Seeking to understand a movie-plot better or to clear confusion about certain aspects.
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In “Flight” could the early trouble with turbulence have led to the crash?
The pivotal airplane voyage in the movie Flight includes an early interlude in which the airplane encounters some extreme turbulence. To get out of the turbulence, the senior pilot (played by Denzel ...
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How did Tracy win the gun battle with her android duplicate?
Near the end of the 1976 film Futureworld Tracy Ballard, the female reporter, is in a stand-off with her android double, each holding a gun. The android was made as an exact duplicate, and they ...
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In Star Trek Into Darkness who was the saboteur?
When the Enterprise is on it's way to Qo'nos it drops out of warp because of some unknown leak in the core. At first it's implied that it's the torpedoes (which it wasn't because they were not even ...
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Why did the Narwhal smuggle lemurs in EP24 of Elementary?
In the final episode of season 1 (EP24 "Heroine") of the tv series Elementary, Holmes finds a coded message on a murdered thug from Moriarty: "BN23MACEDONIANSUN".
Following the message they find a ...
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What changed K's experience?
In MIB3, the proposed explanation for K's lack of emotion and human interaction can be traced to the happening at Cape Canaveral. When J goes back to change the otherwise altered past, K comes out ...
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What is the purpose of the lab in The Divide?
What exactly happens at the laboratory in The Divide (2011)? Who are the guys at the laboratory and what do they try to achieve?
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Is this character really a bad guy?
I've watched STID recently and couldn't help but notice that Benedict Cumberbatch's character is not really that bad as they make it seem.
Sure in another dimension he was one of Kirk's greatest ...
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Why does deliberately causing a coolant leak in main engineering NOT result in catastrophic destruction of the ship?
In Star Trek: Generations, it was this very thing that destroyed the stardrive section of the Enterprise-D. As soon as LaForge recognized that a coolant leak had occurred, he evacuated Engineering ...
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Why does Jeanie help Ferris out at the end of Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
One thing I have never understood about one of my favorite movies, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off": why does Jeanie decide to help Ferris out at the end of the movie and save him from being busted by Mr. ...
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In “Mystic River” how come no one mentioned the second murder?
Mystic River is set in a Boston community which is rocked by the fatal shooting of a young woman. Everyone begins to suspect Dave, who was seen with the victim before the murder and then came home ...
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At the beginning of the movie, why did little William and Duke Hammond assume that Snow White was dead?
They really wrote her off rather thoughtlessly, no? Why not work hard to figure out for sure that she's dead?
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Explanation of the ending of Frozen Day
I recently watched Frozen Day, an Israel movie where a woman survives a suicide bombing. She later visits the hospital and identified her friend who is in a coma. She started living in his apartment ...
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Why is a casino token used as payment in Skyfall?
In Skyfall movie Bond fights an assassin and captures a casino token in the assassin's stuff which he later cashes out. Clearly the token is used as payment for the assassination. Note that ...
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Why did Gus kill Victor in Breaking Bad?
In Season 4 episode 1 "Box cutter", Gus kills Victor. Why does he do this? What does he gain from it other than scaring Walt and Jessie? Or is making them fear him his only motive?
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Why did the pipe explode in The Shawshank Redemption?
I have a question regarding the end of The Shawshank Redemption when Red is narrating Andy's escape - can some one explain why the pipe erupts when Andy breaks it when he is escaping from Shawshank?
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Why doesn't Joey move back to the bigger apartment in Friends?
In the very popular TV Series Friends, the character Joey Tribbiani moves out from his small apartment (where he lived with Chandler) to a very big and expensive place when he gets a role in the soap ...
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Ending of Chrysalis
At the end of Chrysalis (2007), it turns out that the real daughter of Professor Brügen, Manon Brügen, lies on the bed in a coma at her mother's clinic. So who is the healthy girl? Is she another ...
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Killing them softly: explanation of the allegory
The Brad Pitt film, Killing them softly, is an allegory of 2008's subprime economic crisis. I'd like to know who each of the characters in the film is supposed to represent in relation to the crisis. ...
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Significance of the Owl in “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
There's a scene in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" where Prideaux (Mark Strong) is in the class room teaching, then suddenly an owl pops out of the fireplace. Prideaux quickly dispatches it. Later on, in ...
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Did James May, Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson really find out the source of the river Nile in BBC TopGear?
Did they?
In season 19, the African Special, they go on to find the true source of the river Nile theorizing that Lake Victoria isn't the actual source as experts suggest but even farther east ...
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Why did Frodo need to go it alone, leaving Aragorn and Legolas behind?
Why does Frodo have to fly solo without the others at the end of The Fellowship of the Ring? Especially Aragorn and Legolas both seem like incredible assassins/bodyguards and basically immune to the ...
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Why does the husband leave the family in The Others?
I watched the movie The Others recently, and I was blown away by the ending and the story. I was thinking about this plot element which didn't make much sense to me. It's about the return of the ...
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Why are loopers required to kill themselves?
I was just wondering if anyone could think of any reasonable reason as to why in Looper the loopers have to kill their older selfs? I mean why not just send the older looper back to a different looper ...
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What is the history of Aragorn?
In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring why was Aragorn an exile at the beginning? Did a certain event cause him to become an exile?
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Why doesn't Sam use his ability to move things to open the door?
In "Ghost," we see that Sam has learned how to manipulate objects in the physical world. But near the end, when Oda Mae comes to Molly's apartment to run from Carl, we see her begging Molly to unlock ...
