larrynguyen85: Just saw Lawrence of Arabia

TheJosep70: That scene with Indy putting his hat on while the sun is setting and the diggers are working is among the most iconic ones in the history of cinema imo. If it was done today, this movie would feel like an extended game cutscene.

_Dibbler_: Future generations will ask: How did they make those realistic graphics then? They had potatoes as computers! Then someone will tell them: They filmed in real life with real settings. Whhooooaaaahhh!!!

wadeere: One of if not the best action adventure movies ever made. Holds up so well today.

JoaoSilva22222: When I was a kid I remember feeling the heat of the desert while watching Raiders....somehow Dune doesn´t give you that feeling, it feels too comfortable like a shampoo commercial.

RogueCylon: When the value of the best cinematographers was known and sought out. When scripts were valued. When innovative camera work was true art.

edfelstein3891: Raiders of the Lost Ark is the very best movie of its kind ever made, and it's a virtual certainty that no other movie will top it.

innatemusic: One of the best films of all time. The look and feel of this movie is timeless, in my opinion.

LuckyDogProductions: So many 1980's film from a select group of film makers are the ones we constantly revisit and compare everything to - that was a time of pure MAGIC. That was a time of ARTISTS not Corp marketing Execs deciding what audiences will want to see.

TheChannelofaDisappointedMan: Thank you. Highly informative without becoming bogged down in trivia. Bravo!

countgeekula9143: My favourite film. Saw it multiple times in theatres in 1981 and many, many times since. Spielberg and Slocombe absolutely killed it with Raiders. A relatively simple straightforward adventure flick that is insanely well crafted by all involved elevating it to the defining film of its genre. Perfection in motion.

Cope_and_Seethe: It looks like a billion bucks because it was shot on Kodak Eastman 100T 5247 film stock.

MightyEFX: A movie like this eats YouTube cinematographers and their sponsored advice of avoiding Hard Lights for breakfast

RubenKelevra: Wen Das Boot (1981) video?

muppet3901: Slocombe was 75 when he shot raiders, trained in classic Earling studio films in the 40s (he was British) and he died over the age of the 100. What a life.

dumont_69: Between you and Cinamastix I'm a pretty happy camper. This analysis actually choked me up because I realized at 56 I really miss films like this (and the days when I saw them originally). I know it's just sentimentalism but there it is anyway. Thanks Sareesh.

JittikMieger: Raiders still has distinguishable backgrounds that aren't blurred into nothingness like they do nowadays. I hate that in modern films! I like to wander the scenes with my eyes.

bloodrunsclear: It's like night and day comparing Raider to Dial. Dial looks like a fan film featuring the same actors.

OuterGalaxyLounge: I was reviewing movies for my high school and college newspapers back in the late 1970s and early 1980s when the domestic and international cinemas were releasing masterpieces every damn week. What a time it was!

elonmusksellssnakeoil1744: Because it's not color graded to look like desaturated sewage at night. That simple.

user-tn1vc1xz5d: Best line: "You could warn them, if only you spoke Hovitos"

1513studios: Amazing analysis, love your videos! They really help me out in my own career as a semi professional filmmaker.

I grew up in the 80s watching this film over and over again It’s such a classic and now we know why.

IannisMaragakis: Lovely colours. I hear, shooting films, is returning to film. Recent discussions about how film and digital look, made me appreciate and like the filmic look (even on digital).

Lovely colours indeed. The skins, the sky. Not a single white burnt, not a single black crushed. Intentional? Is it the film? Is it the director of photography?

Thank you.

sunilsajwani5707: Your description of Slocombe not using a light meter almost made me tear up in awe, the look of this film has stayed with me since it first came out.

jmcbastard9665: "Sandblasted, until every rough edge is gone..."

I feel the same way about the original Mad Max trilogy vs Fury Road.

donagh1954: This is good. No AI.

MightyEFX: "Computers could do it mote perfectly"

I do not agree with that. CGI Special Effects, whether explosions or even something as simple as a muzzleflash and a blood squib is just.. Bad...

Nov 20 2025

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