Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Movie Review with Spoilers

[@JulietMcArthur]

I love your casual (but very well researched and organized) way of narrating your videos. Your personality really shines through and you give your videos so much life!

[@RetroNerdGirl]

Thank you so very much! I appreciate your kind words. It really keeps me going! 😊

[@RJDiogenes]

Ah, now we're talking! Raiders is one of my all-time favorite movies and Indy is one of my all-time favorite characters. It's like they made it especially for me. Since I was a little boy I've loved things like the old serials and radio shows and pulp magazines-- since before I was even exposed to them, in fact, because my mother and uncles used to talk about them, which just inspired my imagination. A lot of what I write, in fact, is inspired by these retro masterpieces.
I saw Raiders the week it came out and I was flabbergasted. It captured the essence of the old adventure movies and serials, and yet managed to be contemporary-- and even innovative-- in ways that only enhanced the tradition (kind of in the same way that the Weird Heroes books of the 70s carried the pulp tradition into the modern era). And I can't imagine anyone else but Harrison Ford playing this character. That expressive face just exquisitely betrays the truth of Indiana Jones-- that he's always on the cusp, and occasionally over the cusp, of failure, but he's just going to keep going anyway. :D
Thanks, RNG. Your review did great justice to a timeless classic. As you said, this movie is part of a great tradition of adventure in movie and pulp fiction, and we can only hope that something this good will appear again in our lifetimes. But if not, we can always count on Indy.

[@adampoll4977]

Ironically or not, the only movie where Indy makes any difference to the outcome of the plot is Temple of Doom ;)
Great analysis of Belloq!

[@petersmith9633]

Amazing review as always. Thank you for your work. Marion as a Nazi would be tragic!!! I absolutely loved that character.

[@magicmafiaman66]

Retro Nerd is MY girl !!! or at least I pretend she is.

[@ArtamStudio]

OMG I can't even count the number of times I've seen this, and I never caught the t-shirt guy in the drunk mourning scene. Great find!

[@dallasbrunson3677]

1981...

[@AScreenwritersJourney]

Thank you for this review. RAIDERS is my second-favorite movie of all time.

[@70mustang302]

Great review as always. I love your enthusiasm for these films. Can you explain a little bit more about your rating system and how you calculate the score?

[@RetroNerdGirl]

Thank you! I will make a special video about my rating system in a few weeks. I've been meaning to do it and now you just gave me the perfect reason. 😊

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

Karen Allen would have made such a great Lois Lane.

[@jachyra9]

Raiders of the Lost Ark is a masterpiece, and I never throw that world around lightly. Lightning in a bottle. I feel extremely fortunate to have seen it the summer it was released in theaters. Thank you for posting.

[@magicmafiaman66]

RETRO NERD !! u hott ! I think I seen ya on the subway but I could be wrong. Keep up the good work.

[@fixedguitar47]

If you like Indiana Jones try “The Room:A Dark Matter”

[@michaelhance6577]

I once knew a lady named Tannis...who was named by her Archeologist father.

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

If Marion had been a Nazi, it would have been too James Bond or Batman the Movie '66. By the way, I get so many good ideas for the future of my channel from yours. Keep inspiring.

[@lidsboy4586]

Nice review your all was well informed 🤘🏻 damn you should do some more scifi movies

[@RetroNerdGirl]

Thank you! I love sci-fi so I'll definitely be doing them in the future if possible.

[@elizabethdewar1697]

1981!!

[@thenationaltimelyactionhou9328]

Iconic

[@tubman1868]

Retro girls is awesome!!!

[@jonahhex9620]

👍🏻

[@JedHead77]

“Released in 1984”?

[@RetroNerdGirl]

My bad!

[@willflynn7384]

My love comes through with another great review!!! I think we need to get married before the world just falls apart. Yes. I’m proposing to you in front of the entire world! Let’s just go for it!

[@pazzofilms744]

I thought she is going to name movies all the video