Replies

It’s not like the Republic Serials the Indy films were emulating had any more ‘respect for reality’. These films are fantasies.

I understand that, and I am willing to suspend disbelief to some extent, but things like the nuke refrigerator are so over the top, it is ridiculous. If they had shown Indy flapping his arms and flying to the moon it would have been no more ridiculous. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" didn't try anything nearly that blatant. I don't count the supernatural stuff because that's, well, supernatural and so the rules are different. For instance, I have no objection to the inter-dimensional alien stuff in "Crystal Skull" because it goes into a realm for which I do not have any clearly defined rules. However, I know exactly what would happen if a guy locked in a refrigerator were tossed hundreds of yards through the air by a nuclear shock wave. And "Crystal Skull"'s version isn't even in the same universe.