You can tell Chris didn’t need notes for this, literally just points and thoughts he’s had from the decades of rewatches. It’s great

Movies like Back to the Future and Indiana Jones do not need a remake.

George Lucas said in an interview that this project was "just for fun". I think that's the crucial point why it turned out so great... They had the knowledge and craftsmanship, but they did NOT try hard or set a goal to desperatly create a perfect movie. In my opinion that's something we should consider for all our projects...

Chris: GOOD BLOODY VIOLENCE Rating: PG It was another time.

This is one of the greatest movies ever made. A 10/10

I love how when Toht's "torture device" is revealed to just be a coat hanger even Belloq is relieved.

Watching Chris passionately gush over a masterpiece of a film never gets old.

This is my favourite youtube vid of 2020. So good seeing Chris this excited and passionate.

You know what guys, I think Chris really likes this movie.

If Chris doesn’t give this an A+ then 2020 is even worse than I imagined

I was 12 when this was released. I went reluctantly because it’s looked old fashioned, and I wanted Star Wars. Was totally blown away.

I can never decide if I like Raiders or Last Crusade more. Raiders is probably the better movie, but Ford and Connery together is priceless and just elevates that movie so much.

When I was like 11, my dad bought a box set of Indy movies and put Raiders on. I wasn't the least bit interested, but he insisted I sit in with him....and I fckin loved it. To this day, its my go to father-son movie, except now we usually get beers while watching :D

It’s very rare when every single scene is iconic, quoted and probably parodied

This is my #1 favorite movie of all time. When it comes on tv....my wife and kids get to watch a man in his 40s turn into a kid again....i recite the whole movie 😆

Before Nathan Drake and Lara Croft, there was INDIANA JONES

This movie should be referenced under the definition of: They don't make 'em like this anymore.

Indiana Jones Movies Ranked: 1. Raiders of The Lost Ark 2. The Last Crusade 3. Temple of Doom 4. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

I get the “Chariots of Fire” score is iconic, but no way in hell did it deserve the Oscar over the Raiders score

Raiders of the lost Ark is a masterpiece

11:22 I was 9 years old in 1981, watching this in the theater opening weekend with my parents for the 1st time. During this scene where they are opening the tomb with the thunder & lightening....there was an actual thunder and lightening storm going on outside of the theater at the time. You could hear it building up from outside before this scene, getting louder with each clap of thunder. And the rain was coming down so hard, you could hear it hitting the roof of the theater. Then, when they get the tomb open and Indy says, "Snakes, why did it have to be snakes". Boom! The power went out from the storm and everything went dark! Everyone screamed! it was amazing! Something I'll never forget! The power luckily was only out for a few moments, and everything came back on & the movie continued...still with the sounds of thunder coming from outside. It was probably the coolest movie experiences of my life. And I'm so grateful that it happened during a movie I love and cherish to this day!

I love how happy Chris is in this review. You can tell he's wanted to do this for a long time.

Like you, Chris Stuckmann, I've watched 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' countless times (as was the case with 'Star Wars', 'The Empire Strikes Back', and 'Return of the Jedi') and it reached a point where i knew every single note of music, every single piece of dialogue, and every single sound effect off by heart. :)

Most of the "body blow" sounds were created by hitting a pile of leather jackets with a baseball bat. Alfred Molina's first credited screen role. His first scene on his first day of filming involved being covered with tarantulas. To create the sound of the heavy lid of the Ark being slid open, sound designer Ben Burtt simply recorded him moving the lid of his toilet cistern at home. The Well of Souls scene required 7,000 snakes. The only venomous snakes were the cobras, but one crew member was bitten on-set by a python. Steven Spielberg was quoted as saying: "I made it as a B-movie. I didn't see the film as anything more than a better made version of the Republic serials." To achieve the sound of thousands of snakes slithering, Ben Burtt stuck his fingers into a cheese casserole. This was augmented by applying wet sponges to the grip tape on a skateboard. Indiana Jones never kills the lead villain in any of the films. It is always the treasure itself / greed for said treasure or its powers that accounts for their deaths.

I've watched this movie so many times too and I just noticed on my most recent watch that Jock's snake Reggie is named after Reggie Jackson of the Yankees given away from his baseball cap. I love little details like that!

"Raiders of the Lost Ark" is my all time favorite movie. I saw it in a theater when I was 6 in 1981 and it was the first movie that I ever saw in a theater. It is a perfect movie in my eyes.

