What is the best example of time travel in fiction. (ex clearly defined rules that make sense, no real paradoxes, etc)
When has a twist ending ruined a movie? When has it saved one?
What historical event needs a movie based on it?
Have you ever had an experience of something you thought only happened in fiction?
A curse will bring 5 inhuman killer creatures from the movies into the real world, plus one hero to fight them. You get to pick. Who and what?
What celebrity do you think you'd actually have a real chance with?
I had a choose your own adventure type book, part of a series where you were a member of a time-travelling enforcement agency whose role it was to police the timelines and prevent anyone from altering the future. I don't recall there being any paradoxes in it. Quite enjoyed those books too. Think the series was called 'Falcon'.
The twist in the latest Halloween movie for me destroyed the film. I thought it was decent up to that point and then afterwards, well it had just taken me completely out of the movie. The best twist I've seen in a movie was the ending of Saw which up to that point had been an engaging watch, but nothing to write home about. That ending for me elevated the whole movie up several notches.
The person who discovered how to milk cows. I'd really like to know what they thought they were doing.
Yes. Being seduced by a lesbian.
Time travel? off the top of my head:
http://youtu.be/UjWXbBtZVog (http://youtu.be/UjWXbBtZVog)
Twist endings? I've always had trouble with those...
History...
I like to see one about Taft's rather brief term, & the story of how he got stuck in the bathtub & they had to widen all the doors in the White House...
I got hit by a car once when I was little...
Seamus, from Beantown, if if ever emerges from the abyss of post production...
ugh...........
Quote from: WingedSerpent on April 17, 2020, 05:11:29 PM
What is the best example of time travel in fiction. (ex clearly defined rules that make sense, no real paradoxes, etc)
I am tempted to say Heinlein's "All You Zombies." It's perfectly logical, within its world. It's just that it's world isn't our world.
The Spanish thriller "TimeCrimes" is pretty tightly constructed, though. I'll go with that.
A movie about history:
I've always been just a little curious about the last eight days of WWII...
For instance, I once heard that it wasn't the atomic bomb, but rather, fears that the Russians were about to enter the war effort against Japan, Or that it was the bombing of their last functioning oil refinery that finally convinced them to surrender...
First question: PLANET OF THE APES (1968).
2nd question: MARK OF THE VAMPIRE (1935). When the vampires turn out to be actors! ugh. I think it would have been better with a double twist- the actors really were vampires!
3rd question: Gee...a movie about this charming man!- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_de_Rais
4th question: Seeing a UFO.
5th question: I gotta think on that one.
6th question:Julia Pastrana. It helps that she's dead and mummified! :thumbup:
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Quote from: LilCerberus on April 17, 2020, 09:30:53 PM
A movie about history:
I've always been just a little curious about the last eight days of WWII...
For instance, I once heard that it wasn't the atomic bomb, but rather, fears that the Russians were about to enter the war effort against Japan, Or that it was the bombing of their last functioning oil refinery that finally convinced them to surrender...
The Soviets did actually declare war on Japan and were overrunning them in Manchuria at the end of the war and a lot of historians do debate wither it was this or the dropping of the second atomic bomb that persuaded the Emperor to surrender. There was an attempted coup by senior military figures in Japan to keep them in the war.
What is the best example of time travel in fiction. (ex clearly defined rules that make sense, no real paradoxes, etc)
- I'm no science nerd so I'll go with The Time Machine (1960)
When has a twist ending ruined a movie? When has it saved one?
- ruined: The Village (2004). saved: ?
What historical event needs a movie based on it?
- The Hinterkaifeck Murders.
Have you ever had an experience of something you thought only happened in fiction?
- no.
A curse will bring 5 inhuman killer creatures from the movies into the real world, plus one hero to fight them. You get to pick. Who and what?
- not a fan of mash-ups. Freddy vs. Jason is as far as I go.
What celebrity do you think you'd actually have a real chance with?
- I'm not a psychic so, no idea.
QuoteWhen has a twist ending ruined a movie? When has it saved one?
... I can't remember the name of the movie now, but the set up was ... decent. Not great, the twist at the end was great though.
A girl is killed by some homicidal maniac.
Then she wakes up and it's morning again.
She's stuck repeating the same day and everyday the killer gets her.
And she starts seeing his reflection when she looks in the mirror.
She goes to research this guy and finds out he's already dead.
She gets attacked by him in a convenience store and finds out he doesn't show up on tape.
and for some reason her friends and her family seem to be hiding something. They're protecting him for some reason.
