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extremely confusing film


This movie still confuses me, 21 years later. This has to be one of the most convuluted time-travel storylines of all time.

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Frankly, time travel always confuses me, and this film was no exception. I guess Cheryl Ladd was looking for that cylindrical device all the time or something. At least the character seemed to understand what was happening, and it was cool seeing Cheryl Ladd in the futuristic hair. The set design and art direction were surprisingly good as well for a cheapo film.

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Wow you really have a short attention span.
The jumps are all perfectly explained within the context of the film.

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I remember trying to explain it to people that went to see it with me in the theater in college. I've been reading scifi since I first learned to read, so it was easy for me. A lot of people can't get their mind around out of order over lapping time lines.

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by DrWhen » Thu May 10 2012 15:17:35
IMDb member since January 2010
I remember trying to explain it to people that went to see it with me in the theater in college. I've been reading scifi since I first learned to read, so it was easy for me. A lot of people can't get their mind around out of order over lapping time lines.


I think that's because we have a tendency to think in a linear fashion. A leads to B, and when we're trying to understand that A lead to C and then B makes a cameo, then it leads to confusion. 

It's just like I can solve a polynomial using the quadratic formula, but have a hard time doing simple subtraction. LOL

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I'm not getting why there are duplicate people being lead onto and off of the plane. Did they die? Sorry I haven't finished watching the whole thing yet. I came here to see if anyone addressed that.

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I think I just found the answer to my question. They needed healthy people in the future so they brought them from the airplane where they would have died anyway. Is that it in a nutshell? Thanks

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They needed healthy people in the future so they brought them from the airplane where they would have died anyway. Is that it in a nutshell? Thanks

Yes, and in addition, they replace the healthy people with already dead doppelgangers so that investigators will still find bodies at the crash site; it was explained in the future that they could create people but not souls, because humans can't reproduce anymore. My guess is that the lifeless doppelgangers are lab created.

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