It's so pleasant watching someone talk about something they truly love

Raiders is one of the only films I actually consider being perfect. Masterpiece gets thrown out at a lot of films but here, it genuinely fits!

This is a man who sometimes truly LOVES his job, just as much as we love him, and as much as we love Raiders ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

One of the greatest films ever made, everything about is perfect.

Han Solo talking about the Force in The Force Awakens reminded me so much of Indiana Jones saying fire thunder or whatever hahahahah

The Indiana Jones movies were a childhood staple of mine as well. They hold a special place.

Seeing you talk about movies you straight up love is a breath of fresh air. There is so much passion and excitement! Keep up the great work Chris!

Your passion for movies is what got me interested in filmmaking, and I am glad that you are showcasing your passion with your recent Steven Spielberg movie reviews, like you did with Back to the Future. You can feel the passion oozing from Chris when he talks about movies that he actually enjoys talking about, as opposed to a movie like Citizen Kane. And yeah, he gave the aforementioned movies an A+, but he likes to beat around the bush with them, almost like he is afraid of what others might think of his opinion of Citizen Kane as opposed to a movie he actually grew up watching, like Spielberg movies. Like Rian Johnson with Knives Out, as Chris Stuckmann said in his review of the 2019 film, "he feels more at home." Keep up the passion, Chris, and I hope you continue to inspire many others like myself.

Let me tell you, listening to you talk about this movie made me wanna go and watch it again today. It’s one of my most favorite movies of all time!!! I just love Indiana Jones period! You described it like no one else! Thanks for reigniting my love for this franchise!!!

Dude I saw this movie with a live orchestra as well in Dallas Texas and it was absolutely awesome. It felt like such an immersive experience getting to watch the movie with the music being played right in front of me, and the orchestra did a phenomenal job they were always on cue with the music every single time and didn't miss a beat

Pretty sure Chris didn't write a single thing for this film and just spoke how awesome this film is...

My second favorite Indy movie after The Last Crusade

Spielberg was 34 years old when he shot Raiders 😳

'Raiders of the Lost Ark' was the first movie I ever bought, but unfortunately...........I bought it on Beta...........a year before Beta lost the home video format war to VHS. Still, I used to love holding the movie in my hand revelling at the amazing artwork on the box and knowing that I could watch the movie at any time because I no longer had to rent it at a video store or hope it would one day air on TV since now I OWNED IT FOR ALL TIME. Bwahahahahahaha! I still have that Beta tape which was later replaced with a widescreen VHS tape replaced later with a DVD later replaced with a Blu-ray and I've always loved John Williams' fantastic score which I bought on cassette tape then on CD then on LP then on an expanded CD followed by two versions of an expanded 2-LP set. It's still the perfect movie unlike the subsequent sequels. :)

Raiders of the lost ark is TRULY my favorite movie of all time

I think one thing quarantine has taught us is that Chris doesn't need to only review the newer, latest, shittier movies of our time lol. He can more than occasionally go back to those older films that he loves, and it necessarily doesn't mean he has to work hard at it cause it seems here that he was more than prepared than if he had a script or plan on what to say.

Last Crusade is my favorite, but Raiders of the Lost Ark is still one hell of an awesome movie.

They really dont make movies like they used to anymore.

“These two guys” - one of them is Porkins from Star Wars.

"You Americans. Always dressed for the wrong occasion." I love that line so much.

One of the things I most love about "Raiders" that isn't talked about too much is the Ark itself. We are told that it is an incredibly dangerous object that mankind should not mess with. Which is what happens. Which makes the film so much more suspenseful. That's another thing I love. People forget how utterly suspenseful this movie is.

Watched this classic in theaters opening weekend and the room was packed! The scene where he shoots the swordsman had everyone dying. I'll never forget that as a kid .

Ever time I watch this movie I can’t believe Gimli from Lord of the rings is Sallah in this movie. Blows my mind.

This is the most passionate movie review you've ever done LoL!

The Belloq and Marion scene is good for character development. We see how cunning and resourceful is but we already know that. What the scene also establishes is Belloq's obsession with Indy. He's not trying it on with Marion because he particularly likes her; he's doing it because she was with Indy before. Belloq's 'what was once briefly yours is now mine' is what he's really going for. He just wants to win over his rival in every way. Which makes him even more of an A-hole when you realize when he had a chat with Indy earlier, he already knew Marion was still alive as his prisoner and was trying to get Indy to forget about her or goad him into getting himself killed.

