Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Special Edition)
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Actor: Anthony Chinn, Ishaq Bux, John Rhys-Davies, Karen Allen, Patrick DurkinBrand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
Cinematographer: Paul Beeson
Cinematographer: Douglas Slocombe
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Arabic (Original Language); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; German (Original Language); Hebrew (Original Language); Nepali (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-13
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Special Edition)
DVD Review: Delivered exactly as promised
Summary: 5 Stars
We've owned this movie for years in VHS - gradually we have been upgrading our collection to DVD. So nice to see it so vividly! Efficient service! DVD Review: One of the new classics
Summary: 5 Stars
My VHS tape finally wore out; this was the perfect replacement-and-upgrade to my Indiana Jones collection, at a great bargain. DVD Review: Behold the Ark!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the earlier Spielberg films that I truly admire. Along with Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, Duel, Schindler's List, Empire of the Sun, Temple of Doom, and The Last Crusade, [Indiana Jones & The] Raiders of the Lost Ark is one that I can watch straight through. It has almost everything you can hope for: great action, spectacular cinematography, lovely sets, and some iconic shots and quotes. I'm not really a fan of John Williams (his excessive use of the trumpet is overrated), but his catchy theme for this movie really hits big-time. There are some quarrels I had about this movie (like Marian being the typical damsel in distress), but other than that, I find this to be a very fine movie. I still prefer The Mummy when it comes to this sort of genre, but Raiders is no doubt an ultimate classic in this case.DVD Review: Rush to it and dream
Summary: 5 Stars
The beginning of the myth, of the legend of that Indian Jones. Worth seeing again today and funny like hell, except if you are afraid of snakes or spiders. Steven Spielberg and his friend George Lucas are obsessed by Hitler and the Nazis. They situate the film in 1936, In Egypt where the Germans are looking for the Lost Ark of the Temple of Jerusalem. Indiana Jones is not only an adventurer, sorry a university professor turned adventurer during his vacation, but he is also the good guy who is fulfilling a quasi-divine mission, that of saving a Jewish mythical artifact from the hands of the Nazis because it is too valuable to let it rot in bad hands, but also because it is said it may give eternal life to the person who would control it. With that in mind and with a little bit of romanticism and sentimentalism he is able to complete the mission, to destroy a few German Nazis along with it and to sow the seed that will produce the Junior who will take over four films later to assume the continuation of the myth in the 21st century. Of course what is essential and unique in this film is the action, a perfectly gratuitous action that is shown only for our pleasure and in no way for our reflection or moral improvement. And it works perfectly well along that line. Still quite enjoyable today nearly thirty years later. A student recently pretended that good special effects were not common in that period and before. This film proves he is wrong. Special effects were maybe less technical, certainly less computerized than today, but they were just as creative and inventive as today, with a lot less technical means, hence with a lot more sweat and grey matter.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 12 Cr?teil, CEGID
DVD Review: All these years later it's still great
Summary: 5 Stars
Anyone who hasn't watched this movie in some time should take the time to watch it again. And if your kids haven't seen it then maybe it's time to introduce it to the younger generation, presuming they're old enough to follow the plot and withstand some of what they would perceive to be the scarier scenes.
This movie, in whatever format it now appears - Blu-ray, Special Edition DVDs, the older DVD, even VHS, is still worth the time. The story is still great. Harrison Ford, who looks young in this movie now that I'm about 28 years older than the first time I saw the movie - clearly deserved to accolades the movie brought him all those years ago. This is just a super movie that provides pure entertainment - the kind that removes the reader from reality for a few hours. And sometimes that's just what a movie should be.
Description of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Special Edition)
Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is no ordinary archeologist. When we first see him, he is somewhere in the Peruvian jungle in 1936, running a booby-trapped gauntlet (complete with an over-sized rolling boulder) to fetch a solid-gold idol. He loses this artifact to his chief rival, a French archeologist named Belloq (Paul Freeman), who then prepares to kill our hero. In the first of many serial-like escapes, Indy eludes Belloq by hopping into a convenient plane. So, then: is Indiana Jones afraid of anything? Yes, snakes. The next time we see Jones, he's a soft-spoken, bespectacled professor. He is then summoned from his ivy-covered environs by Marcus Brody (Denholm Elliott) to find the long-lost Ark of the Covenant. The Nazis, it seems, are already searching for the Ark, which the mystical-minded Hitler hopes to use to make his stormtroopers invincible. But to find the Ark, Indy must first secure a medallion kept under the protection of Indy's old friend Abner Ravenwood, whose daughter, Marion (Karen Allen), evidently has a "history" with Jones. Whatever their personal differences, Indy and Marion become partners in one action-packed adventure after another, ranging from wandering the snake pits of the Well of Souls to surviving the pyrotechnic unearthing of the sacred Ark. A joint project of Hollywood prodigies George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, with a script co-written by Lawrence Kasdan and Philip Kaufman, among others, Raiders of the Lost Ark is not so much a movie as a 115-minute thrill ride. Costing 22 million dollars (nearly three times the original estimate), Raiders of the Lost Ark reaped 200 million dollars during its first run. It was followed by Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1985) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), as well as a short-lived TV-series "prequel."It's said that the original is the greatest, and there can be no more vivid proof than Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first and indisputably best of the initial three Indiana Jones adventures cooked up by the dream team of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. Expectations were high for this 1981 collaboration between the two men, who essentially invented the box office blockbuster with '70s efforts like Jaws and Star Wars, and Spielberg (who directed) and Lucas (who co-wrote the story and executive produced) didn't disappoint. This wildly entertaining film has it all: non-stop action, exotic locations, grand spectacle, a hero for the ages, despicable villains, a beautiful love interest, humor, horror. not to mention lots of snakes. And along with all the bits that are so familiar by now--Indy (Harrison Ford) running from the giant boulder in a cave, using his pistol instead of his trusty whip to take out a scimitar-wielding bad guy, facing off with a hissing cobra, and on and on--there's real resonance in a potent storyline that brings together a profound religious-archaeological icon (the Ark of the Covenant, nothing less than "a radio for speaking to God") and the 20th century's most infamous criminals (the Nazis). Now that's entertainment. --Sam Graham
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