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Was Cobb really stuck in the dream world at the end? [duplicate]
In the movie Inception, at the end, the spinning top is shown to be spinning at the end just before the screen goes blank. But another person told me that the top wasnt even Cobb's totem, it is his ...
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How did Angier know not to appear in The Prestige?
In The Prestige, the secret to Angier's 'disappearing man' trick is that he is effectively cloned while teleporting, and the original Angier is drowned when disappearing under the stage.
When Alfred ...
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Understanding the final twist in Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
Since this is a question about a spoiler, I'm hoping I don't actually have to use spoiler markup.
Near the end of the movie Flying Swords of Dragon Gate one extra twist is thrown into the mix. The ...
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In The Prestige, did Angier know that Borden was backstage at his final magic show?
I recently rewatched The Prestige and find this question to be central to understanding the plot. In the final narration Cutter seems to be challenging the audience to discover a further, hidden ...
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How did the Stark family capture the Lannister family's children?
In the season 3 of "game of throne",
I didn't understand that how stark family got Lannister family's two little children as prisoner?
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Does Anton Chigurh kill Carla Jean Moss?
Towards the end of No Country for Old Men, Anton Chigurh tracks down Carla Jean Moss. They are sitting in a room together and he gives her the option of heads or tails to decide her fate. Is there any ...
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How did the glove save Tony Stark?
After Tony Stark was caught in debris under the sea, Jarvis detaches the glove from the suit and takes the hand of Tony (by controlling the glove), pulling him out of his death trap.
How this is ...
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How did the bad guy actually die?
I just watched Iron Man 3 and something confused me about the demise of the bad guy, Killian.
Towards the end of the movie Tony Stark pinned Killian to the wall with his Iron Man suit and it self ...
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How did Tony fix himself by the end of Iron Man 3?
Tony had a shrapnel in him which the electro-magnet in his chest(powered by the miniature arc reactor) kept from reaching his heart. Tony never took any attempts to remove that shrapnel in Iron Man 1 ...
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In Oblivion how does Julia get pregnant?
At the end of the film, after Beech and Tech 49 Jack sacrifice themselves and destroy the ship Julia is then seen with a child (who looks about 3 years old). She is then re-introduced to Tech 52 Jack ...
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Rookie Anderson's initial evaluation of Dredd
During the scene chief judge introduces Dredd to rookie Anderson, this conversation ensues.
Chief judge: Rookie Anderson what can you tell me about the person I am with?
Rookie: Male, another ...
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Dredd - Did Anderson actually pass?
In the 2012 movie Dredd, rookie Anderson who is a psychic is put on an assessment mission with Dredd. At the very end of the movie, Dredd states that her assessment is over and she hands her badge ...
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Religions mentioned in the “Life of Pi”
In the Movie Life of Pi, Pi wanted to believe three religions (Hinduism, Christianity ans Islam), but he is not aware of Buddhism. As I guess, in the movie the Buddhism is represented by the Buddist ...
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What was the purpose of Candie's handshake in Django Unchained?
There is a scene in Django Unchained in which Candie (Leo DiCaprio) demands that Schultz shake his hand.
Did Candie really want just a handshake or did he have something more sinister in mind?
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Was Inspector Uhl actually crazy?
In the end of Illusionist,
Are those flashbacks really what happened or is he getting crazy because of the confusing nature of the plot?
And if those flashbacks are not true, then does that mean ...
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Was the last play in The Longest Yard(2005) completely fair?
After the trick-play (Fumblerooski) to level scores against the guards, the Mean Machine go for the two-point conversion. Here, they start talking among themselves and Crewe with Scarborough to ...
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Why didn't Peter pick up Syler's ability earlier?
Later in the series, Peter visits Syler to learn his ability, but Peter comes into contact with Syler on multiple occassions in the first season, but never picked up his ability. Is there something ...
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Why does Cobb use the spinning top?
In the movie Cobb (DiCaprio) tells Ariadne (Page) that the most important rule in choosing a totem is to make sure that no one else has ever touched it.
This is emphasized with flashbacks showing ...
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Why isn't Dr Bishop consulted about the disc in “The Ghost Network”?
In the episode The Ghost Network from Fringe's first season, the object that is being exchanged is some sort of a disc that is capable of storing information.
Dr Bishop has been brought into this ...
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What happend to Walt's Aztek at the end of Breaking Bad season 4?
I think one of the lesser praised characters in Breaking Bad was the Aztek walt drove the first 4 seasons. It seemed like a very purposeful bit of 'casting'.
That said, what happened to it? The ...
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In the Doctor Who episode “Blink”, why do the angel statues appear in weird places?
There are two specific scenes I'm thinking of where angel statues inexplicably appear in strange places.
The first is when Sally Sparrow is in the police depot and looks out the window and sees ...
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Why did the Senate stick around?
From the beginning of the "I find your lack of faith disturbing" scene in "A New Hope":
"The rebellion will continue to get support in the Imperial Senate.."
"The Imperial Senate will no longer be ...
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With a million years with them, how did they ever managed to almost die?
I the movie, In Time, the main characters stole a million years but still how did they manage to almost die at the last part of the movie?
Or, why did they ever put themselves in such a position that ...
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How did Fred (mannequin) move outside the store?
Remember Fred?
This is the scene.
Any idea how did Fred get there in the first place?
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Where did Tron Legacy take place?
In the movie Tron Legacy, Sam Flynn finds his fathers computer still running in the old arcade. After typing on the keyboard he triggers the digitizer and is transported to the grid.
Where is the ...
