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This tag has three different uses: for questions specifically about the movie version of a work which has been adapted for different media (use together with the work tag); for questions seeking identification of a movie (use together with the [story-identification] tag); or for wider genre questions about movies as a whole (generally together with the [history-of] tag).

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In the movie Contact, did they get the theory of relativity wrong?

The conversation between Palmer and Ellie is used to set the expectations of the audience, that if Ellie successfully travels anywhere outside of our Solar System in a timespan we can fit inside a movie … When the opposite occurs at the end of the movie, when she experiences time dilation "in reverse" as it were, it's used as a reason to completely discredit her story and leave both the in-world population …
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Why did Peter Jackson add the Nazgûls attack scene in Bree when it was not present in the or...

The whole of the first half of the first movie was a desperate race to Rivendell, being chased the whole time by the Nazgûl. … They're still a ways away from Weathertop, which is the first real confrontation both in the movie and in the book, but the filmmakers know that the audience expects that confrontation, and want a little …
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