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Summary: Widespread Problem of this DVD set
Review: Beaware.I returned this item 3 times because disk 3 ALWAYS comes defective and does not play the entire movie. Amazon.com refused to send me any more replacement because the problem is widespread. They don't know when the studio is going to fix this problem. If you don't wanna risk yourself to get in the same problem as mine, WAIT for a while (until the studio fixes the problem) to purchase this set.
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Summary: Excellent Transfer
Review: I owned Indana Jones The Last Crusade on laserdisc and I don't think the laserdisc version is as good as this DVD collection. The Indiana Jones DVD trilogy is the best video transfer I've seen. Great colors, awesome THX sound. This collection is a must-have for any IJ fans.
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Summary: AWESOME PICTURE QUALITY!!! THIS IS A MUST OWN !!!
Review: First of all These are some of my favorite movies af all time, but I really had not watched them for maybe 10 years or so. After getting used to seeing all movies on dvd it was hard to watch anything on tape. The picture quality is so good in these movies you think they were filmed yesterday. I was most impressed with "Raiders of the Lost Ark." I would think it would be impossible for a 22 year old movie to look ths sharp but they did it. The sound was excellent also. This is a "must own" for any Indiana Jones fan.
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Summary: Review is for the FULL SCREEN DVD Format Only
Review: Great Movie, but I feel bad for the unsuspecting consumers who are buying all their DVD's in the FULL SCREEN version instead of Widescreen. The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) has MANDATED that by 2006 all televisions be manufactured in HDTV Format (Widescreen). In accordance, all broadcasting stations will have to be broadcast in HDTV as well. DVD retailers used to give you both formats on one Disc. Now they are selling them separately because they know YOU WILL HAVE TO REPURCHASE THE SAME TITLE IN WIDESCREEN after the conversion takes place. Consumers that are choosing to buy FULL SCREEN DVDs over Widescreen DVDS will either have to repurchase the Widescreen version to fill their screens completely, or deal with the blank bars that will now be on the sides of their screens when they are forced to purchase a new HDTV, because the FULL SCREEN format will not fill the television screen. Of course DVD companies could release these films with BOTH versions on the same disc like they used to (or a 2nd disc in the same set like the Finding Nemo DVD), but I think they are counting on these duplicate sales. It's really kind of a sick joke that these companies are playing on the consumer right now.
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Summary: COULDN'T BE MORE IMPRESSED !!!
Review: Now, this is what re-mastering a movie for DVD is all about ! After being badly dissapointed with re-releases of films such as SCARFACE and ANIMAL HOUSE for which someone interpreted "raising the volume a little" as "remastering a soundtrack", the Indiana Jones come along amd managed to restore my faith.
What great sound and picture these DVDs back ! I hadn't watched these films in a long time and, having only seen them at home on cropped videotape over the years, this is like watching them for the first time again.
The movies themeselves are fantastic (yes, all 3 of them), the Documentaries are terrific. This is easily one of the best releases since the DVD format came out.
Can't wait for next year's similar release of Star Wars IV, V and VI !
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Summary: It's about time!
Review: No need to review the films themselves, they have been a part of our culture for so long that if you haven't seen at least one of them by now, there's just no helping you. As far as the picture and sound quality...Fantastic!!! They sound as if they were released yesterday! I've grown up watching these films with my parents (my mom is a HUGE Harrison fan), and I am so glad to finally have the collection to share with my kids. Some may say that Temple of Doom is too dark for young children, but I would say, to each their own. You know if your child can handle something like that. My kids have no problem with it. Anyways, this is definitely a must have for EVERYONE'S DVD collection! The extras are nice, not too long, as is usually the case with George Lucas (God love him, but he IS long-winded!) and very interesting, I learned a lot of neat tidbits from them. Anyways, Buy it now!!!
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Summary: The Man With the Hat is Back...and on DVD!
