Movie Premises That You Wish Were Possible...(SPOILERS Are Inevitable Here)
 

In 'Godsend' a couple who loses their son, uses his DNA to clone him so they can have him back...If the doctor hadn't been selfish, you are supposed to assume that the child would have turned out okay...If you were in this situation in real life, and this were possible...Would you try to 'bring back' your child this way?


In...umm...shit...I forgot the name of the movie, but you guys will know it...Anyway...You can bring back your dead pet through cloning (I forgot the name of the company in the movie, too)...If it were possible, would you do THAT?


In 'Cut' a computer chip is implanted in your brain at the time of your birth...It uses your eyes as lenses to record EVERY SECOND of your life...At the time of your death, a 'cutter' (Robin Williams in the movie) has the job of editting your entire life to create a video homage at your funeral for your family to watch and keep...There have been MANY times in my life when I had wished that certain experiences had been recorded, but I would NOT want EVERY moment viewed by a stranger...How about you guys?


These are only a few quick examples...I know that you guys can come up with lots of them...

So...What do YOU wish you could actually do?...And are you sure that you would REALLY want to be able to do it?...Consider the possible 'down sides'...As in Pet Sematary...Wishmaster...Or The Monkey's paw

I'm sure we all can think of something which if we were allowed to do or even what if I had done differently.

I believe that everything happens for a reason - Final Desination etc.
If it happens, it happens, if it doesn't, then it won't.
erh ... :confused:

If Einstein was still around, he'd probably have a better answer.

* The Winning Lottery numbers would be good though *

You think that old geezer would hang around here??

In some sci-fi thing...maybe one of the star treks, I remember something was said about the transporter technology being able to screen out any bad genetic shit going on in your body, eg - get rid of sickness and disease, and eliminate the potential, before putting you back together.
So, if everyone could just die peaceful of old age without becoming all decrepit 'n shit, I think that would be ok.

Human flight...no doubt bought up in heaps of movies...who wouldn't wanna be able to just levitate to wherever the hell you want.

The butterfly effect...but, maybe just for viewing purposes...to see all the "what ifs" of your life unfold.

Ok fair enough, but Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud would have a field day! :D

Actually...That was what Seth (Jeff Goldblum in The Fly) said he THOUGHT was happening, because he was becoming stronger, faster, more agile and more alert with heightened senses (sight, hearing, smell, etcetera) and generally feeling healthier and younger...At least, before he started to deteriorate...He didn't know it was because he was turning into a fly...


But that does bring up a good one...It would be awesome to be able to teleport instantly anywhere at any time...But, I would be seriously concerned about the possible ramifications...It isn't worth risking your health (life) for

If Jason Voorhees was an Olympic Swimmer ......
If Jesus wasn't Crucified, Would there be Christianity? (Not a film, but...)
The Shark in Jaws swims away, like in the book.

Fatherland: (Rutger Hauer) shows what would happen if Germany won WW2.

Nope, not what I'm talking about anyways. It was one of the spacey ones, I know this because they used really dorky terminology like "pattern buffers"...etc...I think it may have been ST, 'cos they were using one of those transporter beam things.
Besides, Seth went in with a fly, he mighta been ok otherwise...well, with further research.

Thinking more on that, if point to point transporter tech DID exist...it'd sure make travel a hell of a lot quicker and cheaper, and id your whole being DID become atomised or whatever, screening out disease wouldn't be that much more farfetched than the tech itself.
I still stand by this one.

Oh...I know...I just meant that it was brought up in The Fly, also...You reminded me of it when you mentioned the other thing...Sorry for the confusion.


As for the teleportation idea in general...Even if they had successfully done it on a regular basis...I still wouldn't trust it...The thought of being atomized and reassembled on ANY level (especially cellular) makes me extremely nervous...

I'm not thinking of a movie, but rather a book: A Wrinkle in Time. I want Mrs. Witch to teach me her Witchcraft so I could "do," "conceptualize" (because if you can conceptualize then you can) the tesseract. That would rock. Then I could go anywhere. An-y-where-r. ...For instance, to Oz to warn the Elphaba, aka The Wicked Witch of the West, who really isn't wicked. ...And...(shutupshutup!)

lol

Looked up the book (about the witch) on Wiki* ..... Still not sure about the bit about the reason that Dorothy threw water on her was because the Witch's dress was on fire.

