War of the Worlds
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And how could Heston not know that he was back on Earth when the apes started speaking English?
And in The Time Machine, why were the Eloi speaking modern English, 800,000 years in the future?
And in “Back to the Future,” why wouldn’t George and Lorraine recognize that that their son Marty looks exactly like Calvin Klein from their high school days?
How did Andy Dufresne get the poster of Raquel Welch affixed to the wall AFTER he escaped through the tunnel he dug behind it?
And in Blazing Saddles did anyone actually go back and get a sh*tload of dimes??
Now Jim, we've talked about this....
How well are you really going to remember someone you knew for a week 30 years prior?
That girl you met at the Jersey Shore as a sophomore in high school and spent the week holding hands with on the Boardwalk....could you pick her out of a lineup 30 years later?
Since that anecdote is actually a personal one, I can admit...probably not.
You remember what your high school friends look like because you spent years with them. But think about a kid you met at summer camp for 2 weeks....do you really remember exactly what he looks like or do you just have vague memories and could you honestly say 30 years later that someone looks EXACTLY like that person?
Now the REAL flaw in back to the Future is that the clock tower is NOT digital. There was no way of knowing lightning struck at 10:04:00....could have been 10:04:15 or 10:04:32 or 10:04:59
No - the Real problem is they they thought a Delorean could get to 88 miles per hour.Now Jim, we've talked about this....
How well are you really going to remember someone you knew for a week 30 years prior?
That girl you met at the Jersey Shore as a sophomore in high school and spent the week holding hands with on the Boardwalk....could you pick her out of a lineup 30 years later?
Since that anecdote is actually a personal one, I can admit...probably not.
You remember what your high school friends look like because you spent years with them. But think about a kid you met at summer camp for 2 weeks....do you really remember exactly what he looks like or do you just have vague memories and could you honestly say 30 years later that someone looks EXACTLY like that person?
Now the REAL flaw in back to the Future is that the clock tower is NOT digital. There was no way of knowing lightning struck at 10:04:00....could have been 10:04:15 or 10:04:32 or 10:04:59
So that was you! After I posted this I remembered someone giving me that same lecture about the same subject. No flies on you.Now Jim, we've talked about this....
How well are you really going to remember someone you knew for a week 30 years prior?
That girl you met at the Jersey Shore as a sophomore in high school and spent the week holding hands with on the Boardwalk....could you pick her out of a lineup 30 years later?
Since that anecdote is actually a personal one, I can admit...probably not.
You remember what your high school friends look like because you spent years with them. But think about a kid you met at summer camp for 2 weeks....do you really remember exactly what he looks like or do you just have vague memories and could you honestly say 30 years later that someone looks EXACTLY like that person?
Now the REAL flaw in back to the Future is that the clock tower is NOT digital. There was no way of knowing lightning struck at 10:04:00....could have been 10:04:15 or 10:04:32 or 10:04:59
True. The way the screenwriters got around this is they had the Save the Clock Tower flyer state that the lightning strike happened at exactly 10:04.Now Jim, we've talked about this....
How well are you really going to remember someone you knew for a week 30 years prior?
That girl you met at the Jersey Shore as a sophomore in high school and spent the week holding hands with on the Boardwalk....could you pick her out of a lineup 30 years later?
Since that anecdote is actually a personal one, I can admit...probably not.
You remember what your high school friends look like because you spent years with them. But think about a kid you met at summer camp for 2 weeks....do you really remember exactly what he looks like or do you just have vague memories and could you honestly say 30 years later that someone looks EXACTLY like that person?
Now the REAL flaw in back to the Future is that the clock tower is NOT digital. There was no way of knowing lightning struck at 10:04:00....could have been 10:04:15 or 10:04:32 or 10:04:59
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Tim Robbins actually addressed this recently
“This is so easy”: Tim Robbins Doesn’t Agree With Morgan Freeman’s Claim of a Glaring Plothole in The Shawshank Redemption That Has Puzzled Everyone (msn.com)
Sure...but "exactly" 10:04 on a clock without a second hand lasts for a full minute....
Correct. It wasn’t a big surprise at the event held each year at the Downtown Athletic Club in NYC.
btw, the Downtown Athletic Club was a true bucket list visit for me after Cappy. Unfortunately it closed not long after 9/11.
Well, the multiverse concept goes back to Ancient Greece.
So, there's a universe where I'm married to Halle Berry? Sweet.Well, the multiverse concept goes back to Ancient Greece.
Presumably there were internal gears that operated on a more granular level than once a minute… someone could have examined where those froze and determined the timing of the lightning strike more closely.
It wasn’t a sweep minute hand, it was one of those clocks where the minute hand moved six degrees all at once, every minute.
Someone most certainly could have, but the 1955 Dr. Brown would not have had that information, and something tells me Marty McFly wouldn't either
Did the clock tower have a second hand?Now Jim, we've talked about this....
How well are you really going to remember someone you knew for a week 30 years prior?
That girl you met at the Jersey Shore as a sophomore in high school and spent the week holding hands with on the Boardwalk....could you pick her out of a lineup 30 years later?
Since that anecdote is actually a personal one, I can admit...probably not.
You remember what your high school friends look like because you spent years with them. But think about a kid you met at summer camp for 2 weeks....do you really remember exactly what he looks like or do you just have vague memories and could you honestly say 30 years later that someone looks EXACTLY like that person?
Now the REAL flaw in back to the Future is that the clock tower is NOT digital. There was no way of knowing lightning struck at 10:04:00....could have been 10:04:15 or 10:04:32 or 10:04:59
You’re welcome. Reddit discussion.Now Jim, we've talked about this....
How well are you really going to remember someone you knew for a week 30 years prior?
That girl you met at the Jersey Shore as a sophomore in high school and spent the week holding hands with on the Boardwalk....could you pick her out of a lineup 30 years later?
Since that anecdote is actually a personal one, I can admit...probably not.
You remember what your high school friends look like because you spent years with them. But think about a kid you met at summer camp for 2 weeks....do you really remember exactly what he looks like or do you just have vague memories and could you honestly say 30 years later that someone looks EXACTLY like that person?
Now the REAL flaw in back to the Future is that the clock tower is NOT digital. There was no way of knowing lightning struck at 10:04:00....could have been 10:04:15 or 10:04:32 or 10:04:59
The second hand is a third hand. I can’t reconcile that.
Understood, but I would think that the internals wouldn’t all have been sitting there unmoving for an entire minute at a time. Then again I’m not an engineer or a clockmaker — just taking a stab in the dark to try and give the writers an “out” on this.
I’m trying to remember if Marty himself had seen that Save The Clock Tower flyer… this information could have strengthened the accuracy of the “exactly” wording on the flyer. Even if Marty himself didn’t know the full background, he would have lucked out by hearing about the lightning strike having happened “exactly at 10:04.”
Marty had the flyer because Jennifer wrote her grandmother's phone number on it.
But I stick with, on a non digital, non second hand clock, there is no way you could time a freaking lightning strike, traveling at one foot per NANOSECOND. If Doc Browns cable was 500 feet long, the whole freakin' event was over in .0000005 seconds. You are not timing that with a mechanical clock and a flyer.
100%. You’re also not traveling successfully through time, period, but I guess there’s room enough remaining for the whole timing thing on my suspension of disbelief train once everything else has been accepted on board
All fun stuff to play devil’s advocate with for sure.
Are you sure?100%. You’re also not traveling successfully through time, period, but I guess there’s room enough remaining for the whole timing thing on my suspension of disbelief train once everything else has been accepted on board
All fun stuff to play devil’s advocate with for sure.
I posted that tomorrow