Question: Is there a reason Dracula was able to walk in daylight, or did the filmmakers just ignore the whole "vampires can't walk in daylight" bit?
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Question: The examiner says he can't tell which blow hit the victim first. Columbo says he's lying on his back and says the blow to the forehead was first. Why did he think that? If the first blow hit him on the forehead and he fell on his back, how did he get the second blow on the back of his head while he was lying that way?
Part Eight: The Jedi, the Witch, and the Warlord - S1-E8
Question: At one point after the zombie troopers are attacking them, the trio back down a hallway and are working on closing a door. Suddenly, some more zombie troopers attack Ezra from a hallway off to the side. These could not have been any of the previous troopers they just fought from the other direction that got turned to zombies. So where did these new zombie troopers come from? Is that a mistake? There's also the big tough zombies they fight up top a bit later, so was there already more? (00:22:04)
Question: How, in the year 2000, did this film manage to secure a PG rating? The graphic violence of the final death shown during the vortex scene near the beginning was verging on R-rated.
Answer: There was no actual blood or graphic display.
No graphic display? A man is shown on camera being violently torn to several pieces by high G-forces, and there was indeed blood visible. There's also a scene later in the movie where shrapnel completely pierces the palm of a man's hand, complete with a zero-gravity blood spurt.
I remember watching it for the first time thinking it was a pretty graphic death scene for a PG rated film, but I think it's a stretch to say it was verging on R rated. There isn't that much blood, the guy is in a space suit, and it happens very fast. Studios can lobby the MPAA for what rating they feel the film deserves, and it is likely Disney argued for a lower rating than PG-13, and the MPAA agreed.
Well, by "verging on R-rated," I meant that even in a PG-13 film, that scene would have been pushing the envelope. I would imagine there were a lot of parents at the time who took their young children to see the new Disney film about going to Mars and were not pleased with that scene.
A PG rating does not mean family friendly. A "Parental Guidance" rating warns there may be strong language, sexual content, violence, or graphic images. No one should expect a G-rated Disney film. I watched the "twister" clip on YouTube and wouldn't say it's gruesome. It's not a close-up shot of the rapidly spinning body being pulled apart; it's rather blurred, and there wasn't much blood. I realise it's a matter of opinion regarding what is considered too violent.
Yes, but you're also an adult, and you watched the clip having an idea of what you were about to see. If you read the comments on that clip, you'll see a lot of people saying that scene traumatized them as children. Violence like that from earlier PG films is why the PG-13 rating was later invented, and it just struck me as odd that that was able to get a PG rating in the year 2000.
My point is that parents were (or should have been) aware of the PG rating before taking their children to see it and that it might be unsuitable for younger audiences. It falls upon them to make sure they do not take their children to a film that could contain disturbing scenes. By 2000, movie violence had become far more graphic and mainstream.
Question: After the cosmic storm hits the space station and affects the 5 people on board, the next scene is Ben suddenly waking up in a hospital. Ben, Reed, Sue, Johnny, and Victor are the only 5 people on the station, and they would all have been affected by the storm. Unless it's supposed to be that only Ben was knocked out. How exactly did the team get rescued and brought back to Earth? Were they all knocked out or just Ben?
Answer: When we see the rest of the team getting hit by the cosmic storm, you can see they are still awake; Sue even is shown pushing through the storm to get to Reed and Johnny. Plus, Victor was behind the shields and trying to protect himself from the sparks and rays, so we can assume he flew the ship back to Earth.
Interesting. I'm mostly asking because in the video game adaptation of this movie, for which I'm doing mistakes, after the opening mission, every one of these characters wakes up for the first time after the space station in the hospital, in bed with powers. I know the game has to play fast and loose with things, but in that version of events, it's implied that all of them were knocked out and then woke up down on Earth in the hospital. So it could be a plot hole for the game version.
Sounds like it, or at least the game designers took some liberties with it. But that does happen with games based on movies; the Spider-Man game for the 2002 movie was nothing like the film.
Can't the ship simply have an auto-return in case of emergencies? I mean, it's not your everyday space shuttle. In a lot of cases, it's controlled by AI too and, usually, Reed Richards built it.
Good point, but this is based on the 2005 film, and AI wasn't anything like it is today. Also, it was Victor Von Doom's shuttle, not Reed Richards. Von Doom was all about money, so his tech may have had shortcuts.
Well, the whole tech in the movie isn't anything like it is today. Surely Von Doom, though not Richards but also a genius, would have some AI running his ship.
Maybe so, but they were not on the shuttle. They were on the space station, so if the storm knocked them out, they still wouldn't have made it to the shuttle.
