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Nuking the fridge

posted 4 years ago by [deleted]
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I thought I'd bring this up once again and point out one thing that hasn't been mentioned before, like how the hell would the extremely heavy fridge (lead is heavy), inside a house on the bottom floor, be BLOWN CLEAR during the explosion. The exploding wooden house fragments in the blast didn't fly straight up, so why did the much heavier fridge do so? And I think the house would've collapsed onto the fridge, tons of wood and all, before it even did that, burying Indy in a fridge coffin so he'd never get out, not to mention being exposed to radiation and maybe the lead melting, and the heat and asphyxiation.

No, having the fridge fly clear (and ONLY this fridge) was Steven Spielberg's SINGLE BIGGEST DIRECTING BRAIN FART, and it's no wonder he's not directing Indy 5. And nuking the fridge is not the only stupid thing he did in Crystal Skull. Spielberg turned senile during the making of this movie. End of.

[–] Redsfan001 (6004) 4 years ago

I love the South Park episode lamenting the reboot of Indy.

[–] redban (5202) 4 years ago

It’s a partly comedic / fantasy movie, with elements of the absurd and the impossible. It’s not a science flick. The nuclear scene was just there to entertain, not to inform. Don’t look so much into everything

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

The other Indiana Jones movies never did anything so silly. Well, except for the yellow raft out of the crashing plane in Temple of Doom, but I can believe it because the raft looked like it was being buffeted by wind resistance, slowing its fall, and it landed on a snowy and no doubt soft hillside anyway. If Indy and his group there were to suffer injuries, it would be twice, at most, not the many, many times that Indy was bashed around.

[–] moviechatterer (13284) 4 years ago

I dont think you've added anything to the countless other "the fridge is stupid" threads, except the absudities of the actual flightpath, although the heavy lead elements dont fit.
Fridges arnt made of lead, at least they arnt these days. were they in the 50s?

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Lead-lined, the fridge actually says on the door. I assume they were made that way, it seems like an authentic fridge from the time.

[–] moviechatterer (13284) 4 years ago

ive just been googling it. All results are Indy 4 related OR ... apparently there is such a thing - used for storing radioactive elements in science labs.
Never used in domestic houses, although maybe the nuclear bomb testing facility had some they were throwing away and thought "oh we can put this in the pretend house we're about to nuke"
... wouldnt be a realistic test though.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Interesting. I did wonder why a domestic fridge would need such a feature, never really looked into it. Thanks for the research, which it seems the makers of Indy 4 didn't bother to do.