Top 10 Unanswered Questions in Geeky Movies

I have faith that you guys can come up with others.

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/09/top-10-unanswered-questions-in-geeky-movies/

I have another one for Back to the Future. When Marty returns his whole world has changed. His Dad is assertive and successful and the rest of the family has better lives.

Marty would have no memory of any of their lives together, his entire childhood would have been different. Wouldn't his family find it weird that he has no recollection of things as most recent as last week? Not to mention things further back. Every family experience would be totally different.

I don't think all those flaws mentioned are what irk me with many great films. Hollywood has always had a sense of "movie magic" and nothing is completely without fault. I think what I get sick of are all the damn cliches and the fact that film creators take them for granted by using them over and over.

Take Horror films for example:
Cat pops up out of nowhere (Rarrr, hissssss), Car fails to start as villain/monster approaches (place fumble for keys here, too), 90% of the genre is based around teenagers and if you're a black guy, you don't stand a chance.

Then there's action flicks:
All enemies attack our hero one at a time, everyone in the world manages to leave their keys in the car making for quick getaways and all those bullets being fired by the bad guys either never hit our hero or graze their arm. Oh, and no matter how many times you see a car accident or a vehicle tumble down a hill, it's a guarantee it will explode in a ball of flames. I've seen plenty of car accidents in my life, many of them very horrific, but rarely ever explosive.

Comedy has the unfortunate cliche of drugs, sex and flatulence. Now days, if it doesn't make a joke about smoking pot, farting or people trying to find humor in getting laid then it isn't a comedy. What's really sad is when the narrative lacks any original creativity that they just go for something extremely gross. It's like the movie "The Hangover", what was so damn funny? It was just a rehash of jokes I've seen from decades ago with nothing relatively new to offer.

Then there's the stealing of film style itself, which eventually makes everything seem cliche. Like after the Matrix and everyone wanted to copy the slow-mo, 360 pan-around shot. Or after the Bourne films and the hand-held, high-speed film, shaky camera style went overboard and had to be in every action film made today.

Quote:I've seen plenty of car accidents in my life, many of them very horrific, but rarely ever explosive.

On Mythbusters they disproved the bullet thru the gastank makes a car explode. Very disappointed, I thought for sure when you shot a car with a handgun it exploded in a giant fireball.

I have a relatively minor but often amusing observation about almost all films: How come drivers always--always--find parking places in big cities right in front of the buildings they need to go into? I mean, I could drive around the block fifty times and not find a parking spot. Only in the movies, I guess.

John

john,

you're just unlucky.

My favorite of all time.. King Kong.. pretty much any version... in the beginning of the movie, we meet the natives of the island who live in a fort presumably to keep out Kong. Why then do they have 2 doors that are the size of Kong and not a normal door on the side of the fort that you and I can walk through?

I think in the latest installment they move the girl to the outside of the fort anyway so there is zero need for a door that big.

Of course Kong smashing through the doors was their eventual downfall. Dumb natives.

The other day I was watching "Terminator" (first movie). I thought of something I didn't think of before. Since the T800 was intelligent enough to have an entire databank of who he was going after - meaning he knew to kill Sarah "J" Conner - then why didn't he go after her first, and then go after all the other Sarah Conner's in the phone book just to be safe? Seems kind of stupid a machine with that intelligence would just go through the list in the phone-book alphabetically instead of just going after the intended target. I mean, come on, like the machine wouldn't have the correct name and probably a picture from some DMV databank.

or better yet for your terminator problem.. why not just go back another generation and kill her mom and dad (Johns grandparents) and thus Sarah would never be born?

Considering Sara was like 25 in 1983 that would mean she would have been born in 1958. If her mom was even 20 when she gave birth to her that means her mom was born in 1938.

Terminators.. set your timeclocks to 1939 and go kill a 1 year old. I am sure it would have been harder to find people with guns and fast cars to get away.

Quote:How come drivers always--always--find parking places in big cities right in front of the buildings they need to go into? I mean, I could drive around the block fifty times and not find a parking spot.

Also parked cars almost always have keys in them somewhere or if they don't the person who needs the car happens to know how to hotwire that specific car.

Or why do some cars shift their parts, turn into giant talking robots and fight other giant talking robots? Only in the movies I guess.