“Kid, it ain’t that kind of movie.” – Harrison Ford to Mark Hamill regarding the latter’s on-set objection to how they could be completely dry after climbing out of the trash compactor in Star Wars.
How could the guy survive being dragged behind a truck, and why did he need guides and a train of mules to find the idol when he was apparently five minutes away from his plane? And how did he shift a massive statue to make it fall through the wall of the Well of Souls? And…ah, never mind. Don’t even get me started about surviving a fall out of a moving airplane and down a cliff (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) or exploring “catacombs” in Venice (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade). And why the heck didn’t he just leave Kate Capshaw behind?
While we’re at it, what did Elsa Lund and Victor Lazlo need with the vaunted Letters of Transit (signed by General DeGaulle…what?) when Major Strasser could have them arrested and indeed, shot, at will? And how the heck did Elsa pack such an extensive wardrobe around Europe and North Africa while on the run from the Nazis?
You forget the biggest plot hole making most of the events impossible. There is no way in hell Great Britain would have allowed that huge archelogical expidetion with armed Afrika corps troops in Colonial Egypt. I’ll accept opertaives working there, I’ll even accept a covert dig, but there were so many uniformed soldiers on what was consider British own soil. Including the Flying Wing. (Would the Nazis realy use a secret weapon in enemy owned territory?)
Opening sequence of Temple of Doom; Indy gets poisoned while conducting a shady deal with Chinese gangsters. He winds up crawling on the floor of the nightclub looking for the antidote while mayhem ensues.
I never noticed that before…I guess the route turned out to be a lot shorter than he thought when he left the plane.
Spielberg’s not constrained by our notions of a 3-dimensional universe, anyway. How’d he get a T-rex into the visitor’s center without anyone noticing?
