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Not a plot hole, but in 2015, Daniels probably doesn't find the monkey..


...nearly as quickly.

In the film, Daniels identifies the host monkey after boarding the Korean cargo ship and finding a Polaroid of the dead crewman posing with the monkey.

In 2015, very likely there would be no Polaroid cameras on-board ship, especially a Korean vessel - everyone would be using a smartphone to take pictures. And likely the phone would be password protected so Daniels would not have an easy time cracking it to see any photos.

Sure, a modern film might have someone around [a crewman perhaps] who was somehow versed in phone security cracking, but this would smack too much of a convenient deus ex machina to me.

In any event, I very much enjoyed this film when I first saw it in the theaters - what a spectacular cast! Just that, re-watching it recently, it strikes me that in the context of the film, our current over-reliance on technology maybe ain't such a good thing.

Similarly, I have personally observed that the advent of cell technology has indeed made me markedly dumber than I used to be in some ways. As a kid growing up in a world without cell phones, I remember I used to walk around with dozens of phone numbers committed to memory - my parents workplace, relatives, school, friends, emergency numbers...etc.

Nowadays, I might not even be able to tell you my mom's cell phone number even if my life depended on it.

:P :)


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Since he really liked the animal, I imagined he'd be on Instagram or Facebook with it. Same for the man that tried to unload it in the US and couldn't. Seems he'd be on Instagram, Craigslist or finding a nearby exotic pet show to unload it rather than cut his losses entirely.

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The phone could easily be cracked or they would just remove the hard drive. I find today the problem isn't technology... its all these stupid laws we hav that would actually hold up Daniels from being effective.

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"its all these stupid laws we hav that would actually hold up Daniels from being effective."

Otherwise known as the Constitution!

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If the movie was made today, the host would be inside a chinese lab

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