Every 5 minutes of skyfall something new happens that makes no sense.
One example out of 25;
Bond gets shot in turkey by a bad guy and then disappears. He comes back and then decides MI6 needs some new leads. So he pulls out some bullet shrapnel that has been in his chest/shoulder to get analysed. They find out who uses this bullet and track him down.
Now - first of all the guy shot about 100 bullets in turkey. They couldn't retrieve one?
Bond left a led bullet in his body??! That's insane...and poisonous!
Only 3 people on the planet use this bullet?!? His a ghost?! Well then why is he using a bullet no1 else uses? and if his a ghost why do we know his flight manifesto?
You have to remember that the bullets he used were apparently depleted uranium rounds (do they even make anything out of DU that is smaller than a tank shell?) so it's probably a good way to narrow down the search. And they likely knew his whereabouts on account of MI6 being an intelligence agency. Okay, a a Sometimes Intelligent Agency.
The way big-bad escapes is ridiculous. He's in a cell, good start. With armed guards, spot on. There is a hole in the floor not ten yards from the cell that leads in to the London Underground tunnels...erm...
So in Taken there are 2 girls taken, but no one ever talks about the blonde. I mean come on, obviously she and Liams daughter were close friends. I really don't know why but it irritates me so much no one even remembers her or atleast acknowledge her death. It's just dumb
Didn't he find the friend dead? I thought in the hostel that he found the slave who has his daughter's jacket, he found Amanda (the friend) dead. It's been a while since I've seen the movie but the quick glance I took at IMDB's forums seems to confirm this.
Though you are right that no one seemed to care afterwards. The daughter doesn't even ask about Amanda; some friend she is!
Pretty much everything that happens in the Terra Nova pilot is in some way a plot hole, inconsistency, or just doesn't make sense if you think about it hard enough.
One example is the main character breaking out of prison using only a small cutting laser that his wife managed to smuggle into it, offscreen. Yes you read that right it was so implausible that the writers had no idea how to write it in so they just skipped to after he's already on a train. Oh but it gets better when he's on a train he cuts out a tracking device implanted in his body, which admitedly makes sense as the prison would want to be able to quickly track down and recapture escaped inmates. What doesn't make sense is that the tracker is implanted in his ankle, as opposed to any place on his body that he's unable to reach, like say, HIS BACK. And say what you will about Stargate Atlantis at least that show didn't screw this up. Oh and also the dinosaurs in this show are some how bulletproof. And also at one point a five man band of teens go out into the dinosaur filled wilderness just because they feel like it and later when they're trapped in a car by a bunch of velociraptor expys one of them runs out and, instead of being instantly eaten actually manages to OUTRUN them and gets found by the soldiers. Oh and the reason the main character was in prison: he had a third child in a dystopia where it's illegal to do so and also he punched out a cop that was searching his apartment, and his reasoning for doing so is that "it felt like a good idea at the time".
Please excuse me for one second, I have to go punch through a wall.
I watched Fullmetal Alchemist recently, and feel like all the sensible, rational things that could be pointed out would take some time. There was however one thing that bothered me about transmutation circles. I'll spoiler it, because I can't remember how far in some of this might go.
Ok, so I get why they need the circles to exist. They need to circulate the energy and unless you have defied the laws of god and man you need a circle to do that. But why do people need to carry around chalk or draw them on the ground? Over the course of the series you see people with; hand tats, arm tats, tit tats, necklaces, drawn on gloves, drawn on gauntlets, drawn on bigger gauntlets and drawn on skin in blue crayon, and probably plenty of others. Even if that only let you do one type of magic ("I keep telling you, it's alchemy!" "I'm pretty sure it's Alphonse") you'd just have that as a quickspell and you can sort the others out later. If I were an alchemist my morning routine would consist of get up, take shower, draw transmutation circles on the back of my hands in permanent marker, magic up breakfast.
This is probably why I enjoy Nullmetal Alchemist so much...
Probably because every transmutation requires it's own circle, an alchemist would have to specify exactly what he wants to do, right? so I suppose these "instructions" are carved into the circle.
otherwise, he's be making dolls out of all kinds of materials instead of, you know, fixing the radio those materials were at first.
