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One of my recent pet peeves was the ending of Angels and Demons. I was really enjoying the movie, right up until the ending twist which just made no sense. There was no reason for Ewan Mcgregor to request Tom Hank's assistance. The whole plot was a false flag operation set up by Ewan to help him ascend to the papacy. He arranged for the bombing threat and arranged for them to find the bomb at the last minute so he could save the day. So why bring Tom Hanks into it at all? He was never meant to solve anything. The book actually makes it worse, as they basically fail to accomplish anything and then the Carmelengo has a fake seizure and claims he had a vision from God showing him where to find the bomb. Either way, he didn't need Tom Hanks, he just needed to screw around with the authorities until the last minute, as they were never intended to succeed anyway. Also, the way he created the time limit in which to attempt to save each papal candidate made no sense. They had to die as a part of his plan, there was no intention of them surviving. So why not just kill them all right away? Make a fake deadline if you want, but why go through the trouble of keeping them alive at all when your plan requires their deaths?
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Stoatbringer posted:Many alien-invasion films are guilty of bad science as well. I watched a Discovery Channel documentary about alien invasions recently, and it really got me thinking: Why would aliens want to invade our planet anyway? Okay, maybe because we're on a rock that's not too hot or too cold (assuming they have the same tolerances to them are we do) but other than that, what do we have? It can't be fuel or any resources, as we barely have enough for ourselves and the furthest we've managed to travel is the moon. We're talking about creatures who can send massive fleets over many light years of distance. Combined with whatever resistance we could muster, even if a little, they probably wouldn't obtain enough resources to make the stop at our solar system worth it. If aliens were going to land on any of our planets, they'd do better with our gas giant moons. Or even asteroids. Cowboys and Aliens is a good example of this. The aliens in that movie land on Earth to take our gold that powers their ships, despite the fact they'd find way more of that stuff in our asteroids. The amount they'd find on the entire earth would be smaller than several Olympic sized swimming pools. We wouldn't be worth the trouble.
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Sep 6, 2011 22:32
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Greetings, puny Earth-humans. We have travelled a million light-years from Betelgeuse, to kill you and steal your DNA.
What? A million light-years is half-way to the next galaxy. Did you get lost? And how can your DNA possibly be compatible with ours, assuming you even have DNA? And why kill us? You can have all the DNA you want from a hairdresser's floor-sweepings.