You probably won't see this, but it bothered me either way.
Well, I sure know the feeling. And you're right, I normally wouldn't see it, because one thing I learned the hard way about IMDB is that if people don't respond quickly to something you write, there's not much chance they're *ever* going to, so not much point to checking. But I was bored.
Surprised that what I wrote bothered you, though. It wouldn't have surprised me if I'd said something anti-God, but I didn't. So I give up: I officially am no good at predicting what will bother folks.
"Basically, the timer in this movie has a data feed from God. Don't deny that, because it's the only way the timer could work."
That is definitely not true...I CAN deny that and WILL deny that. We don't know the science behind it...
Right. Because it's a silly premise, and there *is* no science behind it. It's not like the writers came up with all this science but decided not to bother us with it because it would get in the way of the love story.
[Some days later...]
I had the opportunity to re-watch the "product evolution" sequence. Some scientist-like guy says it monitors oxytocin. So that's this movie's blind, shaky stab at being "scientific."
I wish that *all* movies based on stupid, un-swallowable premises followed the lead of the writers of _Sex and Death 101_. In that movie a mysterious supercomputer sends this guy an email containing the names of all the women he'll ever have sex with (thus giving him a rough gauge of when he's going to die). A dumb premise in a mostly dumb movie, IMO (though not in the opinion of most of IMDB's voters, it seems). But I did like the way the premise was explained by the secret-computer-experts-in-an-all-white-room. I'm going from memory here, but I think my memory is good enough that I can use quotes: "Some people you don't know found some things you don't know in a place you don't know. These things were useful in helping them build another thing: A thing that apparently knows everything."
In other words, the scriptwriter didn't even try to explain the premise, making a joke of it in the process.
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DisturbedPixie
12 years ago
I agree that a Direct link to God or whatever makes Fate happen would be the only reasonable explanation. I hated that explanation given in the movie because it doesn't explain how destiny brings you together. That was a silly moment in the film. I would them rather have said they don't know why it works, just that it does, and it has been proven in studies and the real world. Or that a new age religion invented it based on their God's design, rendering all other religions obsolete.
If they explained it in any way that made more sense than this oxytocin snippit, I would have given this movie an extra star in my rating. I would then give it another extra star if they showed what happens when Steph meets her soulmate, and she sees the pain she put him through when she had her TiMER removed.
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