A wise man once said: Let it go, Ace, Let it GO.

...That was Indie's Dad who said it - and it was something like, "Let it go, Indie, let it go."

they pay people to take care of this crap.

it's called continuity

or key grip. something, hell I don't know.

In Serenity, Kaylee says she's rigged the door so that it can't be opened from the outside. River goes through it to seal her friends off form the Reivers.
Then, when Mal returns form sending the broadband, the doors open up again to show River, elbow-deep in blood, standing framed ceter-stage on top of a pile of Reiver corpses.
Mal was back with the rest of his crew.
River was posing.

Who opened the door?

Is this like an Encyclopedia Brown mystery for geeks?

...this coming from the man who remembers what a Kaddam was...

If it isn't one kaddamned thing it's another...

Whoa, an Encyclopedia Brown reference = instant flashback to 1977 and my elementary school's library.

That's just an illusion because of the camera angle.

Now, go see my masterpiece, Munich.

I guess you're okay that Indy broke the staff over his knee while he was in the map room. That brings to mind an old adage my daddy taught me about woodshop.

Measure with a micrometer,

Mark with a crayon,

just break about a foot or so off across your knee.

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Here's that scene from a different angle--

http://cgi.ebay.it/Kenner-vintage-Indiana-Jones-Map-Room-Parts_W0QQitemZ6003051913QQcategoryZ9983QQcmdZViewItem

I never noticed that, but I have wondered if the ancient Egyptians had the same 1:1 ratio of kaddams to cubits, which is the standard of length from the Old Testament. I figured they just changed it to feet, in case the audience wouldn't know WTF a cubit was.

So how long's a cubit? This site says the general consensus in 18 inches. http://www.worldwideflood.com/ark/noahs_cubit/cubit.htm

So Indy's staff was 90 inches or 7.5 feet, if it was 5 kadams. Now, how did he know what diameter he needed to fit into the hole?

It's kickass that in a movie that requires the kind of suspension-of-disbelief that RotLA does we're arguing units of measurement.

Which brings me to my riddle: Why am I at home on a Friday night?

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Too many bad dates.

I'll get my coat.

There's another possible explanation - Sallah is a dumbass. After all, the guy digs holes in the ground for a living.

Sullah: That's about six feet.
Indie: I know it's about six feet, but how much is it exactly?
Sullah: Exactly...nine feet.

They had to cut that dialogue because the movie was running too long.

If you go to :
indygear.com/forum

You can discuss this at length amongst similar devoted fans.... :-)

Too many bad dates.

Try the Syrian dates...they are the best in the middle east.

It still bugs the hell out of me that when they opened the ark, GHOSTS came out. That offends me as a Jew, and I'm slightly less Jewish than Conan O'Brien. Why not have some mummies climb out of it? Maybe some manefestations of Thoth and Ammon could have made appearances. Hint: Judaism is DIFFERENT from the cult of Osiris, and the God of Abraham isn't a whole bunch of human ka's stuffed in a box.

I didn't think they were ghosts. I'm not sure just what they were, but not ghosts. I thought they were sort of like guardian angels, who turned really mean when they saw who was messing around with the Ark of the Covenant.

Dont look keep you eyes shut but we remember what came out of the ark ghosts lots of ghosts and all those persons rememeber when the person melted and the main villian exploded? eewwee