# Common movie plot/line misconceptions **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 19, 2005, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-movie-plot-line-misconceptions/317750 "2005-08-19T15:17:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-movie-plot-line-misconceptions/317750/81 "2005-08-24T18:23:05Z")
Wow I bowed out too soon in this thread. I may have misremembered things but I see that others thought the same way as I did. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-movie-plot-line-misconceptions/317750/82 "2005-08-24T19:11:54Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Of course, what he’s referring to by “just another bug hunt” is hunting down some bugs. Glitches. The fact that the colony stopped transmitting probably means that their transmitter is broken for some reason. So \*that \* would be why they sent a platoon of armed Space Marines instead of an electronics technician? Not buyin’ it, sorry. From the IMDB quotes page, bolding added: > [@](#): > > Hudson: Is this going to be a standup fight, sir, or another bughunt? > Gorman: All we know is that there is still is no contact with the colony, and that \*\*a xenomorph may be involved. \*\* > Frost: Excuse me sir, a what? > Gorman: A xenomorph. > Hicks: It’s a bughunt. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-movie-plot-line-misconceptions/317750/83 "2005-08-24T20:44:57Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > …encountering aliens rooting through the remains of human history is a lot more common an image that robots doing so… But there is so much going on thematically in _A.I._ that it should be fairly clear that it’s advanced mechas, rather than aliens – because aliens don’t fit. When they’re outside the church, Gigolo Joe explains “The ones who made us are always looking for the ones who made _them_.” – So when David and Teddy are discovered by beings who are thrilled to find creatures who lived before the ice age wiped human beings out, and who explain that they feel that human beings are the key to the meaning of life, it shouldn’t be too hard to see the parallel. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-movie-plot-line-misconceptions/317750/84 "2005-08-24T23:02:06Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > Perhaps the first use of _bug_ in relation to computers, but the term was use during Thomas Edison’s life to mean an industrial defect. And in any case, it was not she who either found the moth or preserved it; she just loved to tell the story and was always careful to emphasise that she herself had not been present. The whole reason the actual moth in question was kept and noted was that here was a routinely used term happening literally for once. However the incident did coin the term _debugging_. [Cite](http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/first_computer_bug.htm). I mentioned all this back on the first page of the thread. Another common misconception. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-movie-plot-line-misconceptions/317750/85 "2005-08-24T23:59:11Z")
> [@](#): > > But there is so much going on thematically in A.I. that it should be fairly clear that it’s advanced mechas, rather than aliens – because aliens don’t fit. > > When they’re outside the church, Gigolo Joe explains “The ones who made us are always looking for the ones who made them.” – So when David and Teddy are discovered by beings who are thrilled to find creatures who lived before the ice age wiped human beings out, and who explain that they feel that human beings are the key to the meaning of life, it shouldn’t be too hard to see the parallel. I’ve alread said that the robot explanation is the correct onme and makes sense. But I maintain that it’s still not necessarily obvious. Most moviemakers aren’t that consistent. Even Spielberg. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-movie-plot-line-misconceptions/317750/86 "2005-08-25T00:06:38Z")
> [@cher3](#): > > My theory is that “Velociraptor” is just a way cooler name than “Deinonychus,” not to mention easier to pronounce. > > Also it wouldn’t have been quite as terror inspiring to have our heroes stalked by Superchicken. but I do hope Superchicken appears in the next JP movie. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-movie-plot-line-misconceptions/317750/87 "2005-08-25T13:59:01Z")
The first “Thin Man” movie. But to say more might be spoiling. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-movie-plot-line-misconceptions/317750.md?page=4)