They should have made them look more like robots and less like aliens then. I thought they were alien robots from outer space that were doing archaeological work on Earth.
Yes, she did.
So? Ridley Scott was the director of Blade Runner and he knows jackshit about what was really going on in that movie.
Duh!
We actually did a thread about this one a few months ago and even with a video clip of the final scene (which shows Dottie’s hand hitting the dirt and the ball popping out), there are people who still fought it. People be stubborn.
Which should tell you my opinion of the mess they made of that movie. A good idea gone horribly wrong. (And it had nothing to do with Asimov. Asimov didn’t invent robots. The originating story was by Brian Aldiss, not that it made much difference to what appeared on screen.)
Blade Runner is perhaps worse. People can so easily argue whatever side of the question they want because the film had no idea of what pov it wanted to put forward.
Misunderstanding is not really the issue. When the fabric of the story is botched then all interpretations become equally viable.
if people could believe that the two leads ended up together in Big, they could believe anything.
I have run into several people that did not understand the plot to Trading Places.
“How did they sell the futures they didn’t own?”
:rolleyes:
Anyone want to explain who Dottie is and what film that is from?
It’s from** A League of Their Own**. Dottie and her sister are players in a girl’s baseball league during WWII, with some friction between them. The sister is traded to a rival team, that just happens to be the opponents in the championship game. Dottie is the star player, but she has no plans to keep playing, she’s going home with her husband to do the family thing. The sister really has nothing going for her except baseball even though she’s really a mediocre player, and has always been in Dottie’s shadow. The scene in question is a play at the plate, with the sister attempting to score. Dottie is the catcher. There is a collision, Dottie drops the ball on purpose, allowing her sister to score and be the hero for once.
I think it’s A League of their Own.
It didn’t even enter my mind that there was any possibility that they were not aliens until I read a thread on IMDB the day after I saw the movie and found people’s insistence they they were robots. I still can’t imagine what possessed them to have these “robots” look like aliens if they thought it would be so clear. I still feel like they’re messing with viewers and didn’t actually decide what they were going for, like with Knowing.
Yeah… robots, aliens, whatever. What I don’t get is people who think the movie had a happy ending.
I was kinda wondering there. I haven’t seen the movie, but I’m a huge Asimov fan. If the movie was based on Asimov, then the answer would clearly be “robots” because Asimov’s universe(s*) did not contain aliens.
*He tied the “robot” and “Foundation” universes together in his later years.
Not the Foundation/Robot combined universe. However in that universe the Earth is radioactive, not under water.
BTW, I thought they were aliens for a second, but when they set up a network to communicate it was clear they were robots - and the rest of the movie bore it out.
Thank you! I was like “Why did you just punch Ronald Fraser? Because he refused to recklessly tackle a dangerous situation head on and die alongside the other two? Screw you, James Stewart!”
I will never understand how people can look at this in a film called Artificial Intelligence that’s all about robots getting ever more advanced and not realise it’s a robot.
Blair Witch Project. They couldn’t find their way out of the woods because they were under a spell. Or that part of the forest was cursed. Or something supernatural. But not because they were stupid. I mean, they were, but not so stupid that they couldn’t follow a stream. They were cursed.
Another way to put this that might make more sense to some people is that their senses and minds were being manipulated supernaturally. The “witch” was altering their perceptions to keep them from leaving.
A Boy And His Dog - movie
Is the boy insane?! I mean he is a teenage orphan for who knows how long, does he really have a talking dog? The only info we ever get to explain the dog’s psychic abilities is from the boy himself, seems very suspect. No one else ever interacts with this supposed telepathic dog that’s as smart as a bright human adult.
Indeed. It was a design and direction failure. I admit to first thinking they were aliens but accept I was wrong. Why did I think that? BECAUSE THEY LOOKED AND ACTED LIKE STANDARD SCI-FI ALIENS.
Yeah, not everyone has the same references as you so it may be helpful if you manage to type the ten or so (presumably) extra characters so we all know what the hell you are on about.