I cannot believe people like this movie

I remember thinking it was utter garbage and a real bore when I saw it years ago. Too bad, Peter Weller is awesome.

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and yes, without those awful,awful early 90's ski sunglasses

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you forgot stuff. the buzzsaw is 1, 1 revised is the lizard (they called it 1 revised in the film), 3 is the kid, 5 is the woman. 2 and 4 could either be the wounded trooper or the teddy bear.

They make a big deal that only your own arm band works for you, then someone saves their buddy using his own arm band.

There's one line where Jefferson is told about his tab, "From now on this will only work for you." Since he uses it later to protect someone else, that line must have meant that only Jefferson could activate it. (It's "coded to his biosignature," like the technology we see later in the film.) And that makes better sense anyway; it's not significantly harder to broadcast the sound of two heartbeats out of phase than it is one.

There is only one escape ship on the entire planet and it is for one person.

It's not necessarily the only one there is, it's just the only one Hendricksson knows about. And it's specifically for his use, so why wouldn't it be for one person?

Above it is a crane to move it that has a spherical grip while the ship is cylinder shaped.

If you watch carefully, you'll see that the ship has a spherical section that the crane can grip. Anyway, we don't actually know that the crane is specifically for moving the ship, although it certainly seems likely.

When he leaves he has to get clearance from earth.

Yeah, that's a bit odd considering that he thinks the authorities on Earth don't want him to get home. Still, I think his alternative is probably getting blasted out of the sky. It's specifically the Alliance that he asks for clearance.

The robots are numbered wrong. Like 1 is a simple buzzsaw, 2 is a lizard thing, 3 is the wounded soldier, 4 is then back to a robot cat, and 5 is the child. Something like that, anyway, they screw it up.

No, they don't. As I mention in a couple of other posts in this thread, Type 1 is the kind we see at the beginning of the film; Type 1 Revised is both the one that attacks Jefferson as he's being rescued from the crashed transport (as indicated by the back of its tag) and the crawly one with legs (as shown by Hendricksson's statement that he pulled a tag off "the reptile" and learned it was a Type 1; apparently there's more than one variant); Type 2 is the wounded soldier (Becker); Type 3 is David Edward Dearing, which may not seem like much of an upgrade from Becker but it's at least a different model (and for all we know it may have some improved capabilities); and Types 4 and 5 are probably Jessica Hanson and (maybe) the teddy bear.

Anyway, there's no reason to assume that every new "Type" represents an upgrade (although that should be the general trend if the type numbers are assigned in chronological order). If the next model is e.g. an imitation of one of those rock bugs, it will surely be called a Type 6 even through it's not an "improvement" on Jessica Hanson.

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One thing I thought was odd: when he contacts San Fransisco for clearance aboard the EEV...doesn't it take at least a few minutes for the transmission to propogate through that vast amount of space? I mean, Sirius more than 8 light-years away from Earth. You'd think there'd be some delay. But no, it was instant communication. Heh, so much for realism. It was still a good movie.

Yeah, I cannot believe I read that post through from the beginning to the end!

No paragraph structure, low budget punctuation, cheesy grammar special effects, and the dialogue is forgettable! Then we get "warm4yrfrm", this Gene Siskel/Roger Ebert wannabe dude, who can't write himself out of a shoebox, I mean that post just SUCKS!!!!!!

You keep waiting for some reasoning, but you're never rewarded with much and you don't really care! I kept thinking that everyone involved knew it was total crap! One of the worst posts I've read in ages!

I liked the movie but it works best as the original short story.