Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction. Fantasy films are films with fantastic themes, usually involving magic, supernatural events, make-believe creatures, or exotic fantasy worlds.
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Why couldn't the universal translator be used to communicate with the Klingons?
In Star Trek Into Darkness,
Why couldn't the universal translator be used remotely or with security personnel?
Note: the Universal Translator was invented before the new timeline diverged from the ...
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Will we watch forth part of Hangover :) [closed]
Today I finally wathced 3rd part of Hangover.
The post-credits scene was awesome :) I worth to watch all three parts.
As you remember from Transformers book series there had not to be 3rd part, but ...
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Why do the Martian aggressors in Robinson Crusoe on Mars look the same as those in War of the Worlds?
The Martians in the film Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) look near identical to those in War of the Worlds (1953).
Was this a deliberate story element, an artifact of production such a cost-saving ...
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Who is Tauriel and why are they adding her to the Hobbit movies?
Peter Jackson has added a new character Tauriel (played by Evangeline Lily) to the Hobbit movie.
She's apparently a Mirkwood elf and a love interest for Legolas and not in the original.
Does anyone ...
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Why are people being trapped, collected and stored in phone boxes in La Cabina?
In La Cabina (1972), a nameless company is collecting people in phone boxes and storing them in an underground warehouse until they die. Why are they doing this?
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In Disney's The Black Hole, why do Reinhardt and Maximillian fuse together?
At the dreamlike end of The Black Hole, Reinhardt fuses with the robot Maximillian, appearing to be trapped inside him like a gibbet. What does this mean?
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Is there a fictional language in Star Wars named after mechanical engineering professor Cemil Bagci?
In a recent (now deleted) answer to a question on scifi.se about why a translator who could speak Bocce was needed in Star Wars: A New Hope, the claim was made that the language is actually "Bagci", ...
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Why did McCoy need this person in particular to make his serum?
In Star Trek Into Darkness,
My Question is:
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In the movie After Earth, why were humans unable to breath Earth's atmosphere?
In the movie, After Earth:
Why did Humans who were not native to Earth appear to be unable to breathe on Earth without technology?
I don't remember anyone explaining why humans couldn't breathe ...
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What was the point of bringing Enterprise to the surface of a planet?
In the original timeline, I haven't seen a starship other than Voyager on the surface of a planet, whether it was capable of landing or not.
In Star Trek Into Darkness,
My Question:
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Who are the people in the portraits in M's meeting room?
At the beginning of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" movie, Alan Quartermain is meeting with M. in a room.
As M. reveals, ""There have been other times when a danger upon the world required ...
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final destination 3 — confusion in the order
So McKinley causes Wendy's death. But according to the order McKinley should have died first. And then Wendy. But Wendy intervened in McKinley's death. Thats why McKinley is alive. Otherwise he would ...
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Early 90s(ish) Sci Fi movie with morphing alien
I've been trying to remember a movie I saw when I was very young for a few months now, but haven't been able to find anything based on what few details I remember. Here's what I do definitely know:
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Why was Conan freed by his former owner?
In Conan the Barbarian, the plot seems to have the following sequence:
Thulsa Doom destroy's Conan's village and enslaves women and children.
Profit motive for the latter - he can sell the slaves.
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Why does no one seem concerned by a singularity in (or near) Earth orbit?
At the end of the Star Trek reboot film, the Red Matter "ignites" and collapses into a singularity. This is occurring, if not in Earth orbit, then nearby and yet nobody seems concerned by this.
I ...
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Movie or Series - Identification containing a scene where a boy get murdered by grinding the rear wheel of a motorcycle on his face?
I can remember seeing a scene of a movie or short series on TV where a man/boy gets murdered by putting his tie or scarf in the rear axle of a dirt-bike or motorcycle and then starting the motor and ...
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Is there an actual time calculation in Inception?