The bullets weren't lead they were depleted uranium. Used because it is very dense like lead but has properties that mean it can be used as an armour piercing round. These types of ammunition are used by the US military quite a lot but not by mercenaries with limited funds. MI6 had a record of three known highly skilled solo mercenaries that use depleted uranium ammunition on a regular basis. Thus leading them to the culprit.
Bond also didn't seem to notice the shrapnel or didn't want to risk removing it until it actually affected him which happened to be the fitness test.
So in Taken there are 2 girls taken, but no one ever talks about the blonde. I mean come on, obviously she and Liams daughter were close friends. I really don't know why but it irritates me so much no one even remembers her or atleast acknowledge her death. It's just dumb
Didn't he find the friend dead? I thought in the hostel that he found the slave who has his daughter's jacket, he found Amanda (the friend) dead. It's been a while since I've seen the movie but the quick glance I took at IMDB's forums seems to confirm this.
Though you are right that no one seemed to care afterwards. The daughter doesn't even ask about Amanda; some friend she is!
I guess i didn't explain myself thoroughly, i remember he found her dead. Yes she dies but the fact no one cares about that is dumb. It kinda destroyed the whole movie for me. I mean Liams daughter arrives in the mighty US of A and laughs and is super happy to see her mother while her friend is rotting in some brothel in France.
How did Andrew Ryan know you were his illigitimate son, and why did Atlas ever even bother with this elaborate grand plan to begin with? What did he need you for that he couldn't accomplish with a highly trained assassin?
Andrew Ryan didn't know at first, but over time he put two and two together. He knew he had a son out there somewhere who would be able to access all of Rapture thanks to the genetic key. Therefore he figured that Jack must have been his son since he got into Rapture so easily. His other clue was the fact that Jack seemed to know exactly how to get to him, therefore Ryan knew that Jack was not working alone (plus he had seen Atlas with you in the sub bay).
As for Atlas' plan, you've actually answered your own question. Jack IS the highly trained assassin. Ryan even figures this when you meet him by saying "The assassin has overcome my final defence." The thing Fontaine needed from Jack was his ability to access all of Rapture via the genetic key.
The bullets weren't lead they were depleted uranium. Used because it is very dense like lead but has properties that mean it can be used as an armour piercing round. These types of ammunition are used by the US military quite a lot but not by mercenaries with limited funds. MI6 had a record of three known highly skilled solo mercenaries that use depleted uranium ammunition on a regular basis. Thus leading them to the culprit.
Bond also didn't seem to notice the shrapnel or didn't want to risk removing it until it actually affected him which happened to be the fitness test.
You have to remember that the bullets he used were apparently depleted uranium rounds (do they even make anything out of DU that is smaller than a tank shell?) so it's probably a good way to narrow down the search. And they likely knew his whereabouts on account of MI6 being an intelligence agency. Okay, a a Sometimes Intelligent Agency.
The way big-bad escapes is ridiculous. He's in a cell, good start. With armed guards, spot on. There is a hole in the floor not ten yards from the cell that leads in to the London Underground tunnels...erm...
It's a good way to narrow the search...but it's an awfully convenient way. One may say it's a contrivance.
Also the bad guy shot 100 bullets in Turkey and incompetent MI6 could not retrieve one. They needed the one in Bonds chest/shoulder.
I assumed depleted uranium rounds still had some lead in them..but even if I am wrong how would Bond know what kind of bullet is lodged inside of him. Would one not get the damn bullet out?
His a 'ghost' but here's his full flight manifesto for the next week. Come on.
So in Taken there are 2 girls taken, but no one ever talks about the blonde. I mean come on, obviously she and Liams daughter were close friends. I really don't know why but it irritates me so much no one even remembers her or atleast acknowledge her death. It's just dumb
Didn't he find the friend dead? I thought in the hostel that he found the slave who has his daughter's jacket, he found Amanda (the friend) dead. It's been a while since I've seen the movie but the quick glance I took at IMDB's forums seems to confirm this.
Though you are right that no one seemed to care afterwards. The daughter doesn't even ask about Amanda; some friend she is!
