# Questions about movies you certainly have no intention of seeing **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323 "2011-05-18T14:48:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dietrich\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@Dietrich\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dietrich_K)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/41 "2011-05-18T23:24:05Z")
If memory serves, it’s Ripley’s alien “baby”. I could be wrong, though, as I loathe this movie with the passion of a thousand something something, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/42 "2011-05-18T23:27:47Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Mine is about _Alien Resurrection_. I’ve only watched bits and pieces of it, so I don’t really have a grasp of what’s going on, nor can I be bothered to track down a summary. This is a good place to ask. > > What was with that gruesome maggoty thing at the end that looked alien-ish but wasn’t? At the end of Aliens 3, Ripley, who has been implanted with a chest burster, commits suicide rather than let the evil space corporation get its hands on it. But over the course of the movie, she’d managed to bleed all over various parts of the station she was on, so the corporation took genetic samples from her, which was mixed with alien DNA, and attempted to clone her multiple times. The protagonist of the film is the most human of the clones. The white maggoty thing is the least human of them. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/43 "2011-05-18T23:50:14Z")
> [@Alka\_Seltzer](#): > > **Birth of a Nation** - Why is this considered a landmark film? The main reason is that it was the first full-length feature films. It ran nearly three hours when no film went over a half hour. It showed that people would sit for a two-hour (or more) film. Every feature film owes a debt to this, at least. Also, politics aside, it’s still a textbook for filmmakers. Griffith showed them what sort of effects and storytelling methods would work. It developed deep focus, jump cuts, cross-cutting, close-ups of faces and the basic vocabulary of film used today. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/44 "2011-05-18T23:51:53Z")
> [@Satchmo](#): > > Based loosely on the true story of the Sullivan Brothers? (Not googleing anything here). [The Niland brothers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niland_brothers)– the real event is mentioned in passing in Ambrose’s “Band of Brothers” as one the brothers was a friend of a couple of the Easy company men. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/45 "2011-05-18T23:54:50Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > A question for anybody who has seen WATER FOR ELEPHANTS: do you get to see Robert Pattinson nekkid? No, I don’t even think he’s shirtless. Honestly… I find him so unattractive, if I _had_ seen him in a state of undress in it I would have blocked it from my mind. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/46 "2011-05-19T00:50:44Z")
There was some movie Bringing Down the House where Steve Martin went to a dating service and got Queen Latifah. During the trailer, I was thinking “whoa, this could be interesting”. I mean a white guy hooking up with a “real” black woman in a Hollywood film. I guess I’m racist, but I tend to think Queen Latifah says “black woman” than say, Halle Barry, Zoe Saldana, or Beyonce Knowles. It seemed a daring opposites attract that other interracial movies. Then halfway through the trailer “I’m going to help you get your (white) wife back”. It almost felt like the director chickened out. How did the movie play? Was it misdirection? Romantic chemistry between Steve Martin and Queen Latifa’s characters and end up together? ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/47 "2011-05-19T01:22:42Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > At the end of Aliens 3, Ripley, who has been implanted with a chest burster, commits suicide rather than let the evil space corporation get its hands on it. But over the course of the movie, she’d managed to bleed all over various parts of the station she was on, so the corporation took genetic samples from her, which was mixed with alien DNA, and attempted to clone her multiple times. The protagonist of the film is the most human of the clones. **The white maggoty thing is the least human of them.** This is incorrect. In the third act Ripley mates with an alien queen. The white alien is the offspring of that coupling. Rather than the queen laying the standard batch of facehugger eggs, mating with the mostly human Ripley enabled a live birth of that white hybrid. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/48 "2011-05-19T01:28:34Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > This is incorrect. In the third act Ripley mates with an alien queen. The white alien is the offspring of that coupling. Rather than the queen laying the standard batch of facehugger eggs, mating with the mostly human Ripley enabled a live birth of that white hybrid. Hmm, my mistake. But let’s be honest - we’re all probably a lot happier with my answer than with the correct answer. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/49 "2011-05-19T01:35:21Z")
> [@HubZilla](#): > > There was some movie Bringing Down the House where Steve Martin went to a dating service and got Queen Latifah. During the trailer, I was thinking “whoa, this could be interesting”. > > I mean a white guy hooking up with a “real” black woman in a Hollywood film. I guess I’m racist, but I tend to think Queen Latifah says “black woman” than say, Halle Barry, Zoe Saldana, or Beyonce Knowles. It seemed a daring opposites attract that other interracial movies. > > Then halfway through the trailer “I’m going to help you get your (white) wife back”. It almost felt like the director chickened out. > > How did the movie play? Was it misdirection? Romantic chemistry between Steve Martin and Queen Latifa’s characters and end up together? No, but it wasn’t quite a cop out. There wasn’t much romantic chemistry between Martin and Latifah – once they met, it turned out that she was just using this as a sneaky way of getting a lawyer to clear her name. Martin got back with his wife, but Latifah ended up with Eugene Levy. So it did have an interracial couple. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/50 "2011-05-19T01:44:13Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > One of the passengers witnessed a big mob boss committing murder. The boss (of course) had connections, and had the snakes put on the plane as a creative but ultimately impractical method of getting the witness killed before he could testify. > > And they didn’t depressurize the cabin because they were operating subject to movie physics, not real-world physics, where any depressurization would result in a hole ripping open in the side of the plane and the contents getting sucked out. IIRC, they do open up the door to the plane near the end of the film when it’s relatively low to the ground and let all the snakes fly out. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/51 "2011-05-19T01:45:59Z")