Inside the industry, the hot movie of the summer of 1981 was not anticipated to be by Steven Spielberg but rather a zany comedy featuring the Chevy Chase and Carrie Fisher called Under the Rainbow. If you don't know it, don't feel bad. The film was rotten and bombed at the box office while Raiders became one of the biggest hits of all time. The two films screened for exhibitors on the same day, and a traffic jam ended up determining which one I attended. Like many industry screenings at the time, the film was not yet completely finished, and the version I saw still had the since-deleted "periscope" scene, which I have never seen again. It went by quickly, just a few seconds as part of the multiple-exposure montage but it was good that it was deleted, as it did generate some chuckles of disbelief. I still regard it as one of the very best action films of all time. Thanks for the retrospective.

"you know it's true. How nice. Look at this. ⌚ It's worthless. $10 from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years it becomes priceless! Like the Ark. Men will kill for it. Men like you...and me" Why does no one use this quote more? I use it on an almost regular basis.

One thing you didn’t point out during the “slowest scene in the movie”, is that Marion was trying to outdrink Belloq like she did in the first scene she was in. But Belloq explains that his family owned the winery that brewed the alcohol they’re drinking! I thought that was really cool.

That scene of the snake crawling out of the skull's mouth is a big factor of why I'm terrified of snakes now

Indiana Jones is one of those movies that I think can't be remade or rebooted. It's unthinkable for anyone to play this character other than Harrison Ford. I will rewatch these movies again and again to relive the timeless adventures of this iconic character👍👍👍

One of my favorite movies of all time. But The Last Crusade is my personal favorite.

I wasn't even 5 minutes into this review when I had to break off to go watch the film again!

Best Action movie ever, along with Aliens and Die Hard.

The guy Chris said dies twice actually dies three times in this movie. He played the swordsman Indy shoots. Because that was supposed to be a long fight scene that was cut short by just having Ind shoot him, they decided to give him a long fight scene with Indy later in the movie. That’s how the plane scene came to be.

As far as I'm concerned, Raiders of the Lost Ark is Spielberg's magnum opus. Sure you could say Schindler's List or Jaws but at the end of the day this film has everything that makes cinema so endearing and awe-inspiring. The thrills, the humor, the action, the sets, the characters, Spielberg's directing choices, the fact it appeals to such a broad audience. Everything about this film just screams moviegoing perfection. An all time great if there ever was one. A+++++ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I never realized that Alfred Molina was in this movie even though I’ve seen it like 20 times😂😂🤣

PLEASE review for Steven Spielberg's, "Empire of the Sun". It's one of his underrated films.

Raiders is one of those movies you forget just how amazing it is, on every level, until you rewatch it. And you realise just what is missing from most, if not all, modern action movies.

I watched this movie recently with my 18 year old daughter. She had never seen any of the Indiana Jones movies. We would up watching them all. she loved it!

No country for old men would be an interesting review, Chris

Easily one of the best thing that has come out of this otherwise Terrible Pandemic is us getting to see Chris talk about more films that he loves and is passionate for since a long time. ♥️

I actually like the Marion and Belocq scene. When she pulls out the knife, because he's intoxicated, he starts laughing. She sees it and starts laughing too. That's hilarious!

One of the finest movie's ever made. The music by John Williams is a masterpiece on it's own. If you don't get goosebumps while listening to The Map Room: Dawn music, you might want to consult a physician, because you could be dead.

Feel like this review’s been a long time coming. It’s clear how much passion you have for these movies, and how much they’ve inspired you. Still remember discovering your channel so many years ago through your review on them with the SchmoesKnow and JeremyJahns

Btw, in case you didn't know, his nemesis is Ivan Ooze from the 1995 Power Rangers movie :)

SOOOO Glad you brought up the fly. The moment I hit play on this video, I was wondering if youd mention that. As for the sub scene, I always assumed he made it into the sub. Before the camera breaks, it looks as though he reaches for the hatch.

Best of the four films IMO.

This and Back to the Future are some of the best examples of a perfect movie, where it seems the stars aligned and everything just worked. Acting, directing, writing, cinematography, editing, etc etc. I just can't find anything wrong with it. It's so fun from beginning to end!

