RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) | MOVIE REACTION | FIRST TIME WATCHING 

Legit one of the most perfect movies ever made.

When you fought Top Man, did you see where he had put the Ark? (This comment is going to look weird if you change your icon)

That's a hilarious but excellent observation :) haha love it!

I mean, for me? Its the greatest movie ever.

Yep, its still better then about 90% of movies released now.

That's similar to things my mother would do. She would call the school in the middle of the year and tell them some excuse like I had a doctor's appointment. I would be clueless about what was going on and she would take me to lunch and then a movie. I was sworn to secrecy and if I told anyone from teachers to my siblings, she said she would never do it again. I never had children but if I did, I would do that with them. It made me feel special.

Very Cool

@@nikolatesla5553 I wonder if she did that on different days with the other kids as well... or if you only had brothers maybe your father did the "special" days with them.... that would be sweet. But if it was only YOU?.....That makes you a Spoilt Princess right there. 😀😅🤣👍👊

What an awesome memory. That really made me smile. Thanks for sharing. 😀👍👊

Well, technically, dad did take you to church, you learned all about the ark of the covenant. 😉

And it was an ad-lib from Harrison Ford!!

I've been known to use it myself..😁

Best line from Spielberg: "The monkey giving the salute. George's idea and .... nuts, just nuts."

I feel you!

it's always funny when people think the copy came before the original... lol

@@stevestarr3160 I don't think she thinks that, the release year is right there in the title. She probably saw National Treasure first so that's her reference point and yeah, from that perspective Raiders is like National Treasure.

It is a little like National Treasure. I enjoy National Treasure from time to time. (Bit of a guilty pleasure really.) But Raiders is a vastly superior film in every way.

Ya this made me cringe a bit as well, but entirely understandable from her context.. clearly a hyper-derivative film, that in so many ways itself is just laughable. And quite like someone watching "E.T" for the first time and think .. hey this is just like "Mac and Me"

That was great

best part, great edit

absolutely perfect

You should do that more. Hilarious

That made me go from merely liking this channel to downright adoring her as a person.

I recall the theatre chuckling "ho ho HO" when Ford turns around at the start of the film!

Correction THE greatest !!

The fact that it was improvised because of food poisoning makes it even funnier to me

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With a tearful look, "Just smashes his watermelon." 25:26 broke me in fucking two man.

She’s not wrong about the series 🤠 🐴 🏜 ⚔️!!

All rolled into one

I shrank a lot at that

seen national treasure but not raiders.. tsktsk smdh

National Treasure is discount Indiana Jones

Great movie kind of ruined when you figure out that Jones isn't really required in it as it would of ended the same way if he wasn't there.

Yeah, I cringed when she said that.

National Treasure wishes it was Indiana Jones.

I reckon that line was in the original script ... and it's just a whole legend has built up around some elements of the film. Like with Indy choosing to shoot the guy with the sword, I reckon that too was in the original screenplay .. but it was considered by Spielberg and Lucas that the story of Ford taking it upon himself to make changes while shooting was just too attractive to pass up.

@@fergalhughes165 According to the records, a lot of the crew got physically ill during the on location shooting in North Africa. The scene was originally supposed to be Indy fighting the big swordsman with the whip...but Ford had a severe case of "turista"...diarrhea probably due to strange food. He simply didn't have the strength to do an intense combat scene. Ford suggested they shorten the scene by simply having him shoot the swordsman. As for the other film crew who had gut issues, apparently only Spielberg avoided it...by eating only canned food he had brought with him...cans of Spaghetti-Os.

@@fergalhughes165 your "reckoning" means nothing. The facts remain what they are.

Not true about the dialogue. That's just one of those urban myths that's grown up around this movie. The line is in the original screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan. The shooting of the swordsman, however, was indeed an improvisation made that day because of Ford's illness

And he played Leonardo DaVinci in Star Trek Voyager.

He was GREAT in the original television series "Shogun" from the 1970s. The guy never aged!

The Fugitive was adapted from a classic b&w tv show, whose finale was the first one of its series in color (if I remember right). It was one of my dad's favorite series, and it was one of the best movies to come from the 90's also. I second the recommendation.

