Well, this morning I learned that there is about 30 minutes cut from the movie. If that's true, then maybe the Director's Cut will be a much better film. I personally do not think the DC of
Blade Runner is an improvement but the DC of
Kingdom of Heaven was a huge improvement on what was originally a listless movie.
Ok, unanswered questions. Yes, there are a lot of apparent plot holes, or massive issues that aren't addressed. The only one that I am thinking of that really impinges on the plot, though, is:
Other stupidities/oddities that I feel aren't necessarily important if the movie otherwise engages:
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1. By studying Earth language evolution you can apparently determine, vocally, the single source language. Linguists would be amazed to learn this.
2. When telling Charlize Theron how long she'd been asleep David reported it as X years, Y months, 36 hours, Z minutes.
3. If they'd already found 8 artifacts from 8 distinct cultures, why was it finding a ninth in Scotland that triggered the trip?
4. The use of artificial gravity and interstellar travel being completely unnoteworthy in just 80 years from now is a bit hard to swallow, with zero development in cold weather outerwear.
5. The star charts in the ancient ruins all pointed to a "galactic system" which is apparently a star cluster. A star cluster that couldn't possibly have been seen by acient civilizations from Earth. But the intro graphic tells us they were 3x10^14 km from Earth. That is only about 30 light years. Those would have to be pretty faint stars. Also, Earth based astronomy has apparently improved so much that we can tell that one of those stars has a ringed gas giant and around that gas giant is a single moon and it can support life.
6. Conservation of mass and energy in reproduction of life.
7. Language doesn't really work the way it is shown. You can't really trace back the languages to find a common ancestor of them all and be able to speak it.
8. They arrived at the planet, woke up, and set down all within a day. They apparently didn't do any mapping from orbit (since they were surprised by the giant mountain) and then lucked out to come down right at the military station. This is about as likely as picking a globe of earth and randomly putting your finger on NORAD.
9. They were all really crappy scientists.
Etc.
Moonliner:
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Originally Posted by Moonliner
I do wonder how he knew so much about things, like the existence of more ships.
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This one didn't bother me. As they were coming down it was shown that there were at least a half dozen of the domes in a line through that valley. Presumably there were at least a half dozen facilities and once it is revealed that a space ship lies under one of them it would be logical that a spaceship lies under all of them.
Plus, if David had spend enough time playing with systems that he was confident he could fly a ship solo then it isn't any stretch to imagine he'd learned a fair amount about the facilities they were in.