My Dog’s name is Indiana We named him after Indiana Jones

This is one of your best work, passion and love over everything Do you remember that episode of Big bang theory when Amy Fowler ruined Raiders of the lost ark for Sheldon, by pointing out that Indiana Jones did little or nothing to influence the outcome of the movie? That whether Indy was there or not, the Nazis would have still found the ark, taken it to the island and gotten themselves killed by it.

FYI: this is a movie “spoiler” review for anyone who hasn’t seen it.....lol

"The power inside the ark turns evil" *Proceeds to fry every Nazi in the scene* I see no evil here.

Raiders is one of the greatest films ever made. Full stop.

ROTLA is such a fantastic movie. I loved all 3 of them as a kid, but as an adult, this one is definitely my favorite. It's dark, funny, violent, and just plain good fun.

Hes literally just talking about Raiders as if we have never seen it... and I'm loving it. And I can tell how happy he is doing it because he swears more and more as the video goes on, lol.

My girlfriend noticed that I was smiling throughout the video at Chris' enthusiasm and reverence for this film.

Chris: Get Stuckmanized! KZfaq captions: Get Stuck Mine Eyes!

I've always loved how, barely a third of the way into the film, you already recognize indy from his shadow. Speaking of which, what they do with the shadows in the film is nothing short of perfection

0:47 “Says it’s amateur” *but doesn’t look amateur whatsoever and actually looks epic.* Where can I find your short Indiana Jones fan films? My theater, which is still open, has the Indiana Jones trilogy playing. Got to watch Raiders and Last Crusade on the big screen... seen the movies thousands of times on DVD or small screen... but nothing compares to watching them in a cinema.

I saw this movie when it was released when I was 13 years old. I literally saw it 13 times in the theater. It's my favorite movie of all time. I'm very excited to watch your review!

Dude this is like all the ideas I've had about this movie ripped out of my head and put into a video. I will agree that the Marion & Belloch scene is a bit slow compared to the rest of the movie but I liked that it established further that Marion isn't the damsel in distress. She doesn't NEED Indy to rescue her, she can take care of herself more or less. All in all an amazing review man, I just gave the trilogy (there is no 4th, change my mind) a rewatch and it was awesome seeing this review hit on so many points and feelings I had while watching it. Cheers!

My favorite part is when Indy just shoots the guy😂 it’s even better that it’s improv!!!! Please do the others chris!

That last scene where they’re tucking it away, the music gives me epic chills.

I always loved how shadows were used in Marion’s bar. Beautiful cinematography.

Fun to watch Chris be so excited for this review. I lived abroad with no access to films for a couple of years. When I returned to the states, my 49-year÷old MOTHER, who doesn"t even like movies much, said "I have to show you a great movie." We saw it together within my first week back. That is the magic of Raiders. It really is cross-generational magic from very talented people at the peaks of their careers. Great stuff!

...Chris mate you fascinate me, love your reviews so much that I watch them before I watch the actual movie, keep up your great work and dedication man! High 5 from the UK.

1:05 I've had that experience with A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, but also Titanic and Nightmare Before Christmas, hopefully more in the future when the theatres open back up, and its amazing - if anyone gets the chance to see a music from the movie concert, you take it, it's so worth it

80's movies are the most classic. Just like the music. Long live the 80's!!!

TOP.....MEN! This is my all time favorite movie! It has everything you could ask for. Adventure, humor, romance, drama AND horror! There's war stuff and cowboy stuff and mystic/ magic stuff! EVERY KIND OF MOVIE THERE IS is represented in this movie! I can't believe at this point in movie history that any future movie will ever take it's place. The Last Crusade was great as well but even it pales in comparison. This movie actually touches something deep inside me. Whenever I watch this movie or even see extended scenes it literally brings tears to my eyes! Thanks for the thorough and heart-felt retrospective. BEST...MOVIE...EVER!!!

Love your work Chris. My favourite part - you're doing the rest of the series! Oh and your opening....about the opening....was a great opening

Imagine if movies were made with this much passion and story today.

Last Crusade is so incredible. Best chemistry and duo I have ever seen on screen. It screams 80s cop movie (even though its not) to no end!

Raiders is my favourite film ever. The story, the cast.. The music! The map room scene is a masterpiece of film making.

So my tutor was focus puller on this film (also the D.O.P of Hellraiser, another great movie) and he told us that Harrison Ford was a perfect 'technichal' actor - always hit his marks pretty much spot on every time. Also read that apparently Steven Spielberg didn't get ill during the 'cairo' scenes because he brought his own tinned food. Love the review Chris! Keep it up!