I guess i didn't explain myself thoroughly, i remember he found her dead. Yes she dies but the fact no one cares about that is dumb. It kinda destroyed the whole movie for me. I mean Liams daughter arrives in the mighty US of A and laughs and is super happy to see her mother while her friend is rotting in some brothel in France.
I watched Fullmetal Alchemist recently, and feel like all the sensible, rational things that could be pointed out would take some time. There was however one thing that bothered me about transmutation circles. I'll spoiler it, because I can't remember how far in some of this might go.
Ok, so I get why they need the circles to exist. They need to circulate the energy and unless you have defied the laws of god and man you need a circle to do that. But why do people need to carry around chalk or draw them on the ground? Over the course of the series you see people with; hand tats, arm tats, tit tats, necklaces, drawn on gloves, drawn on gauntlets, drawn on bigger gauntlets and drawn on skin in blue crayon, and probably plenty of others. Even if that only let you do one type of magic ("I keep telling you, it's alchemy!" "I'm pretty sure it's Alphonse") you'd just have that as a quickspell and you can sort the others out later. If I were an alchemist my morning routine would consist of get up, take shower, draw transmutation circles on the back of my hands in permanent marker, magic up breakfast.
This is probably why I enjoy Nullmetal Alchemist so much...
Probably because every transmutation requires it's own circle, an alchemist would have to specify exactly what he wants to do, right? so I suppose these "instructions" are carved into the circle.
otherwise, he's be making dolls out of all kinds of materials instead of, you know, fixing the radio those materials were at first.
I did wonder about that. The question I'm asking then is do pre-drawn circles like the ones that Crimson or Siren have tattooed to them interfere with other circles they draw. If they do, it's fair enough, you might want to keep your options open. If they don't, then if I were an alchemist I wouldn't leave the house without the 'bulletproof wall appear!' circle drawn on my hand just in case someone tries to shoot me. I can't actually think of a single example of if someone who carries around a ready made circle doing some alchemy other than their speciality.
I watched Fullmetal Alchemist recently, and feel like all the sensible, rational things that could be pointed out would take some time. There was however one thing that bothered me about transmutation circles. I'll spoiler it, because I can't remember how far in some of this might go.
Ok, so I get why they need the circles to exist. They need to circulate the energy and unless you have defied the laws of god and man you need a circle to do that. But why do people need to carry around chalk or draw them on the ground? Over the course of the series you see people with; hand tats, arm tats, tit tats, necklaces, drawn on gloves, drawn on gauntlets, drawn on bigger gauntlets and drawn on skin in blue crayon, and probably plenty of others. Even if that only let you do one type of magic ("I keep telling you, it's alchemy!" "I'm pretty sure it's Alphonse") you'd just have that as a quickspell and you can sort the others out later. If I were an alchemist my morning routine would consist of get up, take shower, draw transmutation circles on the back of my hands in permanent marker, magic up breakfast.
This is probably why I enjoy Nullmetal Alchemist so much...
Probably because every transmutation requires it's own circle, an alchemist would have to specify exactly what he wants to do, right? so I suppose these "instructions" are carved into the circle.
otherwise, he's be making dolls out of all kinds of materials instead of, you know, fixing the radio those materials were at first.
I did wonder about that. The question I'm asking then is do pre-drawn circles like the ones that Crimson or Siren have tattooed to them interfere with other circles they draw. If they do, it's fair enough, you might want to keep your options open. If they don't, then if I were an alchemist I wouldn't leave the house without the 'bulletproof wall appear!' circle drawn on my hand just in case someone tries to shoot me. I can't actually think of a single example of if someone who carries around a ready made circle doing some alchemy other than their speciality.
You can make fire anywhere. That's why Mustang's powers work. But if you made a formula that recombines, say, concrete into a wall, and you happen to be on dirt, you're fucked. What circle you draw depends on the composition of the materials you have on hand. Therefore it changes with the enviorment.
I watched Fullmetal Alchemist recently, and feel like all the sensible, rational things that could be pointed out would take some time. There was however one thing that bothered me about transmutation circles. I'll spoiler it, because I can't remember how far in some of this might go.
