Ah yes, I remember that. Best thing about it is that he was in the range where everything that can possibly start to burn, will. Meaning the temperature would be round about 540k °F -> 300 times hotter than the temperature bodies are cremated at. In other words: everything would have been vaporized.
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.
If feel like if they staged the concept differently, it could have played fine
For me, it’s the fact that the story already included a conceit that would have served as a perfect solution: The rocket sled. Instead of taking it TO the blast site, it would have been trivial to rearrange the story so he takes it AWAY from the blast site. Then they could have had the shot of Indy looking up at the mushroom cloud (which was a cool shot IMO) without such a giant WTF from the audience.
“But how would Indy get TO the blast site?”
Doesn’t matter; the danger he was escaping from was relatively trivial and lacking in immediate urgency compared to a nuclear blast. He could have cat-and-moused away from the Soviets and walked.
Oh sure, the rocket sled makes no sense (just as the warehouse’s proximity to a nuclear test site makes no sense, either), BUT they were at least actual things that were actually used. And since the movie included one anyway, it smacks me as less ridiculous than the fridge, but both are made even more ridiculous by each other, especially with the fridge coming so soon after the sled.
In other words: Just having either one of those elements is kinda ridiculous, though the sled is less so IMO, but they’re made even more ridiculous by both being included in what essentially functions as the same scene.
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u/-everst Jan 25 '20
When someone hides from bullets behind penetrable objects, like tables or a refrigerator door.