Tim surviving the perimeter fence scene in Jurassic Park was dumb, but it didn't ruin the whole film. Sure, we all sat there and said "oh fuck off!" at it, but its not a movie destroying scene like the awful "jedi rocks" edit in Return of the Jedi.
Whilst this isn't Indy's finest(Raiders'), it was definitely an improvement over the SW prequels, and I put it all down to Spielberg's far superior direction.
Ofcoarse you cant survive a nuclear bomb blast by hiding in the fridge its just a fuckin movie...seriously this moment is no different from the Raft scene in Temple of doom.
I don't hate the movie, sure i still think it shouldn't have been made and that it is a very bad movie. but this scene... I don't know, it just felt that that it was this moment that made me give up on the movie completely. I mean, sure the entire movie is filled with dumb things but this... It is just so unbelivably stupid that i get an headache just trying to figure out what the hell they were thinking! >.<
Everyone here complains about a scene where the main character survives a nuke inside a firdge, but no one pointed out that scene of the temple of doom where he and another 2 people survived a big fall from a crashing plane by just riding an inflatable boat is impossible too?
@Therichardgalehater no, not hating the entire movie for one scene. Hating it because of every horrible scene! This is just the worst, and most ridiculous scene.
@kicknbazz1615 true, why even try right? next movie should be about Dr Jones finding the smurfs and traveling back in time by using an old radio and ducktape strapped to his balls getting out of the year 6.000 BC just before a dinosaur eats him up and end up in the year 1955, the same year when Obama takes office and he saves him from getting shot by jack ruby's raygun.
Jesus, at least have him roll out all bloody and bruised or some shit. but no...he rolls out nice and clean with only a couple of sweat patches AND with his hat remaining perfectly on his head. Just compare this scene to Martin Scorsese's film "The Aviator" when Howard Hughes crashes his plane then you'll see what I mean.
@B1SCOOP but birds can and do take out planes, people in fridges do not survive nukes, fuck if only the japanese knew about dem fridges and WW2 would never end.
@B1SCOOP true, but this is retarded and impossible. Yes indina jones was never based on realism but at the same time we need some illusion of it or we lose interest.
From the beginning, the movie establishes that aliens are part of the lore. A complete and total disregard for physics and human physiology is not. It is completely different.
A fantastical aspect of a film does not implicitly waive its right to adhering to basic elements of reality. This should be common sense. If not, we can come up with many, many examples to demonstrate this line of reason.
@mwtillotson The fridge's very presence in the film - plus the various aspects of magic in the other films - shows that the directors aren't really going for an accurate depiction of reality. I think they're aiming firmly for fun and fantastic adventure, and this let's them do whatever they want. That's my point.
Having never seen this movie, I'm curious as to why people are suddenly picking apart Indiana Jones, as every other IJ movie before it had plenty of scenes that also weren't realistic.
I'm guessing the movie sucked so that one couldn't look past them in this movie, then.
Simply amazing! He exits that refrigerator without the slightest bruise or nosebleed. Then still feels good enough to run up a hill! I tell ya, Indy is one TOUGH SOB!
Didn't they shoot down a plane with seagulls in the 3rd one and wasn't there a guy who could use his magic powers to pull hearts out of people in the 2nd one?
oh get over it you meticulous movie critics, the whole entire series is composed of ridiculously impossible stuff like ghosts and the divine holy grails along with stunts that are not even accomplishable by chuck norris. If you wan't to hate this movie, hate it because they made sean connery's die :( that's much less plausable then this scene
I mean, they could have fixed it all by just having the next scene be Indy in a hospital bed. They can even make a fucking joke about how he's not superman and shit! Then when the action sequences aren't as intense, you're reminded that he's an old fucking man! Bingo, George Lucas' reputation- or what was finally left of it- is saved!
This begs the question... was this the only fridge in that fake village? It might be a minor detail, but the logic of the movie (as paperthin as it is) contradicts itself, if SEVERAL fridges didn't fly out of ground zero after the blast.
"Jumping into a [fridge] at ground zero will 1) result in incineration, 2) will not be thrown 6 miles clear of the devastation while all other debris is consumed in the mushroom cloud, 3) old [fridges] did not have an internal release lever so [you] would be trapped, 4) getting out of the fridge would be stepping into a wave of super-heated air that would vaporize your lungs, 5) looking at the nuclear bomb would blind you, and 6) you’d still be bombarded with lethal doses of radiation."
@infrafan why bother explaining fucking physics on a fucking Indy J movie??? you're as stupid as the scene itself, fuck dude. Why take it serious??? Try explaining Star Wars
@Moscalicious 1) it's a quote. 2) Comparing it to the realism of Star Wars is moot as it's a different reality. 3) The reason it's bothersome is because it's TOO far fetched for suspension of disbelief in the Indy films.
Indy can and has certainly gotten away with many logical flaws, but that moment pushes it. A better scene would have been for them to have him race away from the explosion in a car. Still not in the realm of reality, but better suited for the universe he lives in.
...And getting bit by a radioactive spider doesn't give you super strength, the ability to cling to walls, or precognition. So what? All the Indiana Jones movies are built on suspension of disbelief. Hell, Indy would get fired if he were a real world archaeologist for destroying the ruins at the beginning of the first movie.
@SuperWillHatch You're talking about his respected universe with his own level of suspension of disbelief, thus a moot point. For Indy, after his being established by three previous films, this scene is clearly too far fetched. It's the equivalent of seeing Superman's powers grow to the point of godhood back in the day, stripping him of any sense of danger, thus no drama. We want to see him barely escape peril within his level of believability, but this is a dues ex machina.
Superman's powers DID grow to point of absurdity though, and the only thing preventing him from curbstomping all of his enemies at the same time is Plot Induced Stupidity. Even in the films where he's not as powerful, he flew around the world really fast to turn back time(some...how), and used his heat vision to rebuild the Great Wall Of China.