In the movie, they (Cobb and his partners) are drawn into multiple layer of dream, and they said that if you're going further/deeper, you'll find the time in real world or previous layer is ...
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Movie from the 1960's where aliens are seen only through glasses
I can remember seeing a sci-fi film on TV (from 1960's) over here in the UK. Aliens could only been seen through glasses and a man gave a woman a pill to calm her down before she put them on.
I ...
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Group of people on a boat being killed off by a slimy thing
I saw a movie on TV many many moons ago, where a group of people were on a boat, in very calm water (a lagoon) and were being killed off, one at a time. The perpetrator was some slimy thing from below ...
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120K military personnel - The Island
In The Island they state at various stages:
Agnates - 'spare parts for people' are sold to the general public at the rate of $1,000,000 (1 million) per unit.
The military has funded the research to ...
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Inception - The Spinning Top is the un-totem
In the movie Inception, the concept of a Totem is that is has a special distinguishing feature, maybe weight or dimension or feel or something else - i.e. its different from a run of the mill piece of ...
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After Earth: The characters use English. That isn't realistic, considering the setting, I mean — or is it?
According to Wikipedia, the plot goes as follows:
In the near future, after humanity abandoned Earth after cataclysmic
events, they re-established society on the planet Nova Prime, light
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Movie where medical students try to revive Dracula
A while ago i saw part of a movie where some medical students find Dracula's corpse and try to revive him. Anyone know the movie? If you need more info, there was also a strange priest trying to catch ...
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Does a totem really confirm you are not in someone else's dream?
In the movie, Inception, a totem helps a totem owner eliminate the possibility that you are in someone else's dream.
The explanation being - only you know your totem's unique uncommon feature, so if ...
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Inception - Can a totem help you figure out if you are in reality or your own dream?
In Incepton, the totem is supposed to be a device which helps the totem owner to figure out whether he is a dream or in reality. This is because the totem has some special feature which is known only ...
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Man in a cave with a silver ring
We want to identify a movie we watched years ago, but we don't know the name — but here is what we can remember:
A man in a cave with a silver ring around his neck;
Said man has no body;
When people ...
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What does Anderson sense about Judge Dredd in the movie?
In the beginning of the movie Dredd (3D), there was a scene where Dredd meets Anderson and she makes a demonstration of her psychic powers.
She is placed in an interogation room and she starts by ...
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In Iron Man 3, why couldn't Tony Stark use the arc reactor in his chest to charge his armour?
In Iron Man 3, it shows Tony Stark having trouble charging his MK42 armour. At one point he even had a car battery connected to it. Why couldn't he use the arc reactor in his chest to charge his ...
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Did Mazer Rackham have a tattooed face in Ender's Game book?
The first image of Ben Kingsley as Mazer Rackham has surfaced recently :
I did not remember him described has having a tattooed face in the book. Is this an addition made to the character ...
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What movie has a scene near the end where a guy gets covered by newspapers blown by the wind, then disappears?
I saw this movie on TV, cable, or Cinemax, at least 10 years ago, maybe 20. I don't think it was sci-fi, but maybe involved "magic" of some kind, and was set in a large city. (NYC or Chicago ...
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Need name of 1970's movie: guy could control light
Vague memory here... guy could control light and basically use it as a weapon by shooting the photons where he wanted... he was a good guy. The only scene I really remember is he was trapped in a van ...
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How did the Hunger Games “Boss” beast creatures work? [duplicate]
I recently watched The Hunger Games (without having read the book). I get the arena, and the dome and the cameras, but I don't understand the burly creatures near the end of the film. What were they? ...
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Has the mystery of God stuck at the center of the galaxy ever been resolved?
In Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, the Enterprise reached the self-proclaimed God who seemed to be stuck at the center of galaxy. He even needed a starship to escape.
Spock even asked why he needed ...
