The reason that Belloq and the Nazis take the Ark into the desert to open it is explained in the movie. They say that they want to open it here to make sure it contains the ten commandments. They don't want to take a chance of bringing it to Hitler, opening it there, and only then finding out that it's empty.

The medallion was hot from the fire. When he picked it up it burned the imprint into his hand. The Nazis were able to cast a replica medallion from the imprint which is why their medallion only had markings on one side and thus they were digging in the wrong spot.

Raiders is damn near perfect. It’s a master class in how to make a film in my opinion. No over inflated budget and practical effects/solid stunt work.

I saw this film in theaters when my grandparents took me to see it. It had a profound impact on the rest of my life. I didn't become an archeologist, but that didn't stop me from climbing over a ruined castle's wall in Germany just to see what was left inside (nothing but ruin) only to have Polizei waiting for me to come out. I also couldn't help digging a few holes when I was in Iraq in 2003 just to see what I'd find (once again, nothing but I still did it). I'm glad you enjoyed this film!

The Ark is definitely the most iconic artifact in Indiana Jones. It's holy power was brilliantly foreshadowed when Indy showed the government agents a picture of the Ark and mentioned "lightning, fire, power of God". What we saw in the climax was exactly what Indy had said to the agents and it is both mighty and terrifying. I always figured that the ghosts of the Ark mark those that had their eyes open, the lightning strikes them down and then the fire incinerates the bodies leaving no trace of anything left. As for Indy and Marion keeping their eyes closed, it makes sense that Indy would have done his research on the Ark by looking it up in the Bible which does state that no man can look upon God and live which also applies to the Ark if it's opened so keeping their eyes closed shows they respected God for doing so which spared their lives.

Originally there were 15 Commandments.

Here's a fun anecdote you might enjoy. From a ScreenRant article: "While the scene is still in character for Indiana Jones as he exhaustedly pulls out the gun because he’s in a time crunch to find Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), the original plan for the sequence was markedly different. Spielberg originally intended for Indy to engage in a sword fight with the instigator, though behind-the-scenes troubles on set changed the minds of those involved. At the time of filming the scene, Harrison Ford and much of the crew were extremely sick with dysentery, so filming a long fight scene would have been too taxing. Ford suggested Indy just “shoot the sucker” instead, to which director Steven Spielberg obliged."

It's amazing this film was rated PG considering what happens to Belloq and the Nazis when the Ark is opened. At the time there was no PG-13 rating so it was either G, PG or R. For a lot of young kids seeing this movie, seeing those melting faces scarred a lot of us. The next movie - Temple of Doom - pushes the boundaries even further, helping to create the PG-13 rating.

I was born in 1981. Nice to see something come out of that year people love other than myself 😄

I just found a new favourite reactor. Not only are you Canadian but you’re impressively smart too. Thank you for this.

You know, watching this as an adult, i love how it's this really pulpy, gritty action adventure that just veers so hard into supernatural horror in the final minutes. Great, great movie 😌

I named my dog Indiana. I picked that name out when I was 9 after watching all 3 Indiana Jones movies. I got him when I was 30. He’s a 6 year old solid black shepherd. We go on many adventures together.

I remember my mother getting sick & tired of hiring, Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones & Back to the Future out the video store. Yea good ol VHS!! Back then there was over a year between a theatre release then its vhs rental release. All best from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Great reaction to a classic movie! Good old Pat Roach, British actor, bodybuilder, and wrestler who appeared in all three Indiana Jones movies and died in each one of them, twice in this one. He played one of the Sherpas in the gunfight at the bar and the brawny German boxer at the airplane, dying as each. In Temple of Doom he was the Thugee who regretted having the extra long sash that led to his most gruesome (thankfully unseen) death. And in Crusade his death ended up on the cutting room floor, but he is seen briefly escorting an SS officer to the zeppelin. He also had a major supporting role in Willow, where he played the evil General Kael, his face hidden behind a skull mask on his helmet all movie. I love that the Ark knew that those who opened it were evil, so it destroyed all who looked on it and then their bodies were . . . removed . . . so that nothing of the impure remained. Which is almost more terrifying. There were dozens of men. And now there is nothing to show that they were even there. The shot at the end of this gigantic warehouse filled with thousands upon thousands of crates was what inspired the creators of the very good and fun SyFy show Warehouse 13, which is also absolutely worth watching. 🙂

Harrison Ford is the only actor I know of who starred in 3 major franchises all about the same time! Han, Indy, and Deckerd from Bladerunner!