I think people who hate KotCS are just splitting hairs. Maybe it's due to George Lucas backlash, I don't know. I thought it was alright. If
@SuperWillHatch Yes, one is deliberately fucking awful, the other was a trend setter, an innovator, original and fantastic in it's time. This should not have set out to do absolutely everything that became dated in the other Indiana's. It should have set out to give an up to date Indiana, instead we got 1981 writing, style and even angles but in HD, which just made the shit stand out in all its shitty glory.
You just agreed with me and validated my argument. Personally, I do think Raiders Of The Lost Ark is a better film, but a lot of that has to do with Raiders being "fresh". I think that if KotCS were the first Indy film, it would have been better received.
@SuperWillHatch I was actually referencing the comics, but the films serve the point somewhat. It's a matter of knowing the character and his/her/its world, then making the mistake of writing beyond those boundaries set up. Let's say Spiderman's in trouble, out of web, and falling to his death. If he suddenly had the ability to fly, then a mistake was made in the writing. And believe me, this is more that "Lucas Hate". This scene isn't even my biggest problem with KotCS.
Still, in the Silver Age, they basically made up all of Superman's feats as they went along. At one point he could SNEEZE and blow away a galaxy with the force of his snot. It got ridiculous, but I digress.
I can see the point in arguing that Indy(who in the original trilogy was a tough and athletic man, but still just a man) was turned into just another action hero in KotCS by having him do things he wasn't able to do before(ala John McClane in Die Hard 4), but I think that
complaint is small in comparison to all the other unbelievable things that happen in the movies. You're right- it's physically absurd to survive a nuclear bomb being dropped while living in a fridge- but it's equally absurd(at least to me) to jump out of an airplane in a rubber raft and not die. I treat the Indy films as existing in a different universe from ours where people can do these things with little consequence.
If it's not Lucas Hate, what is it? Introducing politics?
@SuperWillHatch Exactly. Glad we agree on that. But the Lucas whining is annoying as hell to me. Please don't peg me as such. Star Wars fans are ruing Star Wars more to me. But, you're arguing against something I agree with. Of course movies exist in a realm of their own, but even certain rules exist for whatever reason. To that same Spider-Man scenario: Spider-Man grabbing a flagpole as he's falling is to Indy using a raft as Spider-Man flying away is to Indy surviving this.
@MrHEC381991 The fridge was actually Spielberg's idea. He wanted a nuclear fridge scene in a film from all the way back when Back to the Future was first written.
Why everyone cry about this scene some much? Do you forgot previous Indy movies? Jumping from plane with rubber boat, stopping cargo car at least 150 kg with shoes, running from 50 Nazis and survive, boat cut down from a fan. I can continue with this list. Yes is absurd, yes it's unreal but YES is Indiana Jones world.
About the script: Aliens & God are the same thing. We are create from God , God is non human being. God is not from Earth - God is Alien. Get over with that too. Is Indy movie.
@92chillwill Agree with you too. If they just remove this scene and monkey jungle scene could be nice movie. This two scene just make him look so stupid.
@XOneGameR The originals in spite of being implausible were possible, to jump out of a plane in a raft, is it plausible? No. Possible? Yes, the old Indy films countered the implausible sequences with grit and realism, this one was so far away from reality that there was NO way it could have possibly happened, only in Looney Toons world would this be possible. Even if he wasn't effected by the blast nuclear blast, the impact the fridge went through would have broken every bone in his body.
@Timelord6661 I am agree with you man. Nuke the fridge was bad idea. very bad. and yes is not possible to survive after this fall down even without nuclear blast. overall is not bad movies, but is BAD Indy movie at least to say. Be good man.
no one gets mad when you survive falling out of an airplane and then off of a cliff on a life raft but when you survive a nuke by hiding in a fridge then everyone gets mad about the complete neglect of the laws of physics
i really liked this film and this scene, i do understand why people would dislike it "nuke the fridge" lmao. I was shocked at the end with the aliens though but i thought the film was really good but not the best indi or film he has made
Would have been an awfully short movie otherwise and given that the rest of the movie was about aliens and killer ants this isn't THAT over the top. :)
Ok I am gonna settle this bullshit once and for all ITS A FUCKING MOVIE!!!!! So what if nuking the fridge wouldn't work in real life. There have been a ton of movie mistakes that spielberg was responsibile for before you guys started hating him. That being said ITS ALSO AN INDIANA JONES MOVIE!!!! A movie series in which a golden box could kill you and a cup can make you immortal.
@Shanethefilmmaker Yea but only slightly different. the holy grail and the arc of the covenant are "supposedly" real. This is just completely over the top. I understand it's a movie, but seriously? Maybe if he was two miles out. but he was 40 feet from a nuclear bomb. and it exploded. and also didn't he drink out of the grail? the dude should be killin it still, he just looked old as fuck. still liked the movie, and not hating just adding my opinion.
@BKABF and it's valued but let me argue something, before any realism was added, the entire idea of the entire Indiana Jones franchise was based on Movie serials, a form of entertainment that would be considered the earliest TV shows in the world. What makes Serials Iconic are the ridiculous situations of danger that seemed impossible to escape, but the hero and or his alllies often find some way to escape unharmed no matter how stupid or improbable. Most people fail to realize that...
....further more, his age shouldn't matter because while he may or may not be immortal.Drinking the grail did something to him. My Wild mass guess is that it may have extended his life and took away a few vulnerablities a man of his age would have such as Arthritis. If that is not the case, much like Rocky, Rambo, and John McClane he never retires from his job and tries to keep in the best shape he can.
Dont see any reason to freak out because some selfcrowned super scientists say its not logical.
I think it is(obviously) meant to be ironical, assuming Indy can survive a nuke in a fridge and swirls through the air and hits the ground spinning four times in four angles like that the question should be ... how did he survive the fridge?
right cus jumping out of a airplane in a boat and rolling down a mountin and off a cliff is so much more realistic...........people forgot what they were watching. its a INDIANA JONES film.
