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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction (Patreon)

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2026-01-21 01:00:08
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I watched a short interview on YouTube the other day with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and they were asked what their favourite Spielberg film is. The way that Matt said "Raiders" made me laugh. Yeah, this was pretty gosh darn great! I'm excited to continue.

Thanks so much for watching with me and I'm looking forward to your comments! 😊

✦ KL

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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction

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Tyler Foster

I've only just started but I've inadvertently lead you into a double feature. Raiders of the Lost Ark was written by Lawrence Kasdan...father of Zero Effect's Jake Kasdan.

Nathan Jasper

Spielberg directed the first 4 with James Mangold doing the final one. I think.

Steve Mercier

Arghhhhhhhhhhhh...have to go...to bed...and work...in the morning... I'm going to watch this tomorrow. Just the greatest action/adventure movie of all time--that's all. "Asps. Very dangerous. You go first."

RichieRich

Another fun trip down nostalgia road for me. 😊

Nathan Jasper

"Lightning. Fire. Power of God or something." I tend to look at the being during the ritual as the Angel of Death that appeared during the first Passover. It found these Nazis as unclean and unworthy and took them out. Everyone has their own explanation for it and I guess that's the point. Angel, Magic, up to each viewer.

Nathan Jasper

whoops, I commented that as I started watching and then at the end you say you'd rather not know... I am so sorry, one of these days I'll learn to wait til after the reaction LOL

SEAN ƴü KAY

On behalf of all the top men working on this....😉Thank-you for uploading this one for us lucky ones. Today is not going to be one of those....Bad Dates...🫣😉😋

Christian Rennie

I'm glad we are watching this one! Thank you! Ok, no spoilers..... "mmmrrrhh..... mmmhhh..." see I can keep my mouth shut when trying to talk about stuff

Tyler Foster

My friend said something I really liked about the last two more recent movies. However, even though I don't think it reveals anything you said you didn't want to know, just to be safe, I'll wait until you're at the third of the original trilogy to talk about it. (One thing I can say, although it won't help you anytime soon, if it helps you at all, is that the most recent one, 2023's Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, is at least no longer a Paramount production, as Lucasfilm was purchased by Disney between 2008's Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and that film. Unlike the Star Wars movies, the structure of whatever agreement existed between Lucasfilm and Paramount meant that Paramount kept the original four.) In addition to Ford, Lucas as producer, and Williams on score, there are a few bit players from Star Wars as well. The main one who stands out to me is Major Eaton, the government guy who assures Indy that "top men" are working on the Ark -- that's William Hootkins, probably most widely recognized as poor Red Six, doomed X-Wing Death Star attack pilot Porkins. The famous scene of Indy just shooting the swordsman was a concession on the day. There was going to be a traditional fight, but Ford was ill, and didn't have the energy, so they came up with the great moment that's in the film instead. You had the information about the burned hand backwards. As Indy says, there are no photos or descriptions of the headpiece anywhere, so the source of the half of the headpiece that they have is Toht's burned hand. He does look pretty different, but it seems like you never recognized John Rhys-Davies as Sallah, who would go onto play the dwarf Gimli in the Lord of the Rings movies. The faces at the end were achieved by making wax dummy busts of some of the actors (namely Ronald Lacey, who played Toht, who gets the most extended death) with layers of different colors inside to simulate blood and things like that, melting them, and then speeding up the footage. Also, re: feeling that it was a little surprisingly violent -- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ended up being the reason the PG-13 rating was created. After some audiences reported that ToD (and Gremlins) were a little bit more intense than other PG rated movies, Spielberg went to the head of the MPAA and proposed they create a new rating between PG and R. The Flamingo Kid was the first movie to be given the rating back in 1984, but Red Dawn ended up being released first. The movie you saw Karen Allen in was Scrooged.

Death Lego

I'm looking forward to watching this later. Owe, I have a fun non reaction recommendation for ya. Back in 2015 I watched a brilliant documentary called Raiders!:- The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made. It's about childhood friends who tried to make a shot for shot remake of Raiders when they were kids. They Reunite 25 years later to finish what they had started.

