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I started to take my calorie counting, what I eat and training serious in November, in May I lost 30 Kilo, now I am even 40 Kilo below the start. If I do this with once a week personal trainer and just the goal to be more healthy, I am sure a Hollywoodperson with a million dollar carrot will do it with ease.
Which is also a total normal behavior. You usually always imagine worst case scenarios if you hide something, you are aware people wouldn't like to hear about you. Look alone at his dad and his jokes against homosexuals. Why would you assume that he is just cool with it, especially if you read in the internet of parents sending their kids STILL to camps to get "healed".
In the 90s the poor kid had a much worse time, as people weren't so much aware about being gay. Back then people imagined gays to be all more like RuPaul, Rock Hudson was quite a big shock and "just" a few years ago. No, this had been a more depressive movie, especially because the parents had only being cool with it so fast in a Hollywood movie, so far from realistic.
Sure, a bike would help, but where to go? Of course, you would first follow the street you came to the village and this can be already quite far. Additionally, Sweden is not such a perfect place for people who does not know the area, as it has many forests and lakes. So you might get away from them first, but in the long run, you might get catch by them, as they know the area far better.
As they multiply like bunnies and are so huge, it would be very unlikely they came from earth, except you want to open the hollow earth conspiracy box. They are also way too advanced and different of anything existing, so the lab theory is also unlikely either.
Why the future ones never found out: First of all, they didn't know the WS are coming like the ones in movie timeline. So then Russia was first of all trying to contain it by themselves, but likely the WS conquered quite fast Asia, but back then no one knew where they came from except from somewhere Asia - but they could come from whatever. Even if you would know for what you are searching it is quite hard to find.
So that they know at all that they are from North Russia is most likely coming from some surviving Russian officials, who told them from where it comes from. But until they might disclosed that, it could been already too late for proper satellite scanning of something, which might be anyway not there. The WS spread fast and higher ups had better to do as searching for where they came from. This ONLY changed after they invented time travel, but back then it was very likely way too late for such stuff on a scale they needed. They say, only 500,000 people were left around 3-5 years after all started (they said 3 years until they were world wide around, it was I think not disclosed how long between this point and the time jump). This mean the kill rate must have been insane, even if it would been 10 years. This must be terrifying and crazy.
tldr: The landing site was not found as no one know for what to search for and higher ups first trying to contain the info. Then concentrating on killing the WS had much much higher prio until it was too last for them to find their origin.
Even if they would survive, it looks like people uncontrollable fall into the pool - so drop also on each other. But we don't see even anyone with a wound or so. Beside they are quite cool with the fact that from the hundreds send into the future, only a dozen survived - all because of an oopsie.
This I also don't understand. If I were the any government (especially Russia and the US), I would do my best to get any chance on grabbing it. This would then also had make a MUCH MUCH better excuse for the final act. It is ridiculous that neither the russian or US gov is not at least checking what the guy says, who brought back a toxin to kill the aliens. As said, alone for the potential tech on board. And this would be then the excuse for Pratt and his friends to go their alone fast, as they noticed that the govs are not interested in killing the aliens, but instead just greedy for the alien tech/weaponizing the WS by themselves. So to not risk this immediate danger, they do this spec ops final act, rescuing the world.
Much more believable as the plot, that every country now just preparing for war against each other, as there is no hope for humankind. Which of course would also happen, but for sure every chance to prevent/contain this, would be taken and resolve the war situation at least a bit. Some already existing conflicts could be on the other hand already over the point of no return, especially India/Pakistan and China and their ever expanding borders.
To be fair, barely anyone really watched the game. It was foremost a christmas party (final is on Dec 18 2022) and the soccer game was running in the background. People really only got interested when the Brazilian was running alone to hit the goal. This makes it quite believable to me.
In other parts of the world, where football is a thing, people would actively watch it. They might chat with their friends, but would always have one eye on the screen - even if both teams are not theirs. That's at least my own experience.
