"Cute movie if you're willing to ignore very huge things."
Basically.
Which is why it's one of those "not-something-I'd-own-on-dvd-but-always-watch-when-it's-on" movies. The flow and pace of the film is slick and doesn't give you a lot of time to break down the inconsistencies. The performances really carry it and allow you to just sit back and enjoy it. You could add:
1. Finley's daughter obviously had contact with Helen, meaning she had contact with Harry after she came out of her coma before he died. She was never informed her lover was inside a big, metal casing?
2. That thing's cooling mechanism(s) remained operational for 50 years?? (And didn't rust!!!)
3. That doctor didn't feel strung along or threatened by this swarthy stranger?
4. What kind of FBI agents drive directly toward and through a fleeing suspect instead of setting up a roadblock and drawing their weapons?
5. Sure, a nice, unemployed, transient, drifter, passerby guy just randomly saved you. But do you still offer him your couch?
6. Why would a 10-year-old kid from 1992 choose "You Are My Sunshine" as his serenade song to a little girl? In real life it would've been R.E.M. or Counting Crowes.
7. Forget Nat landing the plane...how the hell did he get on board??? A back staircase through the tail rotor?
8. A plane has nearly just hit your house. Would you be standing by calmly enjoying a lighthouse breeze?
9. How much creme can you suck out twinkies w/o suffering a lactosian overdose?
10. Everyone seems to live in the same place either they or a family member lived in 50 years earlier.
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osopestoso
16 years ago
1. Foxtrot Delta... The project was Top Hush, Burn Before Reading Classified.
2. Finley was good, and many alloys do not rust.
3. Doc was pretty much a weenie until the FBI showed up at the hospital. Then he grew a pair.
4. Contrary to most movies and TV shows, the FBI do not have red esses on their chests, nor are any of them named Einstein.
5. Hey, it was the 90s and she had a penchant for that sort of thing.
6. Maybe the kid has some taste.
7. TAIL ROTOR? WTF? It was a B-25. No tail rotor.
8. Maybe she is hard of hearing and REALLY likes sunsets.
9. Earth kids are not subject to the frailties of Lactosians. (That's with a capital L, is Lactosians)
10. Real Estate has ALWAYS been overpriced on the West Coast. If you have something nice, KEEP IT! My uncle just passed away in the house my mother was BORN in.
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