Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) | FIRST TIME WATCHING 

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“I don’t have an issue with spiders. Snakes though…” Lol this is going to be good

Indy falling asleep on the boat was, and still is, my favourite character moment. An everyman cast into the role of a hero, a non-athlete (just look at how he moves) forced into feats of incredible effort, fighting to the brink of exhaustion, beaten, bruised, and just utterly shattered, being asked for one more feat, but in a safe space now... and he just cant go any more.

No, can't agree, the fighting scenes are not bad. They're played the way they are for heroic and/or comedic effect. You 'sell' the shot by being staggered by it. These movies (and Star Wars, for that matter) were an homage to the 40s and 50s era movie serials that George Lucas grew up with. It's not bad, it's just an older style. 40s/50s style channeled through 80s production values.

I was 30 when this movie came out, and it was the best action/adventure movie I had ever seen! From the beginning there was action scene after action scene, and that was new. To me, anyways. It was exciting, to no end. Raiders of the Lost Ark was the start of the Indiana Jones series, and I liked every one of them. Even having seen it lots of times, I still enjoy it. My memories are chock full of lesser movies, so this one stood out! For those of us who are fans, you have to remember the time Raiders appeared in. Video games just barely starting to come out, no cell phones for everyone, no movies made with the vast array of computer assistance to the extent that is used now. It all depends on what you're used to. And for me, this was 'way beyond what I was used to! Thanks for watching, and the reaction!

“It’s like they hit, and then they wait.” Yep, that’s how real fights work. Seriously watch the UFC and you’ll realize that’s exactly what a real fight looks like. You throw a strike or two at your opponent to see what works and then you back off and take time to size them up and come up with a new strategy. It’s literally the core concept of a fistfight, but everybody watching movies has been brainwashed by all these stunt flights, which are basically just dancing with each other, and would never functionally work in a real world combat scenario.

John Rhys Davies played Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy 🤓 Another great reaction!

The kissing scene is simply a testament to a time when flirting was an art form. Relationships between the sexes had plenty of subtext and undertones, and the boundaries of what could be allowed were dictated by intuition, good manners, and most importantly the women. Women could define these boundaries quite freely through various signals, and men were quite adept at picking up on them. Against this background, today's norms are downright puritanical. Very verbal and risk-free, but also devoid of any imaginativeness. In this particular situation, Marion just wants to express her gratitude in some tangible way. Sallah's reaction says it all - he knows perfectly well that this is a one-time highlight but he can enjoy this unexpected gesture.

Big Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg fan, so this is one of my favorite movies. The seaplane at the beginning has the call letters OB-CPO on the tail and the images of R2-D2 and C-3PO appear in the hieroglyphs on a wall in the Well of Souls. In the scene where Indy shoots the swordsman, the original script called for a long fight but Harrison Ford, as well as the rest of the cast and crew had dysentery and couldn’t stand for more than a few minutes at a time. They tried to film a fight scene, but couldn’t make it work, so they decided to just have Indy shoot him. The Temple of Doom, in my opinion is the worst of the four, though some people like it. The Last Crusade is as good as this one, plus it has Sean Connery. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull gets a lot of hate, but it’s not that bad, even though it costars Shia LeBeouf. Some other Harrison Ford movies I’d recommend are Blade Runner, The Fugitive, and Air Force One. For a comedy, try Sabrina, Hollywood Homicide, or Six Days, Seven Nights.

It's a solid film for me. in the 4 star range. Mostly because I am a Harrison Ford fan.

You are probably the only person I'm aware of who gave a negative score for this movie

My nephew who is 12 watched this with his class in school and they all loved it.

it is fitting that you recognize that "raiders" has a lot of nostalgic appeal for today's viewers, who watched it as kids, because spielberg and lucas created this movie as a nostalgic homage to the bygone adventure films that they themselves watched as kids.

Since when kissing friends is cringe??? I don't think a kissy in the lips has to be sexual always. She was grateful and it was a kiss of appreciation. Let's don't be prude we all...

Thanks for keeping it real and giving us your honest opinion. Back in the day, the effects were pretty good. If you want to go into movies without knowing the actors, the story, whatever, I respect that. You might want to at least know when the movie was made for the context of special effects and what not. :)

Have to disagree with your opinion this movie is pure escapism with a good dose of humour.

I’m 17 now and I’ve watched this film since I was like 4. My opinion has always been positive. Although, Last Crusade is my favorite Indiana Jones film

Yup you do. He is the younger Gimli.

His line," it's not the years, it's the mileage!". Add-libbed. When he shoots the guy with the Saber, add-libbed because he was very sick!