Well done on recognising Alfred Molina. After that I wondered if you might spot another actor you saw in a few movies quite recently, although to be fair his role is a support and not as prominent as the Doc's. Ship's captain Katanga is played by George Harris, who went on to be Kingsley in the Harry Potter films... 🙂

It was so good to see you laughing for a change Ames!! An Ames classic,"Don't just nleave a sticky note on the box containing the Ark!". I'm gonna remember that one!! 🤣

Fun reaction 🙂 One of the best trilogies in film history.

Saw this in the theater when it first came out in 1981, on my 11th birthday. This is still my favorite movie of all time!

GREAT REACT!! At the 2019 D23 Expo, I met Imagineer, Tony Baxter, who Autographed my "The Imagineering Way" Book, where he talks about getting the Idea of the Jeep "Backing-up" (In actuality, the Walls move Forward) in the Ride from going through a Car Wash, adding "Indy's my Favorite." ^_^

Great movie. Loved your reaction. FYI the medallion was fire hot when the Nazi grabbed it, the imprint was burned into his palm, thats why Maryann used a cloth to retrieve it.

The German guy grabbed the medallion when it had been sitting next to the fire for a bit. It would be like putting your hand on a heated stove.

The 2 “birds” on the top of the Ark are kneeling/bowing “Angles”. That’s the wings you’re seeing. Cheers

Looking at your thumbnail again reminded me of something I recently heard Billy Boyd say on Friendship Onion with him and Dom Monaghan. He said that in Return of the King, he was thinking of that scene where Indy swaps the sandbag for the idol and suggested to Peter Jackson that he swaps the bowl for the palantir before he takes it from Gandalf. Hilarious podcast on youtube, btw.

This reaction was just as fun as the ride ❤

Yes. That is Doc Ock! I have watched a reaction to this movie quite a few times and you are the only one that noticed it! Yes, that is the same room they go into in The Crystal Skull. You are on the ball, lady!!! Keep up the good work!!

This is a perfect movie. The script, the casting, the acting, it all fits together perfectly. One MINOR mistake was, when Marion hit Indy with the mirror and he screamed, they forgot to put in the sound of a boat horn. This was supposed to block out the scream so Marion wouldn't hear it, which is why she said, "what did you say?" Without it, she DEFINITELY would have heard him. But a minor quibble. It's just so great. Thanks for the video!

You know the 4th one is not as bad as they say. Yes it Alfred Molina who played Doc Ock. This was his first movie. 🎥 In 1926 he was 27 she was 17 and his boss was her father. Marion theme is very close to Leias theme.

Seeing the joy and that smile with Ames going back to her happy childhood memories was beautiful with this reaction to this classic. Made me smile.✓ Cheer's Ames your Gorgeous.x 🇬🇧

Thanks for reminding me I need to watch the Last Crusade for the first time in my life before watching the new one in theatres!

@2:10 Yes, that is Alfred Molina about 24 years younger before he played Doc Ock in Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Hi Ames, you look nice!🙂I was just thinking you need to react to something not to sad next, good choice. Most people don't recognize young Doc Ock.😉All those skeletons Marion runs into are probably the bodies of the workers that buried the Ark. Killing the workers would help keep the Ark's location secret. Yeah, The Last Crusade is my favorite!🏆How can you beat Harrison Ford and the favorite James Bond of all time. Great reactions to the original Indiana Jones film, Amy!!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

'Ive the memory of a sieve' the joy watching good films multiple times for the first time lol

I saw this at the movies after I graduated college. Awesome film. Although, as the Big Bang Theory episode pointed out, Indy changed nothing. The outcome would have been exactly the same if Indy had just stayed teaching classes.

