Christopher R Taylor Posted February 17, 2018 Report Share Posted February 17, 2018 In Minority Report, there are precognitive people who predict the future, and tell when crimes are going to happen -- except they're always wrong. The crimes never happen. They always fail to predict the future. Why is Bruce Willis the only ghost in the Sixth Sense that goes around living normally instead of reliving their deaths over and over? Fantastic Voyage, they have an hour before everything goes back to normal size, and barely make it out safely in time... except they leave the wreckage of the submarine which is several times human size, inside him... This has always bothered me, and its a mistake that's easy to make as an author: in Empire Strikes Back, the best of the SW movies... the time stream where Luke trains for months on Dagobah is going on at the same time where Han and company fly to the cloud city and get captured overnight. Luke shows up within a day. Did they spend months in the belly of that asteroid worm or something?? Forrest Gump, he's been on TV over and over, is a very rich, powerful and influential individual at every single cultural movement of the Boomers and never changes his look, yet nobody recognizes him? Karate Kid: boot to the head was against the rules and was instant disqualification. Plus, super telegraphed. slikmar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper-Man Posted February 17, 2018 Report Share Posted February 17, 2018 On 2/15/2018 at 11:04 AM, Hyper-Man said: Why couldn't the 1985 Doc Brown raid the Delorean that sent him to 1885 (just sealed in a mine) for parts replaceable in 1955 and gasoline to repair the 1955 version Marty arrives in? He said the lightning strike took out the hover capability but made no mention of regular tires, suspension or gas tank & engine. Bueller? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
massey Posted February 17, 2018 Report Share Posted February 17, 2018 1 hour ago, Hyper-Man said: Bueller? Only the gas was important. The other things he could fix with 19th century tech. Perhaps he drained the gas and other fluids before he put it in the cave, so it would last longer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted February 18, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 In Zombie movies there is a hoard of the undead walking around eating people. But if that was true then those who are bitten, escape, and later turn into zombies would be the exception to the rule. Most would have been consumed, and we would be left with a few fat zombies walking and a lot of bones lying around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 6 hours ago, Christopher R Taylor said: In Minority Report, there are precognitive people who predict the future, and tell when crimes are going to happen -- except they're always wrong. The crimes never happen. They always fail to predict the future. Why is Bruce Willis the only ghost in the Sixth Sense that goes around living normally instead of reliving their deaths over and over? Fantastic Voyage, they have an hour before everything goes back to normal size, and barely make it out safely in time... except they leave the wreckage of the submarine which is several times human size, inside him... This has always bothered me, and its a mistake that's easy to make as an author: in Empire Strikes Back, the best of the SW movies... the time stream where Luke trains for months on Dagobah is going on at the same time where Han and company fly to the cloud city and get captured overnight. Luke shows up within a day. Did they spend months in the belly of that asteroid worm or something?? Forrest Gump, he's been on TV over and over, is a very rich, powerful and influential individual at every single cultural movement of the Boomers and never changes his look, yet nobody recognizes him? Karate Kid: boot to the head was against the rules and was instant disqualification. Plus, super telegraphed. As for the 6th Sense, I kind of took it he was trying to make amends somehow for failing the earlier kid. And couldn't rest in peace until he saved someone like him. Karate Kid? Come on, the ref had money on Cobra Kai failing to win the championship. So our hero, Johnny had to pay the price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 54 minutes ago, Cassandra said: In Zombie movies there is a hoard of the undead walking around eating people. But if that was true then those who are bitten, escape, and later turn into zombies would be the exception to the rule. Most would have been consumed, and we would be left with a few fat zombies walking and a lot of bones lying around. Maybe they stop eating those who have died. Though that wouldn't answer "Why aren't there a lot of severely chewed up zombies?" My question on zombies: Where are the flies? ANd why aren't they bloated with maggots? I get them moving probably keep scavengers away, but things like flies should still be attracted to them. (and I have heard cases of soldiers having maggots in their wounds, so....