Historically, whether it was the Mongols or Pirates, it was easier for both sides to have an awesome reputation that caused the other side to surrender without fight and be left alive, than start fighting and be eventually killed without survivors. That was the usual mode operandi, and I assumed that “no survivors” was shorthand for that “Surrender without fight, and we take your valuables, and let you go; start fighting, and we kill everybody”. Alternate solution to 1 “Surrender without a fight, and we take all your valuables and sell you into slavery”. No survivors which can get back, but nobody killed either.
Which reminds me of…
Love prevails, Earth is saved, and everyone lives happily ever after, right?
Except that there is now a moon-sized planet of extinguished Great Evil in low-Earth orbit (I believe the movie said 600 miles from Earth).
Now, I’m no physicist, but can an object that size even maintain a low-Earth orbit? Wouldn’t it (at some point soon, if not immediately) just come crashing into Earth, with all the death and mayhem that would entail?
But let’s say this gigantic chunk of charred evil somehow magically maintains its low-Earth orbit. An object that size is going to have some serious gravitational effects on the planet. For example, every coastal city is now going to be swamped by Biblical floods, as Earth’s oceans get sloshed back and forth like the water in a fat man’s bathtub.
(And that’s to say nothing of Bruce Willis trying to make a future with an alien. Didn’t we learn our lesson about that sort of thing in Species?)
Well, it is the advanced future. They do have space ships and so on. I can buy that once the evilness that made the thingie impenetrable to normal weapons (when they tried blasting it earlier) is extinguished by the force of the 5 elements, that then normal weapons can just blast it apart into chunks small enough to burn up in the atmosphere (which would’ve made a nice last picture: Corben with Leela, standing under a sky full of shooting stars…)
Different kind of alien chick. Not every human female you pick up to have sex with gives you STDs, either.
So…no big loss. 
But did you get the idea, the way they framed the new moon, that perhaps this happened before?
The most horrifying thing, I think, is this, which I read somewhere (here?):
In three years and one month, it’ll be 2015. We will then be as far from the year Back to the Future came out, 1985, as 1985 was from 1955, the year Marty went back to.
Who else feels old now?
The implication in the final scene is that Grodin is just going to abandon her, too. He’s already unhappy with what he got himself into.
I agree 100% with Sampiro about Oklahoma! If nothing else, Laurie is one of the stupidest leading ladies in any Broadway musical. Well, except for Judy Jordan in Carousel, who thinks sometimes a slap can feel like a kiss. :eek:
2015 is also the future with the flying cars and hoverboards.
I hated the ending. Rose throws the jewelry overboard when she should have given it to her caretaking granddaughter. And then in death she goes dancing with Jack, someone she hung out with for about a week. What about her actual husband I’m assuming she had?
Unless I’m completely misremembering the movie completely.
We can only surmise that Marty messing about with the future screwed it up for all of us.
DAMN YOU, MCFLY!
No, I asked the same questions myself.
<raises hand>
i really wanted a hoverboard. there’s still time though, right?
kind of off topic, but i found it touching that gloria stuart (the actress who played old rose) lived to be 100 and passed away peacefully in her sleep, much like her character in the movie.
This is the closest you’ll be getting.
As for Toy Story, there is a different sad thing for me. The toys are animate except for when a human is around, right? How absolute is this rule? Pretty hard and fast considering how many children die alone in home accidents each year while their “adoring” toys sit there and watch without helping. But when it comes to screwing over the vicious kid next door to save some of their own kind, the rules aren’t so binding anymore.
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check this out (youtube) - the Honda U3-X Personal Mobility Prototype
I can see why you might think that if you watched the movie, especially the American one, but if you read the book (which is a million times creepier than the movie), you’ll learn that:
Eli, who is actually a castrated boy, meets Hakan, the pedo, when Hakan is contemplating suicide because of his love for young boys. He’s already in his 40s at that point. Eli, disgusted by Hakan’s desires, but needing an adult protector, takes him in and helps him in exchange for blood. He never willingly permits Hakan’s touch, or allows Hakan to touch other boys.
That doesn’t hover or have hover in the name. Doesn’t really apply to the joke.
hijack:
Wow, that just really looks like an excuse for fat and lazy people to get fatter and lazier. Instead of Back to the Furture, it put me in mind of the degenerate humans in Wall-E.
/hijack
Actually, you’ve got it all wrong. The Younger family doesn’t have to worry much about being hassled by their white neighbors. On the contrary, the white neighbors are going to start selling their houses and getting the heck out of that neighborhood.
In a few years, the Youngers will be living right next door to the very people they thought they were leaving behind.
The play ***Clybourne Park ***is a sequel of sorts to Raisin.