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Raiders of the Lost Ark

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When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime. From TMDB

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  • Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 12, 2026

    45 years ago today, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK was released. I was in the theater that day. Saw it twice! Pure movie magic.

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  • vineyille @vineyille.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 17, 2024

    Harrison Ford is 82 years old, which means he’s older now than he was when he starred as Indiana Jones in the classic 1981 feature film “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”

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  • Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 16, 2026

    You'd think they'd want to discuss how it won as many awards as The Matrix, ET, Fellowship of the Ring, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Parasite... How it has the most wins of any Vampire movie ever... How its success further cements that Coogler's deal could be Hollywood's future. But alas. It's Black.

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  • Eric Ansley Díaz 🏳️‍🌈 @geekboyeric.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 17, 2026

    I’m not usually “that guy,” but I just had two unfollow these film nerds on IG who were ranking Top 10 Spielberg movies, and they ranked “Ready Player One” over “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” I don’t even hate RPO, but that opinion means I don’t trust anything you say ever again. GTFO of my house.

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  • John Scalzi @scalzi.comBluesky · Dec 14, 2025

    Today's December Comfort Watch: Raiders of the Lost Ark, which is right now as many years from its debut as it is from the movie serials which inspired it. How has age treated Indy, and what, if anything, does he still have to teach us? whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/t...

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  • BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 13, 2026

    There are as many years between us and the release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) as between the film and the year (1936) it’s set in.

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  • Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 1, 2025

    Raiders of the Lost Ark is the funniest movie of all time. The Nazis hatch a plan to summon the Jewish God. The protagonist constantly gets the shit beat out of him, his alcoholic girlfriend keeps getting captured, and they fail to stop the Nazis who then get killed by Jewish God cuz he’s Jewish.

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  • Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.comBluesky · May 30, 2026

    Watching a nearly finished cut of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, Marcia told Spielberg he HAD to have a scene at the end showing Indy and Marion together--that the audience needed some emotional closure. Spielberg knew she was right, and went out and shot this scene on the steps of the SF City Hall.

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  • Krystina Arielle @krystinaarielle.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 10, 2025

    My Oscar night look was Marion core in honor of the five time Oscar award winning film "Raiders Of The Lost Ark". This movie is particularly significant to me because it stars Paul Freeman who also played the greatest villain of all time, Ivan Ooze.

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  • 💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.socialBluesky · May 15, 2025

    Raiders of the Lost Ark was made in 1981 and set in 1936, so an equivalent movie made today would be set in… 1980. Ima go lie down.

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  • Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 8, 2025

    The other "plot hole" film criticism that makes me roll my eyes is "Indiana Jones didn't actually do anything in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and it would have turned out the same without him."

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  • The Film ‘89 Podcast™️ @film89.bsky.socialBluesky · May 12, 2026

    The incredible special effects in the spectacular finale to Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) were a mix of practical and optical effects by ILM. Discussed on Episode 150 of The #Film89Podcast for its 45th anniversary. www.film89.co.uk/the-film-89-...

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  • Kosperry 🧀 @kosperry.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 25, 2025

    Added backgrounds from the movie to the Satipo sketches!🕷 Reiterating the bit of trivia I shared before: Raiders of the Lost Ark was Alfred Molina's first credited film role and was covered in tarantulas on his FIRST day of filming! xD He was also around my age (28!) the year it released!

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  • Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 23, 2025

    protagonist agency is overrated af, as long as theyre entertaining nobody cares. You could eliminate Indiana Jones from Raiders of the Lost Ark entirely and the core story arc would be unchanged but he's the centrepiece of the film because he's fun.

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  • All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.comBluesky · Jun 12, 2025

    RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK was released 44 years ago today. The first Indiana Jones movie and one of Steven Spielberg’s most beloved films, the behind the scenes story is an adventure all of its own… 1/36

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  • All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.comBluesky · Jun 12, 2026

    RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK was released 45 years ago today. The first Indiana Jones movie and one of Steven Spielberg’s most beloved films, the behind the scenes story is an adventure all of its own… 1/36

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  • Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.comBluesky · Nov 17, 2025

    Someone noted the other day that one of my very favorite movies, Raiders of the Lost Ark, came out in 1981. It was set in 1936, 45 years earlier. A film premiering today that is set 45 years ago is set in....1981.