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper-Man Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 1 hour ago, Cassandra said: In Zombie movies there is a hoard of the undead walking around eating people. But if that was true then those who are bitten, escape, and later turn into zombies would be the exception to the rule. Most would have been consumed, and we would be left with a few fat zombies walking and a lot of bones lying around. Maybe another side effect of becoming a zombie is a defacto gastric bypass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 Or a more revolting alternative, like the Titans from Attack on Titan. You'll have to look that up, I'm not going to tell (because I am eating at this moment) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 Yeah all those stupid zombie movies where they eat brains and other people... except none of the zombies are all that chewed up, and most have intact heads. Plus, rotting meat stinks horrendously and you'd smell them from miles away. And they're rotting meat, so they would fall apart within a few weeks at most. Just a dumb idea for a catastrophe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 Yeah, and when I younger seeing how quickly flies/maggots could strip a rat carcass in July, you cant bet on them being able to move even a few weeks really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 Then there's the question of how if they move so slowly they suddenly will show up all over the place without warning, silently, only to moan and groan once spotted. We had a running joke about "zombie speed" in our gaming group: they move slowly unless you aren't looking, then they sprint. Plus: why do zombies stop eating a dead person? Shouldn't they devour each other? Armory 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 Simple, on living people taste good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 Fear the Walking Dead had the explanation that they stop eating once the victim dies. They simply have no interest in stuff that smells dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 10 hours ago, Badger said: This has always bothered me, and its a mistake that's easy to make as an author: in Empire Strikes Back, the best of the SW movies... the time stream where Luke trains for months on Dagobah is going on at the same time where Han and company fly to the cloud city and get captured overnight. Luke shows up within a day. Did they spend months in the belly of that asteroid worm or something?? I always figured that without the Hyperdrive the Falcon actually took weeks or months to get to Cloud City. Hyper-Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 Yeah, that doesn't work. It either takes millennia to get to another star system or whatever sci fi super-drive's time frame. Maneuver drives take a while to move around within a system, then its hundreds of light years to the next one. Its hyperdrive or you just don't get there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper-Man Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 They used the backup hyper drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 They dropped out of hyperspace in the middle of nowhere to disappear for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 Or maybe they had to spend weeks hiding in the asteroid field to evade Empire ships, while they repaired the hyperdrive, before moving on to Cloud City. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 2 hours ago, Christopher R Taylor said: Yeah, that doesn't work. It either takes millennia to get to another star system or whatever sci fi super-drive's time frame. Maneuver drives take a while to move around within a system, then its hundreds of light years to the next one. Its hyperdrive or you just don't get there. That's assuming the systems are as far apart as they are in Earth's neighbourhood. If Hoth and Bespin were both in the same tight globular cluster, we could indeed be talking months to get there under the Star Wars sublight drive. Of course the reality is probably that Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 or they could be planets in a distant binary (one about each star) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted February 18, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 3 hours ago, Sundog said: That's assuming the systems are as far apart as they are in Earth's neighbourhood. If Hoth and Bespin were both in the same tight globular cluster, we could indeed be talking months to get there under the Star Wars sublight drive. Of course the reality is probably that Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale) That happened on the Christmas episode of Space: Above and Beyond. They are stranded in a damage space craft in Sirius but are thought to be in Procyon. Those stars are about eight light years apart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted February 18, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 So do Zombies stop eating when they see living humans? Are they fickle, or driven more by a need to kill rather then feed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted February 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2018 War of the Worlds (2005) had the alien tripods buried for hundreds of years right in the middle of where major cities would be built. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted February 19, 2018 Report Share Posted February 19, 2018 1 hour ago, Cassandra said: So do Zombies stop eating when they see living humans? Are they fickle, or driven more by a need to kill rather then feed? They just jealous. Hate the player, not the game (or something) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted February 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2018 Max Brooks never explained this part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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