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Nuking the Fridge

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May. 29th, 2008 | 08:49 pm
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Dudes.

Help this phrase catch on!

Inspired by absurdity in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, so if you haven't seen that yet (or if you really, really liked it) don't check it out.

http://www.nukingthefridge.com/

Ex: Smallville nuked the fridge when Lana got possessed by a centuries-old sorceress person.


ETA: Vague spoilers for Indy 4 in the comments!

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from: [info]madame_meretrix
date: May. 30th, 2008 01:47 am (UTC)
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i was going to ask, based on your example, if "nuking the fridge" was like "jumping the shark." and then i clicked on the link. awesome! dude, he hid in a fridge and survived a nuclear blast? ugh.

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from: [info]quiet__tiger
date: May. 30th, 2008 02:01 am (UTC)
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Yep, the movie equivalent of jumping the shark.

It's not even that he survived in the fridge, it's the awful way it was handled.

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hey_itsbeth

Nuking the Fridge

from: [info]hey_itsbeth
date: May. 30th, 2008 01:52 am (UTC)
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Thanks for the mention and posting the link!
You rock!

Beth
www.nukingthefridge.com

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from: [info]quiet__tiger
date: May. 30th, 2008 02:02 am (UTC)
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No problem!

Indy 4 had so many problems, all started by the fridge scene!

...well, and the CGI prairie dogs... and the bad lighting in the Nevada desert... and the pointless opening car chase... But mostly the fridge!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for putting everything together.

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What's in a name?

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from: [info]shananagin
date: May. 30th, 2008 02:47 am (UTC)
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Well, to be fair, the fridge was lead-lined. They showed a label as he got in. So he theoretically could have survived. I'm not saying he didn't get insanely lucky there, but it isn't the most ridiculous thing I've seen in a movie.

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Quiet Tiger

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from: [info]quiet__tiger
date: May. 30th, 2008 02:58 am (UTC)
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The problem isn't with him surviving the nuclear blast in the lead-lined fridge. It's that the fridge gets blasted several hundred feet or more, slams into the ground, rolls over the ground, then conveniently pops open at just the right time, and Indy comes out without even a scratch. I'd have accepted it if he'd been severely broken or unconscious after that. But he walked away seconds later with barely a limp.

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What's in a name?

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from: [info]shananagin
date: May. 30th, 2008 03:17 am (UTC)
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But he's Indiana Jones!

I'll agree, he got away really, really lightly. In real life, he'd have come to more harm. But he's always got off lightly. It's what happens in Indiana Jones. Would he have been able to escape a rolling boulder with no injuries in real life? Or most of the other stunts he pulled?

There were definitely bits of the movie that bugged me, but I really thought the fridge bit wasn't that bad, all things considered.

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Quiet Tiger

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from: [info]quiet__tiger
date: May. 30th, 2008 03:27 am (UTC)
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Yeah, he always does crazy stuff, and always gets away without harm. (I personally don't understand the problem with the boulder, he simply outran it, though running underneath it when it was still above him might have been a better plan

But everything else has been believable if you suspend your disbelief a little bit, not leave your brain at the door. Did I have a problem with him running around Area 51 with 20 guys shooting at him and not hitting him? No. (well, maybe a little bit). And I don't have a problem with the waterfalls. And I didnt have a problem after the tank scene in Raiders.

But I do have a problem with him getting slammed that hard and walking away without a problem. Even if he had *crawled* for a view of the mushroom cloud, it would have been better.

And no, considering the rest of the movie, the fridge scene wasn't totally awful. The vote for worse scene seems to be between the fridge, Mutt's Tarzan scene, and the CGI prairie dogs (or "gophers" as everyone on the imdb is calling them).

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from: [info]shananagin
date: May. 30th, 2008 03:37 am (UTC)
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I feel like a failure at movie watching...I barely noticed the prairie dogs, and didn't realize they were CGI until everyone started talking about it.

My personal vote is for Mutt's Tarzan scene. But the only scenes with Mutt in 'em I liked were the ones when he was being repeatedly hit in the crotch. Or slugged by girls.

I didn't have a problem with the boulder scene, I was just trying to give an example of an impossible escape. Haven't seen the old movies for a while, so I just went with a famous one.

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Quiet Tiger

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from: [info]quiet__tiger
date: May. 30th, 2008 03:40 am (UTC)
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It felt like the prairie dogs were everywhere. And they were the first live, non-plant we saw, and to be CGI... would it have been that hard to get real live prairie dogs? Buy some footage from Animal Planet, you know? =P

The Tarzan scene was definitely attrocious. Completely unnecessary and ludicrous. I didn't have a problem with Mutt in general.

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