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Ben Affleck's commentary on this movie is great.

At one point he basically goes Why can't a NASA scientists know how to drill, but a random Joe off the street can become an astronaut

Essentially every Highlander movie after the first one is a bunch of plot holes in a trench coat, but agreed 2 is the worst. They can still be fun to watch if it doesn't make you brain force its way out of your skull.

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I think the weak logic it may have, is that time “slowly” changes. Like how Marty’s future slowly starts changing over the course of the first film.

I don't think anyone can actually explain the Malkovich scene. It's entire purpose is insanity and I love it.

I loved it. Visually amazing. The critics were upset because they were clearly expecting something profound, but they obviously watched a different trailer to me. Criticising Valerian and the city of a thousand planets for lacking depth was like criticising Frozen for having too many songs. It was always about the visual appeal, and it had a lot of visual appeal.

I find that movie to be a masterpiece of somehow really good and really bad at the same time

I didn't look at it as so much of a plot hole, but the first clue that when you're in the "real world" you're not actually in reality but really still in the matrix (or perhaps another matrix that doesn't work quite the same). Same thing with the whole scorch the sky bit - doesn't make sense in reality but in a simulated reality you can change up the rules a bit. The second movie, to me, played into this further with a bunch more clues dropped about that what the characters considered reality wasn't actually real. The third movie, obviously, would deal with that.... but instead.... well I'm still not sure what the hell that movie was about.

It was originally going to be that people were used for processing power, but a producer or exec didn't think people would understand so they asked for it to be changed.

You might be aware but apparently the original script was humans brains as processing power and like a neural network or something. If true would've been much better. They dumbed it down for being too complex, is the rumor. Sorry no source.

If I'm not misremembering, that's the exact explanation they use for pym particles in the first Ant-Man movie. And yeah, mass and forces we see in that movie aren't consistent with that rule at all either. In his shrunken form he can go from riding flying ant bareback to punching a guy with the force of a regular size dude (not concentrated to the size of bb though, he should be punching holes in people). Furthermore, at the climax of the film he needs to "go subatomic" to squeeze between atoms, but he keeps shrinking out of control and ends up in a crazy abstract environment many times smaller than the smallest particles we know of...but don't pym particles just make atoms get closer to each other? Not shrink? It's a fun movie but I need to turn off my brain to watch it.

And then in later movies when he grows, shouldn't he also be the same mass then too? Think about it, he's as big as a parade balloon and a fraction of the weight, the dude would need to hold onto something just to not blow away.

The other big problem with the time dilation aspect is the scientist they originally sent to that planet to check it out beforehand couldn't have been there very long at all. They must have landed, took a quick look around, and been like "hey looks good, thumbs up!". I though the whole reason they sent a human to do that job is so the human could thoroughly check things out and might notice unusual things like massive planet-wide tidal waves.

To add to that, if you sent me to check out an unknown planet I'd first spend a considerable amount of time in orbit surveying the planet, looking for things like a livable temperature range, a non-poisonous atmosphere, reasonable gravity, and no massive planet-wide tidal waves before attempting a landing. Hell, even if I wanted to get to the landing part as quickly as possible I'd still want to do a quick survey of the planet if only to find a good place to land. Clearly the original scientist did none of that. Nor, for that matter did the crew in the movie, though I suppose I could kind of excuse them as they were in a hurry and they had the "all good" signal.

That and the fact that the time dilation on that planet vs in orbit around that planet make no sense in the first place.

Aren't you just ignoring the emotional component? The people on that mission weren't robots, they were people. Cooper didn't want his children to die without ever hearing from him again.