Review: At last! Since the advent of the Digital Video Disc format in the late 1990s, there have been two long-awaited movie trilogies: the Classic Star Wars films and the Adventures of Indiana Jones. (...) fans now at least have something to celebrate with the four-disc Indiana Jones set. The Adventures of Indiana Jones consists of the first three films of the George Lucas-Steven Spielberg collaborative creation, 1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1984's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Rounding out the set is the Bonus Material disc, which includes making-of documentaries, featurettes, trailers, and links to the Indiana Jones DVD site. Raiders of the Lost Ark, by far, is the best of the three films. Inspired by the serial films of the 1930s and '40s, it was actually one of the two projects conceived by George Lucas in the 1970s after he wrapped up American Grafitti in 1972. One was a space-fantasy adventure inspired by Flash Gordon, and the other was the more Earthbound archeologist/adventurer named (at first) Indiana Smith. Of course, Lucas developed the Star Wars concept first, but even as he and Spielberg were vacationing in Hawaii in the summer of 1977, Lucas pitched his idea of the raiders of the Lost Ark as the two filmmakers built a sand castle on the beach. Based on a concept by Phil Kaufman, Lucas' story and the screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan pit the daring archeologist Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) against Nazis and Rene Belloq (Paul Freeman), a rogue French archeologist who has a habit of crossing paths with Indy and often beating him to other coveted relics. Hired by the U.S. government to locate an item called "the headpiece of the staff of Ra" after Army Intelligence intercepts a Nazi message which ties the piece to Abner Ravenwood, a former mentor of Indy's, our hero deduces that the Germans are really looking for the Lost Ark of the Covenant. Soon Indy is in a race against time and a horde of Nazi spooks and soldiers to find one of the greatest religious artifacts of all time before it can be taken to Adolf Hitler himself. Aided by his mentor's daughter (and former lover) Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen) and his loyal Egyptian friend Sallah (John Rhys-Davies, who has also starred as Gimli in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy), Indy risks life and limb on his daring raid for the Lost
Ark. 1984's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, with a story by Lucas and a screenplay by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, is a darker chapter in the series. On a quest for several missing Sankara stones in India, Indy and his companions Short Round (Ke Huy Quan) and Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw) encounter a dangerous cult of Thugees based in Pankot Palace. Its very scary scenes (including a really gross banquet and a human sacrifice)caused an uproar that led to the creation of the PG-13 rating. It's still quite a thrill ride, but many fans consider this as the weakest and least involving film in the Indiana Jones series. Audiences fared better with 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Spielberg, working from a screenplay by writer Jeffrey Boam and a story by Lucas and Menno Meyjes, harkened back to the first Raiders film and evoked its mixture of thrills, chills and laughs and added a father-and-son dynamic with the casting of Sean Connery as Dr. Henry Jones, Sr. Although once again Indy faces off against Nazis on a search for a religious relic -- in this case, the Holy Grail -- and there are cliffhangers galore, it's the relationship between Connery and Ford's characters that makes Last Crusade more than a pale rehash of the first movie. Starting with a prologue featuring the late River Phoenix as young Indiana Jones (which explains our hero's choice of outfit, his phobia of snakes, and the scar on his chin) and ending with a ride-off-into-the-sunset credits sequence, Last Crusade is one of the best adventure movies ever made. With great casts, amazing stunts and effects, thrilling scores by John Williams, and deft directing by Spielberg, these three films defined adventure films in the 1980s and their popularity still resonates more than 20 years after the premiere of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
About the DVDs: I think they are good. They have been digitally remastered and given the "royal treatment" by Lucasfilm and Paramount. The menus are astonishing, and the sound mix is good. I can only speak for myself and not for other fans who, judging by other reviews, have been disappointed by this collection of long-awaited films. True, there is no audio commentary by George Lucas and/or Steven Spielberg, but no DVD of a Spielberg film (and I have several in my collection) has that feature. It's something Spielberg hates doing ("Now, in this scene, watch how I cleverly made a reference to Raiders' famous 'Indy-shoots-the-guy-with-the-sword!' ") and it's not really necessary, even for students of film. I have discovered that director's commentary is worthwhile if the director and others involved in the track actually have something meaningful to say.
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Summary: Still Waiting for the Director's Cut/Ultimate Edition
Review: I haven't bought this DVD yet. I'll just hang on till the final release is in place. I need to see something different from the VHS format and the current DVD release of Indiana Jones.
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Summary: These movies will never get old...
Review: This was probably the best movie trilogy until Lord of the Rings came out. This DVD collection has loads of extras like documentaries and behind the scenes and all the usual special features on a DVD. Overall, I think Jones' fans will be pleased.
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Summary: The Stuff of Heros
Review: The Indiana Jones Adventures are some of my all time favorite adventure films. They were written cleverly like old time serials but each story was fresh and exciting. Harrison Ford is and was my favorite kind of hero...one who is vulnerable, smart, laid back and funny...and don't he look good in that hat?! The scene in Raiders is still one of my all time favorites of any movie: Indie is being attacked by a sword-weilding assasin; Indie watches the guy's fancy sword play with that wonderful complacent/confused/slightly miffed look he can paint on when he wants to; he then calmly takes out his gun and shoots him dead. Great! Nice to see these classics all in one DVD set.
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