Its wacky! All animals are wacky! And its evidence of Lucas' promise not to use unnecessary CGI!

I have not yet seen this movie, and hope never to be subjected to it. I still deeply regret seeing Transformers.

George Lukas likes to masturbate to images of little cute animals or robots. It makes him feel at peace.

Never see this movie, Whiskey. Never ever.

Yeah, what? How stupid! Now if it were a monkey going "Sieg Heil" comedy gold amirite?

No it would have to be a CGI monkey.

What? The fridge could have been lead-lined! That would have protected Indy from the nuke.

There's a big close-up of the "Lead Lined" sticker on the fridge.

Never mind that his hips could barely survive a tumble down the basement stairs these days, much less being in a bomb-powered projectile.

Hmm... Didn't hurt that time.

Except that it is.

So WITH the gopher, this scene is put into a realm that is more paranormal than anything Indiana Jones canon has ever taken us? JUST the gopher???

I mean, there was a pet monkey in Raiders of the Lost Ark!! Granted, it wasn't CGI...

The universe of Indiana Jones has rules. Supernatural religious themed occurrences may take place, but otherwise Indie's world is pretty realistic. Granted Indiana Jones does do some things that are slightly not realistic, using a fridge as a bomb shelter requires too much of a suspension of disbelief.

I dunno.. this doesn't seem any more outrageous to me than, say, surviving a plane crash by jumping out and rafting down a mountain, or not being minced after a rope bridge that you're tied to smacks into the side of a jagged cliff. It's supposed to be pulp and I just accept it for what it is.

Except for CGI gophers. I can't abide by those.

These are both examples from Temple Of Doom. I'm not throwing them out, but that installment is basically a shit sandwich. Everyone seems confused by what's going on.

Temple Of Doom was the best one. It had a guy getting his heart ripped out in front of his eyes, which makes it the best one by default.

revdrew: i don't think physical feats really trigger the "that was unbearably ridiculous" reaction. don't ask me why.

Indy's world is in no way realistic. The gopher was stupid shit, but outside of it, this scene not only fit the character's "heroic ne'er to die" idiom exactly, the look of the nuke test town - all 50's bright suburbia - contrasted with Jones' comparatively earthy, dusty, dirty look to help establish that, while it was a character we still knew, the world had, indeed, moved on since we last saw him, possibly even slightly PAST him.

Temple of Doom was horrible, and if you don't think so based on whatshername and Short Round alone, you're RETARDED.

Despite whatever arty construction of identity junior level lit class bullshit Rover is spouting, that was horrible. AND Harrison Ford looked about a hundred million trillion years old.

They deleted the scene where the CIA explains Indy has to go over 3 South American waterfalls with his son, an old flame and John Hurt to stop the effects of radiation.

For pacing reasons.

Indiana Jones never, not even ONCE fucking mentions aliens in the other 3 movies. This movie had nothing to do with the old films, they should have just called it something else and let Shia Lebeof take the lead role and then I would have had no problem laughing at him swinging through trees with a bunch of monkeys.

FEMA

FEMA Concentration camp! Don't believe the lies! Beck the Coward is leading you into the New World Order's sinister plan!

Nobody believes you have a girlfriend.

The problem with EVERYTHING is that we aren't 12 anymore. You said it better than anything else could.

That being said, this movie sucked compared to the others.

Xenocide wins.

This movie has Shia LaBeouf in it. You can talk about cynicism and whatnot all you want, but having Shia LaBeouf in your movie makes it terrible.

Honestly, it's a bad movie. When all the previous movies played with your suspension of disbelief, it was under the guise of ~M*A*G*I*C~ or other mystical powers. That's appealing in a childlike sense. The only ~M*A*G*I*C~ in Crystal Skull ends up summoning some trope Spielberg aliens. Instead of playing to 34s & 40s movie serials, it just throws a lot of 50s sci-fi b-movie crap all over the place. It sucks.

Also Harrison Ford is now old and craggy now. And, yeah, Shia LaBeouf is in it.

No, no I legitimately liked Last Crusade better.

If it was God's hand that worked in that case, God works in mysterious ways and employs all of them to save Indiana Jones. I'll allow for that, even at my adult age. He was chasing after a religious artifact, and that artifact had magical Jesusy powers that saved him. I can follow that logic.

The problem with this clip is that it is a nuclear bomb, an object that we are all familiar with what it can do and what it has done. We know he should have died, we know that he should dying of radiation but no he gets up and looks on at the blossoming mushroom cloud. It is, at the base of the emotion, almost an affront to the scores of people who suffered because of one of these bombs.

AND THEN THERE IS THAT FUCKING GOPHER.

Also: Shia LaBeouf. I like to think if Sean Connery was actually his grandfather, he'd backhand him and tell him to open his mouth when he talked.

For the record, I liked Last Crusade better, too. Of course Raiders remains the best in the series.

However, I liked Crystal Skull a little better than Temple. OH SHIT BRACE FOR IMPACT.

I don't remember Temple.

I haven't seen this one yet but I will once again state that Temple is the best one. It has bugs, heart ripped out human sacrifices, monkey brains, Short Round, that Kali Ma motherfucker, child torture, and crocodiles eating people alive. And yes I did list Short Round as one of the pluses.

Honestly. I don't see what the big deal is. This latest movie is such a small, low-quality party to begin with I can't see the need to poop it.

I hated the Last Crusade too, is that OK?

Yeah, okay, let's say what you said happens to be true.

1. A fridge is not a bank vault. I don't think we can ever compare the two, even if the fridge happened to be made entirely of lead and then spraypainted.
2. Brain bramage. Seriously. He's old and he just got banged around like some old toy a spoiled kid didn't want anymore. How is he not dead, crippled, or retarded? One of those impacts would have been enough to shatter his skull.
3. Somehow the fridge ended up going further than the car, which had a headstart. It would be hard enough to get it going airborne, and then to chunk it that far, is pretty impossible.
4. The only thing holding the fridge door closed was Indy's grip. Indy's grip is stronger than a Nuclear blast, and many subsequent ground impacts... right. I'm buying that one.
5. Somehow the fridge wasn't turned into an EZ Bake Death Oven.
6. Somehow Indy can just shake off the radioactive dust, stare at the Mushroom Cloud, and be fine. Radiation schmadiation.

There's more wrong with this but this scene is a perfect example of why no one should see this movie.

guys
if you put a plane on a treadmill would it take off
this is tearing me up inside

After watching this movie, I decided to look into this. The last movie Lucas had anything to do with that wasn't utter shit was Last Crusade. Two goddamn decades ago. (In fairness, maybe Radioland Murders is decent; I haven't seen it.)