All time classic! Thanx !!

Lmfao 😂 at the same time as you I watched him eat that bug in character and said the same thing!!

So much bloody fun. I love it. This is also the second video I’ve seen that you’ve mentioned Zelda. Just when I thought that you couldn’t get any cooler. How great would it be to see Indy have to dress up in that gerudo outfit just to infiltrate their town?

You share my enjoyment of these movies. I wish I still had my wife to watch them with and share them with. These movies are better with others. Hard to believe so much time has passed since then. I was in Jr High lol.

Great reaction as always. I grew up with these as well, and my go to was Temple of Doom..prob b/c the kid was in it.

Thank you for sharing the fun you had watching Raiders of the Lost Ark. Here's a funny thing--I had trouble with my willing suspension of disbelief over small things such as the wrong pistols and rifles and the presence of uniformed "Afrika Korps" soldiers in pre-WW2 Egypt (then part of the British Empire) but was okay with the supernatural effects of the Ark. That's like gulping down a boulder but gagging on grains of sand. The movie was strong enough to overcome my disbelief and I enjoyed watching it anyway.

to explain for everyone confused about tasting the poison. its important to test the freshness to identify where and when potential attacjers may be, tasting the poison from a poison dart won't affect you if its digested. its the kind o poison that needs to get to your blood stream through piercing the skin. digesting it diassolves in your stomach acids.

Okay I love your reaction of movies. I have my daughters watch alot of the same movies I grew up with too. Love your videos. Love you for doing these. Hearts all the way.

I'm so happy you are watching Indy. I can't wait for you to see Temple of Doom

Alfred Molina did a great job with the tarantulas. The wrangler (yes, there is such a thing as a tarantula wrangler) placed tarantula after tarantula on him and he said he was doing his best to contain his freakout as each tarantula was placed. The thing is each one was a male and they didn't do anything but hang out until the wrangler placed one female on him and then they all started going wild. The result is what you see in the finished film.

“I wouldn’t want the bad juju on me” ahhh I loved it 😂😂😂❤ killed me 😂

Indiana jones movies is awesome

32:32 YOU NOTICED IT!!!! hahahahhaa!!!!! I love how this has become such a legendary scene. I think they've even asked the actor (Paul Freemon), and he doesn't even remember. lol

The reason why Indiana Jones says not to look at it. It is because only Moses his brother Aaron and Aaron's sons were the only ones allowed to look upon the contents of the Ark of the Covenant. No one else was allowed

Crystal Skull is pretty fun. When I watched it the first time years and years ago, it kinda went through my head. But watching it again recently, holy crap! There are a lot of cool shots and stunts in it that I didn't remember was there 😂 And also, ancient aliens!!!

Ren Hoek, Peaches and Herb...love it

I'm *SO* glad that I was a kid in the early 90s. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are responsible for my childhood haha

And yes they bring Sallah back. Not only in Last Crusade and the newest one, but he is the one who tells you how to use your seatbelts on the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland 😊

The medallion was sitting in fire in the bar, so when the guy picked it up it burnt his hand, which branded the one side of the medallion into it.

And when you get tears in your eyes it just breaks my heart

They'll never me a movie hero equal to Indiana Jones again

"...so many gun deaths in Indiana Jones" (uncontrolled chuckles)

I’m glad you enjoyed the movie. It’s a classic 80s movie that I could seriously watch over and over again! The reason the bad guys couldn’t touch the medallion was simple because it was hot. Once it’s cooled down anything can touch it.

This was pure and utter fun 😂❤

Awesome movie saw at the theater with my wife, so much fun in a packed theater, thanks

This movie is another reason Im such a big fan of Harison Ford, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas.

