I’ve seen a fanwank that posits Arcturia is a human colony notorious for transvestite sex workers, or some kind of futuristic sex change or actual hermaphrodite surgery. Hence the line in the movie.
Not if it was Jar-Jar. 
Well… not accurate at all.
There’s an all Chinese gang - The Savage Hans
The Riffs appear to be all black.
The Boppers are all black.
The Hurricanes were supposed to be all latino.
The Hi-Hats appear to be all white.
The Panzers are probably all black since they have a black panthers motif.
He probably had some secret investment scheme going, with Ward Cleaver and Steve Douglas.
Oh, and don’t forget Gomez Addams. 
This has long bugged me about the 1948 Superman movie serial, and the TV show Lois and Clark: the New Adventures of Superman. No other version of Superman has this problem.
In the first episodes of these two series, Clark Kent is wearing glasses long before he came up with the idea of putting on a costume and becoming Superman. Why would he start wearing glasses before he had a secret identity to protect?
With regard to to Gilligan, so many people have commented that the Professor should have simply repaired the boat.
Early on we actually saw the Skipper try to repair the boat with Gilligan’s “help”. Even if you had never seen the episode, you can guess the flaw in that plan.
Rather than repair the boat, or even build a a very stable raft, there would be a far more sensible use of the professor’s talents.
Just make a transmitter! It would not even need to send a voice or other transmitted sound. Just a simple SOS beep would be fine.
It had occurred to me to start a thread on Samantha before her marriage. The premiere episode had her repeatedly run into mortal Darrin Stevens, apparently on busy metropolitan streets. They eventually started seeing each other, and the rest is history. The implication was that “fate” was in force.
What was she doing hanging around that particular city? Working temporary jobs to get a feel for how the “other half” lives? (Aka: “slumming”)
I mean, for the most part the magical folks did not seem to mingle with the mortal world. There were clouds to float on, and apparently swinging clubs (invisible in the clouds) that mortals normally had no access to. They presumably would never have to drop down to a grocery store, since they could magic up food and every other physical need. Of course, several witches babysat for Samantha’s kids, or were pains-in-the neck to Darrin, or both. But all that was in the wake of Samantha’s marriage to a mortal. Otherwise they would have likely continued to “travel in different circles” as she put it to an amorous old flame who wondered if he might bump into Darrin.
It was just a thought. I had decided that it might be silly to try to get a whole thread going on it. Although the silly responses might have kept it going for a while.
I always figgered they threw a rope around his neck and towed him back. Isn’t that how it happened?
If you were stuck on an island with Ginger and Maryanne, would you have wanted to repair the boat and go back to civilization? I think I would have wanted to wait until I had an opportunity to conduct a detailed examination of one or both of those girls. I would have told them I was a doctor and examined my little heart out.
I would have examined and examined until I could examine no more. Oh, it would have been fun. The best part was that you were bound to prefer one or both of them and you could have examined them for a long long time.
It was the Professor’s idea to use Gilligan’s “pancake syrup” as glue; and when Gilligan discovered it didn’t last he tried to warn everybody but was too late. For once Gilligan didn’t deserve the blame IMHO.
Ok, now the following is Gilligan’s fault. First, the Professor managed to repair the Minnow’s transmitter, only to have Gilligan smash it. Then in another episode they found a downed weather balloon with a data transmitter- Gilligan smashed that too. Then they figured out how to jury-rig the Minnow’s receiver into a transmitter; you guessed it, Gilligan smashed it. They tried using the transistor radio as a transmitter but it couldn’t put out enough power. And if you accept the reunion TV movie as canon, Gilligan eventually smashed that as well. The Mars probe that landed on the island? Wrecked by Gilligan. Well you get the idea… since a working transmitter meant rescue it couldn’t survive.
He may not have had a secret identity, but he had a secret ability, right?
He wants to pass as normal while secretly performing superhuman feats, and doesn’t want people suspecting anything unusually impressive about him; he could tone it down enough to match the feats of a gold medalist with 20/10 vision; he could tone it down even further, to match the feats of a bronze medalist with 20/20 vision; but even before deciding to create a superhero persona, he obviously wants to go even further when it comes to projecting an image of fallibility and imperfection.
That’s true whether or not he wears the glasses – so why not put an ounce of work into constantly reminding everyone that, hey, isn’t it obvious that I’m not inhumanly good at everything? Can’t you see that I’m a little below average at some stuff?
During the time this thread was on hiatus, I watched “The Warriors” for the first time during the summer of 2014. It actually wasn’t as bad as I was lead to believe - indeed, it was a bit fun.
Somebody was nice enough to post a lot of the shooting location for the movie:
“The New York City Filming Locations of The Warriors” (Spoiler - they never filmed any scenes in the Bronx, but they did film some in Queens). You can see a few “civilians” in the screenshots, but possibly they blew the extras budget on the gang conclave scenes.
