Wrong and wrong. The point is not that Rocky lost, or that Rocky was a nobody. The point is that Rocky won – not the fight, but the love of Adrien. He didn’t care in the least that he lost the fight, he wasn’t even paying attention to the announcement. Rocky gets everything he ever hoped to get, which was love and respect, and you certainly can’t extrapolate from there that the whole point of the movie was that he lost the fight.
This reminds me of another song: Filter’s Hey Man, Nice Shot. When it first came out, everyone assumed it was abut Kurt Cobain’s suicide a year earlier, but the band confirmed that it was actually about R. Budd Dwyer (and his infamous suicide at a press conference). Eighteen years after the song came out, I still hear from fans of the song that it’s about Kurt Cobain. I guess the lyrics are vague enough that it’s understandable.
I know a lot of people who think that The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is only supposed to be a farce without any deeper meaning. It’s an existentialist novel presenting the author’s viewpoint that all of existence is pointless and that not type of endeavor can achieve anything worthwhile. It mocks philosophy, intellectualism, religion, science, technology, business, and government.
I’ve also met a lot of people who don’t seem to get Terry Pratchett’s views towards academia. He uses the wizards/professors at the university as clowns constantly throughout almost all the Discworld novels. He does this to make a point about the academic world.
The bafflement is completely mutual. I recall that he couldn’t beam out any time he wanted (“So you can’t even beam us back?”). Your interpretation, as best I can tell, completely destroys any drama the scene has and, to my knowledge, has never been advanced by Shatner, Meyer, Sowards or Bennett, so however you came to your interpretation, I don’t see the creative intent in that direction.
Thanks to Jurassic Park, we now think that veliociraptors are 5 foot high killing machines. One misconception is that raptor always refers to them, and not to birds of prey. But more to the point, real velociraptors are about the size of a long beagle. The movie/book version are deinonychuses or utahraptors.
I saw paleontologist Bob Bakker (who consulted on Jurassic Park) speak about ten years ago and he said that it was awfully lucky for Steven Spielberg that the Utahraptor was discovered between the publication of the novel Jurassic Park and the release of the movie. He joked that Spielberg may have had the fossils created by his special effects folks and planted in Utah so he could have a bigger raptor dinosaur in the movie without straying too far from “reality”.
You know, as I was typing my response to this, I thought I vaguely remembered a thread I started about this very thing. Sure enough, I did, 9 years ago. And we both snarked at each other in it. Yikes. 
On a different note, the famous poem that is frequently mis-quoted - “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson -
We have mal-adapted that into “do or die,” but that’s not the original line.
Thus proving that the Dope has lapped itself…
I think Stephen Colbert is a misunderstood popular culture icon. There are far too many conservatives who do not realize that he is utterly and unrelentingly mocking them night after night. Of course, he mocks America in general, not just conservatism, but his entire persona is based on being a faux conservative.
In that case they shouldn’t have made the “Robots” look so much like stereotypical sci-fi movie aliens - as has already been noted in the thread.
And in relation to the OP: Tintin is referred to frequently as a “reporter” - despite the fact he never appears to have actually filed a news story.
That Meat Loaf was being vague about the one thing that he wouldn’t do for
Love. He states very clearly what “that” is.
Okay, “whole point” is perhaps a misphrasing. But it is essential to the finale of the movie that Rocky did not win the fight. Because he didn’t care that he lost, he won what mattered to him. If he had actually won the match, it would have weakened the part where he’s calling for Adrien and that’s all that matters to him.
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And it isn’t open to interpretation in any other way. I saw an interview with Kathleen Kennedy(producer) years and years ago where she said she and Spielberg were stunned that anyone thought they were aliens and that their intention had only ever been for it to be clearly robots in the future.
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What more could they have done? I got they were robots the second you saw their “ship” disassemble around them as they arrived at the archaeological site in ice age New York. Also, the fact they were walking around the site, which was dug out of the chunk of glacier, without any type of clothing or cover to protect them from the cold convinced me the beings were obviously not biological.
Not given them grey, translucent skin and an appearance reminiscent of stereotypical sci-fi aliens? Maybe not have them speaking (albeit with subtitles) in what sounded like an alien language? And not getting around in what appeared to be an alien spaceship?
It’s sometimes called the “great” question, sometimes called the “ultimate” question, and sometimes (and as originally asked) just called “Life! The Universe! Everything!”. I think you’re focusing on a distinction that isn’t really present in the text.
Not only that but the future robots matched the stylized robot on the logo of the robot making company almost exactly, AND they pretty much refer to the kid robot as an ancestor.
Are you kidding, in Spielberg movies even dinosaurs produce flashes of light. (I’m not sure about the wires):
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/an-ukQjbJtJhn7b/jurassic_park_1993_opening_scene_part_2/
In the early 70s some friends of mine who were getting married asked me to sing “That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be” at their wedding.:eek:
“The couples cling and claw, and drown in love’s debris.” I talked them out of it.
Not sure if I’m being whooshed, but I’m pretty sure those flashes are from the weapons of the men trying to subdue the dinosaur.