I was either 16 or 17 when my older brother and I saw this in the theater. It was quite the journey. This is the one I have watched the most, but I only needed to watch The Crystal Skull once to know it wasn't my cup of tea. I haven't been to Disney World since '82. I think Space Mountain was their biggest, scariest ride back then. It always blows my mind to think of all the time that has gone by. 🍿😊

I remember seeing this in the theater, I think 5, or 6 times. Yes, Satipo is Alfred Molina aka Doc Ock. The horrible thing that most don't put together was that 10 years ago, Indy had a falling out with Dr. Ravenwood. We learn later that it was over Marion. Marion is 24 in the movie... Makes it a bit creepy, given her comment that she was "...just a child. [She] was in LOVE!" In 2008, her age was retconned to 27. BTW, $5,000 for the medallion would be $110,000 in today's money.

watching a movie does not make us adventurers, it makes us movie watchers

Great reaction 🔥💯

"These movies are so amazing, I can't wait to watch the rest of the trilogy, I'm watching these before the new movie comes out." and she never watched any Indiana Jones movies ever again...

If I were Indy, and God spared me, and burned off the ropes, too…. I’d have a massive shift in perspective.

The Ark of the Covenant was sacred to the Israelites. A chest made of acacia wood and covered with gold, inside were Aaron's rod, a jar of manna (which fed the twelve tribes in the desert), and, I believe, the tablets of the Law. The Ark travelled with the tribes during their wandering years; no one was permitted to touch it except Levites. To do so was to die. As part of the travelling Temple, it was placed in the Holy of Holies, into which only the high priest was allowed to enter, and that only once per year, to make intercession for the people. During that time, the Presence came down and sat on the Mercy Seat, on top of the Ark.

Love that shirt!!

Love the last scene, think ‘Warehouse 13.’

Love your reactions

'81, the year I graduated High School. The guide at the beginning of the movie, betrays Indiana, then dies on the spike trap, is Alfred Molina. Aka Doc Oc from Spiderman.

So glad you're doing a series I like again, I've missed u

Are used to work at the Indiana Jones ride one of my favorite jobs ever!

A bit of trivia: The scene where Indy faces the big guy with the huge sword was supposed to be a protracted fight. Unfortunately Harrison Ford was really sick with the flu the day they were to shoot the scene so when the guy starts whipping his huge sword around, Indy looks at him as if to say, “Yeah, right.” Then he shoots him dead. Spielberg decided to go with that take and the rest is cinematic history.

After the map room scene they are suddenly free again because a small detail that's lost is that Sallah is the main Egyptian in charge of the excavation. So of course they let him go to then return later, but it's not that clear how he 'gets away', because he doesn't have to, they let him go.

Hi from Sheffield Yorkshire England first of all can i start start by saying i love tou and all your reactions

I'll watch when I'm off work in the morning 🙌🏻

@13:07 Because things get hot when they lie in fire.

I've watched a bunch of reactions of Indiana Jones movies on YT but Ames you always manage to put your own unique perspective and style on these. Any chance will see you in the hat and whip for the next three Indy movies??? I think it's you!! 😁

Re the Whip against the sword fight where Indy just shoots the swordsman - The original script was for a big fight scene, but Harrison Ford was sick that day and running a temperature, so he asked Spielberg if he could just shoot him. Spielberg said that they'd see what it looked like and loved the reaction to it, so went with it anyway...

The guy you asked about, "Is he dead or taking a nap?" Is a remnant of a deleted scene, where Indy knocks out a guard who was standing next to the block Indy moved out of the way.

Video taping didn't arrive until the 1950's. The guys recording the ritual were filming.

During the scene where Indy opens up the lid to the Ark of the Covenant, you can spot C-3PO and R2-D2 engraved on the pillar. The one decorated with a large gold snake at Indy’s right.

