Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
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Dean Charles Stanforth: We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

Indiana Jones: Put your hands down, will ya? You're embarrassing us.

Irina Spalko: This warehouse is where you and your government have hidden all of your secrets, yes?
Indiana Jones: This is a military warehouse. I've never been here before in my life.

Marion: Mutt can be a little impetuous.
Indiana Jones: It's not the worst quality in the world. Keep your arms above the surface. When the kid comes back, grab on.
Marion: Indy, he.
Indiana: He's a good kid, Marion. You should get off his back about school.
Marion: Mutt, I mean.
Indiana: Not everybody is cut out for it.
Marion: His name is Henry!
Indiana: Henry. Good name.
Marion: He's your son.
Indiana: My son?
Marion: Henry Jones the Third.
Indiana: Why the hell didn't you make him finish school!

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Mutt Williams: You know, for an old man you ain't bad in a fight. What are you, like 80?

Irina Spalko: You fight like a young man; eager to start and quick to finish.

Indiana Jones: How did Deidra take the news?
Dean Charles Stanforth: How does any wife take such things? The look on her face is a combination of pride and panic.

Indiana Jones: So what are you, some kind of... Triple agent?
Mac: Nah. I just lied about being a double.

Factual error: In the warehouse scene, the lights and other metal objects are affected by the box's magnetic field. Yet the soldiers easily lift the box into a metal truck to load it and slide it forward. If the box's magnetic field was as strong as suggested, it would have dragged the soldiers forward as it was magnetically attracted to the truck, and it would have taken much more effort for them to slide it onto the truck bed once it was stuck there.

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Trivia: In the Mayan temple, Indy comments "I have a bad feeling about this." This line was a running gag in George Lucas' Star Wars saga, and was used by Harrison Ford at least once. (01:46:10)

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Question: Why did the nuke fridge scene cause so much controversy?

Answer: People felt it was ridiculous and cartoonish, even by Indiana Jones standards. Even if it was possible to survive a nuclear blast via the lead lining of a fridge (it's not), or that the fridge would simply be thrown away rather than be melted/torn apart like everything else in the vicinity (it wouldn't), the impact of being flung what appears to be a mile or so through the air, then violently crashing into and rolling over the ground, would certainly kill anything inside. The controversy arose because usually, in "classic" Indy films, the fantastical elements were exactly that: fantastic, magical, and/or supernatural. This was presented as taking place in our reality, with no "power of God" or magic spells, and for many, that was just too much disbelief to suspend.

Answer: Another problem is that people couldn't articulate what they didn't like about the film, and point to the "Nuke the Fridge" scene as a quick example of what they think is bad about it. In the realm of Indy, it's really no more outlandish than jumping out of a plane in an inflatable raft like in Temple of Doom.

It's considerably more outlandish. The raft scene was recreated/reviewed by Mythbusters, and they found that the raft floated down at a mere 22 mph. It would be hard/impossible in real life to stay on the raft, sure, but if you buy that bit of movie cheekiness, it would definitely slow their descent enough to survive, especially since they land a) on a slope and b) on soft snow. The fridge scene, however, has no such saving grace... it's completely ridiculous and unrealistic in every detail.

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