Question: How can Roy possibly be a smoker? He has OCD and is constantly cleaning the smallest of messes. The ashtray in his car was overflowing with butts.
Xofer
3rd Mar 2004
Matchstick Men (2003)
25th Feb 2004
X-Men (2000)
Question: This goes for X-men 1 and 2, why are some of the characters, i.e Beast, Gambit, Spike not in the films?
17th Feb 2004
Paycheck (2003)
Question: Would it have been at all possible for Ben Affleck to obtain the key to the janitors office in the train station and mail it to himself, as he was not allowed to leave the complex he was working in for three years?
Answer: He could have got someone to obtain the key and bring it to him. The same goes for much of the other stuff in the envelope.
17th Feb 2004
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Question: In this movie Ashton goes back in his life to change the past. In his final "time travel" he goes all the way back to when he was a kid to tell Kaylee to stay away from him. This means that she would never make contact with him, the events with her and her brother would never take place, and since his lifeline is changed, he wouldn't have blackouts and he would have no need to write in his journals. But at the end of the movie it shows him throwing away all his stuff, including his journals, and setting it ablaze. If he changes his life, how could his journals have been written when there is no need for them? I'm a little confused about the whole journal thing so if someone could help me out, that'd be great.
16th Feb 2004
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Question: When judge Doom is "dipped", the other toons ask who he was, does anyone out in movie land know who he was supposed to be?
Answer: Even though it's never known who Judge Doom was, a fan theory has sprung up about a possible identity. In Maroon's office is a framed picture of a toon called Pistol Packin' Possum. The theory is that Judge Doom is Pistol Packin' Possum in disguise. This is because the photograph of Pistol Packin' Possum has red eyes and so does Judge Doom and the gun that Doom uses to kill Mr. Maroon is the same gun that Pistol Packin' Possum is holding in the picture.
Answer: I don't think he was supposed to be any established cartoon character; they just wanted to know who the pile of goo on the floor used to be.
Answer: In the book "Roger Rabbit: The Resurrection of Doom", it is explained that Doom was originally Baron von Rotten, a toon that would play villains. But then he got a concussion and woke up thinking he was a real villain, and then sets out to rob the bank and killed Teddy by dropping a piano on his head.
4th Feb 2004
X-Men (2000)
Question: This is a question for both X-1 and X-2. Is the actor that plays Mystique wearing a body suit for her blue makeup? In several scenes in both movies it looks like she is practically naked with just blue painting.
Chosen answer: In almost all cases, yes, she's naked, but for a few strategically placed prosthetics.
4th Feb 2004
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Question: When Harry's parents are shown in the mirror, are they supposed to be the age that they were when they died or the age they would be if they were still alive?
Chosen answer: Since the mirror is reflecting Harry's desire, they are probably an idealized (to Harry) image of what they would look like if they were still alive.
Answer: He didn't just desire his parents but a whole family. Therefore he saw his entire family.
In the novel he saw his whole family. In the movie, he only saw his parents.
22nd Jan 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
The Regina Monologues - S15-E4
Question: Whatever happened to the scene where Prime Minister Tony Blair hands Homer a cup of tea and Homer pours it on the carpet behind his back? I saw a picture of this in a newspaper and I was slightly disappointed this didn't appear.
Answer: A lot of scenes are filmed for the show and cut out for various reasons, yet still make it into ads for the show. This was probably one of them.
26th Dec 2003
X-Men 2 (2003)
Question: At the very end when we see Alkali Lake, we see a phoenix shape underwater, referencing Jean Grey's ascension into the form of the Phoenix. Is this symbolic or has this really happened to her?
Answer: This really happened to her. In the comics, the Phoenix Force that took over her body was an alien, which became so consumed with power that she became Dark Phoenix, and was killed; I don't know how they'll do this in the movie.
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Chosen answer: OCD isn't about cleanliness, it's about obsession and compulsion (hence the name). Cleaning could be a compulsion in this case, though smoking could be as well (and probably is, with the amount of butts in the ashtray). If that's the case then the cleaning probably wouldn't apply to the ashtray, since all he'd be doing is smoking and cleaning it, which would limit his actions even further. It's a bit more complicated than that, but that's the basics.
Xofer