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Summary: It's about time
Review: I've been waiting for the release of this DVD set for years! If you are a fan of Indiana Jones, this is the collection to buy. Sit back on a weekend, make some snacks and enjoy the 3 movies, uncut and commercial free. :)
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Summary: Fantastic with just a few things missing.
Review: Well what can you say? The movies are outstanding. The picture quality and sound are superb, especially Raiders(which I thought would come out OK, because it is the oldest.....but WOW!!!!)No need to give a review of the movies, by now you have seen them and you either like them or you don't. What I say about them(and I love them) won't sway either way. I only wanted to comment on what is not there. Where are the deleted scenes? I know this sounds like nitpicking, but come on. Each film should have its own little section solely on the deleted scenes with commentary from Lucas and Spielberg. George did it on his Star Wars DVD's, why not here??!!? And speaking of commentary, where are they? Neither George or Steve did a commentary. Having them both due a commentary together for each film was expected from this Indy fan. Harrison didn't do a commentary either, but I am thankful for that. Have you ever heard this talk in an interview? My God is he boring. I'd rather watch paint dry. Now I know I sounded like a spoiled brat. To be honest I feel a little guilty about complaining,and all the Bonus material they gave us was fantastic, but I have been waiting for this DVD package ever since DVD's were invented. For that long a wait I guess I expected just a little bit more!!!
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Summary: Make sure you are buying the version you want
Review: I mistakeningly bought the Full Screen Version, not realising that there was both a Full Screen and a Widescreen Version. Now I have to deal with sending it back and all that. Just be careful that you are ordering the right version and save yourself the trouble... I don't doubt the Widescreen will live up to my expectations, so I'm giving it 4 stars.
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Summary: Sets the Adventure movie standard
Review: This series is spectacular. There are only a couple of sequel dvd sets that I would even consider owning but this is by far at the top of the list. Harrison Ford plays his most charming and incredibly believeable part as Indiana Jones. They are all great family movies and universally appealing. The whole trilogy works as throw backs to a day when adventure movies were thrilling and creative. Spielberg directed magic here and you cannot miss the web of plots and great acting through and through of each movie. The set is a collection to be treasured.
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Summary: Awesome Sound!!!!!!!!
Review: Damn they do a very great job with the sound, you can feel all the exciting in this three movies. BTW the best are Lost Ark and The last crusade
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Summary: Two out of three...
Review: The most frustrating thing about Steven Spielberg is that he embodies a contradiction: he has the skill of a great auteur but the taste of a populist hack. When he applies his skills to "serious" films, the results are usually mixed, with potentially great material undermined by huge doses of pure sentiment. It is as though, after inviting us to a delightful gourmet meal, he cannot resist the urge to serve corndogs and ketchup on the side, simply because he likes them. There they sit on the fine china - reflecting in the Waterford crystal and perfectly placed silver utensils. It's not that there's anything wrong with corndogs, per se - they just seem so out of place.
Happily, for every Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List (almost a great film), and Amistad, there are several more Spielberg films like Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and even A.I. (which, while dark, mostly avoids the usual slop of calculated "hankie moments"). Then there are gems like two of the three Indiana Jones movies. The outer films of the trilogy sparkle. They are finely honed entertainment machines that do not disappoint. Classy, slick, fun, and elegant, they are the best damned corndogs money can buy. They have everything to which great popular cinema aspires: adventure, romance, action, crisp dialog, and engaging characters. The father/son dynamic of Harrison Ford and Sean Connery in The Last Crusade is perfection. It is, perhaps, the best of the three, combining the usual thrills, chills, stunts, and outlandish set-pieces with a subtextual spiritual journey that actually works. It catches us off-guard - by treating that hoary old trope of the search for the Holy Grail as an excuse for high adventure, it unexpectedly manages to sneak in some spiritual redemption in its last few minutes. It doesn't seem artificial or forced, either. Given that you buy into the mythology of the film, Indiana Jones' tests of faith as he seeks to save his father's life ring perfectly true. I dare you not to hold your breath as he steps into the abyss on his way into the grail chamber, and ponder, if briefly, whether you would have the faith and courage to do the same. In my more devout days, I even used the three challenges Indie faces to illustrate a Sunday School lesson. While I have since retreated from Devout to Doubtful (or at least, agnostic), I