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Film seen on television sometime in the late 1970s with astronauts returning to a changed Earth
Not "Planet of Apes", but similar in that there is some sort of time-warp/dimensional travel. I remember that there were about 6 crew-members, and that the initial landing (after receiving no word ...
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Identify source of picture (probably “Doom” related)
I cleaned up my hard drive and found this picture.
The file is dated 1997, so the source must be older (obviously). It is probably related to the computer game Doom by id-Software. Somehow, that ...
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Help me identify this B-movie about plant-like aliens that crash land
About 12 years ago I was in Blockbuster and while looking for something different I ventured into the VHS section. I can't quite remember my selection vividly because that night I rented 4 VHS for £1 ...
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Identify a science fiction movie with a radioactive planet
This is a short fragment I remember from I movie I saw some time ago (20-30 years)
A spaceship lands (don't know if its on Earth or not), humans step out and they walk thru a kind of forest. There is ...
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Why didn't military attack the spaceship in the end?
In the end of Super 8 movie, when the spaceship started to form over water tank which was pulling all metallic objects from vicinity, why didn't military blow that up? That could be a weapon (most ...
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In The Faculty which teacher was infected first?
In the movie The Faculty the teachers at a high school begin to act weird. We learn this is because
While we find out who was infecting the teachers at the end, which teacher was the first to be ...
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Live-Action Japanese movie from the early 90s
I'm looking for a film from the early 90s or late 80s that has a similar look to the James Cameron Aliens film; it's in Japanese. There is a tank, a kid with a suit that has pressure points that make ...
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Identify a western science fiction story,comics or movie which a black or Asian hero/heroine plays the positive first-role [closed]
Please identify a western science fiction story, comic or movie which a black or Asian hero/heroine has the positive first role. I have not read a story but I have seen a movie like this, yet I can't ...
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After being neurolyzed, why is Newton holding a shovel?
In Men In Black 2, agent J neurolyzes Newton, played by David Cross, telling him to take his girlfriend to Cambodia. When Newton gets up from the couch, he is holding a shovel. Does anyone know why? ...
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Why Did They Take Eight Nukes?
I was watching Deep Impact the other night and I was struck by the fact that the Messiah mission takes eight nukes to the comet, but only has the manpower to plant four of them. Not only that, they ...
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What did Loki mean when he called Natasha (Black Widow) “Drakov's daughter”?
Natalia "Natasha" Alianovna Romanova born circa 1928 and was raised from her youth by a Russian soldier Ivan Petrovich Bezukhov after she was orphaned when enemy soldiers attacked Stalingrad.
It is ...
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How could agent Clint Barton (Hawkeye) function while on the SHIELD Helicarrier deck at 30,000 feet?
When Captain America and Banner first board SHIELD's Helicarrier, agent Romanoff (Black Widow) warns them to get inside because it would become 'hard to breath' while on deck. When Fury was talking ...
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Who exactly was Hagrid expecting in the Chamber of Secrets?
In the second Harry Potter movie, Hagrid comes to the door slowly while carrying his crossbow only to see Harry and Ron under the invisibility cloak. Then afterwards he does the same only to reveal ...
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Why do some soldiers wear yellow uniforms?
Here we see the Launchies group with a couple of people dressed in yellow, while the rest are in white.
Here we see the mess hall with Ender and Petra in Salamander Army. In the background is a ...
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Extraterrestrial life or something else
In the Wikipedia article for the film Apollo 18, the rock-like spider creatures featured are often referred within the movie as 'aliens', but is that what they really are?
Are they aliens or could ...
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Why did Davy Jones little white crabs help Jack escape from Davy Jones Locker?
When the motley crew goes to rescue Cap'n Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones Locker in part 3 of the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise, we find Jack on-board a desert-bound ship populated with his ...
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Identify Movie: Angry gorillas and automated gun turrets
I remember watching a movie about 10-15 years ago about some exploration group in the jungle being attacked by very angry gorillas or apes while defending their camp with automated gun turrets at ...
