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Frodo doesn’t know Legolas’ name.
As someone who can never remember anyone’s name this is hilarious and somewhat triggering lol. That clip from the end felt like what I was doing last night at a bar with my wife’s coworkers. Just gotta deflect and dodge until somebody else says their name first.
Thanks for sharing.
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Event Horizon takes place in the Warhammer 40k universe.
Oh, I need to know more about this.
In 40k, faster than speed light happens by traveling through the Warp, basically a place where physics gets weird. The Event Horizon enters and exits the Warp.
The reason why the Warp is so dangerous is that this is where demons live that will turn you insane. To protect against this, ships in 40k have a Gellar field to protect against the demons entering the ship. The Event Horizon did not have this field, which is why it immediately becomes haunted.
Amazing.
The screenwriter even acknowledged that it was inspired by 40k! One of my favorite horror movies, even though it’s flawed.
Came here for this!
The absurdity that the machines in The Matrix were harvesting human bodies for power. An interesting theory is that the machines were using human brains as a cluster of computing power. Cool article.
Actually I don’t think this was even a theory. This was the original intent but the studio thought it was too complex for the GA to understand.
Wow, that’s crazy, but I believe it. Studios are the worst.
It was spelled out more clearly in the comics. They even trained human minds to do tasks that the machines could not/did not want to do.
'Human mind nik282000, identify the cross walks in this series of images…
The Animatrix shows that the robots keep humans alive likely because they like us, and feel bad about what happened. They want us to keep living, as their creators and “parents”, but understand that if we were free to be all awake and understand reality we’d try to destroy the world again.
I thought that was the original draft plot but studio execs thought the audience wouldn’t be able to understand what that meant.
Humans are terrible batteries/fuel cells. And Orpheus said the machines had fusion power. It makes far more sense that the machines were using humans for computing, not basic metabolism. It’s been mentioned that this was the Wachowskis’ original intention but the suits made them dumb it down for audiences to understand but I haven’t found any direct quotes about that.
Two in the Star Wars universe. Jar jar was a sith, I love this one and wish they could make it canon. The other is palpatine used padme’s life force to keep Vader alive, I really wish they could’ve explained this better in the movies. And if they went this route, while dark, it is much better for the series in the long run because it really would be a pure evil moment for palpatine.
I also super love the Aladdin is post apocalyptic setting theory.
I have gone super deep in the Darth Jar Jar rabbit hole before and I am convinced this was likely the original intent of the character. I believe he was written to be a character similar to The Mule from the Foundation series.
Foundation Spoilers
The mule was a literal clown that only ever did silly comic-relief things during most of his time in the books. However, it is revealed near the end that he is actually a character that has been manipulating events the whole time and poses an existential threat to the galaxy.
Perfect analogy with the mule.
Stumbles his way into being a background character; an annoyance to the main actors and the plot. Then turns out to be the puppet master all along. I love this fan theory mostly because it is the only way to make Jar Jar a retroactively tolerable character.
I think the original intent was to sell shit to kids
I am all in on the Jar Jar sith theory. Specifically I think Lucas set him up to be Darth Plagueis, but saw the backlash to the character and came up with something else. It just seems to much a lot of sense, especially when you look at things Jar Jar does in EP 1 that look suspicious and had to be deliberately animated. I really thing there is something to the theory, as crazy as it sounds.
It’s an interesting story, but in video of him planning TPM, he very clearly intended Jar Jar as a comic relief character for younger audiences.
Oh I don’t dispute that Lucas intended him for comic relief, I just believe that he originally wanted to reveal that it was all an act in ep 2 or 3, but then changed his mind after the character was hated so much. That’s my headcanon at least.
I’m guessing Clone Wars is closer to how Lucas originally envisioned him, but I guess we’ll never know for sure.
That is the “official” explanation. George Lucas has mentioned more than once he wanted the films to “rhyme” and it has been noticed several times that Jar-Jar acts as Yoda did in the original trilogy, when he met Luke; someone even went so far to analyse his movements and theorized is clumsiness is akin to the Drunken Master Kung Fu style.
Jar-Jar binks was a spoiled opportunity. It would have been a good opportunity to go against the public opinion and have the character morph into the real nemesis and catch everyone by surprise.
The other one for Padme dying is that she was basically going through withdrawal.
Anakin was "so strong in the Force* that he essentially, without realizing, force-pursuaded her into loving him, and between him nearly killing her and then nearly dying, thebforce influence vanished, and she lost the will to live.
Interesting theory, not sure how I feel about it.
Best I can do is a Lego game where Jar Jar appears and a little Imperial March plays (can’t remember which one but I remember it made me smirk). And, while trying to search for it I found this:
Oh not a fan of the JarJar one but the life force one is really intriguing. Would’ve been nice to show more hints of that and Vader slowly forming doubt would also help with his decision to betray him in Jedi.
Snowpiercer is a sequel to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Was just about to mention this!
Lol okay I’ve never heard of this one . Any links where it’s more in depth?
I think this is the video that made it popular
Response video that turns that theory from concrete to pure titanium
2 hour follow up going super in depth about snowpiercer, both the movie and the super obscure original french comic
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It’s great:
https://movieweb.com/snowpiercer-willy-wonka-sequel-theory/
Among “The Big Lebowski” fans there are some that suggest that Donnie isn’t real.
In the whole movie, Walter’s is the only person that directly speaks to him. The Dude almost always ignores him or talks to him in a generic/patronizing way.