*re:How much do you like this website thread.

Dustin just informed me that the movie was 'The 6th Day'...But, I still don't remember the name of that company...Oh well...I guess we'll have to watch it again soon

Was it RePet?
Something like repeat pet into one name anyways.

YEAH...That was it...Thanks:)


It was bugging the shit outta me

easy - - - King Kong. . . i'd be huge and would start kicking ass and taking names!

Just don't fall for the girl this time

Heh...FALL for the girl...niiice

It would be neat if you could create people who can conjure up cars and stuff on your computer a la weird science..

Hmmm.....Close Encounters of the Third Kind would be pretty cool, considering there aren't a whole lot of "nice alien" movies out there....Nice aliens would be much preferred to a scenario like Slither. THAT movie was a lot like one of my recurring nightmares.

Legend would be good too, I've always liked the enchanted forest idea.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...not so much the factory, just maybe the trippy ride, the "meal in a gum", and definately the edible garden. (But, I'd kinda like the garden to be all kindsa stuff, not just candy)

the holodeck from star trek, i'd love be able to interact with my favourite characters, to be a part of the story or game instead of just watching :cool:

and the computer from star trek too, to be able to ask it for an analysis verbally and have it done in minutes would save me hours of work.... bliss :)

the time machine .

i'd love to go back to several eras - and go ahead far into the future as well ..

pick a nice spot that would suit me .. where i wouldnt be killed for being a witch or eaten by moorlocks ..

Kind of off subject, but what a list of shit movies.... of all the movies you listed that i have seen (Cut, Godsend,...) I HATED.


At any rate, No i wouldnt. Especially the last part. With my luck, the turkey would be a little dry.

The funny thing about the fly is that it is written by someone who (to my knowledge) wasnt too terribly familiar with programming, or conveniently ignored some things.

The idea with the teleporter is that it takes an exact snapshot of it's contents at that nanosecond, and then destroys it.

it then takes that data (from the computer's memory) and recreates the exact condtitions at that moment in time. Unless there was a memeory leak or data corruption in that fraction of a second, there would nbe no way for the DNA to get "mixed up".

Of course, if we assume his equipment was runningon Wondows NT, then its amazing he even came out the other side (har har. Zwoti knows what I'm talking about...)

I like some of the points that have been brought up by people thinking baout teleportation working in this fashion...

What if you cam eout the other side, but the "original" wasnt destroyed? there would be 2 of you. Not a clone, which is genetically identical, but otherwise its own person, but YOU in every way shape and form.

Or, what if someone dumped the memory of the teleporter in the time between destruction and recreation... you could be come a "lost file" and simply cease to exist. or, maybe you would end up in an error log file, that they could then regenerate you from. creepy... definately make a new twist on Rip Van Winkle...

or there is an error, and rather than just creating one of you, the "output" end keep spitting out copies of you...

You could have an entire sci-fi writing career just off of all the possible permutations of the teleporter story.

i could be my own volleyball team ...
6 guys who knew exactly what the rest were thinking.

which would be great once we trained ourselves not all to go for the same ball at once every time.

I would make at least 1 more Bree... We had a talk about this very thing one time on the way to visit her family... I would never leave my house again...


I dont think i need to elaborate.

i understand .. she could go visit her parents without you - AND stay home and make dinner !

good thinking !

I do the cooking, my friend.

With my luck, such an arrangement would lead to twice as many back rubs needed from me, rather than given to me...

twice as many shoes and hair care products to find your way through ..

At least she(s) would have help with the baby. Lily LOVES her momma more than anything on earth.... she would probably pop.

Shit, i need to get to work on this right now... both of them would only get groped and annoyed by me half as often :)

I'm a nerd...but I have to say Harry Potter. In the books, magic is real and muggles just don't know about it, so the hope is still there for me :p

I also thought Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was a good one...whoever said that.