Rob245

9th Oct 2020

Black Scorpion (1995)

Plot hole: It doesn't seem likely a rookie wrestler would get a world title match when Lisa had only been wrestling there for a short time.

Rob245

Question: Assuming anyone saw this deleted scene on the DVD special features. Why would Lacy even go to Smallville?

Rob245

Answer: Lacy had gotten tired of her dad's newspaper, big-city life and decided to move to Smallville because she wanted to experience life at a much slower pace and even decided to live on a farm.

6th Oct 2020

Below the Belt (1980)

Plot hole: Given Tommy assaults the referee during the match, even yanking his shirt off, he should've disqualified her.

Rob245

6th Oct 2020

Spider-Man (1994)

Answer: In the comics, Hobgoblin's true identity was kept a mystery for a long time intentionally and while many fans deduced it was Kingsley, and creator Roger Stern was leaning that way, Stern left the series in 1984. In 1987 Hobgoblin's identity was revealed to be Ned Leeds and then Macendale became Hobgoblin. It wasn't until 1997 that Sterns wrote the mini-series "Hobgoblin Lives" and retconned Kingsley as the original Hobgoblin.

Bishop73

Answer: I could be wrong, but I believe the Hobgoblin in Marvel Comics around the same time this show was airing was also Jason Macendale. I have a Hobgoblin trading card from around 1992 or 1993, and it identifies him as Jason Phillips Macendale when listing his real name.

Phaneron

Question: Why does the probe even wish to talk to humpback whales?

Rob245

Answer: It's stated by Spock in the movie, even if he is just speculating. He mentions that humans are not the only intelligent special on Earth, and that it's human arrogance to assume that the probe's signal, "Must be meant for man." The point is, the aliens were communicating with the whales, and when that communication stopped, they sent the probe to find out why.

wizard_of_gore

Answer: There is a hypothesis by Spock that the probe was perhaps sent to find out why they didn't hear the whale song any more.

Answer: It was never explained, but as whales are highly intelligent animals capable of communicating with one another, the visiting aliens somehow were once able to establish contact. Perhaps the alien's form of language was more compatible with the humpbacks.

raywest

Answer: Wouldn't you if you could?

TonyPH

28th Sep 2020

Malabimba (1979)

Plot hole: It's never truly explained how the possessed Bimba could possess Sister Sofia while kissing and caressing her.

Rob245

28th Sep 2020

The Assignment (2016)

28th Sep 2020

Licence to Kill (1989)

28th Sep 2020

The Fifth Element (1997)

28th Sep 2020

Cursed (2005)

Stupidity: Joanie should've gone after Jake, after all, he passed the curse onto her.

Rob245

Answer: Yoda isn't "better" than Sidious, they are at roughly the same power level. Sidious and Yoda fight to a stalemate. Yoda leaves because he does not believe he can kill Sidious. Yoda chooses to go into exile and regroup with Obi-Wan to develop a plan to be able to stop Sidious in the future.

BaconIsMyBFF

28th Sep 2020

Black Scorpion (1995)

28th Sep 2020

Joker (2019)

Answer: Murray Franklin is loosely based on Johnny Carson. He can also be seen as sort-of a general reference to nighttime talk-show hosts. Robert De Niro has also said he played the character as a bit of an homage to his character Rupert Pupkin from the 1982 film "The King of Comedy." (Though he stresses they are not meant to be the same character).

TedStixon

Revealing mistake: During several of the deaths committed by the impostor, look closely. The shirt sleeves are dark green instead of the dark blue sleeves of the jumpsuit the impostor wears. Clearly Tom Morga, the hallucination of Jason, did these scenes instead of Dick Wieand, Roy Burns/impostor Jason.

Rob245

26th Sep 2020

Happy Together (1989)

Continuity mistake: When Alex is speaking with Christopher in their dorm room she's wearing a pink top with the right shoulder down. Then it's pulled up in one shot before being back off the shoulder again.

Rob245

Continuity mistake: When Julie approaches the bathroom when the shower's running there's no steam on the mirror, it gets steamed up only a few seconds later.

Rob245

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