# Your own Movie Theories **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 17, 2011, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-movie-theories/585766 "2011-06-17T00:47:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-movie-theories/585766/1 "2011-06-17T00:47:10Z")
I have my own theories about what “really happened” in some movies. Some of them have on screen evidence (I think) and some I just believe just cuz… Here are a couple (Spoilers assumed): 1. I believe everything that happens in the recent War of the Worlds remake after Tom Cruise is sucked up into the Tripod occurs in his head while he slowly dies (there is a similar, more common theory that Minority Report is the same way). 2. I believe that everything we see in the movie The Matrix (and the Sequels) was actually a part of the Matrix. Zion, the resistance, everything. In fact I was pretty sure the movies actually say this outright but I have been told I am crazy and I don’t want to have to sit through Movies 2 and 3 again to remind myself why I came away with this impression so I count it as a theory. 3. I believe R2-D2 always knew more than he was letting on throughout the Star Wars movies. It was not necessarily by Lucas’ design but you can definitely make the case. There’s a couple of mine. How about you? ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-movie-theories/585766/2 "2011-06-17T00:50:09Z")
Sean Connery’s character in The Rock is James Bond ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-movie-theories/585766/3 "2011-06-17T01:03:41Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > 1. I believe that everything we see in the movie The Matrix (and the Sequels) was actually a part of the Matrix. Zion, the resistance, everything. In fact I was pretty sure the movies actually say this outright but I have been told I am crazy and I don’t want to have to sit through Movies 2 and 3 again to remind myself why I came away with this impression so I count it as a theory. I’m pretty sure you’re right about this. The Architect scene towards the end of the second movie indicates that the whole thing with “The One” saving Zion is a story told by the matrix to keep even its rebellious inhabitants happy. As far as I can tell, Neo hears the story, decides to form no opinion as to its truth or not, and proceeds to act as though he’d never spoken with the Architect. As far as I can tell, Neo himself is just part of the matrix. As far as I can tell, the third movie is a giant illusion. This _maybe_ helps alleviate its awfulness somewhat a little. There’s a couple of mine. How about you? [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-movie-theories/585766/4 "2011-06-17T01:05:14Z")
The AI in the film _Moon_ (played by Keven Spacey) is in fact evil, has seen the scenario in the film play out many times before, and does everything it does in order to get the protagonist to kill himself (thinking he’s heroically travelling back to earth) without interfering too much with the moon station’s mission. I mean come on. _It’s Kevin Spacey!_. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-movie-theories/585766/5 "2011-06-17T01:13:06Z")
People like at me like I’m a friggen moron when I say this, but I have a theory, based on very little that Miss Hannigan is Little Orphan Annie’s real mom. Granted, this is only from watching the 1982 version with Carol Burnett and maybe the other versions explained things differently, but it always bugged me that Miss Hannigan didn’t want Annie to go off to live in the mansion for a week. My sisters argue that the reason is because Miss Hannigan wanted to teach Annie a lesson, but ISTM that unless she had some special bond with her, Miss Hannigan would have been more then happy to be rid of her for a few days. All she did was cause trouble. Of course, this is all debunked by Miss Hannigan trying to find the other half of the locket to get the money from Warbucks, but everything she told Rooster about Annie’s real parents dying in a fire could have just been a lie I suppose. I know, it’s probably not the case. It was just something I thought of one day when I was watching the movie. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-movie-theories/585766/6 "2011-06-17T01:28:56Z")
_The_ Andromeda Strain’s titular microbes aren’t really alien life- they’re nanomachines, programmed to replicate where they can, and if they ever find the right environment to… do something interesting. In the fifth original series Planet of the Apes movie, the altered timeline at the end was the version of history that the TV series was based in. The conceit of the remake of King Kong was that the original version was Hollywood’s glamorized and sanitized version of events, and what we see in the remake was what really happened. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-movie-theories/585766/7 "2011-06-17T01:33:43Z")
