Questions That Never Get Answered

[Mistral]

from Re-make Planet of The Apes-how did the ape that led a revolution on Earth, replacing humans with apes, find any allies to do so? Y'know, the one that replaced Lincoln in the Memorial at the end... Cause it seems to me, there was only one of him and millions of humans...

 

[blockaderunner]

from Re-make Planet of The Apes-how did the ape that led a revolution on Earth, replacing humans with apes, find any allies to do so? Y'know, the one that replaced Lincoln in the Memorial at the end... Cause it seems to me, there was only one of him and millions of humans...

I heard that Burton inserted the ape at the Lincoln Memorial scene to try to rival the WTF moment at the end of the original POTA with the Statue Of Liberty. But I digress.

Not to paint a broad brush, but what is it with some Trek fans and their obsession to have every mystery uncovered in any given 'verse? The most useless book was the Trek novel "Probe" which tried to reveal the origin of the giant space Baby Ruth in TVH. Who was begging for that story? Sometimes a mystery should be that. A mystery. It makes a given 'verse that much more interesting.

 

[Smiley]

Burton's Apes movie suggests that the primates on our world are intelligent and can talk but have either chosen silence or been cowed into it. The allies are all the other apes on the planet.

 

[Trekker4747]

Doc's interests are eccentric and eclectic enough that I don't have a problem with that. The thing I've always wondered is how Marty and Doc became friends to begin with. My personal belief is that Marty was skateboarding by one day when Doc almost blew himself up, and Marty saved his life, and afterward he started dropping by regularly to make sure Doc didn't kill himself, and it went from there.

In a previous version of the script, Marty tells Jennifer that Doc showed up at his house one day and offered to pay Marty to help clean Doc's lab/garage. Marty remarks about how great of a record collection Doc has and they becoming friends during Marty's time there.

I think the "suggestion" is that Marty's time travel is a little pit of a pre-destiantion paradoxin that Doc knew to knock on Marty's door because he'd already encountered Marty in the past -nevermind the story problems this would arise concerning Marty's parents.

 

[Gaith]

In a previous version of the script, Marty tells Jennifer that Doc showed up at his house one day and offered to pay Marty to help clean Doc's lab/garage. Marty remarks about how great of a record collection Doc has and they becoming friends during Marty's time there.

I always figured it was something mundane like that.

I could ask why no one noticed the Spinosaurus in The Lost World, but I hate JPIII, movie, so nevermind.

Here's the one that always baked me: where the hell did Meela, the bodily but not (initially) soul-wise reincarnation of Anck-Su-Namun from The Mummy Returns come from? After way too much thought, I decided that the curator who reincarnates Imhotep knew about the Scorpion King's imminent awakening long before the fact and consciously conjured up Anck's form in some gestating baby, and then trained her her whole life to receive Anck's spirit.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I also was curious about how Doc and Marty became friends and how long ago before the first movie it occured since Marty is supposed to be around 17 or so. Not sure about anything else, will have to think of something.

 

[Mistral]

Burton's Apes movie suggests that the primates on our world are intelligent and can talk but have either chosen silence or been cowed into it. The allies are all the other apes on the planet.

Riiiiiiggggghhhhhhhhttttt......

 

[Kryton]

Heh...in one of the Oz sequel books it was revealed that ALL animals in Oz have the capability of speech. Dorothy asked Toto why he hadn't spoken to her on their first trip to Oz and Toto said something like "I didn't have anything to say until now".

Maybe the apes were the same way...after all, Caesar in "Conquest..." managed to get a bunch of 1970s-era gorillas started on the way to their evolution pretty quickly.

 

[Mistral]

Heh...in one of the Oz sequel books it was revealed that ALL animals in Oz have the capability of speech. Dorothy asked Toto why he hadn't spoken to her on their first trip to Oz and Toto said something like "I didn't have anything to say until now".

Maybe the apes were the same way...after all, Caesar in "Conquest..." managed to get a bunch of 1970s-era gorillas started on the way to their evolution pretty quickly.

After Humans had modified them. Since the statue in Apes was in place of the Lincoln statue, one would assume the WTF moment happened around 1860 or so-not a lot of genetic engineering going on then....

 

[Cutter John]

Well since we started out talking about BTTF, its been making me nuts for years, wodering why the train never even slowed down after smashing the Delorian in Pt. 3. Engineers usually tend to notice things like that.

 

[Trekker4747]

Well since we started out talking about BTTF, its been making me nuts for years, wodering why the train never even slowed down after smashing the Delorian in Pt. 3. Engineers usually tend to notice things like that.

Maybe he saw Marty make it out and figured, "Aww fuck it!"

