I was suspicious about two thirds of the way thru the film. I wasnt shocked by the twist, but still, it was a good one.
I’m curious, did you first see the film on tv or in the theater? I went into the movie hearing there was a twist but nothing else. I was convinced that I would be able to spot the twist from far away and was ready to look for it from the beginning. What actually happened was the theater experience drew me in so well that I completely forgot to try and figure out the twist. I believe that if I was watching on tv I would have remembered and figured it out.
Theater. But note- I was just thinking "something is off here " with Bruce Willis’s character. “Could be also be a ghost, or something else?”
I was ten years old when The Flintstones appeared on TV. It’s taken me 65 years (this morning at 4am) to realize the theme song contains a howling error.
“Flintstones, meet the Flintstones, they’re a modern Stone Age family”
So far, so good. “Modern Stone Age” seems self-contradictory but to a Stone Age person it would be modern times, so I’m willing to be reasonable.
But then…“…From the town of Bedrock, they’re a page right out of history.”
Wrong!! The correct statement should be “they’re a page out of prehistory.”
But since “prehistory” means “before written records were kept”, prehistory by definition can’t have pages at all.
Discuss amongst yourselves.
The Flintstones read and write. Like modern Stone Age family, it’s all relative.
Plus the line flows better as is. Singing “a page out of prehistory” sounds odd and clunky.
Ah, but how could we depict their actions if there wasn’t some historical record? (It’s based on a true story, right?)
I always heard it as “From the town of Bedrock, They’re a place right out of history”.
The Flintstones is set in a post-apocalyptic future, and is contemporary with The Jetsons. They have lost the technology to actually build things like vacuum cleaners, but have recreated them with trained animals.
So, they are a page out of future history.
They are the inhabitants of the ground, below those buildings in the sky.
Sort of like the Eloi and the Morlocks.
Is it post-apocalyptic, or posthuman? I posit that they intentionally live in a world that looks superficially neolithic, but is actually powered by advanced nanotech and by genetic engineering - the latter both of the “dinosaurs” and of the “human” inhabitants themselves, which is what makes them strong enough to power a car with their own inhuman feet. The people in the sky are the traditionalists, who refuse to adapt their bodies and environment to life on the surface.
As remarked, since the Flintstones have inscribed stone tablets they have history. That’s the least of the paradoxes presented by the Flintstones. What I’d like to know is how they can have television.
I know a prehistoric rabbit was involved.
I’m still figuring out how a show that takes place in the years B.C. could have a Christmas special.
A wizard did it.
That was the issue with the BC comics, by Hart.
That’s kind of the joke. They are presented with anachronistic “modern” culture but interpreted in stone (or animal) by Stone Age people.
That’s your problem with The Flintstones, not them riding dinosaurs that died out 66million years before them?
That is actually a glitch in Fred’s neural implants. Any objective effects he has on the physical world are actually manifestations of Fred’s latent metapsychic abilities.