Plot armor does not always protect those around the wearer. Examples can be seen in countless movies. Being extra bad, or worse, denying that a major disaster is about to happen removes all protection from being near somebody wearing plot armor
That would make more sense cause is the only appliance that survives to the explossion without being destroyed. Even the soviet car ends much more damaged than the fridge.
Doesn't matter Indy already sired Mutt, his job is done... The radioactive rays fried his dried up old man menopause nuts,. Brushing him off was just a formality.
Don’t forget Barbie where there are so many dolls and dollhouses which is part of Barbenheimer (it is portmanteau mean Barbie and Oppenheimer which both came out in same time)
His father also drank from the Holy Grail, yet he is dead in this movie. The effect of the cup doesn't last when you leave that temple where the grail was hidden.
@@TheRocco96 Actually the rule was it can't leave the temple but the holy knight never said it's effect was permanent even inside the temple. But the Holy Grail idea does makes sense because the odds surviving inside a refrigerator in a nuclear bomb site is very small or the fact being thrown out thousands of feet without breaking over 50% of your bones from the impacts is another thing that should happen.
@@MadGamer_666 Old refrigerators were well made to be heavy duty and last for years easily unlike new ones. But that fact didn't leave my mind which unfortunately I was talking more fatal body injuries inside the fridge.
@@TheRocco96 the two knights who drank the grail and returned home were said to have lived well past 100 years. So there are chances of long-term affects that Indy may posses
@@OH877 depends how close you are to the epicentre. Lots of people from Hiroshima and Nagasaki completely evaporated due to the intense heat in a matter of milliseconds.
@@OH877 I'm not sure you have any understanding how little time a few milliseconds are. Those close to the epicentre of nuclear explosions have literally no time at all to register what has happened to them. They are vaporised so quickly their brains don't even have time to register the flash of the explosion. It might be quite hard to comprehend, but near the epicentre of a nuclear blast, death is instantaneous. Frankly, they're the lucky ones. Because those a little further out will also have a death sentence. It's just that they'll go through hours, days, or weeks of excruciating radiation sickness before their inevitable death. Now THAT is the terrifying thing about nuclear attacks: the fallout, and knowing that nothing on earth can save you from a long, slow, agonising death once you've been exposed to radiation poisoning.
I think Indiana Jones would get out of that too. Since the latch would have been damaged, he probably could have lifted the other side if the fridge using his legs in feet. Or he could have just kept kick any side that was really really damaged and push out that way.
My fave part of this scene is Harrison's acting, just that sheer cluelessness finding out where he's at leading up to absolute fright seconds before the blast. It's one of those moments that truly test Indy's survival instincts
Honestly, he was still close enough to get poisoned. He just wasn’t incinerated. That’s why the government had to wash him down. Also, those impacts with the fridge should’ve broken every bone in his body.
Radiation isn't always that quick. The damage could take months or years to cause any health issues. Just because he walked away from it doesn't mean he's not affected
So was his body, -but not the icebox. It somehow dissolved into thin air after he got in.- _wait, was the icebox even still there? I can't see behind his head._
Another Plot Twist: They then recuperated the fridge and tried Castle Romeo and Castle Bravo in it, without success. They then sent it to Soviet Russia so they could use Tsar Bomba on it. It was a bad idea as in Soviet Russia, the fridge blows up the atomic bomb, so the officials were obliged to hide inside the Tsar Bomba to avoid the fridge's detonation.
I saw this in the theater when I was 8 years old, and I'm not gonna lie, this was the most terrifying part of the whole movie for me. This was my introduction as a child to the concept of the Cold War and nuclear war, and that air raid siren still gives me the chills. What a great scene in cinema history, even though it's very unrealistic lol it's that Indiana Jones charm and it holds a special place in my heart.
Brings a totally new perspective of the scene to me. I can understand you liked is as child. To me it was totally ridicolous. I loved Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis as a child, it literally teleported me intro another world. Until today each pixel is pure magic to me.
Dude same. I was also 8 years old and this scene left me confused. I asked my Dad why everyone in the town was fake. He told me they were gonna blow it up and I asked why. He said for fun. He obviously wasn't ready to explain nuclear bombs and the cold war to me.
@Seth Thompson I wouldn't say immortal but superhuman for sure. He could die by something... we just know that something isn't a nuclear bomb detonation lol
@@apocalypse369 yes in fallout new Vegas there's skeleton in a fridge with Indians Jones hat I believe you have to have the wil wasteland perk to see It though.
Knowing Steven Spielberg, even if Indy and those Russians all went sky-diving while the Russians all had working parachutes and successfully used them, and Indy didn't have one and would hit the ground at terminal velocity, he would still have Indy live and all of those Russians die, and all while he has the Indiana Jones theme music playing.
How come everyone complains about this scene so much? All I ever hear is about how unrealistic it is and how Indy would have not survived the fridge landing.. but in Temple of Doom he manages to jump out of an airplane on a raft and safely land hundreds of feet down and slide down a mountain side.
Because if you were inside a fridge while it was violently tumbling across the land, you'd have a broken neck and fatal damage to your brain and internal organs... Not to mention being cooked by the nuke's heat. In Temple of Doom he was just unrealistically lucky, not invincible.
This scene would have been great if he would have survived in a conventional way. My man trained my kid brain into thinking jumping into a fridge would save you from a nuke
@@lucifer0666 The effect of the cup doesn't last when you walk past the seal in the floor. Indy's father drank from the cup, but he is no longer alive in this movie.
I love how easily he opened the fridge to get in it but the fridge door remained so tightly shut throughout the entire explosion. I also love how he's not even mildly bruised from hitting the inside of the fridge so violently
Old refrigerators, like the one in this scene, had locking latches and opened/shut more like a car door. Kids would get trapped inside and die (which is why they no longer make them like that). Indy was snug inside til the fridge hit the ground and busted the latch open.
