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Did Guy Ritchie pay homage to Charlie Chaplin in the first Sherlock Holmes movie?
Upon re-watching Charlie Chaplin's classic film, Modern Times (1936), I was struck by the similarities between the conclusions of the shipyard scenes in both Chaplin's film and the first Sherlock ...
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591 views
Is there a hidden meaning in the Alaska sex scene?
There seems to be a striking similarity in the ambiance in the Alaska sex scene and the one in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Was this intentional?
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885 views
Two men talk in a small room about god and other deep meaning subjects?
One of the two men wants to kill himself and he is saved by the other one. All the other scenes take place in a small apartment room where they talk about different things like family or god.
Other ...
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Was Disney's The Black Hole the last film to feature an overture?
I have a soft spot for 1979's The Black Hole and, in particular, John Barry's beautiful score for it. It appears that this film, plus Star Trek: The Motion Picture (in the same year) were the last ...
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Did the original Fantomas movies also include a lot of gadgets like the movies from the 60s?
In my childhood I liked the Fantomas-movies from the 60s (1, 2, 3) with Louis de Funès as inspector Juve. I can see they are remakes of much older Fantomas-movies from 1913, 1932 and 1947.
I liked ...
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259 views
Ending of Silent Hill
I have recently watched Silent Hill again, but I couldn't really understand it's ending. Rose and Sharon seem to be forever trapped within the foggy dimension, but neither of them seems to be really ...
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A tv series without girls [duplicate]
This may be an unusual question but can you suggest me some good tv series with least amount of beautiful girls and least amount of nudity or sexuality?
Like Breaking Bad, Dexter, Prison Break
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Made for TV series on counter intelligence and CIA during cold war
I have watched this series/movie (I think netflix) but can't remember the name after trying so hard.
The story spans during and after cold war era. It's about 2 friends; who join CIA, and the lead ...
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3 scenes from Total Recall: The Original vs. The remake
I've heard from several sources that the Total Recall remake is "humiliatingly bad." This may or may not be true, but no matter what, I have no intention of spending close to 3 hours to watch it. I ...
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What does the end scene in Aurora (Lithuania, 2012) mean?
In Aurora (a.k.a. Vanishing Waves), what is the meaning of the final scene, when they are running on the beach and he finally overtakes her?
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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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2answers
366 views
Why Reboot Spiderman?
I can understand the reboot of Batman Series, but I cannot understand why Hulk was rebooted and now why do we have to reboot Spiderman?
Is it they are not able to write script in the same back-drop ...
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How did the jet airplane knock one of them out?
In Chronicle, the three guys learn how to fly. While playing around they end up encountering a jet airplane. In this encounter one of them gets knocked out. I didn’t see him get hit by it, so how ...
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Why is there only a single parallel universe in Fringe?
I mean according to Walter, there could be any number of infinite universes if I'm not wrong. So why do they only talk about two universes and only one remaining in the end. What about others?
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X Files shot on location at UMD's campus?
This is a somewhat obscure question, but through a bit of Googling and a bit of background work, I've been unable to find an answer. I'm a UMD student, and have been trying to ascertain whether or ...
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What are the key differences between the movie and TV versions of Quatermass and the Pit?
The Hammer movie version of Quatermass and the Pit was released in the mid 1960s and was one of Hammer's best movies. But the original script was broadcast live on the BBC in the 1950s in six 30 ...
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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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What influenced the story and setting of Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville?
Alphaville is one of my favorite movies. The plot, characters, and narration have always seemed very unique to me. I am wondering what influenced them, particularly the idea of a galactic capital city ...
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287 views
Movie in which time is money
I saw this movie on an American PBS station, I think in the late '70s or early '80s. The premise was very similar to the Justin Timberlake film "In Time". Time is used as currency, and people die ...
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443 views
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 ...
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Was the 2012 Finnish film Iron Sky shown in full in Germany despite the multiple uses of Swastikas?
The Nazi comedy-satire movie Iron Sky features numerous swastikas throughout - on uniforms, buildings, artworks etc.
As per German law post-war:
The German and Austrian postwar criminal code ...
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4answers
368 views
How does Quorra “escape”?
At the end of TRON: Legacy Sam Flynn and Quorra escape into the real world.
But I'm wondering how the rematerialization process works on Quorra?
Digital or human?
Sam bleeds, which prompts ...
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In the movie Cowboys and Aliens what did the aliens need all the gold for?
As the title says, in the movie it was said by one of the characters that the aliens valued gold as rare as us Humans, but it did not state a reason why they went to so much trouble to get or what ...
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Why were Hiro’s powers so sporadic?
In the show Heros, a character named Hiro has the ability to manipulate time (even time travel). However, in the first season his control over time travel is very sporadic, and it stays like this for ...
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What are the specific parallels between Shakespeare's The Tempest and Forbidden Planet?
It is often said that the classic 50s movie Forbidden Planet is basically just a remake of The Tempest, Shakesepeare's last play. (The original credits don't reference this.)
Is this right? What are ...
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Where did the creators of the Six Million Dollar Man come up with that dollar amount?
When deciding the value of the bionics for Steve Austin, how did the creators/producers come up with the six million dollar figure?
Was this just to be catchy with the title, or was there an ...
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Why is Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) in the Amazing Spider-man?
This is a re-telling of the origin story of Spider-man. There wasn't any girlfriend in the comic origin. I understand that a love interest is needed in a movie but why was Gwen Stacy chosen instead of ...
