# What happened after the movie ended

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**Created:** [November 18, 2005, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-after-the-movie-ended/331591 "2005-11-18T02:24:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-after-the-movie-ended/331591/1 "2005-11-18T02:24:49Z")

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Especially science-fiction films where extraordinary events changed the status quo. Sometimes I think about “ok, so what would that have meant for the future?”. For example, **Them** , or any of the other “giant mutation caused by atomic testing” movies. Think maybe that was the reason a test ban was signed in the 60s? 😛 **War of the Worlds** is another good one, except that the TV series (which you may or may not accept as canon) postulated that somehow a mass amnesia caused most people to forget or dismiss that it had ever happened. :dubious:

My favorite oddly enough is **Five Million Years to Earth**. After the events of that movie, humanity knows that Mars was once inhabited by intelligent life and that their artifacts can still be active after all this time. I keep sorta picturing what the first manned expedition to Mars would be like when they KNOW they could run into more artifacts like the buried ship.

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-after-the-movie-ended/331591/2 "2005-11-18T02:46:34Z")

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What happens after the end of “Dog Soldiers”? The one guy survived, there was even a tabloid article on what happened to his platoon. Would he be believed? Was the black projects unit still a going concern with the military? Were all the members of the farmhouse family _really_ dead?