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  • The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.comBluesky · Dec 15, 2024

    My son loves watching me play this game, so we watched Raiders of the Lost Ark for the first time. Halfway through the film, he turns to me: “Indiana Jones looks a lot like Han Solo!” 😅

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  • Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zoneBluesky · Jun 13, 2026

    It's the 45th anniversary of the release of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, and I think it's time to talk about how weird it is that there are zero canonically Jewish characters in a movie written by a Jew, directed by a different Jew, about a Jewish myth being real and the Jewish God murking Nazis

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  • Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 25, 2025

    Raiders of the Lost Ark #2 cover art by Walter Simonson. #comics #art #film

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  • David F. Sandberg @ponysmasher.socialBluesky · Jul 22, 2026

    In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ronald Lacey didn’t know his face was going to melt and his reaction is genuine. I love learning film trivia on social media!

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  • Graeme Neil Reid @graemeneilreid.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 12, 2025

    Released on this day 44 years ago, my favourite film and the one I've seen more times than I can easily count. Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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  • Horror & Coffee @foundfootagefan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 27, 2026

    Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) By Kwow

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  • Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 16, 2024

    Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back Return of the Jedi Raiders of the Lost Ark Who Framed Roger Rabbit Transformers: The Movie Aliens Back to the Future The Big Lebowski Hudsucker Proxy

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  • Zelda Williams @zeldawilliams.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 16, 2024

    Also, if the Sexy Snowman doesn’t melt horrifyingly at the end of that film, a la Raiders of the Lost Ark, I will be sorely disappointed…

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  • Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 20, 2025

    The real lol is Elmo Skum thinking that the weedy, sycophantic henchman makes it to the end of the film. He’s the kind of guy who’d boo loudly when Toht gets his face melted off at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark

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  • optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 4, 2026

    What's your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 80s - Raiders of the Lost Ark 90s - Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie 00s - City of God 10s - Mad Max: Fury Road 20s - Sinners

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  • Edward the Movie Buff 🎞🎬🎥📽 @midgetmoxie.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 26, 2026

    Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Director: Steven Spielberg Cinematography: Doug Slocombe, BSC

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  • optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 8, 2026

    Ten non horror movies to get to know me Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (duh) Seven Samurai Monsieur Hulot's Holiday The Muppet Movie The Peanuts Movie Raiders of the Lost Ark Five Deadly Venoms Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster Bowfinger You Can't Take It with You

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  • Eric Klug @klugalters.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2026

    Wrath of God hand painted after concept artist Ralph McQuarrie's movie prop engraving for Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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  • 𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚕 @2ndaryprotocol.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 1, 2026

    Share a movie moment that blew your mind 🤯 I’ll start… the ending of ‘Raiders Of The Lost Ark’ 🖤

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  • Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 26, 2025

    Raiders of the Lost Ark. Man. What a movie.

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  • Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 12, 2025

    Toth from Raiders of The Lost Ark by Mark Chiarello. #comics #art #film

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  • Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 29, 2025

    Amazing seats tonight with @alissa.bsky.social for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra rendition of Raiders of the Lost Ark soundtrack (playing along with the movie).

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  • Star Wars Holocron @swholocron.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 14, 2025

    Happy birthday to the legendary Lawrence Kasdan! Kasdan co-wrote The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Force Awakens, and Solo: A Star Wars Story. He also wrote the first Indiana Jones film Raiders of the Lost Ark. May the Force be with you!

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  • Mark @vbloke.comBluesky · Aug 2, 2026

    Raiders of the Lost Ark came out in 1981, but was set in 1936 - a difference of 45 years. If they made the film today, the same time difference would mean it would be set in 1981.

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  • The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.comBluesky · Dec 29, 2024

    If you stream Raiders of the Lost Ark on Amazon, half-way through the movie, the Nazis are given a $5 million dollar donation towards their ‘Ark Reclamation Fund’.

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  • Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 12, 2026

    Ghanian poster for RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) Glad someone recognized that the skull with the snake slithering out of it is the true star of the movie

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  • Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 10, 2026

    Fun Film Factoid: in ‘Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark' (1981) when Indy finds the ark, R2-D2 and C-3PO can clearly be seen inscribed in the background.

