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injury to child singer
Just a few random thoughts and questions
question about the plot; plot hole?
question about the dancing
possible way to escape from bed
Good movie -- Just a few nitpicky points
Interesting to watch, but plot too implausible and forced
Drain pipe
possibly better alternate ending
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Yes, the implication seems to be that the invasion took place. (And of course the planet was not destroyed. They were just going to kill everyone and use the planet -- not destroy it.)
This is actually a good question, and I was wondering the same thing. I'm surprised there is not more commentary on this. The movie either has no point in this regard, or perhaps it is the value of connecting with one's past. But if it is meant to suggest the importance of having a connection to the past, then the only real messages here are either about his abusive father or about backwoods voodoo -- neither of which seems to have any redeeming qualities.
Agreed - the sound was a bit too real.
Actually it's well known that we can travel into the future; we just cannot travel backwards (at least not to our current knowledge). A fast car or spaceship (traveling very fast, near the speed of light) can do this. But nearly all movies are quite impossible. It's fiction, fantasy, escape. So if unrealism is a flaw, then we can negate most movies.
The line is perfect. It is of course reflective of the time. It is also meant to be comical because the guy does in fact become mayor. The line both reflects the historical truth, and at the same time parodies racism. It would be a shame if the movie were remade today without that line.
Umm yea -- the title really makes no sense. Perhaps it's catchy, but should be "back to the present." Marty went to the future, but he did not go "back to the future." And then Marty wanted to go back to the past (or present), but not into any future.
Interesting. He did have speaking lines too. Perhaps an extremely situation where someone's spoken lines are about 2-3 times as long as they are seen on camera...
I think implied she broke the plate, but not shown. Presumably because he cared for the birds when he did not care for her (or so she thought). No suggestion she is a bird-killer.
So yes, it was a corpse. But what is the point of this? Are we to believe that the prior resident dug the same hole and was buried down there? Possible but very odd. He entered quirk-ville by digging the hole. Not sure why every "host" would dig a 20 foot hole right there, nor why he would dig a hole right where the last host was buried, nor why in fact the last host would be there at all (as these aliens can rebuild a complete house in a day and have mastered alternate universes or dimensions -- why are they letting corpses clutter up the ground).
Seems to be no great answer for this. My guess is that it was something like different dimensions, involving couples just like her that were raising alien-babies, and she got to see them; not sure if they could see her. But seems like she could not really interact with those other worlds, other than to see them, and perhaps stand on the floor. But overall this seems to add absolutely nothing to the plot. It's not needed, and it's confusing. I think we are assuming that these alien things are doing this elsewhere; so whether it's occurring in a different plane or universe or under the street seems to be irrelevant to the movie. It's not like this allowed her to escape or something, or revealed something about the creatures that we did not know.
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