oscar selections people who repeated snubbed Spielberg's prior blockbusters. Also, its eyes move. The eye movement effect was not good enough so it was mostly abandoned except in the 4K version you can see that they shift to watch Indy as he approaches. Another fun fact is the whole "length of the staff" stuff was added in post production. Originally, it was all about the staff's placement in those floor holes, and that scene remains in the movie without explanation. Somehow this was determined to be too confusing so the staff length thing was added in.