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When did the title become "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark"

posted 4 years ago by whynotwriteme (7818)
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This must have snuck past me. I've always just thought of it as "Raiders of the Lost Ark". When did they retroactively rename it?

[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7994) 4 years ago

I think on the original DVD release from the of the trilogy had it titled as that.

[–] enriquesingh (1812) 4 years ago

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[–] enriquesingh (1812) 4 years ago

1999 VHS release.

[–] pjl69 (2647) 4 years ago

That sounds believable. Lucas' revisionist mental illness started in 1997 with Star Wars special editions. No doubt Raiders would have been CGI'ed also if it was Lucas' film, but luckily Spielberg directed it.

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 4 years ago

Yeah, Lucas would have had the swordsman shoot first

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

"No doubt Raiders would have been CGI'ed also if it was Lucas' film, but luckily Spielberg directed it."

Sorry, but Spielberg used CGI as well in one version of the movie: when Gobler's machine gun jeep flies over the cliff, the original fall shot is replaced with a camera following the fall over a CGI cliff throughout.

Luckily, Spielberg reinstated the original shot (and got rid of the walkie-talkies in ET) when he finally fucking woke up and saw sense.

[–] pjl69 (2647) 4 years ago

Really? Luckily I've not seen it. Sounds a lot like the shot in Temple of Doom when the camera followed one of the indian baddies when he falled and was eaten by a crocodile...

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Well, here it is. Google is your friend. Enjoy the blasphemy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIH46G9_3SU

[–] pjl69 (2647) 4 years ago

Uh, now I have to check my blu-rays in case the shot is in there. Haven't seen the films for a while...

[–] wrlord (1228) 4 years ago

I was about to comment on this very thing. WTH?

And, for the record, for me, "Episode IV" is still called, simply, "Star Wars".

[–] whynotwriteme (7818) 4 years ago

#MeToo.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

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[–] blue1981 (8203) 4 years ago

I think it's just titled that for home video releases. It's still Raiders of the Lost Ark and it's not like they went back and changed the title in the movie itself.

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 3 years ago

Exactly it’s just the cover that’s different , the credits still say “Raiders of the Lost Ark”

[–] TandyMan (11357) 4 years ago

I believe it's when they put out the collected trilogy release for the first time years ago. A lot of us on the net were plenty pissed about it. They wanted all the titles to line up nice on the packaging.

[–] PaladinNJ (21786) 4 years ago

I just noticed that. Dumb.

[–] PaladinNJ (21786) 4 years ago

Last night it was on television as Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. I still think it's dumb. The name of this movie is: Raiders of the Lost Ark