More of a nitpick, since I otherwise consider this one of my favorite sci-fi movies, but the ending of Predator has a glitch. (spoilers follow).
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After the Predator goes boom, you see the helicopter on the periphery of the explosion, the same helicopter that was sent to extract the commandoes. The female guerrila is riding in the chopper.
Seems to me that if I was in a gunship waiting around on the border of a hot zone to extract a commando team and some bimbo came crashing out the woods screaming about the Devil That Makes Trophies Of Men, I’d blow her away on the spot.
In reply to the query as to why the AI’s ddn’t just give the agents huge indestructible bodies is because they had human form so that they could interact with people in the matrix without being too conspicuous. If they stood out like that they would have been to easy to avoid.
Why didn’t they just blow up where the Oracle lived??? Well because they couldn’t find out where it was.
I agree that the first person out of the Matrix joined up with the “freeborns” in Zion.
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I’m not sure if this is a hole of just a nitpick but it ruined Primal Fear for me. The killer is described as an altar boy at the cathedral for the bishop. As if it’s some sort of job that he applied for and received. And how old is he – at least 17 or 18? Altar boys (and girls), in my experience, are usually middle-school age kids. And it something they do in service of the Mass, not some hourly wage job, as the movie makes it appear.
But you have to keep in mind that hyperspace jumps are very complicated-and microjumps are extremely dangerous. You can often end up landing right in the middle of a planet and killing yourself.
The Star Wars books cover hyperspace travel pretty well. You cannot enter hyperspace if you are too close to a large source of gravity, such as a planet or star. Also, hyperspace apparently does not allow you to pass through solid objects. Remember, Han Solo’s lines in the first movie: “Without precise calculations, we could fly right through a star, or bounce too close to a supernova, and that would injure something real quick.” IOW, trying to fly through the planet Yavin is a Very Bad Idea, even when travelling in hyperspace.
One question that I wonder about is: why the heck didn’t Leah and the others get off of the planet before the Death Star came? They could still launch the attack to destroy the Death Star, but why have your top commanders sit around defenseless?
In Sleeping Beauty, Princess Aurora (aka Briar Rose) is lured up into the tower by Maleficent’s will-o’-the-wisp. Then she sees the spinning wheel. Maleficent’s voice says “Touch the spindle. Touch it!” And then Aurora touches the spindle, and falls asleep, yadda, yadda, you know the drill.
But since King Stefan had burned all of the spinning wheels in the kingdom when Aurora was a tiny baby, this had to be the first spinniing wheel she’d ever seen. So how did she know what part was the spindle?
Dogma: Bartleby (sp?) and Loki are going to destroy existence (and really mess up Jay’s blunt business) by walking thru the church door, get their sins forgiven, die without sin, and go to heaven, contradicting God/Alanis Morisette/Bud Cort.
Presumably after walking thru the church door they are still intent on destroying the universe. Which strikes me as a pretty big sin. (And Christianity treats intentions the same as actions.) Ergo, not going to Heaven, existence is saved and Kevin Smith should stick to simpler stuff.
And Hollow Man is the worst invisible man movie ever.
In Dogma, at first they didn’t know they were going to destroy the universe, but after they find out, Bartelby decides to go with it. He would have a clean slate when he comes out, including all intention to destroy the universe. He would then be immediatly shot dead by cops, without time to think about destroying the universe. Therefore, the universe is destroyed, and we never here God sing about women going down on a dude in a movie theater.
Well, I think the way the photos work is consistent. In BTTF 1, Marty’s siblings fade out oldest to youngest, which I guess is being caused by the ripple moving forward in time to their births. So the contents of the photo are being changed, not the photo itself. So the ripple takes a little while to get to Marty’s brother, who fades out of the picture, then Marty’s sister, etc. In BTTF 3, the engraving of the tombstone only happens a few days after the events that are changing it, so the ripple effects should reach it very quickly.
So the photos at least are consistent, but I agree the newspapers (and that “you’re fired!” FAX from 2015) seem to act differently.
The BIGGEST plot hole in the movie (and I don’t think anyone mentioned this) is that you don’t need a stupid control tower to talk to the airplanes!!!
Remember how big of a deal this was? The pilots on the airplanes had no idea what was going on because the people on the ground couldn’t communicate with them because the outbound communications had been disabled by the bad guys. But then there was a big scene where they tried to get over to another communications center so that they could broadcast a signal to the airplanes to tell them what was going on, and then that failed.
You can broadcast a signal from anywhere!! You can get in a plane sitting on the ground that has a radio and talk to all the other planes on the frequency. You can even walk into Radio Shack and buy a transciever to broadcast to all the planes! You don’t need a damn control tower. All you need is a pocket radio! The bad guys shutting down the communications systems would have had no effect whatsoever in the real world.
