Nerdy rhetorical rant disguised as question list.
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cranky_carrot — 17 years ago(May 17, 2008 07:07 AM)
Okay - the mullet haired bad guy is none other than Richard Faraci. Let's call him Dick. Dick is in the new Postal movie, so it looks like he's continuing to get all the plum roles. He was in a Canadian lottery ticket commercial AND he worked in the capacity of transportation operator in The Final Cut. My hero!
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shockabsorber — 17 years ago(June 04, 2008 02:35 PM)
I've a question to add to your list:
Why, when Van kicks McComb at the end, does he spin towards his future self, and the future self not get out of the way, and why, when they then touch each other, do they turn into a silly version of the blob?
I've come to warn you! In three million years, you'll be dead!
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Lunchbox-3 — 17 years ago(November 17, 2008 09:50 PM)
And why is it such a friggin' rigmarole to travel BACK in time - with elaborate rocket propulsion and unnecessary deadly walls - when all you have to do to come back is push a button and step through a vortex?
I believe the comic this was based on had the answer. Whenever you're out of your own time, your body naturally wants to return to its own time. Going back in time is like fighting against the current. That's why it takes a huge ship to travel backwards. Once you're there, you are held in place by the device (an armband or something in the comic). When you're ready to return home, you simply turn off the device and your body is, like, washed downstream back to your home time. I believe you can even control how far forward you go on the return trip, like you can return all the way home or just jump part of the way home. Like say you had originally gone 10 years back, you couldn't go back any further but you could have the device slide you forward 2 years to 8 years ago. And so on until you are home.
If I recall, the ship travelled with the pilot in the comic and didn't return home, once they arrived in the past they had to blow it up to destroy evidence of the future. I think the movie turned down the brain factor a bit.