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Is the Unix operating system featured in Jurassic Park real?
When the film Jurassic Park came out, and I saw that scene where Ariana Richards is sitting in front of the computer and says;
This is a Unix system. I know this. It's the files for the whole ...
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Is there any definitive evidence that Teddy was or was not crazy?
The ending of the film Shutter Island is purposely ambiguous, with two different interpretations:
Teddy was crazy, and the whole movie was part of a role-play therapy.
There is a conspiracy to ...
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What is going on in Mulholland Drive?
I know that David Lynch's movies are all very deep and hard to grasp and that probably there is no simple answer to this question, as there are different ways to interpret the movie.
Still I would ...
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What really happened in Memento?
So I watched Memento, and I felt like I understood the story pretty well, however, some things don't make so much sense to me. As far as I know:
Leonard, the main character, did in fact see his wife ...
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In what spot would the new Star Wars movie "Rogue One" go in the Machete Order?
Last time I watched all Star Wars movies in one go was a couple of years ago. I then watched them in the Machete Order, which is IV, V, II, III, VI. Then I watched Episode VII, without seeing any of ...
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Banner's control of Hulk in Avengers
During the climatic battle, Banner says 'That's my secret. I'm always angry', and transforms into the Hulk. Does this imply that Banner learned how to control Hulk?
If this is the case, why did he ...
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In Back to the Future Part II, how could old Biff have made it back to 2015?
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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What are the differences between the alternative versions of Blade Runner?
I may have lost count, but the last time I checked there were 4 different cuts of Blade Runner. The original cinema release (with the voice over and the spliced from another movie ending) followed by ...
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What exactly is 70mm print and why does anyone care?
There has been a bit of controversy lately over the release of Tarantino's Hateful Eight movie. As I understand it, the movie was scheduled to play in a particular theater in Los Angeles that plays ...
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How was Jon Snow able to kill the White Walker in S05E08?
In "Hardhome", the eight episode of season five of Game of Thrones, Jon Snow battles a White Walker. As established, White Walkers can only be killed by dragonglass. But in this battle Jon Snow kills ...
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Why do so many movies & TV shows feature recognizable, un-branded or re-branded products?
I've particularly noticed this in the past with cars in movies & TV shows. A car will quite obviously be of a certain make and/or model, identifiable by certain body features, but it will have ...
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How did the word "Bollywood" originate?
As we know, American film industry is referred as Hollywood. The American film industry is called so because the film industry emerged at the place called Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA(Correct me if I am ...
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Ant-Man, shrinking, and weight
Is there a canonical explanation for how Ant-Man's weight works when he shrinks down that's consistent with the various events depicted in the film?
I think the explanation given in the film is ...
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How are head shots and deep throat gashes filmed?
I was watching a movie the other night and the main character slits the throat of another person. The camera stayed on the victim the whole time this happened. I'm wondering how this is achieved.
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How was Thanos able to defeat Hulk in Infinity War without using any stone?
In the beginning of Avengers: Infinity War we saw that Hulk started beating up Thanos easily but suddenly Thanos overpowers him. Probably, the only way that would be possible, would be because Thanos ...
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How is Prometheus connected to Alien vs. Predator in the chronological sense?
At the end of Prometheus, we saw that a creature was born from the body of the dead engineer, which was essentially identical to the Alien creature pictured in the Alien vs. Predator movies (a ...
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How many Tarantino films are set in the same universe?
Django Unchained and Inglorius Basterds are both set in the same alternative history universe according to Tarantino. How many of the films made by Tarantino are set in the same universe? Are any of ...
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What does the origami represent in Blade Runner?
Throughout Blade Runner we see Gaff (Edward James Olmos) making origami figures at various points in the movie. He makes a chicken, matchstick men and at the end of the film there is a unicorn waiting ...
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Is the time loop on the cruise ship a second timeline in Triangle?
In Triangle, at the start when Jess arrives at the boat for the "first" time, is this the start of the continuation of the ending scene?
It's known that the cruise ship and any surroundings after ...
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How do they prevent animal cruelty in movies?
According to a number of sources, cruelty to animals is an offence and it is punishable in most countries. But in historical film it's inevitable, because if a film is looking to be historically ...
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Why worry about the Night King if they have the wall?
In Season 6, we find out the following about the magical properties of the wall:
BENJEN: This is where I leave you.
BRAN: You're not coming with us?
BENJEN: The Wall is not just ice and stone. ...
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Why did Murph's brother and his wife refuse a doctor for their son in Interstellar?
In Interstellar, when Murph visits her brother and his wife, she notices that their son is coughing hard, and she offers to arrange a visit from a doctor for him. The brother and his wife refuse, ...
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How did the Wights get the chain for doing this?
In Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 6, after
the wights lifted it out using chains.
From where did they get the chains?
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How does Vision lift Thor's hammer in Avengers: Age of Ultron?
In some scenes in Avengers: Age of Ultron Iron man, War Machine, and Captain America try to lift Thor’s hammer but they end up failing. At some point Vision lifts it easily. How can Vision lift it?
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Loophole in the Night's Watch oath?
Let's take take a look at the oath of the Night's Watch from Game of Thrones:
"Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, ...
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Winter is Coming
It's my understanding that the phrase "Winter is Coming" is the motto of the Stark house, when the story first reaches the wall it's implied that the winter is not a periodic season like it is in our ...
