Hype Movie Club

[C. Lee]

Raiders is my favorite of the Indy movies. That is based on several factors. The time period it is set in is a favorite of mine. The action, which is stunt men and not CGI things, is thrilling. The characters are well rounded and interesting. And the various actors were great. I saw it in the theater the opening weekend of it's release. I am a big STAR WARS fan....and here was Han Solo having an earth bound adventure. A few months before it's release, I had watched Karen Allen in the TV mini series EAST OF EDEN, and was really enamored of her. The year before this came out, John Rhyse-Davies had a great part in one of my favorite books/mini series (SHOGUN). So it was full of people I had seen in great things very recently.

Seeing it was one of the "event" movies of my life. STAR WARS EPISODE IV, SUPERMAN THE MOVIE, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, THE AVENGERS.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Raiders is the only 'great' Indy flick. The others have their moments, but as a whole flick, it just stands on its own.

 

[squeekness]

Raiders is the only 'great' Indy flick. The others have their moments, but as a whole flick, it just stands on its own.

I think it's the best with the third a close second. Connery really gives the third it's charm, he was perfect in it.

 

[Enriquespy]

What makes the Indi Trilogy work so great for me is how well each film works on it´s own. Each movie is a complete story where there is no letting you holding for a resolution. Too many franchise movies and series (whole seasons!!!!) nowadays feel like fractions of a story and buildup to maybe some time in the future getting to the good stuff, I WANT THE WHOLE TALE NOW!!!

 

[Iceman]

I love how Temple feels so different to the others in the middle of the trilogy. It contributes a lot more to the overall franchise for me than it seems for most, but it’s still third behind the other 2. A lot of competition for the top spots in this trilogy for me lol, no weak links.

 

[scarlet-witch]

My son has been watching the Indiana Jones trilogy recently and that warms my heart. It's not my favorite trilogy, but it was a staple as a kid. Temple of Doom remians my favorite because it is so ridiculous.

 

[Drizzle]

There's a real case for Raiders being the best action/adventure movie ever made.

 

[ComicChick]

I am finally home after a crazy day that also included an urgent care visit for poison ivy.

sitting down to watch Raiders. Im a little over 30 minutes into it so far. They’re fighting in the bar while it burns. I really enjoyed the intro with the booby traps etc, and a young skinny Alfred Molina.

I forgot Harrison ford was a little good looking. All the females in his class reminded me, especially the one with stuff written in her eyelids.

Marion is sassy. I think she’ll be fun. I’m not sure I’ll finish the movie tonight but im planning to at least watch half.

 

[Iceman]

I am finally home after a crazy day that also included an urgent care visit for poison ivy.

sitting down to watch Raiders. Im a little over 30 minutes into it so far. They’re fighting in the bar while it burns. I really enjoyed the intro with the booby traps etc, and a young skinny Alfred Molina.

I forgot Harrison ford was a little good looking. All the females in his class reminded me, especially the one with stuff written in her eyelids.

Marion is sassy. I think she’ll be fun. I’m not sure I’ll finish the movie tonight but im planning to at least watch half.

It's one of my favourite openings to a film.

Sorry to hear, hope you get better.

 

[Iceman]

My son has been watching the Indiana Jones trilogy recently and that warms my heart. It's not my favorite trilogy, but it was a staple as a kid. Temple of Doom remians my favorite because it is so ridiculous.

I love hearing people saying Temple is their favourite (even though it's a narrow third for me - still very close to the other 2). It just illustrates the strength of the trilogy when the one that is treated as the lesser one still has many calling it their fave. I don't think the trilogy would be as strong without the one going a little crazy in the middle.

 

[Drizzle]

Temple of Doom was my favorite to watch when I was a kid although even back then I recognized that it wasn't as good as Raiders. This may be blasphemous but I thought Last Crusade was pretty boring when I was a kid up until I was about 12 or so when I started to appreciate substance as much as style.

 

[squeekness]

I hated Temple of Doom from start to finish.

 

[flickchick85]

Starting my Indy journey tonight! And yep, I'm gonna do Kingdom this month as well, as I'm mainly curious how much better it looks on D+ tbh. But also to be caught up for the new one because it's my least-watched so there's a lot I don't remember in that one honestly. Anyhoo, Raiders, my 2nd fave, here we go!

 

[squeekness]

I've got to catch up with Lost Boys, hopefully tomorrow. Been awhile but I've seen it so many times I know most of it word for word.