Say you are travelling with Hyperlightspeed and you notice, you have a problem with it - what would you do? Trying to reach the next inhabitant planet and land there, so you survive and find a solution to go on. We might not know anything about the advanced aliens, but they unlikely were concerned about the WS themselves. And if they were interested in conquering earth, they likely had come meanwhile again. Why? Because the space ship was clearly only a cargo, not an arch for the advanced aliens. It is very unlikely aliens would play such a long game to conquer any planet.
At least Cole's AK could be just a post war souvenir. Vietnam war just ended, this was their last trip. As Charlie wouldn't be on the island, why not having some fun shooting with the enemy's weapon?
For your information: Sony opened their first US factory in 1972 in San Diego. There, they mostly produced Trinitron TVs, but this shows, they had already a big enough presence to have their own factory. So it is also possible that a Sony recorder was around back then. Especially considering that the movie is somewhere set in the South East Asian region, a region dominated by Japanese tech companies.
And regarding big monsters. Come on, that's the fun of the movie.
If Tobey Maguire was relative often away, it might be also that they not fully realized that their dad is gone for good. For them it was relatively normal that their dad is gone for months, so it felt just like always. They would realize much later, when they would interact more with school friends and see them with their dad. Then the realization would kick in for them, but this is more when they get young teenager.
Even Gladiator Russel Crowe had been too old for a realistic portrayal. Tobey works as he has a baby face and still works as below 30.
The only thing I can't understand is, that Gloria not at least gave a note why she is leaving. Everyone would understand it. And about the kid, this is so ridiculous! It is night, so the kid is anyway not doing much beside sleeping and even if, she is already 7+ years old, old enough to entertain herself and not jump into the next scissor.
And how Gloria financed the ticket? An Last Minute Ticket must have cost her at least 2000USD, likely more if she had preferred to take the most direct one to say Manila. But as they don't live in Manila area, it's more likely she would take the more affordable tour via Arabia, as from there she could more likely get a flight to her home town. But anyway, 2000 USD is quite much for a nanny, but as we see, that the men didn't work on the house, it seems she hasn't send money recently. Anyway, I would assume she always kept enough money on her account for such a case and as the family was very cool with it, it seems they had it anyway put in a contract. As the family seems also be relatively careful (oh, you wouldn't believe stories of helper from rich asian countries), I would assume they have for her a prepaid CC to use just in emergency. Because even if she ran away with 5000 USD, she would be banned from US for life likely and for the family it means nothing (as he does not care for how much his million dollar deal went). At least thats what I would do, if I have a helper, I trust.
The movie was quite a success back then. And Donald P. Bellisario just finished his last show Quantum Leap. For this show, he did some research on the NIS and JAG and liked the idea. So with the success of the movie and his experience in detective shows like Quincy ME and Magnum PI, it was likely an easy pitch.
I would expect it was done to make clear why Kaffee is the lead. The case was given on purpose to LT JG Tom Cruise over the much more experienced Demi Moore to piss her off. They made Sam only for the purpose of the story to another LT JG, as most of the audience wouldn't question that. Most people don't know how the rank system work, but everyone knows that more nice badges on a uniform means higher rank. That Tom Cruise is put in front of two higher ranking people would be just confusing.
The start of the movie was one of the most stupidest zombie flick starts in the world (shoot the damn zombie!), but after the premise was set, it got massively better. Weird, but definitely better. And the lady really does strange decisions, but might be related to white magic.
Was it made clear, he only read the books from that list? Denzel seems to be quite intelligent and does not look like he spent his days with video games or Netflix nights. So quite much time to read. So maybe he does not just read books from her list, but also books of interest.
Who knows, he is still a uncovered company person, as likely the other goons by the comments from the home visit. So likely the family will be at least covered by the life insurance from the company and they will even not know, that he betrayed the company.
It's all about the Benjamins. That exactly made the movie so weak, in old days people at least betrayed agencies for the KGB or so. Just doing it for some extra money is absolutely mehh, but likely also more real. But reality is often just boring.