Question: I don't see any motive for her to open the coffin, for which only she had the lock combo. Her motive was to find her daughter. Her daughter could not possibly have gotten into the coffin. This makes the plot too loose, in my opinion. It bothers me every time I try to re-watch the movie to find a reason why she would search the coffin. Or does the plot suggest here that she gave the combo to Julia, Julia somehow climbed down there, somehow found the coffin, opened it and climbed in? (00:59:10)
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Question: When Roy travels across the Martian landscape, he is in an enclosed buggy. Why aren't these used on the Moon, where they would offer greater protection?
Answer: Unlike the moon, Mars has an atmosphere, weather, and winds that can reach up to about 60 mph. Mars also has severe dust storms that quickly cover objects in a thick, gritty layer of toxic Martian soil. An enclosed rover protects the driver, equipment, and other sensitive instruments from the elements. This is actually a concern for when humans eventually colonize Mars.
Question: At what point did Davy and Delores become a couple? He shows no interest in her the entire film, but is dancing close with her during the last song.
Answer: The pictures of students jumping at the end are the graduating seniors. Deloris is not a senior.
Answer: Are you sure about that? I remember Dolores bringing in some young kid her own age. She says it never would have worked out between her and Michael. Everyone laughed. At the end of the movie, when everyone jumped in the air, they were paired off, except for Davy, who jumped solo.
Dolores was talking about Davy when she said that; she was holding onto his arm.
The ending where the characters were jumping was reserved for the major players in the film; Delores was more of a featured character and therefore would not have been included.
Question: Why is Beetlejuice so intent on marrying Lydia? Why not just find someone else?
Answer: Why are most people so intent on marrying someone? He loves Lydia. In the first movie, she was a teenager, and he mostly needed a wedding to get out of his punishment. In the years since, he appears to have developed more respect and appreciation for her. He stopped her wedding to Roy, exposed Roy's fraud, and transformed their almost-wedding into the smaller, "private" ceremony that she really wanted. He doesn't want to "just find someone else" for the same reasons that many people don't.
Answer: If he marries a human, he can leave limbo and become human again. He needs to get away from his wife, who needs him to complete her blood ritual.
If he just wanted to marry a human, any human, he would not have waited for Lydia. He kept a picture of her on his desk.
Question: Wouldn't somebody like Doyle Lonnegan be aware of the existence of someone like Henry Gondorff?
Answer: Maybe by reputation only. He's a mob boss who can't be bothered with little things; he has men for that. Besides, Gondorff had been out of the game for years. He hasn't pulled a big con in years.
Never Again - S4-E13
Question: When Mulder is on the phone with Scully and hears that she has a date, why does he make the punching motions after they hang up? Is he jealous?
Answer: It's not about Scully having a date. Mulder, who is vacationing at Graceland, Elvis Presley's home, is frustrated when Scully calls and says the Pudovkin investigation is not an X File case and she's turned it over to the Philadelphia office. After hanging up, Mulder humorously expresses his frustration by mimicking Elvis' karate moves. Many Elvis imitators do this as a parody.
Question: Given how much difficulty just some of what came out of the game gave everyone, how could Alan alone as a child have possibly survived in the game for 30+ years? Did the game make him immortal? Did Van Pelt help him, etc?
Answer: No. The game didn't make Alan immortal, and Van Pelt didn't help him. Van Pelt was a hunter whose mission was to kill Alan. After being pulled into the game, Alan probably had some close calls and had to learn for himself what was dangerous and what wasn't.
Question: When the Baxter House is lit on fire, everybody comes out the front door and is promptly shot. Was there no rear exit or window?
Answer: A house that size likely had a back door and windows. Being made of wood, the fire could spread quickly, and the flames may have blocked the rear exit, as well as thick smoke making it difficult to breathe and see where one is going. The front door was probably the closest exit. Of course, the point of the plot is that they all get shot when they run out.
Question: Did Nicolas Cage and John Travolta get along while working on this movie? Was there any feud between them?
Answer: There's no report of any conflict, and they spent two weeks working together before filming started to develop their characters. There are some reports of a Face/Off sequel being made with the original cast, but nothing is verified. If true, the two must be on good enough terms to be willing to work together again.