As for the topic, one reason I think the Warrior’s just didn’t hide till dawn in the film is because when you think about it, the police are actually pretty efficient in the movie - they sneak up on the gang conclave (no flashing lights or sirens on the cars) and bust a whole lot of gang members, (I figure the rather paltry two bus-loads of arrested gang members shown driving under the el was due to production budget reasons), the rape-decoy snags a Warrior, police snag a few more warriors in the subway (and kill one as he gets thrown in front of a passing subway train) - not to mention a lot of other hostile gangs are out looking for them (as the DJ likes to remind them constantly). Possibly if they stole some cars the police would have snagged them faster, I dunno (actually, I don’t recall a lot of non-police or fire department vehicle traffic in the film, beside the Rogues’ 1954[?] Cadillac). I suppose taking the bus was right out.
I was in Junior HS when the Warriors came out in 1979, and not affiliated with any gangs, but quite frankly guys wearing Mime Make-up or Baseball uniforms on the street would have gotten a severe beat-down (the actors playing the Baseball Furies and the HiHats don’t look particularly tough). Ironically, I’d say the Orphans jeans and t-shirts would have been a more likely gang style - best not to stand out too much if your dealing drugs or jacking cars and DON’T want to get busted quickly (“Officer, the shoplifter was wearing a freaking Mime costume!”)…The site linked above has shots of other gangs - not sure that the stripped shirt & overall wearing “Punks” gang has a particular apt name - there was a real Punk scene then, and the guys at CBGB’s didn’t look much like that (maybe some of the girls did).
One last thing - you got an all girl gang, and they seem to prefer each other’s company enough that they only “seduce” (some) of the warriors so they can snuff them (to get street cred?)…and you call the gang the “LIZZIES”? <cinemasins>Sigh</cinemasins> :smack:
How is it that three intelligent women in “Charlie’s Angels” can never figure out a way to meet their boss or even come up with a picture of him?
It could follow the model of the Danish royal successionaround the supposed time of Hamlet:
- the monarch was elected
- only the nobles would have a vote in the issue
- it would *usually *go to the eldest son of the former king
- but if the prince was mad or otherwise unsuitable the crown could go to another suitable candidate.
So, if Amidala was the only child of the last monarch, and with no serious objection, her election would be more or less automatic.
What exactly do you mean by “examine?”
What about Lovie Howell? You left her out!
How about the Batman 1960s TV show? To get to the Batcave, they pull back the head of the bust, press the button, and the bookcase reveals two poles conveniently labledfor Bruce and Dick. They slide down the poles in full street clothes, and by the time they reach bottom they have shed their street clothes and put on their uniforms, all presumably while maintaining their grip on the Batpoles. How is that possible? Why not simply have a locker room at the base of the pole?
I’ve discussed this on this Board before, in another thread.
It’s a major logistical problem, no doubt about it, which is why the original movie conveniently glosses over it by cutting from Denham declaring Kong “The Eighth Wonder of the World!” to a theater marquee in New York declaring the same thing. Jackson did it, too, but he was only following in the footsteps of the original.
Of course, the important thing was to show Kong in New York, not worry about how he got there. The movie does say that they’d build a raft, but that was obviously to get him to the Venture. They didn’t say they were planning on towing him on a raft all the way to the States, although some people believe that to be the case.
The Delos Lovelace novelization is, IIRC, silent on the issue, too. The Gold Key/Whitman comic adaptation from circa 1968 shows Kong being towed back, apparently unconscious. It looks as if he;s simply floating, head up, although he might be lying on a raft submerged by his weight.
The cover of an audiobook of the Lovelace book depicts Kong tied up on the deck of the Venture, where he takes up too much real estate.
The only plausible solution is in the least plausible movie version – in the 1976 King Kong the ape is stowed in one of the compartments of the petroleum tanker Petrox Explorer, which would certainly be big enough for the task, and wouldn’t leave Kong cramped or waterlogged. On the other hand, it’s still an unlikely solution for two reasons:
1.) Who the hell takes an oilo tanker on an exploratory visit? It’s a huge freakiin’ ship that takes a lot of fuel to move. Did they think they were going to find a gusher they could conveniently fill the tanker with, with no oilfield infrastructure?
2.) The holds on tankers are, I’ve been told, filled with noxious gases from the petroleum they have carried. It’s difficult to get out, and people opening hatches on such tankers have been overcome by the rising vapors. In fact, to prevent the possibility of volatile petroleum vapors from catching fire/exploding from an open flame or spark, they usually route the exhaust from the ship’s engines into the space over the oil in the tanks. Unless they scrubbed out the hold shut off those vents, and blew in fresh air, they’d end up delivering a dead monkey to New York.
We never actually follow them all the way down the poles do we? Maybe the locker room is halfway down!
The original novel (yes there was one) was more realistic. The movie basically depicts a fantasy world where an entire separate nocturnal society takes over from late evening to dawn.
Did they want to? Maybe a condition of their employment was that they respect his privacy.
There is an audio recording of an “interview” with Merian C. Cooper, the original Kong’s director. I put “interview” in quotes because I believe that it was actually recorded at a dinner party Cooper was attending. Some of it was incorporated into the audio commentary track on the King Kong DVD.
Anyway, someone actually asked Cooper about this. And also the related question, how did Denham get Kong into a Broadway theater without the whole town knowing about it? Cooper’s answer was, essentially, “Look, it’s a story about a giant gorilla. You gotta let me have a few implausibilities.”
If Cooper didn’t worry about it, I figure we don’t have to either.