Good at comedy, not so much on nerdy/sciency stuff


Although I enjoyed most of the movies and am a big fan of Chris O'Dowd, there are some things that bugged me:

In the beginning, they say some things that maybe would pass in a regular dumb Hollywood movie, but not in a nerd film

-Caveman eat dinosaurs - men and dinosaurs didn't coexist
-Dinosaurs have a brain the size of a walnut - disproved theory
-Vampires and werewolves are natural enemies - in Twilight maybe, but in original myths they are one of the same

Also for a movie called FAQ about time travel they didn't actually answered any timetravel relared questions, just made bunch more

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NERD!

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Imagineer!

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"
-Caveman eat dinosaurs - men and dinosaurs didn't coexist
"

What about women?

But seriously, in a way, they did. They WERE the dinosaurs. There is a hint at dinosaurs having been 'one-souled' beings, as opposed to animals, which are 'multi-souled' (which means, that animals don't -usually- have their own soul, but only a shard of a soul - so one soul encompasses many animals, and the more advanced the animal, the less shards, until only two is left (like in dogs and horses, for example). This would explain how schools of fish and flocks of birds can move 'as one mind', as we can all witness, among other things), in the "Michael-books" (which, I think, have a lot of nonsense, perhaps in purpose, but also some truth mixed in to make it more challenging for people to learn the truth, which keeps them searching and alive, instead of killing their 'spirit' by simply delivering the truth on a plate).

And there is another mention about dinosaurs being mutations caused by awful planetary circumstances, and that those mutations should never have been born. So, they probably mutated from the proto-humans that the life-seeders were trying to populate this planet with. Thus, many of us can possibly have been incarnated in a dinosaur body, which would also explain the immense interest people have for these horrible beast-mutations.

"-Dinosaurs have a brain the size of a walnut - disproved theory"

How was it disproved, and who did it? Do you have any links? How can anyone really know exactly what the brain size was? It's like dinosaur skin - we have no photos, we have no video, most of us don't have time displacement equipment, and a lot of us can't really remember in detail what it was like back then, so to be absolutely sure about the brain size or dino skin color one way or another beyond rational theorisizing backed up by certain allusions or references, may be a bit foolish.

"-Vampires and werewolves are natural enemies - in Twilight maybe, but in original myths they are one of the same"

Vampires and werewolves don't exist. They are products of writers imaginations. Any theory about them is just as good as another. Dinosaurs did actually exist. So this is a little bit weird thing to nitpick on, especially in a movie that certainly offers a better, bigger and lovelier bouquet for such pickings of nit.

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Vampires and werewolves are natural enemies - in Twilight maybe, but in original myths they are one of the same


Nope. Well, in some myths but in modern times they are ememies.

Also for a movie called FAQ about time travel they didn't actually answered any timetravel relared questions, just made bunch more


And that is exactly what makes the title so clever. It got you asking yourself alot of frequently asked questions about time travel, didn't it?

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I think the dumb Hollywood movie references was the joke there especially with the rest of the movie revolving around writing a list of dumb things Hollywood does in scifi movies.

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