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[muji]

Does anyone ever watch a movie and have a question about it that BUGS THE CRAP OUT OF THEM even though it is completely useless and/or irrelevant to have the answer?

Okay, so I was watching Men in Black last night.

WHAT IS ON THAT TEST? WHAT IS THE TOPIC? WHAT IS THAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND.

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[ceitfianna]

How long was Tumnus a statue? This question also applies to the book but its the biggest part of Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe that just bugs me. I know its not that important but it bugs me.

I feel like there might be other ones but I'm operating on no sleep and a weird night.

[sdelmonte]

So just how did Bruce Banner get to the big fight when everyone in NYC was running from the aliens? I get that he knew where to go, since he did see the results of his search. But how did he get from wherever it was he fell to midtown so quick? You can't do that on a normal day, let alone when the aliens are coming.

[1nv1nc1ble]

My thought on this was that he was already in New York, since that's where the most visible of the Avengers, Tony Stark, keeps the big tower with his name on it. (A skyscraper that big, and not one joke from Loki about compensating for something. Clearly Freudian psychology never made it to Asgard.) When the screaming started, he just headed toward Midtown.

[gavin62truck]

To paraphrase Boromir, one does not simply head toward Midtown.

But I guess one can, in the movies ;D

[gavin62truck]

Quick, where's the closest midwest-looking farmland to Manhattan?

[gorgonfondness]

Not quite related but I realized something about myself. You know those people who go to the movies and they know why something would be scientifically impossible? Or those people who know history and point out all of the little anachronisms?

I'm one of those people. But with pastries.

I was thinking about the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie this morning, specifically the scene when Jack has to see King George II. You know that buffet set out and that stack of pastries that Jack spends the whole scene trying to get? That particular pastry, the Paris-Brest, wasn't invented until the late 19th century, a considerable time after George II's lifetime. (And yes, apparently I can identify pastries by name from seeing them on a movie screen.) I told Dad this and our conversation went like this:

Dad: You can invent a pastry?
Me: Yes Dad. All of them had to be invented at some point.
Dad: But they were all pretty much invented by then, right?
Me: No they weren't.
Dad: Fine. Name a new pastry.
Me: Lava cake. That was invented in the 70s.*
Dad: What's lava cake?
Me: *tries explaining but just ends up giving him some lava cake we happened to have*

*Not entirely accurate but I was going on memory at the time. Lava cake is said to have been invented in the late 1980s.

[bjornwilde]

A couple I have for Hank:
What did he study at Harvard? Is he a doctor then? They never say anything more than he graduated from Harvard at 15.
Where is the hanger the Blackbird is kept? I seem to remember Division X being somewhere around Richmond, VR and the Xavier mansion is in Westchester, NY so it must be somewhere between or near both but it's never mentioned.
What are the flight suits for? I love the touch of them being flight suits instead of Hank just making uniforms but what do they do?

On the flip side of things that drive me crazy...
The Fantastic Four movies weren't all that good but I loved that they showed the physical problems Ben has post transformation. For example, he couldn't pick up a fork or the wedding ring his fiance threw on the ground. That was one of the saddest scenes also.

[ceitfianna]

I think Charles mentions what they do, they're about protecting from G-forces as he has a line about we wear because none of us have mutations that do X,Y and Z. Its before they enter the hangar when they've opened the box, I think its an answer.

The design and physics of the mansion are amazing. One of my friends here has one of those everything you ever wanted to know about the X-Men books and it has maps of the mansion from the comics and its all so cool.

[bjornwilde]

Okay that's great for internal organs but what about eyeballs? If Hank's so worried about the G-forces, why not helmets? I know visual aesthetics. But thank you for reminding me they did have a hand waved purpose beyond "flight suit".

I think I need to get that book or at least check it out of the library. Do you have the title by any chance?

[ceitfianna]

And I lost that nice helpful reply I just wrote. Best as I can remember it was one of the Ultimate Guides and it referenced everything from the movies to comics and had this amazing cutaway of the mansion. Though I think the cutaway was an older take and had the look of being put together for a comic at some point. It was so neat.

I think my friend had a different cover image on hers and I would love if they did another one, just flipping through it I learned so much.