Despite its stupidity, this scene is so great in creating an uncanny atmosphere. The town is deserted but full of colors, decorated with creepy mannequins.
actually happened too, many nuke towns were created in the 1950s for testing the effects of a nuke on a US town or city, they built fully working fake towns with plumbing, power substations. it was crazy and very expensive
@@jvenom174 erm detable Spielberg is also a dumb writer most of his movies he directed were adapted from books and when he makes his own movie it's utter garbage go watch ready player one to see what I mean
He didn't write Crystal Skull, and neither did Lucas. The problem was George throwing around trash ideas in the writing room while nobody stood up and said anything. The only two people who could have told George "no" didn't. Harrison went along with it and so did Spielberg, but it stems from George. Just look at how the prequels turned out if you want another example of George Lucas having yes men surround him while he's making questionable after questionable creative decisions. George's ideas always needed refining, when he just goes off without anybody else course correcting, it turns to crap.
*+Andre De Luna* It was mentioned in the movie that when they left Al Khazneh that they would lose their immortality that was attained from drinking from The Holy Grail. This meant that Indiana Jones and his dad would be able to get killed from a weapon wound/injury and natural causes (like diseases), but of course, there can still be side effects from drinking The Holy Grail right? Exactly explaining how Indiana Jones can survive a nuclear blast inside a refrigerator and avoid getting radiation in the process and dying from it, making him a mortal superhuman to some extent...
Brilliantly genius like Wile E. Coyote. Steven Spielberg is a fan of his cartoons; the bit in which the fridge flies and tumbles is like watching Wile E. in his "Indestructo" steel ball ("Wild About Hurry," 1959).
Not even sorry - in the cinema in 2008 this was one of the most electrifying things I'd ever seen. The timing of Indy tearing the shelves out, the casual but clear pan past the "LEAD-LINED" decal, and Indy sweeping the last of the debris clear of the door at the last possible second before the light of a million suns X-rays the whole joint - it's pure Spielberg.
Forget that. The blast tore down an entire neighbourhood of houses. The fridge probably wouldn't still be in one piece, and even if it somehow was it's possible the shockwave still would've turned Jones into putty within the fridge before it even landed onto the ground.
This may not be the best scene in Indiana Jones, but you have to admit: Finding a neighborhood full of mothing but mannequins is... well... a bit *chilling*, to say the least.
Ah, yes. The most INFAMOUS scene in the history of "Indiana Jones". Feast your eyes, fellow fans. For you are bearing witness to "The Fridge" in all it's insanely stupid, but extremely awesome glory.
I thought this was dumb when I saw it in the theater. But I kind of chuckle at it now. For a franchise where a dude gets his still beating heart pulled out of his chest, surviving a nuclear bomb by hiding in a fridge really isn't that far-fetched.
It's not amazing that a lead fridge survived a nuclear blast. What's amazing is that Indy wasn't turned to jelly by the impact of rattling around in there.
People are really quick to forget that it's the same guy who outswam a goddamn submarine in Raiders and used an emergency raft as a makeshift parachute in Temple of Doom. Realism was never a strong point of these films.
True, plus the Ghosts, Gods and magic that are all real in the films. Hindu, Christian and Jewish. Although Indiana denies them until the end of each movie.
He didn't outswim the submarine; he just held on to the top of it and was extremely fortunate it didn't submerge en route. I take your general point about realism though, which is, or should be, a concern for all action films. And we know when it's pushed too far! There's a good reason why the phrase 'nuke the fridge' has become synonymous with 'jump the shark.' 😆
Yeah just like they did with the prequels after star wars sequels and then the hobbit after rings of power. Im glad there’s people who have appreciated this movie from the beginning though
I like how a few years earlier in Star Wars we saw the tragic story of a hero becoming a villain to the point he accidentally kills his pregnant wife, with the newborns barely making it out alive and getting separated to avoid being hunted down and killed. Then we have a history teacher fighting the Soviets and surviving a nuke inside of a refrigerator. I love Lucas’ movies.
Fun Fact: Back To The Future's original time machine was a stationary capsule that was powered by plutonium, and the original way Marty would go back from 1955 was by Doc building it out of a refridgerator and using it at a nuclear weapons testing site. There's even a story board for a slightly revised version of this with the Delorean of Marty driving directly towards the bomb tower as it explodes.
That maybe true, but the rubber raft scene was much better executed from a cinematic point of view. I just watched it again not too long ago, and it's such a thrilling, fun scene. I didn't care much for this scene tbh
chances of that happening is 1 in 6 which is kinda unlikely in 16.7 % of the time (fridge has 6 sides one of them is the door) Edit: corrected after 3 years, some people are too nitpicky ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
He would have to wait months until the next nuclear test launched him another 100 yards at which point he would probably leave the fridge slightly dehydrated and with a light limp
Crazy thing is, they got the nuclear explosion right. First a bright blaring light, easily flammable objects igniting, paint vaporizing, and then the finisher, the all destroying shockwave
well ye, aside from the fact that you would still be cooked alive (you really think it would keep all that heat outside?), the buried in ruble, OR in the miracle case that the fridge really flew all that way, atleast you would get hit so badly inside it that atleast you wouldnt just get out and go on with your business.... But I quess this is only taking it bit further than surviving a fall from plane with rubber raft and 3 ppl on it....
Also, wasn't there a danger with fridges like that because they could only be opened from the outside, and there were stories of children trapped in them for days?
While the fridge scene is goofy and unrealistic. The slow build up and realization that this is a nuke town is always very terrifying for me. Gives me chills.
@@kidz4p509 I don't see where you could escape in 30 seconds, to survive an explosion like that you have to get away at least 10 miles. The thing that would make the most sense would be to seek out an underground shelter, such as a basement or tornado shelter, and then say all the prayers you know.
The refrigerator concept idea was actually based from an early version of Back To The Future where the Time Machine wasn’t a delorean but a refrigerator that was scrapped because Robert Zemeckis or Steven Spielberg were concerned that kids would get trapped in the refrigerator while trying intimidating the scene when Marty goes in time
Saved by the fridge only to die by the fridge. Those fridges couldn't be opened from the inside and would be death traps from suffocation for kids who found them abandoned and wanted to play "tank" or "spaceship."
-Luckiest man on Earth- 1.- Hes lucky enough to find the only suitable place in the entire city that wouldn't be affected at all by the bomb. 2.- He didn't get nuclear poisoning 3.- He didn't get in the car 4. The fridge can fly 5. The fridge didn't land face down 7. He didn't get any cuts or bruises or concussions while the fridge soars through the air and does 15 midair summersaults and cartwheels on the ground.