 

[Christopher]

Well since we started out talking about BTTF, its been making me nuts for years, wodering why the train never even slowed down after smashing the Delorian in Pt. 3. Engineers usually tend to notice things like that.

Well, the car shattered to pieces so easily that maybe the engineer didn't even feel the impact. In reality, a car hit by a train would just be crumpled and knocked aside, not shattered into a million pieces like that. What the filmmakers did -- and this is ingenious -- was to pre-cut the car's frame in hundreds of places so it was barely still in one piece, then use detonating cord to sever the frame at the weakened points a split-second before the train hit, so that what the train hit was essentially a cloud of separate, free-floating car bits rather than a single massive body. (Which is why they shot the impact from the front, so you couldn't tell that the car actually started flying apart just before the train hit it.) This was done not only to ensure the car was totally destroyed as the script specified, but to prevent damage to the train and to the houses nearby. If an intact car had been smashed by a train, the forces involved could've sent shrapnel flying at dangerous speed.

As for an in-universe explanation for why it broke apart so completely, perhaps its molecular structure had been weakened by the time travel.

 

[The Badger]

2.) What was in the valise in Pulp Fiction, anyway?

According to Tarantino, it's "whatever you think was in there". The most popular theory is that it was Marcellus Wallace's soul. It was mostly just an homage to the glowing nuclear briefcase from "Kiss Me Deadly".

Not quite, Tarantino says that the similarity was not intentional. Snopes Directory of Urban Myths has a section here:
http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/pulp.asp

 

[Hartzilla2007]

Burton's Apes movie suggests that the primates on our world are intelligent and can talk but have either chosen silence or been cowed into it. The allies are all the other apes on the planet.

I just thought that just like the apes on the other planet the ship crashed on humans genectically reengineered the apes for some purpose the Lincoln replacing ape started a revolt and to honor him the newly dominant apes replances Lincoln's head with his.

 

[Davros]

5.) Why did Sean Connery agree to do Zardoz?

Simple, they paid him.

 

[Morfius]

Well since we started out talking about BTTF, its been making me nuts for years, wodering why the train never even slowed down after smashing the Delorian in Pt. 3. Engineers usually tend to notice things like that.

I've actually seen a train that hit a car. The car was 'U' shaped and still attached to the front of the train, a half mile past the crossing where the colision occured.

Train employees I've talked to say that all train employees eventually hit a car, usually driven at 2 AM by a drunk person who thinks they can go faster than the train.

 

[Hermiod]

As for an in-universe explanation for why it broke apart so completely, perhaps its molecular structure had been weakened by the time travel.

Actually, the explanation is that it's a Delorean, 'nuff said.

 

[Davros]

Well since we started out talking about BTTF, its been making me nuts for years, wodering why the train never even slowed down after smashing the Delorian in Pt. 3. Engineers usually tend to notice things like that.

It can take quite a bit of time to slow a train down.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Why is Sci-Fi Channel allowed to make made-for-TV movies still? ;-)


Why use a Delorian for a time traveling vehicle? It's stands out, is too futuristic looking, has doors that open differently from every other car, and it costs a lot; what if the vehicle gets damaged in the past? Why not just get a car that's easy to buy spare parts for.

Why did McFly even have to find Doc in the past and then go about saving Doc from getting gunned down? All this could have been avoided by Doc simply setting the clock to go back one hour so Marty would appear an hour earlier and tell Doc he's going to get gunned down. This way the gunners can get arrested, and Doc will have two time traveling vehicles and current-timeline supplies to repair it with.

 

[A Clockwork Lim]

Why use a Delorian for a time traveling vehicle? It's stands out, is too futuristic looking, has doors that open differently from every other car, and it costs a lot; what if the vehicle gets damaged in the past? Why not just get a car that's easy to buy spare parts for.

Doc answered that in the movie himself.

"The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style? " There was also something about its stainless steel construction playing a part in his decision, but I don't remember that part of the quote.

Why did McFly even have to find Doc in the past and then go about saving Doc from getting gunned down? All this could have been avoided by Doc simply setting the clock to go back one hour so Marty would appear an hour earlier and tell Doc he's going to get gunned down. This way the gunners can get arrested, and Doc will have two time traveling vehicles and current-timeline supplies to repair it with.

Again, something Doc answered in the movie himself. He didn't want to do anything to change time. Especially after seeing the consequences of what happened with Marty. His plan was to have Marty reappear at the exact moment he left so nothing looked to have changed. Marty's the one who said "fuck it" and set the destination clock back early enough to try and save Doc -- his only problem is that he didn't give himself enough time. Plus he's a teenage kid. Not too bright to begin with.

Did you even watch the movie, man? XD