Everyone is still always going on about that fucking fridge in the Crystal Skull movie, but I heard the sound the audience made in the first packed Temple of Doom screening I saw back in 1984 - a noise of absolute complete incredulity, with the whole audience deciding that the part where the racing mine cart goes flying over a gap in the track, only to land exactly on the rails on the other side, was just a step too far.
It wasn't the 'let's jump out of a plane in an inflatable life-raft and somehow survive', which the audience bought for some reason, it was that part in the mine cart chase. Suspension of disbelief can only go so far.
Nobody bought that moment. And after that impossibility, of course a fridge will protect you from a nuclear blast.
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