Shaq This scene could start a whole new movie sequel, or even a tv series. They could call it, "INDIANA JONES AND HIS MAGICAL FLYING FRIDGE". The fact that Indiana survived the explosion in something as small as fridge proved something a lot of people already suspected. Indiana Jones was already a Time Lord, or took DOCTOR WHO lessons after the end of World War Two. What do you think?
@@juliocesarmedinagalvan2322 yes, in one of the older Call of Duty games (Black Ops) there is a map based of this scene, and at the end of every match there is a cutscene where a nuke detonates and destroys the town.
Still, unless he was crammed in there with a pile of pillows, the impact of that landing would have left him a dead, bloodied mess as his body ricocheted off all six interior sides, regardless of whether the fridge was made in 1950 or 2015. The lead liner may have protected him from the nuclear radiation, but it'd be unlikely he'd have survived the broken bones and hemorrhaging organs.
Well they gotta see what is going to happen to the town (people, electronics, plants, cars, glass, concrete) after the nuke. That is why it's set up as a normal town.
They had nuclear test sites like these, but no running anything, except the electricity running to the cameras and lights that photographed the destruction. Also it was barely a town like this, more like a grouping of houses.
Hollywood executive: "Surviving a nuclear explosion would be damn near impossible." Script writer: "Actually, it was super easy, barely an inconvenience."
So not only did he HOLD the fridge door shoot through the force of a nuclear explosion, he survived the car wreck that was that fridge getting thrown like 100 yards.
Gwyn's Last Knight 100 yards? More like 2 miles & then tumbled multiple times for another half a mile. Indy would be like a minced stew inside that fridge LOL
100 yards?? 1 yard is 91cm = 0.91meter. Nukes wide is 40km! Your 100 yeards is too short. It means that Indy would fly to end of the street so then he could be roasted like chicken in grill
Damn, if only the soldiers let Jones in the car, they would’ve all been blessed with the power of plot armour and have survived
Plot armor does not always protect those around the wearer. Examples can be seen in countless movies.
Being extra bad, or worse, denying that a major disaster is about to happen removes all protection from being near somebody wearing plot armor
So why were they there to Begin with I haven't seen this movie
@@warzonebrothers5244 I’m pretty sure they were hunting him
No they would not dude they would be crushed idiot
@@killer-gacha-9897 Geez man chill
Plot twist: They wanted to Test the fridge not the bomb
Lol
Man! Hilariously brilliant line! 😂
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That would make more sense cause is the only appliance that survives to the explossion without being destroyed. Even the soviet car ends much more damaged than the fridge.
@Skylar Warren i tried
"But the radiation poisoning..."
The man drank from the holy grail, its like an real life 1up!
But the holy grails powers are gone because he left the temple
Doesn't matter Indy already sired Mutt, his job is done... The radioactive rays fried his dried up old man menopause nuts,. Brushing him off was just a formality.
Right he had to drink from the grail to pass the knight's test
Thank God!!!! Somebody else gets it!!!!
@@baddogduering2492 If you leave the temple you lose the immortality, so no Holy Grail powers here. Just bad writing.
The one coworker improvising after running late to the Oppenheimer set
This comment won the internet for me! 😂😂😂
Don’t forget Barbie where there are so many dolls and dollhouses which is part of Barbenheimer (it is portmanteau mean Barbie and Oppenheimer which both came out in same time)
@conor5148 Well… thank you. I just made a joke due to sense of humor.
@@MasterChiefSnake19910128 LMAO
Who knew the Japanese who got slaughter by the Mericans could had survived if they just hid in the fridges.
Plot twist: It wasn’t the fridge that saved him, it was the fact that he drank from the Holy Grail in the last movie
His father also drank from the Holy Grail, yet he is dead in this movie. The effect of the cup doesn't last when you leave that temple where the grail was hidden.
@@TheRocco96 Actually the rule was it can't leave the temple but the holy knight never said it's effect was permanent even inside the temple.
But the Holy Grail idea does makes sense because the odds surviving inside a refrigerator in a nuclear bomb site is very small or the fact being thrown out thousands of feet without breaking over 50% of your bones from the impacts is another thing that should happen.
@@night-x6793 how the f a refrigerator doesn't get pulverized? XD
@@MadGamer_666 Old refrigerators were well made to be heavy duty and last for years easily unlike new ones.
But that fact didn't leave my mind which unfortunately I was talking more fatal body injuries inside the fridge.
@@TheRocco96 the two knights who drank the grail and returned home were said to have lived well past 100 years. So there are chances of long-term affects that Indy may posses
Jokes aside, spending your last few minutes in town filled with mannequins before being nuked literally would be a terrifying way to go
Personally that’s my biggest fear, being nuked the thought of o my surviving a few seconds of burning them in a instant literally everything is gone
@@OH877 depends how close you are to the epicentre. Lots of people from Hiroshima and Nagasaki completely evaporated due to the intense heat in a matter of milliseconds.
@@bonehand87 Yh but they’d be alive to see it happening even for a few milliseconds
@@OH877 I'm not sure you have any understanding how little time a few milliseconds are. Those close to the epicentre of nuclear explosions have literally no time at all to register what has happened to them. They are vaporised so quickly their brains don't even have time to register the flash of the explosion. It might be quite hard to comprehend, but near the epicentre of a nuclear blast, death is instantaneous.
Frankly, they're the lucky ones. Because those a little further out will also have a death sentence. It's just that they'll go through hours, days, or weeks of excruciating radiation sickness before their inevitable death. Now THAT is the terrifying thing about nuclear attacks: the fallout, and knowing that nothing on earth can save you from a long, slow, agonising death once you've been exposed to radiation poisoning.
I try to survive as long as I can maybe not in a fridge but a basement and some granite countertops around me
Plot Twist: The fridge lands face down.
*End of movie*
Edgy Artist bruh
lol
Edgy Artist lmao, never thought of that
reading this increased my anxiety
I think Indiana Jones would get out of that too. Since the latch would have been damaged, he probably could have lifted the other side if the fridge using his legs in feet. Or he could have just kept kick any side that was really really damaged and push out that way.
