• @jordanlund
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    254 months ago

    Quite a lot of the Indiana Jones stories are based on real, or at least “real” artifacts.

    Ark of the Covenant:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_of_the_Covenant

    Lingam Stones:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingam

    Holy Grail:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Grail

    Crystal Skulls:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_skull

    Antikythera Mechanism:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

    Another one that popped up in Dial of Destiny was the Spear of Longinus:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Lance

    • @EdibleFriend
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      84 months ago

      I honestly didn’t mind the aliens? That movie definitely had its fucking issues but that wasn’t one of them for me. Then again I’m one of the few people who thinks it was at least… Passable I guess? Not the world ending abomination it’s made out to be.

      I mean obviously it’s shit compared to the originals but… Could have been a lot worse. It had its moments.

      • @EvilBit
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        44 months ago

        Yeah honestly I could never figure out why people were all up in arms about aliens. Heart ripping mystics, the holy grail, and god exploding Nazis were all realistic enough for you, but aliens were a bridge too far?

        Movie was bad, but not because it had aliens.

        • VindictiveJudge
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          74 months ago

          Heart ripping mystics, the holy grail, and god exploding Nazis were all realistic enough for you, but aliens were a bridge too far?

          It’s not about realism, it’s about consistency. Aliens in the fourth movie after religious mysticism in the first three is tonally and thematically inconsistent with the rest of the series unless you’re actually familiar with the century old pulp serials the movies are a throwback to.

        • @EdibleFriend
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          34 months ago

          And of course the constant talk about the fridge which is, to me, just as stupid as jumping out of a crashing plane in a raft.

          • @EvilBit
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            24 months ago

            I might disagree on that point because any force that hurls a fridge that far will turns its occupants to jelly (much like the first Iron Man suit catering in the desert with Tony inside), but it doesn’t change the fact that realism has never been the point.

            • @EdibleFriend
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              24 months ago

              Oh yeah not saying the fridge isn’t more LETHAL. Just that its…about as stupid from a writing standpoint.

    • @ExtraMedicated
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      -14 months ago

      Yeah that 4th movie sucked so bad it somehow ruined the original trilogy for me.

  • @betheydocrime
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    4 months ago

    The cookies popup on that website cracked me the hell up. “We, and our seven hundred fifty-six partners, care about your privacy” We, and our seven hundred fifty-six partners, care about your privacy

  • @LovingHippieCat
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    124 months ago

    Someone at Machine Games watches Ancient Aliens.

    • @quams69
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      134 months ago

      It’s also the plot of the fourth movie

      • bean
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        24 months ago

        The fridge. I. Just. Idk. I can’t reconcile xD