Was The Exorcist really that scary? 70s audiences, I guess ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/52 "2011-05-19T01:54:24Z")
If it is possible, I am more grateful to this thread for ensuring that I never see _Alien Resurrection_ (Sigourney Weaver MATES with an alien queen??) than I was for whoever started the thread several years ago which spoiled the big secret of _The Village_, thus saving the many clumps of hair which undoubted I would have torn clean out my head if I’d had to sit through _that_. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/53 "2011-05-19T01:55:55Z")
Okay, in “Jason X” how does he come back to life? In the previous film “Jason Goes to Hell” it was pretty firmly established that, well, he went to hell, and he didn’t even leave a corpse behind. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/54 "2011-05-19T02:10:13Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Was The Exorcist really that scary? 70s audiences, I guess As far as horror movies go, The Exorcist still holds its own in terms of story, creepiness and scare factor. It’s awesome. And I would imagine it was definitely terrifying to people in the '70s, since they wouldn’t have been desensitized to that sort of thing the way we have. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/55 "2011-05-19T02:17:47Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Okay, in “Jason X” how does he come back to life? In the previous film “Jason Goes to Hell” it was pretty firmly established that, well, he went to hell, and he didn’t even leave a corpse behind. Well, in Friday the 13th Part 8, he was left down in the sewers with a million ton gallons of hazardous waste flying over his body (to which he then revered back to child form)..so you could ask the same question that connects that one to 9 (which was Jason Goes to Hell–where he shows up fully alive and adult again with no explanation as to why). But to answer your question… Much LIKE 8 to 9…he just shows up alive again at the start of Jason X (with no explanation as to why). He’s then crynogenically-frozen for a ton of years (like 1000) and then thawed out by future morons who have no idea he’s dangerous (although, in their defense, they thought he was dead). He then dies midway through the film (as “old” Jason) and is then brought to life AGAIN by a futuristic cell regenerator-type thingie (which also makes him about 10x stronger, bigger, and more badass looking),…thus the start of “new” Jason. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/56 "2011-05-19T02:30:10Z")
And here I thought he was just this drowned kid in a lake. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/57 "2011-05-19T03:15:07Z")
RealityChuck writes (in reference to _Birth of a Nation_): \> The main reason is that it was the first full-length feature films. Not true: > **[Feature film](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_film)** > > A feature film or feature-length film (often abbreviated to feature) is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program. The term feature film originally referred to the main, full-length film in a cinema program that included a short film and often a newsreel. Matinee programs, especially in the US and Canada, in general, also included cartoons, at least one weekly serial and,... At three hours and ten minutes, it was certainly one of the longest films ever when it was released in 1915, but it wasn’t the first feature-length film. ---
**Author:** ![blue\_infinity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_infinity/32/2817_2.png) [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/58 "2011-05-19T03:18:52Z")
> [@Dietrich\_K](#): > > I’ve got one. Why do all of my friends, coworkers, etc., either chortle ruefully and roll their eyes or perpetrate a classic facepalm whenever I so much as mention **Signs**? I mean, I get it: it’s written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, so it’s obviously going to be a piece of shit, but why, exactly, is this particular movie of his pretty well universally considered to be so bad? (I say “pretty well universally”, as I know exactly one person who not only likes, but LOVES this film, and he’s a conservative Baptist minister. Does that hold any significance?) Just on the last bit: Gibson’s character is a minister who’s lost his faith after his wife got squished in a car accident. The ordeal with the aliens restores that faith (don’t ask me why). ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/59 "2011-05-19T03:35:09Z")
> [@HubZilla](#): > > There was some movie Bringing Down the House where Steve Martin went to a dating service and got Queen Latifah. During the trailer, I was thinking “whoa, this could be interesting”. > > I mean a white guy hooking up with a “real” black woman in a Hollywood film. I guess I’m racist, but I tend to think Queen Latifah says “black woman” than say, Halle Barry, Zoe Saldana, or Beyonce Knowles. It seemed a daring opposites attract that other interracial movies. > > Then halfway through the trailer “I’m going to help you get your (white) wife back”. It almost felt like the director chickened out. > > How did the movie play? Was it misdirection? Romantic chemistry between Steve Martin and Queen Latifa’s characters and end up together? Oh, thanks for asking this, I LOVE LOVE LOVE Queen Latifah but my god is she in some awful movies and I always want to know if there’s any worth seeing. (Beautyshop was not a good movie but at least tolerable.) ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/60 "2011-05-19T03:36:18Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Was The Exorcist really that scary? 70s audiences, I guess My mother was a teaching nun at the time it came out and her students convinced her to see it - as far as I know it was the last horror movie she ever saw. It scared the living crap out of her. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323.md?page=4)