I put Raiders down cause its the first I saw the whole thing of. I always saw ROTLA, TOD, and LC on TV in bits and pieces, but never the whole thing (it may have been Raiders for that as well).
I watched Raiders on BETA when I was like 6 years old, along with Jaws, Star Wars, and The Empire Strikes Back! It was my Saturday morning ritual to get up super early, and watch as many of those films as I could before being told to go play outside!
Yeah my Mom & Dad took me to see Raiders opening weekend. I just remember my jaw dropping at the opening sceen. No Indy film has come close to that. But I didn't expect it would.
I know I saw Raiders first, but my memories are fuzzy. I will, however, never forget watching Temple for the first time, Christmas Day, 1987. It was everything an Indy film could possibly be. The worst of the series?! What a joke!
Technically, I saw Last Crusade first. Of course, I was a year old and had to be taken out of the theater, so I have NO memories of it. Raiders is the first one I remember seeing. Parts of Temple of Doom followed and the end of Last Crusade around that time as well. Cannot tell you when I saw Last Crusade in its entirety for the first time, but Temple wasn't until I was about 15.
Temple of Doom and I still remember it like it was yesterday, even tho it was actually about 13 years ago now.
My dad just got back from a buissness trip. He bought the movies when he was out of state and went up in his bedroom to watch it as I was 10 and my parents were careful about what I watched.
But I went up and watched it with him anyway and loved it, and the next day I watched Crusade with my friends. I was hooked, a few weeks later my aunt got me a whip while she was in europe and I was Indy for Halloween.
So Crusade was my favorite as a kid, tho now its Raiders. But yea, first one I saw was Temple. Strangely enough, Temple was also the only one I saw at a theatre for the Anniversary.
I can't remember. I think it was Raiders. I know both Raiders and TOD were out when I first got into Indiana Jones but Last Crusade hadn't come out just yet. It was coming out that summer. I had already watched Raiders and TOD on VHS about a billion times by that point.
Sadly nobody took me to see LC in the theater in 1989, but my brother got to go. I went to see Batman that year and it was my first movie I ever saw in the theater.
I saw Last Crusade first. My grandma took my cousin and I to see it. I was only 4 at the time. I always thought it was the 1st Indy film because it started out with him as a kid.
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Last Crusade was my first and saw it on TV when I was about 3. I then watched several episodes of the original Young Indy TV series after school till it was axed and at age nine, saw Temple of Doom on TV and begged my mum to tape it for me for a whole week even though I had never seen it before but somehow knew Indiana Jones was a big deal and hadn't seen Young Indy for a long while. I saw Raiders when I was 10 and now KOTCS in cinema, nine, nearly ten years after I saw Raiders and Temple of Doom.
I could have seen LC in cinema if it hadn't been for my nosey grandmother (I was nearly a year old!). The first film I saw in cinema was Snow White at age 4. The second was Jurassic Park and that was at the drive-in!
I know I saw Raiders first, but my memories are fuzzy. I will, however, never forget watching Temple for the first time, Christmas Day, 1987. It was everything an Indy film could possibly be. The worst of the series?! What a joke!
Couldn't agree more! "Temple" is my favorite Indy film.
Couldn't agree more! "Temple" is my favorite Indy film.
Funny, I too saw Temple first and was breathless with excitement by the end.
Makes you wonder why the poll doesn't read the other way around...
Raiders had a hard time beating my initial excitement for Temple, when I finally watched it...
Arguably it's a better film, the 'orginal' and stands alone. But still, I can't decide which I like more. Crusade I watched so many times in the theatres that I'm not sure how I should feel about it, other than "I'm entertained so muchly!"...
I saw all four movies in theaters, in release order, at (essentially) the times they came out. When the first two came out, I was an AF brat overseas in Germany where my dad was stationed, so I saw them at the base theater, which didn't get them until a number of months after their stateside release dates, but I did see both Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in what were essentially later stages of their original theatrical releases.
I saw both the third and fourth movies (more than once!) on their opening days in the US, and then a number of times again over the subsequent weeks and months before they headed off to video. I also watched The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles regularly during its original run on ABC, and later caught the Family Channel's airings of the first few "movies," though I wasn't able to finally see "all" of the series (in one form or another) until the DVD release of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones.
I saw 'Raiders' on the big screen when I was thirteen. I went into the city (big adventure!) to see it at the Regent with one of my school buddies, Bruce. I was blown away by it. I have forever searched to have that experience again, but I think because Raiders was so effective that I will not have it again, at least not from a movie. My mate, Bruce, who was into medieval stuff, was pissed at not having seen Dragon Slayer instead and I can still remember him saying, "Baby Raiders of the Lost Ark" while I gushed about it to other people. I later learned he had seen John Boorman's 'Excalibur' and I think it affected him in the way 'Raiders' had done to me. Of course, I also came to love 'Excalibur' a long while later in a complete and different way from 'Raiders'.
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RAIDERS on opening weekend (with one of my best friends).
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The first film I saw in cinema was Snow White at age 4.
Ha ha. Exactly the same here!
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I saw 'Raiders' on the big screen when I was thirteen.
My mate, Bruce, who was into medieval stuff, was pissed at not having seen Dragon Slayer instead and I can still remember him saying, "Baby Raiders of the Lost Ark" while I gushed about it to other people. I later learned he had seen John Boorman's 'Excalibur' and I think it affected him in the way 'Raiders' had done to me. Of course, I also came to love 'Excalibur' a long while later in a complete and different way from 'Raiders'.
Funny that you bring up "Dragonslayer" and "Excalibur". I was 14 and saw "Excalibur" more times than "Raiders" in 1981.
4 > 3 (My friend and I stayed in the theatre for 2 straight runs of "Excalibur" otherwise it would have been a tie game.)
The 1982 re-release of "Raiders" fixed that and allowed 2 more viewings which brought the score to 5, for ROTLA.
When Raiders came out I was still a wee child, and saw it with my parents. I remember mom covering my eyes at the final scene. I've seen it a few times since then in theaters, and more times than I can count at home.
I also saw ToD and LC in the theatres. Surprisingly I didn't get the dvd's for any of them until last year. I'd had them on VHS, and watched them when they'd show up on cable.
