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  1. jayembee

    The Tomorrow War (2021)

    I'm not sure why what I said was "unfair". I feel it was a legitimate "problem" (and I specifically use quotes there for a reason) with the story for most of the movie, just as I thought the same for A Quiet Place. It wasn't enough of a "problem" to prevent me from enjoying either film, but...
  2. jayembee

    The Tomorrow War (2021)

    Perhaps I was unclear. I was referring to the initial implication. Until Dan returned to the present, and they started trying to figure out how to work out where the ship landed, the assumption was that the Spikes were the ones flying the ship to Earth. And even when Dan &co. worked out that...
  3. jayembee

    The Tomorrow War (2021)

    OK...so the other night, I happened to finally get around to watching A Quiet Place (this is relevant to the subject at hand), which I quite liked. Not a great film, but it had genuine, well-earned scares. There was one problem I had with it. I didn't mind that the backstory of when and where...
  4. jayembee

    The Tomorrow War (2021)

    Things are not completely reset. Otherwise, you have what's called the Grandfather Paradox. Simply explained, a man travels back in time, meets his grandfather and accidentally causes his death before the grandfather has any children. Which means that the time traveler won't be born (because his...
  5. jayembee

    The Tomorrow War (2021)

    I only (to a degree) bought into that because they implied that they were only sending forward people who were going to die soon anyway, and (presumably) weren't significant to the history of the 30-year gap. I.e., they weren't going to conscript anyone that they knew would, for example, become...
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