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Science fiction, and science FACT! (such as ANCIENT ALIENS)

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  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    Zonugal wrote:
    Stig, way to go.

    Most people forget about the very end of 12 Monkeys.

    They sent the main lady scientist back to contain the spread.

  • TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    I've read both the Andromeda Strain and The Stand so I know a thing or two about deadly flu pandemics.

  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    edited December 2011
    Weaver wrote:
    Zonugal wrote:
    Stig, way to go.

    Most people forget about the very end of 12 Monkeys.

    They sent the main lady scientist back to contain the spread.

    huh, what? no

    is this in some special extended cut I haven't seen?
    also that doesn't make sense

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    TheStig wrote: »
    Weaver wrote:
    Zonugal wrote:
    Stig, way to go.

    Most people forget about the very end of 12 Monkeys.

    They sent the main lady scientist back to contain the spread.

    huh, what? no

    is this in some special extended cut I haven't seen?
    also that doesn't make sense

    I think it's just Weaver either misinterpreting the ending or forgetting how it plays out, or both.

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    edited December 2011
    Yeah I don't think she was there to contain the spread, just to get a sample, which was the main dude's mission originally. She was definitely there, though, she shakes his hand on the plane.

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I'm pretty sure that was her past, younger self who just happened by coincidence to be on the plane with the guy that started it all.

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  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    Druhim wrote:
    TheStig wrote: »
    Weaver wrote:
    Zonugal wrote:
    Stig, way to go.

    Most people forget about the very end of 12 Monkeys.

    They sent the main lady scientist back to contain the spread.

    huh, what? no

    is this in some special extended cut I haven't seen?
    also that doesn't make sense

    I think it's just Weaver either misinterpreting the ending or forgetting how it plays out, or both.

    Oh OK, weird, I just did a search, and apparently the lady scientist from the future was on the plane? I totally missed that.

  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    I think it was the past version of the lady scientist from the future

    Marty: The future, it's where you're going?
    Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    Huntera wrote:
    It always pleases me how competent scientists are in real life, compared to movies and stuff.

    It's a nice change of pace for reality to be better than fiction!

    Someone dig up that Neil deGrasse Tyson blog post where he outlines a sci-fi movie script of his where the killer asteroid is detected ninety years before impact and the rest of the movie is crippling tedium and every-day banality. It was really hilarious but also had some great science but googling it gives you far too broad a set of results.

    Tyson is so great. He's so fun to listen to.

  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    Paladin wrote:
    I think it was the past version of the lady scientist from the future

    She says to him, "I'm an insurance."

  • EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    Weaver wrote:
    Paladin wrote:
    I think it was the past version of the lady scientist from the future

    She says to him, "I'm an insurance."

    She says she's in insurance, I took it as dramatic irony

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  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    edited December 2011
    yeah that was her when she was younger (i think)

    also I assumed bruce's character got the sample in his body, which was returned to the future, which was why he was given the gun (so he would come back dead)

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  • FlayFlay Registered User regular
    edited December 2011
  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    "I'm an insurance" doesn't even make sense unless she's ESL.

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  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    JoeUser wrote:
    Druhim wrote:
    TheStig wrote: »
    Weaver wrote:
    Zonugal wrote:
    Stig, way to go.

    Most people forget about the very end of 12 Monkeys.

    They sent the main lady scientist back to contain the spread.

    huh, what? no

    is this in some special extended cut I haven't seen?
    also that doesn't make sense

    I think it's just Weaver either misinterpreting the ending or forgetting how it plays out, or both.

    Oh OK, weird, I just did a search, and apparently the lady scientist from the future was on the plane? I totally missed that.

    I've seen this movie perhaps fifteen times, and every time I see something I didn't notice before

    but I had never noticed this, even when I saw it like three days ago, so now I have to go back and check the footage

    but I think it's important to remember that the film opens with a quote from a real patient in a mental institution

    the whole film is about a guy who has gone completely nutso and the lengths that the human mind can go to rationalize fantasy

  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    And, upon reviewing the ending, there it is!

    although you can tell it's a pre-9/11 film

    how long do you think it would take, today, to ground every plane flying over the US if there was a shootout in a terminal?

    Twenty minutes?

    Thirty?

    There's certainly not going to be anyone taking off from that airport for the next several hours.

  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    Ok, while we're analyzing interpretative endings can somebody please give me a way for the Silent Hill movie to have a happy ending?

