With the release of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny on DVD, Blu-Ray, and 4K on the horizon, fans still have plenty to look forward to. Once again, it was a day one purchase of the quadrilogy on Blu-ray, and yet again I swore that I would review it this time. So when the cold sets in (or the heat, for fans in the Southern Hemisphere), the holidays approach, and an escape is needed from the tedium of the everyday, fans will have a chance to sit down and revisit these classic films. 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. Spielberg decided he could not satirize the Nazis after directing Schindler's List, [20] while Ford felt "We plum[b] wore the Nazis out.

Indiana and his friend Marcus Brody ( Denholm Elliott) are assigned by American businessman Walter Donovan ( Julian Glover) to find the Holy Grail. Most certainly those things that felt wrong the first time, the things that many point to as weaknesses in the film are still so. Harrison Ford’s iconic character is the kind of movie hero who is as fast with a sardonic quip as he is with a revolver or a bullwhip, stands up for the underdog – or, as in Temple of Doom, abducted children – and always gets the girl, unless the girl gets him first.

The ultimate annoyance for me is that the fourth film looks nothing like the first three, over-processed, digitally graded, and neutered visually till it’s a sepia artwork, not a living breathing feature film. Marvel Comics began publishing The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones in 1983, and Dark Horse Comics gained the comic book rights to the character in 1991. 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. Indy (Harrison Ford) and his feisty ex-flame Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen) dodge booby-traps, fight Nazis and stare down snakes in their incredible worldwide quest for the mystical Ark of the Covenant. Once the movie was available on streaming services, its viewing numbers rose, proving that fans are still eager for Indiana Jones stories.

In a world of franchise fatigue, where film series are continued long past their sell-by dates, so that Die Hard 4. If I put Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade on, then the film owns me completely for the next two hours. When Lucasfilm’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny premiered in theaters on June 30, 2023, it was the end of an era.In addition to full movies, the Blu-ray set includes hours of bonus content, like behind-the-scenes featurettes, interviews with the cast and crew, storyboards, and exclusive photo galleries from the making of each film. From the award-winning duo of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, this five-disc collection boasts fully colour-corrected digital master versions of The Temple of Doom and the Last Crusade and highly anticipated frame-by-frame full restoration of Raiders of the Lost Ark.