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On 10/1/2018 at 8:41 AM, Apep said:

There’s no need to discuss John Connor being erased. The last Terminator movie introduced the idea that these are alternate timelines in a multiverse. This was just about the only good thing it did.

I'm not so sure.   In that movie, John Connor called the terminator a "relic from a deleted timeline."  

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On 10/26/2018 at 10:26 PM, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

I don't believe that alphabetically Ferris's class would be

Adams

Adamly

Adamoski

Adamson

Adler

Anderson

Bueller

Frye

 

There is so much wrong with thinking a class of 20 or so would have all those As, all those Adam-- names, one B, then straight to F.

Sorry if I'm missing the sarcasm, but do you really think this is a plot hole?

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On 10/19/2018 at 3:57 PM, oSuJeff97 said:

Yeah alternate timelines/multiverse is really the only way to get around the time travel paradox in ANY time travel movie.

it was done effectively in interstellar (until the batshit silly end) and primer did a decent job.

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refreshed thomas crown affair - early scene in which crown steals the monet off the wall.  key element is walking out of the met with the briefcase undetected, as well as not destroying the painting by breaking it.  at 1:58-2:00, clear such a thing was impossible and had he actually closed the case (would have been impossible anyway as the stretcher wouldn't have given that easy, the painting would have been destroyed.

 

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On November 20, 2018 at 4:19 PM, McCroskey said:

Oceans 11...what are the odds that a single SWAT truck shows up to a robbery in progress call from the Bellagio, and the Casino thinks this is normal?

In the movie, 100%. Who was there outside waiting for them who might have said, "Hey, wait a second, why is just one SWAT truck showing up? I'll bet there are no more cops on their way and these guys are the robbers. Seize them!"?

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On 11/20/2018 at 4:19 PM, McCroskey said:

Oceans 11...what are the odds that a single SWAT truck shows up to a robbery in progress call from the Bellagio, and the Casino thinks this is normal?

That's the part that bothered you? I could never suspend my disbelief enough to accept that Clooney slipped back into the vents, and Damon and the Chinese guy put on their SWAT uniforms in the ten seconds that they killed the lights for their fake firefight. And that Garcia accepted the explanation "they vanished" in a fucking underground bunker with only one exit.

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26 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

There’s no way everyone on the McAllister’s block would have their lights set to automatic timers within 10 seconds of each other.  

I'm actually watching the second one right now.  There are plot holes everywhere, but damn if they aren't fun movies.

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On 11/23/2018 at 7:24 AM, aggie08 said:

That's the part that bothered you? I could never suspend my disbelief enough to accept that Clooney slipped back into the vents, and Damon and the Chinese guy put on their SWAT uniforms in the ten seconds that they killed the lights for their fake firefight. And that Garcia accepted the explanation "they vanished" in a fucking underground bunker with only one exit.

Well on the vents thing remember he is getting "beaten" up...so the two things you really have to suspend is 1.  That the two guys outside the door would have never gone in to check with Bruiser on how things were going and 2.  The fact that Mythbusters pretty much shot to hell the entire tried and true Hollywood notion that air vents are something that people can just easily travel in around large buildings.  If you get past those then the vents part is fine.  

On the outfit thing they are both in black at that point...all they have to do is throw on vest and helmet. 

The vanished thing...yea don't know how you get around that. 

 

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14 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

I'm actually watching the second one right now.  There are plot holes everywhere, but damn if they aren't fun movies.

Yep the set up on the "rube goldberg" traps alone would take a lot of fucking time (and then shit just gets cleaned up) but still entertaining as hell

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In every Christmas movie where the plot is "Santa is real despite people not believing," wouldn't the fact that presents appear randomly under the tree every year, which nobody in the family bought, be pretty clear evidence?  Why would anyone stop believing if the presents kept coming?  Keeping in mind that if your naughty you still get coal delivered, not simply skipped over.

