Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

[RStar]

Originally Posted by flippyshark

- It has the best end credits bonus I've seen in quite a while.

So I should hang out after the credits on this one as well? I hate when they do that, but I hate it more when I leave and find out I missed something...

And I think 95% of the audiance wouldn't know when Rubik's Cube came out, so I don't think it's going to be a huge deal for most. Not that that is an excuse for doing a poor job on the research. Makes me wonder, though. The person who's job it is to make sure things are in the proper time period (what's that job's name again?) if they told someone about it and someone okay'd it, or if it was an oversight or misinformation? Inquiring minds want to know!

[Alex]

Originally Posted by RStar

So I should hang out after the credits on this one as well? I hate when they do that, but I hate it more when I leave and find out I missed something...

Well, so long as you don't sprint for the door as soon as the screen goes black on the last scene it would be hard to miss. It isn't something that plays after the credits but during them.

And I think 95% of the audiance wouldn't know when Rubik's Cube

I don't know. This isn't a kids movie for kids, it is a kids movie for adults to reminisce about when they were kids. So I'm guessing that somewhat more than 5% would confidently say that Rubik's Cubes were an '80s fad.

But you're right that it isn't a big deal, just something so not obscure that I wonder if it was intentional (there are some other meta-nods to its genre nature, such as:

Spoiler:

There's a train wreck that is just completely over the top impossible for how it was caused and actual physics. One of the kids says "there's no way a car on the tracks caused this" and other replies "well obviously it did." Abrams way of saying "shut up and go with it."

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