YOU'RE FORGETTING "STAR WARS" WHICH CAME OUT IN 1977!!

@@tonystark5-29-70 I didn’t forget, but I said prime. That was his beginning, besides American Graffiti. And Empire and Return were 80’s so I figured Star Wars trilogy was included in my generalization

@@MikeB12800 I agree with you. He did so much in those two decades. Witness is another great one.

@@MikeB12800 BUT I WOULD SAY HIS PRIME STARTED WITH "STAR WARS"!!

I was 10 when this came out and ALL the kids wanted to be archaelogists. There was a camp the next school year right before summer in which we spent a week away and signed up for various activities. It was a lot like signing up for college classes, you had to sign up for various things before the 'class' was full, and every kid wanted to be part of the archaelogy sessions. So much so that the line for it was several times bigger than any reasonable expectation to participate. One of the counselors was yelling out, "this will not be like Raiders of the Lost Ark! Other activities are available for you to join"". Stupid adult. We knew he was wrong. I spent four days cleaning rocks with a paintbrush and measuring things with knotted string, while humming "Dah duh dah dahhh, da duh daaaaa".

It’s not as action packed but I would still say it’s exciting! I’ll bet this movie really inspired a lot of people to get into archeology even after they found out it wasn’t like the movies

@@ZenzeroCAM It’s why I studied Archaeology.

Archaeology was more exciting in the 30s and 40s than it is now. Not this exciting. But still more treasure hunting and less scientific.

Yeah, you would say that, wouldn’t you? Don’t want anyone else getting in on the action, do ya? Come on! I bet you’re riding U-Boats and punching Nazis out of trucks all the time! 🤣

@@yt45204 that band's name is Europe

@@yt45204 there's a band named "America"

@@yt45204 Europe isn't a country it's a continent.

@@yt45204 Europe is not a country. There is a European union but it's made up of several countries.

Also Greenland isn't a continent,it's an island. Only island that's a continent is Australia.

He also played the King of Bohemia opposite Jeremy Brett in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia," 1984.

@@earlofbroadst My god, yes, the jaw line! Perfect casting indeed.

Oh, yeah! "Ich bin stoltz..."

@@neilgriffiths6427 *stolz

Oh damn, you're right!

And was the inspiration for the TV show, "Warehouse 13"

@@Cg23sailor I was thinking the same thing. Was the ark ever one of the artifacts in the tv show?

Actually, it was an homage to a much earlier movie, "Citizen Kane", 1939, by Orson Wells, a recreation of the final scene in that movie, an overhead tracking shot of a warehouse cluttered with the possessions a rich man, Kane, had collected over a long and acquisitive lifetime.

kingdom of crystal skull: “was” perfect

Agreed!

Witness was a great Harrison Ford movie. His best serious role. Weird Al spoofed it. It was that good. One of my underrated favourites.

He was great in a variety of films, too, box office hits that garnered awards. Ford, unlike other action heroes like Arnold or Sylvester very often played parodies of themselves, in B movies. Ford was in well produced, highly regarded action (Raiders), drama (Witness), even rom coms (Working Girl), each of them critically acclaimed and award winning, all Best Picture nominees at the Oscars. Of course Blade Runner and The Empire Strikes Back are sci-fi classics. Ford was a baller in his prime!

Duh. Look at Harrison Ford. Movies or no movies. He was easy on the eyes. And he was a carpenter before all the movie stardom. He would do carpentry work for L.A.musicians. I think Carlos Santana was one of his clients, but was unknown at the time. Hands on as well as good looking.

I can believe it.

@@m2c_tave689 He was a roadie with The Doors as well. He's lived a life has old Harrison.

@@shugaroony He's also a carpenter as well.

How old was your old high school drama teacher, when she first met Harrison Ford from college?

Harrison was also sick as half the cast had the flu

Same, people (around me or anywhere) really seem so jaded when watching anything. It is really refreshing to see this. She is really experiencing these movies fully.

Agreed gents. I can’t help but feel Ms. Cassie is the audience every good movie deserves and that any honest and halfway decent filmmaker would admit wanting as an audience.

