Gimme back my crystal skull!

[joanna]

i didn't hate it! it's endlessly mock-able but i enjoyed myself the entire time. i think it's less cheesy and annoying than temple of doom.

[Matt]

"When did you know you were ballin'?" "106 & Park" co-host Terrence J asked Ford.

"I be ballin' now," Ford answered, to wide approval.

YES.

No "I be ballin' now," but here's the video:

http://www.bet.com/onblast/?chan=3&id=1834&sub=0&itype=v

[Josh]

nuke the fridge
A colloquialism used to delineate the precise moment at which a cinematic franchise has crossed over from remote plausibility to self parodying absurdity, usually indicating a low point in the series from which it is unlikely to recover. A reference to one of the opening scenes of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, in which the titular hero manages to avoid death by nuclear explosion by hiding inside a kitchen refrigerator. The film is widely recognised by fans as a major departure from the rest of the series both in terms of content and quality.


Guy 1: "Wow. Did you see the new Indy movie? What the hell was that? It was like I was having some kind of flu induced absurdist nightmare."

Guy 2: "Yep... did or did not that series permanently Nuke the Fridge?"

Guy 1: "Oh, totally Nuked the Fridge! But I guess Spielberg is happy as long as he has the money of the people who trusted him."

Guy 2: "Guess so..."

[Gagneaux]

My like of this movie has been well documented in this thread, and I knew it was only a matter of time before someone took a shot at Indy escaping a nuclear blast in a fridge. So I'm pleased that my hundredth post will be this:

That was my favorite moment of Crystal Skull. It made me giggle like a child. Like I did when I saw the originals, as a child.

In case you're wondering, my appreciation of the absurd does have bounds. I wouldn't touch the Speed Racer movie with a 100 ft long pole.

[John Junk 2.0]

Yeah, it's not like ripping a man's still-beating heart out of his chest with one's bare hands is tasteful and intelligent cinema.

[Pat K]

Yeah, it's not like ripping a man's still-beating heart out of his chest with one's bare hands is tasteful and intelligent cinema.

I've been feeling that, too. Everyone gets all down on how all the stuff with the aliens and everything is so silly and far-fetched, and it is. But is it really more far-fetched than a swordfight with a 2,000-year-old knight, or Indy briefly becoming a zombie, or bringing Sean Connery back to life via the Holy Grail? And yeah, the fridge thing was silly and unrealistic, but only slightly more silly and unrealistic than three people jumping out of a plane at 30,000 feet and using a rubber life raft as a parachute, then landing on the raft rightside up and riding it down a mountain into a river and surviving.

Just sayin'.

[Spoony]

As much as I hated this movie (and I really did), I thought the scene with the fridge was cute. It was a joke... I got it. I didn't demand bleeding realism from this.