One of my favorite movies. The cast is really something.
I liked Bunny Lake is Missing, and disliked Virginia Woolf for other reasons entirely, mainly the volume level.
Heh.
Did anyone get to the end of Super Mario Brothers 2 and discovered that it WAS all a dream before someone previously told you that it is all a dream?
I did. Wish I had that 3 hours of my life back.
And every movie adaptation shows him transforming early in the plot, which is a completely different story to the original.
Just wait until you see my post about A Study in Scarlet. You’re gonna be pissed. So are the Mormons.
Wait! Bunny Lake really existed, and was missing, Her father took her. (at least in the 1965 film)
What about films where it is generally possible and possibly deliberately true that the trope is correct?
Minority Report: it’s quite possible that the entire last part of the film is all Anderton’s fantasy in prison. They even allude to that in earlier dialog.
Total Recall: It is quite likely even that the entire movie is Quaid trapped in a Recall malfunction, There is even dialog and a brief flash of an image that supports this
Jacob’s Ladder: is clearly Owlcreeking
Sixth Sense: It’s canon
X Files Field Trip: I think there is a case to be made they died. It would sure explain the final seasons! 
I thought you were saying there was a second film, but I see you mean the game. That said, apparently they’re making a new animated film.
(I don’t care what people say - I loved the live action Bob Hoskins/John Leguizamo one.)
I’d say those two are different, since as you say, there’s actual evidence from the movie itself to suggest the “it’s not real” interpretation. That’s kind of the point of both movies.
Reminds me of the theory that Homer Simpson has been in a coma since 1993.
I figured it went without saying I am familiar with the story of War of the Worlds, thus the pass.
Or indeed the whole Tommy Westphall Universe.
There’s a deleted scene where Holden (the Blade Runner who was shot by Leon) is recovering in the hospital and Deckard goes to visit him. I don’t know if deleted scenes are considered canon, but if so that would blow this theory right out of the water.
No you see that’s just Deckard INVENTING another Blade Runner in his head!!!
Didn’t Mythbusters give that one the okay?
Nope.
It is possible to jump from a disabled airplane and use an > inflatable life raft to safely return to earth (as in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
BUSTED
Any attempt to use the raft failed due to the instability of the raft in free fall. It was possible to rig the raft as a parachute and land with minimal injuries, but this would not be possible to perform while jumping from a disabled aircraft.
No
ETA: Ninja’d, but it wasn’t fair as I had to deal with a bunch of clients. I had it written up and was just going over formatting.
Thank you. I had a hazy memory of a final success, but it makes perfect sense that it wasn’t done in a way that could be done spontaneously.
When I read Frankenstein back in college, I noticed a similar thing. If you don’t go into it knowing that the monster is real, it reads like the novel of a guy having a psychotic breakdown and killing a couple people, then dissociating by inventing a “monster” to blame for the killings. The framing device, where Dr. Frankenstein is telling his story on his death bed, only for the monster to appear to confirm that his creator is truly deceased, works really well as a twist reveal that Frankenstein was right all along, and wasn’t a crazed murderer after all.
But there are clues in Sixth Sense. I figured it out before the reveal ( not very long, to be fair).
However it isn’t so bad when the film makes it clear- what is exceptionally stupid is when fanboys and self-proclaimed “critics” insist they know better than the writers. I include there the little added on twist at the very end.
Well, sure not just landing on concrete- but landing on many, many feet of soft snow? Why not, Indy has incredible luck, almost supernatural levels of it at times.
I’d say that there is a difference between declaring definitively that the narrator is dead/dying and this is their death dream, and deciding that coming from that perspective allows one to enjoy the movie/show without being bothered by inconsistencies in physics and logic.
Yeah, I can fly in my dreams, too.