what happened to the girl that ended up not being with joe flanigan. was she just on the planet looking at the w2 forms and awe? im confused. and after joe and the dr made it back, what did she say to him. i couldnt make it out the words.
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We were supposed to have figured out from the scientist lady's blathering about funnel-shapes, and from the UPS guy in the opening scene that was looking for the IRS building next door, that the building she saw was part of the IRS building from our dimension/universe, not something from the monsters' dimension/universe. Considering the airing date (5 days before the deadline to file IRS forms in the US), it was pretty funny that the IRS forms spelled out her doom. Anyway, on my puny old TV I never did see the building she was after, so I don't know why she or Joe didn't recognize it as the building next door to the one they were in when they got zapped to the alt-verse. They did show a parking meter at one point, but she didn't seem to notice that either.
The final ending with the hand holding looking out the window or whatever was very vague and seemed to indicate that the show runners had run out of time and money -- kind of like when a little kid draws a picture of a person, starting at the top with the head, and then gets to the feet and runs out of room on the paper, so they make the legs really short.
Okay, so I still don't get it. She chose to stay behind with no proof of anyone else's existence? And then the monsters ate her up? Is it possible that the monsters could be enticed to eat all remaining copies of this movie?
shareActually the regular due date for filing this year is the 18th.
Great, now we gotta do the rest of this thing with Danny Elfman!share
***** SPOILERS *****
At the end, Dr. Fast crawled up the hill and discovered the building was a part of the IRS building. There were tons of 1040 forms flying around. While she's standing there in shock, one of the creatures roars and starts charging her. She just stands there, still in shock. By the time Colonel Synn is talking to her on the radio, she was already dead.
When Colonel Synn and Dr. O'Hara get back to our dimension, there are tons of sirens and emergency lights flashing. She says "You First" and then they start to walk outside.
It's assumed there is a lot of chaos because of the "dimension machine" ripped part of buildings out, probably resulting in a lot of destruction.
But we don't know for sure if they made it back to their own dimension.
shareMeh!
9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2
Same countdown/bodycount plot as any Jason, Freddy, Ripley, you-name-it movie.
Was this any different than a dinocroc/supergator/megachicken movie?
It seems there was no budget to show what was outside that door at the end.
What, no ironic/twist? Couldn't they at least wind up on the "Planet of the fill-in-the-blank?"
It would definitely have been much better with a Debbie Gibson and Tiffany girl fight scene.
Twas a bad movie!
They did not make it back to their own dimension.
Look carefully at the US flag on the wall.
It only has 48 stars .....
I'm assuming this was a setup to a series where they plod from dimension to dimension (ala sliders) hoping to get "home".
regarding Dr. Fast at the end: she went to find the alien building, only to find part of an IRS tower (probably which did not resemble any part of the IRS building from her own dimension). there was a limited window of opportunity for all of them to get back, and she was too far away from Col. Synn and Dr. O'Hara to be able to get back in time to transport back to her own dimension (or any other dimension for that matter).
regarding the ending: obviously, the film makers wanted to leave open the possibility of a sequel, series or whatever. it's typical of syfy to try and leave their movies open-ended. leaving it so open makes the viewer wonder to which dimension the duo returned.
i found this movie as cheesy as a lot of you, but i figured it to be that way before i began watching it. i don't tune into syfy expecting oscar-caliber films; more for a simple diversion. i figure if i'm not liking what i see, i can always change the channel.
~ Kassandra
"we'll make our own tripods ... ours will have four legs" - Oliver, Scary Movie 4
Have none of you people ever seen a cell phone or communications tower that is on top of numerous buildings? She thought the glimmers in the horizon were signs of an alien intelligance that could teleport her back to her reality instead of something brought to the alien dimension from her dimension. So when she gets there she realizes she is doomed due to her stupidity.
As for them going to another dimension ah no the scientists were clear that the device had a lock onto their own dimension they came from otherwise they would not have been able to recall the prior dimensions they had viewed when they were showing them to the senator. As for the reason for whatever happened likely the viewing caused a disruption in the other realities and when that living creatured touched the disruption it caused a feedback to the device which caused it to malfunction.
The flag was not set out so you could see all the stars on it from what I recall.
Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.
-- Friedrieh Wilhelm Nietzsche
You didn't have to see all the stars, only the pattern.
(But is was set out - it was in a flat display case mounted on a wall)
The stars on the current 50 state flag alternate
between 6 rows of 6 stars and 5 rows of 5 stars.
So looking at the stars vertically they "stagger".
The flag they showed at the end clearly showed
vertical rows of stars lined up similar to our 48 star flag
(8 rows of 6 stars)
before Alaska and Hawaii became states (1912-1958)
So my guess is wherever they traveled to has the technology of that time period.
Based on the rest of what they showed, I'd say WWII or shortly after.
It just like the building at the start, also was the flag shown at the start with 50 stars? Oh right we didn't see it perhaps this Earth's America has had 48 stars instead of 50. What country did this production come from? You often see wrong flags in such films even based off of this Earth.
Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.
-- Friedrieh Wilhelm Nietzsche
OK, I just reviewed the movie for the first time since it aired (I taped it). They do not show that angle of the building where the flag is displayed in the beginning - however (and I wish I could show a screencap) the flag displayed at the end of the film is 100% a 48 star flag. The ending is positivley intended to be a mystery as to where they were, which is why they never pan the camera out the door - and to add to the suspense there is sirens, red lights flashing off the wall - and the final line in the movie "you first".
Based on the description of the device at the beginning of the film, the device is able to peer (and apparently now transport) into alternate dimensions. The hint from the scene at the end of the movie clearly suggests they have landed in a reality not their own - an intentional cliff-hanger to leave the possibility of a continued series open.