Also, if Santa's elves make the toys, wouldn't a non-branded item be pretty clear evidence that it's not something just bought at the store?  And on a related note, if you ask for something specific like an iPhone or a pair of sneakers (which would be branded) does Santa's elves make branded products?  

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This has been bothering me for a long time. In Lost, Widmore sends a freighter to find the island and take it over, exact revenge on Ben, or whatever bad thing he wanted to do. Ben puts a spy on the boat (Michael) along with a bomb for the purpose of blowing the boat up and thus neutralize the threat. Anyway, at some point Michael attempts to detonate the bomb but a little flag pops up that says “not yet” or something like that. Later, Michael confronts Ben and asks why he didn’t allow him to blow up the freighter, to which Ben answers “because we are not killers”. Except that they totally are killers. They got started by wiping out the whole dharma initiative, and they never hesitated to kill people who threatened the island. But now they are not killers? That doesn’t make any fucking sense.

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2 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

Beginning of ROTJ. 

JERJERROD
I tell you, this station will be operational as planned.

VADER
The Emperor does not share your optimistic appraisal of the situation.

JERJERROD
But he asks the impossible. I need more men.

 

Seems inconsistent. 

The entire Star Wars universe and that's your hole?

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Why is some 4-red/4-blue commander serving as imperial liaison between Lord Vader and the Death Star crew?  That’s a flag officer job if ever there was one.  Should have been a rear admiral greeting Vader and briefing him.   

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On 3/28/2019 at 8:31 PM, Lobo said:

Why is some 4-red/4-blue commander serving as imperial liaison between Lord Vader and the Death Star crew?  That’s a flag officer job if ever there was one.  Should have been a rear admiral greeting Vader and briefing him.   

this aint the rear admiral's first rodeo with Vader.  plausible deniability and sacrificial lambs are key.

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On 12/16/2018 at 7:10 PM, Surly Bevo said:

Well on the vents thing remember he is getting "beaten" up...so the two things you really have to suspend is 1.  That the two guys outside the door would have never gone in to check with Bruiser on how things were going and 2.  The fact that Mythbusters pretty much shot to hell the entire tried and true Hollywood notion that air vents are something that people can just easily travel in around large buildings.  If you get past those then the vents part is fine.  

On the outfit thing they are both in black at that point...all they have to do is throw on vest and helmet. 

The vanished thing...yea don't know how you get around that. 

 

Not to mention that ostensibly he's getting the living piss beaten out of him for 30 minutes or however long it goes on, but when the two goons open the door he looks like he's been hit once, not too hard, in the face.

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On 12/17/2018 at 1:07 PM, 'stache said:

In every Christmas movie where the plot is "Santa is real despite people not believing," wouldn't the fact that presents appear randomly under the tree every year, which nobody in the family bought, be pretty clear evidence?  Why would anyone stop believing if the presents kept coming?  Keeping in mind that if your naughty you still get coal delivered, not simply skipped over.

Also, if Santa's elves make the toys, wouldn't a non-branded item be pretty clear evidence that it's not something just bought at the store?  And on a related note, if you ask for something specific like an iPhone or a pair of sneakers (which would be branded) does Santa's elves make branded products?  

So much this. My whole life I have questioned this.

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The entire movie "Love Actually".  My wife loves to watch it.  I can't stand it beside the fact that it is a chick flick.  So, so, so much wrong in this movie.

First off, the four weeks until Christmas is like 3 months.

Kid learns to play the drums proficiently in like a week, maybe 10 days.

And the British Prime Minister can just go to some dodgy street with just his chauffeur and one cop car, and go door-to-door knocking on doors until he finds his fat little girlfriend?

The black porn director is always everywhere all at once.

The King's Speech fella learns to speak nearly proficient Portugese in about the same same 1 week to 10 day period as the little drummer boy learns to play the drums?  And the Portugese girl does the same with English?

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29 minutes ago, Uncle Nate said:

The entire movie "Love Actually".  My wife loves to watch it.  I can't stand it beside the fact that it is a chick flick.  So, so, so much wrong in this movie.

