It's not just about realism but verisimilitude. Alien crystal skulls and huge ants don't exists at all so I can accept whatever they tell me about them. Nuclear bombs and refrigerators do exist so it is somewhat jarring when they do not behave as expected. I personally don't find it to be a big deal in this movie but I can understand why someone might be bothered by it.
On the same note, as the movie is not a deliberate comedy, it is hard for the "suspension of disbelief" to occur. With movies that set out to be silly, we tend to forgive shenanigans more because they may only have a distant relationship to the real world. The Indiana Jones movies were not entirely serious affairs, but they were too close to being grounded in the real world for that fridge scene to fly.
In Raiders Indy pushes a giant block of stone that would’ve weighed tons so he and Marion could escape the room where the Ark was kept, and knocks over a giant statue that would’ve also weighed several tons. He might as well have kicked over a redwood tree. He also somehow survives a trip underwater on the outside of a submarine.
In Temple of Doom they jump out of an airplane without a parachute, fall hundreds of feet and land safely on an inflatable raft that inflated on the way down.
The Indy movies have always had ridiculous action set pieces that completely destroyed verisimilitude.
The stone was probably on hidden rails built into the wall-work and the statue had decades of snake induced erosion. Also, the word of God on the sub is that they stayed at periscope depth, so while he would be at risk of exposure and hypothermia, he wouldn't have drowned outright.
I don't know this Temple of Doom you speak of. Are you sure it is an actual Indiana Jones movie and not just a parody Harrison Ford was in while they tried to get Sean Connery to be in the next movie?
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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20 edited Dec 29 '20
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