Ok, so I get why they need the circles to exist. They need to circulate the energy and unless you have defied the laws of god and man you need a circle to do that. But why do people need to carry around chalk or draw them on the ground? Over the course of the series you see people with; hand tats, arm tats, tit tats, necklaces, drawn on gloves, drawn on gauntlets, drawn on bigger gauntlets and drawn on skin in blue crayon, and probably plenty of others. Even if that only let you do one type of magic ("I keep telling you, it's alchemy!" "I'm pretty sure it's Alphonse") you'd just have that as a quickspell and you can sort the others out later. If I were an alchemist my morning routine would consist of get up, take shower, draw transmutation circles on the back of my hands in permanent marker, magic up breakfast.
This is probably why I enjoy Nullmetal Alchemist so much...
Probably because every transmutation requires it's own circle, an alchemist would have to specify exactly what he wants to do, right? so I suppose these "instructions" are carved into the circle.
otherwise, he's be making dolls out of all kinds of materials instead of, you know, fixing the radio those materials were at first.
I did wonder about that. The question I'm asking then is do pre-drawn circles like the ones that Crimson or Siren have tattooed to them interfere with other circles they draw. If they do, it's fair enough, you might want to keep your options open. If they don't, then if I were an alchemist I wouldn't leave the house without the 'bulletproof wall appear!' circle drawn on my hand just in case someone tries to shoot me. I can't actually think of a single example of if someone who carries around a ready made circle doing some alchemy other than their speciality.
You can make fire anywhere. That's why Mustang's powers work. But if you made a formula that recombines, say, concrete into a wall, and you happen to be on dirt, you're fucked. What circle you draw depends on the composition of the materials you have on hand. Therefore it changes with the enviorment.
Does it though? Crimson changes Al into a bomb with the same tattoos he blows up people with. Unless... did he mention that he uses the metals in people to make explosives at some point? But then, doesn't someone make a big point about organic matter and non-organic matter being absolutely non-interchangeable?
I think it might be easier if I just watch the whole thing again...
How did Andrew Ryan know you were his illigitimate son, and why did Atlas ever even bother with this elaborate grand plan to begin with? What did he need you for that he couldn't accomplish with a highly trained assassin?
Andrew Ryan didn't know at first, but over time he put two and two together. He knew he had a son out there somewhere who would be able to access all of Rapture thanks to the genetic key. Therefore he figured that Jack must have been his son since he got into Rapture so easily. His other clue was the fact that Jack seemed to know exactly how to get to him, therefore Ryan knew that Jack was not working alone (plus he had seen Atlas with you in the sub bay).
As for Atlas' plan, you've actually answered your own question. Jack IS the highly trained assassin. Ryan even figures this when you meet him by saying "The assassin has overcome my final defence." The thing Fontaine needed from Jack was his ability to access all of Rapture via the genetic key.
It's told several times in the story. The subs you use to get from location to location can be overridden by Andrew Ryan's (and all of his genetic family's) genes. Same goes for the Vita Chambers. Why'd you think only you were resurrected from them, and not the other splicers? Andrew Ryan also has some sort of genetic key card thingy that he uses to 'control' rapture and all the splicers etc.
And to jump in the Bioshock Infinite discussion:
So at the baptism there's a split in Booker's life, he either becomes Comstok, or stays Booker. But if/when he gets drowned at the end, doesn't his life and all the variables it created (Anna/Elizabeth, Colombia, the Luteces etc) cease to exist to a certain extent as well?
So at the baptism there's a split in Booker's life, he either becomes Comstok, or stays Booker. But if/when he gets drowned at the end, doesn't his life and all the variables it created (Anna/Elizabeth, Colombia, the Luteces etc) cease to exist to a certain extent as well?
Yeah, try and think about it in the way that every decision creates a new timeline or a 'fork' in the road, in one of these timelines, you turn into Comstock, steal Anna/Elizabeth from another timeline where you didn't choose the baptism and sold her.
Since you went back into that timeline now that Elizabeth isn't being drained by the siphon, when you let her kill you, you erase any form of Comstock, so in any timeline where you denied the baptism, Elizabeth (now Anna because she never became Elizabeth) is still with you because you had no-one to sell her to.
Also to explain that last cutscene, the way I interpret it, is that you are sort of 'waking up' from a dream in a separate timeline which was not included in the main story (because Anna is still with you) and you only know of the events that happen within the game (the other timelines) because of the 'bleeding effect' that happens when Elizabeth opens the timelines (remember when she first did it how the "dead" soldiers were able to remember dying in another timeline).