And the planes were in the holding pattern from 1.5 to 2 hours! If right at the beginning of the movie someone pulled a radio out of their pocket and told all the planes to land at some other airport, the planes could have at LEAST and hour’s worth of fuel left to go elsewhere. An HOUR–they could have flown to dozens of major airports with perfect weather in that time period.
Thus, the whole “radio problem” in the movie is the biggest plot hole, because without it, the movie would be over. The bad guys would have hijacked a useless airport and would have nothing to “hold hostage”, since all the planes would have flown elsewhere.
The Truman Show was my Fav. Movie of all Time… They could not possibly answer EVERY SINGLE QUESTION in the movie. However Peter Weir once said the he spent a year rationalizing the concept in his head and there were few questions you could ask him that he wouldn’t have an answer to. I read the screenplay that answers a few question in bonus areas of the book.
It is, to me, sort of ridiculous that you bring all this up… Truman Show is more of a FANTASY than it is SCI-FI. But over all it’s a great picture that sparked my imagination
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, okay the Enterprise is the only ship in the quadrant (Which causes further problems when you think about the Voyager series since they somehow ended up in another quadrant, and then again with DS9 with its quadrant, apparently the mapping descriptions of the Federation are a little different than the ones we’re using.), and it’s filled with trainees. So, do they order Enterprise go check out Regula One and tell them to immediately withdraw and await re-enforcements if they encounter any hostile activity? No.
Then, of course, there’s the whole bit with the Genesis device after Khan triggers it. If they can’t beam aboard and stop it, why not just blow the Reliant up? Its not like it isn’t going to happen anyway, and Spock wouldn’t have to race down to the engine room, grab the radioactive stuff and die.
The remake of Planet of the Apes. Why is the US government spending zillions of dollars to breed and train genetically engineered monkeys on a space station orbiting Saturn so they can fly them into strange time vortexes, when it would be cheaper and easier to send automated probes in?
What the hell do you expect from The Truman Show!?
It would take 6 hours to answer every question you could think of, and there were questions from the film that were answered in rare mock “documentary” shown in the first trailer of the movie. I’m willing to bet it will be on a future DVD of the film (it’s already on DVD). If not they probably scraped it because it was boring. I agree that some movie require answers to almost ever question you can throw at it… but those are more science fiction type of films. Truman you have to assume that there’s a reason for everything and ENJOY it.
In Antitrust, Ryan Phillippe and Rachel Leigh Cook work for this company that’s like Microsoft, except they kill people and steal their work. They team up to expose their Bill Gates-like boss. Rachel’s job is to take the incriminating stuff Ryan found and make a easy to follow multimedia presentation, and Ryan’s job is to hack into the systems needed to broadcast the presentation to the world. Here’s the problem - Rachel’s been in league with Evil Bill the whole time, but she still makes the presentation! It’s not like she ever shows it to Ryan beforehand, so she could have made something that had nothing to do with the company, like a bunch of nature footage, or even have made nothing at all, and Ryan’s eventual success in broadcasting it wouldn’t have mattered. There’s no reason for her to make a real presentation.
The thing is though, I doubt Marty and his siblings would be born at all… or at least would heighten the possibility that another sperm reached the egg.
Every little thing you do in the past can have domino effect in the future.
Example: A kid is at the library reading a book, his eye get tired and move up, where the sun outside at that precise time is illuminating (and making more visible) off a speck of dust. The kid follows the speck of dust with his eyes, at that precise time a draft of wind makes the dust float to his left, where he sees the women he will talk to and eventually marry… but if you took the dust, sun, or wind out of the equation… he would never have met her.
So don’t you think the Mother and Father’s schedule will be forever altered…
Maybe different offspring… (they would most likely have the same names)?
Early in the movie, they state that the mothership is roughly 1/4 the size of the moon. The mothership then parks itself in near Earth orbit. Wouldn’t the gravity generated by something that large that close to the Earth play hell with the planet? This thing was close, yet no tide changes, no earthquakes, nothing…
And the smaller ships, you would think when they crashed, they’d cause a rather large explosion…Luckily, they fall harmlessly to the ground.
Where’ve you been? The Enterprise is ALWAYS the only ship in the quadrent! Star Trek TMP, Star Trek 2, Star Trek 4, there was 2 ships at earth, the Excelsior and some Oberth class ship, no ships at earth in the Next Gen episode best of both worlds, and the DS9 episode where the Admirals tried to do a coup on earth, the USS Lakota was the only ship at Earth (The Capital of the Federation, for crying out loud, and they have ONE ship at a time of arms build up!) The only time you see giant fleets was on DS9, but then most of those ships got offed and only the Defiant saved the day.
Odd, the rant seemed to lose my point, but it’s in there somewhere!
I just watched Dirty Harry on PBS and despite the fact that the .44 Magnum is the most powerful handgun in the world, no-one’s head actually gets blown clean off. What a gyp!