My fave part of this scene is Harrison's acting, just that sheer cluelessness finding out where he's at leading up to absolute fright seconds before the blast. It's one of those moments that truly test Indy's survival instincts
2 most powerful beings in the Universe
- this Fridge
- the Cameraman
Yes
@@fallonmitchell5649 y e s
Imagine if the fridge landed face down 🤣🤣🤣
Uhm chuck norris?
Camera man first, then the fridge
Not only did he survive the blast but he landed far enough away so that he wouldn't get nuclear poisoning
Honestly, he was still close enough to get poisoned. He just wasn’t incinerated. That’s why the government had to wash him down.
Also, those impacts with the fridge should’ve broken every bone in his body.
Radiation isn't always that quick. The damage could take months or years to cause any health issues. Just because he walked away from it doesn't mean he's not affected
Chef Love the fridge was the only thing blasted from the town
I’d like to see a body, car, the dog, or even the TV get thrown
1:18 Lead-lined fridge. That's the key
Aria D I meant thrown from the town
The fridge was made by Nokia
So was his body, -but not the icebox. It somehow dissolved into thin air after he got in.-
_wait, was the icebox even still there? I can't see behind his head._
@@cooper1235
I meant that it was made from the same material Nokia used for its phones.
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I hope the fridge is the main protagonist in Indiana Jones 5
The fridge of destiny
yes he is
@@peternotpeter4201 The dial of fridge
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maybe the fridge was what they were trying to destroy the whole time
Good question.
The fridge is an SCP / RCP, they were trying to lure it into a false sense of security with an entire fake town.
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Cringey comment just desperately wanting attention lol
28 subs lol fail
Emperor Palpatine escaping the 2nd Death Star circa 3 ABY
XD
Well at least he had the force and cloning technology.
Yes
VADER
_Are we good? Is this a bit you’re doing?_
@@Bobo-wp2bw *gasp
*_"VADER..."_*
Plot twist: *they were trying to destroy that fridge with the bomb for the third time unsucessfully*
Sounds like an interesting SCP
Mythbusters never close this myth
Nothing weird here just quallity check
Another Plot Twist: They then recuperated the fridge and tried Castle Romeo and Castle Bravo in it, without success. They then sent it to Soviet Russia so they could use Tsar Bomba on it. It was a bad idea as in Soviet Russia, the fridge blows up the atomic bomb, so the officials were obliged to hide inside the Tsar Bomba to avoid the fridge's detonation.
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This scene was so famous it replaced "jump the shark" with "nuke the fridge". Great moments in cinematic history.
Exactly.
Thanos: I can erase half of the universe
Indiania Jones in the fridge: You said something?
Thats when Thanos decided to retire.
Eoghan Brophy “Icy what you did there”
Good one
Kitsos: Tha mi klais 1 mantra! 😉
Call of duty
The impact would turn him to Indiana juice.
Into O.J?
@brett linthicum Hehe yes.
As would the heat.
exactly, as soon as it hit the ground he'd die from internal hemoraging and a hell of a lot of concussion.
There is no way that he would survive this nuclear blast. No matter where he would hide he would die anyway.
I'll tell ya how he survived.
He's got the immortality of being a main character.
Maybe that stuff he drank in the 3rd film works a little beyond the seal after all
what if the harnessed power of the ark of the covenant and the 3 stones from TOD and the cup of Christ combined to make him a god-like being.
Otherwise known as plot armor.
Nope he’s got God on his side
@@mylovemachine no, you would have to drink from the chalice every day in order to achieve immortality
I saw this in the theater when I was 8 years old, and I'm not gonna lie, this was the most terrifying part of the whole movie for me. This was my introduction as a child to the concept of the Cold War and nuclear war, and that air raid siren still gives me the chills.
What a great scene in cinema history, even though it's very unrealistic lol it's that Indiana Jones charm and it holds a special place in my heart.
Then don't watch it, besides I don't think this movie is meant for kids.
Brings a totally new perspective of the scene to me. I can understand you liked is as child. To me it was totally ridicolous.
I loved Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis as a child, it literally teleported me intro another world. Until today each pixel is pure magic to me.
I was also 8 years old!!!!😱
Mine was from the movie The Iron Giant
Dude same. I was also 8 years old and this scene left me confused. I asked my Dad why everyone in the town was fake. He told me they were gonna blow it up and I asked why. He said for fun. He obviously wasn't ready to explain nuclear bombs and the cold war to me.
200 years later I found him in a fridge in the wasteland
Billy Jones
@@patrickbo2045 there's a skeleton in a fridge in the wasteland.
Free gambler's hat.
Only if you choose the wild wasteland perk
Fallout lol.
Realism aside, I really love this scene. The tension in the atmosphere from the imminent destruction makes for quite a scary scenario.
Until you realize he's immortal.
And don't forget BO1 honored this movie by putting this in as a map
I'd hate on this scene but the low point of this movie was the cgi monkeys.
And then he survived
@Seth Thompson I wouldn't say immortal but superhuman for sure. He could die by something... we just know that something isn't a nuclear bomb detonation lol
Then 200 years later you find him in the Mojave wasteland
Was there a reference to this in the fallout games?
yea
a boy i think named billy is found in a fridge by you who is a ghoul
@@apocalypse369 yes in fallout new Vegas there's skeleton in a fridge with Indians Jones hat I believe you have to have the wil wasteland perk to see It though.
I meant if your courier has the Wild Wasteland Perk you can find a fridge in the Mojave with a skeleton a fedora and I think a whip in it
The one camera man who came into work late for Oppenheimer
"Wait! Wait!"
"Okay, let's get the American in the car, too."
[End of the movie]
Pablo Contreras actually they would survive if they drove faster.
@@JessetheHedgehog nah man. Speed limits.
Marcus McCloud no really
Knowing Steven Spielberg, even if Indy and those Russians all went sky-diving while the Russians all had working parachutes and successfully used them, and Indy didn't have one and would hit the ground at terminal velocity, he would still have Indy live and all of those Russians die, and all while he has the Indiana Jones theme music playing.
Also, the car that they were getting into, is American. Every. Car. In. This. Scene. Is. American.
How come everyone complains about this scene so much? All I ever hear is about how unrealistic it is and how Indy would have not survived the fridge landing.. but in Temple of Doom he manages to jump out of an airplane on a raft and safely land hundreds of feet down and slide down a mountain side.