That’s awesome, man! Completely mirrors how I feel about these reaction videos too! I know there’s a million of these reactors out there but this is one of two channels that I’m subscribed to and watch religiously. I think part of the magic is that we get to relive that feeling of awe and wonder we had when we were children seeing these movies for the first time. Cassie (is that her name?) seems to capture that spirit and honestly, as I get older (39 yo here), it’s harder and harder to feel that sense of discovery and adventure and “magic” in my life, especially in movies or tv. So that’s my take on it! Anyway, it’s been lots of fun and I’m all in for it! Sorry for the novel! Haha

@@freddiestranger9783 But, under no circumstances open the Ark of the Covenant.

I've watched all of these movies so many times and that's still something I didn't know. Nice to see that there's still things to learn, thanks.

he is major eaton in this....another food name lol

dont forget eckhart in batman 89

Jek Porkins, Red Six: " I can hold it! No I'm alri...!"

"Stay on target" guy?

Don’t forget he also plays Jack Ryan!

last of the old guard of actors a true legend.

I think this was when he was still starting out, fresh off of Star Wars. He's not quite "prime" yet. Late 80s through the mid 90s is Harrison Ford at his prime.

@@Bartlebycs arguable, he had a bit part in apocalypse now, Blade Runner and of course the Star wars stuff, then later Indy...so yeah in the early 80s still fining himself I suppose.

@@testpattern23 Blade Runner was filmed after Raiders. ;) I didn't even know he was in Apocalypse Now O.O

I'll settle if it's like Time Team and I can be Phil Harding.

Exactly what I was thinking.

I envy you! I was a bit too young to see it in the theatres, but the very first movie my family purchased for our first VCR was Raiders. I watched it so many times I knew every line of dialogue.😁

@@frankhassle9366 Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes.

Pound for pound, the greatest piece of Film Making in history !!

I think a close contender for the most dangerous movie stunt was the scene where Messala was trampled by chariot horses in Ben-Hur (the one from 1959). That was real too (the actor playing Messala was wearing a special armor of sorts to protect him).

Watch some of Jackie Chan's earlier movies, in particular Police Story 1&2. Some stunts where he literally could've died.

I saw a documentary about the makings of this film and i believed that it was shown that Harrison did that stunt himself. I could be mistaken because it was over 20years ago i saw the docu.

@@johnny9000 Ford did do as much as he could because he believed the audience had come to see him and deserved to see the expression on his face as he performed. The really dangerous stunts were done by stunt men.

@@bobogus7559 Stephen Boyd.

Karen Allen gave no shits lol

@@patrickgogan3517 Great character. Great performance.

It always makes me hungry for bread.

Spielberg wanted Karen Allen because of her work in _Animal House._ He said she has that demonic twinkle to match Ford.

@@jean-jacquescortes9500 I think you probably meant to post this in another thread.

She was the best of Indy's girls.

I thought it was all the rage these days

Thats just what she wants you think Michael!

"Sadly, she never got to punch any Nazis." That doesn't sound right to me at all. Isn't there a required Archeology course called Archeology 200 that is an entire course dedicated to "Punching Nazis"?

looool 100%

Also that he was going to cast Tom selleck thank goodness he didn't

😂

@@garyclarke9685 Tom Selleck actually did get the part of Indiana Jones but _Magnum P.I._ was picked up as a series and he was under contract for that and CBS would not let him take the part of Indy.

@@PopcornInBed On the myth, spirits side of movies you should check out ` Poltergeist ` from 1982... it`s got to be 1 of the best movies of the 1980s :):) The ultimate is ` The Thing ` by John Carpenter.... :):)

😂 😂 😂

I couldn't even make it through national treasure. Not even comparable.

I actually was ok with National Treasure but lets be honest, its not even in the same weight class as Indiana Jones.

Patrick Egan. Now watch the Big Bang Theory S7-E4 “ The Raiders Minimization”. It’ll floor you. Lol

@@frankiek2269 No thanks, that show is complete shit.

@@Foebane72 I posted something, but it was mean. But don’t say the show was complete sh^t. You’re not an authority on comedy. Who is? Just say you didn’t like it. That would be like me saying the “Three Stooges” is terrible. I liked it as a kid, but couldn’t watch it as a teenager.

sorry for your loss.

