Now I moderately enjoyed the movie, but after watching it there are just so many questions that I keep having about the movie.
1) What is the blight? Something which turns the dirt infertile and causes constant dust storms begs a few questions.
2) How does the blight breath nitrogen? With my knowledge of biology and chemistry, this one has hurt by brain trying to figure out how that works.
3) If it breaths nitrogen, why are levels of it going up in the atmosphere instead of going down? The dialogue makes it clear that it is breathing nitrogen the same way we do oxygen, so shouldn't it be it's carbon dioxide which is going up (and given how it's taking nitrogen and turning it into something else, how does that effect us humans who breath oxygen or plants which breath carbon?)
4) Why are abandoned drones in the air common enough to not cause people to bat an eyelash at being someone salvage one? Those thing's aren't cheap, why the hell would the government just leave them there in the sky doing nothing instead of landing them and salvaging them themselves? Especially given the massive resource renewal the government is implied to be going threw at the time.
5) Why are the schools trying to keep children's imaginations grounded? This one isn't as big as the other ones but it seems just odd to me that they'd turn the Apollo project from one of the greatest accomplishments in human history into a simple act of attempting to bankrupt the soviets.
6) How many people are there on Earth anyway? 6 billion was quoted by the grandfather as "back in my day", but today we have 7 billion, and it's today which fits his description of how there was so much wonder with new technology being developed daily.
7) Why do we need so many farmers? Today we are able to have most first world nations be functionally food independent. It may be expensive, but most can handle it. And we do it with only 2% of the population having agriculture related work. With meat being massively downsized and the tractors/harvesters/whatever being automated, why do we need MORE farmers when you've basically eliminated 2/3rds of the work they do. This one really annoys me since I'm fully aware of just how many people are needed for work as it is due to my upbringing. "We need farmers" my ass, just the harvesters alone would have caused my neighbour's farm to have a 50% downsize in staff, and that's with them still growing their food for cattle meat and milk production instead of dedicating it all to feeding people.
8) How has NASA managed to keep project Lazarus secret? Too many people using too many resources in a nation that is trying to keep everything under control. Sorry, but even with the internet being down I'm not buying the idea that a dozen rocket launches and the construction of a massive O'Neill's Cylinder on Earth could happen over 40 years without people noticing.
9) Why is the project so willing to allow the father to join them? If he was half as good as they claimed he was, why didn't they approach him on their won terms instead of letting him stumble on their base?
10) Why is the government the only one who noticed the wormhole? I find it hard to believe that no one in their private time ever came across it, not with the recreational telescopes we have today.
11) Why does the wormhole go to another galaxy? This seems like one of those "writers have no sense of scale" moments. There are 300 billion stars in our galaxy, is there really none which has another habitable planet for us?
12) Why are signals travelling threw the wormhole inconsistent? They know 3 of the dozen planets are potentially habitable, that implies some signal is getting threw. Why did their ship lose all contact the moment they went threw then?
13) Why did they choose to go to the planet in orbit around the black hole? Shouldn't they have been able to tell right away that something was probably off given that at most only 3 hours had gone by on the planet's surface since the first ship landed? Dead or alive they should have known it wasn't worth the risk to investigate (and thus lost 23 years and a crew member).
14) How did Dr. Mann get threw the screening proses for such an important mission?
15) I know it was a bluff to get support for plan b, but why did the station for plan a not show any visible progress on its construction after 23 years? I know it's because of location shots, but couldn't they use a bit of CGI to at least make it look like something was being accomplished?
16) If plan a was a bluff, and plan b was outside of his control by that point, why didn't the project leader genuinely try to accomplish plan a? It may have been a bluff, but once the ship was threw the wormhole it was out of his hands and there was nothing which could have turned it back. It may have been doomed to fail in his mind but why didn't he try to accomplish the impossible instead of feigning interest? He was a brutal pragmatist, to the point of losing his humanity over it, shouldn't saving as many people as he could have been a priority after he had secured humanity's survival?
17) Why did the black hole destroy the ranger and lander but not their occupants? Artificial or not this just feels like an asspull.
18) How did hyper-humanity lose its ability to perceive linear time? They understand it enough to send us a wormhole in our hour of need, why are they able to understand time enough to do that but not enough to cut past the middle man and interact with us directly instead of letting one of our own do the plot for them?
19) Why is there a baseball field in an O'Neill's cylinder? Because of how gravity works just tapping the ball slightly would cause it to go up and not come down. Baseball in a cylinder like that would be perpetually stuck in the first inning.
20) If the wormhole collapsed before the gravity equation was solved and humanity went into space, how is he going to get to the colony in another galaxy in a ranger? There's no implication that FTL has been developed, and even with it no one know where it is relative to earth.
21) How the hell did he steal the ranger in the first place? Security on earth airbases isn't that bad, on a base where you should be able to tell how many people are where based on co2 levels alone shouldn't make that possible.
Sin Count: 21.
Alright, now that that's off my chest I'm going to watch Big Hero 6 again.
Oh, and another thing: why was the only other person in the theatre under 30 a teen who was clearly dragged there by his father? Man I feel like my tastes are out of wack with what they should be.