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That fridge would literally disintegrate in the midst of a nuclear blast. It's more outlandish than just jumping out of a plane and landing on a raft.
Because if you were inside a fridge while it was violently tumbling across the land, you'd have a broken neck and fatal damage to your brain and internal organs... Not to mention being cooked by the nuke's heat.
In Temple of Doom he was just unrealistically lucky, not invincible.
What about the Tank in Last Crusade?
We're doc brown Marty
The fridge was made in the fires of Mount Doom.
The instruction manual for this fridge was bound in human flesh and inked in blood. It was never meant for the land of the living.
I knew it, it was Frodo's fridge, and I also think that Sauron want it all that time, why would u need a ring when u have an imortal fridge!
😂😂
One fridge to rule them all, one fridge to find them, one fridge to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them
Only in the fires of Mount Doom can the cursed fridge be destroyed.
Man had a chance once, he choose to save himself.....
This scene would have been great if he would have survived in a conventional way. My man trained my kid brain into thinking jumping into a fridge would save you from a nuke
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I feel if he maybe found an underground area or basement it would have been more realistic
But It would not be as iconic
@@sebalazo2211 well of course. This scene is unironically one of my favorite scenes in cinematography history
I mean if you’re anywhere near a nuclear explosion you’re going to die anyways
That fridges impact alone would have broken every single bone in his body.
He would have been pulverized in there
Except in the last crusade he drank from the cup.
Exactly. But it’s a movie. And not a very good one at that. lol
@@lucifer0666 The effect of the cup doesn't last when you walk past the seal in the floor. Indy's father drank from the cup, but he is no longer alive in this movie.
The fridge cannot withstand an atomic bomb lol he would have died in the spot...
I love how easily he opened the fridge to get in it but the fridge door remained so tightly shut throughout the entire explosion. I also love how he's not even mildly bruised from hitting the inside of the fridge so violently
Of course that wouldn't have opened easily he was probably clinging the door shut with all his strength
I'm afraid all of your strength isn't gonna do much against a nuke
@@plantainsame2049 Bruh 😐
Old refrigerators, like the one in this scene, had locking latches and opened/shut more like a car door. Kids would get trapped inside and die (which is why they no longer make them like that). Indy was snug inside til the fridge hit the ground and busted the latch open.
Old fridges like that would lock and couldn't open from the inside.
Despite its stupidity, this scene is so great in creating an uncanny atmosphere.
The town is deserted but full of colors, decorated with creepy mannequins.
It’s Spielberg’s great direction meeting George Lucas’s dumbass idea.
actually happened too, many nuke towns were created in the 1950s for testing the effects of a nuke on a US town or city, they built fully working fake towns with plumbing, power substations. it was crazy and very expensive
@@jvenom174 erm detable Spielberg is also a dumb writer most of his movies he directed were adapted from books and when he makes his own movie it's utter garbage go watch ready player one to see what I mean
He didn't write Crystal Skull, and neither did Lucas. The problem was George throwing around trash ideas in the writing room while nobody stood up and said anything. The only two people who could have told George "no" didn't. Harrison went along with it and so did Spielberg, but it stems from George. Just look at how the prequels turned out if you want another example of George Lucas having yes men surround him while he's making questionable after questionable creative decisions. George's ideas always needed refining, when he just goes off without anybody else course correcting, it turns to crap.
@@freezasama5802 ready player one is also adapted from a book though
Fun fact: The siren heard at 0:20 is a Civil Defense era Thunderbolt 1000T
Glad they were accurate with it
@@metalface3527 yes if you watch the twisters movie there are two sirens with the wrong sound.
Now he knows what a TV dinner feels like.
Lets get together have a few laughs.
Seeeesawweedsssswwwaaaaa
Or a steak inside a microwave oven.
I understood that reference!
Lucky Ted Ever watch Die Hard??
He drank from the Grail. Of course he would survive.
Kris Faul Hiroshima effect 1:27
Kris Faul that’s a good poont
maybe he is the knight´s seal
Kris Faul So did his dad but he died.
*+Andre De Luna* It was mentioned in the movie that when they left Al Khazneh that they would lose their immortality that was attained from drinking from The Holy Grail.
This meant that Indiana Jones and his dad would be able to get killed from a weapon wound/injury and natural causes (like diseases), but of course, there can still be side effects from drinking The Holy Grail right?
Exactly explaining how Indiana Jones can survive a nuclear blast inside a refrigerator and avoid getting radiation in the process and dying from it, making him a mortal superhuman to some extent...
Vault-Tec called, they want their fridge back.
Who else read this in the Vault-Tec rep voice? :p
Jean Paul Obeid smootskin
A "Barbie-Oppenheimer" combo yeeted Indiana Jones out of this world
This scene is prophetic
How did you figure that out?!? Genius.
The moment the siren starts still gives me chills every time
When you hear that siren, run for your freaking life.
I used to hear it every Friday afternoon in Portland. Scared me
@@LK-pc4sq Londoners used to hear it every day during the Blitz!
@@kidz4p509 If you can hear the siren that loudly where you are then you should sit down and wait for your inevitable death.
Welcome to Kyiv, Ukraine guys! :D
This scene is utterly stupid and brilliantly genius and manages to be both at the same time.
The mix of that always made great Indiana Jones scenes. :-)
I'd say the ratio is 99/1 in favour of the former...
Brilliantly genius like Wile E. Coyote. Steven Spielberg is a fan of his cartoons; the bit in which the fridge flies and tumbles is like watching Wile E. in his "Indestructo" steel ball ("Wild About Hurry," 1959).
My dad describing me his wedding recorded on VHS, in a nutshell.
Ye I wouldn't say it's the latter
1:15 Me trying to find something to eat.
This comment is soo underrated.
Quarantine be like
I relate to this so much lol
Facts tho
True
Not even sorry - in the cinema in 2008 this was one of the most electrifying things I'd ever seen. The timing of Indy tearing the shelves out, the casual but clear pan past the "LEAD-LINED" decal, and Indy sweeping the last of the debris clear of the door at the last possible second before the light of a million suns X-rays the whole joint - it's pure Spielberg.
