Nerd Stench - Page 6

What happens to RoboCop's armored black turtleneck thingie when he takes his helmet/visor off? Where does that go?

The Continuity Phantom Zone.

Ah, the same place Bruce Wayne's eye-makeup goes during the scene where he unmasks at the end of "Batman Returns."

Holy Hell, I was going to say the exact same thing.

DUCKTALES... So why is the butler, who is obviously a dog, named "Duckworth"? I posed this question to my cube mate at work and he theorized that it was kinda like ROOTS and that "Duckworth" was his "slave name" with ducks obviously as an analog for white folk (Ducktales, Duckberg, Uncle Scrooge is richest duck).

"slave name" That is gold right there.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde still fucks with me.

If Stevenson wants us to believe that the formula transformed the Victorian Jekyll into a creature of savage ID...why doesn't Hyde fight to keep the doctor title? There's still some of Jekyll in Hyde, so I wonder why Hyde doesn't go around making people call him Dr. Hyde.

You do know how loose a term "surgery" is right? They call removing cysts and skin cancer surgery. Removing a tooth is surgery. Something tells me disconnecting an arm from the circulatory system that feeds blood to his face, brain, and eyes would count as surgery.

Regarding where the black neck part goes when he takes the helmet off, I always assumed it was like his gun holster, when the bolts holding the helmet on are removed, the chin and neck guard separates and retracts into each side of his helmet. Unless I'm recalling poorly, we never get a clear shot of his whole head when he is takes the visor off.

ETA: If, "by full body prothesis," they meant that it was a fully intact torso with armor and mechanical limbs, the spike he has pushed through his chest at the head would have killed him.

Also, if his torso is intact, there is no reason for it to look like his face is stapled onto an otherwise mechanical head, which it really does look like and sort of has to be the case for those bolts through his temples to not kill him.

Furthermore, if his torso were intact, there is no reason for him to have to be fed a diet of simple vitamins and proteins. If his digestive system is intact, he should be able to handle solid foods. The only reason he'd have to be on a simple diet like that is if his digestive system had been radically altered. It's likely they have the basics of his stomach's digestive properties cultured in a device that breaks down simple foods and feeds the digested vitamins and proteins into his bloodstream in order to give it the basics it needs to keep his face, eyes, and brain alive and healthy.

Again: Pooping robot.

Hyde: Don't worry my dear, for I am a learned doctor, and most thorough in my field.

Ivy: A...a doctor...of what?

Hyde:...rape.

Has anyone mentioned the weirdness of Mickey owning a dog while still being friends with Goofy? It would be one thing if the two of them never hung out together, but they do.

Come to think of it, I don't remember ever seeing Goofy and Pluto in the same scene together... Perhaps Goofy is a Werepluto?

Well, obviously, Goofy is the Caesar of the Disney cartoon world, waiting to lead his canine compatriots in a Conquest of the Planet of the Apes-style uprising.

I thought about looking for a "basic plot holes" thread to post this in but it involes Blade so this seems as good a place as any.

I was watching Blade 2 last week and I want to know how Blade's plan involving Scud and Ron Perlman's occipital bomb makes any goddamn sense. To recap: Blade sticks a bomb on the back of Perlman's head so that he's got a legup on him, combat-wise. Later on, after being captured by the vampires he tries to detonate the bomb but it doesn't go off. Perlman pulls it out and tosses it to Scud who reveals that he's one of Damaskino's familiars and the bomb was a dud that was never designed to go off. Blade then reveals that only was he aware of Scud's betrayal, but that the bomb was never a dud and blows Scud the fuck up (for crimes including, but not limited to, "The Boondock Saints").

The logistics and motivations of this are mindboggling. Blade has, "been on to [Scud] since they turned [him]" and yet chose not to kill him for reasons surpassing understanding. Scud provided Blade with the occipital bomb. At some point Blade went in and jerry-rigged the bomb to not only be operational, but also to have a dummy detonator that doesn't work. Now, once Blade is captured he could immediately kill Perlman (who is certainly a more viable threat than Scud) but doesn't. He pulls his dummy trigger causing Perlman to pull the bomb out of his head and toss it to, as luck would have it, Scud. Now Blade decides to reveal what he has known all along and kill Scud.

None of this makes any sense whatsoever. That may be the longest post I've ever made and it was about a throwaway explosion gag in Blade 2.

God, I actually remember me and my friends cracking the fuck UP in the theater when that happened. It's especially hilarious in the way that Snipes delivers the line in such an annoyed "godddd I knew from day one asshole" tone.

In Fight Club, when Durden splices porn into a family film the porn audio plays for a split second in the theater. Did Durden splice the sound in too? Why would he do that? It's certainly not subliminal when the audio abruptly changes. Or, more likely, did Fincher just think audiences wouldn't get what Durden had done without it?

