How strong of a magnet would one need to attract gunpowder like that from hundreds of feet away? Seems impossible. I’ve held scissors near a 1.5 Tesla MRI machine but you don’t really feel the pull unless you’re a few feet from the bore.
An imaginary one, I think…
Gunpowder is not magnetic. Neither is gold, but the movie does address that aberration – it’s a MAGICALLY MAGNETIC crystal skull, see?
Also, magnetic force drops off exponentially with distance, so the magically magnetic gunpowder would not “drift” as shown in the movie – a magnet that powerful would draw all nearby metal objects immediately towards it, including all the soldiers’ guns and belt buckles, and the jeep itself. And metal objects don’t “creep” towards magnets, either – once magnetism overcomes inertia & friction, it sucks the object right in.
On the other hand, Indiana Jones also survives a nuclear explosion, so if you buy *that…*it’s not much of a stretch. 
I can’t think of anything in gunpowder that would be magnetic. :dubious:
If by gunpowder you mean black powder, it’s a mix of sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate.
If you mean smokeless power, well I can’t provide a formula but there’s nothing magnetic in their either.
Hey, it could happen 
Yea, and I never understood how those guys faces melted in ROTLA. What was the science behind that?
Maybe indy films aren’t a good source for reality based conversations. They are a heck of a lot of fun though.
Which doesn’t explain why he asked for gunpowder and lead buckshot at the beginning of the movie before they went into the “magnetism” (which was highly selective on when it would attract things as well).
So you’re saying the wrath of the Old Testament God which lays holy smack downs on sacrilegious Nazis also makes transdimensional alien “magnetic” skulls? Given that one was a thematic conclusion to a movie that perfectly matched the set up and the other was a “What the hell?” moment at the beginning I can’t say I really equate them in terms of narrative success.
So I’m 1.5 hours into the movie. The car chase was great but the rest of the film has been lacking.
That’s pretty much how I felt, except for the part about the car chase being great. I saw it over the weekend and was sorely disappointed. A couple funny lines, plenty of eye rolling. The scene with the ants was pleasantly disgusting.
I never thought I could say this, but I was disappointed with the monkey army.
Really, how can a filmmaker create a disappointing monkey army? Monkey Army! That’s almost as intrinsically cool as a zombie pirate monkey, and it didn’t work.
Here’s the thing…
They (the bad guys) beleived Indy - whether the gun powder actually floated or not - and what better way to even the odds than to have the bad guys systematically neuter all of thier weapons - at one point, they were even emptying grenades.
So, no - it didn’t do anything - Indy’s just darn good at mental games.
“It didn’t so anything”??
I saw that gunpowder fly through the warehouse with my own two eyes! Are you saying Indy’s “mental games” included hypnotism to induce visual hallucinations?
Scissors and an MRI machine. A potentially dangerous combination.
I want to hang out with you.
Ventilation fans maybe? Or he forgot to list his Jedi training in his resume. Jedi Master Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, now that would be interesting…
Lightwhip ? Coolest. Weapon. Ever.
You apparently never saw the Ferengi version…
To the earlier question - you only think you saw it moving in a direction - he kept ‘throwing’ it in the direction he wanted to head… easy enough.
The part that bothered me was how they portrayed it to be so crazy magnetic, but in the car chase scene, they were throwing it around in the sack and pulling it in and out of the jeep like it wasn’t magnetic at all. That really took me out of it. I know it’s a nit pick, but that’s my two cents about it.
The most unforgivable part for me (and it was quite a competition) was how Indy had to use the Crystal Skull as a “key” to get into the room with all the other alien skeletons. Without that skull, the door wouldn’t open.
So how did the people who stole it to begin with get in there?
They got in through the plot hole.
::snort::