The Adventures of Indiana Jones: The Complete Movie Collection [DVD]

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Travelling to an ancient palace nestled deep in the jungle he discovers a secret cult enacting a terrible plan in the catacombs. I was a day one purchaser of the DVD trilogy, and the first thing I did when I got it was determine that I would review it the first chance I got. The supplements are extensive but maybe not quite as thorough as some might have hoped — there are no commentary tracks and not all of the extras from the previous Blu-ray release of The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull carry over — but it’s an impressive assortment that will take fans the better part of a day to dig through. Teaming up with a rebellious young biker (Shia Labeouf) and his spirited original love Marion (Karen Allen), Indy takes you on an action-packed adventure in the exciting tradition of the classic Indiana Jones movies!

For one thing, grain is suspiciously light, although it is still present, while the colour timing seems to have changed, with colours and flesh-tones far more saturated than before. Indiana must reunite with old acquaintances to stop the agents of Hitler from succeeding in their plans. The Indiana Jones Collection is presented across 5 discs, 4 movies plus a bonus features disc, packaged in a digipack with some rather handsome artwork, all held in a rigid card keepcase. He had ideas regarding the Monkey King and a haunted castle, but eventually created the Sankara Stones, that would be used in the film.Indiana Jones ( Harrison Ford) is hired by government agents to locate the Ark of the Covenant, the gold plated chest containing the stone tablets Moses used to inscribe the Ten Commandments before the Nazi Germans steal it for themselves. Adventures in Post Production 12:36 are all presented in HD, and are taken from the Crystal Skull Blu-ray, although the Post Production featurette makes no mention of why the film looks as over-processed as it does.

An empty, dark grey cell indicates the character was not in the film, or that the character's official presence has not yet been confirmed. Finally, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was published in May 1989, and was the first Indiana Jones novel by Rob MacGregor. And with Raiders and Last Crusade, we have two nigh on perfect adventure movies, just the sort of serial action entertainment that these films were created to homage. In 1984, a prequel, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, was released, and in 1989, a sequel, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

He races against agents of the Soviet Union, led by Irina Spalko ( Cate Blanchett) for a crystal skull. This section includes characters who will appear or have appeared in the Indiana Jones film franchise. The following year, Walt Disney Studios acquired the distribution and marketing rights to future Indiana Jones films, with Paramount retaining the distribution rights to the first four films and receiving "financial participation" from any additional films. With only four episodes left of the second season to air, ABC eventually sold the show to the Family Channel, who changed the format from 50-minute episodes to 90-minute TV movies.

The prevalence of the CG animals is jarring, especially the Ewok Prairie Dogs that watch the rocket sled go by. Spielberg and Lucas discussed the central idea of a B-movie involving aliens, and Lucas suggested using crystal skulls to ground the idea. All of the meaningful extra features for the collection are on the fifth bonus disc, which again presents its content with the animated menu, plus countless subtitles for its featurettes. After barely escaping a raging Shanghai nightclub brawl, Indy crash-lands into the wilds of India where he uncovers a sinister scheme that has enslaved a remote village's children in a fortress-like mine. It was made back when both Steven Spielberg and George Lucas were at the top of their respective games, the former coming off the back of Jaws and Close Encounters, the latter off the back of the first two Star Wars movies.The film was directed by James Mangold, who co-wrote the script with Jez and John-Henry Butterworth. Spielberg and Lucas aimed to make Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom much darker, because of their personal moods following their respective breakups and divorces. All four discs are housed in a special box, and the set also includes an exclusive fold-out poster that highlights the original promotional artwork for each film. Accompanied by his feisty, independent ex-flame Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), the two-fisted archaeologist embarks on a thrilling quest to locate the mystical Ark of the Covenant. For items that are dispatched using our standard service, we ask that you wait 14 days from the date of dispatch before reporting any items as undelivered.

Once again, the film is presented with an animated menu screen, but the only extras on this disc are the Teaser and Theatrical Trailers, both in HD. I won’t discuss the films themselves here; I plan to review each one for A Certain Point of View, Too in the future, but I will say this: as much as I like the existing quartet, including the much maligned Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Raiders of the Lost Ark is my favorite film.Indiana and his friend Marcus Brody ( Denholm Elliott) are assigned by American businessman Walter Donovan ( Julian Glover) to find the Holy Grail. The Adventures of Indiana Jones – The Complete DVD Movie Collection is a DVD box set which contains the first three Indiana Jones feature films, the product being complete at the time of its 2003 release. The only reason this is a 4 star review is the inclusion of the tedious cash grab that Kingdom turned out to be. A. in Humanities allowed her to study literature, film, and the intersection of story-telling methods in college.