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Have guns in Westworld started operating differently?
In the first episode of the show Westworld, Ed Harris (a "guest" / human) is being shot at by James Marsden (a "host" / robot). It is as though Ed Harris has a force field around him; the bullets all ...
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What nationality is Bane?
It has been clearly established that Ra's Al Ghul & Talia Al Ghul are Moroccan. And it is assumed that The Pit is in Morocco.
Does this mean that we should assume Bane is also Moroccan? Or is it ...
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How could Lt. Hicox fluently speak German and then give himself away by using the wrong gesture?
In Inglorious Basterds, Lt. Hicox is an English officer who speaks German fluently yet with a mild accent. Speaking a language fluently requires a lot of practice with native speakers and so spending ...
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Are real guns used in movies?
For example, in "Matrix Reloaded", we see that the agents fire on the car driven by Morpheus. We see that the bullets penetrating the body of the car.
If the gun is not real, how did it happen?
If ...
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Are there any more Asgardians?
In the opening scenes of Infinity War, Thanos and the Black Order
Of course, we learned during Thor: Ragnarok that not all Asgardians are necessarily on Asgard (Valkyrie was living on Sakaar, after ...
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What did Bill do to make Hanzo mad?
During kill Bill, we learn that all the black mamba had to do to get Hanzo to build her a sword, was to mention Bill's name.
When black mamba meets Bill at the end, she tells him that all she did was ...
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Why does Christopher Nolan end the Dark Knight Trilogy this way?
Once Batman dives into the ocean with the bomb and "The Bat", and after Bruce Wayne's obituaries are read and Robin discovers what Mr. Wayne left back for him,
what is the significance of the final ...
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How many timelines are there after Avengers Endgame?
There are a lot of questions about specific actions in the Endgame and how they affect the flow of time. There also many popular answers which are contradicting each other, therefore I'd like to ask ...
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What is the geographic location of the pit Bruce Wayne is imprisoned in by Bane?
What is the geographic location of the pit Bruce Wayne is imprisoned in by Bane? Is this prison in Gotham or somewhere else? Bane and Bruce seems to travel between the two rather quickly. It seems ...
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Why didn't Harry himself drink Polyjuice Potion instead of all others in Deathly Hallows Part 1?
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, it is shown that members of the Order of Phoenix come to rescue Harry from his house at Privet Drive. There, they all drink Polyjuice Potion and assume ...
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How was the bank robbery completed?
In Now You See Me, when Morgan Freeman explains to the detective on how the Four Horseman robbed the bank, he mentions that they replaced the real money (while in the secured transport truck) with ...
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Where does Deadpool fall in the X-Men timeline?
When did the events of Deadpool take place in the X-Men timeline?
Surely Deadpool takes place in a quite recent time era as compared to First Class and it's sequel, but exactly where?
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Did Nebula know what would happen?
So there are two teams in Avengers: Endgame: Natasha (Black Widow) and Clint (Hawkeye)/Nebula and War Machine.
Yet Black Widow and Hawkeye were chosen for the mission to Vormir. So did Nebula know ...
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In what order should I watch The planet of the Apes franchise?
Basically, I ended somewhere on the reboot film made in 2001. I would like to get back to Planet of Apes series and watch it again.
With Star Wars franchise, there is famous order of how should one ...
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Where was Thanos before the events of Avengers: Infinity War?
In Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos is depicted collecting 5 of the 6 Infinity Stones relatively breezily (as an easy day's work where only for a moment do the Avengers come close to stopping him).
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Was Edge of Tomorrow deliberately released around D-Day?
Seeing that the opening (and repeating and repeating...) battle of Edge of Tomorrow is in fact a final huge offensive of basically all the united forces of the free world against their biggest threat, ...
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Where is Walt's money?
So, Breaking Bad has finished.
But where is Walt's money, which Jack has stolen?
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Why do so many movies still use the Wilhelm scream?
Why do so many movies still use the Wilhelm scream? Is it sort of a running joke throughout cinema? It seems like you could find thousands of other audio files of screams.
The Wilhelm scream is a ...
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Is the pit in Dark Knight Rises a representation of Ra's Al Ghul's Lazarus pit?
Everyone familiar with Batman universe would be quite familiar with Ra's Al Ghul's Lazarus pit. Given the realism shown in the Batman movies by Nolan, for instance Bane's character and his mask. In ...
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Who of these characters has a more legitimate claim on the Iron Throne? [duplicate]
In "Eastwatch" (Game of Thrones, S07E05), in the scene with Gilly and Sam, Gilly is reading from the records of High Septon Maynard. From this scene, we can infer that this High Septon performed an ...
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What does the Predestination ending scene imply?
In the movie Predestination (2014), does the ending imply that the temporal agent becomes the Fizzle Bomber and therefore a paradox?
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Why is the Night King so slow?
Follow-up question to Why did the Night King attack the furthest target first?
In "Beyond the Wall" (Game of Thrones, S07E06), the Night King
Why is he moving so slowly when he could have easily ...
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How are 3D still shots or "time stop" effects created?
I am always amazed by 3D still shots in which the action freezes and a character is able to walk around and the people are frozen like statues. How do they do that?
Some of the famous movies ...
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Why was this scene from the trailer not in the film?
I had seen all the trailers of The Amazing Spider-Man before its release. In one of those trailers Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) says to Peter,
Do you have any idea what you really are?
This seems to ...
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