Questions tagged [oblivion]
Oblivion is a 2013 American science fiction film co-written, produced and directed by Joseph Kosinski and based on his unpublished graphic novel of the same name edited by Radical Comics - Wikipedia.
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What brand of record player was used in "Oblivion"?
This picture shows the record player owned by Jack in the movie Oblivion. What brand was it?
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How did Sally from Oblivion destroy the Moon [duplicate]
How did Sally destroy the Moon in the 2013 movie Oblivion?
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Why does Vika have a color video feed?
In Oblivion we are shown Vika's work station, and the video feed is black and white.
So why does she have a color feed when Jack is investigating the crash site?
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Why is the technology in Oblivion so old?
In Oblivion there is a scene where Jack takes us to his Earthly getaway that only he knows about.
Some background on when this film takes place is approximately 2077 and the war with the scavs ...
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Who created the TET in Oblivion?
In the final scene Jack goes to the TET
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And when he gets there he is confronted with something that also looks like the TET with a huge red ...
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Why do they make out that the Scavs run on all fours?
No matter how many times I watch Oblivion, I am intrigued as to why they make out the Scav's , which are human to look like they run on all fours.
The below footage at 2:46 shows the scav's running ...
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Can clone humans have children?
In the movie of 'Oblivion' Jack Harper and Victoria Olsen are clones of their former self. It isn't shown in the movie that if they can have a baby together but if we assume that there can be cloned ...
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Why did it take Jack-52 three years to find the cabin?
In the 2013 film Oblivion, protagonist Jack finds out that he is actually
At the end of the film, we witness
Why did it take Jack-52 three years to show up, and where was he during that time?
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What happened to Vika-52?
In the film Jack-52 shows up at the cabin Jack-49 built and where Julia Harper now lives with her and Jack-49's daughter. In Jack-52's entourage (which look like they are all Scavs) there's no Vika ...
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What happened to the water processors in Oblivion?
I know how the Tom Cruise movie Oblivion ends.
But what happens to the water processors after?
No mention is made at the end of the movie. Thank you
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How did the Tet destroy Earth's moon?
Simple question. Is it ever explained how the Tet succeeded in destroying the moon ? I can't recall this being explained.
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The 2nd Jack and Vicka
Why did the 2nd Jack seem so hostile? The 1st Jack did not hesitate for a moment to put his life on the line once he saw people.
I'd have expected 2nd Jack to have been bemused, surprised and ...
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The pod with the sleeping astronauts
Regarding the pod that returned Julia and the other hyper-sleeping astronauts to Earth.
Why had Jack not noticed suspended animation capsules with the names of himself and Vicka?
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Why so many workers, so close to job completion?
Why was the Tet so full of clones so close to victory? You'd think at that stage it'd be scaling down production.
The number of clones in the Tet must have amounted to thousands, and I'd guess it ...
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Why did the Scavs disguise themselves?
Why did the Scavs disguise themselves when the drones seemed so keen on killing a dog?
Jack had to order it down, then losing confidence in his ability to do so, tried to chase the dog away to ...
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How did Jack get his memories?
How could the original Jack's memories be transmitted to/surface in a clone?
Instincts, OK, character traits for sure, but memories?
It obviously did not come from the Tet, which had the ...
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Why does the TET not have some communications satellites?
It is kind of strange for a superstructure like the TET to go offline when it goes beyond the horizon. Why is it that it hasn't satellites? We are far less technological than them and we use ...
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Oblivion: Odyssey flight recorder
Where was the flight recorder, when the recording ended?
In the cockpit or the auxiliary sleeping quarters?
When the "scavengers" brought the auxiliary sleeping quarters down to a crash, the ...
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Why bother with humans at all?
In the film Oblivion, why would the Tet Station bother using
at all as part of their operational scheme?
Obviously it is a pretty sophisticated AI. You'd think it could just deploy AI on the ...
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How long were Jack and Victoria on Earth?
Victoria remarks to Jack early on in Oblivion that they just have "2 more weeks left" before they could leave and "join the others". Did they really have 2 more weeks until the Tet was done ...
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