That was funny

I used to rewind that bit on VHS back in the day, as I found the yelp so funny!

You have to wonder how Ford managed such a realistic scream without ACTUALLY having his face smashed.

I like to imagine that after all the punishment he went through that day from being beaten, shot, and thrown out of a moving truck, that final hit with the mirror was the final straw that broke him.

He is one of my good friends uncles.

@@croftatron That's very cool, to be so closely connected to a great actor and 4 iconic movies. If you ever see him, let him know he's greatly loved and treasured as an artist and co-star of these great moves by so many people. Myself included.

Ya, but Raiders doesn’t have The Declaration of Independence… soooo, that’s a strike against Raiders lol

@@iancampbell2517 But Raiders has melting Nazis...so checkmate LOL. Love your comment Ian. Well done.

And the voice of Treebeard.

Isn't that the whole point? He (literally) surrenders to history and then lets history play out. I 've always thought it's very in-keeping with his character.

@@PaulWhytcross I agree but anyone could do it. That's what ruins it for me.

Actually, he was the one who both found the Ark (Since the Nazis didn't have Ravenwood's diary, they wouldn't know about Marion and Nepal) and saved it from them (Had he not been present at the end, Hitler would just have sent more soldiers until they figured out they can't open it).

Often imitated, never duplicated.

Raiders of the Lost Ark was itself an imitation of the 1930's and 1940's short movie theater adventure serials, if I remember correctly.

@@mrs7195 I was going to comment this. The movie is of course inspired by the old adventure movies of Hollywood. Probably to the young audience, like our This is how the truth dies here, it's a new fact. More so, the user name most likely reveals a younger person.

Yeah, like this girl had been on the ride and knew that's where the big boulder came in to play.

It hasn't been imitated "so many times" at all! - Romancing the Stone/Jewel of the Nile - National Treasure/National Treasure 2 - King Solomon's Mines/Alan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold THAT'S LITERALLY IT! And King Solomon's Mines would probably have got remade at some point anyway whilst Romancing the Stone and National Treasure aren't that much like Raiders of the Lost Ark in the first place. The "Adventure Genre" is massively underserved by Hollywood and has been for the past 50 years! Raiders itself was a THROWBACK and given that Romancing the Stone didn't come out till 84 and King Solomon's Mines 85 it's not like they rushed out clones of Raiders! After the 1987 flop Alan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold the ONLY big budget "Adventure Movie" that came out in the next 16 years was Last Crusade. There isn't a single big budget "Adventure Movie" between Last Crusade and National Treasure in 2004!

Nice.very clever answer.

Leo Back in the 80s all booby traps were set by Dolly Parton.

Robot chicken explained ir

@@matsv201 Didn't see that episode. What was the explanation? Best. Leo.

@@michaelbastraw1493 well.. it was really complicated. The skid is ok youtube.

Great in "Shogun" as well. And in the Ivanhoe movie in Sweden every new years day as Font De Beuf

I was going to comment this, too!

I used to like him in a show called Sliders in the 90’s.

@@mattiaswibom4788 Great movie/mini-series! "Night of a Thousand Screams"

And playing MANRAY in SPONGEBOB

I did the same thing. Blew my entire allowance and got grounded for coming home late due to it until two nights later my folks took us to it for family movie afterwards the manager told them I had seen twice already. Dad laughed and ungrounded means gave me my allowance back. One of my all time fav films

They ate a bad date

I heard it was malaria but I think someone said something like "why doesn't he just shoot the guy?" So that's what they did which ends up being one of the best parts of the movie lol

@@natemalnaa1 Isn’t it great how sometimes in the movies things like that work out that way?!

@@artman2oo3 right?! It's still one of the best parts of that movie lol

Then makes for a great callback/gag when Indy is about to fight with the two swordsmen before the bridge in Temple of Doom.

Most of the cast and crew had diarrhea from eating the catered food. Spielberg didn't get sick because he was known to pack his own snacks. And the shot on the swordsman wasn't scripted or directed, either, given the slightly delayed reaction in the stuntman when Ford fired the revolver.