I'd go with Fincher adding it for his audience.

Most of the time a film's soundtrack is printed onto the same piece of film as the image. It would be really difficult to cut and splice around it.

Weird, I did not know that.

What would've been awesome is if Scud had been all, "Yeah, well I knew you knew!" and when Blade pressed the detonator a second time, he'd have blown himself up.

Ah just gold.

Actually, with film the picture and audio pass through the gate and the sound-head at different points, so there's about a half-second time-lag between them. Tyler would have had to count frames and splice the part that had the right sound on it to get that "Unh..." in the theatre. And even then it wouldn't play at the same time that the porn image was onscreen-- a frame is only 1/24th of a second-- and it wouldn't be the audio that directly corresponds to that frame (although with porn I'm sure it would be close enough).

Of course, we don't really see how it plays "onscreen" in the film, we just hear it.

That guy totally can't have a video camera in War of the Worlds.

If Tom Cruise isn't allowed to outrun tripods in his bitchin' Mustang, that guy can't have a video camera.

Just how the hell do they replicate extinct plants in JURASSIC PARK? Ellie makes two different references to such plants and it's never explained how it was pulled off. It's unlikely that mosquitoes fed on them. I haven't read the book in ages but does anyone know if this was brought up or explained in the novel?

Book never mentions it (I reread it a couple of weeks ago). Seed falls into Amber? Seed spores on mosquitoes who drink dino blood and then get stuck in Amber? Twofer!

I am disturbed by the fact that the Kool-Aid Man wears pants now, as it implies that he has genitals.

You're suggesting that Donald Duck doesn't?

But Donald never wore pants, so one can assume he either doesn't or they're internal. Kool-Aid Man only started wearing pants recently, like he got in trouble for indecent exposure and was ordered to cover up.

Yes, but Donald Duck wears a towel when exiting the shower. Where's your God now?

One of Chandler's best non sequiturs.

Wasn't sure of where to post this, but this thread seems appropriate. Boba Fett's Invoice

I'm a Legion nerd, but that's just too out there for me.

How come James Bond never uses a false name when introducing himself to people?

Most of them will be dead before they can friend him on Facebook.

How does Spider-man's wall-crawling abilities work through his boot soles?

As I recall, the official explanation is that his soles are of a thickness with the rest of his costume.

I know The Matrix has been covered well enough but one thing that's always bothered me: Where the hell do the people of Xion get the nescesary materials to make clothes and non synthetic goop food?

I'd say scavenging.

Do we have a date and time for this sighting? Using Skymap, and the city of Selena, Kansas as a stand in for Smallville, 38N 97W, we can figure it out, but we need a day of the year and the time of the sighting.

Ooops.

So...if nothing dead will go through the time displacement equipment, why exactly doesn't the T-800 being covered in manflesh simply result in the flesh being stripped off and sent back to '84 in an amorphousnegger pile and the chassis going nowhere? And how the fuck does the T-1000 go through? Is he even flesh at all?

This is why "I didn't build the fucking thing" is such a brilliant line.

ETA: but speaking nerdily, I think the key could be that Terminators aren't robots, but cyborgs. Who's to say they're not "alive", or that they don't have biological components inside them?

Per the T2 novelization I read as a kid, the T-1000 comes in a flesh sheath. It's blown over in the movie so the audience doesn't know hes not human.

The nerdiest explanation for the T-1000 that I've heard is that the mimetic polyalloy comes close enough to replicating organic flesh that it can be sent through. Which also explains the T-X.

ETA: The general rule for the time machine is that as long as it's covered in flesh, it can go through, and since it's applied pretty consistently so I don't mind the obvious problem with it that JacknifeJohnny pointed out. In Sarah Connor, the evil terminator hides a gun in his thigh. In Robocop vs. Terminator, the terminators bring a human with them with a gun surgically implanted inside.

Canis errectus vs Canis familiaris?

Pluto is clearly a pervert.

The bigger question on the Sarah Connor show was with that one bit where a terminator's detached skull bounced through a time warp on its own. Which supports the theory that "alive" doesn't have to mean "flesh".

The problem I have with this is where exactly would they be scavenging? I may be wrong but didn't they say the other cities have been destroyed for a long time? Wouldn't any clothing have fallen to pieces in that time or any food gone bad? My own pet theory: They recycle their dead.

The terminator's skin was still on and burned off when it came through. I think that's what the creators said/intended anyway. They weren't completely allowed to show a decapitated head so they couldn't have it so flesh covered.

Most of their clothing looks homemade. I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that they have a large greenhouse system for oxygen, cotton, and foodstuffs.

I'm kind of on-board with the Soylent Green angle, though, at least as far as getting protein.