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JTHipster  ·  4240 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Don't Watch "Oblivion"

39. How do the stealth suits actually work, and if they work well, how come the humans can't just plant explosive devices on the sides of the drones?

40. What is the drone armor made of where it takes no dents from bullets yet can be crushed by a rock falling on it?

41. What's the point of the stealth suits if the drones can just detect people anyway?

42. If the drones can detect minute biosigns that have been cold for days and days, how come they can't detect people behind small rocks?

43. Why would the drones be built with vertically rotating gun mounts that have an otherwise very limited range of movement? The drones primarily face targets which are on the ground or flying level with them; a horizontal turret would be much more effective for dispatching targets on the ground without requiring the drone to constantly turn back and forth.

44. How did the evil space pyramid blow up the moon in the first place when it doesn't appear to have any weapons at all?

45. If the evil space pyramid has a laser that can blow a continent sized chunk out of the moon, how come it can't just fire at earth, wipe out all life on the planet by destroying nuclear power plants, then send down its drones when everyone is dead to harvest the hydrogen?

46. If the pyramid could manufacture advanced robotics, how come it didn't just make robot soldiers rather than clones? It can clearly create an artificial intelligence powerful enough for a drone to individually target humans, detect threats, and operate in a very enclosed space at breakneck speeds, so how come it can't just transfer memories and personality in to a robot soldiers? They would be infinitely cheaper to manufacture than clones and also be very durable.

47. How come the escape pod is capable of escaping the tractor beam when the ship with the much larger engine cannot? Wouldn't it just get tractored in to the ship too?

48. When did the evil space pyramid learn that human beings enjoyed have pools floating above several hundred feet of air?

49. How come the evil space pyramid set up water harvesting zones that were basically right next to each other in visible distance from an airplane? How did Tom Cruise never once see any of these towers?

50. Why is there a lightning storm that doesn't ever stop?

51. I'm not scientists, but if you were creating gigantic water harvesting plants, then you'd be fucking with the surface water first and presumably the water closest to the ocean floor last. Now, again, I'm not scientists, but the water that's on the surface tends to be the warmest, right? So by removing all of that water you would actually be removing a great deal of what keeps the planet warm, since warm ocean air would not be rising. Warm, moist air contributes to weather patterns including severe thunderstorms. So wouldn't having the water harvesters stop any major severe lightning storm from happening in the first place by fucking with the weather?

52. Where the fuck are they in New York that there is a gigantic desert only miles from the city? I understand that its a nuclear holocaust, but seriously?

So if they're located in the mountains they are between 50-100 miles from the shore. Yet they're shown crossing the Brooklyn Bridge as sort of the border between the "Safe" zone and the "radiation" zone. This is despite the fact that they are clearly located on a mountain when you see there house, the nearest mountain being WEST of the city, not EAST of it. EAST of the bridge is the bay. But they are clearly on a flat shore.

So they must either be down by Staten or Long Island, since those are the two closet flat shorelines. If we are assuming their borders are done relatively evenly, and not weird stretches of land, then they are covering tens of thousands of square miles per individual clone.

I'm not even from New York and I know how bad their geography is. This is basic research for a movie taking place in a single setting. Yes, you can have errors and it'd be okay if you went from Staten Island to the Giants Stadium, but when the House is shown on the mountains and they travel all over the fucking place you have to start explaining where people are. I shouldn't have to spend 20 minutes trying to figure out where people are relative to New York City.