I saw this in the theater as a kid and there was another movie about the same time called "In Search of Historic Jesus Christ" and it talked about the pursuit to find another such ark that contained the burial shrouds of Jesus. I think they held up as well as the Ten Commandments and were reduced to "sand" as well. As a kid in the 80's I heard about the Spear of Destiny and other artifacts like these, and my take was governments traveling the world to find magical items of historical and religious significance to help them rule the world. Thanks to the Indiana Jones movies, I walked away with a great deal of skepticism for magic, religion AND governments.

I remember thinking, when I saw this in 1981, that you could argue that Indiana rescued Marion from Major Arnold Ernst Toht but otherwise the main outcome would have been pretty much the same, the Nazi’s would have opened the Arc and all who witnessed it would have suffered the same fate, however, aster I reflected on this I realised that the Arc might then have remained in the possession of the Nazi’s so that they could continue to research ways of exploiting it. I recently saw a clip from The Bing Bang Theory where they distraught to hear that Indiana Jones was superfluous to the outcome of the movie. Only 40 years late in working that one out 😂

Don't know if anyone else mentioned this but you have to go back and watch the scene where Harrison Ford and Sir John Reese Davis pull the Ark out of the stone box in the snake tomb. There is a picture of C3P0 and R2-D2 on the wall behind Indiana.

You have a wonderful enthusiasm about you.

Indiana Jones inspired my younger self to be adventurous and see more of the world than my city. Disney world does a indiana Jones show on stage performed by Harrison fords real stunt man. He performs the famous scenes throughout the series and talks a little about working on set with ford!

Gary Oldman is an extraordinary actor. For Halloween you should watch him as the title role in "Bram Stoker's Dracula."

It is quick to miss, when indy and Sallah are removing the stone cover from the ark, on the post that is on the left side of the frame, there is a hieroglyph of R2-D2 and C-3P0

Excellent reaction. Hope you´re gonna react to part 2, will be a rollercoaster.

"How could the other guy not touch it?" - Ummm.....you mean why couldn't he touch the metal thing that had been sitting right in the middle of a blazing fire? Have you ever tried grabbing a super-heated piece of metal? lol

For a quick boost of positive energy, I pull up the clip of Harrison and Ke's reunion hug on stage.

Nice reaction this is one of favorite Indiana Jones movies I hoped you had fun watching it also I subscribed to your channel👍

When the ride at Disneyland first opened I wasn’t tall enough (they measured you up to the snake) now I’m 6’5” 😂 I had an Indy birthday party when I was 10, and recently I decided I need one of the real hats that they make custom in the UK (as soon as I have $600 to spare 😬) and just like you Last Crusade was the one I watched the most (but my older sister got me a vhs of Temple of Doom when I was 4 and I wore that out too) gosh I love this trilogy ❤

With sincere apologies, I'm nearly a year late seeing this. However, it was worth the wait to hear your Ren and Stimpy reference.

Frank Welker is the guy who did the monkey sounds. He also did Abu's monkey sounds in Aladdin. I didn't realize how similar they sounded until I learned that.

LOL I wouldn't say there's "hype" for the Dial of Destiny. It's more like the feeling you have when you REALLY need to get to the toilet. Fast. XD But it's good to know the classics only seem to get better with time!

You are so funny vut also can b so empatheric sympathetic with all the carictors

And the thing is... When this movie came out, everyone was like "Harrison Ford? Han Solo?". People thought the movie was going to absolutely flop. Han Solo was so engrained into everyone's brain. Everyone was a believer after the movie. Everyone. Harrison Ford was now Indiana. Just a bit of trivia... 1) The movie won an Academy Award for Special Effects which were done by George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic company. 2) I had to research because I was curious... Marianne pursued Indiana even though she was underrage. They were having a thing when he had second thoughts and broke it off with her. I don't know how but I remember it being rough on her. 3) Most importantly, my Dad laughed his ass off every time he saw the scene with the assassin in the market square getting shot by Indiana. Great freaking movie. The genre Spielberg loves to direct...