Hey your right well half right. It was actually Harrison Ford's idea to pull out the gun & like you said it worked so well better than if they had fought

@@garyclarke9685 How is what I said “half right”?

Me too especially the scene when Indy pulled out the gun to kill the swordsman. His idea. by the way not the director

If this movie was re released in theaters today I would be there. No doubt about it! I got it in blu ray but to see it on the big screen “take my money!!”

@@michaelschaaf5302 the indiana jones films will be released in 4k in June I think

Instead, the Ark was captured. And, indirectly, it did decimate their foes: the Philistines who captured it were plagued with rats and some disease that gave them tumours (possibly the bubonic plague.

The Ark was carried before the Israelites as the Vanguard of God. The gold lid with cherubims was called the Mercy Seat and was the throne of God in the inner part of the Temple, as Sam said, the Holy of Holies. When Moses' successor Joshua led the people into the Promised Land, they crossed the Jordan River. When the priests carrying the Ark touched the river, it backed up and dried, allowing the people to cross the river. Once the people crossed, the priests carrying the Ark continued onward and the river flowed again. The famed battle of Jericho was another act of God using the Ark. On the 7th day, God ordered the Ark carried around the walled city of Jericho 7 times (the first 6 days only one trip each day) and blowing their trumpets. After the seventh trip around, the walls miraculously fell outward, God provided access to the city. One very interesting note most people don't know, as Sam mentioned about the yearly visit of the High Priest into the Holy of Holies, the priest's robes had bells on the hem, and they had a rope tied around them. After a period of long silence of the bells, the other priests could pull the High Priest out by the rope. This was in case the High Priest did something wrong, and God struck them down in the Holy of Holies. I don't recall if this ever actually happened, but it was a "safety measure" to retrieve a dead High Priest if needed.

It's a rule of the genre that if the McGuffin is a historical or legendary object, it must be lost again with no proof it was ever found.

Yeah I loved the opening sequence & the way we saw Harrison

Classic

A king cobra or an Egyptian cobra/asp? I'm just wondering how a snake from India ended up in Uganda otherwise.

Spielberg and Lucas are great filmmakers

He drives the Jeep that Marty grabs onto while skateboarding at the start of the movie, so 3/3 attendance

That's correct. Harrison did an incredible job just doing those stunts you mentioned & every other stunt in the film. Good on him

That stunt was inspired by one that Yakima Canutt created and performed in westerns in the 30s, only he used a stagecoach.

@@porflepopnecker4376 Yes, I know. They mentioned those old stagecoach stunts in the behind the scenes documentary of Raiders of the Lost Ark that aired on CBS in the early 80s, which Harrison narrated.

@@porflepopnecker4376 I heard that too & saw it in a western

@@garyclarke9685 he tore his ligaments performing the flying wing stunts when they ran over his knee. Tough guy.

And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword (Joshua 6:21). Oh, and rains of fire, pillars of salt, this and that. YHVH is a jealous god.

Well it’s said that you cannot be in God’s presence or look upon His face without your physical body being destroyed. And considering what the Nazis were at that time doing to God’s own people, the Jews it makes perfect sense that God would use the Ark to destroy any of the evil that sought to use His power and His symbols to bring more evil on the earth.

God forbid! oh wait...

That's just what the Hebrews thought ...

No, because then she might not skip CRYSTAL SKULL.

Sheesh.....Willie cannot be given any credit for anything can she?.....Never mind getting the mine cart started, saving Short Round's life on the bridge, punching the big thuggee henchman off the cart and helping to free the children. Sometimes I wonder if a lot of people watched TOD after the first 20 mins because honestly, Willie changes a great deal throughout the film.

@@cockerpoodles1238 she really does, and also...she's SUPPOSED to be annoying.

@@Kasino80 She was successful.

Good though it wasn't shown though. It didn't need to be

Well...at least until the yahtzees died at the end.

For Quint's death in Jaws was more brutal. Jaws, also a Spielberg movie.

He was alright though, he turned up in wrestling and Auf Wiedersehn, Pet after, so no harm done. ;)