Indy falling asleep while he’s being kissed is not surprising. One of my early loves was so impassionate at a certain romantic act that I started to fall asleep. 😂

Ilha da Queimada Grande, as Snake Island is also known, can be found just over 90 miles from São Paulo. Access to the island is almost forbidden, as the Brazilian Navy controls who is allowed on the island for their own safety, as well as for the safety of the snakes.

This movie is in my top 10 of all time.

Knowing this movie I had to laugh at the beginning when you said you were afraid of snakes, I couldn't wait until they showed the Well of Souls

1. While filming in Tunisia most of the cast got food poisoning and Ford actually got diarrhea from it. and was very ill. The scene where he shoots the guy was supposed to be another long fight scene but Ford was feeling so bad and it was terribly hot so he basically said, "The hell with this" and just shot the guy.🤣 2. Karen Allen played Boone's squeeze in "Animal House" HINT HINT 3. If you don't like spiders you're going to love the next one. It's very good and it's adventurous. Billy is a pain in the ass though. 4. Two overlooked Harrison Ford movies worth a first time/share are: "Witness" and "Force 10 From Navarone" 5. There's no way he could swim between two underway. 6. Coolest final death scene in cinema history.😎 7. The ride at Disneyland is pretty cool. Make sure it's one of your first to get it out of the way before the line gets too long. Adventureland. (If you can still afford it)🙄

So what's your favorite Harrison Ford movie besides Star Wars movies? ❤

On the students eyes were written Love You. = I Love You. Not many people catch that.

Indy was played by Harrison Ford.

The Nazis in WWII were most definitely extremely interested in the Occult. Look up the Vril Society and Maria Orsic. It wasn’t just Hitler, it was much of the German High Command.

Yes you're right:) Dr.Jones and Han Solo from star wars were both played by Harrison Ford

28:55 and he do stunt him self . its real, but glass between xD

Funny story about the "Final Boss" scene at 19:53 with the sword-wielding baddy. That guy was actually a master swordsman with a Scimitar, one of very few in the world, and it took them a long time to find him & arrange a schedule to get him onset. They'd originally written a several minute long fight scene into the script for him and Harrison Ford, and it took almost 2 weeks for them and the fight choreographers to properly plan the sequence, prep the site & practice the whole scene well enough to get it as close to perfect as possible. The, just before they were scheduled to shoot the scene, Ford came down with a terrible fever, and he was so weak with flu-like symptoms the day they were supposed to begin filming the fight sequence that he could barely get out of bed. And so, because Ford was too ill to be able to physically perform the choreography, the swordsman couldn't commit any additional time to stick around & the filming schedules would make coming back after Ford had recovered and shoot the scene later on impossible, they decided to have the swordsman do his flashy intro and then have Ford just shoot him. And after all that, and with everyone who'd been involved with the planning, staging & choreography initially seeing it as their greatest disappointment throughout filming & post-production, they had only come to find out some time after the movie was released that the scene had ended up being a fan favorite & one of the more iconic scenes of the franchise.

His friend is Gimley the dwarf in LoR!

G'day Biss... I saw Raiders in '81. I love this movie, but as you said, this isn't everyones favourite. Personally, I give it a 9.5/10.

A shadow reflection to push you out of the light? I don't know why I watch movies more than once.

Thank you for dialing back on your dialog.

Around the 20 minute mark you laughed and said he brought a sword to a gun fight 😅. The funny part about that is that guy was really good with a sword and practiced for months. Unfortunately Harrison Ford was really sick when they shot the scene and he couldn't do it. On a whim, in one take he pulled his gun and said bang😂. Everyone laughed so hard that the director decided to just go with it.

13:23 Biss: "Please don't puke. Please don't puke. That is the only thing I beg of you. I had a very nice lunch. Please don't make me throw it back up." I'm sorry, honey, but THAT got me giggling.🤣🤣🤣 I saw this on HBO (the old original) back in the early 80's. Yes, that is Harrison Ford, AKA Han Solo, which was the primary reason, for me, to even see this movie. I would have to agree with you: this movie, and really the whole movie series, didn't really age well. In my opinion, this one and the third one was really the best of the bunch, though, to be fair, I haven't watched the last two movies by choice (saw the fourth movie and swore off the franchise for good).

Fuck, I was only a child when I saw this movie. I feel old😊

The Egyptian pantheon really depends on when you're talking about. There was Ra, but then there was Amun-Ra, then where was Aten, and all sorts of stuff in between.

yes. Harrison Ford has played a few iconic roles... Han Solo, Indiana Jones, Jack Ryan... plus all the one-offs.