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District 9 - References to Apartheid
How far can the character Wikus be related to that of Biko, and his role to abolish apartheid?
I've recently realized the similar phonetics of the name, so it rang a bell and the question immediately ...
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Did Rutledge lie about the “Source Code”?
Rutledge (Jeffrey Wright) explains that the Source Code is not actually time travel, but merely a computer "construct" or "simulation", using the last 8 minutes of memory a person has (in this case: ...
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Star Wars-Who REALLY shot first, revision by revision: Han or Greedo?
There has been numerous debates about who shot first in Star Wars Episode IV: Han or Greedo. It's also been rumored that who shoots first has changed between each subsequent release of Star Wars.
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Why was the surgery pod configured only for men in Prometheus?
In Prometheus, when Shaw touch the surgery-pod Vickers warned her not to touch it because it is rare and so expensive, but i could not understand why the operating pod was made for a male, but the ...
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What does the quote from Sgt. Apone in Aliens “Look into my eye” mean?
When the Marines are waking up you get this dialogue between Hudson and Apone:
Hudson: Man, this floor is freezing.
Apone: What do you want me to do, fetch your slippers for you?
Hudson: Gee, ...
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Was the original Starship Troopers meant to be funny?
According to imdb Starship Troopers is an Action adventure sci-fi where "Humans of a fascistic, militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a fight for survival."
I remember going to the ...
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In the movie Inception, why does Cobb's passport not get stamped properly?
In the movie Inception, why does Cobb's passport not get stamped properly at the airport in the final scene i.e, the date was missing.
Was it really intended and is there any implicit reason for that ...
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How did the T-Rex kill everyone on the boat?
In Jurassic Park: The Lost World, a T-Rex is captured from the island, sedated, and put on a boat for the mainland. During the trip to the mainland, the T-Rex got free and killed everyone. When the ...
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Why does Neo's cubicle not look like the workplace of a programmer?
The Matrix is not a movie with an overdose of realism.
But parts of it take place in the normal "real" world. We see Neo at work in his software company in his cubicle before the Agents come to his ...
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In Stargate, why does Dr. Daniel Jackson say you need 6 points to define a location in 3 dimensional space
Dr. Daniel Jackson
...seven points to outline a course to a position...to find a destination within any three dimensional space, you need six points to determine the exact location...but to chart ...
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What led to Firefly's cancellation?
Firefly is an awesome TV series, so much so that even after its cancellation it spawned a theatrical movie release. What was the ultimate cause of the cancellation of the TV series?
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In Prometheus, is Meredith Vickers a human or android?
While I was watching Prometheus this weekend, I initially thought that Meredith Vickers was an android, like David. They never made it perfectly clear that she was or wasn't human. They did hint at ...
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What's the purpose of the cube?
I've just watched a sci-fi horror movie called Cube. It was pretty awesome, as well as it left a lot of questions unanswered. However, the one that frustrated me a lot was, the Cube's purpose. I mean, ...
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Why has no movie version of I Am Legend dared to keep the original ending?
The original book that led to the movies Last Man On Earth, The Omega Man and I Am Legend (and have I missed any?) has a somewhat pessimistic ending (Richard Matheson's great I Am Legend). I know that ...
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In “12 Monkeys”, what does the woman from the future mean when she says she's “in insurance”?
At the end of 12 Monkeys, the doctor spreading the virus gets on a plane and sits next to a woman we know (or can assume) is from the future. She tells the doctor that she's "in insurance." What does ...
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In Back to the Future Part II, how could old Biff have made it back to 2015?
So in Back to the Future Part II, Doc picks up Marty in 1985 and takes him to 2015. Then old Biff realizes the Delorean is a time machine. Old Biff steals the Delorean and travels from 2015 to 1955 to ...
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Movie depicting aliens physically connected into group-mind
I think this was a made-for-TV movie, and I think I saw it in the late '80s or early '90s.
A small group of humans are fleeing on a spaceship from a bad guy,
also human, on another spaceship.
The ...
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Black and white science fiction movie with aliens and dome
I saw this science fiction a long time ago. I recall a light plane having to land. The pilot and a woman struggling to survive in a town that has had some kind of dome placed over it. I recall ...
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What happened to the Predator blaster at the end of AVP Requiem
During a battle between the Predator and the Aliens the Predator's shoulder cannons are damaged. As a result he modifies one into a hand-held blaster. In the final battle Dallas ends up with the ...
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Identify this alien invasion movie with invisible aliens
There was a movie that came out about 1-3 years ago at most that was about an alien race that invaded Earth and they hid in plain sight, and would literally snuff people right out of thin air. I think ...
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Movie where a little boy and an alien outrun the police in a spacecraft?
I remember watching this movie on the Disney Channel around 1998, but even then it seemed old and out of date. The flying saucer was reflects like polished chrome or like a mirror and a ramp opened ...
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One-eyed, tentacled aliens that disguise themselves as humans
I saw this when I was very young, so my memories are spotty.
I cannot recall if this is a movie or a TV episode (older), nor whether it was color or black and white (though my memories include ...
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Why did the Engineer at the start of the movie drink the dark liquid?
Why did the Engineer at the start of the movie drink the dark liquid?
From Wikipedia:
Above a waterfall, a humanoid alien consumes a dark liquid, and a hovering spacecraft departs. After ...
