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What was the purpose of the free tickets and the complaint about the baby?
Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull Discussion Thread (Spoilers)
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What was the purpose of the free tickets and the complaint about the baby?
BadMoon
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They made it clear when they showed the fridge to add the word lead. That in itself would protect anyone from a bomb of that size.
KrisSolo
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Don't you guys know? Fridges are MAGIC! They protect us all from Atomic Blasts, AND keep my milky icy-nice cold!
MAGIC!
MAGIC!
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They keep my beer cold, so that's all the magic I need.
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They made it clear when they showed the fridge to add the word lead. That in itself would protect anyone from a bomb of that size.
Yes, I got the "lead" on the door. But the entire area was irradiated. If the refrigerator stayed in place then Indy would be fatally contaminated as soon as he stepped out of the fridge.
screamingmetal
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Or until the rubber door seal melted.
It's funny that they specifically showed the Lead Lined tag in order to explain how Indy could've survived in that fridge, but the rocketing out of the explosion and hard landing was just expected to be accepted.
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DarthNeil
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I love how there's an actual discussion of how Indiana Jones does something that he shouldn't have survived doing.
Someone would think he might be a fictional character in an adventure movie.
Someone would think he might be a fictional character in an adventure movie.
I love how there's an actual discussion of how Indiana Jones does something that he shouldn't have survived doing.
Someone would think he might be a fictional character in an adventure movie.
I agree its pretty strange reading complaints about elements that were present (and accepted) in the first three films. Surviving "impossible" situations isn't like adding fart jokes to the SW saga, its something Indy has always done. Don't believe me? Go stand on a rope bridge, tangle one ankle in some of the binding, then cut the bridge in half and swing into a wall made of solid rock and get back to me as to how that went for you.
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DarthNeil
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I agree its pretty strange reading complaints about elements that were present (and accepted) in the first three films. Surviving "impossible" situations isn't like adding fart jokes to the SW saga, its something Indy has always done. Don't believe me? Go stand on a rope bridge, tangle one ankle in some of the binding, then cut the bridge in half and swing into a wall made of solid rock and get back to me as to how that went for you.
I can't do that... I'm too busy jumping out of a plane with only an inflatable raft... Oh wait, no I'm riding on a submarine now--the inflatable raft is NEXT Wednesday.
Well you better hurry because that sub is leaving and you've got like five minutes to swim a hundred yards in the open ocean with only one good arm.
screamingmetal
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I love how there's an actual discussion of how Indiana Jones does something that he shouldn't have survived doing.
Someone would think he might be a fictional character in an adventure movie.
It's called suspension of disbelief, and for me the film didn't suspend my disbelief like the previous three films had. The main reason as I said in my review, is that there's too many unbelievable scenarios taking place in KOTCS combined with the bad CGI and the Tongue-in-cheek tone of the film make it hard to accept it rather then scrutinize it.
With all of this discussion/debate over the silly (and FUN!) fridge sequence you'd think some people were expecting a Jason Bourne movie or something.
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Those are far fetched, but easier to believe than surviving a ground zero nuclear bomb explosion in a fridge.
But it's an INDY movie, for crying out loud. They're serials. With the exception of RAIDERS (and even it has its moments) they're all quite far-fetched. And that's part of the appeal. At least for me.
aussieinnyc
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It's all about degrees of its far-fetchedness (shut-up, it's a word). As someone else said, the other films had something which enabled the suspension of disbelief, and after seeing that fridge bounce like a tennis ball with Indy inside, I just wasn't able to do that. I think it has something to do with the fact that everything was not explained to within an inch of its life. We're not sure of the source of the power of the Sankara Stones or what is inside the Ark (because unless Moses REALLY smashed those stone commandments there's something unexplained about the contents of the Ark) but with KOTCS we are not only told, but shown, everything.
BadMoon
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It is crazy and funny. I didn't mind that at all. But why did the ship have to take off? Damn it damn it damn it.
RoboDad
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It doesn't bother me that someone doesn't like the fridge sequence. What bothers me is the way people are getting rather juvenile in their attempts to "discredit" the sequence, all the while defending other sequences that were no less far-fetched, and required no more or less suspension of disbelief (no matter what anyone says). That comes across to me as very disingenuous, as if people are just trying to pick fights.
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