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The only thing...

posted 11 years ago by Writerchick10
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I am totally capable of separating the fictional elements of a film from reality, and enjoying a movie like this for what it is.

But I have always, and I notice this every time it's on, been bothered by the scene at the end where Eve jumps out of the car after spotting Adam. I mean there was all this talk about how much those baseball cards were worth, and Eve just drops the box (allowing all the cards to fly out) onto the wet pavement. I know I'm just being silly bc it's such a tiny, stupid thing to notice, but that would obviously have ruined the cards, which were worth several thousands of dollars. I'm sure Eve was super excited, and Adam certainly didn't need the money, but surely she didn't need to drop them.

Ok sorry, that was my completely useless rant.

[–] Writerchick10 11 years ago

So the movie was on again today, and there was nothing else on, so I watched the beginning again and something dawned on me...with all the stuff that Calvin thought of while building the shelter, including somehow tapping into the underground plumbing, it's too bad that he didn't think of also tapping into the phone lines. He couldn't have thought all of America would be destroyed by even several nuclear blasts. If they'd had a phone they could have reached someone who could have told them what was happening on the surface. Obviously there wouldn't have been a movie in that case, but still, that's the thought which has been bouncing around in my head today.

[–] spookyrat1 10 years ago

I get what you're on about. The thing that's always got me about the film, is that for all its mod-cons (1962 standard), Calvin hadn't rigged some sort of external antenna so they could listen to am radio (recommended best practice during disasters), thereby getting updates on "the nuclear attack". Of course it would then have been a very short movie.🐭

[–] eileen-guthrie555 9 years ago

Calvin thought that the world was gone, who would he have called? It was the Cuba missal crisis and the dune day scenario and which was why he built the fall out shelter in the first place. Did you watch this movie?

[–] amathus 11 years ago

That's always bothered me, too. We're both freaks, I suppose.

[–] hutt359 10 years ago

The EMP blast would have fried most of the phone and power grid copper, not to mention the physical damage if the analog hubs. And even if they both made it through, there wouldn't be any operators.

The phone system was very different back then.

[–] PepperjackJig 10 years ago

The Shares were worth more then all those cards combined

[–] Wherethebeerflowslikewine 10 years ago

Yes I noticed the cards thing too. And no radio? Come on! And eve kind of bugs me at times too which is weird because I love AS in clueless. But I love this flick and watch it a lot. The dance scene is heaven.

[–] ChargersFan63 10 years ago

I just watched the movie again and as they were in Calvin's workshop descending the ladder to the shelter Helen said she wouldn't leave her pot roast so Calvin put that on the little dumbwaiter thing and lowered it down the tunnel and said "I'll come back up for the radio" He never got the chance with the fireball erupting as soon as they got to the shelter door. Of course you'd think he'd have one in the shelter already....

If Mama Cass had handed that ham sandwich to Karen Carpenter two lives might have been saved

[–] brentnevers 10 years ago

The OP is absolutely correct. Those cards were too valuable to be dropped on a wet sidewalk. Even if the point of the director was to show her forsaking all caution---to run after Adam...it was stupid.

And as another person said, those stock shares were more valuable. But that is not the point. Those rare baseball cards were a treasure and can never be replaced. Eve should not even be handling them, let alone driving around in a car with them....

[–] montrossboc-1 8 years ago

Wow, did you miss the point of that scene.

Short Cut, Draw Blood

[–] jacknthebox2012 9 years ago

Adam gets a smokin hot girlfriend, Eve gets the "perfect" guy and the bonds are worth millions there's no reason to give a *beep* about baseball cards I doubt Adam gave a *beep* when he was first porkin Eve

[–] frank-grimey-grimes 9 years ago

As Adam was swinging Eve around, you can see Troy in the background picking up the cards. Maybe all of them didn't get water damaged in that short amount of time.