Indy was doing too much whipping and punching and shooting and runing around and jumping in this film. That's the biggest problem. Nobody bought it. Everyone saw their old man. It was a joke. They went too far.
Lucas and Spielberg and Harrison Ford should have taken a chilll pill.
@gukonni Um captain obvious called he thinks you talk stupid. The running, the jumping, the shooting, the whipping and the punching are all Indy's trademark. It doesn't matter how old he is, he could be in a fucking wheel chair and people would still expect him to do that. It would be like if Bruce Lee was alive today people telling him he can't do Martial Arts anymore.
This movie should have used Indy's age as a plot point. But instead of doing that, it tried to go on as though Indy is still 42. That was the problem. Indy is too old to pull that off anymore. They thought they could but it didn't work. This is reflected in the not so successive box office numbers. I blame it on Lucas, but I don't think Spielberg would have done much better. They're both too much stuck in the past to move the series forward in the right direction.
Remove this scene and most of the others in the start of the film...
Show Indy in his classroom with his students as a much older and wiser person. Somehow get him involved with something that he DOESN'T want to be stuck in because he's too old for it. and not in shape. Somehow involve his son or a younger person that's trying to get an artifact. Make indy a bit more active than Connery was in The Last Crusade, but show his weakness. Etc.
This scene just went too far. It doesn't help that Indy is about 62 in this film and is trying to run around and do stunts like he did 20 years ago. It just doesn't fit. He's much too old to be doing these scenes. And you know what? Connery was about 57 when they filmed The Last Crusade. Yet, he played Indy's old man. Here we're 20 years later and Indy is 62 and he's doing stunts a man half his age should be doing but none of it's passable.
2. Part of me is still in deep and irreversible denial for the fact that Spielberg directed this steaming mess. But OH YEAH, Lucas co-wrote the piece of shit which obviously included this retarded bit, you "fucking idiot".
3. Hearts being torn out and heads being melted off are cool enough to cede their impossibility for the sake of an awesome movie moment. This is not.
4. Pardon my late response. I was on vacation looking for lost artifacts in the Amazon.
"What people really jumped at was Indy climbing into a refrigerator and getting blown into the sky by an atom-bomb blast. Blame me. Don’t blame George. That was my silly idea. People stopped saying “jump the shark”. They now say, “nuked the fridge”. I’m proud of that. I’m glad I was able to bring that into popular culture."
what I find funny is that fans put this on themselves. kept asking for another episode and look what you did. look what you did to one of the best trilogies out there. and now all the fans are like...'I always thought they should have left it at 3...'
its a lead fridge or something, a normal fridge would obviously be obliterated but its a special kind of fridge that makes this slightly more believable but still definitely impossible, but thats what indiana jones is all about and its brilliant :)
I LOVE this scene! Yeah, that's right I said it. How is this any less realistic then a cup that can heal bullet wounds, a man who can pull other people's hearts out, or an ancient box that shoots electricity out of it? Well?
@Qrtzapp Because things are incinerated in nuclear explosions and the amount of radiation that would have penetrated the fridge regardless of it being lead lines would have been more than enough to kill someone ...
@Qrtzapp Now wait a minute. The cup that heals, the ehart pulling man and the Arc of the Covenant are all magical things and since this is a fictional universe, we suspend our disbelief and say 'Yeah, I'll accept that this type of magic exists, as long as it is plausible'. But nukes aren't magical, neither are fridges and surviving a nuclear explosion in real life is IMPOSSIBLE. There are loads of dangeorus stunts in IJ such as the truck climb and bridge fight but those are rather realistic in
@Qrtzapp the sense that they could be fought like that and could be done. Hell, the truck climb was all stunt work and was all real, not like this CGI mess. This was just impossible. It'd have been better if Indy had a little more time to discover the bomb and either escape it by plane or found it and disabled it by blowing it up. Yes, blowing up a nuke is mor elikely to DISABLE it rather than activate it, because it destroys its internal mechanisms that make it work.
@SolidMike84 I haven't seen the films in a while but I doubt if it's as ridiculous as surviving a nuclear explosion and a several mile journey through the air by sitting in a fridge :) or is it? I dunno you tell me :D
@Qrtzapp Well, all of the things you've listed took several moments to lure us into a world of fantasy over realism. This scene took a grounded approach as a setup, but suddenly the fridge became 'magical'? This is far less realistic than any of the things you've listed.
@Qrtzapp because one of those is an ancient ritual, ad the other two are religious objects. this is neither. this is just ridiculous. and it not enough that he survived a nuke inside of a fridge, but that he rolls out unharmed after being thrown through the air and bouncing around.
@funnybunches320 yeah, what about falling from a plane with just a raft, then going down a mountain, then falling again.... from temple of doom.... is that not ridiculous too? who can survive that? why don't people complain about that too?since when did filmmaking became a race to see which scenes are too "unrealistic"... film is an art to entertain us, and it is not restricted by realism.. that is why it is great.. i love this scene too... fits indy perfectly :)
@Qrtzapp I'm sure that there are people who can pull other people's hearts out.
I don't think that is as hard as it looks like.
For example:
- Biting your own finger of if as easy as eating a carrot. The only problem is: your brain tells you that you can not eat your finger. But just try it, just bite your finger as hard as you bite a carrot and I'll give you 100% garantuee that you'll bite your finger of then.
I don't know why everyone is hating on this scene. I thought it was pretty hilarious. In the end, Indiana Jones was always about entertainment, not realism.
Philosoraptor: If the fridge is nuked does that not also fry the coke?
lastswordfighter 4 days ago
I know that every Indiana movie had its burlesque scenes, but at least, there were funny... unlike this one.
ArtemisiaDark 1 week ago
Tim surviving the perimeter fence scene in Jurassic Park was dumb, but it didn't ruin the whole film. Sure, we all sat there and said "oh fuck off!" at it, but its not a movie destroying scene like the awful "jedi rocks" edit in Return of the Jedi.