1) What is the blight? Something which turns the dirt infertile and causes constant dust storms begs a few questions.
2) How does the blight breath nitrogen? With my knowledge of biology and chemistry, this one has hurt by brain trying to figure out how that works.
3) If it breaths nitrogen, why are levels of it going up in the atmosphere instead of going down? The dialogue makes it clear that it is breathing nitrogen the same way we do oxygen, so shouldn't it be it's carbon dioxide which is going up (and given how it's taking nitrogen and turning it into something else, how does that effect us humans who breath oxygen or plants which breath carbon?)
4) Why are abandoned drones in the air common enough to not cause people to bat an eyelash at being someone salvage one? Those thing's aren't cheap, why the hell would the government just leave them there in the sky doing nothing instead of landing them and salvaging them themselves? Especially given the massive resource renewal the government is implied to be going threw at the time.
5) Why are the schools trying to keep children's imaginations grounded? This one isn't as big as the other ones but it seems just odd to me that they'd turn the Apollo project from one of the greatest accomplishments in human history into a simple act of attempting to bankrupt the soviets.
6) How many people are there on Earth anyway? 6 billion was quoted by the grandfather as "back in my day", but today we have 7 billion, and it's today which fits his description of how there was so much wonder with new technology being developed daily.
7) Why do we need so many farmers? Today we are able to have most first world nations be functionally food independent. It may be expensive, but most can handle it. And we do it with only 2% of the population having agriculture related work. With meat being massively downsized and the tractors/harvesters/whatever being automated, why do we need MORE farmers when you've basically eliminated 2/3rds of the work they do. This one really annoys me since I'm fully aware of just how many people are needed for work as it is due to my upbringing. "We need farmers" my ass, just the harvesters alone would have caused my neighbour's farm to have a 50% downsize in staff, and that's with them still growing their food for cattle meat and milk production instead of dedicating it all to feeding people.
8) How has NASA managed to keep project Lazarus secret? Too many people using too many resources in a nation that is trying to keep everything under control. Sorry, but even with the internet being down I'm not buying the idea that a dozen rocket launches and the construction of a massive O'Neill's Cylinder on Earth could happen over 40 years without people noticing.
9) Why is the project so willing to allow the father to join them? If he was half as good as they claimed he was, why didn't they approach him on their won terms instead of letting him stumble on their base?
10) Why is the government the only one who noticed the wormhole? I find it hard to believe that no one in their private time ever came across it, not with the recreational telescopes we have today.
11) Why does the wormhole go to another galaxy? This seems like one of those "writers have no sense of scale" moments. There are 300 billion stars in our galaxy, is there really none which has another habitable planet for us?
12) Why are signals travelling threw the wormhole inconsistent? They know 3 of the dozen planets are potentially habitable, that implies some signal is getting threw. Why did their ship lose all contact the moment they went threw then?
13) Why did they choose to go to the planet in orbit around the black hole? Shouldn't they have been able to tell right away that something was probably off given that at most only 3 hours had gone by on the planet's surface since the first ship landed? Dead or alive they should have known it wasn't worth the risk to investigate (and thus lost 23 years and a crew member).
14) How did Dr. Mann get threw the screening proses for such an important mission?
15) I know it was a bluff to get support for plan b, but why did the station for plan a not show any visible progress on its construction after 23 years? I know it's because of location shots, but couldn't they use a bit of CGI to at least make it look like something was being accomplished?
16) If plan a was a bluff, and plan b was outside of his control by that point, why didn't the project leader genuinely try to accomplish plan a? It may have been a bluff, but once the ship was threw the wormhole it was out of his hands and there was nothing which could have turned it back. It may have been doomed to fail in his mind but why didn't he try to accomplish the impossible instead of feigning interest? He was a brutal pragmatist, to the point of losing his humanity over it, shouldn't saving as many people as he could have been a priority after he had secured humanity's survival?
17) Why did the black hole destroy the ranger and lander but not their occupants? Artificial or not this just feels like an asspull.
18) How did hyper-humanity lose its ability to perceive linear time? They understand it enough to send us a wormhole in our hour of need, why are they able to understand time enough to do that but not enough to cut past the middle man and interact with us directly instead of letting one of our own do the plot for them?
19) Why is there a baseball field in an O'Neill's cylinder? Because of how gravity works just tapping the ball slightly would cause it to go up and not come down. Baseball in a cylinder like that would be perpetually stuck in the first inning.
20) If the wormhole collapsed before the gravity equation was solved and humanity went into space, how is he going to get to the colony in another galaxy in a ranger? There's no implication that FTL has been developed, and even with it no one know where it is relative to earth.
21) How the hell did he steal the ranger in the first place? Security on earth airbases isn't that bad, on a base where you should be able to tell how many people are where based on co2 levels alone shouldn't make that possible.
Sin Count: 21.
Alright, now that that's off my chest I'm going to watch Big Hero 6 again.
Oh, and another thing: why was the only other person in the theatre under 30 a teen who was clearly dragged there by his father? Man I feel like my tastes are out of wack with what they should be.