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  • Christopher Walsh @awkwardisallowed.bsky.socialBluesky · May 30, 2026

    In 1981 Marcia Lucas was in a screening of the nearly complete RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK w/ Spielberg and George, and she pointed out that Marion disappeared at the end — that edit of the film last showed Marion on the island, having survived the power of the Ark. George and Steven saw her point. 2/3

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  • Horror & Coffee @foundfootagefan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 8, 2025

    Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) By Paul Mann

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  • Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2026

    All of it, really. I was easily overstimulated and I was afraid of: CHARADE WILLY WONKA (but not the scenes you think) RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK WILLOW Random BARNABY JONES reruns Previews for Movie of the Week

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  • Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 15, 2025

    Dad is watching 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' on the Sunday night movie on TV in his bedroom and I'm sitting in the living room silently mouthing the dialog to myself from memory based on the music I can hear

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  • 🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2026

    And it’s not just a Tomb Raider problem. The Uncharted movie had 30 minutes spent with Drake as a bartender. Raiders of the Lost Ark opens with Indy raiding a trap infested tomb.

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  • A L I E N Cerny @alancerny.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 21, 2026

    RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: Still one of the greatest to ever do it. Tight as a snare drum, best deus ex machina of all of cinema. Top. Movie.

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 28, 2026

    My ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK boxd.it/ftZVIx Thrills, romance, comedy...all at a relentless, exquisitely edited pace. Brilliantly outlandish. As one death-defying scenario ends, Indy & gang are immediately thrust into another. Not one wasted moment. Ford is God-level cool. #filmsky 📽

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  • Alexorcist II: The Heretic @atomicgiant.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 15, 2026

    The release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) is at the exact center between when the movie is set (1936) and TODAY.

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  • Horror & Coffee @foundfootagefan.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 3, 2025

    Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) By Attila J. Szarka

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  • The Lucasfilm Collector @lucasfilmcollector.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 27, 2026

    This summer, the American Film Institute Silver Theatre and Cultural Center is celebrating the incredible poster art of the late, great Drew Struzan with the "Raiders of the Lost Art: Posters of Drew Struzan" film festival, including a 35mm print of Raiders of the Lost Ark!

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  • Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.comBluesky · Mar 1, 2025

    It’s my pick for family movie night tonight and I am leaning toward Raiders of the Lost Ark so I can properly teach my kids what to do when they are confronted by a Nazi: punch the Nazi in the face. youtu.be/47nkHeMGsuo?...

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  • Thorne Identity @thorneidentity.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 17, 2026

    Mad Max 350K Jaws 3.5M The Thing 10M Star Wars 11M Poltergeist 15M Highlander 17M Predator 18M Raiders of the Lost Ark 20M Blade Runner 30M Resident Evil 33M Star Trek TMP 44-46M Stargate 55M But let's murderthe mid-budget movie and replace journeymen film makers with AI. That's definitely working.

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  • Horror & Coffee @foundfootagefan.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 22, 2025

    Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) By KWOW

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  • Zeb Cyrus 🎃👻🙀 @zbcy.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 8, 2026

    Books to Films 📚=🎞️ Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) by Campbell Black is the novelization of the film. The book adapted from an earlier L. Kasdan script features a morose Indiana Jones with a thorough backstory with Marion & intense rivalry with Belloq. 🤠🏺🐍 #filmsky #booksky

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  • Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.socialBluesky · May 11, 2025

    Raiders of the Lost Ark is my favorite movie fwiw. My dad brought me to watch it in the theatre when I was like 10 or 11

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  • Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2025

    Ron Cobb was the designer of the Ithorian and Gotal aliens for the Mos Eisley Cantina in Star Wars and the flying wing for Raiders of the Lost Ark, among many other iconic film designs.

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  • Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 6, 2026

    Film Factoid: In RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) when Indy finds the ark, R2-D2 and C-3PO can clearly be seen inscribed in the background…

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  • Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 12, 2026

    RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK opened 45 years ago today. Here's Walter Chaw's (@mangiotto.bsky.social) landmark review of the first four Indiana Jones movies. filmfreakcentral.net/2012/10/indi....

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  • Queen of the Brendamned @bhay.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 14, 2025

    Drew Struzan was THE movie poster artist. He made these characters legends just as much as the movies themselves. My condolences to his family and friends. Here is his Raiders of the Lost Ark, which I was lucky enough to have hanging in my office when I was at Lucasfilm Animation.

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  • A L I E N Cerny @alancerny.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 9, 2024

    RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: Still the greatest adventure movie of all time.

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  • All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.comBluesky · Jun 1, 2026

    Cronenberg wrote 12 drafts of the script making it more of an adventure film in the style of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Shusett said to him “You know what you’ve done… you’ve made the Philip K. Dick version!” Citing creative differences, Cronenberg left the project to make The Fly. 5/47

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