Question: What was the point of putting the first murder victim somewhere they were unlikely to be found?
The One With The Blind Dates - S9-E14
Question: What does Monica mean when she says she might have served some very questionable meat at the restaurant?
Answer: She's didn't realise what the date was and was a few days behind. So she's saying the meat may have been a few days past their expiration or use by date and gone bad, i.e. it's questionable if you should eat it because you might get sick.
Question: After the Predator gets out of the water and walks past Dutch, it sees some small animal (not sure what) and kills it. Since it kills for sport, targets experts with weapons, why kill a defenceless animal? (01:20:00)
Answer: It simply might have seen killing a different animal as yet another "trophy." Especially if it hunts for sport and is on a different planet. I know a few people who hunt for "sport," and many of their targets are non-dangerous, defenceless animals that could not realistically fight back. It's just... a thing for some people.
Except that the Yautja only kill people who have weapons. The animal was defenceless, and it wouldn't have been very, what the Yautja perceive, as being honourable.
The issue is that you're going by logic established in sequels/spin-off material and trying to retroactively connect it. Nothing in the original movie explicitly states this. Even the name you're using, "Yautja," wasn't coined until a spin-off novel that came out seven years later. Sometimes sequels and spin-offs will "rewrite the rules" and retcon from the original, thus creating small inconsistencies. You just have to accept that it's something that happened in this movie, even if it contradicts future series "lore." You can't really fault it for not lining up with sequels they didn't even know would exist when they made it.
Question: After George gives away most of the honeymoon money, only two dollars are left. Would two dollars have really kept the Building and Loan open?
Answer: No. It's just that they didn't have to tell anyone that their funds were unavailable, which really would have made them go under.
Question: I see this as an (unavoidable) mistake, but during Vito's path across the rooftops prior to killing Fanucci, the buildings, bricks, and chimneys are obviously old (brick wear, missing mortar, patches). When, if the scene took place at that time, most of the rowhouses in NYC would have been built circa 1890-1920, so they would have been essentially brand new. Does that seem accurate?
Answer: I just spot-checked real estate in the filming location (per web sources, Little Italy in NYC). Similar to my old Italian neighbourhood in Philly, the houses I checked were built in 1905, 1905, and 1910 (the exteriors are similar, like my 1917 Philly row house). So I think the obvious age of the buildings in the movie was an unavoidable inconsistency.
Answer: I would say not entirely accurate. New York tenement buildings were built as early as the 1820s, but the majority in the mid-to-late 1800s, so many were fairly old during this scene's timeframe. There are numerous other factors related to that era, including poor maintenance, inferior building materials, shoddy construction practices, lax government regulation, inspections, oversight, etc. All would contribute to the tenements' poor condition.
Question: One of the detectives says that attackers don't usually wear masks and gloves. Is that realistic? I would have thought many would disguise themselves.
Answer: As I understand, not wearing a disguise is common because criminals want to appear "normal" before they attack. They need to catch their victims off guard. This happened to me. Two guys approached me in my apartment complex's parking lot, pretending to need help with something; then they presented a [weapon] and demanded my phone and car keys. They did not wear masks or gloves. (By the way, this happened in an average middle-class area that was not known for crime. Not a stereotypical "bad area." If someone ever makes you feel uncomfortable, get away from them fast. I felt uncomfortable, but I decided to give these people a chance instead of "judging" them. I was shot twice.)
Question: What is the name of the band that plays during the credits after Gordon Lightfoot plays? It sounds like Manson but I can't find anything about it.
Answer: It's "Love on the Rocks," performed by Johnathan Davis, who's known for being the lead singer of KoЯn. It's his cover version of Neil Diamond's song.
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Answer: By this time, Kyle believed Julia was not hiding but forcibly taken. She is investigating every possible place, however improbable, where her daughter might be, including the casket on the off chance someone obtained the lock code or there was an alternate default code. As it turned out, the funeral home was in on the scheme. Kyle suspected Julia could be drugged or dead and her body hidden. Kyle's an aerospace engineer who's methodical, determined, detail-oriented, and a problem solver. After systematically eliminating one possibility, she moves on to others.
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