Nicholas Bielik

When they were shooting “Before Sunrise” Ethan Hawke was talking about film with Julie Delpy. She sized him up pretty quickly and then said: “You probably think Raiders of the Lost Ark is the greatest film ever made.” Shots fired!

Bryan Dempsey

I was 6 years old when I saw this in theaters with my parents. I absolutely loved it. It was rated PG, why couldn’t I see it? I still remember my mom quickly covering my eyes as the Ark/Wrath of God begins to smite the bad guys. She kept watching so her fingers loosened and I watched faces melt and heads explode and I was not scared. Afterwords we went to McDonald’s for a late dinner. I have owned 2 fedora’s in my life. I got an 8 foot long leather whip. I had a leather jacket. I practiced with that whip in my yard until I could actually hit a set of keys from several feet away with it and I could actually get it to wrap around the broomstick and pull it off the ground and catch it. thought I was the coolest kid in the world. But I spent most of my adulthood growing uneven facial hair. I wanted to be able to grow stubble like Indiana Jones. Only in the last decade have I been able to evenly grow stubble and I learned the truth. It’s itchy so I have to shave. I still laugh every time that mirror smacks his chin and he screams. Every time. Glad you appreciated it. I thought it was funny that you had the exact opposite takeaway from the evil guy holding up his burned hand. Their staff was the wrong size because they could only work off the side he had on his hand. They didn’t have both sides. And I don’t know if you picked up the story was by George (Star Wars) Lucas. He and Steven wanted to do something together. This was it. And it’s one of the most perfect films I’ve ever seen. I don’t have a lot more I can say other than I saw Temple of Doom more often as a child so the first 2 films hold that place in my heart that childhood movies hold. I can’t wait for the next one. Glad you’re watching these.

Vincent Hollow

My biggest disappointment of Raiders when I first watched it was finding out that adorable little monkey was a Nazi too. I felt so betrayed.

DarthChef

This is a great Lucas/Spielberg collaboration. My understanding was that they were in Hawaii relaxing on some beach celebrating the success of Star Wars and they got to talking about the old style serialized short films that played in front of the main feature when they went to see movies as kids. They always ending on a cliffhanger, so you had to go back and see how the story continued. They wanted to create that same kind of thriller/action adventure, but as a full movie. I believe they flipped a coin as to who would produce and who would direct.

WastedPo

I think what might be surprising to someone watching Raiders today is just how "gritty" it is. Like, it's surprisingly gory and grainy and hardcore. (It legitimately could've been rated R.) I saw this very young at a friend's house, and it borderline traumatized me. Of course, today I recognize it as a great piece of cinema. But I'll never completely shake that first impression I had of it (and maybe that's for the best; a reminder of how powerful movies can be). There's a lot I want to say to properly get you in the mindset for appreciating "Temple of Doom," the follow-up, but I know you're leery of spoilers. I will say that I think Temple of Doom is very underrated. Is it perfect? No. But at the same time, both Harrison Ford and Spielberg throw all caution to the wind in their respective roles. It's sometimes refreshing to see directors and/or actors just going, "Eh, let's just go for it."

Movies with KL

It is pretty gritty! I'm sure watching this movie super young has a much different vibe. And please don't ever feel like you need to make me be in a right mindset for something. Doing so is likely to set expectations, even if there are no outright spoilers, which I don't love receiving either. The fact that I'm always looking forward to watching a movie should be enough of a right mindset to be in, shouldn't it?

WastedPo

True about the mindset idea. I guess part of why I felt the greater need to talk about the ideal mindset for "Doom" is that, as implied, it's underrated. So I was trying to think of a way to subtly increase the odds that you like it.

Drowned In Gravy

Karen Allen is from the town right next to my hometown, and she still comes back to the area somewhat frequently. I've met her a couple of times, and you'll be happy to know she's an absolute gem. Sweet, humble, smart as a whip, funny, and just an absolute joy to be around.