Whilst this isn't Indy's finest(Raiders'), it was definitely an improvement over the SW prequels, and I put it all down to Spielberg's far superior direction.
SamusDrake 1 week ago
Ofcoarse you cant survive a nuclear bomb blast by hiding in the fridge its just a fuckin movie...seriously this moment is no different from the Raft scene in Temple of doom.
cjcool91 1 week ago
I wonder how they want to top this burlesque in Indiana Jones 5.
Indy survives a meteor strike with the aid of a stain-resistant umbrella.... or what ???
Hasenkhan 1 week ago
I don't hate the movie, sure i still think it shouldn't have been made and that it is a very bad movie. but this scene... I don't know, it just felt that that it was this moment that made me give up on the movie completely. I mean, sure the entire movie is filled with dumb things but this... It is just so unbelivably stupid that i get an headache just trying to figure out what the hell they were thinking! >.<
FreddeX91 1 week ago
Everyone here complains about a scene where the main character survives a nuke inside a firdge, but no one pointed out that scene of the temple of doom where he and another 2 people survived a big fall from a crashing plane by just riding an inflatable boat is impossible too?
SoldadoReebok 2 weeks ago
... And then Chuck Norris was born ...
BearDownWildcats 2 weeks ago
Indiana Jones tries for a Lupin III overkill and it obviously didn't go down too well with all moviegoers beyond the age of 2.
SeventhSun 2 weeks ago
@Therichardgalehater no, not hating the entire movie for one scene. Hating it because of every horrible scene! This is just the worst, and most ridiculous scene.
Cghood21 2 weeks ago
LIVE THAT. I BET.
smoomoo31 2 weeks ago
Time to change the school desk into a fridge
Indrius 3 weeks ago 2
Where are all the other fridges being blown out?
JGuitarVids 3 weeks ago
meh. i found it cool
AnAmbientGrey 3 weeks ago
When has an Indiana Jones film ever been realistic?
kicknbazz1615 4 weeks ago 3
@kicknbazz1615 true, why even try right? next movie should be about Dr Jones finding the smurfs and traveling back in time by using an old radio and ducktape strapped to his balls getting out of the year 6.000 BC just before a dinosaur eats him up and end up in the year 1955, the same year when Obama takes office and he saves him from getting shot by jack ruby's raygun.
MyHirogen 3 weeks ago
@MyHirogen Don't give george lucas any ideas lol
kicknbazz1615 3 weeks ago
@kicknbazz1615 lol
MyHirogen 3 weeks ago
Who cares? It's a turd film with turd fans.
spangleandmarmite 1 month ago
lol at everyone taking this scene seriously. It's just for a laugh, chill out.
WEAHTV 1 month ago
Jesus, at least have him roll out all bloody and bruised or some shit. but no...he rolls out nice and clean with only a couple of sweat patches AND with his hat remaining perfectly on his head. Just compare this scene to Martin Scorsese's film "The Aviator" when Howard Hughes crashes his plane then you'll see what I mean.
earthy075 1 month ago
call me crazy but i love this scene
TheGodzillaSithLord 1 month ago
I find more stupid moment when Sean Connery used birds to take out german plane.
B1SCOOP 1 month ago
@B1SCOOP but birds can and do take out planes, people in fridges do not survive nukes, fuck if only the japanese knew about dem fridges and WW2 would never end.
MyHirogen 3 weeks ago
@MyHirogen yeah I know about that. Still, it doesn't make that scene any less retarded.
B1SCOOP 3 weeks ago
@B1SCOOP true, but this is retarded and impossible. Yes indina jones was never based on realism but at the same time we need some illusion of it or we lose interest.
MyHirogen 3 weeks ago
@MyHirogen
There is nothing remotely realistic about Indiana Jones. He lives in a fantasy world...and I'm completely OK with that.
SuperWillHatch 1 week ago
It's a film about aliens, and people care about the fridge not being authentic?
moohodgins 1 month ago
@moohodgins Look up suspension of disbelief.
vaati000 1 month ago
@moohodgins
From the beginning, the movie establishes that aliens are part of the lore. A complete and total disregard for physics and human physiology is not. It is completely different.
A fantastical aspect of a film does not implicitly waive its right to adhering to basic elements of reality. This should be common sense. If not, we can come up with many, many examples to demonstrate this line of reason.
mwtillotson 1 month ago
@mwtillotson The fridge's very presence in the film - plus the various aspects of magic in the other films - shows that the directors aren't really going for an accurate depiction of reality. I think they're aiming firmly for fun and fantastic adventure, and this let's them do whatever they want. That's my point.
moohodgins 1 month ago
The atom bomb would him blast into a near earth orbit ...
SpaceCowboy641 1 month ago
@SpaceCowboy641
no, it would blow up. the end
TAWGames 1 month ago
Having never seen this movie, I'm curious as to why people are suddenly picking apart Indiana Jones, as every other IJ movie before it had plenty of scenes that also weren't realistic.
I'm guessing the movie sucked so that one couldn't look past them in this movie, then.
FightTheNobles 1 month ago 2
Simply amazing! He exits that refrigerator without the slightest bruise or nosebleed. Then still feels good enough to run up a hill! I tell ya, Indy is one TOUGH SOB!
Apple3point14159 1 month ago
Han Shot First!
NinjaNap317 1 month ago 9
Didn't they shoot down a plane with seagulls in the 3rd one and wasn't there a guy who could use his magic powers to pull hearts out of people in the 2nd one?
DaT0wel 1 month ago
Those dislikes aren't against the clip their against the scene
Texamerican12 1 month ago
get in the fridge
TheColorRedpwns 1 month ago
Hating on an entire fucking movie just because of one scene, fucking pathetic.
