Raiders of the Lost Ark [VHS]

Raiders of the Lost Ark [VHS]
by Steven Spielberg

Raiders of the Lost Ark [VHS]

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Actor: Harrison Ford, John Rhys-Davies, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey
Director: Steven Spielberg
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: Arabic (Original Language); English (Original Language), Analog; German (Original Language); Hebrew (Original Language); Nepali (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Original recording remastered, THX
Running Time: 115 minutes
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Paramount
Studio: Paramount

VHS Movie Reviews of Raiders of the Lost Ark [VHS]

Movie Review: Delivered exactly as promised
Summary: 5 Stars

We've owned this movie for years in VHS - gradually we have been upgrading our collection to DVD. So nice to see it so vividly! Efficient service!

Movie Review: One of the new classics
Summary: 5 Stars

My VHS tape finally wore out; this was the perfect replacement-and-upgrade to my Indiana Jones collection, at a great bargain.

Movie Review: Behold the Ark!
Summary: 5 Stars

This is one of the earlier Spielberg films that I truly admire. Along with Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, Duel, Schindler's List, Empire of the Sun, Temple of Doom, and The Last Crusade, [Indiana Jones & The] Raiders of the Lost Ark is one that I can watch straight through. It has almost everything you can hope for: great action, spectacular cinematography, lovely sets, and some iconic shots and quotes. I'm not really a fan of John Williams (his excessive use of the trumpet is overrated), but his catchy theme for this movie really hits big-time. There are some quarrels I had about this movie (like Marian being the typical damsel in distress), but other than that, I find this to be a very fine movie. I still prefer The Mummy when it comes to this sort of genre, but Raiders is no doubt an ultimate classic in this case.

Movie Review: Rush to it and dream
Summary: 5 Stars

The beginning of the myth, of the legend of that Indian Jones. Worth seeing again today and funny like hell, except if you are afraid of snakes or spiders. Steven Spielberg and his friend George Lucas are obsessed by Hitler and the Nazis. They situate the film in 1936, In Egypt where the Germans are looking for the Lost Ark of the Temple of Jerusalem. Indiana Jones is not only an adventurer, sorry a university professor turned adventurer during his vacation, but he is also the good guy who is fulfilling a quasi-divine mission, that of saving a Jewish mythical artifact from the hands of the Nazis because it is too valuable to let it rot in bad hands, but also because it is said it may give eternal life to the person who would control it. With that in mind and with a little bit of romanticism and sentimentalism he is able to complete the mission, to destroy a few German Nazis along with it and to sow the seed that will produce the Junior who will take over four films later to assume the continuation of the myth in the 21st century. Of course what is essential and unique in this film is the action, a perfectly gratuitous action that is shown only for our pleasure and in no way for our reflection or moral improvement. And it works perfectly well along that line. Still quite enjoyable today nearly thirty years later. A student recently pretended that good special effects were not common in that period and before. This film proves he is wrong. Special effects were maybe less technical, certainly less computerized than today, but they were just as creative and inventive as today, with a lot less technical means, hence with a lot more sweat and grey matter.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 12 Cr?teil, CEGID

Movie Review: All these years later it's still great
Summary: 5 Stars

Anyone who hasn't watched this movie in some time should take the time to watch it again. And if your kids haven't seen it then maybe it's time to introduce it to the younger generation, presuming they're old enough to follow the plot and withstand some of what they would perceive to be the scarier scenes.

This movie, in whatever format it now appears - Blu-ray, Special Edition DVDs, the older DVD, even VHS, is still worth the time. The story is still great. Harrison Ford, who looks young in this movie now that I'm about 28 years older than the first time I saw the movie - clearly deserved to accolades the movie brought him all those years ago. This is just a super movie that provides pure entertainment - the kind that removes the reader from reality for a few hours. And sometimes that's just what a movie should be.

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Summary of Raiders of the Lost Ark [VHS]

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas's 1981 resurrection of the Saturday-matinee adventure genre was deservedly popular, and kicked off a successful trilogy. Set in 1936, this first feature introduces Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, an archaeologist and adventurer whose quests for rare antiquities frequently find him running from one menace or another. Raiders finds Dr. Jones in the middle of a Nazi plot to use the mysterious powers of the Ark of the Covenant to win the war. Karen Allen plays the love interest with an old-fashioned "man's woman" appeal (she can drink anybody under the table and is free with her fists). The constant, cliffhanger appeal of the movie is great fun--one is always wondering how Indy will get out of one scrape after another--and Ford's career got a big boost with his self-effacing but masculine portrayal of the hero. --Tom Keogh

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