When the POD was duplicating Elizabeth, she was upstairs in the bedroom sleeping but the POD was downstairs. If the distance between the person and the POD MAKES NO DIFFERENCE, then how does a POD know WHO to duplicate?
The pod still probably needs to be within a certain distance even if it doesn't have to be right next to the person. Anyway I'm not sure which scene you're talking about. In her first duplication she was just across the room from the pod body. In the second she was in the house and the pod was outside in the back yard.
all the other people in this movie who are duplicated are sleeping next to a POD
Jack, like Elizabeth, was also being duplicated from outside while he was in the house.
...while the person was sleeping, long "tendrils" would reach out from the POD to the person it is duplicating, so that sorta makes sense
It does that when it's right next to the person but it can clearly also duplicate people without physically connecting. Maybe if it can touch you with its fuzz it can get a more stable connection or something.
then there is the POD that duplicated both the banjo man and dog TOGETHER to make a man-dog....that tells me that the POD itself is not intelligent
That pod malfunctioned because Matthew had stomped on it a little earlier.
Another thing too is, the POD that duplicated Jeffrey was a little tiny POD in a glass of water that was next to the bed. How was that possible?...the POD was too tiny for a human to come out of it....all the PODs we see later are huge....
The pods grow. The bigger ones are mature and ready to duplicate. The one Elizabeth brought home grew in the night before spitting out Jeffery's duplicate.
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jonm11100
8 years ago
Ok so i guess the real answer with all this is we do not know whether or not there is a limit between the pod and the person being duplicated......the elizabeth duplication part i was referring to was when she was up stairs asleep and her bod was being duplicated downtairs in the "inside" garden, which was in the house....Matthew broke into her house to rescue her and he saw her body being duplicated.......
as far as the pod next to Jeffrey's bed being in the little glass of water, if that is the pod the duplicated him, it must have had an astonishing rate of growth....it had to grow from a tiny play into a huge plant big enough to have a body in it!....
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creatorof2002
8 years ago
I think this movie suffered from Chris Reeve Superman Syndrome. Just as the writer of every scene just made up whatever magical "super power" they wanted him to have at any given moment the writers of this kind of made up how the pods functioned as they went along.
If another remake is done "rules" should be established about how the pods function and the movie should stay consistent with them.
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filmklassik
8 years ago
Let's hope there are no more remakes.
The first version from the 1950s was good, and this film (even with one or two plot discrepancies) was just awesome.
So, message to producers: Why not take the money you were going to spend on a remake and tell an all-new story!
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KitchenKnives
8 years ago
The indoor garden is actually upstairs. If you get the chance, check about six minutes into the film. We get a shot of the garden with a wooden railing to the left of the screen, indicating there are stairs leading down. When Elizabeth walks out of the garden, she goes and sits on the same bed she's later found sleeping on by Matthew. It can be seen in the reflection on the glass door.
That room has two entrances (and a closet). Matthew enters from a door to the right, while Geoffrey comes in through the door the camera is looking through during the earlier scene.
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Cult_of_Kibner
8 years ago
it must have had an astonishing rate of growth....it had to grow from a tiny play into a huge plant big enough to have a body in it!....
How long did it take for those duplicate bodies to develop from deformed fetus to normal fully grown human? A few minutes, so why would it be any different for the growth of the pods themselves?
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