TheRitchardgaleHater 1 month ago
It seems that people have forgotten about the Submarine Controversy from Raiders of the Lost Ark. After that, everything seems almost plausible.
Frostyincave 1 month ago
oh get over it you meticulous movie critics, the whole entire series is composed of ridiculously impossible stuff like ghosts and the divine holy grails along with stunts that are not even accomplishable by chuck norris. If you wan't to hate this movie, hate it because they made sean connery's die :( that's much less plausable then this scene
Gocast2 1 month ago
People take this scene way to seriously
riversjackson1 1 month ago
Steven Spielberg actually had the idea for the fridge scene, not Lucas.
MrGNR1990 1 month ago
I mean, they could have fixed it all by just having the next scene be Indy in a hospital bed. They can even make a fucking joke about how he's not superman and shit! Then when the action sequences aren't as intense, you're reminded that he's an old fucking man! Bingo, George Lucas' reputation- or what was finally left of it- is saved!
darrenmuse 1 month ago
the fuck is that fridge made of?better question: WHAT is indiana jones made of?
inouyejulio 1 month ago
Come on guys he drank the holy grail. so he can survive a nuke even at point blank range :D
left4deadian 1 month ago 12
@left4deadian lol. That should have been a flashback cut to after he stopped rolling from the fridge.
infrafan 1 month ago
@left4deadian But he chose wisely!
darrenmuse 1 month ago
This begs the question... was this the only fridge in that fake village? It might be a minor detail, but the logic of the movie (as paperthin as it is) contradicts itself, if SEVERAL fridges didn't fly out of ground zero after the blast.
Evertale1 1 month ago
FREEDOM FRIDGE!!
deathsaurer515 1 month ago
Its a fucking movie!! Did the first 3 films make any sense? No! Does it matter? No! Should people stop trying to be fucking Steven Hopkins? Yes!!
Moscalicious 2 months ago
Since when did the Indiana Jones follow the laws of reality? It's supposed to be campy fun. Get over it.
0rionsaint 2 months ago
It was an atomic bomb I am sure.
ilikemusic3966 2 months ago
"Jumping into a [fridge] at ground zero will 1) result in incineration, 2) will not be thrown 6 miles clear of the devastation while all other debris is consumed in the mushroom cloud, 3) old [fridges] did not have an internal release lever so [you] would be trapped, 4) getting out of the fridge would be stepping into a wave of super-heated air that would vaporize your lungs, 5) looking at the nuclear bomb would blind you, and 6) you’d still be bombarded with lethal doses of radiation."
infrafan 2 months ago 79
@infrafan why bother explaining fucking physics on a fucking Indy J movie??? you're as stupid as the scene itself, fuck dude. Why take it serious??? Try explaining Star Wars
Moscalicious 2 months ago
@Moscalicious 1) it's a quote. 2) Comparing it to the realism of Star Wars is moot as it's a different reality. 3) The reason it's bothersome is because it's TOO far fetched for suspension of disbelief in the Indy films.
Indy can and has certainly gotten away with many logical flaws, but that moment pushes it. A better scene would have been for them to have him race away from the explosion in a car. Still not in the realm of reality, but better suited for the universe he lives in.
infrafan 2 months ago
@infrafan 7) it's a movie
chilledlil 1 month ago
@chilledlil 7) It's a cannon sequel to three beloved films done by the same people who didn't know when to say no.
infrafan 1 month ago
@infrafan You don't have to consider it cannon, it's fiction for god's sake.
LuisMatheus4 1 month ago
@LuisMatheus4 I know I don't. Just hard to ignore, especially when you love the characters and stories so much.
infrafan 1 month ago
@infrafan So you're saying this couldn't really happen?
darrenmuse 1 month ago
@darrenmuse Of course not. Proof's right there.
infrafan 1 month ago
@infrafan But, Aliens......
l0n3s0ld13r 1 month ago
@infrafan your forgetting one minor detail: It was Mother Indiana Fucking Jones!
SlapstickCoyote 2 weeks ago
@infrafan 7) It's a movie
ASEEDEESEE 2 weeks ago
@ASEEDEESEE 8) look for chilledlil and feel original.
infrafan 2 weeks ago
@infrafan
...And getting bit by a radioactive spider doesn't give you super strength, the ability to cling to walls, or precognition. So what? All the Indiana Jones movies are built on suspension of disbelief. Hell, Indy would get fired if he were a real world archaeologist for destroying the ruins at the beginning of the first movie.
SuperWillHatch 1 week ago
@SuperWillHatch You're talking about his respected universe with his own level of suspension of disbelief, thus a moot point. For Indy, after his being established by three previous films, this scene is clearly too far fetched. It's the equivalent of seeing Superman's powers grow to the point of godhood back in the day, stripping him of any sense of danger, thus no drama. We want to see him barely escape peril within his level of believability, but this is a dues ex machina.
infrafan 1 week ago
@infrafan
Superman's powers DID grow to point of absurdity though, and the only thing preventing him from curbstomping all of his enemies at the same time is Plot Induced Stupidity. Even in the films where he's not as powerful, he flew around the world really fast to turn back time(some...how), and used his heat vision to rebuild the Great Wall Of China.
I think people who hate KotCS are just splitting hairs. Maybe it's due to George Lucas backlash, I don't know. I thought it was alright. If
SuperWillHatch 1 week ago
@infrafan
Raiders Of The Lost Ark was the fourth film in the series and KotCS was the first, could you REALLY tell the difference in quality?
SuperWillHatch 1 week ago
@SuperWillHatch Yes, one is deliberately fucking awful, the other was a trend setter, an innovator, original and fantastic in it's time. This should not have set out to do absolutely everything that became dated in the other Indiana's. It should have set out to give an up to date Indiana, instead we got 1981 writing, style and even angles but in HD, which just made the shit stand out in all its shitty glory.