So you still have Anna because of the event of the game where "Comstock" drowned and never existed, but you still remember (at least part of) what happened in the events of the game because of the memories 'bleeding' into each other from the other timelines, which is why you are so worried and run into Anna's room (as if you woke up from a bad nightmare/dream).
Edit. So yeah the events cease to exist, but you are still aware of what happened(at least partially) because of the 'bleeding' the other timelines experienced while it still existed.
Or at least that's how I see it, hopefully that helps some of you understand it...
Basically you are Comstock. Comstock came into being when Booker accepted baptism to wash away his sins, Elizabeth takes you back to the point where that decision was made. The story is based on the 'many worlds' interpretation of quantum mechanics that states every time a choice is made then the universe splits and goes in different directions based on what the outcome of that choice was. So for example, if a coin can come down heads or tails when flipped then if it comes down heads in lets call it universe A. Then universe B is also created, and in this universe the coin will have come down as tails.
So why does Elizabeth kill you?
Well, killing just Comstock would never be enough, as there would always be an infinite number of worlds where Comstock would be alive and well and could continue his shenanigans. So what to do? Well the only way to kill all of the Comstocks in all of the worlds is to eliminate the choice that created him.
Since he was created by Booker accepting baptism Elizabeth takes you back to the moment when Booker is getting baptised, and by drowning booker when he accepts the baptism then there can never be a Comstock.
Now the bit at the end is a bit of a teaser. Because there is no Comstock any more then Booker never sold his daughter Anna to Comstock, so Elizabeth (who is Anna) never came into being. However our booker still has some of the memories of the events in Columbia so he's a little confused and that's why he calls out.
If you are still unclear on anything then let me know and I'll do my best to explain.
Some posters before you cleared most of it up but from what you said..
So Anna doesn't exist? It's my understanding now that yes you are alive but only as Booker because Comstock will never be. Since there is no Comstock, I figured you would keep Anna seeing as you have no one to give her to.
I'll tag it to be sure, about jurassic park. Which I loved, but...
the #$^#ing cliff appearing out of bum#$^# nowhere in jurassic park...
one moment road/fence/forest(with goat and stuff)
next moment road/fence/50+ foot drop
Jurassic park 3 is actually one of my worst films of all times. I'm not even going to list them but that movie has immersion breaking bullshit pretty much every scene.
I'll tag it to be sure, about jurassic park. Which I loved, but...
the #$^#ing cliff appearing out of bum#$^# nowhere in jurassic park...
one moment road/fence/forest(with goat and stuff)
next moment road/fence/50+ foot drop
Jurassic park 3 is actually one of my worst films of all times. I'm not even going to list them but that movie has immersion breaking bullshit pretty much every scene.
I remember seeing JP so many times and I never noticed that until it was pointed out to me a few years ago. Now it's all I see during what should be an awesome scene! DAMN YOU INTERNET!!!
I'll tag it to be sure, about jurassic park. Which I loved, but...
the #$^#ing cliff appearing out of bum#$^# nowhere in jurassic park...
one moment road/fence/forest(with goat and stuff)
next moment road/fence/50+ foot drop
Jurassic park 3 is actually one of my worst films of all times. I'm not even going to list them but that movie has immersion breaking bullshit pretty much every scene.
There's a detailed and semi-plausible explanation going around for the T-Rex paddock scene, which boils down to the angle of the shots making the two vehicles look like they stopped much closer together than they actually did, with the cliff gradually coming up as you get further away from the tunnel the trucks went through right before getting to the paddock. You can find it <link=http://www.jplegacy.org/?ffjpking>here.
IMDB has a good explanation for how the T-rex got into the building, one that's really kind of obvious -- I know I'd never thought of it as a plot hole before. The building was still under construction, and the T-Rex got in through the same tarp (which was standing in place of a wall that had yet to be built) that the second raptor did.
IMDB has the explanation <link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/faq#.2.1.12>here,
and here's a picture of the T-rex coming through the tarp, a shot which apparently didn't make it into the final cut of the movie:
No idea about the brontosaurus, beyond it being way off in the distance, behind some trees and off to the side, if I remember correctly.
