Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull [use spoiler tags, please]

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by Ponine

What I want to know, was there a REASON we saw the ark?

Couple theories on this:

a) Because it was cool

b) Because that whole warehouse scene was (per Sohrshah) a tribute to the matte painting that had been done for the first movie, which had over 30 seconds straight of screen time, and apparently this was something worth tributing - and the ark was being put away into that warehouse for that scene, so it was appropriate that we realize Indy was in the same warehouse.

I'm at least going with a