Badhabitsjay 6 days ago
@Badhabitsjay
You just agreed with me and validated my argument. Personally, I do think Raiders Of The Lost Ark is a better film, but a lot of that has to do with Raiders being "fresh". I think that if KotCS were the first Indy film, it would have been better received.
Wait...you want a reboot? That would be horrible.
SuperWillHatch 6 days ago
@SuperWillHatch "You just agreed with me and validated my argument."
No I didn't.
Badhabitsjay 6 days ago
@SuperWillHatch I was actually referencing the comics, but the films serve the point somewhat. It's a matter of knowing the character and his/her/its world, then making the mistake of writing beyond those boundaries set up. Let's say Spiderman's in trouble, out of web, and falling to his death. If he suddenly had the ability to fly, then a mistake was made in the writing. And believe me, this is more that "Lucas Hate". This scene isn't even my biggest problem with KotCS.
infrafan 3 days ago
@infrafan
Still, in the Silver Age, they basically made up all of Superman's feats as they went along. At one point he could SNEEZE and blow away a galaxy with the force of his snot. It got ridiculous, but I digress.
I can see the point in arguing that Indy(who in the original trilogy was a tough and athletic man, but still just a man) was turned into just another action hero in KotCS by having him do things he wasn't able to do before(ala John McClane in Die Hard 4), but I think that
SuperWillHatch 2 days ago
@infrafan
complaint is small in comparison to all the other unbelievable things that happen in the movies. You're right- it's physically absurd to survive a nuclear bomb being dropped while living in a fridge- but it's equally absurd(at least to me) to jump out of an airplane in a rubber raft and not die. I treat the Indy films as existing in a different universe from ours where people can do these things with little consequence.
If it's not Lucas Hate, what is it? Introducing politics?
SuperWillHatch 2 days ago
@SuperWillHatch Exactly. Glad we agree on that. But the Lucas whining is annoying as hell to me. Please don't peg me as such. Star Wars fans are ruing Star Wars more to me. But, you're arguing against something I agree with. Of course movies exist in a realm of their own, but even certain rules exist for whatever reason. To that same Spider-Man scenario: Spider-Man grabbing a flagpole as he's falling is to Indy using a raft as Spider-Man flying away is to Indy surviving this.
infrafan 2 days ago
the dumbest momet in movie history.
thanks, George.
MrHEC381991 2 months ago 58
@MrHEC381991 It was actually Spielberg's idea.
Sam5726 1 month ago
@Sam5726 wrong.
MrHEC381991 1 month ago
@MrHEC381991 The fridge was actually Spielberg's idea. He wanted a nuclear fridge scene in a film from all the way back when Back to the Future was first written.
MrGNR1990 1 month ago
@MrGNR1990 neuuuu that was Zemeckis' idea.
MrHEC381991 1 month ago
@MrGNR1990
I thought, the fridge was supposed to be used as the time-machine instead of the delorean.
Dannyexx1 1 month ago
@MrHEC381991 It's amazing how many people look for logic in a film from the creator of Star Wars.
larsattack 1 month ago
Only two people could survive an atomic explosion..... Indiana Jones and Chuck Norris
nhanha271988 2 months ago
Why everyone cry about this scene some much? Do you forgot previous Indy movies? Jumping from plane with rubber boat, stopping cargo car at least 150 kg with shoes, running from 50 Nazis and survive, boat cut down from a fan. I can continue with this list. Yes is absurd, yes it's unreal but YES is Indiana Jones world.
About the script: Aliens & God are the same thing. We are create from God , God is non human being. God is not from Earth - God is Alien. Get over with that too. Is Indy movie.
XOneGameR 2 months ago
@XOneGameR i agree mostly, this movie was not as bad as most people thought. This scene was absolutely fuckin terrible, though.
92chillwill 2 months ago
@92chillwill Agree with you too. If they just remove this scene and monkey jungle scene could be nice movie. This two scene just make him look so stupid.
XOneGameR 2 months ago
@XOneGameR The originals in spite of being implausible were possible, to jump out of a plane in a raft, is it plausible? No. Possible? Yes, the old Indy films countered the implausible sequences with grit and realism, this one was so far away from reality that there was NO way it could have possibly happened, only in Looney Toons world would this be possible. Even if he wasn't effected by the blast nuclear blast, the impact the fridge went through would have broken every bone in his body.
Timelord6661 2 months ago 3
@Timelord6661 I am agree with you man. Nuke the fridge was bad idea. very bad. and yes is not possible to survive after this fall down even without nuclear blast. overall is not bad movies, but is BAD Indy movie at least to say. Be good man.
XOneGameR 1 month ago
@Timelord6661 Actually, this is surviveable. I have proof.
EggSandwichTV 1 month ago
Whats with the transformers sounds.
CaramelHoteI 2 months ago
ZAPPLE DAPPLE DOOM
SCPH7503 2 months ago
Personally, when I saw this I just thought "awesome."
DefeaterofChobin 2 months ago
You all missed one important detail: THIS fridge was lined with lead!
ijuakos 2 months ago
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Some yelled "WTF!?-" didn't they.
legoguy217 2 months ago
no one gets mad when you survive falling out of an airplane and then off of a cliff on a life raft but when you survive a nuke by hiding in a fridge then everyone gets mad about the complete neglect of the laws of physics
prototype3651 2 months ago
i really liked this film and this scene, i do understand why people would dislike it "nuke the fridge" lmao. I was shocked at the end with the aliens though but i thought the film was really good but not the best indi or film he has made
COREYMCGUIRE1993 2 months ago
Maybe it's a magical fridge?