Australia where I am has the most deadly snakes in the world

Did you recognize the actor with Indy at the start in the temple? That's a young Doc Oct. from Spider Man

"Superstitious, hocus pocus" were the same words Han said about The Force, in Star Wars IV.

Perhaps you should adopt a policy of only using drink containers that won't spill?

I named my cat Ra. He's orange and thinks he's a God.

dances with wolves is a good movie

The Cobra in the tomb is real, behind a piece of glass! The screaming skeletons is a call back by Spielberg, to Poltergeist!

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Einer der besten Filme aller Zeiten.

Biss: I think I know him from somewhere. Me: Yup! Lord of the Rings. He plays the part of Gimli, the Dwarf. :)

This was filmed in the style of movie from the 50s, could not have John Wicked up the fight scenes

Yoda to Bisscutt, "The Gringe is Strong is this young Padowan" 😀😅

He's a dwarf in the hobbit and Lord of the rings

"This guy would make alot of money today with that whip? " I didn't get that 🤷‍♂

Harrison Ford you have seen him before probably in star wars

18:18 That's the actor that plays Gimli in Lord of the Rings. John Rhys-Davies.

To make sure the Ark was never found they sent it to an Amazon warehouse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a pity you didn't like the movie, Miss Bisscute, the Indiana Jones movie saga is a movie classic, the latest one is about to be released. Personally, the one I enjoy the most is Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, a suggestion for a future reaction: Air Force One also starring Harrison Ford.

WHAT!!!! Oh my gosh. This film is amazing and easily stands up to days films, it's one of the best adventure films ever A 5/5 film. Respect you opinion though. Han Solo btw

I mostly agree with your critique. This movie was a collaboration between Spielberg and Lucas, both of whom enjoyed movie serials from the 1940s, where they would show a new episode in a theater for several weeks in a row until the story was complete. So it has that aesthetic and may indeed be dated. Taste is a funny thing and if you don't like it, well, you don't like it. I enjoyed this movie when it came out but it isn't my favorite. I liked it a LOT better than "Jurassic Park" which I thought was a one-watch junk movie. I thought the fight scenes were fine but you are the first person I've seen cringe at the dock kissing scene. I thought only I hated that shot.

5 out of 5, you don't understand that it's based on movie serials from decades earlier. It's a true classic and 90% of the adventure films made since , wouldn't have been made without this movie's success

*Nefarious* means ‘up to no good’.

I'm cracking up every time you say 'treacherous monkey'

As long it's not a snake, we good . . .

Actually, Hitler was obsessed with the occult. Nazis collected artwork but Hitler was driven by hate to stand against religion and keep his victims out of heaven.

Hey, Biss… how do you feel about snakes? 🐍 p.s.: I’m with you. I think Raiders has aged terribly… but, I think Jurassic Park is kiddy crap, too.

Fun movie

18:15 That's John Rhys-Davies or Gimli in Lord of the Rings among other things.

you know that guy from Sliders. and Shogun. and Lord of the Rings (although he was a LOT shorter in that series of films).

I didn't expect you to like this. You probable won't like the others.

The guy you recognize is probably the actor of Gimli from LOTR.

Also, his reasoning for leaving Mariam in the tent was to prevent them both from being caught. It kinda worked out. Also, why am I watching this again?

Wow.

according to ledgon solomon gave the ark to Bathsheba. who took it to Ethiopia while pregnant with solomon's son Menelik. were is sit today. on an island in the middle of a pond. one lone rabbi is the only one allowed near the ark. on shore there is a stone with a carving of the symbol of the Knights Templar. some historian point to this as a sign that the Knights recognize this site to be the resting place of the one true ark. Menelik I (Ge'ez: ምኒልክ, Mənilək) was the claimed first Emperor of Ethiopia. According to Kebra Nagast, a 14th-century national epic, in the 10th century BC he is said to have inaugurated the Solomonic dynasty of Ethiopia, so named because Menelik I was the son of the biblical King Solomon of ancient Israel and of Makeda, the Queen of Sheba.

I like that you have such intuition about things that are going to happen! You are very wise for your years!😍💋💕

Love You @BissFlix

Probably the greatest action/adventure movie of all time. Definitely 2.5 stars.

Thank you for honesty, BissFlix. Would you have liked this film as a child?? ...maybe? I'm not surprised that you liked the music, many orchestras play it. It was composed & conducted by the same man that also did Star Wars, Jaws, Superman, E.T., and Schindler's List. Oh yeah... John Williams did the music to Jurassic Park too! Perhaps BissCute will react to John Williams conducting a symphony performing a medley of his many popular movie soundtracks? There are several videos to choose from.

this is not a kids or famili movie at all, i don't know where you found this impression. you just didn't like the movie, put it into the wrong category and then based your rating on this. it's wrong. please don't do this anymore.

