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Submitting "Nuking the Fridge" To Scientific Peer Review
An anonymous reader writes "George Lucas claims there was 'a 50/50 chance' Indiana Jones could survive the atomic blast in Legend of the Crystal Skull by hiding inside a refrigerator. Dr. David Shechner subjects this claim to rigorous peer review, and his findings are not good news for people looking to hide from nukes in appliances."
I, for one, wish they had peer reviewed THE SCREENPLAY.
What a shit movie that was.
-Billco, Fnarg.com
I'd like to see them test the ripping out a man's heart one,
Not something you do successfully in your average weird cultist temple, but this is done in heart transplants all the time...
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Disbelief can only be suspended so far. The first and third items on your list were attributed to supernatural events, and the second, while implausible, was nowhere near as insane as the nuked fridge stunt. Granted, suspension of disbelief is an entirely personal thing, but for me, the other three movies only pushed the boundaries of reality enough to be entertaining, whereas the fourth movie completely obliterated it.
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^This.
I'm willing to suspend disbelief and pretend that magic is real... but there's no way that "physics as normal" allows the fridge stunt to work.
No, there wasn't.
Spoiler alert? Really? The movie is 4 years old.
While we're at it:
They were the same guy.
He was a ghost the whole time.
The girl was a man
Vader is Luke's father, and Leia is his sister.
Rosebud is a sled.