Any mention of Crystal Skull makes me think of this.

Ranking is life.

Ah cmon. Indy escaping a nuke in a fridge is pure Indy fun

I still want to see the whole franchise, but yes i do wanna revisit Crystal Skull. Only saw it once.

It’s a silly, fun idea, but so unbelievable to me and my experiences that it takes me right out of the movie. And yes, I completely understand the franchise involves the supernatural and time travel.

So you’re ok with time travel, aliens, and the supernatural. But you draw the line at the quality craftsmanship of refrigerators in the 1950s?
Those things were built like tanks. They’d survive anything even a nuke

The melting point of lead is 327C. The BOILING point of lead is 1740C. The temperature of a nuclear blast is 100,000,000C. No more Doctor Jones.

And I fully admitted I can buy the other things.

It is actually less likely than the other things, both aliens and time travel.

Where does the face melting power of the Ark of the Covenant rank?

Only God knows.

The problem is, CGI functions essentially like a cartoon: whatever you can imagine, you can draw.

You don’t have to second guess any visual idea. You don’t have to figure out how to “make it work.” Your ambitions are fully divorced from reality.

That’s fine, or even great, when it’s appropriate for the type of story that you’re telling. But the Indiana Jones movies benefited from all the little sacrifices and real world limitations that guided their efforts to present fantastical adventures. The realness of that world made it easier to play pretend alongside, even when it was being absolutely ridiculous.

Something about Indiana Jones crashing to the ground in a CGI cartoon sequence feels actually pathetic. Pitiable. I feel the opposite of the emotion that Indiana Jones is meant to evoke.