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Summary: Finally together and totally worth it
Review: Sometimes a good movies doesn't have to convey a deep philosophical message or make you think about life and morality. Sometimes just a good story about good overcoming evil makes for one of the best movies of a generation. When it involves archeology, Nazis, the occult, and great action sequences, then you have a cinematic masterpiece worth watching over and over. The Indiana Jones series is a series of movies that won't make you ponder life and its meaning, but tell a great story that keeps you enthralled and hypnotized. True, Temple of Doom is the weakest of the series, but Raiders of the Lost Ark (in my opinion, the best) and The Last Crusade epitomize the battle of good versus evil. In both, Indy and crew take on the Nazis in Hitler's mad pursuit of religious artifacts supposing to hold incredible powers. Don't worry if you're not that religious and don't know the stories behind the artifacts; they do a great job of giving back-story and myth in the films. The widescreen DVD collection is top notch with a wonderful transfer and great sound quality. I do have to warn you, though, they tweaked the sound effects ever so slightly and only a few times throughout the movie. If you are used to hearing an explosion a certain way after viewing the original time and time again, you might feel a little cheated or maybe a bit happier. I didn't feel it took away from the original film and I actually believe the gunshots were more realistic to the weapons that were fired. Over all, a great DVD collection, a must-own for action fans and if you are an Indiana Jones fan and don't yet own this DVD collection, shame on you and pick it up right away!
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Summary: Why God Invented Movies
Review: Absolutely. Gloriously. Perfect. OK, I'm basing this on having just watched "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (thankfully not renamed to the awkward "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark" in the film itself). "Temple of Doom" and "Last Crusade" are very good movies, but pale in comparison to this absolutely perfect movie. I'm certain that they'll be as good, if not better than what I remember too. I thought that I'd seen "Raiders" too many times to really enjoy it, and that it would have aged quite a bit. Wrong. Seeing and hearing it in widescreen, on DVD, with a moderately good stereo system is unbelievable- it really felt like the first time I'd seen the movie. The sound in particular is mind-boggling- I'm certain that it sounds better in my acoustically poor basement than it ever did 20 years ago. Turn it up very, very loud during the truck chase and just listen to that engine, those bullets and that glorious, blaring brass. Some of the special effects, especially during the opening of the Ark, don't look as convincing as I remembered them, but they're still more impressive than Lucas's currentobsession with overrated, soulless CGI effects (someone else besides me is aware of this, because I've heard that Indy IV will make very little use, if any, of computer generated effects). The music is perfect, the dialogue is funny, the story is relentless, the sets are breathtaking, the costumes are cool, the characters are unforgetable, the stunts are still harrowing and impressive, the villains are wonderfully one-dimensionally evil, and on and on and on. THIS is why God invented movies and DVDs and popcorn and Spielberg and Harrison Ford. Now we just need the original Star Wars Trilogy on DVD...
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Summary: "Release the Pigeons!"
Review: Great to have the Indiana Jones trilogy on DVD finally. Make sure you watch the making of "Last Crusade". The beach scene with the birds not knowing their cue is one of the funniest things I've seen anytime...anywhere.
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Summary: Indiana Jones, why buy it at Amazon
Review: This is a joke, $65.00----save 35%....You can buy it at Costco and Sams Club for $41.00.....I love Amazon.com, but please do not insult my intelligence. There has to be an incentive to buy remotely. Like another 15-20%????
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Summary: INDY'S BACK AND DVD HAS GOT HIM!
Review: By now there's no point in reitterating the saga of Indiana Jones. In a nutshell he's an archeaologist with a penchant for stirring the pot and ticking off villians and the women he courts with equal portions of charm and insolence. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" follows Dr. Jones on his quest for the ark of the covenant that is supposed to contain the original Ten Commandments. This is the film that makes everyone feel like their going to the movies for the very first time. A marvelous piece of fiction that is as close to perfect as movie-making gets. Part two - The Temple of Doom - is a much darker excursion into cult worship. The film is brilliantly staged - full of memorable moments, but somehow doesn't seem to get the recognition it so rightly deserves. (It doesn't help that Spielberg himself says that 'Temple' is his least favorite. What does he know? Here's a man who re-did E.T. on DVD!!!) Part III - The Last Crusade - is shameless in its rehash of plot devices and cliches,with a hoaky parade of uncompelling characters - topped off by Sean Connery's ineffective bit as Indy's dad. "Junior?!?"
TRANSFERS: WOW! The trilogy has been remastered frame by frame and the results are astounding. Colors throughout are rich and nicely balanced. Blacks are deep. Shadow and contrast levels are superb. There is a slight amount of edge enhancement but it is barely noticeable. The audio is 5.1 and, while many may boo-hoo the fact that DTS wasn't employed, this soundtrack will definitely give your speakers a work out.
Extras: A host of documentary footage that does a rather indepth job of covering the production of each of the three films. Theatrical trailers also included. One oversight: NO AUDIO COMMENTARY TRACK FOR ANY OF THE FILMS!!!!
BOTTOM LINE: This is a must for any collector, even if the final act is less than stellar!
