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By far TOO UNREALISTIC.

posted 12 years ago by creatorof2002
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Internal consistency and following its own logic is needed even in a fantasy. The reason the guy was destroyed when he touched his other self was about the rule established in this story that the same object cannot touch itself.

WELL GUESS WHAT??

Did the person who wrote this script ever learn BASIC HUMAN ANATOMY?? is it not VERY common knowledge that we shed our skin cells and grow new ones EVERY MONTH?? There was a 12 year time difference between the 2 versions of the character that destroyed itself yet after just one month a person's skin is completely replaced! it is NOT the same matter.

It would be like a car touching an earlier version of itself AFTER getting all of the metal replaced at an auto shop first, even if it looked the same it would NOT be the same matter.

Also, there is the grandfather paradox issue here. If the older version kills the younger version of the same person its not a paradox for the death of the OLDER one but the YOUNGER one dies too making it impossible for himself to get older and then go back to kill the younger one. For example if I went back in time and killed my five year old self then that younger version of me cannot grow up to go back in time and kill himself.

Plus at the end he has know memory of this "alternate timeline". He has a wife waiting for him but no memories of it. How is that a happy ending? it means he will freak his family out by having no memory of their marriage, he wont even recognize his own daughter. What should have happened is his memories should have instantly filled in and made him unaware of the rest of the story and the tragedies kind of like what happened to the crew in the Star Trek the Next Generation episode "Yesterday's Enterprise" to every character except for the mysterious Guinan.

[–] I_am_Mangamation 12 years ago

ooft this old chestnut, why take it soo litteral and i think matter consists of more than just skin you know bones, organs.....i just look at it as the SAME PERSON CANT OCCUPY THE SAME SPACE!!

As for the grandfather paradox issue, when it comes to time travel its all theory, this film takes the route of you just get wiped from existance which sounds as plausable a theory as the paradox!!

As for memories, if he were to get complete memories of this new future then by that rule everytime someone changes the past we all get new memories meaning that the time agency would be pointless as no one would ever know if history has changed, also its stated that the only person who will know if a mission is succsessful is the timecop him/herself, if everyone who comes back has all the new memories then they themselves wouldnt know once again making the time agency pointless!!!

oh and its a movie about time travel it was never going to be realistic in the first place :-D

You don't ask the almighty for his ID!!

[–] creatorof2002 12 years ago

well consider it from his WIFE's perspective. It is NOT HAPPY ending for HER. In her and their child's reality they have been happily married for several years, then her husband shows up suffering from some form of amnesia with no memory of their marriage or their child.

How would you feel if your husband or wife came home one day after several years of marriage with no memory of it? For HER its NOT a happy ending and its not that happy for him either because since those earlier years are not in his memory he has basically missed out on them.

[–] I_am_Mangamation 12 years ago

True but on the other hand he brought both his wife and unborn child back from the dead, memories of a life together or not i'm pretty sure she could forgive his lack of remembering for the sake of being alive....with child seems fairly happy to me :-D

You don't ask the almighty for his ID!!

[–] dominicanderson1982-394-706587 12 years ago

I think the op is looking far to much into it.Yes I agree that probably if your younger self get's killed by you then you'd still be alive,because you couldn't of gone back in time to kill yourself.But because no one knows how time travel could work,he have no idea what really would happen.
I think he should just enjoy the film

[–] shanayneigh 11 years ago

Wait, are you trying to say this wasn't a documentary??

Okay, mind *beep* blown, you guys...

[–] Fozzy_Fozzbourne 10 years ago

Oh hell...I thought it was a factual documentary...I have seriously been let down lmao

[–] NickyCee 11 years ago

Guess what Einstein? I have a scar on my leg that has been there for 27 years. I thought I'm a new person every 2 years? In addition, brain matter does not chsnge at all. Learn just a little about anatomy before posting asinine comments!

[–] DracTarashV 10 years ago

In time travel movies, there is no such thing as "too unrealistic."

Hey there, Johnny Boy, I hope you fry!

[–] smoko 10 years ago

@DracVlad_OU818 Basically what I was thinking. This just in: time travel movie doesn't make perfect sense! More at 11.