The theory says that Donnie was probably one of Walter’s war buddies in Vietnam and died and what we see in the movie is just Walter’s hallucination caused by PTSD. The Dude just plays along to not upset Walter.
Don’t Donnie and The Dude have a direct conversation at least once though?
“Phone’s ringing, Dude!” "Thank you, Donnie!’
Whose ashes did they scatter at the end though?
That’s a big question mark. Some people theorized Walter showed up at the mortuary and took the ashes of someone with no family, like a homeless person or something, claiming they were Donnie’s.
It a stretch but also plausible, since Donnie’s name isn’t mentioned in the scene of the funeral house and no one else but Walter and The Dude showed up.
Oh wow I love this theory. And… Now I’m gonna watch it again with this in mind.
Probably face down in the mud…
I like the theories that the SpongeBob characters are nuclear mutants and represent the seven deadly sins.
Go on…
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That’s Gilligan’s Island; Gilligan is the devil.
Hans from Frozen was turned evil by the rock trolls.
In the song Fixer Upper, they say ‘Get the fiance out of the way and the whole thing will be fixed.’ Shortly after, we see Hans be evil for the first time in the film.
In addition, at the beginning of the film, the grand troll notes that it’s lucky the magic hit her head and not her heart, because the head can be persuaded. So we have motivation, capability, and a stated intent.
this is intriguing. I’m dying on the hill that Hans never started out evil, there’s literally no indication at all in the first half of the movie and some of his actions prove the opposite. Plus the motive always felt insufficient (why would he go for the younger Princess and not elsa if his intention was to take the throne)
Exactly! He even saves Elsa, who was the blocker to an easy marriage with Anna. Then right after the trolls, he leaves Anna to freeze to death.
For me, it’s the theory that in the original Spider-Man trilogy, Aunt May knows about Peter’s secret identity.
I don’t know whether the theory has been confirmed or dismissed, but there are quite a few rather obvious hints:
I like that it’s not definitively mentioned in the movies, because it makes for a really interesting debate. I can totally see it being a complete coincidence and that she only cares about Peter and encourages him to be a good person – a hero, as she puts it –, which doesn’t have anything to do with being a superhero. So in the end, whether Peter is Spider-Man or not doesn’t matter to her. And that in effect means that whether or not she knows shouldn’t matter to us.
That would actually be comic accurate, too (to some degree). At one point, Aunt May reveals on her deathbed that she secretly knew Peter was Spider-Man for a long time, and wanted him to know that she was proud of him before she died.
They retconned this, of course, bringing Aunt May back to life with no memory of Peter’s identity. Then eventually did more stories about Aunt May learning Peter’s identity, dying, then coming back to life… man, keeping up with comic book lore sucks.
Yeah I definitely agree with this one (but there’s definitely arguments both ways so nice for interpretation). I really enjoyed how May was basically Peter Parker’s (wo)man in the chair in ITSV.
I just re-watched Signs yesterday after what could be over a decade ago. This time I went in with the perspective of the very popular fan-theory that the aliens were demons the entire time. It really enhanced the movie for me and helped me appreciate the Reverend’s story more. The main theme of the movie should be on his story of believing again after the passing of her wife. The illogical actions of what’s considered very advanced aliens detracted from that and the overall movie suffered from this criticism. The theory of them being demons helped to alleviate and even enhance the movie for me and I enjoyed it far more upon re-watch.
Just to be clear , I’m fairly sure Shyamalan’s intention wasn’t for them to be demons as there are a lot of inconsistencies for that to be true. But if you can look past those issues, the movie becomes far more enjoyable with its theme of faith.
Fan theory for reference
I created a personal fan theory that we never saw the actual aliens in the movie.
What we saw were biological constructs created by the aliens. It makes all of their weaknesses make more sense.
The creatures are vulnerable to water, on a planet full of water. It makes sense if this was an intentional part of the design. The creatures were created for short term missions. If they were captured or killed by the primitive locals, their bodies would degrade and leave nothing useful behind.
Same reason they have no advanced technology. Nothing for the locals to get their hands on and reverse engineer.
This makes the movie make way more sense
Disney’s Aladdin is actually set in the far distant future.
In the Michael Bay Transformers movies, the Autobots are actually manipulating humanity into helping them rebuild a military empire, while the Decepticons are actually trying to destroy a much greater threat.
That was great. Was planning to watch a couple minutes and watched the whole thing.
Deep Space 9: The Prophets are future Bajorans that evolved beyond space & time, which is why they refer to themselves as “of Bajor” and have such a high interest in the fate of its people. The Pah-wraiths are just future evolved asshole Bajorans like Kai Winn & Jaro Essa.
Didn’t the show hint at this already? I don’t think that’s just a fan theory.
What about the theory that all of DS9 and therefore Star Trek are all in citizen Sisko’s mind just as a hopeful future.
In Friends:
Monica is on coke. That’s how she got thin and why she cleans so obsessively.
Also:
Phoebe is homeless, saw the others in the group in through the window of central perk one day, and the entire series is all in her head.
Prometheus as a Christian allegory (spoilers)
I believe Ridley Scott has broadly acknowledged this theory, and, when viewed through that lens, the repeated symbolism throughout the film is unmistakeable.
That was a very interesting read. It made me go down a deep Ridly Scott rabbit hole and now I’m rewatching all Prometheus/Alien movies 🙃