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Star Trek Into Darkness is Harrison 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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What comes first, the music or the take?
Good music in a movie is not only good music but also music that is in sync with what happens on the screen. I can imagine it's not a trivial job to achieve this. So it made me wonder what generally ...
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Why not sell the stuff instead of throwing away?
In the Television series, How I met your mother, Season 8, Episode 23 - Something Old, why are Lily and Marshall throughing all the stuff they are unable to take in the bermudda triangle and not ...
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Why did Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane abandoned kings landing in middle of batte?
Why did Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane abandon Kings Landing in the middle of the siege from Stannis.
If behaviour of Joffrey is reason behind his action then he should have left earlier. But he left ...
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Late 70's to mid 80's animated children's movie
This may or may not have been on an RCA Selectavision Videodisc but I'm leaning towards it is.
The main characters were male and female. I remember the main characters had long, downward curving ...
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Is the wife's murder in Fargo a deleted scene?
In the movie Fargo two killers kidnap the wife of a car salesman in a deal that all goes wrong. While one of the killers is away at Twin Cities picking up the ransom, his partner stays at the cottage ...
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What is the significance of the flashing lights?
In ID4 (Independence Day), there are 3 helicopters sent up to greet the alien craft. One of the copters is fitted with a set of light panels that flash the lights in a specific pattern/sequence. What ...
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Identify this movie: 90s sci-fi movie with invisible prison
I saw this science-fiction movie in the early nineties, perhaps the late nineties. I remember the following highlights:
The main character is sent, mistakenly, to an invisible prison.
The prison ...
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Prometheus: Is it really connected to Aliens and later movies [duplicate]
Okay, here is a theory I have and it is all based on one quote from Ridley Scott who said that his favorite alien based movie he didn't direct was AvP (PWS Anderson).
From there on I remembered some ...
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What was at Utopia?
In the episode of Doctor Who "Utopia" there's a message broadcast from it. The last thing we see is the rocket leaving and the Doctor running off back to Earth.
but what happened to them once they ...
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Lead Actor's Salaries
While thinking about how much "star power" a major name in the title role of a film brings to the production I began to wonder if it was really needed and actually if cheap unknown actors would give ...
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What are the open source software tools available for making cartoon films? [closed]
This is my first attempt in the world of movie making. To start with cartoon movies.
Can somebody point me to links for open source softwares for making cartoon films? In the film I want my ...
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Identify this movie: Dystopia, Revenge, 1980s
Movie I am thinking of came out in the 1980s, and was on HBO when I saw it in 86 or 87; takes place during some sort of war in the present-day or near future US, one that features rival gangs or ...
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Of the movies 'Volcano' and 'Dante's Peak', which is more scientifically accurate?
In 1997, two volcano movies were released with big-name actors, Volcano and Dante's Peak.
Both movies were fun to watch, but I'm curious, of the two gems of moviemaking, which were more ...
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Why does Brody's wife call him by his surname?
I don't think I've ever heard Brody's wife call him "Nicholas" throughout the first two seasons of Homeland. Why does she always call him by his surname?
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TV shows with mystery and a quest like the mentalist [closed]
I have just finished season 5 of the mentalist, and I really liked the show. I would like to start watching a new tv show with the same principles of The Mentalist. By that, i mean, there must be some ...
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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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24 - Trying to remember a specific character that Jack Bauer tortured
Really hope someone can help with this as it's bugging me to death.
In one specific episode (no idea which season, sorry), either a captured enemy or a person of interest who I think was an arms ...
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Why do TV shows take frequent breaks during a season?
I notice this more when watching American shows - but for example, the Canadian show "Continuum" skipped a week after only four episodes in the current season. This is something I have seen frequently ...
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Why are the LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. workers Australian?
Call me ignorant to history but after another viewing of Django, it made me question how and why, did these Australians get mixed up in pre-civil war era America?
Just going by the geography itself, ...
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Was the Janitor real?
I read somewhere that the character of the Janitor was originally only going to be a character in JD's daydream and that for the first season he didn't interact with anyone else?
Is this true?
If so ...
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How did Ravenna's mom end up with such insane powers?
In Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), Who was Ravenna's mom and why did her mom die? With all that power, seems like she should have been in better shape.
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What happened to Agent K to make him so grumpy and emotionless?
After seeing Men in Black III, I still don't understand why K became such a cranky, stoical figure. It is a question even Agent J was puzzled about!
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How could Princess Leia remember her “real mother” a “little bit,” when Padmé Amidala died in childbirth?