[bjornwilde]

Cool and thanks! I loved the old comic cutaways.

[bjornwilde]

Oh there's also the whole "What is Cerebro for?" but I like my solution so I'll let that one go.

[adiva_calandia]

All I've got is my "HOW DO YOU PHYSICS" flailing at The Amazing Spiderman, which I have been talked out of. Reluctantly.

[sky_child]

sup me playing twilight princess

WHY DOES THE MAGNETIC CEILING ONLY ATTRACT YOUR IRON BOOTS AND NOT YOUR SWORD, SHIELD, AND ANY OTHER METALLIC ITEM YOU'RE CARRYING?

HOW COME YOUR HAT DOES NOT FALL IN THE DIRECTION OF GRAVITY EXCEPT WHEN YOU'RE SHOOTING AN ARROW FROM THE CEILING?

WHEN YOU ARE STANDING ON A PLATFORM THAT ROTATES, HOW DOES YOUR HAT FALL DOWN WITH GRAVITY WHEN THE PLATFORM TURNS BUT MOVES BACK UP WHEN IT STOPS? WHEN YOU ARE STILL STANDING UPSIDE DOWN????

HOW DOES A GIANT SLAB OF STONE FALLING FROM THE SKY FIT SNUGLY BACK INTO THE PLACE WHERE IT FELL AND NOT BREAK THE BRIDGE EVEN FURTHER???

WHY DO YOU THINK ZORAS CARE ABOUT LINK TURNING BACK INTO A HUMAN WHEN HE ROUTINELY FALLS IN THE MIDST OF THEIR THRONE ROOM AS A WOLF? AND NOBODY SEEMS TO CARE????

And then there's Skyward Sword:

HOW CAN LINK LIFT KOLOKTOS' GIANT SWORD?

and

WHY IS FARORE TRYING TO KILL LINK?

(And also

- What is the deal with his Triforce hand what does it mean does he have special powers or ? because in the other games when people had Triforce hands that meant that they presumably or definitely did have those respective pieces of the Triforce on them and thus had their respective powers but Link gets his Triforce hand before he gets the Triforce in Skyward Sword and ???

- SPOILERZ: If Hylia gave up her divine powers before dying then why does Zelda seem to have, well, divine powers??? Thousand year naps??? What kind of powers does she have exactly?

[nocarename]

After careful* thought I offer the following option.

Like everything else the MiB do the exam is multipurpose. It is framed as a set of math word problems.

Under that is tests for ethical issues. The stated problems always have at least two solutions, which you choose says a great deal about your thought processes and assumptions.

The third level is what we see, where the environment and equipment provided conspire against you and tests lateral thinking.




*About thirty seconds.

[cameoflage]

That makes sense to me!

[nocarename]

Right, actual complaints about canons.

How, exactly, dose Artemis' quiver work when she's doing ninja flips all over the countryside? Magnets? Velcro?

I know I'm missing the whole book on how magic works in Tyler's universe, so no surprise that what I have makes little to no sense.

Ako... Negima is mostly clear on how things run. Except for time travel.
Stupid closed predestination except when it isn't. Mumble grumble.

[shinyhappygoth]

I want to see Velcro employed in archery.

[seat_five_girl]

*adds to oom list of equipment fiddling nonesense*

[mnt_raph]

IT'S A GIANT TURTLE IN A TRENCHCOAT AND FEDORA HAT.
HOW DO PEOPLE NOT NOTICE A GIANT TURTLE IN A TRENCHCOAT AND FEDORA HAT?

[ever_lovin]

Same ways they don't take notice a big guy made o' orange rocks in a trench coat an' fedora?

[seat_five_girl]

Clearly the hats are blindingly nice.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Recently, having watched "Prometheus" (for which I am a bit sorry, because it's kind of a dumb movie), I have to ask "How did these scientists get there jobs?!" Because, wow, in the first 20 minutes, there's enough bad science (medicine, biology, anthropology/archaeology) to give even a former English major like me a headache. To say nothing of the biologist who is a) afraid (not squicked out, but actually afraid) to handle a dead body, and b) encounters an alien species of reptile and immediately thinks, "Let's poke it with a stick!"

It's a very pretty movie, but just dumb. Mr. Scott, I am disappoint.