It's amazing what people will pay "for the lulz."

It's Indy! You can't go wrong!!!

I thought that was a great scene! What is Indiana Jones about, if not over-the-top escapes from dire situations?

I took it as comedy, and I enjoyed it immensely.

I agree with boba, that scene was awesome. The fourth Indy was a worthy addition to the franchise. I don't care what anyone thinks.

I agree, boba, I thought that scene was one of the better ones of the movie. Like many of the other scenes in Indiana Jones films, it was pure fun and was done in such a way that for juuusst a moment you wondered if it might actually be plausible.

More preposterous than interdimensional aliens whose skulls turn into crystal and when placed back on the skeleton reanimate them?
Or just as preposterous?

The entire movie failed when it had Commies instead of Nazis. If it had been Nazis with a Colonel Klink like officer leading the hunt for the temple, I would have been fine with it. Commies just didn't get it done.

Does the refrigerator have an Energy Star rating? Hmm, and those doors. dangerous. SOmeone could get trapped inside, like, say, a mouse. And fridges way back then didn't have shelves on the doors. Error! Error!

Wait.

Wait.

That actually happens in the film? Sweet Jesus.

Ewww, the doll's face looks more like Peter Cushing in Star Wars than Indiana Jones, even an old Indiana Jones.

I HAVE a refrigerator from "way back then", and it does indeed have shelves in the door! : ) It's still runs great!
The scene WAS a bit hokey, but--as zathras said, "over-the-top" is right at home in comic book/serial type genre films.

I'm with boba, too. It's Indy, for frak's sake, it' supposed to be over the top, a little silly, but damn entertaining.

Sad thing was I wasted 20bucks or whatever it was to take my wife to see the movie in the first place. It out right sucked.

They should of left the originals alone and stopped.

Yeah, the last one was SO much worse than Temple of Doom. The best Indiana Jones films feature rediculous points. That's the point. It's a movie. It's escapism, and Lucas and Spielberg delivered that in the latest movie. Was it the greatest? No. Was it the worst? Frak no.

Hey---Didn't Mickey Rooney escape an atomic blast the same way in "The Atomic Kid?" (1954)

And they say you shouldn't give rednecks money.

I have a bad feeling about this...

I couldn't get past that scene, and I was stuck on an airplane. Quite literally, watching the in-flight information (altitude, outside temperature, time to arrival, etc) alternating between English and Japanese was better than that movie.

Point of order, Atomic blasts (not nuclear) being stopped by a lead lined fridge isn't completely impossible. The bombs of that era unleashed alpha and beta radiation particles not gamma rays. Him surviving without at least broken or bruised bones is completely within the realm of possibility of an Action movie hero.

Ummm, you don't know much about nuclear weapons, do you? "Nuclear weapons of that era" released alpha, beta, gamma, neutron, bremstraulung from the particles mashing into things, and x-ray radiation. Also, that was past 1951, so that could have been an H-bomb, the type sitting on warheads today.

Does this mean that Sideshow Collectibles has run out of movie scenes to recreate and have in fact "nuked the fridge" themselves?

Well, what have we learned from this? That there are at least 600 idiots out there who not only liked that scene, but paid $175 to have it immortalized.

Several points, directed at those who made disparaging comments about this article, and one note about the snarky tone of the article itself:

1) Since when does anyone expect an Indiana Jones movie to be 'realistic', you arrogant snobs? Or, for that matter, anything associated with Steven Spielberg and/or George Lucas.

2) However, since you all insist on 'realism', there are plenty of confirmed cases of people surviving explosions, tornadoes, hurricanes, and other cataclysmic events without a scratch, even though the circumstances seemed to have indicated that no one could possibly have survived, let alone not suffered any serious injuries. They're rare, but they do happen. Which leads to my next point. . .

3) The explosion occurred several miles away from the town; whether a lead lined refrigerator would in fact stop ALL harmful radiation is doubtful, but the fact is that the human body can absorb fairly high amounts of radiation without instant death, as you all seem to assume would happen, ergo - will Indy get cancer within 10 years after this movie ends? Fairly likely. Does he survive the actual explosion itself? Again, whether you like it or not, fairly likely. Oh, and to the SCI FI Wire staffer who wrote this: That wasn't 'radioactive fallout gently float(ing) to earth', idiot, that was just the desert dust stirred up by the shockwave of the explosion! The MUSHROOM CLOUD is the fallout, vaporized and heavily irradiated rock from the immediate vicinity of the explosion being blasted high into the atmosphere by the convection currents caused by the heat of the explosion itself. It takes hours for that to start to fall back to earth.