[sub]Can you tell I love this movie? [sub][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub]I cried when I saw the brontosaurus in a real theater for the first time a few weeks ago, and movies never make me cry. Now all I can say is I've never cried because a movie made me sad, just happy.[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub]
Just watched Oblivion yesterday. I know Moviebob's review on it basically explains it as having twists for the sake of twists but:
I get why the robot overlord thing would've wanted an army of Tom Cruises, but apparently those clones were more or less fully mind controlled. Why did the ones that were technicians have be controlled by an elaborate ruse? Also why can't you just have repair robots?
Also did that ending bug anyone else? Did she just replace him with the clone? I mean it's ambiguous, but that's what they were going for right?
I watched Fullmetal Alchemist recently, and feel like all the sensible, rational things that could be pointed out would take some time. There was however one thing that bothered me about transmutation circles. I'll spoiler it, because I can't remember how far in some of this might go.
Ok, so I get why they need the circles to exist. They need to circulate the energy and unless you have defied the laws of god and man you need a circle to do that. But why do people need to carry around chalk or draw them on the ground? Over the course of the series you see people with; hand tats, arm tats, tit tats, necklaces, drawn on gloves, drawn on gauntlets, drawn on bigger gauntlets and drawn on skin in blue crayon, and probably plenty of others. Even if that only let you do one type of magic ("I keep telling you, it's alchemy!" "I'm pretty sure it's Alphonse") you'd just have that as a quickspell and you can sort the others out later. If I were an alchemist my morning routine would consist of get up, take shower, draw transmutation circles on the back of my hands in permanent marker, magic up breakfast.
This is probably why I enjoy Nullmetal Alchemist so much...
Probably because every transmutation requires it's own circle, an alchemist would have to specify exactly what he wants to do, right? so I suppose these "instructions" are carved into the circle.
otherwise, he's be making dolls out of all kinds of materials instead of, you know, fixing the radio those materials were at first.
I did wonder about that. The question I'm asking then is do pre-drawn circles like the ones that Crimson or Siren have tattooed to them interfere with other circles they draw. If they do, it's fair enough, you might want to keep your options open. If they don't, then if I were an alchemist I wouldn't leave the house without the 'bulletproof wall appear!' circle drawn on my hand just in case someone tries to shoot me. I can't actually think of a single example of if someone who carries around a ready made circle doing some alchemy other than their speciality.
You can make fire anywhere. That's why Mustang's powers work. But if you made a formula that recombines, say, concrete into a wall, and you happen to be on dirt, you're fucked. What circle you draw depends on the composition of the materials you have on hand. Therefore it changes with the enviorment.
Does it though? Crimson changes Al into a bomb with the same tattoos he blows up people with. Unless... did he mention that he uses the metals in people to make explosives at some point? But then, doesn't someone make a big point about organic matter and non-organic matter being absolutely non-interchangeable?
I think it might be easier if I just watch the whole thing again...
For what's it worth, I'll throw in what I thought of it
Yeah, my theory was for "specially tailored circles". I filtered the show through the Mage: the Ascension way of how magic works and it made a lot of sense in that light. Here is the short of how it operates - mages can do magic (well, duh), however, they normally need something called a focus (plural: foci) to do it. The focus ranges wildly between different groups, styles of magic, and purpose but generally you can find stuff like magic wands, runes, chants in Enochian and so on, a ritual circle is one of them. Also, foci are generally not "all purpose" ones - a ritual circle needs to be traced separately for different kinds of magic, e.g., healing or reshaping an object. You could have a focus for a more wider variety of effects but normally they take more time to make. Also, there are unique foci that are...well, unique and work for that mage alone, but work very well, although usually for a narrow effect. Mustang and his gloves would be an example of a unique focus. And then picking up Mustang again (because why not), some mages specialise and are quite good at a particular type of magic - in his case, it's fire, for example. I don't think he ever did anything other than fires. Finally, mages can surpass foci if they are really good at magic - this would be what Eric does - he no longer needs a circle to do stuff.
In a way, FMA was like a limited depiction of Mage and that's probably why I liked it.
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