Until the siren it looks like Harrison Ford literally just wandered onto the set.
It really does
Because I’m sure if you wandered into a town populated by dummies, you’d be confused too
He's acting abilities have left him
He gave up way before this turd of a movie. I'm so thrilled they're making another one😪
@@owlpercent2045 what does that mean?
Sean Bean: The man who always dies
Harisson Ford: The man who never dies
Except StarWars
Sean bean always dies to make up for all the times he didn't die as Sharpe.
What lies beneath is the only movie i believe he died
@@N4t0r yeah but we pretend that the sequels never existed.........
@@oshb5559 Yeah its better that way my bad.
everyone talking about radiation poisoning, dudes in a metal box getting bounced around. his bones would be paste
I would have been more believable for the fridge to stay where it was, or fall through into the basement. Assuming they put basements in test houses.
Nah
Forget that. The blast tore down an entire neighbourhood of houses. The fridge probably wouldn't still be in one piece, and even if it somehow was it's possible the shockwave still would've turned Jones into putty within the fridge before it even landed onto the ground.
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It's there really a location that is the Nuketown?
This may not be the best scene in Indiana Jones, but you have to admit: Finding a neighborhood full of mothing but mannequins is... well... a bit *chilling*, to say the least.
this didn't work for Billy, he got stuck for 200 years
anybody get the reference?
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Fallout 4
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Poor Billy lol
Fo4
1:23 this is how annoying orange was made
He's a mutant from a nuclear blast. Makes sense.
After that he went on to become the president of the United States.
Juno X omg I’m dying it took me a minute but I got it
Well done
Ah, yes. The most INFAMOUS scene in the history of "Indiana Jones". Feast your eyes, fellow fans. For you are bearing witness to "The Fridge" in all it's insanely stupid, but extremely awesome glory.
I thought this was dumb when I saw it in the theater. But I kind of chuckle at it now.
For a franchise where a dude gets his still beating heart pulled out of his chest, surviving a nuclear bomb by hiding in a fridge really isn't that far-fetched.
It's not amazing that a lead fridge survived a nuclear blast. What's amazing is that Indy wasn't turned to jelly by the impact of rattling around in there.
it's crazy in a way that Dr jones senior using birds to bring down a plane is more realistic then the fridge
Have you ever tried to hide from a nuclear blast inside a lead fridge? Yeah, that’s what I thought.
That's why I refer to myself as "the fridge from Indiana Jones"! I'm awesome, but stupid!
Actual footage of Indiana Jones finding Barbie and Ken watching TV while just seconds away from getting obliterated by a nuke.made by Oppenheimer.
People are really quick to forget that it's the same guy who outswam a goddamn submarine in Raiders and used an emergency raft as a makeshift parachute in Temple of Doom. Realism was never a strong point of these films.
True, plus the Ghosts, Gods and magic that are all real in the films. Hindu, Christian and Jewish. Although Indiana denies them until the end of each movie.
I agree with the over the top stunts for all the film's. Each of the movies had different atmospheres. But, Crystal Skull can burn in hell.
He moved a pyramid block with his bare hands to break out of a tomb......his whip ties and unties itself after he swings on it.....
He didn't outswim the submarine; he just held on to the top of it and was extremely fortunate it didn't submerge en route. I take your general point about realism though, which is, or should be, a concern for all action films. And we know when it's pushed too far! There's a good reason why the phrase 'nuke the fridge' has become synonymous with 'jump the shark.' 😆
IIRC they tested the raft thing in Mythbusters and concluded it was plausible
The new Nuketown map looks pretty good
That map was actually inspired by this movie
noice
Newktown
Actually CoD got their inspiration of NukeTown from this scene.
We all died playing that map on BlackOps even if we win or loose.
Fun fact: this was the inspiration for NukeTown
i dont care
I care
Yes
I know
Not really lol
If only those soldiers found a school desk to hide under.
I actually love this scene as campy as it is. Somehow it is now considered an iconic moment in cinema, possibly because its so bad its actually good.
It's definitely memorable.
For me it's so bad that it's actually really bad
@@squidprince2456 Good thing nobody cares
Possibly?
@@CatsClaw44 Care what?
Fun fact: nuke town from cod bo1 was based on this scene.
Took you nearly 11 years to notice that lol.
Late AF lol
Yea same thing with bo2
I thought that place seemed similar...
No it wasn’t.
@@oneilbasdeo3286 same with bo3 then... pretty sure this scene inspired treyarch to make nuketown in bo1.
Indiana jones: *survives*
The camera man:hold my beer
@Blaze Slayer while i run XD
Blaze Slayer No he’s the camera man?
OOF MAN alright fair
Archeologists of the future digging up the remains of WW3
"For some reason most of the human remains were found within refrigerators"
Even though this takes away from Indiana's Mortality and everybody hates this scene.
I absolutely love this scene
Same here man
Me too
If the rest of the film wasnt total bs this would actually be a damn good setup for the rest of the film to have higher stakes
I thought it was really funny
Same here
Salesman: “this fridge can...”
Me: “Shut up and take my money!”
Steve Pringle Meh
@Steve Pringle who said it was for my food
I will take your entire stockkkkkkkkk
Ah yes, the fridge scene, a moment so absolutely ridiculous yet amazing at the same time
A lot of people compare it to the kitesurfing a tsunami scene in 007 Die Another Day in how ridiculous and over-the-top those scenes were.
Definite plot armor, but anyone would be grasping at any straw available to survive.
This was the original idea for the time machine in back to the future. (no joke. Look it up.)
@@HermitKing731 WUT?!
Why your comments starts the same as brianwalters7855 Ah, yes. The most INFAMOUS
you brainwashed ape?
1:11 is what everyone looking for 😂
If only Sarah Conner saw this...
Minleyx1 same thinking here!!
But it was just a dream
*Connor.
Ha ha ha xD
Noooo, I would never subject Sarah Conor to watch Indy 4!!!
She would be best of taking her chances with the Atom bomb! 🚀 and the machines.
Fallout 4: Get in the vault!!
2030: Quick, get in the fridge!!
This supposedly took place during the 50s. That’s why it’s a leadlined fridge.
