When you're wearing the watch and you go into hypertime, anything or anyone touching you does too. If your feet are touching the ground, shouldn't the earth and everyone touching it go into hypertime? [What, you don't think QT would've figured this out? Clearly, they manipulated the watch so that this won't happen. Otherwise, hypertime would be useless.]
Clockstoppers (2002) - 15 corrections
Directed by Jonathan Frakes, starring French Stewart, Jesse Bradford (add more)
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When you're wearing the watch and you go into hypertime, anything or anyone touching you does too. If your feet are touching the ground, shouldn't the earth and everyone touching it go into hypertime? [What, you don't think QT would've figured this out? Clearly, they manipulated the watch so that this won't happen. Otherwise, hypertime would be useless.]
The premise of the story is that a watch speeds up the molecular structure of the wearer to the point where the rest of the world appears to be at a standstil, a state called 'hypertime'. In that state, the wearer moves through the world so fast that he appears to be invisible to other people. I would estimate that the speed at which someone would have to move to appear 'invisible' would be about the speed of a bullet. I suspect that someone moving through the air at such a speed would experience friction much like a meteor does when entering the earth's atmosphere and thus burn up, or at least they would create massive turbulence such as a supersonic jet creates. [If we can suspend disbelief to allow a watch that speeds a person's molecules up in this manner, it's not too much more of a stretch to assume that the science involved also protects that person from the friction of moving through seemingly stationary air molecules.]
The first scene has Doppler in disguise at the airport, desperately trying to hustle a flight in order to escape the bad guys. But he was in possession of a hypertime watch. Why didn't he just go into hypertime and walk right onto any plane he wished? [Without a proper ticket and the plane to the location he desired being 100% booked as the employee explained, if he just walked on the plane, the real occupants of his seat would show up, call the flight attendant and he would be kicked off the flight. He wouldn't just stay invisible by staying in hypertime as it would take WAY too long to finish the flight.]
The two friends go into the DJ/Hip Hop competition to help Meeker. They go into Hypertime and make Meeker dance. One rule of Hypertime is that if the wearer of the watch touches someone, they also go into Hypertime. They touched Meeker to make him dance, how come he didn't go into Hypertime as well? [The rule only applys when someone is making the transition into Hypertime. Once they are there they can't bring other people in.]
At the end Zak enters double hypertime. The basis of the movie is that entering hypertime speeds up your particles so much that you appear invisible to the people in real time. When he is in double hypertime, he is moving much faster that the people in single hypertime, so shouldn't he appear invisible to the bad guys? [Nobody said double time had to work the same as hypertime. It's possible that when you enter double hyper time, you don't quite DOUBLE your speed, but still speed it up considerably, so Zak molecules are moving fast enough to pass throught a table, but HE only moves really fast when he wants to.]
When Doppler is first shown forced to be in hypertime, he has written "You're killing me" on the mirror. Henry Gates sees this and makes a comment about him being dramatic. Doppler then writes "Dirtbag" on the mirror. But if Doppler is in hypertime, he would not have been able to hear when Gates had said because to him, the sentence would have taken several hours at least. [Doppler did not necessarily "hear" Gates talking and write the comment "Dirtbag." As he was going through his hypertime routine, he would have had plenty of time to write one comment and then hours later think of another and write that just because he felt like insulting Gates while he saw him standing there.]
To freeze others in time, the person with the watch must touch the people he wants to bring into hypertime. In the scene in the vent, Zach, Francesca, and Doppler freeze time with the watch to get through the fan. Doppler backs out and says he's scared to go in and starts to walk away. Zack still had time frozen when he walks away so how does Doppler expect to have a normal life if he's stuck in hypertime with no one to get him out? [Towards the end, Doppler saved Francesca, Zak and his father. If he wasn't already in hypertime, it would be impossible for him to save them.]
In the scene where Zak goes into double hypertime, He is not able to touch anything, including the table, walls, and Francesca. He proceeds to go through the wall with his head and hands. He gets the attention of one of the guards and then grabs his head and pulls it into the wall. In double hypertime he should not have been able to do that, as his hands would have gone right through the guard's head. [Before that, Zak managed to touch Francesca's hand.]
Some objects that are used in normal time appear to be used in Hypertime under the same premise. In the last 20 minutes of the movie you see everyone working in hypertime, however the computer is working, the shutters are closing, the eye scanner (seen in a previous scene to work in normal time). How is this possible? [When hypertime was activated for everyone, the whole building also went to hypertime, as can be seen from the walls being lit up with electricity.]
When things are hot, their molecules move faster. Since hypertime works by speeding up molecules, wouldn't the people who go in to hypertime heat up and eventually vapourise? [It is true that when things get hot, their molecules get faster. This rule does not work when applied backwards. Things that move faster do NOT necessarily get hotter. It just means that there is an increase in energy.]
In one of the last scenes, where Zak and Francesca are locked in the basement in the little dome, they escape by blowing it up. But aren't they still in hypertime? Wouldn't that mean that the explosion should be moving really slow to them? [The computer had put the whole place in hypertime, so the lighter the father used was in hypertime too. For this, the explosion should be normal to them.]
When Zac and Francesca are talking in front of the pool in hypertime you could see the pool man that cleans the pool move his net a little bit. This can't be possible since they're in hypertime. [This is consistent with the plot of the movie. Hypertime does not freeze time. The pool net moves very slowly when seen from hypertime. In real time, that would correspond to a fast movement.]
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