Everything after Tom Cruise is put in that “filing cabinet” for criminals near the end of **Minority Report** is just a fantasy in his mind. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-movie-theories/585766/8 "2011-06-17T01:35:52Z")
When **Signs** came out, my theory was that it was a kinda weird moviemaking experiment where M Night took a deliberately ridiculously bad 50s style pulp storyline (aliens are invading! they look like people in rubber suits! and water is poison to them!) and tried to make as gripping and engrossing a movie as he could with that idiotic premise. Not really a theory _per se_, but I always wonder what happens immediately after the end of **Terminator 2**. I mean, not months or years later, but 15 minutes later. Don’t the cops have the steel factory totally surrounded by now? And Sarah Conner is still a wanted fugitive, and is now injured… ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-movie-theories/585766/9 "2011-06-17T01:45:01Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > Sean Connery’s character in The Rock is James Bond Seconded. I love this theory so much I want to have its babies. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-movie-theories/585766/10 "2011-06-17T02:46:44Z")
_Ferris Bueller’s Day Off_ was all Cameron’s fantasy. Cameron was an outsider at school who also had a bad home life. So he imagined what it would be like if he hung out with the cool kids like Ferris and Sloan. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-movie-theories/585766/11 "2011-06-17T03:07:54Z")
Soylent Green is indeed people, but just the gross parts. The good parts are actually sliced up and sold on the black market to rich people as top sirloin as seen earlier in the film. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-movie-theories/585766/12 "2011-06-17T03:44:07Z")
The single biggest reason Mrs. Robinson doesn’t want Ben dating Elaine is that she (Mrs. Robinson) has fallen in love with him but doesn’t dare drop her facade of emotional indifference. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-movie-theories/585766/13 "2011-06-17T03:47:20Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > Not really a theory _per se_, but I always wonder what happens immediately after the end of **Terminator 2**. I mean, not months or years later, but 15 minutes later. Don’t the cops have the steel factory totally surrounded by now? And Sarah Conner is still a wanted fugitive, and is now injured… Me too. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-movie-theories/585766/14 "2011-06-17T04:15:31Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Me too. In the same vein, metallurgically speaking, what happens ro T2? What happens to the nanobots and the elements that control him, are they imparted to the molten steel. Might they survive the heat. What “timeprint” does T2’s alloy and nanobot technology leave in that batch of ingots or practical castings. Did they throw alll that steel away on the urgings of a paranoid fugitive, or use it, to avoid waste? Which do you think is more likely? hay could come of nanotech metallic frisable alloys?\> ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-movie-theories/585766/15 "2011-06-17T04:21:02Z")
There is such a thing as crystalline intelligence in steel. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-movie-theories/585766/16 "2011-06-17T06:35:20Z")
T2 as a “metallic virus”. could call into temporal alignment the steal stock of the comingdays until the machins take ovr. Could be the same device as the reverse engineered terminator parts… insering themselves as a redundant timepiece in the modern technology. The Apple and Microsoft shit are probably all used … no divisions in war. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-movie-theories/585766/17 "2011-06-17T07:08:43Z")
_Fight Club_ is actually a parable about the rise of fascism in 1920s-1930s Europe. ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-movie-theories/585766/18 "2011-06-17T08:32:04Z")
In\* Blade Runner\* everybody is a replicant. As earth became depopulated, replicants were added to give the illusion of a working society for the few remaining humans. The humans gradually died off and there is nothing but replicants left. Earth is actually too polluted for humans to live on. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-movie-theories/585766/19 "2011-06-17T09:07:03Z")
At the end of Titanic, Leonardo DiCaprio is seen sinking into the ocean. At the beginning of the movie Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio is seen washed up on a beach. The entire movie is a dream. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-movie-theories/585766/20 "2011-06-17T09:42:17Z")
James Bond is a Time Lord. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-movie-theories/585766.md?page=2)