Billy would be proud of this
@@taffetamocha4130 yeah, god rest his soul
@@stanleyantonio4458 er, I didn't
DARK it was a joke
Plot twist: Indiana Jones was put in a coma after the explosion. The rest of the movie was just a dream before he died.
yoooo
very depressing
@ExcaliberDG11 yeah thanks George.... you should have listened to Steven ....NO ALIENS !!!
Indiana's Ladder
Why is like 99% of fan theories all about comas? lol
Mark my words. People will switch up on this movie after Indiana Jones 5 comes out.
Yep! I like to call it “The Last Jedi Effect”
absolutely not dude
Wouldn’t be surprised
Yeah just like they did with the prequels after star wars sequels and then the hobbit after rings of power. Im glad there’s people who have appreciated this movie from the beginning though
Unfortunately we are living in an age where every great franchise is being ruined by political agenda. Indiana 5 should have been made 10 years ago.
I like how a few years earlier in Star Wars we saw the tragic story of a hero becoming a villain to the point he accidentally kills his pregnant wife, with the newborns barely making it out alive and getting separated to avoid being hunted down and killed.
Then we have a history teacher fighting the Soviets and surviving a nuke inside of a refrigerator.
I love Lucas’ movies.
I like how Ross tried to say butternut squash, and it came out 'squatter nut bosh
i mean if you say it like that i can make anything sound insanely stupid
Lucas made Star Wars. Him and Spielberg made these movies.
This is a SPIELBERG movie. Lucas is responsible for those failures you mentioned
@@SDfan2002 I don’t consider them failures at all. I unironically love the prequels and KOTCS
imagine this fridge in a commercial, "buy the all new, scratch proof fridge, it can survive a nuclear blast! Money back guarantee if you die!"
DaSourOrange im surprised no one has made a commercial about that
i'm even surprised that no one has made that commercial on cold war
DaSourOrange what about a fridge made out of lead, reinforced with Nokia bricks???
Why would the money back guarantee matter if I die?
If only Jynn Erso and cassian had managed to find a lead-lined refrigerator, they might have been in A New Hope
YES
The Death Star laser ain't a nuke.... that fridge would be vaporised, along with Jyn and Cassian.
James Mcenanly u know ur right
Qui-Gon Jyn Erso
That-B thank you for that amazing image.
Truly one of the movie scenes of all time
Ah sarcasm 😪
Yes it's a movie scene alright buddy
Bravo Vince
That sure is a comment alright
Who would win?
An atomic bomb that can destroy anything from it' path and also create a high level of lethal radiation.
Or.
A cowboy in a fridge.
He’s an archeologist.
Cowboy in the fridge, obviously.
Cowboi*
A cowboy in a fridge that is in creative mode
Habiib Abu Bakar Han Solo wins
Me playing hide and seek with 10 sec left 1:01
True
202 likes? Criminal...
Fun Fact: Back To The Future's original time machine was a stationary capsule that was powered by plutonium, and the original way Marty would go back from 1955 was by Doc building it out of a refridgerator and using it at a nuclear weapons testing site. There's even a story board for a slightly revised version of this with the Delorean of Marty driving directly towards the bomb tower as it explodes.
yess i was waiting for someone to mention this
So true
Story board? I hear the story many times, but never know it has story board.
Hmm. I wonder if Steven Spielberg remembered.
@@robertmcghintheorca49 Of course he remember, he is the producer on Back to the Future.
The Oppenheimer cast and crew when they find out Christopher Nolan isn’t using CGI:
This is no less absurd than falling out of an airplane on a rubber raft.
True
This is actually possible to do. Look at what the fridge is made of
I'd pay to see that! I'm not joking!
That maybe true, but the rubber raft scene was much better executed from a cinematic point of view. I just watched it again not too long ago, and it's such a thrilling, fun scene. I didn't care much for this scene tbh
Nah. Rubber raft is still more realistic than this.
0:46 if you look closely at the nuke, it says “I like Ike” which Indy says earlier in the film when being asked for final words
It was also the slogan for President Ike Eisenhower
I see it
Good thing that fridge didn't land with the door facing down...
chances of that happening is 1 in 6 which is kinda unlikely in 16.7
% of the time (fridge has 6 sides one of them is the door)
Edit: corrected after 3 years, some people are too nitpicky ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Theres a Murphys law if you drop the sandwich, it would likely land with filled side down.
All fridge's doors should be pyramid- shaped
He would have to wait months until the next nuclear test launched him another 100 yards at which point he would probably leave the fridge slightly dehydrated and with a light limp
Alex Ganz 1 of 6 :')
This movie actually really grows on me the last few years.
I don’t care how stupid and unrealistic it is, I love this scene
That's nostalgia for ya.
Oh, same here. This was NOT a good movie, but it was somewhat enjoyable.
@@mirceazaharia2094 wdym i watched it it was magnificent, how dare you say something like that
@@antonimartinez9961 I loved it from the beginning
Ruined it for me honestly. Broke me out of the fantasy.
It’s so ironic that the dudes in the car died but Indiana survived xD
Well...the fridge was probably indestructible...damn...
Plot armor
Glitchy Well the car is made with glass windows, pretty sure that’s less durable compared to a fridge of solid led.
Its indi
Its Indi, he will survive
Crazy thing is, they got the nuclear explosion right. First a bright blaring light, easily flammable objects igniting, paint vaporizing, and then the finisher, the all destroying shockwave
And if you survive all of that you die a slow painful radiation induced death
Thank you for the explanation
The whole opening sequence of this movie was fantastic.
Everyone gets riled up because of how absurd the fridge is. Meanwhile, I just love how Indy slowly realizes in how much trouble he is in!
The fridge actually was Made by something that can survive nuclear blasts
Yeah it said Lead Lined
well ye, aside from the fact that you would still be cooked alive (you really think it would keep all that heat outside?), the buried in ruble, OR in the miracle case that the fridge really flew all that way, atleast you would get hit so badly inside it that atleast you wouldnt just get out and go on with your business....
But I quess this is only taking it bit further than surviving a fall from plane with rubber raft and 3 ppl on it....
Also, wasn't there a danger with fridges like that because they could only be opened from the outside, and there were stories of children trapped in them for days?
this scene is purely gold
While the fridge scene is goofy and unrealistic. The slow build up and realization that this is a nuke town is always very terrifying for me. Gives me chills.