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Summary: Poorly Done 3 Pack
Review: Eveything that has been said about bad 5.1 remix is spot-on. Read the previous reviewer (Rick Schneblin) comments.....Rick did a great job voicing my exact feelings on this 3 pack. What IRKS me the most is that they didn't introduce the movies as separates. It comes in a pack! For as much as I adore "Raiders of The Lost Ark" as my FAVORITE movie of all time, the other 2 movies are not worthy of the franchise, IMHO. I want and only want Raiders remastered, and I can't have it without the expensive box set. It's like buying a CD just for ONe song. A total waste of good dollars. In addition, as Rick said, they could have digitized some of the movieish fumbles....glass reflection of snake; pushrod of car flipping, dirt in lens. This movie is a true classic, but such fumbles ruins the "transported away" effect. :=( I hope too that a new remastered WELL DONE, unboxed, un-money-grubbing Raiders editions comes out sooner rather than later. BTW, the old Raiders dvd is too pixelated. On a monitor it's BAD! On a TV, just passable. :=(
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Summary: Oh goodie!
Review: First thing, I was very thrill to have Indiana Jones in DVD. It's timeless classic. Everybody know that it's great movie. blah blah. However, I discovery the great thing about these DVDs. Whole Special Features come with Closed Caption (EVERYTHING!) that make more useful information for HEARING IMPAIRED. Hey, it's worth!
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Summary: Hummm.... it could be much bettter!
Review: I LOOOOOOVE the Indiana Jones movies. I awaited eagerly 3 years for this pack. But, unfortunately, I will only give it 3 stars. If you just want to have the 3 movies in GREAT DVD quality, this is the pack for you. The movies are great. The sound is awsome. The total Indy experience is here! But... the Extras DVD is rather poor. Ok... it has more then 3 hours. Ok... it has interviews. Ok... it covers many things. But... But I have the feeling that LucasFilms had plenty of more stuff that they just decided to left out of the Extras DVD. Where they on a hurry? They wanted to save money? They were lazy? And it is damn incomplete! Where are the deleted scenes - we know they exist and isn't the Extras DVD the right place to show them to the fans? Where are the footage mistakes? And the 80's interviews on the set? 15 years ago I saw a small "making of" of The Temple of Doom and, curious, it had great comentaries that were not in this Extras DVD. How can that be possible? I might be more generous and give it 4 stars, but after seeing the Lord of the Rings' Extras DVDs, I'm much more demanding when watching any DVD. If Peter Jackson could fill 2 DVDs with extras from just one movie, couldn't Lucas fill at least 2 DVDs with extras from 3 entire movies? For God sake's... The Last Crusade's extras is just 30 minutes long! And the interface of this DVDs is SOOOOOOO damn poor: photos of the cast with a Photoshop philter on it and simple red and white lines to run the cursor over. Again, compare it to the Lord of The Rings... Well, I just love Indy, I just love this DVD pack... but I'm sure Peter Jackson would give us a much better product... and even a small Indy statuete :-)
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Summary: Indy at its best
Review: This DVD collection is one of the best around. Okay some may complain that they wanted the movies separately but as a Trilogy you know you got to see this 3 movies. Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Those 3 are the action/adventures movie that inspire several others franchises which in one way or the other just got copying Indy's adventures. Raiders of the Lost Ark, is the best, it captures the spirit of the serials of the 30's. Temple of Doom is the less good of the 3, is a very dark movie and no wonder inspired the PG-13 rating Last Crusade is more tongue in cheek flick, it has a lot of moments which copy from the other 2 movies. But it has good action scenes. We must remember that these movies are from the 80's, the SFX are good and pretty avant garde for movies of this era, no wonder it was created by George Lucas the genius behind Star Wars and directed by Steve Spielberg, so this collaboration is a cornerstone in movie history. The DVD collection is well done with a lot of graphics on the menu screen and cool stuff. A 4th DVD disc is for the extras: trailers, documentaries, cast and crew interviews. It's an interesting stuff, and you can see its OLD, with flickers and everything, I think it gives value to the documentary rather otherwise. Overall is a good collection. The downfall, maybe several but most notorious: *There are no deleted scenes, no director commentaries. *The sound is good but isn't the best I think this DVD collection will be greatly appreciated for those (like myself) who watch these movies when they were on the big screen. These are epic movies not because of the movies but because of the culture that was inspired by them. "Trust me" you will like this DVD collection...
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Summary: One Good, One Sucks, One Average -- Seriously Overpriced
Review: Raiders remains a more or less entertaining way to kill a couple of hours. Temple Of Doom is as bad as movies get, easily the worst film of the 1980s. Last Crusade is passable, instantly forgettable nonsense saved only by the sight of Sean Connery calling Harrison Ford "Junior." I'm a little sick of the marketing strategy of selling a series of films as a box set only, rather than as a series of individual DVDs. This is done, clearly, to even out the sales: more people are likely to buy Raiders than the other two, so they stick them all in a box and jack up the price. I'm just not terribly happy about having to blow $45 on two movies that I'll never watch again, just to get one movie that I like. Haven't Spielberg and Lucas made enough money by now without having to rip us off this way?
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