JohnKulo 2 months ago
Like a BOSS
Oce08 2 months ago
mother 3 did it first
Timic83tc 2 months ago
Would have been an awfully short movie otherwise and given that the rest of the movie was about aliens and killer ants this isn't THAT over the top. :)
LibraGamesUnlimited 3 months ago
Its nuketown on black ops
laurellethomas 3 months ago
If the nuke had been the WTC strikes, any North American's reaction would have been way different.
coaster1235 3 months ago
The Fridge: Now $199.99 and now Nuke Proof
MikeandDev 3 months ago
Ok I am gonna settle this bullshit once and for all ITS A FUCKING MOVIE!!!!! So what if nuking the fridge wouldn't work in real life. There have been a ton of movie mistakes that spielberg was responsibile for before you guys started hating him. That being said ITS ALSO AN INDIANA JONES MOVIE!!!! A movie series in which a golden box could kill you and a cup can make you immortal.
Shanethefilmmaker 3 months ago
@Shanethefilmmaker Yea but only slightly different. the holy grail and the arc of the covenant are "supposedly" real. This is just completely over the top. I understand it's a movie, but seriously? Maybe if he was two miles out. but he was 40 feet from a nuclear bomb. and it exploded. and also didn't he drink out of the grail? the dude should be killin it still, he just looked old as fuck. still liked the movie, and not hating just adding my opinion.
BKABF 3 months ago
@BKABF and it's valued but let me argue something, before any realism was added, the entire idea of the entire Indiana Jones franchise was based on Movie serials, a form of entertainment that would be considered the earliest TV shows in the world. What makes Serials Iconic are the ridiculous situations of danger that seemed impossible to escape, but the hero and or his alllies often find some way to escape unharmed no matter how stupid or improbable. Most people fail to realize that...
Shanethefilmmaker 3 months ago
....further more, his age shouldn't matter because while he may or may not be immortal.Drinking the grail did something to him. My Wild mass guess is that it may have extended his life and took away a few vulnerablities a man of his age would have such as Arthritis. If that is not the case, much like Rocky, Rambo, and John McClane he never retires from his job and tries to keep in the best shape he can.
Shanethefilmmaker 3 months ago
Yeah fuck u to george
synerra 3 months ago
I really love this scene
Dont see any reason to freak out because some selfcrowned super scientists say its not logical.
I think it is(obviously) meant to be ironical, assuming Indy can survive a nuke in a fridge and swirls through the air and hits the ground spinning four times in four angles like that the question should be ... how did he survive the fridge?
MrDeltinSir 3 months ago
he drank from the holy grail, why not survive this then? ;)
koyzish 3 months ago
I think it would be possible to survive a nuclear blast in a fridge, but only if your name is Chuck Norris
BattlestarPacifica 3 months ago
FAIL!
mpjgbx 3 months ago
This was the opening scene, telling you the movie was going to suck right off the bat with this stupid fucking scene.
LivinWorstNightmare 3 months ago 2
right cus jumping out of a airplane in a boat and rolling down a mountin and off a cliff is so much more realistic...........people forgot what they were watching. its a INDIANA JONES film.
ranakin9000 3 months ago
non of this jumping the shark... it''s all about nuke the fridge these days!!!!
JamesUK3009 3 months ago
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Indy was doing too much whipping and punching and shooting and runing around and jumping in this film. That's the biggest problem. Nobody bought it. Everyone saw their old man. It was a joke. They went too far.
Lucas and Spielberg and Harrison Ford should have taken a chilll pill.
Period.
gukonni 3 months ago
@gukonni Um captain obvious called he thinks you talk stupid. The running, the jumping, the shooting, the whipping and the punching are all Indy's trademark. It doesn't matter how old he is, he could be in a fucking wheel chair and people would still expect him to do that. It would be like if Bruce Lee was alive today people telling him he can't do Martial Arts anymore.
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gukonni 3 months ago
This movie should have used Indy's age as a plot point. But instead of doing that, it tried to go on as though Indy is still 42. That was the problem. Indy is too old to pull that off anymore. They thought they could but it didn't work. This is reflected in the not so successive box office numbers. I blame it on Lucas, but I don't think Spielberg would have done much better. They're both too much stuck in the past to move the series forward in the right direction.
gukonni 3 months ago
Here's how I would redo the film...
Remove this scene and most of the others in the start of the film...
Show Indy in his classroom with his students as a much older and wiser person. Somehow get him involved with something that he DOESN'T want to be stuck in because he's too old for it. and not in shape. Somehow involve his son or a younger person that's trying to get an artifact. Make indy a bit more active than Connery was in The Last Crusade, but show his weakness. Etc.
gukonni 3 months ago
This scene just went too far. It doesn't help that Indy is about 62 in this film and is trying to run around and do stunts like he did 20 years ago. It just doesn't fit. He's much too old to be doing these scenes. And you know what? Connery was about 57 when they filmed The Last Crusade. Yet, he played Indy's old man. Here we're 20 years later and Indy is 62 and he's doing stunts a man half his age should be doing but none of it's passable.
The movie just lost its touch.
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@Meowcow42
1. Way to kill my thumbs up.
2. Part of me is still in deep and irreversible denial for the fact that Spielberg directed this steaming mess. But OH YEAH, Lucas co-wrote the piece of shit which obviously included this retarded bit, you "fucking idiot".
3. Hearts being torn out and heads being melted off are cool enough to cede their impossibility for the sake of an awesome movie moment. This is not.
4. Pardon my late response. I was on vacation looking for lost artifacts in the Amazon.
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CubistKing1906 3 months ago
They just totally nuked the fridge on that one.
kenanscott24 4 months ago
As if the other indiana jones films where realistic
SullyMediaProduction 4 months ago
is this possible? XD
limonada46 4 months ago
search Nuke the Fridge on Wikipedia and see what comes up
fede018 4 months ago
"What people really jumped at was Indy climbing into a refrigerator and getting blown into the sky by an atom-bomb blast. Blame me. Don’t blame George. That was my silly idea. People stopped saying “jump the shark”. They now say, “nuked the fridge”. I’m proud of that. I’m glad I was able to bring that into popular culture."
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Steven Spielberg
fede018 4 months ago
I find it helarious how for so long people have blamed George but really it was Spielberg's idea
LinkHimora 4 months ago
This should've been a perk in MW2.