When you hear that siren, run for your life.
Run for your life? You're going to spend the rest of your life running.
@@kidz4p509 I don't see where you could escape in 30 seconds, to survive an explosion like that you have to get away at least 10 miles.
The thing that would make the most sense would be to seek out an underground shelter, such as a basement or tornado shelter, and then say all the prayers you know.
Marvel: Captain Marvel can destroy every thing
Indiana Jones in a fridge: Well....
The refrigerator concept idea was actually based from an early version of Back To The Future where the Time Machine wasn’t a delorean but a refrigerator that was scrapped because Robert Zemeckis or Steven Spielberg were concerned that kids would get trapped in the refrigerator while trying intimidating the scene when Marty goes in time
Dude this would actually be terrifying. When Indy closes the fridge door he knows that could be the last thing he ever sees.
Saved by the fridge only to die by the fridge. Those fridges couldn't be opened from the inside and would be death traps from suffocation for kids who found them abandoned and wanted to play "tank" or "spaceship."
It should be. But his plot armor rivals even the gods.
@@65firered loser
@@jkocol let’s see.. how would you KNOW? Happened to you? GENIUS?🙄
@@thedon1570 how would anyone know that George Washington was born in 1732? It's historical fact *GENIUS*
When i was a child, this scene was so scary
Same
@YERMOMS HAIRYHAWTDAWG yeah, this movie came out the year I was born.. Also, another settlement needs your help. I'll mark the location on your map.
@@Clenan11 lmaooo
@@smithers38 hey General. I have received a word of another settlement that needs your help. I'll mark the location on your map.
@Lil Boi Lil Boi yes, it is
This live action of cod Nuketown is pretty cool.
Lol
Lol
Lol
Yea
@@thesinclairblues5941 Wot?
The one camera men who came into work late for Oppenheimer:
-Luckiest man on Earth-
1.- Hes lucky enough to find the only suitable place in the entire city that wouldn't be affected at all by the bomb.
2.- He didn't get nuclear poisoning
3.- He didn't get in the car
4. The fridge can fly
5. The fridge didn't land face down
7. He didn't get any cuts or bruises or concussions while the fridge soars through the air and does 15 midair summersaults and cartwheels on the ground.
Shaq He used the fetal position, ez pz.
Shaq This scene could start a whole new movie sequel, or even a tv series.
They could call it, "INDIANA JONES AND HIS MAGICAL FLYING FRIDGE".
The fact that Indiana survived the explosion in something as small as fridge proved something a lot of people already suspected. Indiana Jones was already a Time Lord, or took DOCTOR WHO lessons after the end of World War Two.
What do you think?
Holy Grail immortality fokks!
He didn't get roasted by the heat
@@pacetti07 oh the fridge is the TARDIS
0:22 look at the window there's a guy walking!!
Think its the Russians that try escaping in the car a few scenes later.
More than likely someone from the tv crew
Yea you just cought a movie mistake they left in on accident. Lol
And he's thought of as one of the best. Wonder if he falls asleep in the editing room. Not the first time either.
omg! u find an easter egg
Yeah right, and he just walks away without a single broken bone LOL
Well, he HAD drunk from the Holy Grail.
LEAD LINED... hello????
@@j_freed What would a lead lining in the fridge have to do with broken bones?
SeikiBrian good point...
SeikiBrian - wow... you must utterly misunderstand irony!!
When you realize it's the end of the match in the Nuketown map.
😳
I was waiting for someone to comment this
Is a call of duty reference?
@@juliocesarmedinagalvan2322 Black ops yes lol
@@juliocesarmedinagalvan2322 yes, in one of the older Call of Duty games (Black Ops) there is a map based of this scene, and at the end of every match there is a cutscene where a nuke detonates and destroys the town.
When someone survive the tactical nuke killstreak
Me at COD Mobile
Well Nuketown was based off this.
This so true
OMG, they could have added this to the CoD Black Ops games (and the mobile too) as an easter egg! Imagine you hiding in a fridge, lol
That's one hell of a fridge.
Damn Near Indestructible. And you can open the door from the inside.
It did say it was lead lined
Second thought lead only protects you from radiation,not a nuke blast
They don't make'em like they used to.
Indestructible and impervious to the laws of kinetic energy.
No this movie is just that stupid
objectively, this was the original Barbenheimer
Damn this fridge must have a lots of air bags to protect him. Wow, the technology of 50's.
Hey, back than they built stuff meant to last. Compared to our modern day "intentionally designed to fail within 2 years" tech.
Still, unless he was crammed in there with a pile of pillows, the impact of that landing would have left him a dead, bloodied mess as his body ricocheted off all six interior sides, regardless of whether the fridge was made in 1950 or 2015. The lead liner may have protected him from the nuclear radiation, but it'd be unlikely he'd have survived the broken bones and hemorrhaging organs.
Andrew H what if he braced himself?
babbar123 Technology was more advanced in the 50's.
In reality he wouldn't go that fast nor that far I think
I always wondered what's the use of leaving a television show on for test dummies in a nuclear test.
me too, i would have taken that television.
Martijn Walters or running water
Well they gotta see what is going to happen to the town (people, electronics, plants, cars, glass, concrete) after the nuke. That is why it's set up as a normal town.
They had nuclear test sites like these, but no running anything, except the electricity running to the cameras and lights that photographed the destruction. Also it was barely a town like this, more like a grouping of houses.
to keep them from being bored to death
Hollywood executive: "Surviving a nuclear explosion would be damn near impossible." Script writer: "Actually, it was super easy, barely an inconvenience."
When a camera man of Oppenheimer comes into work late
So not only did he HOLD the fridge door shoot through the force of a nuclear explosion, he survived the car wreck that was that fridge getting thrown like 100 yards.
*shut
Gwyn's Last Knight 100 yards? More like 2 miles & then tumbled multiple times for another half a mile. Indy would be like a minced stew inside that fridge LOL
Gwyn's Last Knight it’s a movie a good one. What do u expect
hex No good movie would have a scene like this in it.
100 yards?? 1 yard is 91cm = 0.91meter. Nukes wide is 40km! Your 100 yeards is too short. It means that Indy would fly to end of the street so then he could be roasted like chicken in grill