4) This movie, and many others like it, are made simply to ENTERTAIN, morons. If you weren't entertained by it, there you go, don't watch it anymore! Where do you get off belittling anyone else who may have been entertained by it? Who elected you King of Science Fiction, to decree what is good and what isn't?

There you go, folks, I'm sick of all you self proclaimed science fiction 'fans' constantly shitting on the very genre of entertainment you claim to support. And to reiterate, if you don't like something, be it 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' or 'Stargate: Universe' or any other damned thing, then just don't watch it. And if you don't like this $175 figurine, or just think it's stupid, then don't buy it! Easy enough, right?

jeez its a collectors item for the handful of peeps who DID like the movie. and it was an awesome spectacle up there with riding on the outside of a submarine while its submerged or having someone put their hand into another guys chest to pull the vics heart out. this is a movie, its escapism. if they didnt try and make it over the top u wouldnt go see them. guys its time to admit ur jaded and will always expect that every movie will be perfect and have the best plot, well acted and the reviewers to hate it cause they didnt think of it. we spend way to much time on entertainment.

i have to disagree. although this scene (and indeed the whole movie) was bad, the scene where The Beef (Mutt Williams) swings through the trees made me groan out loud with such a sorrowful disappointment that i wished i had a knife to stab my eyes out for ever seeing it happen. that, my friends, was the worst scene.

Don't worry everyone. They are coming out with a Rock Monster collectible too. Which was just as good as the new Indy movie......

It's all show business merchandising. Gotta sing, gotta dance, gotta sell.

"Most preposterous scene in the movie"???

What about the most preposterous scene of the franchise?

Whatever, I loved that scene too, perfect Indy, taken to the Nth degree. I'm sure the people who hated that scene would have no problem jumping out of an airplane in a life raft, or crossing the Atlantic tied to the periscope of a submarine. I don't think the toy is accurate though, I don't think he had his jacket in that scene.

@KarlSten

"Since when does anyone expect an Indiana Jones movie to be 'realistic'...Or, for that matter, anything associated with Steven Spielberg and/or George Lucas."

Since Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Poltergeist, ET, Empire of the Sun, The Color Purple, Schindler's List, etc.

"This movie, and many others like it, are made simply to ENTERTAIN, morons."

I think this statement would be far more valid if you removed the comma after "entertain."

This scene was so ridiculous, a website was created in its honor. www.nukethefridge.com. It became one of time magazines top five catch phrases for 2008. No joke!

Not only have I never heard the phrase 'nuke the fridge', the scene is probably in the top ten, hundreds of scenes above the worst ever. Most of the people here have no idea what they are talking about.

Hey! let's not foreget that Indy drank from the Holy Grail! He may not be immortal but I'll bet that would protect him from any radiation poisoning.

bladerunner101said;
~~up there with riding on the outside of a submarine while its submerged~~

I wondered about that the first time I saw the movie. However my older brother, who served in the navy on a submarine told me that they routinely travel long distances without submerging. He said they make better time on the surface.

Well I thought the scene was funny. Indiana Jones has never struck me as overly serious or realistic.

Besides it could have been worse. He could have found a UFO shaped lead lined balloon and hide in it trying to get out of range of the blast. Then we would have balloon Indy. It could have shown the commies looking for him only to find out he hide in the attic as was just fine because he hid in a lead lined box. ;)

Robert

Huh? That was the worst scene?

Yes, improbable sequence of events. Just like:

1) Having a mining car jump the tracks and land perfectly on the tracks on the other side of the cave.

2) An ancient tomb with a giant, spheroid boulder as a booby trap.

3) Breaking out of an ancient Egyptian tomb conveniently located just beside the airfield where the Arc is being loaded on a flying wing airplane.

...you see my point.

That was one of the best scenes in the franchise histpry.

If people think Crystal Skull was a poor movie because of the refrigerator scene, I think they're missing the real problem. Crystal Skull was a poor film because of the weak and uninspired interactions between all the characters.

For example, Cate Blanchett is, a least to me, a very charismatic actor, but none of the scenes where she's with Harrison Ford had any spark to them. Karen Allen is brought in later in the film, and again, nothing really interesting happens with her. Shia LeBeouf may be a fine actor in other films, but in Crystal Skull his character lacked any real charisma and was in fact fairly annoying.

For me, at least, Crystal Skull might have been a fun film had the writing and dialogue been better. That was the main problem, not the action scenes. In the end, Indiana Jones films have always been entertaining because it was fun to watch the characters interact. With Crystal Skull, not so much.