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Just so much epic aura about Maximus and what a movie
Would have been perfect cast for Uncharted
That scene... (spoilers)
Amazing thriller based on a great book
Amazing movie. Edge of seat thriller (spoilers)
Are you not entertained?
Omg. Shameful to be associated with ID4
Great movie in the Indiana Jones Pentalogy
Ridiculous escape fantasy with plot holes
S11 question
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So this reply is 11 years later but your last point is incorrect.
While the alien has 4 fingers we evolved in a different condition world than them which is why we don’t have 4 and have 5.
From the movie it shows the aliens seeding life on Earth via one ship but that gives rise to all the species on earth since we all evolved on earth from that dna but we all look very different and have different number of digits.
At dna level we have commonality with the alien but we were not in their env. so evolved differently and don’t look anything like them at all with fingers being a lot more in common actually opposed to their skin and face and body etc
One funny thing to add - near the end in a vital scene I wanted William the friar to say "gooshe thumping moronsh shuch ash yourshelvesh should try reading booksh inshtead of burning them"
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Not at all. The Dark Knight Returns is probably the worst movie in the superhero comic genre.
TDKR is just utterly illogical rubbish.
Bad back? Why let me punch it into place.
A 5ft jump that supposedly only Batman can make other than a 9y old girl.
Let’s carry 500 gals of gasoline somehow and spend all night drawing a bat symbol atop a building and pour gasoline all the way from there along the building and a mile of road at least to some underpass and light it up at the right moment so it flames up somehow all the way for a mile to the top of the building so the baddie can see it.
Let’s have the entire police force go underground and stay there for like 6months without proper food or water or resistance or whatever.
Let’s have these cops now emerge from the underground easily and run without weapons to bad guys who are firing guns at them.
The bad guy speaks funny and has his mouth all closed up so obviously he eats from the other.
Hey a nuke about to go off?let’s make a 5m monologue instead of taking it far away. Hey it exploded over the water? Bad place but ok I’m like only 100yard away so I’m safe!
Everything about the movie was utter shite. I rated it a 1/10.
Interstellar is rated 4/10 from me. Contact is a 10/10.
Interstellar had too many illogical plot holes and rubbish logic.
You need huge booster rockets to escape Earths gravity but a tiny car sized ship escapes a planet with 100ft waves under influence of a black hole where even time slows down. lol.
Encoding of coords in sand where he says they must not go so he encodes the location using sand grains. Hahahaha
Complex quantum equations in the ticking of a watch hand that just goes back and forth. lol. So much stupid.
The whole tars and love story and her being the mother of embryos in another planet devoid of food. Hahahaha.
Everything about Interstellar was unscientific and illogical and made little sense really.
Matthew Mcconaughey is a great actor and Anne Hathaway is a great actress but they were probably laughing to the bank with the noise blaring movie.
Contact is for higher iq intelligent folks interested in science fiction while interstellar is more for the opposite
Yes, the movie was entertaining. It is a movie. It's point it to entertain with a story. It did that.
Comparing against the first is unavoidable due to the first one being such an epic movie. Russell Crowe's command presence, measured deep-voiced responses like right at the beginning when the catapults are being moved by Quintus who says "move them out of range" and he says "Range is good" in a deep but authoritative manner. No screaming, shouting nothing. Just a firm "range is good". Some people naturally have that aura. Crowe has that.
The other characters also had that for their role - Connie Nielsen too had the command presence not just because she is the emperor's daughter but just Connie Nielsen having that with her "Senator, my brother is tired, I shall see to it that it is done" and "He was a soldier of Rome. Honor him".
Joaquin's childish and angry Commodus was perfection too. Gracchus as well. Oliver Reed's casting was sublime with his epic lines "we are but shadows and dust Maximus.... shadows and dust"... as Maximus races on the steps.
In this movie, the actors and actresses were all good but they lacked punch through. Denzel alone punched out imo because he is well, Denzel. I thought he was connected to Juba (Djimon's role) somehow and seeking revenge but it was something else entirely.
Also missing were the looks and nods which convey a lot more than dialog like Reed responding with a forceful nod when asked if he was a Gladiator by Maximus to Maximus' stares to Nielsen's penchant chin rubbing anticipation.
And the presence of so many memorable quotable lines. Off the top of my head these are my favorites -
"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius..."
"We are but shadows and dust"
"Am I not merciful"
"Are you not entertained? Is this not why you're here?"
"The emperor is proud to give you the barbarian horde"
"Strength and honor"
"Have you ever embraced a person dying of plague sire?"
"On my signal unleash hell"
They were not in Arlington, VA. They showed the police come by Brubaker's house to pick the wife and kids up from her own house which is in Houston where Dr. Kelloway also worked at NASA in Houston and he also makes some remark about how she should be at the memorial service which is "right here in Houston" when he visits her at home with her children in the pool.
The astronauts also were around Houston area, about 200 mile radius based on the guy who spoke about the signal being maybe around 200mi (given it is Houston which is a coastal city, 200mi from there is likely West of Austin to South West of Dallas). It's empty there and kinda looks like that so it is possible it is there in TX.
Overall the movie is a fun thrilling entertainer. Sure, it has issues and flaws but they did a good job keeping the conspiracy to just maybe a dozen people tops and yes there are some plot holes like almost all movies but it was a good movie
You must be one of those redditors for sure. I mean, just read your own post. Full of arrogance and annoying qualities.
You didn't understand the question, didn't read properly and dismiss things because it is beyond your understanding as "entertaining".
Well, some of us like to think more and discuss logical topics about fantasy topics like this. You don't have to participate anymore. Let someone else who is interested respond instead of filling a thread with your drivel.
Good bye.
It’s like you didn’t read or didn’t understand what I wrote.
The timeline wasn’t handled well.
There’s a lot of inconsistencies in how the multiple timelines are presented and handled and there’s plot holes too
It’s still a great fun entertaining movie but it has issues.
Omg. Hahahaha
It does make sense scientifically too. Cells divide and divide. That’s what they do. How then does a cell then die? It’s in telomeres. Each time a cell divides small part of telomere shaves off each time.
Telomeres at end of chromosomes protect the dna from the cell structure and prevent it from clipping off the genes and causing havoc. It’s like having a cell divide and then lose chunks of information that mutate you.
Now with normal aging these telomeres shrink more and more to the point the cell just dies when it divides as the telomere is eroded.
But what if in a statistical fluke someone is born who has some condition or such that causes the telomeres to not erode each time cell divides? Or maybe it’s so thick that instead of cell dying at normal rate it is slowed say 20x or 30x. I.e. a human with life span of 80-90 can now live for 1600-1800years assuming 20x slow down of cell decay? Or assuming 25x that’s 2000y-2250y?
That’s within reach of Jesus now.
This is all possible in realm of science too if we can figure out how to protect telomeres and have it regen each time cell divides so you can live very very long or be basically immortal.
It could be possible he was injected some serum by some alien or he ate some perfect combo of foods that acted like a natural signal to cells to regen telomeres before division or whatever. Just some random chance fluke that happened when he was at near his midpoint prime around 35y old.
It’s all perfectly possible now. Scientifically
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