In The Return of the Jedi, Luke asks Leia what she remembers of her real mother. She replies she remembers her a little bit, as a kind person - 'images, mostly'. Is there a canonical explanation for ...
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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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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 Dr. Cox from Scrubs hate Hugh Jackman?
I distinctly remember at least 2 episodes of Scrubs where Dr. Cox insults Hugh Jackman (implied that Hugh is a bad actor) and does anyone know the reason why?
I haven't been able to find a clear ...
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Why was SHIELD noticeably missing from Iron Man 3?
I thought Iron Man 3 'felt' a little odd without any presence from SHIELD (Director Nick Fury and company). The US President is kidnapped and they're not concerned? So why didn't they appear?
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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 doesn't the restaurant resemble an actual Cheesecake Factory?
Since the early days of the Big Bang Theory, Penny's character (and later Bernadette for a time) has worked at The Cheesecake Factory. Clearly, this chain of restaurants has some sort of advertising ...
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Where does Skyfall take place in the Bond timeline?
The first two movies of the rebooted Bond-franchise were at the start of Bond's career (when he was likely in his late twenties/thirties), but when does Skyfall take place in relation to other things ...
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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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Who is the Lady of the Wood, and what's her relationship to the rest of the elves?
In The Fellowship of the Ring the group meets the Lady of the Woods during their trip. But who is she and what's her relationship with the rest of the elves. For example Legolas didn't look like he ...
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The Simpsons - Episode Identification
What was that episode where we hear Bart's thoughts as a man about Homer in voice over while the camera starts taking a close up of Bart as a kid, just before the voice is interrupted by Homer, asking ...
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Why didn't Michael Scott appear in the Q&A panel in the Finale episode of The Office?
In the Finale episode of The Office, the Scranton Cultural Center hosts a public Q&A panel of the employees of Dunder Mifflin. Most of the regular characters return for this after several months, ...
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What does the “keleven” digit look like?
In the Finale episode of The Office, we learn that one reason Kevin was fired, was for using his made-up number "kelevin" to correct accounting errors. His replacement is seen asking Oscar about this ...
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Recent precog apocalypse movie
Trying to remember the name of a recent sci-fi/disaster movie, probably from the last 5-6 years (watched it on DVD).
If featured an apocalypse where someone who knew it was coming had written down a ...
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Which song has a music video with a man running to and from work & ends with the house burning down?
The overlong question title pretty much sums it up.
The song had a Gotye-ish feel to it but I don't think that was the artist. It was pretty recent release, maybe in the last couple of years. It ...
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Was the Silence Prophecy fulfilled in The Name of the Doctor?
On the fields of Trenzalore, at the fall of the Eleventh, when no
living creature may speak falsely or fail to give answer, a question
will be asked. A question that must never, ever be ...
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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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How much did Tolkien write about the worshippers of Sauron? The Easterlings, the Harad, the Khand [closed]
Watching The Lord of the Rings movies I was really captivated by the elephant riders and the men in brazen scale armor who aided the orcs against the forces of Gondor and Rohan. From what I know they ...
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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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Mecha movie with robots synced to their pilots' movements
It's a movie that I watched with my dad when I was really young. I know it does not really help but I can't remember the year I watched it in. I'm 17 so I guess I watched it around 2001.
In my memory ...
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Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns: English or Italian?
When I've watched DVDs of Sergio Leone's "Spaghetti Westerns", such as A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, I've had the option to choose soundtracks in either English or Italian. ...
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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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Did McGee and Abby ever get into a relationship?
In season two of NCIS, there seems to be a "thing" between Abby and McGee although this is never specifically stated.
In the season two episode "Twilight", Abby says that "McGee didn't just sleep in ...
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Who is the woman in the silver Mercedes?
Early on in the first season of NCIS, many episodes end with Agent Gibbs being picked up by a red haired woman in a silver Mercedes;
It is mentioned frequently that Gibbs is into red haired ...
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Why would Q attach the computer of a known cyberterrorist to the MI6 computer network?
In the movie Skyfall Shouldn't Q like connect Silva's computer to a secure line or something, considering that he was a known cyberterrorist? Isn't there any sort of internal protocols for the ...
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What is the role of Winston Wolfe?
In the movie Pulp Fiction Winston Wolfe says about himself: "I'm Winston Wolfe. I solve problems.". But what does he mean with that and what really was his role?
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Interpretation of the ending of Being There
What is the meaning of the final scene of Being There, where Chance walks on the pond's surface?
The film's Wikipedia page says something about a metaphor of Chance being seen as a messiah, but I ...
