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Welcome to every Charlie Kaufman film.

I don't think anyone can actually explain the Malkovich scene. It's entire purpose is insanity and I love it.

it's my favorite movie

I think the weak logic it may have, is that time “slowly” changes. Like how Marty’s future slowly starts changing over the course of the first film.

I find that movie to be a masterpiece of somehow really good and really bad at the same time

The intro to Valerian is amazing.

It was originally going to be that people were used for processing power, but a producer or exec didn't think people would understand so they asked for it to be changed.

You might be aware but apparently the original script was humans brains as processing power and like a neural network or something. If true would've been much better. They dumbed it down for being too complex, is the rumor. Sorry no source.

If I'm not misremembering, that's the exact explanation they use for pym particles in the first Ant-Man movie. And yeah, mass and forces we see in that movie aren't consistent with that rule at all either. In his shrunken form he can go from riding flying ant bareback to punching a guy with the force of a regular size dude (not concentrated to the size of bb though, he should be punching holes in people). Furthermore, at the climax of the film he needs to "go subatomic" to squeeze between atoms, but he keeps shrinking out of control and ends up in a crazy abstract environment many times smaller than the smallest particles we know of...but don't pym particles just make atoms get closer to each other? Not shrink? It's a fun movie but I need to turn off my brain to watch it.

And then in later movies when he grows, shouldn't he also be the same mass then too? Think about it, he's as big as a parade balloon and a fraction of the weight, the dude would need to hold onto something just to not blow away.

Still love that movie! I’m amazed it hasn’t been rebooted yet. One of the few movies that are better than the book it’s based on.

This is explained more in the book. The computer runs everything in the world, not just some self contained city. The sandmen travel all over the world in flying cars and bullet trains to track down runners in the most remote regions as well as cities. People are raised by robotic nannies in the nurseries, doctors are robotic, most everything is automated. There is a semi abandoned space program that runs the sanctuary program where the runners are escaping to an old space habitat colony made for hundreds of people.

The book is a lot of fun. Easy read, simple writing with lots of action based prose. The second book is a great continuation of the story. The third was not so great, but if you are reading the first two you might as well finish the trilogy. All three books are in one compilation about the size of a normal scifi book.

I haven't seen that show but now I definitely won't because that's my least favorite trope ever

My big thing with that movie is the nerd not having a backup of his game. Ridiculous.

The funny parts don’t need to be there in a comedy?

The other big problem with the time dilation aspect is the scientist they originally sent to that planet to check it out beforehand couldn't have been there very long at all. They must have landed, took a quick look around, and been like "hey looks good, thumbs up!". I though the whole reason they sent a human to do that job is so the human could thoroughly check things out and might notice unusual things like massive planet-wide tidal waves.

To add to that, if you sent me to check out an unknown planet I'd first spend a considerable amount of time in orbit surveying the planet, looking for things like a livable temperature range, a non-poisonous atmosphere, reasonable gravity, and no massive planet-wide tidal waves before attempting a landing. Hell, even if I wanted to get to the landing part as quickly as possible I'd still want to do a quick survey of the planet if only to find a good place to land. Clearly the original scientist did none of that. Nor, for that matter did the crew in the movie, though I suppose I could kind of excuse them as they were in a hurry and they had the "all good" signal.

That and the fact that the time dilation on that planet vs in orbit around that planet make no sense in the first place.

I like the fan theory that they aren't aliens at all, they are demons. The broadcast at the end that reveals their vulnerability is cut off and nothing ever definitively points to them being extraterrestrial. In this theory they aren't weak to water itself, but holy water which had been inadvertently blessed by the dad who used to be a priest (a bit of a stretch but if I remember right I think we see him mouthing a prayer at one point).

I don't think that was the intent but if you rewatch the movie with this in mind it's a pretty interesting way of explaining some inconsistencies in the film.

The other thing that bothered me about the climax of Signs is the fact that this creature that's fast enough to scale buildings in a blink of an eye and strong enough to effortlessly hoist a child in one outstretched hand can so easily have the shit beat out of it by a regular-ass dude with a baseball bat taking a swing at it every 15 seconds while it just stands there taking it. Even before it got any water on it it was having its ass handed to it. It wasn't even a fight.

I still think the early moment of the scene when you first see the creature reflected off the tv is really cool though, to me that's where the movie peaked.

Ben Affleck's commentary on this movie is great.

At one point he basically goes Why can't a NASA scientists know how to drill, but a random Joe off the street can become an astronaut