Possibly the most ill conceived and dangerous recruitment tool EVER invented. Is it not? I'd think most people would end up killing themselves or at the very least seriously hurting themselves just trying to get through the damn thing.
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Casey was actually pretty dumb - after the police station, she should've known better than to wander around her house
The contradiction of Casey being so smart she could help her dad make whatever that was work...
And, as you say, having smacked her head at the police station, being so stupid as to walk around in the 'projection' without checking where she actually was, was extremely irritating.
Yeah, much as I still want to love this film, that's a BIG problem
We're told, but never shown, that she's brilliant and knows how things work
The pin should've been the big test, not only for potential Tomorrowland recruits, but for the film to show us how smart Casey actually is. Instead, she's shown as reckless and sorta clueless to boot.
By way of contrast, "The Manhattan Project" included a number of little "bits" and moments that managed to show the audience how smart Christopher Collet's character was without spelling it out.
having just re-watched, it's also a bit implausible that the young Frank is smart enough to make a jet pack but doesn't know what "5 o'clock" means! Even after Athea explains the concept to him, he still doesn't know where to look
I know it's played for laughs and is supposed to be a light hearted, clumsy moment, but it just comes across as contradictory.
Three years later, I’m a tad more sympathetic
I just bruised my hand badly and very nearly did worse because I fell over while dodging bullets in “SuperHOT VR,” a virtual reality video game.
Still, I maintain that the movie missed a big opportunity to show us Casey “getting how things work,” by NOT walking into things after her first time touching the pin.
She’s supposedly “special,” after al. I’m just a late-born boomer playing with new consumer tech
The annoying thing is that whole scene when she falls downstairs could have been cut - it added absolutely nothing to the story, unless they were trying to make it a bit more suspenseful with her dad checking on the noise was, but it didn't really work.
They could have just shown her picking up the pin with the sock or whatever it was, then doing the sensible thing of checking for the direction of Tomorrowland on the projection once she was outside and cycling in that direction.