The fighting scenes are excellent. They’re stylized for the period of time the movie was set in. It’s an adventure. Movie from 1936.

Yes, Harrison Ford played Han Solo in the Star Wars films. Also, the other actor you where wondering about (The one that was helping him in Egypt), was in the Lord of the Rings films. He played Gimli, the Dwarf.

Or maybe people want to rewatch it because this movie is EFFIN AMAZING. That's why

I'm 48 and it's impossible to overstate how incredible it was to be immersed in all these Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and other films at the time. They were doing one amazing film after another, and almost defined out childhoods. And then VHS (and Betamax) video recorders arrived and we could finally start watching them in our homes over and over again, still as kids, and then early computer games were growing massively so we could relive them again through those. (The Atari 2600 game of Raiders Of The Lost Ark was VERY obscure though!) Doing things that our parents couldn't have done 10 years earlier. Amazing times.

The fighting scenes are a stylistic choice, not "bad".

Karen Allen(Marion) is also memorable in "Starman," with Jeff Bridges.

Hi Bisscute! The thing about this movie is it was made with the old serial movies in mind. Spielberg and Lucas dreamed of this character and wanted him exactly old style when every man stuck to his fists when fighting and use you mind as a weapon. It's nostalgic. I grew up watching Indiana Jones, James Bond, John Wayne, etc... it was GREAT!!! I still wish I had a bullwhip and Whoosh, make it up as I go along 😂

It's a historically significant movie, in that it broke records and is a great mix of nostalgia for old Hollywood adventure films, etc, which is probably more important to American audiences or Hollywood fans from other countries, but it definitely hasn't aged perfectly (even though it's set in 1936 and things were different then anyway). But it was very popular when it debuted. It is very much a popcorn movie, and has been the blueprint for movies of its kind ever since. And yes, Indy was played by Harrison Ford (Han Solo in Star Wars). I saw it in the cinema when 6 years old, and the end screaming melting people scene scared me so much my Dad had to take me out of the movie before it ended...lol.

Bisscute, I think they fight scenes were going for more "fun and adventure" then realistic. Not a lot of fight scenes were over choregraphed back then.

Still one of my favorites of all time. A good blend of action, adventure and comedy.. But I appreciate your honesty and opinion. I will admit that the romance/kissing is rather cringe by today's standards, but it is somewhat typical of movies from the period.

It's aged perfectly. This movie style was an homage to the 1930's serials they played at the theaters in America. Those were made for kids. Instead of fussing, it's just easier to give you a thumbs down on this one.

Wow! Someone who doesn't like Indiana Jones. They're rare but they are out there. I guess some people can't have fun without their fake looking cgi creatures and blue sky beams.

The goofy, bigger than life style of this movie is very deliberate. It is based upon the old serial films they used to show before the main feature that were part of George Lucas' childhood. They were kind of like comic book style, filled with cliffhangers and action/adventure.

14:00 “What thevhell did they do?” He took her virginity, but didn’t stick around-she saw him through a romantic lens, while he was only looking for a good time. They were 27 and 17 (perfectly legal at the time), and she’d spent the intervening ten years regretting their night together, while simultaneously missing him, hating him, and yearning for him.

thinking raiders isn't a timeless classic is absolutely wild. just wild.

Hi Biss you were right it is the same guy from Star Wars Harrison Ford.. if you want to watch a great movie, may I suggest Romancing The Stone with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.. there's a sequel also called Jewel Of The Nile.. classic romance action comedy.. love your chanel by the way watch your reactions all the time.. love the Metal that you react to.. my favourite ❤❤❤❤ take care 🤘😊🤘

Hi Miss Biss, I understand your review.🙂Probably due to this fim being based on the 30s and 40s serials you didn't find it that interesting. Keep in mind even though the film was made in 1981, it takes place in the 1940s. I believe that style fighting was typical of the serials as well, which you probably found comical. Nice reactions to Raiders of the Lost Ark, Miss Biss!!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

"alcohol is flammable?"

This crystal generation don't appreciate the good movies

Glad you got some enjoyment out of Raiders. It's one of my favourites, but no one should get mad if you didn't like it too much overall. I hope you'll continue with the series sometime, though to be honest they're all quite similar in tone (#3 is generally considered the best).

You are obviously very young and don’t understand a lot of things but really “that’s the cringiest thing I have ever seen “, after a woman kisses a friend to show her appreciation for his help? It’s obvious that you never have, that’s for sure.