It's decent enough. Nothing groundbreaking but nothing to write home about.
Until the twist at the end.
She's NOT the girl we think she is. She's actually the real killer.
The entire time she's been dead and her hell is to be murdered over and over again.
What is the best example of time travel in fiction? The time travel in the movie Somewhere in Time.
When has a twist ending ruined a movie? The semi-twist in American Beauty was awful.
When has it saved one? The Sixth Sense.
What historical event needs a movie based on it? The Servant Girl Annihilator, back in Austin.
Have you ever had an experience of something you thought only happened in fiction? Yes, I once managed to get the man of my dreams.
A curse will bring 5 inhuman killer creatures from the movies into the real world, plus one hero to fight them. You get to pick. Who and what?
Five Daleks land in modern Kansas, and the Raston Warrior Robot shreds them in seconds, because there's no problem a Doctor Who episode can't create that another Doctor Who episode can't fix.
What celebrity do you think you'd actually have a real chance with? Apparently Martina Navratilova, if the way she looked at me when I met her as a teenager was any indication.
Quote from: WingedSerpent on April 17, 2020, 05:11:29 PM
What is the best example of time travel in fiction. (ex clearly defined rules that make sense, no real paradoxes, etc)
The Probability Broach by L Neil Smith.
When has a twist ending ruined a movie? When has it saved one?
Ruined: Identity (2002) Saved: The Package (1989) - never saw that ending coming.
What historical event needs a movie based on it?
What happened on 11 September 1967 :wink:
Have you ever had an experience of something you thought only happened in fiction?
I was once accosted by a prostitute demanding money from me for "services rendered" :buggedout:
A curse will bring 5 inhuman killer creatures from the movies into the real world, plus one hero to fight them. You get to pick. Who and what?
Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Pinhead, The Tall Man and my ex almost mother in law. I go with me to fight them: no one else is nuts enough to do that.
What celebrity do you think you'd actually have a real chance with?
I got nothing here.
Quote from: Alex on April 17, 2020, 05:41:11 PM
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Yes. Being seduced by a lesbian.
Ok..you need to explainon that one.
OK, let's see . . .
What is the best example of time travel in fiction. (ex clearly defined rules that make sense, no real paradoxes, etc)
STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT . . . hands down the best of the STTNG movies.
When has a twist ending ruined a movie? When has it saved one?
The very first FINAL DESTINATION movie - great film, fascinating premise, and the end just felt like a drunken afterthought. The twist did nothing for it.
But . . . a film called REMEMBER ME that I watched a few years ago - it had not only an original premise (very rare in a horror film!), but a twist ending that TOTALLY caught me by surprise!
What historical event needs a movie based on it?
The adventures of a WWI German aviator named Gunther von Pluschow. His escape from Tsingtao and epic journey back to Germany - becoming the ONLY German POW to escape imprisonment in the British isles in either World War is a remarkable story.
Have you ever had an experience of something you thought only happened in fiction?
I discovered a comlete dinosaur (well, mosasaur, anyway) skull while leading a 7th grade field trip.
A curse will bring 5 inhuman killer creatures from the movies into the real world, plus one hero to fight them. You get to pick. Who and what?
Freddy, Jason, Michael Meyers, Lester Crowley, and the Wolf Man. To fight them - HOMELANDER from THE BOYS. No contest - he's as psycho as they are!
What celebrity do you think you'd actually have a real chance with?
Well, duh, ANY of them! Have you seen me? I'm freaking gorgeous!
What is the best example of time travel in fiction. (ex clearly defined rules that make sense, no real paradoxes, etc)
1. The short story Mimsy Were The Borogoves by LEWIS PADGETT
When has a twist ending ruined a movie? When has it saved one?
2a. SLEEPAWAY CAMP 2b. PSYCHO
What historical event needs a movie based on it?
3. Cromwell's War in Ireland ( f that RICHARD HARRIS bore which barely mentions what happened in Ireland).
Have you ever had an experience of something you thought only happened in fiction?
4. Yes.
A curse will bring 5 inhuman killer creatures from the movies into the real world, plus one hero to fight them. You get to pick. Who and what?
5. The Universal monster cycle (Frank Drac Mum Wolf Creech) vs. Spiderman
What celebrity do you think you'd actually have a real chance with?
6. CHRISSIE HYNDE
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Quote from: Alex on April 17, 2020, 05:41:11 PM
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Yes. Being seduced by a lesbian.
Ok..you need to explainon that one.
That one actually has been explained on here before.