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Before modification by MightyYT at 30/09/2009 10:02:03 AM
8. (Back to the Future) How well do you remember the precise appearance of someone you knew for a week thirty years ago, of whom there would be little photographic evidence. And anyway, how do we know the question is NOT haunting his parents? How much do you let your teenager know about his creepy resemblance to a kid who disappeared 30 years ago? We see them for about two seconds in the present when they would have known him, and after the last half a dozen years or so since he started to look like "Calvin" I would imagine they have either repressing their memory or hiding it from him down to a science. I would think the bigger question would be "How embarrassing was it when they heard about the hot new designer 'Calvin Klein' and they possibly tried to contact their old high school acquaintence to congratulate him on his success?"
They do mention it when he gets back from 1955 the first time, I believe.
7 (Latest Star Trek) Logic would dictate Spock hesitate before taking action that might change the course of events. Perhaps Nero was counting on Spock causing a panic. Maybe he felt there were too many variables and thought it better to wait things out, with the destruction of Vulcan kicking him into gear. Maybe he learned about the outpost yesterday. If you're looking for plotholes in this movie, you can do a lot better.
Exactly, Spock has dealt with Time Travel before and wouldn't want to do anything to alter the timeline, instead he would accept his fate, stay isolated so that he would not run the risk of altering the future.
4.(Death Star) While I am not saying this is the reasoning, it would be easy for whoever is in charge of explaining this stuff to say that the Death Star only works on normal planets, and that they can't blow up a gas giant (as Yavin is). As for the length of time to fire up the planet-laser, this is not TOO far-fetched. After all, EVERY ship uses light speed. That's old, common & perfected tech. Planet-blowing-up-scale weapons would seem to be rather new, and probably have more bugs and kinks and delays in getting them working.
I figure there would need to be a huge power increase to the charge the weapon before the blast is sent forth. Something with enough power to blow up a planet would need to have some kind of cool down period, so why destroy the planet and wait for the cool down when they can just go around. They were confident that nothing could harm the Death Star.
3. (Gremlins) The only thing more stupid than bad screenplays are critics who try to apply the rules of science to magic. If you have no problem with the "don't get wet" why should anything else about them bother you? How does exposure to one of the most common substances on the planet have such negative consequences, and considering there is water in the air, how do people AVOID getting them wet? Why isn't the world awash in Gremlins from the abundant moisture on the planet? Obviously these things are magic and mystical and the same rules about midnight apply to them as apply to all other uses of the same time in the myriad stories in the history of the world where midnight has magical significance. Presumably "after midnight" refers to the time between local midnight and local sunrise.
Perfect example of thinking WAY TO DAMN much about the movie.2. (Empire) The author outsmarts himself here. The REAL issue is how the Millenium Falcon made it to Cloud City. Their hyperdrive is broken when they flee Hoth. Without a hyperdrive (or whatever equivalent your sci-fi universe uses), interstellar travel is impossible. They go to Cloud City to get it fixed! Yet, Han Solo is surprised to find Bespin so close to Hoth. In order to fly there from Hoth without a hyperdrive, Cloud City and Hoth must have been right on top of each other, astronomically speaking. But what kind of abandoned, desolate, far-from-civilization (as Hoth is implied to be) hideout is THAT close to a city like Bespin, and if Han associates that place with Lando, how did he not realize he was in Lando's backyard when they first moved to Hoth? Clearly they are NOT close to Bespin when they set out from Hoth. Their journey must have taken months. There is no problem.
This was my exact thought. Bespin might be close, but they still had to fly there under non-hyperspace means. That would take time.
As for how Han didn't know, it would appear that Han didn't bother to check out the area while he was staying with the rebels,assuming they already did it. Otherwise he wouldn't have had to check after he clamped to the Star Destroyer.