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What I Learned from This Movie

posted 13 years ago by GreenInkBrigade
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1. Whenever the government has a major disaster with a scientific project, the director of the project will turn out to have been involved with one of the scientists who left the project due to ethical differences.

2. Scientists who leave black box government projects and write a science fiction book directly based on their work will not suffer any consequences if their ex-wives are the project directors.

3. Despite ample time and experience with which to figure out that a 5.56mm assault rifle is not going to be very effective against the carnivorous creatures from the future, the military will not issue higher-caliber weapons to the soldiers in the time machine lab or the ones heading into the future to fight the creatures.

4. When your time machine is damaged and stranded in a hostile future and threatens to destroy the present, you should send the only guy who knows what's wrong with it into the future rather than have him write down the solution for you ... or even have him leave some notes behind.

5. When you're trapped in a cage by Morlocks and find a way out, you should wait for your ex-husband to find you before you actually climb out of the cage.

[–] Mojo907 13 years ago

6. creatures are active only at night, but during their activity cycle...there will be the ones that all sleep so hard you can sneak by them.

[–] Mxdmeta4 13 years ago

7. Ammunition is limitless in the future.

[–] Mojo907 13 years ago

8. Creatures that are light sensitive apparently do not fear running into a brightly-lit swirly vortex that would burn the retinas of normal vision creatures..

[–] capcanuk 13 years ago

9. When the armed forces send soldiers on ultra-secret missions, using extremely complex and advanced technology, they will always send a bunch of idiots who forget their basic training and freeze at the first sight of something strange and scary.

10. They also send "privates" on these missions.

[–] johnietoth 13 years ago

11. That even in the vast future, far enough to allow humans to evolve/devolve into morelocks, cities structures will still be standing that are made of concrete/steel.

12. That the fist thing to do is to send a small squad of soldiers with no vehicle support what so ever. ( I would have sent tanks, and maybe 100 soldiers to establish a 'safe" perimeter.)

[–] ydobon-1 13 years ago

11. That even in the vast future, far enough to allow humans to evolve/devolve into morelocks, cities structures will still be standing that are made of concrete/steel.

Actually it was explained in the movie that they only went 68 years into the future, to the year 2080.

It's very likely that the downfall of humanity happened within a decade or two of the doctor using the morlock DNA, so it's not a stretch to imagine that things would mostly look the same when everything went to pieces in 2022-2032 or so.

[–] chrlpolk 13 years ago

13. When you are sent to an unspecified time in the future and find information in newspapers, it is not necessary to note the date on the newspapers.

[–] JungleHyena 12 years ago

14: The most heard line of text in movies with moron soldiers in it, is: 'This definately is not what I signed up for!'

15: In a destroyed civilisation,... there always still seems to be enough light in 'dark' tunnels, unless someone has to die in a scene,... but you will still be using up the battery power of your flashlight by leaving it on unneeded.

16: When near a few hunderd Morlocs,... who see you, but have not attacked you yet,... your first action should be to shoot them to make them angry,... instead moving away first in the hope they will not follow you.

17: When you are wearing a helmet,... your face is not that important for the camera, and you will most likely die.

18: When you are in a small elevator, and you shoot (alot)... you wont go deaf.

19: Black project leaders and scientists involved in timetravel, never heard of a 'Temporal Paradox' and thus will negate when warned about the dangers of it.

20: Colonel Wichita's "ethical subroutines"... were most likely overwritten. ;-D

[–] Movie_map 12 years ago

21. I learned that Apple has an app that makes gene therapy a snap!

[–] mrbungle-9 12 years ago

22.When a dangerous creature is about to break free of its shackles and attack a scientist, you just repeat his name a few times in the hope he realises he is about to die. What you don't do is say "OMFG LOOK OUT IT'S ABOUT TO EAT YOUR FACE OFF". Then despite seeing his death coming a mile off, you don't run away, you just stand there and scream in disbelief.

[–] VartanD 12 years ago

M16 rifles, and that includes the various M4's and AR's et al seen in the flick, when firing on full auto, pump out piles of AK-47 shell casings around your feet.

The woman with the rifle appears to be using a Soviet Dragunov, as well. The cartridge she held up was a 7.62x54r.

[–] ironjade 12 years ago

25: David Hewlett's agent is severely lacking in imagination. Or he only forwards the mad scientist scripts to his client.

"Make me a baby!
Make me a star!
Leave my coffin slightly ajar!"
- Lesley Gore

[–] thepansybastard 11 years ago

#26) That Syfy really has not a clue in HELL how to make a movie that is watchable by someone with an IQ above 12.