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Kryton

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It's part of the "suspension of disbelief" for ANY film to be allowed to get away with certain conceits or inconsistencies. But because we like the bulk of the material presented we choose to either politely ignore it or else we embrace its incongruity. Among those questions for me:

1.) Why did Doc Brown have a single gigantic amplified speaker in his workshop?

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

3.) The Enterprise (or at least her crew) had been to Earth's past no less than 3 times plus a copy of it on Sigma Iotia. So why did they all act like they'd never been to the past in TVH?

4.) Why didn't Dorothy haul off and slug Glinda when she said "you wouldn't have believed me" before going home at the end of the picture? I'd have said "Bitch! I just saw MUNCHKINS and FELL FROM THE SKY! So you make me go see the fraud of a wizard and kill a damn witch instead of at least TELLING me I should TRY clicking the heels and chanting?!?"

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

I'm sure many more wll come to mind. What are your (mostly) unanswerable questions about fantastical movies?
 
They had some sort of blackmail on him? :lol: I sometimes think that's why Raul Julia did the PBS-funded Overdrawn At The Memory Bank.
 
Kryton Kryngle said:
1.) Why did Doc Brown have a single gigantic amplified speaker in his workshop?
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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.

2.) What was in the valise in Pulp Fiction, anyway?
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A McGuffin, no doubt.

3.) The Enterprise (or at least her crew) had been to Earth's past no less than 3 times plus a copy of it on Sigma Iotia. So why did they all act like they'd never been to the past in TVH?
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They'd been to the 1930s and gotten a couple of very brief glimpses of the 1960s. Those wouldn't have given them any experience with Macintosh computers, boom boxes, helicopters, public cursing, or any of the other things they had trouble with in 1986.
 
Kryton Kryngle said:
2.) What was in the valise in Pulp Fiction, anyway?
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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".
 
Christopher said:
Kryton Kryngle said:
1.) Why did Doc Brown have a single gigantic amplified speaker in his workshop?
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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.
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Well, even though Biff, George, and the rest of the family changed, someWHEN along the way, a time-traveling version of Doc told him to chum up with Marty. Of course, after the first loop back, only Marty's note was necessary. ;)
 
4.) Why didn't Dorothy haul off and slug Glinda when she said "you wouldn't have believed me" before going home at the end of the picture? I'd have said "Bitch! I just saw MUNCHKINS and FELL FROM THE SKY! So you make me go see the fraud of a wizard and kill a damn witch instead of at least TELLING me I should TRY clicking the heels and chanting?!?"
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I know -- none of it makes sense. It's like a dream or something!! :p
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See, the question that always haunts me is, "Where does all of the ammo come from?" Pick an action flick-Die Hard(s), most of Arnie's movies, etc(which, with their plots SURELY qualify as fantasies, albeit violent ones) and the hero's gun(s) have ridiculous ammo loads-unless they are trapped in a corner facing the bad guy. Then they are out. And, usually, so's the bad guy-as he discovers when he tries to shoot our hero. But where does all of the ammo come from?

[When I played D&D my buddy offered up a "hero clip" as an item. When equipped, your gun never ran out of ammo and as soon as you vanquished your enemy(s), you were obliged to smile towards the sun in such a way as to make the light gleam off of your teeth.];)
 
An example of my own:

In Ghost Patrick Swayze's character could not touch anything, until late in the film. So, why did he not fall through the floor? The same goes for the TNG episode in which Geordi and Ro became invisible and could walk through walls.

Regarding the TNG episode, one could also ask how Geordi and Ro could breathe if the air passed right through them, and how could they hear each other talk if no one else could hear them. They should not be able to speak if air passes right through them anyway, but now I'm getting into nitpicking territory, which is probably not what the OP had in mind.
 
a lot of movies do depict the characters reloading, they just have a tendency to use more ammo than the gun really holds before they do it. the most egregious one i've seen lately is Matrix Reloaded when Albino Twin uses about 3,000 rounds out of a bog-standard assault rifle in the scene when they head for the Freeway.

Also, some times, characters may be reloading when they're not on-camera. we may see the Hero firing at the villain, who's out of sight, and relaoding, then they fire and the hero ducks as we cut to the villain and the hero reloads...
 
^^ I would simply say that, given Ro and Geordi could breathe and weren't simply dead by molecular dispersion, they weren't fully 100% phased. Perhaps more like 60-80%. Hence why they could walk around without passing through the floor. ;)
 
captcalhoun said:
a lot of movies do depict the characters reloading, they just have a tendency to use more ammo than the gun really holds before they do it. the most egregious one i've seen lately is Matrix Reloaded when Albino Twin uses about 3,000 rounds out of a bog-standard assault rifle in the scene when they head for the Freeway.
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Well, since they were in VR anyway and the bullets were virtual, that's easy enough to rationalize.
 
Those were "sausage-shaped" dead alien bodies in the trunk in Repo Man. Radioactive as hell, too! :eek:
 
CheapTrick said:
Kryton Kryngle said:
2.) What was in the valise in Pulp Fiction, anyway?
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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".
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I have a very simple mind. When I saw the reflected yellow glow on whatshisname's face when it opened, I just assumed there was lots of gold bars in it! :lol:

Can you tell I didn't really think it through very much?
 
Holdfast said:
I have a very simple mind. When I saw the reflected yellow glow on whatshisname's face when it opened, I just assumed there was lots of gold bars in it! :lol:

Can you tell I didn't really think it through very much?
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It's honestly the only thing (well, maybe not a ton of bars but definitely gold) that makes sense considering there wasn't really anything else in the entire movie that was supernatural or magical. The whole soul thing is a bit silly within the context of the actual movie.
 
From Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidora Giant Monsters All Out Attack (possible the longest Godzilla movie title ever.)

how did the research sub that wasn't designed for have a launch button for a missle launch system that was cobled together already in it?
 
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