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The technical talk is garbage

posted 9 years ago by mindrip
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I couldn't get past minute 7 because the dialog was filled with a bunch of "tech words" in random order. How is it possible that a "sci-fi" movie, from 2014, gets the most simple technical things wrong? Twice in the first 7 minutes! WTF?!

Then there's the "project" for the MIT application - are you kidding me? Drones and hand gesture control are old news and they are nothing more than toys. It's a gluing project at best, definitely not something you'd show off with when trying to get into MIT. On the same subject, if the other two guys were the "engineers", WTH was his contribution to the project? Project manager?

Given the amount of FAIL they managed to pack in only 7 minutes, can anyone explain why does this movie has such a high score? It's so stupid it hurts.

Science fiction? More like make believe.

[–] georgegliddy 8 years ago

well it cud b the real wrds 4 a time machine ok so u dont know until u build on it then u will know?????

[–] fede_4488 8 years ago

*beep* nerds...

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[–] Z-Dizzle 8 years ago

I wonder if some of the technical jargon mistakes in the film were intentional character errors, to foreshadow the many errors and misuses of time-travel that they were about to commit? It seems to me it could be that way. I think these high school kids thought they were way smarter than they really were (as many high schoolers do). Some of the jargon may just be writer errors, but filmmakers are generally more intelligent than that, and with so many people involved in a film to proofread and check scripts errors, usually those mistakes come down to intentional character-related errors to serve the plot. Sure, some mistakes aren't caught, but a lot of them are. The majority of film errors are continuity errors (such as when a cup is there in one shot and not the next, which doesn't have anything to do with the script). I just find it hard to believe that most of the "mistakes" in Project Almanac that people have mentioned on this thread didn't have some intentional purpose by the filmmakers. Of course, I could very well be wrong.

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