If a series is filmed, it will be a Sliders rip-off where they use this device to "slide" from dimension to dimension hoping the next one is the voyage home.
All they need now is to shrink the transport device into a Motorola analog flip phone - :) <sliders joke>
Here you go tom-711-233642!
Screencap of flag: http://i56.tinypic.com/ego1f5.jpg
8x6=48 stars
I'm pretty sure I have the intended synopsis correct.
As bad as the show was, I'd entertain them trying to get it right one more time.
Being that it looks like it was in a frame, I wonder if the 48 star flag was a special flag commemorating some event?
Or that this was the lead-in to the plot of the proposed series, trying to get back to their Earth.
As a hour show it might've made it. I would watch it, but what do I know, I liked Firefly!!!
"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second." ~ Godard
The flag on the wall is framed, so probably an antique flag.
The 48-stars flag was used for 47 years, starting July 4,1912.
SO no prove of an alternative reality there.
+++ Hey, I know what a restraining order is. I had girlfriends before, you know... +++
You have a valid point, but I think it odd they never show it at the beginning of the film and it looks like they were going out of their way to make sure you saw it at the end - so in any event I think it has meaning.
What that meaning was is probably something we'll never find out.
This film was part of a series of films but they have nothing to do with each other.
Watching the film on netflix makes it obvious it was produced for airing on the syfy channel due to the fade to black sequences that correspond to where commercials would have been.
Now it could be another dimension since there was no metal detector and guard however buildings do have numerous entrances and exits some that don't have a metal detector or guard depending upon the areas that can be accessed. Since this was a senator and his party going to see a top secret device then the entrance shown at the start of the film could perhaps only go down to that area and there was more security on the way. While the other parts of the building would have a more normal civilian entrance with no metal detector or guard.
Of course it could just be cheap budget at work and they couldn't get the same building hallway for filming. Not the first time that has happened in low budget films.
Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.
-- Friedrieh Wilhelm Nietzsche
There WAS a metal detector - they had to walk through it to get to the door. And there was a guard station next to it. It had a sign-in sheet and a touch-tone phone on it. Presumably the guard was elsewhere, dealing with whatever the ruckus was. And yes, the flag did have 48 stars on it, but it was in a display case, indicating it was probably historic. Also, touch-tone phone technology wasn't introduced until the mid-1960's, at which time there were 50 states (Alaska and Hawaii were the last two territories to become states, in 1960). The ruckus outside might have been due to the event that moved them, part of their building, and at least part of the IRS building next door, to another dimension. And when that happened, perhaps some of the Big Bads from the other dimension were transferred back to ours and have been causing havoc here.
BUT - That said, why all the puzzled looks all around them, as if things weren't familiar? And when he said, "We made it," she still looked dubious, and turned around to give a full up-and down stare at the flag. And why the scared looks when they looked out the doorway, and the "You first?"
The older flag overlapping the more modern technology could just be a historical glitch - I believe this was an Irish production, so it might have been overlooked. But I agree with the poster who thinks they were meant to have arrived in another dimension, or a different iteration of their 'present,' and it was meant to be a teaser for another dimension-flipping series. The dated flag, with the newer technology, could be intentional, and could indicate something changed in this version of our world prior to 1960.
Guess we'll never know what the original intent was.
Lethe
It was a non-issue or a red herring. Take your pick.
shareGood eye on the flag tom-711-233642. They don't show the flag that long in the frame for it not to be relevant.
The pace for the "film" was too slow (that and all the fade ins and outs), it must've been meant to be a pilot for a series. Judging from all the bad reviews here the series was dead in the water. It just ended up straight to TV movie/DVD/Netflix.
Anyone else thought the possibility of the "dinosaur" was also sucked into the dimension with the doctor and colonel as it was charging towards them?
Casting John Rhys-Davies was a nice nod to Sliders -- even though he was killed off within 2 mins of landing in the parallel universe.
The flag on the wall is framed. It's a valuable historical flag which was the official US flag between 1912-1959 when Hawaii and Alaska became official US States. If Cuba becomes a state (and it might someday) we will have a new US Flag with 51 stars.
They are in the correct dimension.
I LOVE
how they dont show any falling or anything,just changing camera angle to them laying on the floor xD
"oh...ah.."
there are two possibilities as i see it --
1) most likely: they went to the wrong dimension. evidence: the flag with only 48 stars and the fact the damn machine never worked right anyway.
2) less likely: they went back to their own dimension, but see the devastation outside from having swapped places with creatures in the beginning. in other words, while they were in the other dimension, it worked as a two-way door.
but that wouldn't explain the flag.
I guarantee that the makers of this movie had no idea that the flag
they had in the background of the shot was a 48 state flag. I'm sure
that whatever room they were in, which was probably some office
building or even a school gym(going by the polished wooden flooring).
I'm going to go ahead and respond to this post, mainly because it is the
most recent, the last post is from a couple of years ago.
My take on the ending was they simply ran out of time and or
money to take anymore "outdoor" shots. they probably just used the
nearest sound stage that was already set up, and that flag on the
wall is just a set piece that just happened to make it into the
film. we will probably never know. could try and email the director
for an answer, but my guess I wont get an answer.
as for the science woman who was going after the structure
in the distance, my take on that is that it was just a nod to a
decent twilight zone episode, where there is some nice irony
going on.
the film was super low budget, but the funny dialog definitely saved
this one, I would have turned it off and never looked back if it wasn't
for the snappy and sometimes actually clever banter from the
actors.
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