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I will also point out that the fridge scene was the endcap to a relentless assault of action that took place in the warehouse. There was not enough breathing space between action segments. The movie’s biggest fault is bad pacing.

Besides there should have been more than one fridge in the mock-up town. I wonder if I would have enjoyed that segment more if Indy’s fridge landed amongst a slew of others.

You’ll notice I did NOT point out how ridiculous it was that the fridge said “LEAD LINED” on it--as in, “HEY AUDIENCE, THIS IS LINED WITH LEAD THEREFORE OUR HERO WILL SURVIVE IF HE’S INSIDE OF IT”

I gave them that, and I might even have given them the fridge, but then they had to have that stupid gopher pop up, and that was when I got a real bad feeling in my balls...(and this time it wasn’t syphillis)

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I found the new Indy to be good not great.  The more I think about it the more the good stuff stands out over the bad.  Here is how I would fix it if I had ultimate power over time and space.  SPOILERS!!!

1. Indy in the fridge is fine, just don’t show such a hard impact.  Have the fridge land in a lake.  And have Indy show the effects of just being knocked around.

2. Mutt can swing from the vines, nice but he shouldn’t look American Gladiator smooth.  If they took out the graceful aspect it would’ve been cool.  Indy swung on a vine in Raiders and it didn’t look smooth.

3. Mutt and Indy at the hop.  The scene needs some background noise.  It felt like a stage.  And a little more reaction from the people they interact with.

4. The guards of the tomb appear and then vanish.  Indy beat them and calmed down awful quick.  He should still be on guard and explain to Mutt who they were.  Where were the traps?

5. The alien came to life?  DO NOT WANT.  Just have the thing on auto instead of the alien giving a “gift”.  And the eye popping was dumb, everyone knows the ears and nose bleed with psionics.

6.  Ad the dude staying behind for treasure was really bad.  Almost as bad as the bad guy staying in National Treasure 2.

7.  Throwing the snake as a rope?  Lebouf made that scene awful.  Make it look like he wasn’t trying to get Indy bit.

8.  Indy needs to feel the wounds.  The other 3 movies he was fallable in this he won most fights easily.  He took out a jeep of commies way fast.  It should of been more luck and them hitting themselves or something.

9.  More romance needed if a wedding is to occur.

10. For a baddie who is supposed to be a sword expert she needed to show off her skill more.  Some foreshadowing.  And I would’ve liked her fight with mutt if she bested him with the sword and then he made a comeback with his switchblade.