Movie Discussion! - Page 233

I figured out it at "5 years since mind wipe, "scavengers", and when he picked up the book, that's way before halfway

Basically it's the narration in the beginning about "the humans winning the war" and the memory wipe(,for which they didn't even try to give a believable excuse) combined with the fact that memory loss of the main character is the worlds oldest known device for having the whole thing switched on its head. Which I'm sure each of us has encountered a fair number of times. So, I already had this suspicion 2 minutes in the movie and all the following points only made it seem like that was the case. Now if it was anything but a movie (and a movie with tom cruise with a gun in the poster at that) we could leave other options open. But it's an action movie with very little time for anything more than that. And if it tried to be any more complicated than that it would probably be both hard to follow and really silly. In Hollywood, they don't take chances like that.
A. - the mind wipe tells us the whole human migration thing is bullshit, from all the sci-fi I've seen missing memories tend to mean alien abduction or cloning
- the TET is a massive thing and there's supposed to be a whole bunch of survivors, yet these two have had a 5 year shift although the technology seems advanced enough that a trip to the orbit wouldn't be too difficult and only one person is shown "at the other end"
- we are supposed to believe the aliens blew up moon just like that and then came to earth to fight with infantry alone? Reminds me of LoGH, where they'd battle with barrages of lasers and inside the space ships with axes lol, although that at least makes some sense because you want to avoid making holes in the hull. Anyway there's no advanced technology apart from the TET stuff to be seen.
B. - the drone had shot 4 scavengers, next scene we see the scavenger with binoculars who steals his bike. down in the library, after all the camera waving, we see clearly they are humanoids
C. - in the base of operations we see no remnants of the old civilization, no books or anything. Like there's some big brother system forbidding that. All the stuff can't be contaminated or he wouldn't be walking around all day without any protection. Then he picks up the book. Now here's another classic device, "the chosen one" who defies the thought police. Of course there wasn't anything like that in the movie, not exactly, but it pretty much sealed the deal for me. That what we were told in the beginning was exactly opposite to the truth. Another thing you might've noticed in that scene: he didn't hit anyone.
I mean, that would be inconvenient in light of the rest of the movie. Now there's no moral dilemma & we are PC as fuck.
D. - "a radiation zone", you go there and you fry in seconds, loi! that one can only work on scientologists, surely

If it was the real Jack who built the shack by the lake, then I guess the Vika with the picture of the two of them was the real Vika too. That was a funny detail imho.