 

[flickchick85]

So here's the thing - I've always loved Marion, but I've never been able to get all that invested in the Indy/Marion romance just because what we hear of their backstory...doesn't sound all that romantic at all to me.

 

[Snow Queen]

So here's the thing - I've always loved Marion, but I've never been able to get all that invested in the Indy/Marion romance just because what we hear of their backstory...doesn't sound all that romantic at all to me.

One might even call it really creepy.



It's me. I'm the one.

 

[flickchick85]

One might even call it really creepy.



It's me. I'm the one.

 

[flickchick85]

This rocky canyon area they're traveling in right before the climax looks a heck of a lot like Tattooine.

Another random thought: Do we think the production design department made all these Nazi flags themselves, or bought them elsewhere? How awkward would that be.

 

[flickchick85]

Fell down a bit of a rabbit hole after the movie. Went on IMDB to make sure the 2nd-unit director Michael Moore wasn't THAT Michael Moore, and discovered that THIS Michael Moore was born in 1914, and had been in the movie business since 1919, as a child actor ("Mickey Moore"!). Dude acted in silents until talkies came along in 1927 then took a break (presumably to get some schoolin'), then returned to the business exactly 20 years later in 1947 as an assistant director and did that until becoming a 2nd unit director in the '70's and retiring in 2000 (passed away 13 years later). This man worked on soooooooo many classics. 116 movies over 80 years. Just imagine the stories that guy had.

 

[Kane52630]

Confession time, I've only seen the first 10-15 minutes of Raiders multiple times (and maybe a scene in Cario) but I never saw the whole thing. And I've only seen Temple of Doom all the way through when I was a kid.

So coming into Radiers was interesting. I thought on a technical level it was fantastic, it kinda wrote the book of modern day adventure films. You can see it took some inspiration from the serial films of the 30s to even the swashbuckling films of the 30s and 40s to Western/Adventure films from the 50s and 60s and kinda fused them all together. You can even see it in the cast where they got the guy playing Toht who is pretty much doing Peter Lorre (thinking particularly about Baron Ikito in Invisible Agent).

As for Harrison Ford playing Indy, I thought he was pretty good, it had the typical white male fantasy/white savior complex but it didn't really ruin the movie for me. He was more interesting as a character when it got to the 3rd act. I thought Karen Allen as Marion Ravenwood started off as such an interesting character as the spunky love interest who takes no sh** but sadly she gets devolved into the typical Damsel role. Also, it was funny to see her find two dresses but they somehow fit perfectly. The stunts are what people really cling to when talking about the movie and it shows, it's Speilberg at his best when it comes to creating action set pieces that use great cinematography to tell the action.

But overall, fun movie, I see why it stands the test of time even though I didn't completely love it like other Spielberg movies I hold dear.

Now on to the movie that double downs on everything I didn't like about the first one.

 

[Iceman]

Starting my Indy journey tonight! And yep, I'm gonna do Kingdom this month as well, as I'm mainly curious how much better it looks on D+ tbh. But also to be caught up for the new one because it's my least-watched so there's a lot I don't remember in that one honestly. Anyhoo, Raiders, my 2nd fave, here we go!

There’s a lot I don’t want to remember. Why is it looking better on D+?

 

[flickchick85]

There’s a lot I don’t want to remember. Why is it looking better on D+?

Idk, I just heard the color grading was different.

 

[Iceman]

Idk, I just heard the color grading was different.

Oh ok thanks, guess that’s enough excuse to get through it.

 

[Kane52630]

I think they're using the newest remaster that's on the 4K collection that just came out. For a movie like Raiders that was shot on film, you usually see an improvement over the bluray copy on a 4K release.

Raiders of the Lost Ark 4K Blu-ray (4K Ultra HD + Digital)

 

[Ninjablade]

Started my Indy rewatch as well. I've really started to gain a whole new appreciation for Speilberg as a filmmaker the last couple of years. One of the few guys whose filmography still impresses me immensely every time I watch one of his movies, as if it was the first time I ever saw it. Raiders is no different, it's a perfect action film.

The opening scene alone is everything you can ask for from a movie like this, and the movie hardly ever dips bellow that level of quality. Even simple dialogue sequences continually blow me away because of how well everything is staged. It is a gorgeous looking film, which is something that has been kind of missing from what we've seen from Dial so far.

I had honestly forgotten how nice and crisp the pacing is. There's so little fat. I mean Marion "blows up" and within a second we cut to Indy drinking. Hardly any time to process what just happened, but it works so well.

I've watched TOD fairly recently, but I'm really curious to revisit TLC again as I haven't watched it in a long long time.