Story Premises that Just Don't Make Much Sense if You Think About it.

[Proeliator]

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You know why its North Korea instead of China? They were worried the movie would be poorly received in China (for obvious reasons), so why not make the antagonist a country that doesn't even have movie theaters? That's why the release was delayed: digitally altering all the Chinese Red stars to North Korean. I wonder if they've gone the distance and had the soldier's re-dubbed to speaking Korean instead of Mandarin...
Besides. When I see it, it'll be China. You can try to fool me all you want.

Fair enough. That doesn't explain why the machines of war have fingers.

To give the enemy the bird, of course!
Lol, yeah I know why they did it, but not why they did it. Though being able to pick up weapons on the battlefield does seem to be an advantage... then again if your forces had the weapons integrated, the other guys couldn't use your weapons... but then you wouldn't be able to use a comrade's as easily if yours broke...
The logic circle spirals onward!

It's like the preceding theory of electron behavior in an atom due to the wave-particle effect prior to de Broglie's discovery!

Yeah, weird analogy.

True dat! Man, momentum =plank's constant/wavelength makes 'everything' make sense.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

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You know why its North Korea instead of China? They were worried the movie would be poorly received in China (for obvious reasons), so why not make the antagonist a country that doesn't even have movie theaters? That's why the release was delayed: digitally altering all the Chinese Red stars to North Korean. I wonder if they've gone the distance and had the soldier's re-dubbed to speaking Korean instead of Mandarin...
Besides. When I see it, it'll be China. You can try to fool me all you want.

I know the reason, they don't want it BANNED in a very profitable market (North Korea bans all foreign media automatically and it's main exports are insults and threats for food).

That does not mean it isn't VERY stupid.

 

[Proeliator]

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I'm glad we agree!

 

[Treblaine]

Matrix BTU

In the original script the machines were harvesting humans not for electrical power but for PROCESSING power, they used billions of humans brains as distributed computer processing and by that method limiting the capability of the human mind.

But the then Wachowski Brothers (now Wachowski siblings) were convinced to change it to ENERGY exploitation as test audiences literally didn't appreciate the using human brain power for computer processing power. Energy was found to have a stronger theme... even if it made no sense scientifically, to the scientifically illiterate masses of 1999, it make more sense that machines would want electrical power than processing power.

Maybe a remake or re-edit of The Matrix would change it for how people of 2012 understand and appreciate the need for processing power, but back then it was just more dramatic for Morpheus to hold up a battery and say "this is all humans are now".

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

My beef with story premises: Any story that involves the main character dying or being dead in the beginning and then being ressurected. That usually doesn't end too well. ME2, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2, etc., you can fill in the gap with games that have done this horribly.

Though, there ARE times when this works well. One such example is Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, despite the story being stupid amounts of long IMO.

 

[Spoonius]

The premise of Source Code just makes no sense, and I'm the only one who seems to notice this.

The only problem is when the film shits on its own internal logic in the last 5 minutes. The rest is just a pseudo-science sci-fi set up, which is fine.

I had a problem with the whole damn thing, although I do agree with you that the ending was what got me (literally) shouting and cursing.

Yeah... I was enjoying it until she got that bloody text at the end.

There's just one problem with that idea: if the company knew about the derelict on LV-426, then why haven't they ever attempted to investigate it again, in all the decades following the incident with the Nostromo?

Well the entire reason that Hadley's Hope went FUBAR is that Burke ordered that the mother/father team be sent out to the site to investigate on behalf of the company. So for all we know there had been other (unsuccessful) attempts to retrieve a specimen as well.

Something I never understood... did Burke give those orders before or after Ripley was rescued? If afterwards, was it in direct response to something she did or said? Or was it purely a coincidence that Burke's orders went out at that point in time?