First off, the four weeks until Christmas is like 3 months.

Kid learns to play the drums proficiently in like a week, maybe 10 days.

And the British Prime Minister can just go to some dodgy street with just his chauffeur and one cop car, and go door-to-door knocking on doors until he finds his fat little girlfriend?

The black porn director is always everywhere all at once.

The King's Speech fella learns to speak nearly proficient Portugese in about the same same 1 week to 10 day period as the little drummer boy learns to play the drums?  And the Portugese girl does the same with English?

I've never watched this movie and have no idea what any of this means, but based on the above I can tell I would hate this movie. 

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1 hour ago, TornACL said:

I've never watched this movie and have no idea what any of this means, but based on the above I can tell I would hate this movie. 

Well, it's one redeeming value is one young girl showing her tits and Laura Linney (a younger Laura Linney) showing her tits.  

That's about it.

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4 hours ago, Uncle Nate said:

The entire movie "Love Actually".  My wife loves to watch it.  I can't stand it beside the fact that it is a chick flick.  So, so, so much wrong in this movie.

First off, the four weeks until Christmas is like 3 months.

Kid learns to play the drums proficiently in like a week, maybe 10 days.

And the British Prime Minister can just go to some dodgy street with just his chauffeur and one cop car, and go door-to-door knocking on doors until he finds his fat little girlfriend?

The black porn director is always everywhere all at once.

The King's Speech fella learns to speak nearly proficient Portugese in about the same same 1 week to 10 day period as the little drummer boy learns to play the drums?  And the Portugese girl does the same with English?

No no no. Point out how Jennifer Garner got fucked and spent Christmas alone and bitter. Puts an end to the watch parties quick. 

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3 hours ago, Uncle Nate said:

Well, it's one redeeming value is one young girl showing her tits and Laura Linney (a younger Laura Linney) showing her tits.  

That's about it.

They don't actually show their tits though.   It should be called "No tits actually".

 

edit:  Unless I've only seen the TV version and the original unedited release does show their tits. 

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in wargames, wopr tries to crack the code to override the launch sequence. however, joshua cracks it in about 10-15 minutes. some of you math nerds can correct me if i'm wrong, but that means that there are (26^6)*(10^4) or over 3 trillion combinations/codes. even if joshua was guessing 10 combinations every second, it would have taken him about 10,000 years to guess the right launch code. 
i don't know what kind of power the department of defense had in 1983, but my 1 mhz 6502 apple ii could barely run stickybear bop without driving me crazy. 
 
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If you recall Joshua was simply finding each alpha-numeric value one at a time. So he was simply running 36 attempts(I do not recall if symbols were included) at each node which for a 10 digit code, would only mean 360 attempts vs trying to solve it at once which would be 36^10 or 3.6*10^15.
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On 9/30/2018 at 7:29 PM, bschoolprof said:

I'm generally terrible at these things, so sorry in advance.  

If your version is correct, what happens to John Conner #1 (and the whole world he inhabits) in the future once the 1st time travelling Reece blows his load in Sarah back in the 80s?  Does he just vaporize and everyone around him is like "what the fuck?"  and new John appears in his place?  Or does that whole world just cease to exist? Time travel stuff makes my head hurt.  

The original timeline the resistance won,  sending a terminator back was a last ditch desperate effort by skynet to survive.  The Terminator falls its mission but the part left behind enabled skynet to be ahead of schedule in the new timeline and is winning the war in T2.

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On 11/21/2018 at 6:23 PM, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

Marion Ravenwood drinks some huge dude under the table then shows no effects 5 seconds later. 

That was a chick, i believe. I also believe marion somehow watered her own booze, despite no evidence supporting me  except her obvious sobriety. 

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2 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

That was a chick, i believe. I also believe marion somehow watered her own booze, despite no evidence supporting me  except her obvious sobriety. 

If by a chick you mean a big fucking man with a perm then yea....when was the last time you watched that movie?

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