Intergalactic Gladiator said:
You mean “Indiana Jones and the Death of the Franchise”?
zamboniracer said:
But see, the neutrinos race through the atmosphere, which is exposed to space and thus cools easily, but accummulate in the core, which has all that dirt piled on top to trap the heat. 
RealityChuck said:
You mean like Ripley actually did at the end? I don’t recall specifically how it was addressed, but I kinda gathered that the ship is rather huge and lots of rooms and alcoves and crannies in which said Alien to grab on to something before being vented to space, and add to it that they didn’t know if it was an air-breather, plus I imagine it would have been prohibitively expensive to carry a full refill supply of air for that vessel, so venting the entire ship would have required all of them to immediately enter hypersleep - if that would have even worked without oxygen. As I recall, the plan was to drive it to the airlock or capture it in a net and carry it to an airlock, where said venting could occur without jeopardizing the rest of the crew or the ship.
typoink said:
What if the tiger had one of the crew sabotaging the efforts of the others? And the crew was only 6 people instead of the complement of a military sub (30? 50? 200?). The plot of Alien works because of the vast size of the ship the crew are unable to quickly and systemically clear it, and because they don’t know how fast the alien grows so are unprepared for the scale of attacks. They underestimate it the whole way. That, and can’t seem to understand 3-D space (hey, let’s build a locational scaller with a 2-D plot, then go through a 3-D maze. That’ll work.)
The New and Improved Superman said:
Because the door was closed?
The real reason was that it hadn’t been established that ET could fly at that point, so he couldn’t. Cartoon physics at work.
lissener said:
They were going to use meconopsis, but he wanted too much and after getting Christian Bale and Liam Neeson, they didn’t have enough budget.
ReticulatingSplines said:
This is a big problem with time travel movies in general. You have a working time machine and can go any place and time in history, so you get in a time crunch because you are working to a deadline - in another century. NO, you’re not (usually) limited to operate as if real time here is real time there. Unless there’s something explicit about the time travel mechanism that limits you, this shouldn’t be a problem. This was nicely highlighted in “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure”.
They figure out even though they are somehow constrained to simultaneous time (an hour of their life corresponds to an hour of San Dimas time), they are not limited to actions that occur during that 1 hour, but can plan actions to do after they complete the mission and aren’t on a deadline, as long as those actions have verifiable results to their current situation. Such as stealing keys from a week ago and hiding them where they can find them now and use them. Or putting a trash can in just the right place to fall on Dad’s head.
I love that movie. It’s cheesy, but fun.
melodyharmonius said:
You’re supposed to feel sorry for him because the Firm really is evil and he wants to do something about it. But yeah, he made the decision to cheat on his wife, regardless of the situation in which he was presented, so that was his fault.
pancakes3 said:
That’s one of those timeline compressions that are hard to follow. I think it was supposed to have take some time - weeks - for Luke to be training, while Han and Leia were traveling at normal speed to Bespin in space. We just don’t get stuck watching the boring parts.
What bugged me was from Empire to Jedi. Luke leaves Degobah early (“you must complete with your training”) to go save Han, and fails. Then spends years working on the plan to save Han. When he finally returns to Degobah, Yoda tells him he doesn’t need any more training, he just needs to face Vader. So, was all that self-training sufficient? Or was Yoda just handwaving because he was dying, so what was the point?