still get a little chill running up my spine when no less than the Wrath of God is unleashed at the end of the first Indiana Jones film, Raiders of the Lost Ark. It's great stuff, too - a kind of reckless, swaggering serial-cum-action epic that never misses a step as it dances, Gene Kelley-like, through one insanely improbable situation after another. The Nazis want the Ark of the Covenant, for its symbolic, and perhaps actual, power. Indiana Jones wants it for his university's museum. Will he get it before they do? Will he escape from the escalating series of traps? Will he rescue the girl? Of course he will. We know that from the first scene. But watching how he does it all is where the fun lies. The middle film of the trilogy, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, is another story. The humor seems tinny and forced, at ruinous odds with the almost sadistically dark story of missing children forced into slave labor, and evil rituals where priests pull beating hearts out of human sacrifices before lowering them into pits of lava. Such material would be perfectly acceptable in a certain kind of film, but clangs disastrously against the lighter tone set by its predecessor. It's as though Clive Barker hijacked the production about a third of the way into the shoot, then gave it back to Spielberg for the last few scenes. Kate Capshaw is stuck with the thankless task of playing a thoroughly unlikeable golddigger who somehow wins Indie's heart. I actually found that part less believable than the whole human sacrifice schtick. This DVD set is handsomely produced, with a fat selection of bonus material on the fourth disk. It's worth the price, with the THX treatment polishing all the films to a high gloss. As the wisdom of Meatloaf has it, in the gospel of Bat Out of Hell, "...two out of three ain't bad'."
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Summary: Great Movie, Poor Quality DVD
Review: Raiders is one of my favorite movies and one of the few movies I can watch over and over, but I was very dissappointed in the quality of the DVD video. I have about 40 DVDs and the quality of this is by far the poorest video of them all. Watching Raiders on commercial TV might be better quality. Maybe they digitally remastered the sound but forgot to do the video.
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Summary: A SUPER ACTION MOVIE WITH D T S SOUND
Review: I can't remember Enjoying A DVD movie as Much as I enjoyed this
Buy It And you will see why as well..........
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Summary: Good movies, weak extra's
Review: As previously noted these movies are all great movies and the sound and picture quality on the dvd's themselves are outstanding. Great work! I would have given it five stars but the lack of extra's for the price I payed is out there. Where are the deleted scenes that were repeatedly mentioned? If Lucas and Speilberg refuse to do commentary then why aren't there cast commentaries? No outtakes reel! Granted the 2 hour documentary is very nice and I love seeing the trailers its just a set like this should have been loaded. Lets take for example the Back to the Future dvd's, yes there was that whole widescreen issue but the extra's on those dvd's had everything, 2 commentaries for each disk, documentaries, and deleted scenes, plus the price was resonable! Like I said most of us will be happy with these dvd's for the most part, and for the proper 2:35 widescreen transfers but I felt Lucas could have included a lot more extra's than were included on this set. Marketing I suppose in a few years it will be rereleased again with all new features, but at the moment I think Indiana Jones is almost up there with Star Wars for the record amount of rereleases.
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Summary: Classic movies all movie lovers should own!
Review: There are certain films that all lovers of movies should have on their must own collection. Obvious choices might include THE GODFATHER, GONE WITH THE WIND, CITIZEN KANE, etc. But RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARC (and its sequels to a lesser extent) should be there as a classic example of a classic adventure movie. And it is a great movie! A joy to watch, even after all these years. Harrison Ford is charming and an action hero for the ages. Karen Allen is properly spunky. The stunts are NOT aided by computer enhancement, and that gives them a visceral feel that all the "stunts" generated by computer for MATRIX RELOADED can't match. TEMPLE OF DOOM and LAST CRUSADE are certainly lesser movies, but that's only because if RAIDERS is a 98 on a scale of 100, the others are maybe 85 & 90. Still pretty darn good! The DVD's are a treat. The sound remix is FANTASTIC! I have surround sound at home, and rarely has it been used to such great affect. The explosions shook the walls!! True to Spielberg's form, there is NO commentary from him, which is always kinda a shame, but other than that, the extras are pretty good. Remember, nowadays they make movies with DVD's IN MIND, so there are always cameras capturing everything, extra scenes filmed JUST so they can market the DVD later as having "deleted scenes" and so on. INDIANA's movies were made in another time, so the extras may feel a bit sketchy. What the heck...you don't but these movies for the blooper reel...you buy them to remember what good, clean, FUN adventure is all about. ENJOY!
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