ElPandaDeLaAccion 4 months ago
I dont really understand why people dont like this scene so much. Is it just because its unrealistic or what?
SayVarRee 4 months ago
Stupid, hilarious, and awesome.
Carancarone 4 months ago
it was all downhill after 'raiders of the lost ark'. the movie lost me after this scene.
solephonic 4 months ago
Nazis opening up a box and melting was alright but getting in a fridge was stupid? Indiana Jones fans are dumb
purplenurps 4 months ago
"ow my head, ow my feat, ow my head!" sorry but that line from futureama always plays in my mind whenever I see this
AlanSmithySculptor 4 months ago
the most ridiculous moment in movie history
lillwaynesucks1 4 months ago
If only Hiroshima had more refrigerators, Japan might have won.
MrKaddus 4 months ago 92
@MrKaddus Hitachi learned about it
rugbyislife20 2 months ago
RAAAAAAAAAPE!
rancoroso 4 months ago 7
I think thats nuketown
TCWJosh 4 months ago
The reason he survived is beacuse HE IS A FUCKING INDIANA JONES.
HeavyWeaponsBaby 4 months ago
what I find funny is that fans put this on themselves. kept asking for another episode and look what you did. look what you did to one of the best trilogies out there. and now all the fans are like...'I always thought they should have left it at 3...'
TheyCallM3 4 months ago
its a lead fridge or something, a normal fridge would obviously be obliterated but its a special kind of fridge that makes this slightly more believable but still definitely impossible, but thats what indiana jones is all about and its brilliant :)
badboytobs 4 months ago
Yeah, obviously this is impossible in a Indiana Jones movie, really, he survived because of a fridge?
I like more when they were more realistic, you know? With the guy that take out people hearts, the Holy Grail, and the Ark. :D
SammEater 4 months ago 8
the reason he survived is because he drank from the holy grail in last crusadel. theres an explination to every thing in these movies
link8675309 4 months ago 10
I LOVE this scene! Yeah, that's right I said it. How is this any less realistic then a cup that can heal bullet wounds, a man who can pull other people's hearts out, or an ancient box that shoots electricity out of it? Well?
Qrtzapp 5 months ago 34
@Qrtzapp Because things are incinerated in nuclear explosions and the amount of radiation that would have penetrated the fridge regardless of it being lead lines would have been more than enough to kill someone ...
Biggofwi 4 months ago
@Biggofwi Obviously........The entire series is FULL of unrealistic stuff.... This scene was no different....
Qrtzapp 4 months ago
@Qrtzapp Don't forget falling out of a plane on an inflatable raft.
drogothlord 3 months ago
@Qrtzapp Now wait a minute. The cup that heals, the ehart pulling man and the Arc of the Covenant are all magical things and since this is a fictional universe, we suspend our disbelief and say 'Yeah, I'll accept that this type of magic exists, as long as it is plausible'. But nukes aren't magical, neither are fridges and surviving a nuclear explosion in real life is IMPOSSIBLE. There are loads of dangeorus stunts in IJ such as the truck climb and bridge fight but those are rather realistic in
philipmarie1854 3 months ago
@Qrtzapp the sense that they could be fought like that and could be done. Hell, the truck climb was all stunt work and was all real, not like this CGI mess. This was just impossible. It'd have been better if Indy had a little more time to discover the bomb and either escape it by plane or found it and disabled it by blowing it up. Yes, blowing up a nuke is mor elikely to DISABLE it rather than activate it, because it destroys its internal mechanisms that make it work.
philipmarie1854 3 months ago
@Qrtzapp well it isn't a magic fridge...
TheTeaTycoon 3 months ago
@TheTeaTycoon
And jumping out of a plane landing perfectly fine in a inflatable boat is...?
SolidMike84 3 months ago
@SolidMike84 I haven't seen the films in a while but I doubt if it's as ridiculous as surviving a nuclear explosion and a several mile journey through the air by sitting in a fridge :) or is it? I dunno you tell me :D
TheTeaTycoon 3 months ago
@TheTeaTycoon
True
Still, not the first time impossible things have happened in IJ movies
Magic or not
SolidMike84 3 months ago
@Qrtzapp Well, all of the things you've listed took several moments to lure us into a world of fantasy over realism. This scene took a grounded approach as a setup, but suddenly the fridge became 'magical'? This is far less realistic than any of the things you've listed.
KayWildcat 3 months ago
@Qrtzapp Those were magical items, this is just a fridge.
Vengrence 3 months ago
@Qrtzapp there was clearly a supernatural context to it, with this... It just seemed like anyone with a fridge can survive a nuke
0428733 3 months ago
@Qrtzapp because one of those is an ancient ritual, ad the other two are religious objects. this is neither. this is just ridiculous. and it not enough that he survived a nuke inside of a fridge, but that he rolls out unharmed after being thrown through the air and bouncing around.
funnybunches320 2 months ago
@funnybunches320 yeah, what about falling from a plane with just a raft, then going down a mountain, then falling again.... from temple of doom.... is that not ridiculous too? who can survive that? why don't people complain about that too?since when did filmmaking became a race to see which scenes are too "unrealistic"... film is an art to entertain us, and it is not restricted by realism.. that is why it is great.. i love this scene too... fits indy perfectly :)
EarthboundSNES 2 months ago
@Qrtzapp Its a magical fridge!!!!!1
ineedaname889 2 months ago
@Qrtzapp I'm sure that there are people who can pull other people's hearts out.
I don't think that is as hard as it looks like.
For example:
- Biting your own finger of if as easy as eating a carrot. The only problem is: your brain tells you that you can not eat your finger. But just try it, just bite your finger as hard as you bite a carrot and I'll give you 100% garantuee that you'll bite your finger of then.
WorldWar2Boy 2 months ago
I don't know why everyone is hating on this scene. I thought it was pretty hilarious. In the end, Indiana Jones was always about entertainment, not realism.