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Weaver wrote:
    Ok, while we're analyzing interpretative endings can somebody please give me a way for the Silent Hill movie to have a happy ending?

    you're talking to an expert retconner

    give me five mins

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    bad dream on the part of Rose.

  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    edited December 2011
    Antimatter wrote:
    bad dream on the part of Rose.

    She's got three reality splits in the movie. Which one was the bad dream?

    Weaver on
  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    all of it

  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    you turned it off before she woke up and found patric duffy in the shower.

  • FlayFlay Registered User regular
    edited December 2011
    Having found a well-preserved tusk in Siberia (including marrow) there's a small chance that scientists will be able to clone a wooly mammoth.

    Flay on
  • godmodegodmode Southeast JapanRegistered User regular
    Is it just me, or does London's "Shard" look like a 21st century headquarters for some sort of nefarious corporation bent on world domination?

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    godmode wrote:
    Is it just me, or does London's "Shard" look like a 21st century headquarters for some sort of nefarious corporation bent on world domination?
    clearly that is unity hall and the town is Shiloh

    credit goes to gatsby for this post

  • godmodegodmode Southeast JapanRegistered User regular
    I had to Google that reference :/

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    people who had the ability to appreciate it when it was on should've watched kings

  • ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    Kings was a good show. Ian Mcshane is the best

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    the silent hill movie was so bad though.

  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    the happy ending was the credits

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Langly wrote:
    the silent hill movie was so bad though.

    Yeah that movie was pretty awful

  • hoodie13hoodie13 punch bro Registered User regular
    things silent hill did well:

    -barbed wire penis
    -freaky as fuck ash children
    -disturbing imagery
    -it had sean bean
    -air raid siren/rust peeling up to the "dark" world
    -pyramid head skins a woman

    things silent hill did not do well:
    -making much sense
    -having enough sean bean
    -ending decently

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  • JunpeiJunpei Registered User regular
    Solar wrote:
    Langly wrote:
    the silent hill movie was so bad though.

    Yeah that movie was pretty awful

    There is a specific reason for this though
    Sean Bean didn't die in it, some how.

  • StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    edited December 2011
    godmode wrote:
    Is it just me, or does London's "Shard" look like a 21st century headquarters for some sort of nefarious corporation bent on world domination?

    The huge skyscraper in Mirror's Edge was also called the Shard.

    DICE is European, so maybe they made an intentional reference?

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  • FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    Good news on the let's-preserve-humanity-by-colonising-the-galaxy front:

    NASA finds planet in the goldilocks zone.

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    That's unbelievably cool. Your new name is cool guy. Let's have sex.
  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    Junpei wrote:
    Solar wrote:
    Langly wrote:
    the silent hill movie was so bad though.

    Yeah that movie was pretty awful

    There is a specific reason for this though
    Sean Bean didn't die in it, some how.

    yeah but in this movie, he was the only one who didn't.

  • HunteraHuntera Rude Boy Registered User regular
    Fishman wrote: »
    Good news on the let's-preserve-humanity-by-colonising-the-galaxy front:

    NASA finds planet in the goldilocks zone.

    I hate to be a downer here, but what feasible way do we have to get there? We haven't been to the moon since the 70s, how are we going to go to a whole 'nother star?

  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    we're gonna

    we're gonna use

    we can

    shut uuuup hunterra

  • FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    Huntera wrote:
    Fishman wrote: »
    Good news on the let's-preserve-humanity-by-colonising-the-galaxy front:

    NASA finds planet in the goldilocks zone.

    I hate to be a downer here, but what feasible way do we have to get there? We haven't been to the moon since the 70s, how are we going to go to a whole 'nother star?

    *Shrug* Look, I was going to go with Drake Equation, but I wanted to avoid ACSIS going stark raving Giorgio Tsoukalos on us.

    X-Com LP Thread I, II, III, IV, V
    That's unbelievably cool. Your new name is cool guy. Let's have sex.
  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    Huntera wrote:
    Fishman wrote: »
    Good news on the let's-preserve-humanity-by-colonising-the-galaxy front:

    NASA finds planet in the goldilocks zone.

    I hate to be a downer here, but what feasible way do we have to get there? We haven't been to the moon since the 70s, how are we going to go to a whole 'nother star?

    I am betting on someone inventing warp engines soon.

    I give it 20 years.

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