Only Ben was knocked unconscious because he was directly hit by the storm; everyone else had some level of protection from the station's shields. Sue was, in fact, alert, as we saw her eyes open when she was going to help Reed and Johnny after she was hit by the rays.
Answer: Johnny was not only awake but also the pilot; he flew the shuttle back and forth. Ben was co-pilot and did the heavy lifting only.
Middle Man - S6-E7
Question: What was the costume guest star Melissa Claire Egan wearing?
Answer: Her character was an exotic dancer and wore a sexy costume for that. Is that what you're referring to?
But what exactly was the costume she wore?
In this role, the outfit she's wearing includes: a padlock golden necklace; a lace bra with a modern style bustier that has front decorative buckles; booty shorts (or something like it); a pair of long fishnet fingerless gloves on her arms; ripped hosiery and knee-high boots. Not quite the "Chelsea" wardrobe ;) lol.
Question: Does Bob know that Willa is not his daughter, and did Perfidia know?
Question: In the beginning of episode 8, Lexy said there is a secret only 3 people in her life know about. Who's the 3rd person?
Answer: Presumably she's referring to Jake, Devon, and her sister Caroline, since they're the ones who are most "in the know" about the problems Lexi is facing and maintaining her secrets.
Picture Day/Pat No Pay/Blackjack - S5-E13
Question: The ending of 'Blackjack' is a little confusing. Was Blackjack always tiny?
Question: Why didn't the Mariners' boat sink? At the start of the film, he tells the drifter that the hull is busted and the hole's so big there's room to breathe. Later on, after the atoll, he states to Helen that his boat is tore up and it's taking on water. Not once do we see him pumping water out of the boat, nor do we see any water inside the boat until after the smokers burn it.
Answer: 1. He's lying to the drifter so he doesn't have to explain how he was down there so long. 2. He certainly had time to fix it between the escape from the atoll and the Smoker attack.
To fix his boat after escaping from the Atoll attack, Mariner said he needed resin.
Question: At the end, Willie searches for Mickey. Did he want to make amends with Mickey, or get revenge?
Question: Elmer Fudd is arrested for destroying government property. But why were Bugs Bunny and the grizzly bear arrested and put in the same cell as him?
Question: Who is the guy with the glowing eyes? What does he have to do with the plot of the film?
Answer: This is from a flashback Toulon has to events seen in "Puppet Master II." He's the person who taught Toulon the secret to bringing life to his puppets. This scene is being used to give the audience a little reminder of what happened. (And pad the runtime a few minutes.)
Question: If Derek values his career to Susan, then why did he ask her to marry him in the first place?
Answer: Image. A good-looking man. A beautiful woman at his side. It would look good in the news.
Question: When Sidney's mother was murdered, Sidney testified about seeing Cotton leave the house in a bloody coat. Gale believed that someone else wore the coat and put it in Cotton's car, framing him. Billy and Stu were the real killers, so what did Cotton actually do that night? Drive away without noticing a blood-covered coat in the car?
Answer: I've always thought that Billy and/or Stu planted the bloody coat after Cotton had exited his car. So that is why he never noticed his bloody coat before it was found by the police.
I agree, except I think the coat never actually belonged to Cotton in the first place. It was Billy's or Stu's. Sidney saw one of them leaving the house in it (mistaking them for Cotton) and they planted it in his car later. When the police found it, he probably couldn't prove that it was not his.
Question: Bridget Fonda says to Bill Pullman that if he calls her ma'am one more time, she'll sue him and that she can do it. What laws would he have been breaking?
Answer: When I saw this, I thought that it was just a subtle Ally McBeal reference. The guy, David E. Kelley, was the one responsible for giving us the aforementioned telly show.
Question: Why do the Warners fear Baloney?
Answer: According to the Animaniacs Wikia: "Baloney is one of the few people capable of truly terrifying Yakko, Wakko and Dot, largely due to being impervious to their violently physical brand of humour and his inability to understand how much they despise him."
Question: If it was just a tumour that made him think more, how did he get telekinesis?
Answer: Yes, that's a form of ESP. When your brain cells are heightened, so is your intuition.
Answer: Certain parts of the brain, emotions, personality traits and learning abilities can be amplified with specific stimulation. It's believed that this can happen with psychic abilities: premonition, telekinesis and pyrokinesis. Ever get a "feeling" you're being followed or "know" that someone is lying to you?
You're describing intuition, not psychic abilities.
Answer: To add to the other answers, the "sunlight killing vampires" lore started with the 1922 German silent film, Nosferatu. The screenwriter wanted to add an unexpected twist to the story that differed from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel. It became the accepted vampire mythology in most films and books for many years afterwards.
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